ISSUE 8 / VOLUME 19 06.03.06 UUCDCD INSIDE S ACT OF BOD IN DEPTH SSPORTSPORT AN IRISH RUGBY ANALYSIS OF LEGEND TALKS UCD SPORT FFOCUSOCUS SPORT’S FOCUS PAGE 4 ‘Alas the HHaydenayden rot in RRompsomps UCD is HHomeome terminal’ n REVEALED: Confidential academic survey A confi dential survey carried EOIN MAC AODHA out by Professor Gerard Casey, Head of the School of Philoso- ing this, the lecturers and profes- phy, has highlighted major con- sors are the product. Not the stu- cerns with morale, leadership dents, not the president. People and the restructuring of the col- come here to listen to the lecturers lege among academics. and professors not the president or When contacted Professor Ca- the registrar and I think they don’t sey refused to comment on the quite realise that.” survey itself but did admit that he When questioned Registrar had initiated it. Philip Nolan stated; “My response The College Tribune was given to that is that an awful lot of issues the survey anonymously by a dis- in that survey ware actually things gruntled academic. in terms of modularisation that Former Head of the Politics De- we’ve actually formally and more partment Tom Garvin stated, “First extensive reviewed. of all it’s not a scientifi c survey, “If you want to fi nd out what’s it’s probably self selecting, people going on it’s much better to get who are most disgruntled would be people in and ask them, If 70% inclined to send in their reactions. people are positive you get 70% “But there is a lot of unease, positive and 30% negative. When there is no doubt about that, even you ask people for their views in though a lot of it would not be ex- an unstructured way you are more pressed in as vitriolic way as some likely to get the ones who have a of the people in that survey. problem. SSabbaticalabbatical “I think there is too much lead- “My diffi culty with that survey is ership. Highly authoritarian lead- that it is more likely to have been EElectionlection ership that’s highly remote for the answered by CONTINUED lecturers and professors. people who had CCoverageoverage 6> “I hope you don’t mind me say- issues.” 16> College Tribune 2 THIS WEEK 06.03.06 06.03.06 1 TRIBUNE 2 3 SUDOKU 3 NEWS The SU sabbatt elections come only NO. 18 / EASY NO. 19 / EASY once a year, thank Christ. Here at 923964 Tribune Towers we’ve put together all the movings and shakings at this years err... 536953 21 festivities. Some beardy bloke won. 58 4 2 CS SPORTS 32718 2681 FOCUS 84 5 69 For your sporting 4896176 1 3 delectation, we’ve an interview with 249 5 BOD himself. 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And to Sinead Kelly @ UCD Communications everyone who made this possible College Tribune 06.03.06 NEWS 3 Bash not bashful after SU bashing Irish rugby international, Shane the view that “boys don’t clean up favour of girls, and we receive CAITRIONA GAFFNEY Horgan, has come under attack as well as girls” adding that “peo- over 20,000 hits to our web- from the UCD Students’ Union ordinary girls false hope, putting ple pick up the magazine because site each month,” he added. over a magazine he co-founded pressure on them to get their pic- they want to see their friends in it. I “I believe that girls get last November. ture taken.” wouldn’t look at it and think that the more enjoyment out of it The UCDSU Women’s Offi cer, Amid accusations that Bash girls were wearing very little.” and want to see if there’re Michelle Killeen, has criticised takes the fun out of a night out Bash editor Barry Twomey de- any other girls they might Bash magazine for its’ portrayal for girls aware of the possibility fended his publication claiming “I know in it whereas the of women, which Killeen believes that Bash photographers may be don’t think that people would wear boys, on the other hand, exploits girls who wear revealing present, Killeen also blamed the less on a night-out just to get their like to check out the girls clothes when they are on a night magazine for giving off the impres- picture in Bash. that feature in it.” out. sion that “we should all have per- “Girls on a night-out dress to im- Twomey also claimed The Women’s Offi cer also ex- fect bodies, be a size 8, have fab press themselves, not men or mag- “Bash Magazine pro- pressed concern that for many hair and big boobs but this just isn’t azines” commented Twomey. motes clubs through pic- girls in UCD who dream of be- a reality for most.” Responding to the points made tures of people enjoying coming a model, the model search SU Design and Communications by Killeen on peer pressure and themselves. We’re not competition that features in the offi cer, Patrick McKay, concurred girls wearing revealing clothes, being sexist and we magazine gives them false hopes with Killeen’s sentiments, saying it Twomey agreed that there is an el- strive for a balance and could lead them astray. was evident that “people go out of ement of peer pressure for girls to in the photos.” “Some girls dream of becoming their way to get in the photos, and look good when they hit the town a model. Bash takes advantage if that means posing provocatively, but as far as he was concerned of that and puts pressure on them then that’s what girls will do. It clear- “it’s fi ne if they’re into that kind of to increase their chances of being ly follows the formula employed by thing.” pictured in the magazine by wear- lads’ magazines.” The Bash editor considered be- ing more revealing clothes.” However, UCDSU Welfare Of- ing approached by a photographer Killeen also added “girls might fi cer Dan Hayden claimed that girls and asked to appear in a magazine think that if they wear less clothes “wear those clothes anyway.” as confi dence boosting and hoped on a night out they will have a bet- “The media in general knows that some girls didn’t feel insecure ter chance of getting their picture that sex sells, and Bash is using or inadequate compared to others. taken for the magazine and of this clever formula” added Hayden. “99.9% of the people we pho- winning the model competition. Bash magazine, which is mostly tograph want their picture tak- “At the end of the day this composed of pictures of nightlife en; we’re not trying to sex magazine puts pressure on girls in clubs around the city, has a sig- things up. to have the perfect body. It sets nifi cantly higher female photo pres- “We have a pre- a bad image for people. It sends ence than male in the publication. dominantly female a bad message to girls, and gives But Hayden accredits this fact to fan base, 60:40 in College Tribune 4 NEWS 06.03.06 Collen Constructs Chaos n Student “taken out” by Gardaí n Residences’ completion delayed Building fi rm Collen Construction Photo: Jack Cane JACK CANE suffered picketing at its site on Belfi eld campus as students and trance, in the past week at the Belf- trade unionists were repelled by a ield site. large Gardaí presence at the site’s Cogavin, who was at the protests entrance.