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I RISH S TUDENT N EWSPAPER OF THE Y EAR 2007 TRINITY NEWS D UBLIN U NIVERSITY’ S I NDEPENDENT S TUDENT N EWSPAPER STAR WARS AND SUPER SPIES: IS COLD WAR II HEATING UP? JUSTIN FEDOULOFF, FEATURES P11 JAMIE BURKE, WORLD REVIEW P16 Michaelmas term, Week 10 www.trinitynews.ie Issue 4, Volume 54 Halls Student Centre Plans abound but funding still absent future moves closer; doubtful High Court issues remain planning appeal reinstated Funding problems and disagreements over managements structures yet to be resolved CAOIMHE HANLEY COLLEGE NEWS EDITOR funds will be raised by two levies. One will pay DEIRDRE ROBERTSON A decision taken by Mr. Justice STAFF WRITER for the building and the second for upkeep. This is similar to the €70 levy that was Fennelly of the Supreme Court to introduced in October to pay for the new allow Mr. James Kelly to reinstate his Plans to turn Luce Hall into the new student Sports Hall. appeal to the High Court against The centre have taken a step closer to completion The Trinity Association have also been Provost, Fellows and Scholars of the with the decision to proceed to architect’s approached by the Luce Committee with University of Dublin, Trinity College drawings and a planning application. requests to make raising money for the new and Dublin City Council on 15 However, according to members of the centre a high priority. However, it is seen as October may affect the future of Luce Hall Planning Committee, it is as yet unlikely that any one major donor will be Trinity Halls in Dartry. undecided what exactly will be included in the found. In the case of the Sports Hall, a large Kelly has been engaged for a building. Meanwhile, funding for the project is donation was secured from business man Dr number of years in legal proceedings still in doubt, with the €250000 needed for the Martin Naughton. seeking, entirely without success, to have declared invalid a decision of An planning and design process being taken from The management of the proposed Centre Left: Original plans for the Bórd Pleanála granting planning the Nurse’s Education Capital Grant. is still seen as the “major stumbling block”. The conversion of Luce Hall permission to Trinity for the In summer 2006, the Luce Committee College’s Strategic Plan states building will be dating from 2001. development of the student requested funding from the Capitation student-managed however individual areas Above: Students’ Union residences at Trinity Hall. While the Committee - which funds the Trinity may vary from this. The Students’ Union President Andrew Byrne development has long since been Publications and Students’ Union, amongst President Andrew Byrne has pointed out the and Dean of Students Prof completed, Kelly has been embroiled others - but they were denied. proposed café as one exception. This will be Gerry Whyte both of in legal dispute for the past seven According to Students’ Union President run by College Catering. whom will be central to the years. On 7 November 2002, Kelly Andrew Byrne, 66% of the cost of this project Another area of contention is the progression of the Student instituted the present action by will fall on students while College will proposed bar and venue. The Students’ Union Centre project. contribute the remaining 33%. These figures has expressed as strong interest in running this, Photos: Mark Carroll, Martin plenary summons in the High Court. will also determine the allocation of space in McKenna, Michael Ronson In this action he seeks an order the building. It has been suggested that the • Continued page 2 directing the rehearing of his judicial review application. Effectively the relief he seeks in the action is an order setting aside the order of Justice McKechnie, who refused Kelly leave to appeal the awardance of planning permission for the Trinity Halls development. In the plenary summons, Kelly No extra security for College Park despite pleads that Justice McKechnie, in refusing the application for leave, had referred to the location of boilerhouse facilities proposed by the developers. “serious risk of injury” to students He alleges that college had misled the High Court during the hearing of the leave application. The misleading is alleged to have Crowd control issues last summer have highlighted shortcomings of current system consisted of the fact that the developers had submitted “certain architectural plans and drawings” JOHN CALLAGHAN control measures which include the additional security staff would allay relating to the development showing STAFF WRITER employment of additional the need for such ad-hoc measures in that boilers would be installed in safety/security stewards to work at the the future. certain places identified as plant Pavilion and the use of professional, During the SFC meeting of 5 rooms. However, Kelly claims that the College’s Executive Officers have external event managers on specific June 2007 a memorandum issued by college failed to acquaint the High decided not to appoint additional evenings when large crowds are the Facilities Officer Noel McCann Court with the full facts of an security staff to monitor the Pavilion anticipated”, a college source has said. was circulated to those present. In application, as it had also made for Bar and College Park, despite The peak times in question are the this memorandum McCann “the location of some of the aforesaid recommendations to do so by the Sites early summer months of May and June, expressed concerns about “the issue boilers in the basement of one of the and Facilities Committee last June and around exam times, when the lawns of crowd control in College Park”. aforesaid buildings to another section ,which express a “real risk of a serious of College Park are used as an overspill The minutes from this meeting state of the then Dublin Corporation incident in College Park with adverse area for the Pavilion Bar, as well as a that “the committee noted the real namely the Fire Prevention Section.” publicity and insurance implications.” general outdoor recreational area. The risk of a serious incident in College The entire substance of the case Instead of following the SFC recommended that preventative Park with adverse publicity and pleaded by Kelly is that the order of recommendations of the SFC to hire steps be taken for student security by insurance implications”. The Justice McKechnie, refusing him leave extra security, a “risk assessment” has appointing additional part-time security committee went on “to recommend to apply for judicial review of the instead been taken, compiled in staff. to Executive Officers the allocation decision of An Bórd Pleanála granting consultation with the Pavilion The SFC recommendations came of funds amounting to €45000 for the planning permission, should be set Management, the Department of Sport, amid a series of crowd control issues last proposed additional part-time aside because it was procured by the College Security Managers, Junior May and June which led to the security staff required at peak times single act of alleged misleading Dean and the College Safety Officer. construction of iron railings along the in College Park”. It was, however, mentioned in the preceding This summer, instead of extra security pathways to the Pav, movement noted by the SFC Bursar, Prof. D. C. paragraph. present at all times, there will be restrictions on campus and early and Williams, that “Executive Officers Justice Murray, sitting in the “resources made available to facilitate varied bar and grounds closing times. It Photo: David Molloy the introduction of a combination of was hoped that the introduction of • Continued page 5 Crowd control issues lead to request for extra security provisions. • Continued page 3 tn2 Kevin Brazil discovers Dublin’s food revolution • Paul Earlie reviews Martin Amis 2 The art of pornography examined • Catriona Gray meets the Stereophonics Caira Barrett on the 6 art of pornography tn Kevin Brazil examines y s e t Dublin’s food revolution r ou 4 c n o a g ati r bin st e u Il Pi l er au v o P C of P2 TRINITY NEWS Michaelmas term, Week 10 CollegeNews The Numbers Game Student Centre moves to 66% vs 33% Percentage of student funding versus College funding for the proposed new Student Centre planning and design stage €250,000 Money needed fro the planning and design of said Student Centre, • Continued from page 1 room, multi-faith areas and prayer member of the Luce Committee says included in the centre. It is a sub- rooms. A further suggestion was to build the plans for the centre’s ,development committee chaired by the Bursar and taken from the Nurse’s Education Grant as the centre will hopefully host Ents accommodation for TAP students, but are still “very vague” with this most attended by the Dean of Students, the activities. this has been scrapped due to shortage recent meeting adding little to the detail President of the Students’ Union, a CSC €2000 However, the Students’ Union don’t of space and noise considerations of the previous plans. representative, the Director of Sport actually own the necessary bar license. resulting from the inclusion of the The Students’ Union will move and the Director of Buildings. Money raised by the Slave Auction as part of Trinity Med Day The College currently holds two bar venue. into offices in Luce Hall and Central Byrne says of the recent meeting licenses indirectly. An Interim Report The Student Centre will hold both Societies Committee say they will that it was decided that “ all the original from 2001 suggests using one College and student-run events, but it is consider moving some of their space.