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.C.) the lete LS E REPORTS an :sti- The mood among the majority of students in London University is one of indifference to the L.S.E. revolt. Many can believe the situation to be an L.S.E. problem, unrelated to Line any European movement. The majority of L.S.E. students l~W want the College re-opened; few support the demands of last the radical left. to The situation in L.S.E. is the L of result of an attempt by the left to ical control the Union, using the "gates the issue" as a pretext. They have set out to pervert the democratic con- UNT/N JEERED AT stitution of the Union, which }os allows any member, to hold a lUSt meeting and pass a niotion, by re- of fusing to accept the motion of the ENGLISH DEPT. ous moderates to negotiate for the re- eek newal of the gates, instead they APPOINTMENTS have called their own packed meet- PHIL FRACA Two appointments have been ’ of ings in which they decided to I at announced by the English Depart- remove the gates themselves. The ment : Professor James Walton has "Civil Rights in " proved the subject matter of a heated debate ecn Authorities have brought this been conferred the Chair of between Major Ronald Bunting and Mr. , M.P., in the Phil last Saturday. trouble on themselves by refusing English Literature and Dr. Bren- to discuss the installing of the What in fact took place was an attempt by both Major Bunting and Mr. Fitt to justify bE dan Kennelly has been appointed their actions over the past few months. October the 5th in and BurntoUet Bridge gates initially with the moderate Associate Professor of English aid. students, and by continuing to were representative of the issues involved. lief Literature. Changes are also being 1 refuse to remove them. However, considered in the English course. in an important result of this issue More concentration on Anglo Major Bunting described his in- to have hailed the resuk as a great Republican Club and the Socialist could be to arouse the moderate Irish literature and a further de- volvement in Londonderry on military victory." Amidst the en- Society, signed by Mr. Dakon students from their apathy and October 5th as "purely incidental" suing uproar, Bunting counter- Kelly, it read: "The visit of J¯ is velopment of the recently intro- make them participate in College duced Anglo Irish diploma course and said that the I.R.A. had scored attacked Mr. Fitt’s accusations, Major Bunting to this Society is ’ing politics in future. its greatest victory when the poli- referring to his remarks as ’ex- highly offensive to a large number are being studied. ticians pushed the crowd into the tremely objectionable to me, and of students. ;ing --Courtesy ’Irish Times’ police in front of the R.T.E. tread on a friendship which I "This Society is financed out tors cameras -- "The greatest confi- hold dear.’ of students’ fees, yet the general Jple dence trick played before the eyes He justified his intervention at student body was nat consulted of the world," he added. Constant Burntollet Bridge as an attempt regarding the invitation to a person ,ely booing and heckling from a section to protect the "idealistic students." who has relentlessly fomented of the large audience echoed Amidst dissenting shouts he added sectarianism in the north of our m Bunting’s account. "I understand the anger of people country. We deplore that free Sue Mr. Fitt, more enthusiastically who don’t like to hear the truth." speech and free association are still anie received by the audience, dwelt on Angered by persistent interjections hampered in the Six Counties and ¯ y : the misfortune of Major Bunting’s of "Sieg Heil," Major Bunting that fascist bigots are made wel- aan; meeting with the Rev. . shouted back : "You’re worse than come in this College." rag; Bunting, a one-time personal the fascists you accuse us of being." uart friend, had supported Fitt in a Mr. Fitt, in a brief reply, dis- oger local election before his conversion missed Major Bunting’s accounts John and ’ rebirth.’ as lies, and declared himself confi- Was he right ? The fracas at Burntollet Bridge dent in the capability of his n during the Civil Rights march audience to judge the events for Mr. Brian Farrell, a U.C.D. proved to be the most controversial themselves. And so the confronta- lecturer chaired last Wednesday’s issue m partly instigated by eye- tion ended; the claims of civil debate at the Hist. The motion, witness accounts from members of liberty had been firmly asserted, "that Machiavelli was right," was the audience. Mr. Fitt accused but nothing further was gained defeated by a small majority after Bunting, "who fancies himself as from the angry exchanges between a series of heated arguments hing- a military strategist, of directing Major Bunting and Mr. Fitt. ing around the question of the attack on the marchers from a Afterwards a joint statement was Machiavelli being factually right nearby hill and afterwards seemed issued by the Dublin University but morally wrong. Proposing the motion Mr. Martin Barker of Liverpool University Union claimed that Machiavelli was not concerned with morals but rather with direct GAMBLING IN JCR factual conclusions. Although at present there is no College rule prohibiting Opposing the motion Mr. James In support of Famine Relief gambling in the Junior Common Room, it is now rumoured McCarron of U.C.C. compared BORED BY THE Week, three Irish university that the matter may be raised before the Disciplinary Machiavelli to Mr. de Valera, students are seen conducting a Committee following several complaints. Hitler and Mussolini. BUTTERY BAR ? 48-hour fast last Friday in front of St. Stephen’s Green gate. They Apparently enormous sums of action at the same time. Most THE NEWLY OPENED money are being lost and won each players appear to be junior fresh- CHRISTIANITY IN THE sat on the ground in freezing TWENTIETH CENTURY temperatures and hoped to collect day. Last Monday one player won men, intermingled with a few Suffolk House a substantial sum for the charity. 32 pounds with one hand of four second or third year students. DR. FRANCIS SCHAEFFER Kings, while last term an unfor- Interestingly enough, the The God who is there,- 15/- is only a hundred yards fro~ This week’s news stories by: tunate student lost a mini-minor, majority of complaints come from Escape from reason- 3/6 Front Gate "][’he News E d i t o r s, Margaret in addition to one hundred and the poor poker players, who claim Available from : Barrie, Piers McCausland, Cbdagh eighty pounds. At peak hours there the stakes are too high, rather than MERRION PRESS, IN SUFFOLK STREET O’Brien, Bill Sherwin, Stuart may be four to five schools, each from other users of the Common 10 D’O|ier Street, Dublin 2. Henderson and John McLaughlin. consisting of six to ten players in Room. PAGE TWO TRINITY NEWS--Thursday, February 13th, 1969.

SOCCER COLLINGWOOD CUP SPORTS SEMI-FINAL K.O. SPORTS SHORTS BASKETBALL: There was a HOCKEY: Trinity drew 1-1 National Cup match in the gym with Pembroke Wanderers on NEWS FOR TRINITY on Saturday night when Trinity Saturday; Pembroke are the played the Ardglass Sharks, a League leaders, and so Trinity team from County Down. In a one- were doing well to lead 1-0 with Trinity were unlucky to be beaten 2-0 in the semi-final of the Collingwood Cup by sided contest Trinity won easily, a minute to go. However a lapse UCD, the eventual winners of the trophy. The previous day Trinity defeated UCC 4-2 in 63 -35; main scorers were B. in concentration allowed Pembroke the first round of the competition. Linnemann, 21 pts.; B. Marshall, to score, but even so it was a use- 14 pts.; and M. Ozmin, 13 pts. ful result. In the first half there The side also had two good league was no score, with Fry and In their first match against the restart he scored his second. from the kick-off Fitzsimons wins last week, which puts them Douglas sound in defence. Breen UCC, Trinity emerged victorious UCC struck back with a fine goal, scored to bring his and Trinity’s in a useful position at this stage. and M. de Wit played well after because they took their chances but from the kick-off P. Wherry score to 4. the interval, and eventually Find- whereas the Cork team squandered ran down the right wing and Trinity were unlucky to lose their RUGGER: One familiar face later scored off a centre from several opportunities with only the crossed the ball to Fitzsimons who semi-final match with UCD who was seen in the Oxford and Cam- Barber. The Trinity defence, with goalkeeper to beat. Trinity led 1-0 left the goalkeeper no chance. were flattered by the 2-0 scoreline. bridge side on Friday; Mike Browne outstanding, held out until at half time with a goal from J. Three minutes from time Flynn UCD took the lead after 10 Roberts, who left Trinity last year, a misunderstanding enabled Pem- Fitzsimons and ten minutes after scored for Cork but again directly minutes when P. Neeson, who had won a blue for Oxford at lock broke to escape with a draw. P. ,MORIARTY been standing at least 5 yards off- forward in the ’Varsity match. He side, was brought down in the came to Trinity from Magee, and penalty area. P. McGonigle scored was a very useful member of last RIFLE: The club continues from the penalty spot. year’s successful team. Soon to with a list of local and internal However, prospects for Trinity follow in Roberts’ path is his competitions. This week there will still looked bright and in the second row partner, Rob Davies, be a trial to decide the eight second half, with the strong wind who leaves Trinity next term to go places for the Colours team; there behind them it looked only a matter up to Oxford. The way he has been is also an important match in of time before they’ equalised. playing this season gives Davies an Wicklow next weekend, which will Fitzsimons was again prominent in excellent chance of winning another provide some useful competitive attack and it was from one of his blue for Trinity. practice for the Colours match shots that Trinity should have against Queens the following week. equalised. Noonan, the UCD goal- SQUASH: After their 5-0 de- This match should see Trinity do keeper could only parry his shot feat by Oxford two weeks ago, better than ever before, and a very but T. McAuley hit the rebound Trinity played the White House close contest is expected. over the bar from a distance of Club on Saturday, and returned to about three yards. Trinity now their winning form. The result of became desperate for an equaliser 4-1 reflected Trinity’s superiority: SAILING: Having made an and in the last minute they were the White House is a good London early start to the season, the Club left stranded with ten men in club, but the Oxford result showed has been practising hard in prepar- attack and Kirby ran through to up Trinity’s weakness against ation for the major competitions. score and make victory for UCD really top class opposition. It has There are now 1st, 2nd, 3rd and J. Fitzsimons scores his fourth goal against UCC. certain. P. Moriarty. been announced that Trinity will ladies teams, who have been racing definitely provide five players out against clubs from Dublin Bay and of the six in the Irish Universities Howth. However, the real tests side to play the Scottish Univer- will come in the British and sities in Edinburgh; a knock out Northern Championships, where competition will decide who is to there will be crews of a very high play. standard.

RUGGER DUBLIN THRASH OXBRIDGE SIDE Trinity - UCD, 25; Oxford - Cambridge, 6.

The combined UCD-Trinity rugger side overwhelmed an Oxford-Cambridge team which contained ten blues in a fine match in College Park on Friday. The English team managed only two penalty goals, while the Dublin univer- sities’ score was made up of two goals, three tries, a penalty and a dropped goal.

This was the first match of what will become a regular fixture, and the big crowd was entertained to some fine rugger. Trinity players TRINITY POSIEDON selected for the Dublin side were G. Murphy, E. Hipwell, D. Dono- DIVING CLUB van, W. McCombe, F. Keane, R. Davies, and C. Hawkesworth. In the first half Hipwell scored a try, Training sessions are being and McCombe succeeded with a held in the St. Vincent’s penalty and a conversion to give Swimming Pool, Glasnevin Dublin a lead of 14-3 at the inter- on Wednesdays, 12.30- 1.30 val. In the second haft McCombe (Mike Pelling, Rooms 18.11) was again on target with a dropped goal and another conversion.

Especially prominent for the home side were F. Keane and D. Donovan; Keane completely out- shone his opposite number, Laid- settling down. For the comfortable silence law, All Blacks scrum half, and struck up a fine partnership with among old friends. And for the drink which McCombe. Donovan on the left makes us all feel at home. wing had an outstanding game, with some fine breaks and con- I trolled running. Altogether it was a very impressive performance by (IIJINNI S S the Dublin side, a fitting start to ] 3 CHURCH LANE what could become a real ’needle’ I OWHS, HOO S, TIES, GD 559 e fixture. i i 1969. i J PAGE rFIREE v 1-1 s on j the "rinity Sally l with lapse Denton Lbroke This week’s photograph is of t use- Sally, who is seven. She is not there l arquor... blind or maimed, in fact she is and a very normal, healthy little girl, Breen with an appealing face. Climbing after Mrs. Robinson’s Rave on Friday that Joanna Dumpty chose all his trees is fun, but you cannot do it Find- night proved highly entertaining clothes, but Susie Wrong and Jo every day m not when you are one from for those who could stay sober Perrot were not worried by their of twenty-four living in a Dublin with enough to watch the proceedings, clash of gear. Kevin Pilchard re- Children’s Home. until which included Deal Faggot rolling vealed the secret of his fast-rising Peru- the money in and rolling the guitar: Bruce Treeworth paid no She is a normal child in an drunks out. Poison Pen and Anne attention as he was occupied with abnormal situation. What she lacks were amongst the first-in atten- other thoughts. Sheeny Kenny and is normal relationships with people dance and stood fascinated as his G-Men were present, but only outside the Home. She should be :inues Gregory Beck and Bavan Crown their leader would speak to us. :ernal set up their gear. Fungus finally Serotty, Stoned and Sinful, the made to feel not that she is ~. will got his organ in only to find out dynamic trio, were wise enough not "different," but that she is eJ ;ht that it didn’t work. Then Sidebtmat to give the address of their party. " special." there Hippie messed around pulling out The main excitement of the h in the plugs on Off the Cuff to the evening was to see if you could There are two ways in which t will displeasure of Hartthrob and find where Flickers Dickers lived. Sally might meet Trinity students. titive Gusgog. MeClunkey got off with Garry Old and Janine Bowers Members of the Social Studies aatch a barmaid (or was it Cleopatra?), arrived late at Shansi, pleading Dept. in Trinity do practical work week. and the Blessed Infidel Vaughan geographical ignorance m that was in relation to children and others :y do passed out his calling card to the their story. Stephen Whiskey did very best-lookers in the congregation. not want his name associated with in need of care in the Dublin area. Frank was Keane to fight for the any woman, not even Patsi Reed. Or she might be taken for walks hand of M. E. Sinon, only to dis- Food and drink were in plenty, and or to the Zoo by members of the LETTER TO THE EDITOR cover he was in no fit state to do after it all Tight Pinch and Klan Voluntary Social Work Society. an SO. performed mysterious ceremonies Students with a fairly high propor- Students Representative Council, Dinners and Entertainment: Trick Vicar and Mo MacDonall on John Wood, whose only com- tion of time at their disposal could Trinity College, £62 2s. 2d. ment was that it marked an end to were the hosts at the over publi- help greatly. Dublin 2. Travel and Fees: £85 12s. 4d. cised first even on Saturday, but his sex problems. Girl of the 7th February 1968. their fears were not realised. The Week Award went to Linda Dun- Details of voluntary social work Home Expenses : £112 12s. 4d.. Secretary Bird surprisingly turned lop despite the attendance of the which can be done in Dublin may Sir,rain his letter to you last Hon. Members’ Suppers: Rogy (with Knave, of course). up fully clothed much to the relief be obtained at c6ffee meetings held week Mr. Ford indulges in a £134 8s. 3d. of June Lambert who imperiously Flickers released us at such a late manoeuvre which one sees being ld in 9.34 every Thursday at 1 Printing, Postage, Stationery and waved her cig-holder at the hour that we were unable to attend used with increasing frequency by Advertisements: £229 10s. 7d. re gathering. Peter Humpty revealed Gregory Beck’s noon cockers. o’clock. Maureen Lyons those who wish to justify the mas- sive income of the Hist. ~ that of How anyone could be aware of using "The Hist." and the mon people under one God in one these figures and then challenge "G.M.B.C.C." as interchangeable people sanctimoniously to produce religion. World unity demands one terms, when the occasion suits. For government and he has actually examples of unnecessary expendi- Bahai in College example Mr. Ford claims that the ture on the part of the Hist beats produced laws of economy and expenditure on Billiard Rooms, in- government for this future world. me. Of course not every penny of In 1911/12 his son travelled ex- cluding the Billiard Marker’s these figures is unnecessary ex- The Bahai faith is a little-known This divine message has only been wages, exceeds the income from the but rapidly expanding religion, tensively over Europe, spreading revealed now, in keeping with the penditure, but when one considers his preachings, and today it is rooms. This may well be so, but that other societies survive for a and followers of it have recently increased sophistication and under- Mr. Ford forgets to add that the begun to hold regular meetings in said to be the fastest growing standing of Man today. year on sums that are less than religion in the world, and third un- money for the Billiard Marker’s that spent on " Catering, etc." at College. In this article TANIA The Bahai faith seems at first Wages comes from G.M.B.C.C. FUNSTON gives a brief account official religion of Persia, its birth- to be a liberal eclectic and noble the Hist’s opening meeting, one place. Baha’u’llah’s writings, avail- finances, whereas the income from feels that the charge of unnecessary of it. religion. Its meetings are attractive the Billiard Rooms (£429 13s. ld. Baha’u’llah, the founder, was able in 500 languages, have out- in their informality, taking the expenditure levelled at the Hist paced Communist writings in in the case of the Hist last year) would seem to have some justifica- born into a noble family in simple form of readings from the goes to finance the Hist and not Teheran last century. His story is translation. Holy Books of the world, including tion, to put it mildly. What are the basic teachings of into the running of the G.M.B. In ~ closely parallelled by that of Baha’u’llah, and prayer. However, fact, far from the Hist’s expendi- In the law of the jungle which Christ whose coming was fore- the Bahai faith ? one soon realises that like all seems to prevail on the Capitation The oneness of God, religion ture on Billiards exceeding income, shadowed by omen and prophecies. religions, it claims that its own the Hist made £309 13s. ld. on Committee and other methods of A star was again seen in the east, and mankind, the equality of man teachings are the Truth m in a allocating students’ money at the and woman, and the harmony of Billiards last year (i.e. Hist’s in- the world vibrated with murmurs disguised form, for it goes one come on Billiards less Hist’s ex- present time, I would admire Mr. of the Second Coming in the years science and religion. Bahais believe step furthermall religions are from Ford far more if he admitted that that the development of each of penditure on Billiard Rooms.) 1843, ’44 or ’45 and Bab, a John God, but Baha’u’llah brings the This one item of the Hist’s income he was " on to a good thing" in the Babtist figure, proclaimed the the World Religions is part of the fullest revelation. They do not having receipts of £1,827 5s. 10d. evolutionary process which reveals is three times larger than the advent of one greater than he. In challenge the immutable character annual grant to any of the minor for the 1967/68 session of the 1863, following the martyrdom of God’s plan, and that the great of God, rather maintaining (per- Hist (only £254 7s. 4d. of which Prophets, including Christ, are or faculty societies. Thus we have Bab and 20,000 of his converts, haps legitimately) that he reveals the illogical situation of the could be remotely claimed to be Baha’u’llah declared his divine the manifestations of God’s spirit his purpose by degrees and through expenditure on the G.M.B. itself) and therefore One spirit. Baha- Billiard players in College financ- mission, and by 1893, the year after his prophets, as children receive ing what is primarily a debating rather than his present position of his death in the Holy Land, the ’u’llah has come to unite acom- education, according to their hiding behind sanctimonious and society (though some who have inaccurate generalisations. Bahai faith had reached the understanding. But is religion been at recent meetings might Western World as far as Chicago. essentially concerned with govern- disagree) to the tune of over £300 If he cannot bring himself to do ment? Christ did not think so. And per year. this, he might perhaps make some are not subjects like equality and slight effort to ensure that the unity mere corollaries of love God, As for the examples of unneces- society which getsthis vast amount love your Neighbour. Neither does sary expenditure which, for some of students’ money does something The the Bible contradict the harmony reason best known to himself, Mr. to justify this expenditure. Sign HAVE YOU DISCOVERED of science and religion. Ford seems to want produced, how May I conclude by assuring you, DUBLIN’S NEWEST GRILL The Bahai faith, it would seem, about the following items : for ROOM YET? Sir, and all your readers, that the Discover the quality foods is nothing more than updated S.R.C. will continue to attack en- and efficient service. How Christianity plus. Expenses of Opening Meeting : trenched vested interests wherever to enjoy a quick drink be- they occur, and that no attacks or Books fore a film. How a steak Speakers: £22 9s. 0d. should really taste. Dis- PERSONAL insinuations by Mr. Ford or by cover value in the pleasant Catering, etc. : £107 3s. 8d. anyone else will divert or dissuade Stationery surroundings of the New ECUMENICAL SERVICE: Sunday, Feb. them in their efforts in the interests Metropole Grill’ Room and 16th, 7.30 p.m. Service organised Stationery, etc. : £58 12s. 3d. Cocktail Bar. and conducted by Student Christian of ALL the students of this Art Materials Discover it at any time be- Movement. (N.B. m The "etc." which College. tween Noon and I I p.m. at WORKING COMPANION required for lonely blonde¯ Fire provided. appears is not mine ~ it the Metropole Buildings, appears in the Hist accounts.) Yours, etc., BROWNE & NOLAN LTD, O’Connell Street, but dis- Apply c/o Trinity News. . ii!: cover it NOW!. STUDENT MAGAZINE -- Interviews Alan C. R. Chard, 56 DAWSON STREET, The New Metropole Grill Room with John Lennon, George Brown; Debates : DUBLIN 2. and Cocktail Bar. articles on Czechoslovakia, South Chairman and Guest Speakers" Public Relations Officer, " ~’: TELEPHONE 778232 Africa, unmarried mothers. On sale next week. £105 12s. 6d. TRINITY NEWS~Thursday, February 13th, 1969. PAGE FOUR

To the man who laid me out, strung me up, and kid, I

~mean’ he gutted me. h C4 Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance : The Paul Goldin Show U.D.A. Entry falls through ir REVIEW sl Anouilh’s ’Poor Bitos,’ which A brilliant production: I forgot Last time Paul Goldin was in was to be the term production of the bare stage as the characters Dublin, his show at the Olympia Players and their entry for the O~ came alive spitting the coarse was billed as his last public U.D.A. Festival has been aban- a startling images out of the harsh appearance in the world, ever. doned because for most of the f¢ Northern accents: "the tattered Now, yet again, he is back in actors exam fright (with some now th tents" of the soldiers and those Dublin, a town which provides him at Easter) has got the better of W who " leave nought behind but with audiences who will both pay the attraction of Michael Mac- St bad breath and a shiny seat" in a to see his show and might possibly Liammoir as adjudicator and the fr pub. spend more money to buy his th The meaning of words "is forced presence of Tom Stoppard and books on mesmerism and hypno- Ronald Bryden (Observer critic). SE on us by the explosive expression : tism. b~ a dialect which easily slips into Shows like Goldin’s were very The festival is in the middle of fu verse or a ballad in a way which popular with the pre-television/ the holidays and so it is difficult to W~ would sound odd in a characterless cinema audiences. His true home assemble a large cast at the best G B.B.C. voice. is in Music Hall, Variety or of times. Keith Hornby, the direc- Obviously the play would go a Burlesque. The show consists of tor, is disappointed, not only th long way on its own but the his selecting about twenty or because Trinity has failed to get director, Ken Bennet-Hunter, has twenty-five people from the anywhere in the last two years in perfected every detail. Its rare to audience and hypnotising them~he contrast to continuous wins before see such polished performances says by auto-suggestion~into doing that (last win~’Marat/Sade’ %6) from even the minor characters things like standing, eyes shut, in but because the prospect of any note especially Colin Smith as the one position for over haft an hour; full-scale productions, except in the affectedly disdainful parson and it sounds easy~try it and you will Michaelmas term, looks bleak. David Ball as the matter-of-fact, fall over. " Gone are the days," Keith cheerful Mayor: both masterpieces, The finale of his act is to make said, "when an actor could be as was the gentle, enigmatic Anne, his subjects believe ridiculous excused credit, as in the early played by Susan Fitzgerald with ideas ~ for instance, that they sixties for doing a term produc- almost a visionary quality. have lost their belly-buttons, or tion. Tutors and lecturers are no The three privates balanced each have been given an immature longer sympathetic to Players." An other well--Julian Salmon proved leprechaun which can fit in their Anne Adamson at the modern dance classes in the Art Society. academic shaking-up is surely not that he is worthy of better parts pocket. It was amusing watching to be deplored, but why should than the usual peasants / odd people outside the ’ Olympia’ one of the main means of activat- messengers he has played. theatre, two years ago, worried ing creativity be considered inimi- Philip Browne looks a little about their belly-buttons. One man cal to a university education? slight to play Sergeant Musgrave, climbed onto the front of a bus FILM SPOT but as the dance unfolded all pre- and asked the driver where he had Sex education comes in the woman are like "three A case for an official course in conceptions a b o u t mis-casting hidden his belly-button, and many shapes and sizes and hundred million soldiers with drama is not only pleasing but vanished. The twitch in his face threatened him until the Gardai "Helga" is clinical and a four day survival kit out to necessary in a university which is and body conveyed the fanatical removed him. disinfected. Cold and pon- find an unidentified object." aiming to give priority to its own madness in which he is gripped Paul Goldin’s show is fun if derous, it is little more than So thats what making love is! countrymen. The lack of interest so well that the scenes took on a you have never seen anything like a prolonged lecture. No Only three aspects of sex shown in Players by Irish students nightmarish quality. it before ~ he is quite convincing, attempt is made to bring out are dealt with in its eighty is nothing to do with the stigma It is an effective anti-war play, but he rejects all unsuitable sub- the romantic aspect of love minutes : the reproductive Players has long suffered under of building up to the frenzy of a jects for hypnosis ~ evidently one and/or sex and so the film organs, conception and birth being a closed English clique. Soon dance of Death. But much more has to be exceptionally gullible lacks any beauty. this in a rather gory the decline in the English intake than that ~ we are forced to and weak-minded. But don’t go on Because it takes its task sequence. No mention is will show this excuse up to be as brand Musgrave mad although his stage unless you want to do absurd so seriously "Helga" is often made of the psychological shallow as it is. plan has the simplicity of truth. things, like taking your own unintentionally very funny, problems of puberty, e.g. I left the theatre confused and trousers down, without your know- as, for example, when we are masturbation. There is, how- disturbed. S.G. ledge. J.R. told that sperm on entering ever, in compensation, an unprecedented aside about INDEX zontraception, though this admittedly deals with the Art Society ’orthodox’ Rhythm method. 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Right, Smith goes in on the Quinn marks it ’Admit For Information write to Then, Dunne takes O’Grady pass, straight ’round the Two,’ goes in with Reilly, in, ’round the back, and back and hands it out to ’round the back and hands hands it to ..... EUROcENTRES Quinn. it out to Dunne. ’SLOOPY~’ DISCOTHEQUE Secret Entrance 23 D’Olier Street -- Wednesday. TRINITY NEWSuThursday, February 13th, 1969. PAGE FIVE -.M.B.= OUR MONEY ASTED Last week’s copy of Revolutionary Alternative bore theEngland and successful attempts as a useful body. He is not advo- to clubs, societies, DUCAC and the headline " S.R.C. serve themselves." Perhaps those words to raise funds such as holding cating a Students’ Union on the College publications could be done were mistimed because in the last couple of weeks the SRCdances usually resuk in a reduc- lines of the English universities, in a far more sensible, far fairer has launched plans to provide important new amenities in tion of their grant the following nor is he calling for SRC control manner and amenities such as bars, year. By virtue of their larger of the Capitation Fee. shops, eating places and common college. If these plans materialise, the SRC, for the first time membership the Hist and Phil Yet these seem to be far more rooms could be run as the students in its history, will be providing services for the whole of the deserve larger grants but the grant practical solutions to the problem and not the College authorities saw student body in Trinity. they receive at present are out of of how best to organise student fit. proportion to the services that they amenities and finance. Up to last What they intend to do is take provide for students. The Hist gets year the Capitation fee was paid All this is still a long way off, rooms that only a small proportion £1,000 a year and the Phil £800 to the College and administered but the SRC should look upon over part of the GMB and install of members use, a large amount of and a further sum is given to the a shop, a bar, a duplicating service the GMB is going to waste. The solely by the College authorities. their take-over bid for the GMB GMB Central Committee to cover This year, with the birth of the with an ultimate goal in mind. for students and better offices; Hist and the Phil are for debating the running costs of the building, Capitation Committee, the Cater- They have shown us how students’ these plans have met with fairly and paper reading, it should not be so at present the GMB and the widespread approval amongst ing Committee and the Amenities money is being wasted and it is up necessary for them to exist as two societies it houses cost Committee, students were given to them to show us how it can be students. They hope that the profit facility providing organisations. students about £3,800 a year. ~CHARLIE SCOTT from these ventures will ensure that They are a huge drain on the / the SRC becomes financially self- Capitation , fund and money What are the akernatives to this sufficient body and will cease to lavished on them by the Capitation expenditure ? The SRC plans seem be a burden on the Capitation Fee fund is spent in a wasteful manner. viable as a short term solution. As fund. Ultimately these enterprises Distinguished visitors are often Adrian Bourke says the GMB is would pay for the upkeep of the flown over from Britain at the full of unexploited potemial--the GMB which at present costs about Societies’ expense, collected at the shop they plan to install could sell £2,000 a year, also paid for out of airport by taxi, given sherry before practically everything students the Capitation Fee. meetings and entertained expens- need in college: cigarettes, books, Their claims that the building is ively afterwards. The cost of an stationery, etc., all at far more being inefficiently run and its ordinary public meeting of either reasonable prices than we are facilities wasted are most certainly society can easily run to £50, one expected to pay outside. Another justified. The Hist and the Phil pound for every member present bar in Trinity would prove are over privileged and extrava- at a badly attended meeting. More immensely popular, it could under- fant. They are housed in the only important meetings can cost far cut the prices of the pubs that building in college that exists solely more; the last Inaugural meeting surround the College and still make for student leisure and occupy too of the Hist cost £180, and one a satisfactory profit, and a tele- large a space for the benefit of shudders to rthink what size of vision (that worked !) could be too few students. Up to last year the bill for their bicentenary cele- installed in one of the conversation women were excluded from enjoy- brations will be next year. rooms. All this does not mean that ment of the facilities of the build- The more money spent on these the Hist and the Phil would have ~ng and although both societies now ’major’ societies the more the to be evicted -- they would still admit women their combined minor societies suffer. Nearly all have committee rooms and the use membership is still less than half of them run on small budgets and of conversation rooms and the the total of students in the college. struggle hard to make ends meet. debating hall. Bourke would like With television rooms where the Few of them can fffford to bring to see the GMB house the SRC televisions don’t work and work- distinguished visitors over from and the two societies with the building run administratively by the SRC. Then, he says, the SRC A G.M.B. workroom -- How many students use it ? NUSIGHT is a MUST at If- can reveal to students its potential some say in how their money better spent. But it is only by FEBRUARY ISSUE: should be spent. But this still is total reorganisation from within SOUTHERN AFRiCA--towards not enough; the money does, after that the SRC will be able to win a solution, Geoffrey Bing, Q.C. all, belong to the student body and student control of students’ money. 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Democracy in the Hist appears to be a failure. Victor Allen complained in his personal statement that in the past the Committee has not heeded Standing Orders, while now the lack of order at committee meetings makes it plain that they are essential. David Ford, the Auditor, has weathered four impeachments and Free Speech managed to seal the breach in the high echelons of the Committee resulting from Allen’s resignation. The removal of the ballot box and the theft of the petition are more than fighthearted pranks; their effect, namely the embarassment of the Hist leading officers, particularly Ford, may have been the main intention. The meeting of the Phil last Saturday, at which Mr. Gerry Fitt M.P. and Major Ronald Bunting confronted "It is not in his nature to be mise of the Hist." The administra- ~if it delays too long the Law each other, could have been a memorable one. A revealing, authoritarian," said an informed tion of the GMB fell to the two Society may fill the need, although if not constructive, discussion could have taken place, with Hast member. He follows a tradi- major societies because no other as FitzGerald Browne noted "it tion of dictatorial upstartish ego- society was able to undertake the is bankrupt in money and talent.’ some of the fundamental issues involved in the civil rights istic mentality which was effective responsibilities. The Society would movement emerging. and in general respected by the be well rid of the billiard room, Instead, on account of one particular section of the membership. but sufficient akernative funds to LYNCH LIFTS THE audience, the evening was rendered fruitless. Gerry Fitt’s The decline in the Hist is the match revenue from billiards speech was frequently subjected to frivolous interruptions sign of the passing of~ the English. would have to be provided. Accor- Allen and other leading Hist men ding to Allen " If we cannot stand CONTRACEPTIVE while Major Bunting was hardly allowed to speak at all. have noted that "formal standards on ability, having the reputation to Amidst the booing and shouting and general cries of have fallen off greatly." Whether start with, we should not be shorn BAN AT LAST ’ fascist,’ it was almost impossible to hear Bunting’s reply to ° c the Anglo-Saxons’ exclusion is the up by facilities like the billiards Fitt. It was ironical, as McCartney, the Phil president, root cause or not, it is Revington, room." The only problem is the It was announced by Mr. Jack pointed out, that the hecklers would not allow Bunting the in Allen’s opinion, that is the Hast needs money. Lynch, the Taoiseach, at the S immediate centre of the decline. The personnel of the Hist Com- Fianna Fail Ard Fheis last week same kind of civil rights that they themselves supported. "He is using the College to mittee, says Hamilton, are not that "the use of contraceptives is After the meeting, a singularly unenlightened statement f manipulate in a political sense with always the best men for the job. a matter for one’s conscience and was issued jointly by the Republican Club and the Socialist no regard to what damage he does What is required to run the Hist the State has neither the right to Society. It implied that visitors who held unpopular views to the Society. Nicholas FitzGerald is good beaurocrats, and they are intervene nor any intention of should not be welcomed in College and complained that ’ the Browne, centre of another con- not necessarily good debaters. The doing so." troversy, is equally hostile to censorship of O’Murchu, during The Irish Medical Times reports general student body was not consulted regarding the invita- Revington ~ ’anyone that elects which the error over Revington’s that "this courageous statement tion.’ Why, in fact, the student body should have been con- Revington to the Disciplinary Com- membership occurred, is evidence by Mr. Lynch will undoubtedly suited in what was essentially the busineess of the Phil, it mittee lacks the status to do of this fact. have far-reaching effects as it did not explain, except to say that the visit was "highly anything." James Hamikon replied Revington’s expulsion for mis- makes it absolutely clear that the offensive to a large number of students." The statement went in defence of Revington that the conduct is a little harsh, compared banning of contraceptives in any "Hast is the playground for to the case of O’Mahony, a former form is not merely illegal but on to deplore the fact that free speech and free association colonial rejects." Auditor, who left the Records in violates the Constitution which were hampered in the North. Behind the flowing abuse, the public lavatories in stations along guarantees the rights of religious The contradictions inherent in this statement are product of many public debates, the Dublin-Wexford railway line, minorities in Ireland.,’ " It will obvious. To condemn the suppression of free speech while lies the serious question of the but received little admonition. also mean that the importation of at the same time denying it to an opponent is ridiculous. In SRC’s interest in the Hist. Bourke Hamilton complains that the meet- other contraceptive devices will no of the SRC watches quietly at ings are bogged down by the longer be illegal, and the question issuing the statement, the Republican Club and Socialist Hast meetings " awaiting the de- memory of, if not actual involve- now arises was it ever illegal?" It Society have laid themselves open to the charges which they ment in, the Ford-Revington has been rumoured that the SRC themselves level at Major Bunting and those who think like dispute. If that is settled, the Hist are considering pressing for a him. PHILOSOPHICAL may turn to its function--debating dispensing machine in the Buttery. Editor: Frank Ahem; Assistant Editor: Dick Waterbury; News: Sue SOCIETY TRYS Tarrant; John McClancy; Features: Nell Holman; Arts: Stephanie Green; SFort : Rupert Pennant-Rea; Photos : Charlie Scott; Secretary: AN EXPERIMENT Are (]owns to go Caroline Atkinson; Business Managers: Colin Butler, Mack O’Gorman; Treasurer :Iain Donnelly; Advertising : Garry Collier; Circulation : Saturday’s experiment of the The Disciplinary Committee is at present reviewing the Kenneth Donnelly; Staff : David Naisby-Smith, Stuart Henderson, John Phil with a new panel-audience regulations governing the wearing of academic gowns in Rawlings, Kevin Pritchard, Bruce Stewart, Roger Glass, Gary Young, participating programme was the Calla Graves-Johnston, Paul Tansey, Eamonn McCann, John outcome of dissatisfaction with the College. The Committee is particularly interested in hearing McLaughlin, Ray McAleese, Carole Power. trend of the major societies in the views of students about the wearing of gowns on Com- college towards what Phil Presi- mons and has asked the SRC, through the Student represen- I dent, William McCartney, calls tative on the Committee, to sound out opinion on the matter. " mere platforms for rhetoric, with The Committee added that it is not bound to adhere to the members groaning through the TO-NIGHT AT THE PHIL. reading of prepared papers and the findings of any opinion poll. polite speeches of distinguished A PAPER BY MIKE MOFFAT visitors." He said that the paper readings and speeches had little effect on the subjects with which they dealt MIDNIGHT BURGLARY at such great length. "The fact," McCartney commented, "that the At 4.30 a.m. on Monday morning over 100 pounds Distinguished Visitors : Hast or the Phil condemns emi- worth of articles, including a car radio, headrest, coat and MR. AND MRS. WILSON, of the Isle of Man. gration will have no effect on other equipment, was found to be stolen from Garth Collier’s emigration." car in Mt. Merrion. G.M.B. 8.15 p.m. The aim of the panel experiment Thurs. 13th Feb. is to involve the audience more He was at the time arranging a directly in the subject under dis- dance in aid of famine relief. On cussion. McCarmey also suggested telling a Garda about the matter a smaller membership with com- he was advised that the best thing Committee nears pulsory participation in its affairs. to do was watch " Garda Patrol." completion ’ MITCHELLS The fact that members could put Smaller thefts have occurred questions directly to people in- around college recently. A watch Dr. W. J. Davis and Dr. D. THINKING OF GIVING A COCKTAIL PARTY? volved in current controversy was stolen from the Rugby chang- O’B. Hourihane of the Chemistry WHY NOT PHONE 62377 AND ASK FOR OUR HELP. would greeatly enhance proceed- ing rooms, a bag from the Library Department, have been recently ings. WE SUPPLY EVERYTHING ON A ’SALE AND RETURN’ and a white fur coat from appointed to the Central Student/ BASIS AND THERE IS NO To affect such a change in the Players, during a rehearsal. Staff Committee. Membership is CHARGE FOR OUR GLASSES society, the Phil constitution would nearing completion and the first OR THE FRIENDLY SERVICE YOU RECEIVE. have to undergo much revision, the There have also been a number meeting of the Central Student/ biggest change in the Society’s of thefts from the GMB conversa- Staff Committee will be arranged workings for 115 years. tion rooms this term. before the end of term. KILDARE STREET, DUBLIN I Published by "Trinity News," 6 Trinity College, Dublin, and printed by the Brunswick Press Ltd., 179 Pearse St., in the parish of St. Mark, Dublin. 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