T ¯ ¯ Thursday, 9th February, 1967 rlnlty trinit Vol. XIV, No. 9 Price Fourpence Dublin .University Undergraduate Nempaper isolated,

BRENDAN KENNELLY rejuvenates CAREERS SUPPLEMENT 1967 on " THE CHANGING Face of Ireland" is Icarus with his handpicked committee. Their pages 4, 5 and 6 includes articles by graduates a new film by Peter Lennon o[ expeffence is minimal, the magazine’s debt is on the general training course with the BBC, Will it be banned here in his own country? says Eliz. £270. But Kennelly’s power is enormou~s. Bill Retail Stores, Personal Management, and His cinema exposition on a Church-controlled Bowder writes on the new management in a V.S.O. The introduction m bythe Appoint- state is discussed on page 7. news /eature on page 2. ments OHicer ~ is on page 4. President Sea~ Vv’almsley "Trinity and Ireland" was the .’( ,?, subject of Janet Moody’s’inaugu- PLAYERS BOOKS ral address to the Elizabethan Society on Tuesday of last week. Miss Moody recounted the Uni- versity’s traditional isolation from IN CONFUSI’ON its Irish environment, and warned: "this was not altogether an unhealthy state of affairs . . . It is not the function if a Univer- 1L sity to lead in politics.. ’ with the £250 loan must be establishment of the National Uni- versity early this century, "Trinity, i’, looking still to England, found repaid by June that she had retained her indepen- !i. dence but increased her isolation." Today, the institution was still BY KEN RUSHTON aloof, but "the staff have taken more civic responsibility than ever "We’ll work it out", said Douglas Henderson, Chairman of Players. before in this century." He has been asked to submit a report on Players’ finances to the Standing Miss Moody quoted Patrick Committee on 27 February, and sees tittle chance of the books arriving Kavanagh: "one of the things in time to prepare a report. that is wrong with Trinity is that the raw healthy vulgarity of the After leaving College for England, last year’s Treasurer, jeremy Bell, whole country is not being poured asked for various bills and receipts to be sent to him, insisting that he into it",~in the context of the should complete the books himself. These papers were lost, and could Ban on Catholics in Trinity. "The not be found until the middle of last term when they were discovered continuation of this situation pre- ]eremy Bell, who was last year’s Treasurer of Players. sents the real danger that we will to have been in the wrong file. become more isolated . . . rather Bell was taking so long over the like a permane~ international job that two ex-Treasurers with summer school, divorced from the ,:i:7 more experience were recently ask- community as a whole." ’i: [+ Irish play wins ed to help him. Even so Hender- son estimates the task is still only Shoe shines raffle tickets Also speaking to the packed G.M.B. were Professor Denis awards half completed, and this year’s @ @ Treasurer, Fred Middleton flew Donoghue of U.C.D., Dr. Brian The Cumann Gaelach produc- over last weekend to find out the reward Famine Rel,ef Inglis, and Mr. Jack White. "!!:i !!~i tion of John B~ Keane’s play "The position. Professor W. B. Stanford said Year of the Hiker", was Trinity’s "We decided to make a big Today sees the dosing stages there was still "an abyss" between entry in the Feile Dramaiochta an effort to get solvent again. This of Trinity’s annual Famine Relief Trinity and Ireland. Many people Comhchaidhrimh, (the Irish equi- backlog of debts has been in- Week. New literary in Ireland regarded the name valent of U.D.A.~ last weekend curred by producers without the Again this year Front Gate has "’Elizabethan" as execrable, and in Galway. knowledge of the Treasurer," said been the scene of shoe shiners and revival abhorred the fact that a portrait One of the cast, Frankie Wat- Henderson. raffle ticket sellers. Earlier this After the arrival, departure and of FitzGibbon, Earl of Clare son, won the best actress award of Bell erred in asking for only week a Folk Song Concert was dismissal of the unfortunate Icarus should still hang in the Examina- the Festival, while David Wagstaff £300 for the Bradford Festival held in the Examination Hall and last term, literature seemed silen- tion Hall. On the Ban, Professor the fasters were back in O’Connell who played the Hiker, was awarded from the Standing Committee ced for at least one term. This Stanford said it was "utterly per- ::~ i!( the runner’s up prize in the best when the total cost was £600. Also Street. To-day the flag sellers are week however, third year arts mcious from the natural point of % actors’ section. The play itself he underestimated the probable out and there will be a Buttery student Hayden Murphy has made view". Three forces would causse ii" came second in the overall placings. receipts from last Summer’s Revue dance tomorrow. Geoff Stone, a new, exciting and commendable its removal: liberal nationalism, ,i i,:~ ’Farrago’. Clansman of the week hope that contribution towards a premature the ecumenical movement, and the The play was put on in Players people are getting some return for at the beginning of the week, and resurrection. recognition today that all forms Grant in Jeopardy their money but he says "I’m not This is a of poetry of raciahsm and credalism stink. was the first time an Irish language sure how far we ha~e actually play has ever been seen in Players. Bills were allowed to accumu- and prose including among its late; one for £100 for building succeeded." twenty-six contributors Brendan L:( It is hoped that this new venture The aim of the week is to raise will become an annual event in dressing rooms went back five years Kennelly, Geoff Thurly, John £2,000, which will be divided bet- Montague, and twenty three other Hodges Players. and was paid only this year by the Figgis Standing Committee. tween GORTA, the Irish Famine young writers, many of whom are Relief organisation, the save the appearing in print for the first Y Unless Players can supply a re- children’s Fund and WUS. time. In this it is providing a plat- Hodges ,iii port, it appears unlikely that they form for both the traditional and Figgis New laws for Phil will get a grant for next year. experimental notable among its Henderson has a personal interest Attempted suicide experiments are the ’concrete’ Hodges in acquiring such a grant, since he poems and an excellent translation Next week, after a lapse of over Figgis 60 years, a new printed edition of received a loan in the Autumn of in Front Square of surrealist poet Andre Breton by "i the Phil. Laws will be on sale. £250 from a member, which must French lecturer Jean Paul Pittion. i, be repaid by June. Unless he can The large black cat, constantly The broadsheet is attractively Said Secretary Geoffrey Good- persuade the Standing Committee Hodges nick, "It is all tied up with the seen sneaking around Front Square, laid out and reasonably priced. It to guarantee this debt he will have made an unsuccessful attempt to is a welcome arrival on Dublin’s current spirit of the Society. The to ’fork ore’ himself. literary scene. Figgis agreed need at present is to bolster commit suicide on Monday morn- up the Private Business meetings Henderson believes that the ing. It was noticed sitting on a and this means knowledge and use grant should be calculated on the third floor window sill with a sad "’Unzip" retained Hodges of the Laws". basis of how much the Chairman faraway look in its eye at about thinks is necessary for the coming 10.00 a.m. by second year student Malachy Lawles’s play "Unzip" i year’s productions, rather than Kevin Rowers. Said Bowers "I is going on again in Players today Figgis according to how much was spent didn’t suspect that anything was and to-morrow at 4.15 p.m. PLAYERS TO U.K. the previous year. Brian William- wrong." At 10.30 it decided to It will be shown with Accrabats son of the Standing Committee take the ultimate step, and launch- "The Two Executioners", the "Green Julia", the two act play thought Henderson was wanting to ed itself into the air. However second of Lawless’s recent produc- Hodges which was on in Player’s last week, request money as he needed it when it landed it merely rolled tion of three one-act plays. The has been chosen to represent Trin- from time to time, but he was in over a few times and then slunk third play, "The Lesson" will un- Figgis ity at the Liverpool Festival of favour of giving Players a larger away into No. 9. Said Bowers fortunately not be repeated. There i I: new plays in April. termly or annual grant. "It was just looking for sympathy." will be one cast change.

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Letters to the trinity news Editor Icarus 50B Icarus was dead and is alive again. Why? A new "small size" 50-60 page magazine is now at the printers. Committee, editors and censor are Dear Sir, all moving towards its culmination in apparent harmony. How? It is with deep regret that I With a debt of £270, incredibly Icarus has submitted estimates June or September? publicly take issue with my re- assuring the college that it will break even on this new edition. It seems spected colleague, Ronaid Wicklow, to be postponing the settlement of debts accumulated mainly by Iearus’s on the question of I.U.S./I.S.C. 46-49. Icarus 50, the incinerated work of Tony Lowes, accounts for To-day Trinity News publishes a careers supplement. All this term, membership. On the Agenda for £107 of this debt. Some of this money has been paid privately "to keep [!, representatives of large companies are conducting interviews in Dublin, Congress it could be clearly seen the printers sweet". that Trinity were the sponsors of and many forms are being filled in. Several of them say "Give details This means Icarus now owes a motion calling for full member- iiii~i ~ ...... of vacation employment", others enquire about "Periods spent abroad" ship of I.S.C., and associate mem- personal debts to members of Tri- or "Vacation activities". How satisfying to be able to record a spell as bership with protocol of I.U.S. nity. Whether the Standing Com- i!~N~:~ News an extra at Ardmore or as an undertaker’s assistant in Miami. Whatever In my opinion the delegation mittee will eventually do anything were therefore obliged to oppose about this money is still unknown. Feature you did, here or abroad, they want to know how you have spent the Certainly the Sub Committee set W long vacation. any motion with contrary terms, andindeed at a meeting of Council up to recommend possible grants on 23rd January, 1967, it was for College Magazines has no man- BILL BOWDER It seems hard on Honors students that, in most cases, they have to definitely stated that this must be date for debts before January 1st, record that the summers were spent working for their year’s exams. the case in future¯ 1967. Why are so many of the exams at the end of the summer? If one Though I must reluctantly agree With no college grant and a minimal editorial knowledge, as enjoys termtime, the vacation is essential to catch up on work; there with your editorial, I can not gaping debt, the factor that seems accept your assertion that they to be rejuvenating Icarus is Bren- little business proficiency, and no would not be room for everyone in the reading room if all exams were were in any way ill informed, and dan Kennelly. Saddled with the pgrt[cular desire to continue the in June, and, of course that industrious band, the lecturers could hardly though they were not reflecting the iob of censuring Icarus, his power "Icarus Experiment". How much be expected to spend the summer marking exam papers. views of the average Trinity stu- ~s enormous. Last term it showed Kennelly’s "Brilliant diction" fad, dent on this issue, the most I would itself in the banning of Icarus 50A; (rudely referred to by the Irish The arguments against September exams are more telling. All lin- be prepared to say, in defence of this term in the apparently Times as ’Low Voltage Poetry’) guists should have the opportunity to spend a period of three months or their integrity, is that they were arbitrary selection of an almost all- will impress itself on Ernie Bates, misguided. English committee for Icarus 50B. will become apparent in the las more on the continent and students of any faculty would benefit from at Yours faithfully, A committee so divorced from the week of February. least one summer abroad. Often the Michaelmas term has started Beverly St. Vaughan, traditional Icarus stream that its One thing is certain, Icarus fel before those who fail Honors have discovered whether they are to do Deputy President T.C.D., S.R.C. senior editor remarked, after a tir- because it had dirtied its wings: General Studies or not. Above all, in final year, students find themselves (Delegation Leader) ade from Tony Lowes, "who is washed, of staff, of experience, but in the unfortunate position of being unable to tell employers their class that man?" not, I think, of interest, amazingly Dear Sir, Kennelly, has hand picked an it flies again. of degree until a few days before they are expected to take up an In last weeks’ issue of Trinity appointment. The change from Trinity to earning a living is a serious News, Daedalus had a piece about one. September exams makes it all the more sudden. Townley Hall in which there were The problem is not insoluble. It need not be looked on as a choice misleading references to myself. Trocadero International between enjoying the Trinity Term or the Summer vacation, or between I do not receive a ’stipend’ for Record LENDING acting as caretaker and I pay my overcrowding in the reading room and blank spaces on interview forms. SILVER SNACKERY Library own incidental expenses, such as 17A 5th. Anne St., Dublin 2. petrol bills. I pay a rent for the Now open in ANDREW ST. If second and fourth year exams for every course were to be held in flat which I use when I am there, Open all day Saturday. June and the remainder in September, the burden would be spread for and which is also used by speakers both lecturers and-reading rooms. Such a system would provide all at conferences. students, General Studies or Honors with an opportunity to travel during I do this for three reasons. Be- two of their summers and a chance, in the other two, of enjoying the cause I love the country and its amenities. Because I love the Trinity term. It would certainly put everyone on an equal footing with house, which is beautiful, and, like students from other universities when companies ask "How have yon all houses large or small needs care spent your summers?" if it is not to deteriorate. And be- STUDENT FLIGHTS 1967 cause I believe there is a demand for a centre where students can hold conferences and working-par- ties, cheaply and in gracious sur- DUBLIN TO : To-night at the Phil roundings. LONDON £5 5 0 ATHENS £26 0 "THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SURREALISM" "Set my feet in a large room", 0 says the psalmist. PARIS £8 5 0 MADRID £14 14 0 A PAPER ,BY DAVID ROCHE That there is such a demand is Distinguished Visitors : borne out by the fact that all week- AMSTERDAM Lr80 0 BARCELONA £14 14 0 ends this term are booked. Next MUNICH JEAN-PAUL PITTION (French Department T.C.D.), term is nearly booked out. Two £11 15 0 MANCHESTER £3 10 0 JAMES WHITE (Director of National Gallery). ecology courses are planned for the DUSSELDORF £9 10 0 EDINBURGH £3 10 0 Easter vacation and an archaeo- 8.15 p.m. (Tea 7.45) G.M.B. Ladies Welcome logical excavation for the summer. GENOA £14 14 0 COPENHAGEN £12 100 Private Business (Members Only) at 730 p.m. I thoroughly enjoy myself at TEL AVIV (ISRAEL) £35 0 0 Townley Hall, and am very grate- ful to the Board for allowing me to run this pilot scheme, but I dis- MOONEYS BARS like the suggestion that I am a parasite~I am not. Irish Student Travel Service Visit Your correspondent may not know it, but the best work is done THE COLLEGE MOONEY by people who enjoy it. As you (USI) 43 DAME STREET DUBLIN 2 College Street have publicly made slighting re- SIGN OF THE ZODIAC ferences to me, I am obliged to Phone 78217 Grafton Mooney ask you to publish this letter. Yours faithfully, Harry Street Lucy M. Mitchell, Acting Warden, Townley Hall Everything you wane in a stQre~ for home and garden Furniture -- Wallpaper -- Paints -- China -- Glass -- Hardware Electrical Goods -- Garden Seeds -- Fertilizers -- Lawnmowers JESUS CHRIST TODAY Garden Furniture COFFEE_CORNER: A really good, quick, hot snack-lunch and the best cup of coffee in town A series of Lectures by !~ 2 Rev. David Watson M.A. (Cantab) i) McKenzies FEB. 13th --18th at 8.00 p.m. OF PEARSE STREET HON, TUES. ~ REGENT HOUSE WED.~SAT. ~ EXAHINATION HALL LATE NIGHT SHOPPING THURSDAY TILL 7 p.m. i’ill T,~

! , if! ;:i! i ¸ ¯-i! trinity news thursday 9th february--page three ¯7 have been receiving pornographic letters, also several proposals of hoddy around marriage. Leeds: Phil Kelly, a second- ;!!i year Politics student and Liberal "Every few weeks or so some- Music Director at the PIKE supporter, recently travelled to body cries: "Let’s have some p h i 1 o 1 o g i s t extraordinaire, a the London on Party business. On The Case of the Hoddy"; and they shove me on black-and-tan in SHADOW OF the journey, his trousers split. He, Missing Column Telefis Eireann or write me up A GUNMAN, a mainstay of the resourceful, pinned together the somewhere, and I get called the Republican Society, accompanist universities gap with "Make Love, not War" This week’s original Daedalus, little leprechaun or something. and arranger for Players, char in badges. Then they let me go again till the Shell BP building, speaker of Brietol: A third-year student of after considerable back room activ- the cry goes up once more. So Salisbury, Rhodesia: The British ity, was ent. But the gist of the Welsh and a London lamplighter. Government continues to support Politics was arrested for the alleged Hoddy goes up and down, and He wears, at present, a suave attempted murder of one of the article and a resume of the argu- likes it." George Desmond Hod- the University College in Salis- ments provide an interesting sub- blonde fur jacket and an emaci- bury, despite protests from both members of Union Council. His nett toys with his Baked Alaska ated moustache. He also sports trial began on February 3. stitute for the original. Briefly, it pie desultorily. On the wall of academics and Members of Par- was entitled "Those Who Can’t gold-rimmed spectacles, a ring liament, that they are in effect Cambridge: A suspected poli- Teach" and was sparked by the bearing his family crest ( five subsidising the illegal Smith tical schizophrenic has been steal- SRC’s decision that the problem hands clutching arrows. Looks like regime. Mr. Arthur Bottomly said ing the "Daily Express" and a lighthouse emitting beams) and Britain would continue to do so of bad lectures is no concern of " Daily Mirror" from the Union, ? theirs, that "all the students have an industriousness quite frighten- while the college gave fair educa- every day for the past week. The ing in its all-rounder robustness. tion rights to African students. thief must be one of Cambridge’s to do is speak to the leetttrers them- "Dublin", he said, "is by far selves, or, failing that, to the heads East Anglia: Men students were early risers--the papers are gone the pleasantest place to live. In anterrupted while watching the by 9 a.m. of departments concerned". other cities bohemians are re- The article pointed out that T.V. programme " Softly, Softly" California: Ex-film actor Ronald garded as peculiar and placed an a common room, by shrieks for student action of that kind with m a socially fenced-off zoo. Reagan has turned his acting ex- or without new SRC badges was help from a woman student, Pam oenence towards power poltitcs. Here bohemianism is the norm. It Denholm, who had discovered a He is the newly-elected Governor a mild form of suicide. It named is the bourgeoisie who are in the :four lecturers in Trinity" who "are rat in her room. The intruder of California, and has just caused ’ G railed-off zoo. Extraordinary was removed, using half a floor- aaot bad pdople, who undoubtedly things happen all the time. At the dismissal of the university’s know their subject, but who are board, one umbrella, a porter, a president, Dr. Clerk Kerr. Dr. i i’~~’ simply bad lecturers". Lecturers, least they do to me; somehow I cardboard box, a coffee jar, a Kerr had been trying to preserve it. went on to say, must be the seem to attract the unpredic- half-gallon of ether, and half a the university’s tradition of table." box of Kleenex. only professionals who are never He was a contemporary of Don- charging no tuition fees, and to assessed doing their job either be- Oxford: Two of the girls on St. cut the state contribution to the leavy while studying. "As an Hilda’s University Challenge team i? fore they are hired, or afterwards. American" he remarked,, "he was university budget by 10~/o. The article finished by saying not absorbed enough into Dublin "’There is no~hing radical or dis- life to become part of it. Nobody honest in students pointing out to why they stay here if this is such else would have thought the life a dreadful place. Why I even the University that some of its --Roy Bedell unusual enough to write about. employees simply can’t teach. And heard one say the other day that ENTERTAIN A Dubliner would have taken the Irish language was invented AT THE under the present arrangement, the Paradiso there is a signed this boring self-conscious deca- only the students can do it". photograph of him looking dedi- twenty years ago I" He bridled. dence for granted. The Ginger "What next! Oh, put that my poli- !!:i cated, with voluptuous waves of Man, by the way, recently drank The Law nf Libel hair rolling down the back of his tics are socialist Republican, the himself to death in Barcelona. I best thing that can happen to Ire- ,.L The students, it now appears, head. "Funny thing about this appear in the book several times land is for England to kick the cannot do it in print. Legal ad- ice-cream. No matter how hot the as part of various characters and immigrants back so that there’ll vice pointed out that to name the pie-bit is, it never melts; you can sometimes in my own right. Mind be a build up of discontented oom lecturers is to defame them pro- sit and watch it for hours." We you student life has changed beyond people here and a bloody good METROPOLE fessionally. It would be almost im- stare musingly at the ice-cream; recognition since then; it’s been revolution after a few years." Dining . . . Dancing possible to plead "Fair Comment" it shows no sign of moving. Half taken over by the New English, a a sobranie is gasping its last in Hoddy’s knowledge of jazz is Table d’H6te Dinner & A La to the libel case that might result. small noisy minority among those Carte No matter how bad a lecturer is, the ash-tray. Hoddy, as is his all-embracing, and he knows from the other side, who lack the people as diverse as Chris Barber No Cover Charge the law protects him. As do the wont, has abandoned it, and the virtues of their predecessors but Licensed to midnight printers, for they refused "Those pie, for the libidinous delights of haven’t substituted any others. and Victor Sylvester. His parody Informal Dress. Who Can’t Teach" in no uncertain talking. Having failed to get into some of a folksong, ’Monto’, has recen- Luncheons daily (except ~erms. tly been recorded, and the royal- i~(!, You must know him; everybody Redbrick place, they despise ties are rolling in. Sundays) 12.30---3 p.m. Table In another student periodical a does. Since he studied law, Trinity as an inferior university, d’Hote or full A La Carte. year ago, the primers wrote in circa the late forties, he has been and the Irish as inferior people, "I’m finicky about things like to state "Being responsible crafts- as indigenous to the college as the and say so loudly in public, being coffee, chocolate and cheese," he men, we have an obligation to death-watch beetle. Among his to ignorant even to realise that ended up by saying. "It’s the bring to our employer’s notice any- multiple activities are being jazz they’ve actually been kicked up- Swiss blood in me. But I’m a con- D.U. ART SOC. thing which could possibly be critic for , stairs. Someone should ask them noisseur of everything." taken as libellous and/or porno- 2rid STUDENT EXHIBITION graphic. We have a very limited fight to refuse to set any article (20th Feb ~ 4th March) or piece of copy . . ." But those The British National Coursing Entries printers, who were deeply annoyed Association stood firmly behind by a columnist’s attack on " semi- the greyhounds last week and de- Pottery, Water Colours, 5 literate type-setters who feel they clared, "We are not out to catch REALISTI K Drawings, Sculpture ;i~ [i they have a right to decide between RECIPES. the hare." Hares have noticeably THEATRES To be submitted to No. 12 News and Gossip " allowed them- taken a dim view of this senti- OftheVirtues of Hor selves to print on the previous page ment for some time, but have Abbey--The Shaughraun (8 p.m.) by 17th Feb. the following words: " The func- found firm friends in the House & certa/n BeaRs. with Cyril Cusack. tion of the Junior Dean should not of Commons, probably due to the Gaiety--Robin’ Hood, pafitomime be treated as a joke, nor should British Government’s inability to with Milo O’Shea. Fe~. 20th: i it be administered by a joke. The find firm friends elsewhere, espe- Arsenic and Old Lace (Freda Junior Dean is responsible for dis- cially in Europe. So, since Russia Jackson, Mary Merrall, Robert- Everything cipline, and for this job a discip- seems the only country with which son Hare). Gas Co. Theatre (Dun Laoghaire) linarian of no mean talent and England is likely to have a Com- ~4 understanding is needed. Dr. Mc- mon Market, this hare pie recipe --Of Course I’ll Pay You (but for Sport Dowell’s fits of rage and splutter- might be used as an inducement. not today)~Revue with John Molloy. ing may be amusing to watch, but Cover hare in butter paper and i, when each choked fit costs another PASCHET EZE ZAITZA roast in moderate oven for one Gate---Darts (a revue with Des J. M. Nemtor Ltd. student five pounds, they become Keogh, Martin Dempsey). 8 p.m. (Russian hare pie) hour, or until done. Meanwhile, 6 LOWER BAOGOT STREET li an insult to the system." Obviously roll half the pastry fairly thinly Olympia~Wakey! Wakeyl (Billy libellous, and pretty damning to 1 hare with its liver and line a large pie tin, leaving Cotton Bandshow). Ends Feb. (Merrion Row End) printers who so trusted their 10th. Tel : 61058 4 strips blanched bacon (plunge overlapping edges; prick with a judgment on the next page. fork and bake for 10-15 mins. CINEMAS into boiling water for 5 mins.) remove fillets from hare and chop Aeademy--I was Happy Here Leclurers Are Safe k lb. cream cheese rounds about 1 inch thick. Make (Sarah Miles, Cyril Cusack), This week’s Column can do ½ glass Madeira a mince or forcemeat with the 2.20, 4.19, 6.36, 8.51. TO RENDEZVOUS IN little to alter the situation. The rest of the meat, blanched bacon, Adelphi~The Venetian ~Affair THE QUIET ELEGANCE reason for the inclusion of names 1 pkt. puff pastry cream cheese, and hard-boiled ii (Robert Vaughan) OF DUBLIN’S MOST was that it became then a tangible Butter eggs. Layer fillet rounds and Ambassador--Suddenly Last Sum- ,r case for discussion. Without their forcemeat in pie-dish until filled; ~. Black pepper mer (2.05, 4.19, 6.36, 8.51) WELCOMING INN names, it can be little more than pour on roasting pan juices and Feb. 13th--Winnie the Pooh. a vague wail. Congratulations to One medium hare costs about Madeira and cover with the rest Corinthian The Pad, 2.40, 5.55, the four lecturers concerned. Your of the pastry (uncooked). Brown six shillings and feeds 4-6 people. 9.10. Gunpoint 4.05, 7.20. employers will never know quite in the oven for 15-20 mins. International Film Theatre--Mata RICE’S i!’ how bad you are. Safe from Order it about 3 days ahead and Cost per head: 3/- Hari (Jeanne Moreau) 6.15, TOP OF GRAFTON ST. ! horrid criticism, may you mumble ask the poulterer to skin and clean 8.48. on for years to come. it. , !~ PETER HESELTINE. Savoy--The Quiller Memorandum ’! ~,~. f. i!’

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[ i"~; CAREERS V.S.O. i m

A cautionary note from In several countries volunteers now make year), a period of one year’s service i6 still accep- up between 10°/o and 55°/° of all teachers of secon- table. This is particularly true of those who can

,7 dary education" states a recent survey of overseas offer agricultural, medical and technical skills, the Appointments Officer volunteer programmes. These startling figures also of those who could teach Science subjects, demonstrate the size of the emergent nations’ English or French. The only proviso VSO must difficukies. To develope they need skilled per- make is that those people who have qualifications I sometimes feel that a suitable sub-title for the annual report of the sonnel, thus the ever increasing demand for volun- which are in more ready supply, for instance Appointments Office would be "Where have all the flowers gone?" At teers. VSO, one of five organisations in Britain primary teachers and those with General Arts the time of its compilation each year some of the most splendid under- and one hundred and sixty throughout the world, degrees, and who can offer only one year’s ser- graduate blooms of the year before appear to be wilting, their brilliant is struggling to meet this rising demand. Its vice may find themselves put on a waiting list acting ability, their debating skills, their deftness in social life dormant, growth has been dramatic. Founded in 1958 by A. until the beginning of April, when a firm decision at least for the moment~ while they learn the more marketable skills of Dickson when eighteen school-leavers were sent will be made as to whether or not a post can be teaching, programming computers, selling paper tissues or writing civil given in these ’well-supplied’ cate- service memoranda. Other more modest plants, who grew quietly in gories to those people offering to the corners of university life, may, on the other hand, be now seen serve for longer than one year flourishing in a world more congenial to their talents than the Coffee only. But (to repeat), volunteers Bar, College Park or the Phil. offering qualifications which are in This naturally goes hard with the young man or woman who has been great demand overseas are still ac- giving out, shoulder to shoulder with cabinet ministers, on public plat- ceptable even though they can spare forms in or out of college. In his new job the graduate may be rubbing only one year. shoulders with some much less exalted persons and what is worse, that Perhaps the most significant less exalted person may have very little respected for graduate, cabinet contribution made by volunteers is minister, TCD or anything else. their willingness, indeed their What is needed most at this stage from the armoury provided by a keeness to enter fully into the life university education is an eagerness and willingness to learn, a genuinely of a local community and not con- open mind and enough patience to see and appreciate the other person’s fine their efforts to their job. They point of view no matter how bloody-minded that point of view may be. have been described thus "These As you learn the job, howeve~ and the job expands, the pace will in- are a new kind of European. We crease and, if you have chosen wisely, the intellectual demands will be- feel they are our friends". A come more worthy of your steel. If they do not, alter a period of a volunteer finds himself able to year or two, then I svjgest that you think seriously of changing your break down barriers because of his occupation. Very few graduates could be really satisfied with jobs at youth and his willingness to em- which they could become adept overnight. The exceptions seem to be bark on anything. Thus the girl geniuses and pop singers. If you are not in either category you may well in Kaduna writes "I help another find this "Trinity News" supplement enlightening. VSO teacher, teaching hockey at her school, and I have been in- Dermot Montgomery vited to produce ’Macbeth’ at the Appointments Officer ..... local boys’ school as well as help- /t Volunteer teaching Physics at the Kenya Polytechnic’rag with in dramanclvarrom productzon .... at a overseas, VSO now fills projects in fifty eight coun male open prison at Kakuri"; whilst a teacher in tries with over fourteen hundred volunteers of Thailand reports "My pupils are both boys and They are in The Observer whom the majority (over nine hundred )are now girls, some of them older than I. The girls are very graduate or qualified people. pretty and this is perhaps a slight problem. Two every Sunday, yet Volunteers are working as teachers in univer- or three days ago I gave a school dictation in sities, teacher training colleges, technical and class and going round marking the work I found agricultural institutes, adult education centres, the following addition to one girl’s dictation. secondary and primary schools and schools for Mr. X what are you .doing on Saturday and Sun- the backward and handicapped. A girl working day. I was somewhat flummoxed and all I could for two Broadcasting Units of the Northern find to say was ’ask me again outside the class’. Are these Nigerian Ministry of Education in Kaduna, She did and now she and some friends are taking writes "My work is both exacting and exhilera- me out on Saturday afternoon." ting. After three episodes of an educational Final letters are so often like this: "The boys the eyes of a serial on "The School for Scandal ", I feel In often ask ’are you really leaving?’ and ’when old hand at T.V. production and I am becoming are you coming back?’ I hope I shan’t be too less afraid of the enormous power that has long away". That writer is now at an Institute of been showered on me. The department is very Education and will undoubtedly return. But if madman? small so one finds oneself script-writer, pro- that is typical so is this: "Like all volunteers ducing directing, photographing, typing, record- I’d like my work here carried on by another ing, filming, designing, etc., I am amazed that VSO. Please please find a replacement ~ we there is so much success from 2 studios and 5 so desperately need one". old-fashioned cameras." flame Wardens Volunteers in teaching posts account for nine hundred out of the fourteen hundred abroad this year. The remaining five hundred are in non- teaching proiects. Evidence that these can be very varied is given by recent requests for a taxi- dermist, an umbrella-maker and a male ballet dancer! Volunteers are also working as East MONDAY TUES These are the eyes of Michael Frayn. For seven African Game Wardens, workers in Tibetan re- a.m. a,m. years now, week in, week out (apart from 4 fugee camps, government analysists and photog- Welcome new "starters--Usually about five, but[ Draft could be as many as forty. weeks’ paid holiday a year), first in The raphers, University librarians, radiologists, fores- "l in a ters, agricultural and fishery officers -- even an Streamlining of records---We keep personal de speci Guardian, then in The Observer, Frayn has orchestral conductor working in South America. tails of all employees---previous employment, had to write an article. 700 words 3 times a 1 Take Their jobs are frequently performed under dif- education, discipline, sickness, promotions, etc.I cours week for The Guardian; 900 words once a ficult and challenging conditions and it is largely, These are presently being transferred to a con:.! and week in The Observer. through these projects that VSO’s often mislead- puter~this is a fairly lengthy meeting! I p.m. ing image of the pioneer adventurer is gained. p.m. He has also written two novels, The Tin Perso Men and The Russian Interpreter. Appeared An occupational therapist in a hospital for abori- Meeting of Editorial Committee of factory news, I gines writes "My entire stock consisted of twelve paper~I am secretary of this committee. This is[ We a regularly on Granada TV. Wrote for TW3. in th huge tins of paint, a few useless rusty tools and a monthly paper dependant on news coming fr0~ Contributed to The Age of Austerity. He is a set of false bosoms", and from a teacher in the various departments, and articles contributed[ Mee of thi also married, with two daughters. the West Indies who left Trinity last year "It by the committee. [ Yet there is still virtually no evidence that Frayn is especially difficult to make lessons interesting Informal meeting with shop stewards--It is outL WSD has been affected by this. However a growing with virtually no laboratory equipment. The policy to encourage close liaison with Sh0p[ a.m. number of people read The Observer every School is a delapidated old building and my Stewards. This discussion was asked for by thei Inter form-room is reminscent of a garden-shed stuffed held Sunday for this reason alone. To be actually Shop Stewards, who wanted to know the fuUt full of desks." implications of a recent Government aunounce’l there, on hand, when he does finally- well p.m. Recently there has been some misunderstand- ment about the Wage Freeze. I Hous -- snap. . ing about the length of service required of volun- Meeting of Sports and Social Club commlttee--t discu teers by the British Volunteer programme (of ( empl which VSO is a part). While volunteers are This committee meets monthly. EVERY DaY [ Disc Read The Obs er every Sunday being strongly encouraged to commit themselves We all like to spend at least one hour a day awayI sible from the outset to two years’ service (during from our offices in the factory itself. ting which their contributions overseas will be much I more than twice as effective as a stay of only one ~e,/,

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EXPERIENCES OF PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT ! (/

)’ cuk and yet most rewarding part By T. C. CLARKE of this work is in the sphere of human contact and communication. Considerable effort is spent on the L~ who graduated in 1963 and is a Production Manager with Unilever examination, presentation and in- troduction of new ideas and The general form of post-graduate training for management in changes where the problems have industry does not vary markedly and usually takes the form of "learning- strong human overtones rather by-doing". Sometimes the jobs given to trainee managers arc restricted than being purely logical in essence. by fear of any upset that might be caused by a trainee’s inexperience. In this context one’s effectiveness chosen in this way, the jobs are likely to be of little consequence, seldom depends upon development of the extending the prospective manager and usually resulting in boredom. best personal working relationships. Fortunately, in my training the emphasis was on choosing successive jobs Here, particularly in the earlier ?4/ with increasing responsibility. years, constant re-appraisal of one’s .qk After a cursory introduction to ity for all aspects in the setting-up own ability and achievement allied concern organisation and operations and initial running of a soft drinks with a sustained effort to improve and a brief period in each depart- manufacturing and bottling plffnt. is essential. ment at the Unitmlasting some 6 The plant, akhough very small in Most industries are at present weeks---there followed a prolonged relation to the rest of the factory, seeking increased automation and stay in the Development Depart- presented many of the usual install- computorisation of all routine oper- ment. The initial work here was ation and production problems. ations from the handling of orders provided by a simple technical in- Organisationally, the necessary ser- throught to control process- vestigation, which required 6 vicesuAccounts, Personnel, Plarm- ing and supply of raw materials. months. This type of job provid- ing, etc.mwere provided by the Correspondingly the fields of in- ed a good starting point from which relevant Departments serving the dustrial management at the lower ’;,,, to appreciate the atmosphere and main factory. This necessitated Initial stages in the making of margarine. levels have tended towards greater working relationships of industry, close contact with all these sections By courtesy of Unilever Ltd. specialisation. Against this back- ’!i, which differ much from those of throughout the project. Few peop- ground it is usual for post-grad- ?!! university llfe and adjust accord- le have had the opportunity of well as being excellent training this Production Manager. Essentially uates to spend some five years in ingly, working with a project of this gave me great satisfaction, the job is one of administration gaining experience in one field and Next came the most interesting nature from the planning stage On completion of the two year compared with other production thereafter possibly working for an d; job of the training period. This right through to seeing all efforts training period I moved into the jobs where the emphasis may be on extended period in another sphere :F; project, again under Development brought to fruition in a fully opera- main factory and have been em- problems of a more technical nat- (Personnel, Marketing, O & M, ?; Department, involved responsibil- tional production department. As ployed for the past year as a Shift ure. Undoubtedly the most diffi- etc.) to broaden one’s experience. by Roger Watts RETAILING - more than selling tins of peas a recent graduate

I do not think I’m doing an injustice to say that the development of department in which, by mutual the firm from a Director’s eye, politics of big business work. retailing lags behind other industries. It is, however, beginning to agreement, they are most likely to being involved in all aspects of it Recently I have moved to the modernise and with this modernisation comes the scope for a progressive succeed. This has since been but not getting bogged down with newly created post of Liaison Offi- i~¸ future for those interested. The work has so many aspects that it is changed and graduates are now en- routine desk work. The work var- cer between the Meat Department id;, possible to specialise in any one of the following, most of which are gaged for a specific vacancy. In ied from acting as telephone oper- and laboratory, a job which is in- normally regarded as a career themselves: Production Management, my case, I was put into the Fresh ator, filing clerk and tea boy to timately concerned with centralised Work Study, Personnel, Accounting, Engineering, Transport & Ware- Mea(Department. The first three escorting V.I.P’s. around shops and pre-packing, an operatiol~’:in which housing, Statistics, Computer Programming, Food Technology & Re- or four months were spent finding ensuring that the legal and tech- all large retailers must eventually search and General Management. my feet during which time I visited nical aspects of the building of a participate. So far, the work has My first four months were in the uently one became terribly bored. branches and suppliers to get some new slaughterhouse all cogged required me virtually to return to, form of a general introductory The firm have since changed this idea of the problems involved in school and learn something of bio- course which was part of a three introductory course which now buying and retailing large quanti- Pigs’ trotters chemistry and meat science gener- year training scheme. During this lasts for only three weeks and con- ties of high quality meat. At the ally. initial four months, the main de- sists of discussion groups with time it was irksome and boring but smoothly into place. No day was From this brief outline it is poss- partments were visited and the heads of departments, usually Sen- was very useful as it gave me the the same and the job to me was the ible to see that retailing is far from technique of learning by "sitting" ior Executives, interspersed with opportunity of learning the geog- epitome of retailing, one minute boring and there is a great deal next to "Nellie" was used. This visits to the more visually interest- raphy and hierarchy of the firm. being concerned with the reasons more to it than just standing be- was not a great success as "Nellie" ing parts of the business. I was then moved to the job of why we could sell pigs trotters in hind a counter selling tins of peas. was usually too busy to explain At the end of the introductory P.A. to a Director. In this position the Midlands and not in the South, For anyone not wanting to sit be- what she was doing and conseq- course, graduates were put into the I was able to view the workings of and the next reading Hansard for hind a desk for the rest of his life ;ikl the latest developments in the Gov- and who is anxious to be up and ; ’iI~!, ernmeht’s proposed Meat & Live- about meeting people, I can ~ stock Commission. One also had thoroughly recommend retailing as i ~, By Colin Shillington the opportunity to see how the a career. Manager’s Week Personnel Manager of British Enkalon in Antrim %, ,:L i;i. TUESDAY THURSDAY a:m. a.m. Promotions--Miscussion with head of a depart- ].ve, b~1 Draft advertisement for an Engineer to be placed in a local paperuthis requires an accurate job ment about promotions he plans to make in the onal dt specification. near future. , !i loyme Take Case Study at Induction Course--We run p.m. courses for all new entrants and also supervisor Interviews---One afternoon per week conducting :Ii and Junior Management courses. interviews and tests to engage hourly paid work- ANDREW SIMPSON (21), ¯ ers to counteract normal turnover. Before a qualified teacher from p.m. Loughborough College of major intake (of about sixty men) a full week’s Education, now teaching at ’n2’c21Personal problems--These arise almost every day. interviewing is required with over 100 people ry newt a Secondary Technical School Thisl We are available at all times to talk to anyone seen. in Freetown, Sierra Leone, in the factory. FRIDAY a.m. where he is in charge of the ing frot Meeting of Canteen Committee--I am chairman technical drawing dept., :!i atributd Apprentices---Contact local University to finalise teaches woodwork and helps of this committee~a fairly thankless task! details of a visit to interview undergraduates. with games and the Drama C|ub. It is o~ WEDNESDAY Wages---Discussion with head of wages section. :h She a.m. Youth Employment Officer~Talk with local ~r by t~ Interviews for vacancy in Chemical Laboratory~ Youth Employment Officer who is bringing party Who will replace him? the fd held in conjunction with Chief Chemist. of school leavers for a visit to the factory. nnounc~ p.m. Christmas Party for Childrenmmeeting to finalise VS0 is looking now for 1000 graduates plans for childrens party in factory for younger Housing---call to see local Housing Manager to and professionally qualified volunteers ,’j Lmitteev discuss th epossibility of finding houses for new children of employees (320 of them) and visit to for service from next September employees coming to the district. circus for the older ones (250). !j, Discussion with Welfare Oflicer~She is respon- Help compile monthly report~to show absentee VOLUNTARY SERVICE OVERSEAS- J day awJ sible for visiting those who are ill and administra- and sickness details, promotions, resignations etc., (Member of British Volunteer Programme) I ting the companies Sickness Benefit Scheme¯ for previous month. 3 HANOVER STREET LONDON Wt :i i i!

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General Trainee throughout the world and it is I entered the BBC in a mood of high euphoria as a General generally recognised that the BBC’s Trainee--a privileged group, treated and regarded with jealous share of the world audience has respect. I had expressed an interest in radio, in radio in the regions, with tho B.B.C. dropped very markedly in recent in educational radio and in current affairs. The first of my three years. It is rumoured, for example, attachments as a General Trainee was in Manchester. I worked on that some of the most important hy RBBEBT HUTEHI~HN BBC transmitters in the Indian ’ Voice of the North’ as assistant to the producer. I did interviews, Who graduated two years ago and has recently left the B.B.C.and Atlantic oceans are clogged up wrote short scripts, occasionally was given total responsibility for the with moss and birds’ nests. There programme. It was a highly erratic programme--very bitty and to take up a ]ob in Publishing. may be some truth in this. But I rough-edged as it all had to be prepared in a day. You had "to find think for real control and involve- 0 much more satisfactorily if there van( four newsy topical items, brief the interviews, get tapes sent in or I enjoyed my three months in ment in one’s work Bush House Manchester. The ethos of the were no programmes at all. comes first. It also, of course, has pra( copied from everywhere from Carlisle to Stamford (BBC regions are BBC set-up there suggested that, Further Education is a small, tightly to be that bit more cautious poli- felt somewhat arbitrary--Brighton is in the West !). The programme the programmes were the impor- knit group of dedicated warriors tically. tan against ignorance. The audiences seemed to have a following with a dogged band of car radio listeners tant things, but when I came to T.V. or Radio of a hut it was very much working in the shade of its television brother. London, on attachment to the are small, usually too small to be ever measured, but despite this there is Why have I stuck to radio? Be- This is radio’s plight these days, second choice of everything, no Further Education Department rays there was the undoubted feeling a much stronger link with the cause partly it is much more of a Eve glamour, not much money and, in general, fairly low morale. What is throughout the staff that the pro- people who do actually listen than one-man operation, and partly be- a fe perhaps surprising is that throughout the BBC there are still large grammes themselves were an obs- probably in any other BBC depart- cause I think it probably more roct numbers of first-class radio programmes---’ The World at 1 ’ to name tacle to smooth administration, merit. This is because there is a aesthetically satisfying. It’s pro- spe( only one. and the whole place would operate whole structure of Aduk Education bably much easier to produce a du Liaison Officers who tell the aduk rounded programme in radio than pro, education world what programmes it is on T.V. In television the Pea are going to be done, and asks them producer and director (a division he ’ what they think of them. The of function that doesn’t exist in nott main distinguishing feature about, radio) are dependent on, and re- oug the Further Education output is sponsible for, a largish team of evel that all the programmes are done cameramen, sound engineers, light- app in series and they are all planned ~ng experts, etc. But there is no who much further in advance than most doubt at all that most BBC em- No of the rest of the Corporation ployees, at whatever level, have Ch~ output. Both in Manchester and one eye, at least, permanently on Reg in my attachment to Further Edu- the Television Centre. That is "cation I was given a satisfying where they all want to work and F measure of responsibility for what want to play, so that in many ways mic actually went out on the air. The I am untypical. There is no doubt tan same was true of my third attach- at all that all the glamour and to t ment in Bush House. all the prestige and most of the ed , Bush House money is in television. This is a r obvious and it is irreversible. What But All the BBC’s overseas depart- worries me and what is perhaps por~ ments work from Bush House the main reason for my leaving star i: and it is reputed to be the only the BBC is that I think the Cor- bor. place in the world where North poration has failed, and failed rath rest Vietnamese and South Vietnamese, badly, to do justice to itsradio ser- the talk together. Being a linguistic vice and to do justice to the cripple I had to work in the Eng- S potential of radio since the tele- isin lish Language Service in a depart- vision age began. ment called Overseas Talks and ossi Features. Most Bush House pro- Education ducers work a great deal harder I’ve spent the last 18 months as Let T&N fill them out for you... than anybody else in radio, but the a quasi-established producer in the job is probably more satisfying, Further Education Department, i. because the producers there have working on a number of series to do nearly all their own micro- mostly about education, but I also What do you mean, What do you mean, phone work. I worked for two produced a short series on Irish ’Management Training’? ’Early Promotion’? months on the programme ’The history and one on Dickens. There World Today’, which is a daily 15- is a good deal of routine adminis- First, training in management tech- Precisely what we say. Responsibility trative work in the radio producer’s t, minute current affairs feature, and, !! niques - training that fits you to take and its rewards come early and decis- I would say, the one regular BBC life--booking studios, contracting your place in the control centres of a ively at T&N. For example: Production current affairs programme both on speakers -- and one is constantly L radio and television that maintains tempted to feel that it is too easy complex and important organisation. Manager aged 26, Market Intelligence a consistently high standard. (If to get away with a mediocre pro- Second, continuation of your own de- Manager aged 27, Senior Export Man- you have got a sfiort-wave set in duction. But there are also real velopment in your own way-and in a Dublin you may be able to pick rewards for being a "good" pro- I, ager aged 29. Theseappointments and graduate climate, but geared to man- many more were filled by ex-trainees. it up at a time like three in the ducer, and probably no organisa- morning). But it must also be said tion treats its employees better than agement. that Bush House does not al- ’Aunty’. The BBC is a very very % How do you learn more about us? ways exactly effervesce with enthu- fair institution, and the great thing siasm. There are real doubts about about the job, of course, is that one Our book, "Training for early manage- the extent and size of the audience is constantly meeting a variety of What do you mean, ment responsibility in Turner & Newall for the BBC’s overseas service (often) unusually talented people. ’6raduate Climate’? Limited", contains a typical training Our training courses for graduates in- programme for graduates as well as CAREERS IN THE CIVIL SERVICE clude a seminar system. One day of examples of typical graduate careers. If you would like a copy or any further The Civil Service offers to university graduates a career in each week is set aside for this. administrative work or in their particular profession. information, please write, quoting ref: Positions open to graduates, holding a first or second class T.N. 1,to honours degree in any faculty, include: Training for what? Administrative Officer, Training for the work that computers Group Personnel Officer Third Secretary in the Department of External Affairs, will never be able to do- the business Turner & Newall Limited and of understanding what an industry is Asbestos House, Fountain Street Inspector of Taxes. for and of guiding it now and inthe Manchester 2 A competition for posts as Administrative Officer wiTI be future. or telephone Manchester Central 9381 announced shortly. Final year honours students w.;ll be elig- ible to compete. The written examination will be held in The Turner & Newall Group Personnel Officer will be visiting Dublin University on Thursday and April. Friday 16th and 17th February, 1967. If you would like an interview, please contact the Secretary Vacancies for graduates holding an appropriate university of thee Appoin tm en ts Board. ~." degree, occur from time to time, in the following grades:- Engineer (Civil, Mechanical and/or Electrical) Arc~tect, Chemist, Agricultural and Horticultural Inspector, Veterin- ary Surgeon, School Inspector, Forestry Inspector, Meteoro- TURNER & NEWALL LTD logist, Statistician. asbestos, plastics and insulation The Secretary, Civil Service Commission, 45 Upper O’Connell Street, Dublin, 1, will be glad to supply further Turners Asbestos Cement Co Ltd ¯ Turner Brothers Asbestos Co Ltd. Ferodo Ltd. Newalls Insulation & Chemical information to any student or graduate interested. Please Co Ltd ¯ d. W. Roberts Ltd ¯ British Industrial Plastics Ltd ¯ Engineering Components Ltd ¯ Stillite Products Ltd write or call. Turners Asbestos Fibres Ltd - & 23 overseas mining & manufacturing companies TN6/S trinity news thursday 9th february--page seven ’i, !. . !, "Th: C]aa aging Face ,91f Ireland"

By Andrew Veitch , , Li and Helen Given ! , :’~: [i

11’ On Friday night, with the ad- of the Trinity Legend. And I vanced course on ’how to out-wit wasn’t disappointed. Tom was, practical jokers’ under my arm, I however, until the drink took over, felt brave enough to visit the Quin- because his principle guest Hugh tan Seat in Blanchardstown. Being Teacher never turned up. He had of a shy and retiring nature, how- the next best thing (almost) in J ever, I didn’t need it, as I made David Maxwell Fitzgerald who ,f, i?: myself as inconspicuous as only tried to make up for the master’s J Evelyn can be. I could have given absence by offering to pay people a few lessons to Jackie de Belle- to take his tips. My ~avourite > : i i roche who was making a pair of man, John McDonald, the original spectacles of herself, much to Hugh Spotty McG0o, was there, as was du Vivier’s chagrin, since he usually the best-dressed man in college, ,; i provides half the spectacle. Jerry Junior ’I’ll only stay a minute’ Pearson paid no attention though, Dean, who entertained me delight- he was too busy whispering sweet fully with small-talk on prison nothings into Moirita’s ear. Murr- education. Frank Wilcox tried to ough Cavanagh was encouraging rival him with a frightful disserta- :14 everyone to ski, and was dis- tion on art. Margaret Mitchell \ appointed by Stephanie Bridgett was the sufferer. I shouldn’t who preferred to remain upright. really mention seeing Arthur Quin- No prizes for guessing who Tom lan in his yellow dressing gown, Chance was with : no prize for Jill because he has been over-exposed. Regan either. It was the thought of seeing Dublin’s answer to Twiggy--Ben Pausing to watch John McCor- Buck--in action that lured me to ,7, mick give the kiss of life under the the Intercontinental on Sunday. table to Mike Alvey, I hurried back Poor Simon Boler was non- to the Phil ’Soiree’ expecting mull- plussed at not getting in on the ed wine and madrigals---or at least act, even though he had had ffis t a reading of Ernie Bates poetry. hair cut for the occasion. He was But the drink and glasses had eva- forced to settle for a Lolita-Dolly. porated, and the ’Trinity News’ -Maurice Carlier was looking fran- staff had adjourned their anti- tically everywhere. However did boredom meeting and joined the he miss Norman Scott? And on rest of the disappointed guests in his last night too. Frank White- the Old Stand. Lennon (one free with every pack- Saturday was much more prom- et of cornflakes) was back at work, ising, as Tom Chance’s occasional carrying a minimiss-model, and it /- ossifications have now become part wasn’t Ruth Buchanan! .. ¢,_ ,a ’1

FLEET STREET, DUBLIN Bryson ANYONE interested in starting a flying group is invited to con- Pen and ink ~ketch by Liam C. Martin tact T. Lepp, c/o The Phil. ¯ ;L 3 CHURCH LANE EARRINGS can be kinky. Have Peter Lennon is the Paris cor- sorship Board; he is somewhat the film. He interviewed nuns and Jnis- them designed and made to suit respondent for the GUARDIAN, surprised by the moderate degree even a member of the Board of Z your kinks from 10/- to £1. Censors. He shot scenes of Moore cer’s GOWNS, HOODS, TIES, Lend an ear to Michelle film critic, and now amateur of progress that has, in fact, been :i~~ ~, ~ing Berriedale-Johnson. No. 6. director. He left U.C.D. some made. Street and recorded the cries of antly SCARVES, BLAZERS. In filming the documentary, the flower women. A party was SEAN WALMSLEY announ- years ago to work as a journalist, casy ces to his friends (sic) that he mainly in the IRISS TIMES Lennon decided to use students held so that Coutard could film pro- will not be receiving any valen- where he showed himself as a from Trinity and U.C.D. as a several sequences of a drunken real tine cards this year. strong critic of Irish censorship discussion group. Their conversa- orgy. No matter what the content pro- BAGGOT ST. RUGGER and Establishment dominance. tion centred on the Church, edu- of the film is like, the camera nisa- THE BASEMENT CLUB--Pre-International ’Hop’ Needless to say, he left the coun- cation, and censorship, and Len- work is bound to be excellent. than T.C.D. Santry Pavilion; 9.00 try. But now he’s back again, and, non made no attempt to interrupt Coutard has worked with Goddard p.m. Friday, 10th February. and Truffaut and is reputed to very BOUTIQUE Tickets available Front Gate with Couthard as his cameraman, them. He did make it clear, how- thing Friday. is busy making a documentary en- ever, that clips of the discussion be the best cameraman in films t one titled, " The Changing Face of tape, might be taken and then re- today. ty of Ireland". arranged to fit a visual sequence. The finished product will un, .’ople. Clothes designed by Despite his absence, Lennon has The Trinity students did not ob- doubtedly be interesting. Lennon never lost touch with Irish affairs. ject. However, AWAKE Editor, has no fears about criticising when )7 MICHAEL and LIZ ADAM He wrote a series of four articles Maeve Donnellan, Harry Owens, he has to, and he retains journa- YOUR NEAREST on Irish censorship for the Auditor of U.C.D.’s L. & H., and listic discretion and taste for valu- 2 CHURCH LANE, COLLEGE MANSHOP IS AT GUARDIAN; these were pub- a few other students from U.C.D. able commentary. GREEN 10 DUKE LANE lished in T.C.D. two years ago. declined to take any further part Ireland may be modemising : ii He even wrote in defence of the in the talk. Whether they were slowly, but it is still a Church- so-called pornography of the last pressured to back out by college ruled State; the question re- authorities, or whether they were mains whether the "Climate of Icarus. Lennon seems to have a i; preconceived idea of the Irish merely afraid of possible recrimi- Opinion," which Lennon is so situation. To him, Ireland still nations is not known. concerned about, will ban his film 1 Join the Irish Georgian Society seems to be controlled by the Although Lennon was disap- before it can be shown in his Church and her vassal, the Cen- pointed, he carried on with making own country. Dublin needs you. Help save your irreplaceable Georgian heritage before it is too late. Volunteers needed badly. Subscription 10/- Go to !i’ The Blue Lantern Steak-House THE BEST PHARMACIST Name: ...... r BEST FOOD AT BEST PRICES P. J. O’BRIEN /T Address : ...... Chatham Street off Grafton Street 52 DAWSON STREET, to: Irish Georgian Society, DUBLIN 2 Leixlip Castle, 10 a.m. to 2 a.m. ,,,:! TEL.: 74108, 72076 Co. Kildare.

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trinity news thursday 9th february--pag~ eight

Trinity will play the College of Surgeons in College Park Seen Thomas, claim that this is the best Trinity side ever. and if they win they will meet U.C.G. in the same place Three of this year’s side, namely Tom Nolan, the captain, to-morrow afternoon. The final will be played on Satur- Ian Pointer, John Reaney have played for the Irish day morning in College Park at twelve o’clock. Universities. Pointer, last year’s captain of D.U.F.C. Trinity have never won the Collingwood Cup which also led the Irish Universities side. A fourth member of has been dominated by Queens , but, as hosts this year, the team, Chris Rae, a forceful player in the Duncan Ed- their chances must be good. The team have trained wards mould was a reserve. The rest of the team are not exceptionally hard under ex-colour Andre Lennard. On lacking in experience and were all helped in this field by To-day sees the start of the Irish Universities soccer most Sundays the team have gone down to Malahide for a game with Bohemians at Dalymount Park Iast week. competition, better known as the Collingwood Cup. This commando style training on the sand dunes. Their en- Akhough they lost the game lm5 most of t~e spectators, competition which goes on until Saturday is run on a thusiasm for the task in hand seems to know no bounds including the U.C.D. team, went away impressed with }knock-out basis. This morning at Bird Avenue, U.C.D. and despite last Saturday’s setback in which the team were what they had seen. The players themselves are very fit .will play U.C.C. and the winners will meet Queens to- obviously not "trying too hard, they are approaching peak and ready to go. They deserve our support, let us see morrow morning at the same place. This afternoon form. Indeed many observers, including Bohemians coach they get it.

BOXING RUGBY Sports Fit South A[rkans just too good Cup rehearsal win Dublin University ...... 12; The South African Universities COmmON giving away weight and Old Wesley ...... 6 Shorts reach started slowly and landed duly beat a combined T.C.D. and By TONY O’SULLIVAN In an entertaining game in Col- U.C.D. boxing team by five bouts only one good right in the first By IilIBM~Y RIEE reach started cautiously, but as the round. In the second, CONDON lege Park on Saturday, Trinity to three at the National stadium ended up worthy victors against on Saturday. As the South Afri- fight went on he became aggres- already looking fired, threw seve- Old Wesley by three tries and a It is always pleasant, in this cans had previously beaten Cam- sive enough to earn a narrow ral wild rights, which completely newspaper, to be able to con- bridge by 7-2, this was no mean points win. The next bout lasted missed the target. This gave Lowi dropped goal to a penalty and a gratulate. Trinity sportsmen who barely a minute, the referee stop- even more confidence and he put~ dropped goal. performance. Wesley opened the scoring after have won representative honours, The Combined Universities lost ping it as Outram of Trinity could Condon down, but was surprised or who are in line for such. the first fight, but the second one, offer no defence to a furious to see the Trinity man get up 15 minutes with a penalty goal Thus, first congratulations to- a featherweight contest between start by Van Heerden. and rock him with a good left by MACYEN. Trinity quickly :I day go to BILL BARR, who plays hook. However, seconds later levelled with a wonderful try by ./ G. Shanik (of Trinity and K. Richard Conden, on whom tomorrow evening on the Irish Kruger was a very close affair. much hope was pinned was next Condon was down again and the BECK. He made a fine run down i1," squash team against England at referee stopped the fight. the left wing, kicked ahead and Shanik giving away height and into the ring to take on J. Louw. followed up well to dive over the Fitzwilliam. Barr won his first cap Mike Welch last year, and this time plays at In the middleweight contest line for 3 points. MALONE put i: No. 4 on the National side, Chris Anthony with an enormous Wesley in the lead again with a DECLAN BUDD, who has pre- advantage in reach and height dropped goal, but this was to be took on I. BRUMMER. In the first their last success. On the half- +t viously represented Leinster, be- 5 ,comes the reserve for tomorrow’s round ANTHONY wrongly let his hour HUTCHINSON sent a high international. opponent get inside alxt paid the kick dropping near the Wesley In the light of recent events it penalty by taking several good posts. DONOVAN took full advan- is hardly necessary to record that body blows. However, as the fight tage of a mistake by the Wesley !5 ex-Trinity man JONAH BARRING- went on, Anthony started to box fullback and scored the second of TON will be the Irish No. 1. his man using his long left to Trinity’s tries. Just before half- score valuable points. In the last time CHAMNEY got the third fol- (i! round both fighters landed some lowing a breakthrough in a line- ~J Two Trinity Gaelic [ootballers good punches, but most of the out some 30 yards from the Wes- played on the 1fish Universities South African’s punches were ley line. side in this year’s match with the landed with the inside of the glove The second half produced some i’i National League winners. TONY mANTHONY got the decision. vigorous exchanges between the HANAHOE was at hal,-back, and i: j The last fight of the night be- two sets of forwards. However, five JoE LEI~ON at centre field. Trinity pack were not to be sub- zi The game was against Long- tween A. MCCANN of Trinity and lit B. ABRAHAMS was probably the .clued and kept a firm grip on the lord, who won by 2-8 to 1-7. game. SHERIDAN and EVANS in ? Pre~s reports described Lennon as best one of the night. MCCANN, boxing at an unaccustomed weight particular revelled in the loose "the .man o~ the match", and play, while DAVIES, ROBERTS and Hanahoe as "impressive" and of light heavyweight started well 17 and caught his opponent with a CHANNEY again demonstrated !- " the only Universities’ de[ender their skill in the lines-out. The who looked com[ortable against good left and right combination. In the second round ABRAHAMS only score of this half was a beau- the L.on~o~’d attack" tiful drop goal by HUTCHINSON. t, became more aggressive and MCCANN was forced to take some SON, b :i STEWART MCNULTY, Trinity’s telling puches. In the final round MEN’S HOCKEY Cot centre-half and captain, has been McCANN got CUt on the bridge of pair i: Selected for the Probables in the the nose. This inspired him to Penalty decides tote first Irish hockey trial. Last year a stormy attack in which he caught he was a regular member of the his opponent with several good National side, and this season Trinity ...... 1 i,i Richard Condon (centre) in action in his light middleweight contest rights which got him a majority St. Ita’s ...... 0 played in all Leinster’s inter-pro- with y. Louw. decision. vincial games. A sunny sky and a firm The College’s other Senior inter- SOCCER surface were just to Trinity’s pro. player, HAUGHTON FRY, will GOLF liking at College Park on Satur- Mul play on the right wing for the day, but there was such resolute /-IO/~ Possibles in the trial. Defeat before CoUingwood Cup defence from bottom-of-the-table in Weakness at top St. Ita’s that the only home score £30 Another ex-Trinity colour has came from a penalty late in the The Golf Club had two very Trinity ...... 1 Beggsboro ...... 4 been awarded his Blue at Ox[ord. close matches over the weekend, game. Trinity’s win means that I/ PETER STIVEN, a [ormer Trinity defeating Mullingar 5-3 on Satur- With the Collingwood Cup this revival from Trinity and Beggs- they now have ten league points r .hockey player, will fill the right day, and tieing with Hermitage on weekend all eyes are turning to- boro added 2 more goals. from eleven matches and are not This is the first time Trinity without hope of making the top back position in this year’s ’Varsity Sunday. wards the promising Trinity team. match. In both matches the top three has been defeated this term but as half of the table. games were lost, but it is very Yet on Saturday Trinity’s hopes they were without two of their MCNULTY and FRY were in con- I hear that A. TRYFON arid K. encouraging to find the lower for the cup began to crumble as best players~MEws and REANEY fident form, but neither was able LEE were again the stars on the members of the team adapting Beggsboro’s score mounted. tittle importance should be at- m break the scoring deadlock. It Trinity basketball team which was themselves so well to strange One element of Trinity’s form tached to it. If REANEY is on form was in the aftermath of a shot t defeated in the final of the Irish courses. this term has been their ability to this weekend he will be a matcfi- by MCNULTY from a corner that Universities’ Championships last The following have been selec- finish movements near goal. This winner, and the wings MACREADY a FINDLATER flick was stopped Saturday. ted to represent Trinity against was totally lacking on Saturday and Nowo, if given the opportu- illegally and KING converted the The College narrowly defeated U.C.C. in the letter’s colours perhaps through the absence of nity could make life for their op- penalty stroke. Thereafter the U.C.D. for the second time in two match at Portmarnock tomorrow. REANEY. Beggsboro scored twice posing wing halves very uncom- visitors, who had been pimied in weeks, and had a victory over Gal- S.BLACK (Captain), D. BISHOP, in the first half with Trinity’s fortable. The defence has been their half for most of the game, way. In the final, after an even G. CALDWELL, I. ELLIOT, D. goal coming from Nolan--leaving improving with every game, with came near to scoring, but a draw first-half, U.C.C. romped home LEARY, P. HAUTZ, M. MORRIS- the score 2-1 at half-time. But the BALLARD and POINTER particu- would have been an injustice to }. to a 75-57 win. SEY, R. POSHIN. second half could not produce any larly prominent. Trinity. i Traditional Atmosphere in CHRISTY’S CARDS-N-NOVELTIES Congenial Surroundings CUT YOUR HAIR THE r LINCOLN’S INN WAY YOU WANT IT THOMAS J. KELLY LINCOLN PL., DUBLIN Student Rates |93 Pearse St., Dublin 2 i Tel.: 62978 K~ght of Lincoln Gate

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