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Dublin Thursday, 26th January, 1967 1,000 trini t Vol. XlV, no. 7 Price Fourpence .lin- Dublin Uni2,ersity Undergraduate Newspaper Library en- 3re- THE QUESTION o[ the students and drug,s NO ONE seems to know--not even the Librarian PEPETA HARRISON, final year English ,=tudent, rder how popular they actually are, how easy it is -.--if the Lbrary is insured. Valuable books was involved during the vacation in what was for to get them, why students take them--are were damaged when a wall collapsed over described by the A.A. as " the most amazing books answered in the first o[ a new series o[ features Christmas. DAEDALUS explores in a page 3 escape o/ the century." The incident is re- entitled FOCUS on page five. series of who, what and why. ported on page 2. damaged PETER VESEY LOST IN ATLANTIC On Thursday the 5th ]January, cement destroyed or damaged a large number of books housed at the far end of Trinity Library. ’.¢ Bound for West Indies Injected into a chimney flue to strengthen the wall against the de- , ,? mands of the new library building, the liquid cement burst from a with t:riend forgotten fireplace a floor up, damaging over 1,000 books. by BILL BOWDER This represents hours of work for the librarians and their Student Peter Vesey, a recent graduate of Trinity, perhaps best known helpers, and days of work for the for his production of the verse epic, "Gordon of Khartom," in builders to clear the mess. Players last summer, went to sea three months ago in a small boat and has not been heard of since. On 10th October, consistent with his practice of actualizing his dreams of something more than mere man, Peter Vesey sailed from New character Plymouth harbour in the seven ton yacht ’ Far Away’ towards the Canaries, and the Bahamas. During a period of high winds am| for Eliz. storm, the 35 foot boat, with provision for ten days and an emergency The Elizabethan Society has supply of ’ pill’ foods for a few more, set out with a relatively inex- assumed a more intellectual charac- perienced crew of two men ; Peter, who had sailed only once [urther ter with the recent integration of than the local waters of his Devon home and Scottish cottage, to the Debating Sub-Committee into Brittany, and an even less experienced old-school friend and Devon the main, policy-making Com- neighbour. mittee. Expected to arrive in Las Pal- Wednesday afternoon ’Tea and mas not later than the 20th Cakes’ sessions have been abolished October, in an overhauled and sea- in favour of more ’ blue-stocking’ ii ii Hist. refuses to worthy boat, which however had activities. They will be replaced ,7;’" no radio, it was not until the end by evening meetings in the form of of the month that his parents, by paper readings with distinguished return Mace then gravely concerned, alerted visitors replying to the papers or Lloyds to make a search of all ports in the form of a symposium dealing The Hist are refusing to return along the Spanish, Portuguese and with topics of interest." the Observer Mace Debating Canaries coast lines, and to effect To facilitate the Society’s de- Trophy which they won last year. a sea search. Once a vessel was bating enthusiasts, debates will be Despite a strongly worded letter spotted off the Portuguese coast held with other societies, and which raised many hopes, but the possibly with other universities. from the Paper, announced at last Better liason will be established week’s Private Business, asking for boat was soon identified as t>, an ordinary fishing vessel ; that between the Committee and the the return of the Mace as soon as Peter Vesey, who left College last year. Tom Chance possible, the Society’s committee was two months ago and there have members with the introduction of ag have declined to comply at least to been no reports, good or bad, since. private business meetings, attended lie the Semi-finals stage. This action Perhaps he is on some such by members, instead of Committee k- vessel now, picked out of the meetings. ry owes much to the tardiness of the "Observer" in paying for the winter seas, for while a ship of costly re-engraving of die originally seven tons might quite easily ride USI CONGRESS FLOPS mis-lettered base of the Mace. out a summer swell, even with in- " ’The Observer’ are proving a sufficient hands, the odds against a Duncan retires little bit uppish, you know ", com- safe voyage lengthen alarmingly as Adams misses £600 p.a. the Equinoctial gales approach. ~,~ mented one Hist Committee One hopes Peter is on some small Professor G. A. Duncan, head member. fishing boat, or in some Spanish The USI Congress, held the the meeting was overshadowed by of the Economics School since ’4; village airing his soul without weekend before last in Limerick, electioneering. The battle for the 1934, has just announced his re- ,I Twentieth century contact, but it was preoccupied with petty Presidency- which now carries tirement. Long term reasons for t would be more realistic to con- squabbles and ruthless electioneer- £600 a year- was between his retirement were his increasing !i i ’.d clude, with Peter’s sister and ing. Few there can have felt that Trinity’s Michael Adams and the lack of faith in current Economics. te the meeting contributed much to outgoing President, John Murray Reflected one of his students : "He J° Fo brother-in-law, that after this i- length of time " there is now no the development of the Union’s of UCD. Murray had all UCD’s seemed like a permanent fixture." It hope" policies¯ 18 votes, which amounted to ~r S.F. The greatest advance during the about 25°/° of the total, requiring a last year was the first meeting any opponent to win almost 70% ll between USI representatives and of the remaining votes. In the Student Vacations Original play the Minister of Education. The event Adams won about 50% of Specially reduced student travel :!il d Minister had prorrrised consultation the other votes, giving him 28 votes ararngements by Rail, Air and for Players with USI before educational re- to Murray’s 46. Adams believes Boat to forms were decided upon. He re- that almost all of the year’s An original one-act play is going peated this promise when he executive had voted for him in PARIS, MARSEILLES, :iil on in Players at the end of this addressed the Congress, although preference to Murray, and if the MILAN, ANCONA, Books for every VENICE, BARCELONA, week. It is called " Unzip " and refusing to deal with higher edu- circumstances were right he would ATHENS, TEL AVIV was written by a member of Play- cation " until the Commission had stand again next year ; but he is ers, Malachy Lawless. The new reported". The UCC delegation prepared to back up Murray dur- Also inclusive Kibbutz Holidays year play, if it could be called a play at stayed away from the Minister’s ing his renewed period of office. and holidays in Greece and the all, is an experiment to discover address as a protest against the U.C.D man Derek Penny was Greek Islands. at what it is that holds an audience’s lack of government planning with elected as Administrative Secretary, All arrangements based on attention when the curtain goes up. regard to their College. also at £600 a year. But UCD’s special low student group rates. It is, in some respects an enquiry A motion calling for Associate attempt to sweep the board by Send for your brochure to H.F. into stage technique and the Membership of both the Com- putting up a candidate for every HOSTS LTD., mechanics of acting. The play, one unist I.U.S. and the Western position aroused considerable re- of three one-act plays in the per- I.S.C. was carried by a large sentment, and in the end they won 50 VICTORIA STREET, formance, goes on on Friday, majority only two of the remaining nine LONDON, S.W.1 Saturday and Sunday. Much of the formal business of positions¯ ; L ’ } !I trinity news thursday 26th january~page two CHEQUES STOLEN IN COLLEGE Trinity GIRL ES,,APES DEATH Forged for £50 students Car ptunges 100 feet over cliff The Rugby Club has informed changed from £8 to £28, was into swollen river the Gardai that, during the vaca- cashed in a local bank, Dave’s in collision Pepet~ Harrison, 22, final year Engfish, was involved in what the name having been forged on the A.A. described as "the most amazing escape of the century" when tion, a cheque, made out to the Junior Sophister legal science D.U. Football. Club by-the Com- back. her Mini plunged over a 100 foot cliff into a swollen river below. Payment on the cheque was student Michael Evans, who is mercial Investment Advisors Ltd. treasurer of Choral, was seriously Her miraculous escape became for advertising space in the Colours stopped by Dave’s bank in prominent front-page news in England. injured in a car accident during the national papers in Britain, Ireland Programme, was stolen, probably vacation. Michael was a passenger from rm. 38.11 or Postbox 38.11. and the Continent and attracted a in a friend’s car which was involved mass of congratulatory mail. Dave Buchanan also had a £8 in a head-on collision near Hay- Pepeta, returning home for cheque, made out to cash, stolen ward’s Heath, Sussex.