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Tuesday 27 January 2009 www.trinitynews.ie Issue 7, Volume 55 Pubs Student investigate Piranha

By Deirdre Robertson Centre College News Editor THE SENIOR Dean has called for satirical magazine Piranha!’s funding to be cut following the publication of an article that College authorities have described as “distasteful”. Editor Andrew Booth refused to setback attend formal meetings with the Junior Dean. Following this, the Senior Dean, Professor Mike Jones, called members of the Publications Committee Executive » Plans taken back to the drawing board to a meeting about the magazine on Friday 16th January. On Tuesday 20th » Location of centre yet to be decided January, at a meeting of the Capitations Committee, which Prof Jones chairs, » New survey to determine student needs a motion was passed requesting Publications cut Piranha!’s funding – a » Still aims to be completed by 2010 grant amounting to €1,500 – for the rest of the year. By Brian Barry Provost John Hegarty. However, the In a formal complaint to the & Deirdre Robertson development has been delayed by issues Publications Committee, Professor over funding, location and management Jones said he considered it “highly irre- PROPOSED PLANS for the new structure. Mr. Byrne previously sponsible...to publish this information Student Centre have been taken “back discussed the implementation of a fi rstly because it is distasteful but, more to starting point” according to Students’ student levy on top of the registration importantly, because there is evidence Union President Cathal Reilly following fee to pay the cost however Mr Reilly that this type of publication can trigger discussions with Chief Operating Offi cer said this would be subject to a student a ‘copy cat’ response from vulnerable Christopher Lyons. referendum and will be discussed in individuals.” The development has been put on ice February. He continued, “I take this...so serious- following a review of plans for the new ly that I am calling on the Publications centre in Luce Hall. Trinity News has “It was better Committee to impose sanctions on learned that a defi nite location for the to decide what Piranha! which are suffi ciently severe student centre has yet to be determined exactly is needed to make it clear that this type of article and a fi nal decision on funding for the before looking at should not be published in a student development of the centre is imminent. plans” – Reilly magazine. Mr Reilly explained that Mr Lyons “It is my view that any remaining had taken the project back to the One major decision is the location funding for this academic year should drawing board because “it was better of the centre itself. Last year, detailed be withdrawn as an indication of the se- to decide what exactly is needed and architectural plans were drawn up riousness with which these actions are how much space it will take up before for a student centre in Luce Hall. Mr taken.” looking at drawing plans.” However, Reilly says he is still considering the Publications have agreed to launch former SU President Andrew Byrne suitability of a number of locations on an investigation. Speaking about the told Trinity News in May 2008 that a and off campus for the proposed centre. matter, Treasurer Conor Sullivan said, planning application had been sent to Previously proposed locations include “As far as I am aware, the Capitation Dublin City Council. Foster Place off College Green, Oisin Committee cannot force Publications Initial plans for a Student Centre House, off Pearse Street and Luce Hall. to withdraw funding from a particular emerged in 2001. The plan for an Luce Hall had originally been publication.” However, he commented imminent start on the centre was cited designated as the site for the new Participants at Trinity’s Next Top Model had their feet on the ground this time round; last year, Dining Hall tables that this proposed action will be again in an interview to Trinity News were pushed together to provide a catwalk that this year was deemed a health and safety risk. Trinity Models on top discussed at a Publications Committee in 2003 by the then recently elected continued from page 1 of the tables no more: page 3. Photo: Caroline O’Leary meeting during this week. Balls up at Players fundraiser Law students

By Deirdre Robertson College News Editor petition gov’t “GIVE MOLLY Malone a lapdance”, “Drink your own piss”, and “Eat a Euro coin” were instructions that caused Kasia Mychajlowycz School of Law, and there will be copies chaos in the Pav on Friday night when International News Editor available to sign at UCD and DIT next a DU Players fundraiser got out of hand week. The petition will be available to causing College security, the Junior OVER 500 signatures have been sign this week in the School of Law, Dean and the Provost to intervene. collected for a petition urging the located in House 39. The event titled “Gumball Challenge” Minister of the Environment John Mr. Hughes told the Irish Times, on Friday 23rd January was intended to Gormley to make the installation of “These alarms are available for about raise funds for the upcoming musical carbon monoxide detectors compulsory €150 – a small price to pay for saving “Little Shop of Horrors” directed by in all homes in Ireland. The petition something so precious as a life.” Barry McStay and Jayne Stynes. will be given to Cathal Hughes, father However, in comparison with smoke A list of fi fty challenges were handed of third year law student Padraig detectors, which can cost as little as €5, out to the numerous participants Hughes, who passed away in his home a carbon monoxide detector may seem including “pee your pants”, “strip on any on Christmas day as a result of carbon too expensive for a danger that is not form of public transport” and “collect monoxide poisoning. well publicized. a bra”. The instruction list included a Gumball challenges, clockwise from “His dad had mentioned that he was Carbon monoxide is an odourless, disclaimer removing DU Players from above: 8. Hide inside a bin. 33. Streak going to try to get a meeting with the colourless gas that can leak from any any responsibility of the “illegal or across the cricket pitch. 28. Get Minister of the Environment,” Alison appliance that burns gas, coal or oil, inappropriate behaviour undertaken” by naked in a phonebox. 31. Three-way Keane, a third year Law student and one such a water boiler or a furnace. A 2003 the participants. However one member kiss. of the drafters of the petition explained, statistic from the National Poisons of Players said that participants took “It wasn’t meant to turn into any kind of Council of Ireland stated that up to 40 this to mean that Players had told them have been offended by participants in Junior Dean to discuss the events which Possibly the most unfortunate big thing. It was just to have something deaths a year in Ireland are attributed to do anything they wanted. the Gumball challenge.” led to numerous people being fi ned for incident of the night was the fi rst year to back him up with in his meeting.” Mr. to carbon monoxide poisoning. If an The Players committee held an The producers of “Little Shop of streaking across the cricket pitch. who drunkenly partook of the “get a Hughes had also told the Irish Times appliance is not properly ventilated, emergency meeting following the Horrors” have been restricted from the The Pavilion Bar was also damaged tattoo” challenge. He paid €80 for a of his plans to urge Minister Gormley the gas can build up and travel to other disasters in the Pav. In the press release production and direction of any show during the event to such an extent fl aming gumball to be imprinted on his to make carbon monoxide detectors in rooms, particularly any room directly that followed, the committee apologised for the remainder of the year and have that all funds raised from the ‘Gumball rear end. Naturally, his was the only all Irish homes the law, citing the lack above the appliance, as was the case to “members of College Security, been told to write formal apologies to Challenge’ will be given to the Pav to team to successfully complete all fi fty of of publicity about this potentially fatally with Padraig’s bedroom. DUCAC and the staff of the Pavilion the offended parties. The Chairman of pay for damages and also to any charity the challenges laid out. danger in the home. A memorial Mass for Padraig was Bar, The Provost, The Junior Dean and Players and representatives from the suggested by members of security “Little Shop of Horrors” will be Keane drafted the petition with the held on Monday afternoon in the Trinity other members of the public who may production will be meeting with the involved in Friday night. performed in week 7 this term. help of Professor William Binchy of the Chapel. TRINITY NEWS 2 NEWS January 27, 2009

“We are proud to offer “Health science professionals and students should “A rippling sigh of relief from students the opportunity refl ect on the ethical implications of attending this the models.” to advance in the fi eld of exhibition.” TNTM fi nalist, Orla Wilson, sexual health, personal THIS FORTNIGHT Prof Dermot Kelleher, head of the school of medicine describing the decision to development and love and Dr Paul Glacken, head of anatomy, advising replace the usual layout of the coaching to gain the skills science students thinking about catwalk from dining tables to fl at essential for creating THEY SAID... attending the ‘Bodies’ exhibition, ground due to health and safety healthy and fulfi lling love currently on in the Ambassador risks at TNTM fi nals. lives.” Theatre. Dr. Ava Cadell, founder of the “We are all busy people but we share a love for University of Loveology. Compiled by Deirdre Robertson “The weirder the better is the environment including the one we occupy in the mantra we follow. If Trinity College and share the need to protect and “Our good teachers are in high demand by our you’re sick of hearing the improve it.” competitors overseas and I worry about that.” same electro-indie bullshit Deirdre Ni Eidhin, chair of the Trinity College recycling Provost John Hegarty, at the debate last week, everyday, then create and environment committee speaking about the outlining his reasons why third level fees should be “The programme is underdeveloped, the something different” upcoming Green Week. introduced. priorities and purpose of the organisation are Torsten Kinsella from ‘God Is not clearly evident and its services for writers An Astronaut’ speaking to TN2 “Our Provost underestimates the number of “Wanker” and audiences are weak.” about the instrumental, three- students who won’t be returning to college if fees An Weston forward’s description of Trinity hockey The Art Council’s report on the Irish Writers Centre piece band’s aspirations. are introduced.” coach Ronan Pelow. Weston lost 4-0. whose funding has been withdrawn. SU President Cathal Reilly on the Provost’s take on fees NUMEROLOGY Student Centre paused

Compiled by Deirdre Robertson continued from page 1 now scrapped plans. The Students’ Union conducted student centre. Concerns had been a survey of the student body last expressed in the past over this location, November asking students what should as it was seen by many to be too far be included in the proposed centre. Ten €45.7m away from the heart of campus. Mr. per-cent of the undergraduate student Reilly told Trinity News that he still sees body responded, placing high priority The funding boost promised to Irish scientifi c centres including Trinity’s Luce Hall as the best available space, on a social space for students, a student- CRANN centre by the Irish government last week. with the other options including Foster run bar, and a café. Place and Oisin House being further Management of the proposed student away from the centre of campus still. centre also has yet to be fully decided Despite the questions that remain to be upon. Last year, Mr. Byrne called for answered, Mr. Reilly remains optimistic an external manager of the centre €1,500 that a centre will be opened in the answerable to the Union in order to closing months of 2010. ensure that the student centre remained The remainder of Piranha! magazine’s annual grant which may be cut this The opening of the development is student controlled. Mr. Reilly is set to year. subject to college securing adequate meet college authorities next month to sponsorship and also the approval of a hammer out a deal over management student levy by referendum. 66% of the and to discuss running costs and capital bill for the building of the centre will be expenditure. footed by students. Mr Byrne previously Although it is proposed that any €180,000 told Trinity News that the levy could student centre to be built will be run by cost each student up to €100 per year students in the main part, issues may The annual savings that the Chief Operating Offi cer has said will be for up to fi ve years, or €50 per year for arise over the running of a proposed café. made if College reviews some of its IT systems. up to ten years. In the last set of plans College Catering Other sources of funding remain successfully secured management of unlikely as Mr. Reilly noted that The student centre plans from 2007-8 which have now been scrapped as the the proposed café in the centre. there are “no big sponsors in this project is brought back to the drawing board. Photo: Martin McKenna Mr. Reilly told Trinity News that current climate”. Last year, the Trinity he will lobby for a Union-run student- 33,000 Foundation - an initiative which relies remaining 33% of the building costs. as talks on the possibilities of funding staffed bar at the next set of meetings on loans from wealthy associates €250,000 was also to be raised for the will not take place until February. The in February. He is to meet with the The number of visitors to the Science Gallery’s exhibition TechnoThreads of Trinity - were to be responsible planning and design process. However, original cost will perhaps be added to Director of Buildings before fi nalising which recently one the Irish Times Living Dublin Award. for fi nding sponsors to fi nance the it is unclear if this will still be the case the cost already accumulated by the the location of the centre.

CLARIFICATIONS AND CORRECTIONS Provost philosophises on fees

Prof. Kingston Mills is of the School of Biochemistry and Immunology, By Jelena Ivanovic Philosophical Society, they proceeded not part of the Department of Chemistry as we incorrectly in the article Deputy College News Editor to paint a bleak future without fee “Bonuses under investigation”, published 13 January. reintroduction. PROVOST JOHN Hegarty has spoken Ms Healy forecast a drop in The photograph on page 24 of our issue published on 13 January was out in favour of third level fees two weeks international student numbers if incorrectly captioned insofar as it named the player in shot as Douglas before “the biggest student protest seen infrastructures were left to decline Alexander. Mr. Alexander, the Secretary of State for International in Ireland ever.” through a drop in funding, whilst Mr Development of the United Kingdom, cannot boast among his varied Hegarty favours the early Von Prondzynski said that nobody achievements membership of the Dublin University Hockey Club; the reintroduction of third level fees, citing should be excluded from paying fees player in question was of course Douglas Montgomery. Apologies to the government move as inevitable and and disagreed with the proposed income both. essential if universities are to maintain band of €100,000 for fee payment. their performance levels and continue Speaking to Trinity News Students’ to prosper. Union President Cathal Reilly spoke out Speaking at a debate held by the in reaction to the Provost’s speech. “Our Philosophical Society on January 15th, Provost and Minister for Education INFORMATION Mr Hegarty’s words come amidst underestimate the number of students increasing frustration from students all who won’t be returning to college if Editor: Martin McKenna over the country who plan to hold one of fees are reintroduced.” He put across Deputy Editor: Anna Stein the biggest student protests against the the counter-argument that if there is a Website: Stuart Martin decision on 4th February. drop in student numbers, universities Business Manager: Lia Prendergast At the debate, entitled ‘Students will see a drop in funds and fees will Copy Editors: Tom Lowe should bear the cost of the crisis in simply replace government funding Eleanor Friel university funding’, Mr Hegarty said with the government the only ones set Kara Furr universities need more fees to combat to benefi t. Kiera Healy the decrease in block grants, which for On February 4th, students of every Ruth Mahony 2009 have been decreased by €10m, third level institution in the country Sarah-Kate Geraghty in order to maintain standards at their will be taking to the streets of Dublin Photographs: Rachel Kennedy present levels. He added “Our good for what is anticipated to be one of College News: Deirdre Robertson teachers are in high demand by our the biggest student protest ever seen National News: Una Geary competitors overseas and I worry about in Ireland. This is in opposition to the International News: Kasia Mychajlowycz that.” Backed up by DCU President increase in the registration fee to €1,500 News Features: Deirdre Lennon Ferdinand Von Prondzynski, and Kiera and to the proposed reintroduction of Features: Emily Monk Healy, the registrar of the University third-level tuition. Provost John Hegarty debating in the GMB. Photo: Caroline O’Leary Opinion: Aoife Crowley World Review: Aaron Mulvihill Travel: Derek Larney Business: Grace Walsh Science: Luke Maishman College Sport: Conor James McKinney TN2 Editor: Hugh McCafferty Michael Armstrong Campus expansion plan on hold Film: Music: Catriona Gray Fashion: Patrice Murphy By Lisa Byrne O’Regan was the man behind the €30 including the “Trinity Debt Project”. Books: Jean Morley million pub empire, the Thomas Read Commenting on the progress of Theatre: Kathy Clarke Group. Among its chain of pubs is the the plan, Dr. Lloyd has said, “All that Art: Caroline O’Leary IT HAS emerged that the College’s Bailey, just off Grafton and Ron Blacks, has been advanced around College’s Food and Drink: Melanie O’Reilly plans to expand Trinity’s campus to located on Dawson Street. The group potential involvement in Kilternan is the Kilternan have become the latest victim has a further 6 bars located in Dublin heads of dialogue between the parties.” All Trinity News staff can be contacted at of the recession. Airport. Having sold his share in the Mr. Michael Gleeson, the Director of fi [email protected]. According to minutes from the Group in 2004, Mr. O’Regan went on College’s “Research Committees” to focus on his other investments “This potentially Trinity News is funded by a grant from DU Publications Committee. This meeting on June 19th, members were including the luxurious Dublin hotel, exciting publication claims no special rights or privileges. Serious complaints briefed on a memorandum presented by ‘The Morrison’. possibility is on should be addressed to: The Editor, Trinity News, 6 Trinity College, Dub- Dean of Research, Dr. David Lloyd. Mr. O’Regan has also been involved hold”– Trinity lin 2. Appeals may be directed to the Press Council of Ireland. The memorandum set out plans with organizations working with young College for Trinity’s expansion under the people. He was credited with helping Trinity News is a full participating member of the title “Trinity Exploration Campus”. the ‘Rock the Vote’ campaign in Ireland, Strategic Initiatives, is now responsible Press Council of Ireland and supports the Offi ce of According to the memorandum, the fi nancing the campaign that aims to for overseeing the interaction on behalf the Press Ombudsman. This scheme in addition to College planned to buy land in Kilternan, increase voting among the under 25’s. of the College. defending the freedom of the press, offers readers Co. Dublin, which would be used to He has also been involved with various However plans seem to have come a quick, fair and free method of dealing with com- build the proposed second campus. The perfect base for a campus, having ample charities including the Christina Noble to a halt recently. When contacted for plaints that they may have in relation to articles that project included plans to build among land allowing the College to expand Foundation and the Ceka Kenyan a comment on the development of the appear on our pages. To contact the Offi ce of the other amenities, halls of residence, even further in later years if they chose Dental Project. project, the Communications Offi ce said, Press Ombudsman go to www.pressombudsman.ie lecture halls and a new science and to. Mr. O’Regan is no stranger to “Due to the current economic climate technology campus. Located just off the The land was due to be bought from the College having contributed to this potentially exciting possibility is on M50, Kilternan would have provided the Irish businessman, Hugh O’Regan. Mr. publications made by the College hold”. TRINITY NEWS January 27, 2009 NEWS 3 Spam targets students IWC funds cut back

By Naomi O’Leary By Lisa Byrne its services for writers and audiences are raised through other means including weak.” The money, which has averaged local authority and public funding, €200,000 per annum, will instead be sponsorship and courses run at the STUDENTS ARE warned not to heed A GROUP of Trinity students have re-distributed to other literary artist- centre. emails claiming to be sent from “Trinity become the latest supporters of the support organisations including ‘Poetry The centre provides courses for College Dublin”, as the College is hit campaign to have the Irish Writers’ Ireland” and the “Munster Literature aspiring writers to learn from Irelands by a sophisticated scamming operation Centres funding reinstated. The Centre”. most talented writers. In the past, the aimed at eliciting access to staff and College’s Literary Society is backing the The director of the Centre, Cathal Centre has offered courses such as student email accounts. The emails petition campaign started by the Centre McCabe, has claimed to be “completely ‘Learn to Write Short Stories’ with John have managed to successfully bypass and is urging all of its members to sign mystifi ed” by the cut. However, this Boyne and ‘Learn to Write Poetry’ by the Gmail spam fi lter, arriving directly it. is in spite of the Council previously Núala Ní Dhómnaill. It also provides into student inboxes. The withdrawal of funding was deemed the website to be “inadequate a place for people to come and sit Sent from the address web-tcd@ MyMail” says student Tim McInerney, password or new account reset details. announced in a press release on in providing information about its with a pen and paper away from their webmaster.com, the email asks the the fi rst to report the email to IS IS Services will never ask you to reveal January 15th by the Centre announcing services or information that would be ordinary solitary surroundings many “Trinity College Account Owner” services. “It’s a strange detail to know your password.” the decision made by the Art’s Council. useful to writers”. The Centre has also people fi nd themselves in. This is one to reply with their username and and it’s what got me to fall for the scam. The emails were fi rst noted by The press release held the “present come under fi re by the Council for it’s aspect that Tom Morris, Chair of the password within 48 hours, to avoid I assumed it was a notifi cation that my IS Services on January 20th, who economic downturn” responsible for the high staff costs. It currently employs Trinity Literary Society is keen to stress their account being deleted. The email old MyMail account emails were going immediately put out a security alert withdrawal but many have questioned four full-time staff members at a cost of when discussing the importance of the fi nishes with “Thank you for using to be deleted, so I followed the link to warning of the email, reading “Please this. €237,550. While Mr. McCabe refused to Centre. ‘Writing can be one of the most www.tcd.ie Copyright 2008 The Trinity MyMail and tried entering my username ignore this email should you receive Upon examination of the Art comment on his own salary, he did say lonely professions, and the centre offers College Dublin”. It also encourages the and password a couple of times. I’ve had it as it is fraudulent and is a ‘phishing’ Council’s report, it would appear that that Core costs are covered by funds integral support to many Irish writers at receiver to enter their account details at to change all my passwords.” attempt”. IS services have recommended the withdrawal is not as a result of generated by the centre itself.” all stages of their careers. Without the a link to MyMail, the college’s previous This is not the fi rst time that that the email be immediately deleted the recession but instead a conscious Even the Centre’s previous director centre, Irish writers of both today and email system, which has been closed to Trinity has been the target of such without opening, adding that the real decision made by the council as a result Peter Sirr has attacked the management tomorrow will be bereft of one of the student access since December 2007. emails. Spam sent out in June 2008 in system administrator would never ask of misappropriating funds. According in a letter to the Irish Times. Mr. Sirr most important institution of the Irish Particularly worrying is the another attempt to procure password for login credentials via email. to the report “If compared to other commented that “the refusal of the literary world.’ spammers’ knowledge of the MyMail information claimed to be from the IS All students who have fallen victim key art form resource organisations, director to discuss his remuneration … The Literary Society is urging all emails system, now only available Services Helpdesk. to the scam are encouraged to report to the programme is underdeveloped, has raised eyebrows in literary circles — those who wish to help save the Centre to staff. “The designer of the emails The email warned the receiver not to the IS Services Helpdesk at the earliest the priorities and purpose of the and questions for the board.” to sign the online petition at http://www. clearly knows about our old accounts at “respond to messages asking for your opportunity. organisation are not clearly evident and Funding in the past has been ipetitions.com/petition/IWC/. Top Models on top of the tables no more

By Jessica Ryan Trinity’s Next Top Model Cycle 1 Winner make up and the variety of sizes of the of the contract, however the twenty- Kellaher Lynch. girls seen at the auditions were replaced fi ve were whittled down to fi ve with all The usual amalgamation of the by a number of skinny minis. those short listed given the opportunity THE THIRD cycle of Trinity’s Next dining hall tables had this year been The casual section of the show to speak with First Options about their Top Model, organised by the Lesbian deemed a health and safety risk. opened with hot pants and bras, an future careers. Gay Bisexual and Transgender Society This was welcomed by many of unusual look for the end of January. A nail biting few minutes ensued during last week’s Rainbow Week, the models. One fi nalist, Orla Wilson The models brought something of their before a gob smacked Maria Boardman concluded on Thursday night. described the decision as “a rippling own to this phase of the show, with the clinched the coveted title. The Dining Hall was transformed to sigh of relief from the models”, with judges able to assess the own personal Speaking to Trinity News shortly host an intimate catwalk while the huge the threat of making a complete fool style of the models and with the winner after the event, the Senior Sophister demand for tickets was still going as one oneself having been taken down a of the First Options Model Contract pharmacy student said “it was such a DJ Karen began her set. The scene had notch. somewhere in their midst. brilliant experience and I had so much been set for a fi nal that LGBT organiser The show opened with the exuberant The fi nal section of Trinity’s Next fun, everyone is so nice and I can’t Cormac Cashman believed would be drag queen Pantibar who kept the Top Model was Fancy Dress, which believe I won”. “the best one yet”. audience amused and the models at ease the audience enjoyed by far the most. The show ended on a high with all The twenty-fi ve fi nalists had come a throughout the show with quips such as A majority of the girls opted for the the models eager to celebrate but also long way since the auditions held last “ you go girl, oh she’s such a tease”. pirate look, brandishing swords and eye ecstatic about the huge amount of term, with fi erce walks and Angelina The formal wear category was fi rst, watering looks, with the guys opting for money raised at the event. style pouts perfected. with all twenty- fi ve donning their fi nery, a variety of styles, from builders to rugby All proceeds raised at the event The challenge this year, a semi- all very nervous. This section included players to one infamous stripper giving went directly to the Open Heart House, circular runway, required the models to some interesting walks and a few false the judges and the crowd all a thrill. an organisation promoting a positive stop and pose before Judges Noel Sutton starts. The judges deliberations took a while approach to people suffering with HIV of First Option Modelling Agency and The boys wore a huge amount of eye The formal wear section of TNTM. Photo: Caroline O’Leary with so many beautiful students worthy and Aids.

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By Jelena Ivanovic note of the serious problems facing Green Week is an initiative of the E-STRATEGY Deputy College News Editor Ireland to this regard. Department the Trinity College Recycling and head Mike Jones also raised concerns Environment Committee (CREC), TRINITY’S ‘REDUCING ENERGY Consumption at the time about the need to do more founded in 1993. Chair of CREC, Helps the Planet and your Pocket!’ to get students involved with the issues Deirdre Ní Eidhin, told Trinity News E-STRATEGY That’s the slogan for the 2009 Greek at hand, and questioned the lack of “The best thing about CREC and Green Week campaign, which kicks off on promotion of Green Week. Week is that they bring all the elements ENTERS NEXT Sunday 1st February, running through Some of the topics to get students of College together – administration, to Friday 6th. The theme this year is environmentally-aware this year research, teaching, and students from PHASE energy; using it more effi ciently for the include the Environment Society all disciplines. People contribute what FOLLOWING FINDINGS benefi t of all, but also as a way to get stu- hosted Green Fair in the Arts Building they can, be it ideas, contacts, expertise, of some “major issues” in dents thinking about the personal gain concourse on Tuesday 3rd from 12- DIY, organisational skills, humour, and TCD’s information systems, brought about through the fi nancial 3pm, where information on ethically the rest. an e-strategy proposal was savings of going green. The message produced goods, services and products “Those with no time to come to presented to the Board by is not a new one but it is an important for sustainable living will be provided meetings or organise events provide Chris Lyons, Chief Operating one. This year Green Week will offer ex- From 7–8pm on Thursday 5th support to those who do. We are all Offi cer in late 2008. The pertise and advise for all interested on February in the Edmund Burke Theatre busy people, but we share a love for issues of concern relate to: cost-effectiveness measures and energy Ireland’s fi rst video lecture on the threat A competitor at last year’s Green Week Frisbee Throwing competition. the environment, including the one we outdated IT systems that are effi ciency, whilst stimulating you to get that global climate change poses for Photo: Jessica Pakenham-Money occupy in Trinity College, and share no longer proving effi cient; pro-active about saving the environ- biodiversity and life as we know it will the need to protect and improve it. We current processes and systems ment. be given by Dr. Stuart Parkinson. be on hand to advise on energy effi cient Closing the weeks talks, walks and many have organised a huge spread of events not being able to meet the The offi cial launch of Green Week The Society are also holding an lighting at home and at work. A building events is a unique fashion show entitled this year, and are hoping for good information demands; and will take place on Monday 2 February alternative transport and safety stones walk, tree walk and bird walk will Junk for Funk, which takes place at attendances.” preliminary fi ndings that at 1.15pm at the Exam Hall steps or the awareness session in the Atrium on all take place during the course of the The Pavilion on Friday 6th from 7-9pm One of the newest societies on over half a million euro could Atrium if wet. Senator David Norris, Friday 6th from 1-2pm, This is for week, this is a unique opportunity for and will include spot prizes. Student- campus, the Environment Society, will be be saved annually by the who has supported the Trinity event anyone who has considered biking into people to witness the unique ecological, led design teams will be competing for hosting four events during Green Week. deployment of the e-strategy. for a number of years now, together TCD. You can learn about basic bike geological and biodiversity on show at the award of Green Week Designer of “Working with CREC, the Environment The next phase for the strategy with Provost John Hegarty, will attend safety and maintenance as well as grab Trinity’s very own doorstep. 2009. Students interested in entering Society developed these new, innovative is to establish a project the launch, At a September 2008 free refl ective vests and bike maps. Finally, lined up are a frisbee contest, the competition should send an email to events to encourage students to team and steering group to international conference, Trinity’s There will be a Lighting Display a pub quiz, an energy awareness [email protected]. For details integrate simple, environmentally- implement the strategy. School of Natural Sciences had at the Arts Building concourse on competition to win an iPod and a on any of these events plus many more, friendly choices into their lives,” says challenged the government to remodel Thursday 5th between 11am and 3pm, photography competition with the get a full programme by visiting www. Green Week Environment Society its policy on climate change and to take hosted by Philips, where experts will theme of Trinity and the Environment. tcd.ie/greenpages. Coordinator, Catherine Fontana. BODY IN THE LIBRARY TRINITY SHOWCASES THE GREAT Finucane memorial Big funding boost DETECTIVES TRINITY LIBRARY’S envious and extensive collection of to be held at Trinity for tiny research detective novels is going on show. Tracing the origins of the detective story in the By Sarah Rose Montague By Thomas Raftery Innovation, Dr. Jimmy Devins T.D, also attended mid-nineteenth century to the announcement and said “A total of 12 distinct the growth in popularity indigenous and multinational companies will of fi ctional heroes such as FORMER PRESIDENT Bill Clinton and Taoiseach TO THE delight of Trinity’s scientists, Ireland’s partner with these CSETs, and SFI funding will be Sherlock Holmes, Father Brian Cowen are among a number of high profi le Minister for Enterprise, Trade, Employment Mary bolstered by these industry partners’ contribution Brown and Hercule Poirot. guests invited to attend a memorial service to Coughlan T.D., has announced that 45.7 million of an additional €14.5million in the form of funding, Most of the books making up commemorate the 20th anniversary of the killing Euro will be invested across Ireland’s Centre’s for personnel and equipment. The funding announced the exhibition are from Trinity of Belfast solicitor and former Trinity student, Science, Engineering and Technology (CSETs). today will directly support almost 200 researchers, with the earliest novel dating Patrick Finucane. The event will be held in Trinity Currently there are only three such centres in graduate students and others in a well-structured from 1795. A must see for all College from 13-15th February and will mark the the country situated in Cork, Galway and Trinity. and wholly-collaborative environment between interested in the development unveiling of a memorial to Finucane. This boost in funding is hoped to increase the now and 2013.” of this form of imaginary On 12 February 1989 Finucane was shot dead competitiveness of what are already world-class Professor Frank Gannon, Director General of writing. The exhibition will run by paramilitaries in front of his family at his home institutes. The fi gure is to be supplemented by SFI stated “SFI CSETs have led our portfolio of in The Long Room at Trinity in North Belfast. The brutal murder was carried an additional 14.5 million Euro contributed by initiatives that are steadily moving Ireland towards until June 14th. out by loyalist forces because of Finucane’s Industry. This total of over 60 million Euro will involvement in providing legal representation to provide 2nd term funding for the centres over fi ve “All three CSETs IRA members. Family members still seek justice years. have been playing RULES OF ATTRACTION over the killing as there is suspicion that the Set to benefi t directly is Trinity’s Centre a pivotal role in security forces were involved in some way. They for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and contributing to the A VERY FINE LINE hope the three-day event will highlight the British Nanodevices (CRANN), who are directed by Government’s goal Government’s collaboration with paramilitary Professor John Boland. The funding was approved of building a world- THAT CROSSES forces during the Troubles. Finucane leaving Belfast’s high court in 1988. by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) after a rigorous class research base in After a gala dinner on the Friday evening in and multi-faceted assessment process. This process Ireland.” GENDER the college dining room, there will be an all-day Finucane will also be talking at the event. involved 31 international experts who participated conference on the Saturday held in the Edmund Several loyalist paramilitary suspects who in the international scientifi c peer review. In a truly knowledge-based economy. These CSETs PSYCHOLOGISTS AT Trinity Burke theatre. had been questioned at the police’s Castlereagh addition, key government agency stakeholders have been independently verifi ed as playing an have published a study Speakers include Geraldine Finucane, Peter holding centre left reportedly having being told performed a ‘Strategic Value to Ireland’ assessment important role in building a world-class research suggesting that what we Madden of solicitors fi rm Madden and Finucane, that Mr Finucane was a member of the IRA. The including IDA Ireland, the agency responsible for system in Ireland, as well as linking successfully with fi nd attractive in faces is not Michael Mansfi eld QC, Mr Justice Treacy of the family deny any allegation that Finucane was a developing foreign investment, Enterprise Ireland, major multi-national companies and providing an gender specifi c. They used High Court of Northern Ireland, former UN member of the IRA. His son, Michael Finucane, Forfás, the Higher Education Authority and the attractor for multinational investment in research computer technology to special rapporteur Dato’ Param Cumaraswamy who witnessed his father’s murder as a child and Health Research Board. in Ireland.” morph real female faces into and former judge of the Canadian supreme court is now also a solicitor, said it is a grievous insult to The Tanaiste commented, “All three centers Along with Trinity’s CRANN, UCC’s ‘Alimentary a male version and men into Peter Cory. Cory presided over the Collusion suggest it. “I think their limited mentalities did not have been playing a pivotal role in contributing to Pharmabiotic Centre (which focuses on research in their female equivalents, and Inquiry in 2001 into the murders of Finucane and stretch to differentiating between the role of the the Government’s goal of building a world-class gastrointestinal health), and NUI Galway’s ‘Digital found these to be judged others. lawyer and the offence suspected of the client”. research base in Ireland, and developing our human Enterprise Research Institute’ (research into the equally attractive among the They will discuss the legal and political changes Other guests invited to the event include capital to support economic competitiveness. Today ‘Semantic Web’, whatever that is) will enjoy a genders. The study throws into in Ireland that have taken place in the last twenty President Mary McAleese, former Taoiseach Bertie is an endorsement of this achievement to date, and portion of the 60 million Euro. The investment will disrepute evolutionary thinking years. Finucane’s life and his own fi ght for equality Ahern, Northern Ireland First and Deputy First marks the beginning of the next chapter for each support nearly 200 research positions. Coughan that suggests woman look for and human rights will also be recognised. The Minister Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness. individual researcher and their respective teams”. remarked that she hoped the funding would dominant features in men and talks will range from focusing on the challenges The event will end on Sunday with a football Coughan added when she announced the awards develop the Center’s ability to provide “researchers that males seek youthful female of the past and the challenges and hopes for the match, paying tribute to Finucane’s student days “From its inception, the SFI CSET programme in partnerships across academia and industry characteristics. In conclusion future. Policing, prisoners’ rights, inquests, the at Trinity when he captained the football team has been designed to facilitate the creation of to address crucial research questions, foster the then, average, symmetrical courts, intimidation of lawyers and collusion will from 1972 to 1974. internationally-competitive, large-scale research development of new and existing Irish-based faces with no distinguishing be the main topics covered in the conference. A bench dedicated to Patrick Finucane will centres that support high-quality collaborations technology companies, attract industry that could features were found to be John Ware, a Panorama journalist who, in be unveiled on the Sunday as the culmination of between higher education institutes and industry- make an important contribution to Ireland and the most attractive for both 2002 uncovered the role of military intelligence the event. The bench will be placed overlooking based researchers.” its economy, and expand educational and career genders. and RUC special branch offi cers in the murder of College park. Minister for Science Technology and opportunities in science and engineering”.

YOUR VIEW

DID YOU GET JASON CUMMINS AGNESE EISAHA KATHERINE REIDY SHEENA TUCHER MAX YATES JF ENGINEERING JF SCIENCE JF LAW SF HISTORY OF ART JS HISTORY INVOLVED IN ANY OF THE No, I went to the Slave Auction. Yeah, the Rag Ball and the food No, because I had essays, I was No, I’ve been rushed off my feet No, I was too busy. Also I didn’t I was supposed to participate fi ght. Also I sold tickets. But I locked up in the library all week. with assignments. know about a lot of the events RAINBOW / RAG but didn’t in the end. didn’t participate in any Rain- that were on. bow Week events though. Oh, WEEK EVENTS? but I did wear blue jeans on the Friday though. TRINITY NEWS January 27, 2009 NEWS 5 SHORT CUTS

LIGHTWAVE EXHIBITION TRINITY’S SCIENCE GALLERY TO LIGHT UP DUBLIN Participants at RAG BRINGING TOGETHER Week’s Iron artists, science engineers and Stomach philosophers on the topic of event proved light, 15 exhibitions have gone to have any- on show the Science Gallery thing but; this on Pearse Street. Most of the unfortunate installations are interactive and succumbed include a workshop to build a to chocolate replica of Galileo’s telescope milk. SU to be used in Phoenix Park. An Ents Offi cer audio-visual jam, a light-display Nick Long- that interacts with you, a worth wisely kosmoscope that listens to the donned earth’s movements and a cell the white phone disco are just some of jumpsuit he is the delights in store. The show pictured in as runs until 20th February. he was later to be used as a target. On- NEW WORLD RECORD lookers were said to be ef- RUBIK’S SOLVING fusive about the event. ROBOT SETS Photo: Jessica Pakenham- WORLD RECORD Money A ROBOTIC creation by Trinity student Peter Redmond has become the fi rst of its kind to hold a new Guinness World Record for solving the Rubik’s Cube. Rubot solved the puzzle UCD triumph at Trinity debating IV in just 64 seconds, the fastest time for a machine, and became the fi rst robot to make By Caroline O’Leary from Oxford, Cambridge, Newcastle, from National University of Ireland named World Champion at the Cork intoxicated speakers broke with normal a record in this new technical Cardiff, St Andrews, Loyola-Marymount Galway Literary and Debating Society, World Debating Championships over debating convention to mock, shout, category. The robot uses a of Los Angeles, Macquarie University of Macquarie University Sydney and 2 the New Year, was named best speaker rant and chatter their way through specialised software to scan UNIVERSITY COLLEGE Dublin Sydney and University of Ljubljana. teams from the University College of the overall competition. the motion, much to the delight of the the cube before proceeding walked away with Trinity College’s top The annual Trinity intervarsity Dublin Literary and Historical Society, Phil Debate Convener Jonathan audience. to solve it. The record was set debating prize at the weekend, with the is named for former Trinity Student with Chief Adjudicators Luke Ryder and Wyse, who ran the organization of the Nearly 200 people were involved in on 9 January at the BT Young team of Rebecca McGrath and Julia Claire Stewart, whose family donates event alongside Hist Convener Niall the event including speakers, judges, Scientist Exhibition, held at Lawlor from the Literary and Historical sponsorship every year in memory of ‘It’s a refl ection Sherry, was pleased with the weekend, adjudicators and volunteers. Despite the RDS in Dublin. Redmond, Society winning the Saturday fi nal by their daughter. of the huge stating “I’m really happy with how the the large numbers involved the event who is doing a robotics PhD arguing the motion “That this house The two-day event took place in the efforts of the competition went- it’s a refl ection of the ran relatively smoothly, with only one at Trinity’s Department of would adopt constitutional democracy societies’ Graduate Memorial Building many many huge efforts of many many people in the potential crisis occurring when the lock Computer Science must have in favour of democracy”. and other college buildings, with the people in the Phil and the Hist.” of the Phil council room, which was been wrought with nerves as This year’s Claire Steward Memorial fi nal taking place in the main debating Phil and the As per tradition, the Kingsmill- being used to collect ballots and tally the he watched Rubot drop the Intervarsity, jointly hosted between the chamber of the GMB and chaired by Hist.’ Convener Moore Invitational Debate was held scores, broke on the Friday, locking the Rubik’s on its fi rst attempt. college’s two debating societies, the journalist and comedian Abie Philbin Jonathan Wyse the Thursday before where top teams tab judges inside. Runners fed the ballot Allowed only a further two Dublin University Philosophical Society Bowman, a Trinity graduate who now are invited to participate in a one- papers under the door to allow the tally goes, Rubot aced it the second and the Dublin University Historical hosts a talk radio show on the new i105- Ross Maguire naming Tom Hoskins of day “knockout” rounds contest. The to continue until a volunteer was able to time. Society, included 72 national and 107 radio station. Macquarie best fi nal speaker. Thursday evening fi nal became great climb through a back window and pick international teams including teams The four fi nalist teams came Oxford student Will Jones, who was entertainment for all as the slightly the lock.

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Date: February 5th 2009

Venue: Public Theatre, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2 Time: 4pm-7pm

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SHORT CUTS Sundance history for QUB student

By Una Geary When an older man approaches him for a short fi lm and it’s a real honour for Gaze Dublin International Lesbian & SUNNY FACTS National News Editor in a public toilet, James panics and any aspiring fi lmmaker to be part of this Gay Film Festival 2008 and the Iris BUSINESS calls his mother, but refuses to tell her high-profi le event. I hope it won’t be Prize for Best U.K. Short, among others. A SHORT fi lm by a Queen’s University what happened. Late that night, James the last time one of my fi lms is shown On an international level, “James” won » Sundance began in Salt Lake COMMERCE graduate was the fi rst ever from Northern listens to his parents arguing about on such a prominent stage.” Best International Short at the St. Louis City in 1978 as the Utah/U.S. Ireland to be shown at the Sundance him. His father’s offhanded dismissal Professor David Johnston, Head of International Film Festival and the Fort Film Festival. INTERVARSITIES Film Festival. Connor Clements from of his mother’s concern results in a the School of Languages, Literature Lauderdale International Film Festival Scarva, Co. Down, wrote, produced and vicious row. When a devastated James and Performing Arts at Queen’s said, Award of Merit. It was chosen for the » Robert Redford, a Utah ON THURSDAY, January 22nd directed “James” as part of his Master’s turns to Mr. Sutherland for help, the “We are all very proud of Connor’s Short Film Corner at last year’s Cannes resident, became the fi rst the UCC Commerce Society degree course in Film and Visual Studies teacher’s response leads James to take achievements and congratulate him Film Festival. Chairperson. hosted the Inaugural KPMG in QUB. Sundance was founded in 1978 an irrevocable step.” on his Sundance debut. His success Critics have praised Mr. Clements’ Commerce Intervarsity event. with Robert Redford as chairperson The fi lm was one of just 22 shorts is a tribute to the quality of the work “bravery and honesty” in handling “an » In 1981, it moved to Park City. Students of Commerce and is the largest independent cinema selected from a total of 6,000 entries for produced by Film Studies at Queen’s. extremely sensitive and emotive subject and Business from all over festival in the USA. The festival took the International Dramatic Competition. This degree aims to give our students with care, skill and style.” One jury » In 1991 the festival was of- Ireland participated in the place in Park City, Utah from the 15th to It was also selected for the Sundance a fl ying start in the fi lm, television and remarked that “whilst there was the fi cially renamed the Sundance event which kicked off with the 25th of January. 10/10 – an exclusive assortment of media industries, and it is wonderful to danger that the story could be reduced Film Festival after Redford’s a seminar on Corporate and “James” chronicles the struggle of a ten short fi lms that were available see Connor fl ying so high.” to stereotypical characterisation, the character the Sundance Kid in Social Responsibility. The event teenage boy to come to terms with his to download from iTunes during the The offi cial selection of “James” writer/director avoided this trap and the movie Butch Cassidy and featured prominent speakers sexuality. Mr. Clements has issued the festival. On his Sundance success, Mr. for the 2009 Sundance Festival is the delivered a truly moving fi lm.” the Sundance Kid. from different sectors of the following blurb concerning the story Clements commented, “Sundance latest in a series of accolades for the “James” is due to be screened at fi lm Business world, including line of the fi lm; “James has learnt to is one of the world’s largest, most fi lm. In the past year, it has scooped a festivals across the globe in the coming » The festival has brought Frank O’Dwyer, Chief Executive be withdrawn and secretive in a family infl uential and prestigious independent plethora of awards at local, national and months, in destinations as far-fl ung as independent fi lms such as The of the Irish Association of with long buried secrets. Lonely fi lm festivals, and I am thrilled that international festivals. It was awarded Honolulu, Sydney, Vancouver, San Jose, Blair Witch Project, Little Miss Investment Managers, Karina and confused, he is drawn to one of my debut fi lm has been chosen for the Best Northern Irish Short at the Belfast Miami and San Francisco. Mr. Clements Sunshine, Reservoir Dogs and Howley, Head of Corporate his schoolteachers, Mr. Sutherland, International Dramatic Competition.” Film Festival, Outlook Award for best is currently collaborating with other Napoleon Dynamite to the and Social Responsibility, focusing on him as the one person who He went on to add, “Being shown at LGBT short fi lm at the 53rd Corona fi lmmakers on an array of projects, attention of the public. KPMG, and Maurice Bergin, might understand his inner turmoil. Sundance is one of the highest accolades Cork Film Festival, Best Short in the including an online drama series. Director of Hospitality Solutions Consulting. The society dedicated the event to Action Breast Cancer Research. All proceeds from the event including the Intervarsities Ball held on Thursday night will go to the charity. The Ball in keeping with Dinosaur a Pink theme started the night in style with a pink champagne and strawberries reception. Lillian O’Sullivan

MEDICINE discovery NUI GALWAY TEDDY BEAR HOSPITAL STUDENTS AT NUI Galway have added an extra day by UCD to their annual teddy- bear hospital due to the popularity of the student-run event. It aims to dispel the UCD student Nizar Ibrahim and his team have apprehension with which children can treat hospitals, recovered the fossils of what may be two pre- and illustrate to them what doctors and nurses really do, viously unknown dinosaur species on an In- with the help of their cuddly toys. diana-Jones style quest in the Sahara, writes Donna Cummins, a fi fth-year medicine student who has Fearghus Roulston. been involved with the event since its inception, said that “For us medical students, this A TEAM of scientists, headed up by UCD scientists struggled to make it out of the Pterosaur. Image courtesy of chicago.edu has to be one of the highlights student Nizar Ibrahim, has made some desert with the sauropod bone, which of the year!” startling discoveries on a recent fi eld- came from an animal almost sixty-fi ve the Land Rover- Dr Martill, a researcher fossils exceeded our expectations - It Ibrahim provided a stirring description The children will be trip to the Sahara desert, Morocco. The feet in length. and Professor of Paleobiology from is wonderful that we have made these of the former landscape his expedition encouraged to bring their team spent a month on the expedition, Having discovered the leg-bone, they Portsmouth, explained that “when we signifi cant discoveries”. has helped us imagine. “It’s amazing teddies along with them; unearthing hundreds of fossils. The had to return to the nearest village in had managed to get the bone in the Both fossils were found in south- to think that millions of years ago the the toys will be used as most signifi cant fi nds are two possible order to collect water and plaster to Land Rover, the extra weight meant we east Morocco near the border with Sahara was in fact a lush green tropical props to explain the medical new species of extinct animal- what protect the fossil. This involved crossing kept sinking in the sand dunes and on Algeria. The paleontologists discovered paradise, home to giant dinosaurs world. Donna hopes that appears to be a new type of pterosaur, fl ooded rivers at night, as water seeped several occasions everybody except the along with the sauropod femur a large and crocodiles and nothing like the “by bandaging Teddy’s arm, a fl ying dinosaur, and a previously through the doors of the vehicle. driver had to walk while we negotiated fragment of beak, believed to be from a dusty desert we see today. Even to a x-raying his leg or taking a unknown sauropod, a species of giant “There was a point when we diffi cult terrain. Our journey home was new species of pterosaur. Ibrahim said: paleontologist dealing in millions of Teddy MRI, we can illustrate plant-eating dinosaur. equally eventful. While crossing the “Most discoveries are just fragments of years it gives one an overwhelming to children what doctors and Both animals could date from almost Ibrahim, a PhD Atlas Mountains, we got caught in a teeth and bone so it was thrilling to fi nd a sense of deep time.” nurses in hospitals do.” one hundred million years ago, the student in the snowstorm and total white out. But it’s large part of a beak and this was enough Fearghus Roulston Cretaceous period in geological terms. UCD School of all been worth it.” to tell us we probably have a new species Ibrahim, an Ad Astra PhD student from Biology, led the After these Indiana Jones-esque on our hands.” This is an extremely rare DINO FACTS the School of Biology, was extremely expedition. escapades, Ibrahim will have to take fi nd, especially in the Sahara; pterosaur F.B.I. COLLEGE excited by the unexpected success of the off his fedora and get down to the remains are uncommon because their » The word dinosaur derives trip. “Finding two exciting specimens in wondered if we would make it out of serious business of studying his hard- bones, optimized for fl ight, were so from the Greek for ‘terrible FIRST AMERICAN one expedition is remarkable, especially the desert with the bone, but we had earned fi nds. They are to be examined light and fl imsy they are seldom well lizard’. as both might well represent completely worked so hard to fi nd it so there was in UCD before returning to Morocco preserved. Pterosaur fi nds in Africa CAMPUS IN new species”, he said. The student is no way I was leaving it behind. It took for permanent display, although the are particularly rare with only two or » Chickens are the closest ge- an expert on North African dinosaurs, us fi ve days to get the bone out of the university hopes to allow Dublin’s public three signifi cant discoveries recorded, netic ancestors to dinosaurs in EUROPE and has visited the area on several ground and down the mountain — and access to the foot-long sauropod bone indicating the value of the work carried modern biology. occasions, but was clearly delighted that was not the end of our problems,” before this. Once the protective plaster out by Ibrahim and his team. DUNGARVAN HAS been at the unprecedented haul this voyage Ibrahim said. casing is removed, Nizar Ibrahim will As well as these potentially important » The longest dinosaur was chosen as the site for the fi rst yielded. Heavy rain added to the researchers’ begin to estimate the date and origin of fossils, the scientists uncovered Seismosaurus, which mea- and only U.S college campus Ibrahim’s team was made up of problems, at one especially diffi cult the fossil over the next six months. This some rare dinosaur footprints. The sured over 122 feet, as long as in Europe. Students from scientists from University College Dublin, stage fl ooding the nearby Ziz River work will help form his thesis. positioning of some of these suggests fi ve double-decker buses. Mercyhurst College of Eire the University of Portsmouth, and the and cutting them off from the outside Professor Samir Zouhri, the head several animals using the same trail, in Pennsylvania are set to Université de Casablanca. They faced world for four days. To retrieve the of the Department of Geology in the allowing paleontologists to posit a » The smallest fully-grown fossil arrive in Dungarvan in spring a variety of challenges over the month, fossil, they had to wrap it in plaster Université Hassan II, hailed the work thriving ecosystem existing there in the dinosaur is the little bird- 2010. Mercyhurst College including some spectacular encounters and manhandle it down the mountain, done by the young graduate student. Cretaceous period. As well as discovering hipped plant-eater Lesotho- offers a range of forensic and with the elements. Travelling more than moving thousands of stones to carry it “Nizar Ibrahim is a very determined hundreds of dinosaur teeth, they also saurus, which was only the size intelligence courses, with fi ve thousand miles overland by Land on a wooden stretcher. The arduous researcher and I knew that he would unearthed bits of giant crocodiles and of a chicken. many students hoping to join Rover across the Atlas Mountains, the work continued even after they reached have success on this trip, but these turtles, and some new species of fi sh. FBI ranks after graduation. It has been proposed that students will stay in townhouse accommodation provided by the Park Hotel and study under visiting professors from Mercyhurst College, WIT as well as UCC. Campuses to welcome the elderly Perhaps these FBI hopefuls could keep an eye out for those troublesome Waterford By James Arthurs when the then students’ union president elderly people involved may be isolated people in Ireland have never experienced students or even join forces Barry Colfer organised a similar event and might not meet anyone else apart life on a university campus “It is very in rallying support against involving locals where the emphasis was from state services over many days. unusual to see an elderly person in any the proposed government THE UNION of Students in Ireland (USI) on “fun, music and song”. Volunteers are expected to give an hour Irish college. Yet they are the ones who reintroduction of fees. Last and Friends of the Elderly have come Friends of the Elderly is an of their time weekly for at least a year. invested in our future at a time when the Tuesday an estimated 2,500 together to welcome Ireland’s elderly organisation based in Dublin, but was The organisation was also involved majority of them could not even fi nish Waterford students marched citizens onto University campuses. This originally founded by Armand Marquiset along with Dublin City Business their second-level education”. along the quays from W.I.T. to March 2nd to 6th, University campuses in 1946 under the name Little Brothers Association and Dublin City Council in According to the Central Statistics the city centre. across Ireland will host events as part of to deal with the plight of the elderly in the recent “Dublin City Senior Citizens Offi ce, in the academic year 1965-1966 USI President Shane “Open to the Elderly Week”. The week France who had lost their families and Day Out”. Every 1st of December, senior only about 0.7% of the Irish population Kelly said, “This march will consist of entertainment events on livelihoods in the Second World War. citizens can avail of many free services was in third level education. By 2004- will demonstrate to the campuses such as music and dance. The The primary work of the organisation and events such as free photos under 2005 that fi gure had risen to 3.5%. She government that students will events will be open to young and old alike is to facilitate visits of elderly people the clock at Clery’s, free use of eco goes on to state that it is expected that not be made scapegoats for a and any potential musical talent in the by volunteers. They state on their cabs, refreshments in the Lord mayor’s about 90% of universities and colleges decade of under investment in student population will be encouraged website that they are “a voluntary, non- House on Dawson street and musical will contribute. higher education”. to contribute. Participants will also be denominational organisation that brings entertainment in the GPO on O’Connell Mr Dermot Kirwan of Friends of Aine Pennello encouraged to contribute a few songs friendship and social opportunities Street. the Elderly is further quoted as saying themselves as well as dancing. to the elderly, especially those who live One of the points emphasised by USI the event already got “an amazing The idea originated on the campus of alone” They have over 175 volunteers in equality offi cer Linda Kelly, quoted in response” both from the universities University College Dublin two years ago the Greater Dublin area and many of the Photo: Patrick England the Irish Times was that many elderly involved and the older people. TRINITY NEWS January 13, 2009 INTERNATIONAL NEWS 7 Israeli students don fatigues in Gaza

By Monika Urbanski Geography student Natalie Seldi said simply: the confl ict. Staff Writer “We are trying to stop terrorists.” Additionally, there are many students in The involvement of Israeli students in Europe who are supporting the Palestinians. ON JANUARY 17th, after 22 days of confl ict, the confl ict goes even further. According Just last week a group of students at the Israel announced a cease-fi re from attacks to the Mndaily, a Minnesota newspaper, an University of Birmingham started to on the Gaza strip with the militant wing of estimated 500 to 600 students from Tel Aviv occupy Arts LR4 in solidarity with Gaza Hamas releasing a similar statement the University were called into active duty for and Palestinian students. There is more on following day. The death toll in Gaza has risen the Israel Defense Forces to fi ght Hamas. their website: www.birminghamoccupation. to 1,300 Palestinians and 13 Israelis, with the Thousands of reserves, for example 25-year- wordpess.com, including a full statement Palestinian fi gure likely to grow as the days old law student Gil Levkovitch, were activated which reads: “We do not believe that Israel’s pass and more bodies are found. For both when Israeli ground forces began moving military offensive is ‘proportionate’ or countries the confl ict has had a huge effect on into Gaza. Lekovitch himself stated: “When that it has honoured its obligations under all areas of society, students included since it you get called into duty at a time of war, you international law to protect civilians…” Global Campus began in December 2008. just drop everything and go.” Unfortunately many of the protests end For many Israelis, the sentiment seems Palestinian students are very unhappy in clashes between pro-Israeli and pro- to be that they had no choice but to defend with that attitude and there is a lot of protest Palestinian students. Numerous students are themselves from the rockets fi red by Hamas. arising. For example some 3,000 Lebanese divided over the Israeli-Palestinian confl ict. OPEN UNIVERSITY, UK In Tel Aviv, which is home to the largest and Palestinian students have rallied in Members of Tikvah and the Gaza Solidarity university in the country, attended by 27,000 a southern Lebanese city against Israel’s Coalition expressed the need for free speech NO FEES AND NO CLASSROOMS students, elections for the students’ union offensive in the Gaza Strip. The protesters despite ideological differences. “They’re were held last week. However, it is not local denounce Arab leaders – particularly claiming the tragedies in Gaza are due to FOLLOWING IN the footsteps of such American campus politics that is exercising the students’ Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak – for Israel; we’re claiming it’s due to Hamas,” said institutions as Rice University and MIT, universities minds but the war in Gaza. According to Sky alleged passivity over the Gaza attack. Brandon Amiri, one of Tikvah’s cofounders. in Europe are looking to adopt a new form of News most support what their country is Other students joined the Gaza Solidarity “We want our message to be heard, and we web-based learning, called Open Educational doing to the tiny strip of land in the south. IDF soldiers. Photo: JD Lasica Coalition to demand a peaceful solution for want their message to be heard as well.” Resources (OER), in a bid to make education available to all, not just to the few who can pay for it. The OER movement was spearheaded by MIT in 2002 with the launching of its OpenCourseWare (OCW), funded in part by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Its purpose was to make available online virtually all of MIT course content, free and without the need for registration. Campus cop Degrees are not conferred on the users of this material, but instead, the knowledge and expertise of MIT’s world-class teachers are opened to the world. OCW has since been used by more than 50 million visitors from nearly every country worldwide, and sees a majority of self-learners using the site, as well as students and educators. “condoned In 2006, The Open University became the fi rst British higher education institution to provide free and complete access to its course materials with its £5.65m project, OpenLearn. “Open content provides the opportunity for access to high-quality learning materials which would not otherwise be available and affordable rape” to many groups within both the developed and developing worlds”, it said in its successful David McSwane many aspiring police offi cers -- to provide application to the Hewlett Foundation. The Rocky Mountain Collegian, illicit drugs to informants as payment for Recently, the UK’s Joint Information Systems Colorado State University information. Committee (JISC) has launched a project to In a later lecture, the chief, who was research the cost and effects of the OER approach, THE SUDDEN suspension of Colorado State a Chicago policeman prior to entering specifi cally in the case of OpenLearn, in order University Police Chief Dexter Yarbrough academia, said sometimes excessive and to explore its potential implementation in other last month came as another shocking violent force against a suspect is a “reality of universities. challenge facing a transitioning college law enforcement.” One issue that this project hopes to tackle is the administration, but several campus offi cers “If there’s a news conference going on, I cost and complexity of organising and framing the say his absence comes as a breath of fresh can’t get in front of a crowd and say. ‘He got vast amount of course materials provided, so that air to the department – putting what several exactly what the f*** he deserved.’ You know they can be accessed as free-standing educational independent sources called his “reign of the police should have beat him, you know. I resources, rather than in the context of programme terror” on hiatus. used to beat ass when I was in Chicago, too. I modules. A number of European academics have Listing numerous accusations of can’t say that. begun experimenting and interest in OER has improprieties ranging from falsifying “I’d have to say, ‘Well, you know we’re CSU Campus. Photo: Melvin Schlubman been shown by the European Commission. police documents, to mandating the special going to have to look into this matter seriously Malcolm Read, executive secretary of JISC, treatment of student athletes, to teaching … all of our offi cers, we like to think that which the university closed in the fall. were the former resources library -- fi lled believes that open content will raise the profi le students illegal police tactics, several timid they operate with the utmost integrity and The university has offered Gropp an with criminal procedure and law books -- and of university teaching, broaden participation police offi cers say the President’s Offi ce had ethics … All of that sh** sounds good. That alternative assignment to complete the the conference room. and boost standards, as users will be more in plenty of alarming evidence to take action sh** sounds real good, but in the back of my course. Yarbrough’s eventual acquisition of the control of their learning and able to select and long ago but turned a blind eye to a handful mind, damn. He got popped. If he would have Citing a personnel investigation in conference room was never justifi ed to the contribute to the material they consider the best. of alleged abuses of power. done it the way we used to do it in Chi town cooperation with the CBI, CSU offi cials staff and left offi cers with only holding cells Like Wikipedia, the OER movement is part of an Barred by state personnel law, the (Chicago), man, none of this sh** would have haven’t provided details as to why the chief and interrogations rooms to interview victims attempt to transform the conditions of teaching university hasn’t released any information happened.” was suspended indefi nitely Dec. 19 and of crime, sources said. and learning by imbuing users with greater about Yarbrough’s paid administrative leave The tapes were recorded by Aaron Gropp, escorted out of his department while students Another offi cer, weeks prior to the freedom of participation and selection. and an ongoing investigation headed by a 38-year-old graduate student and former were away on break. announcement of Yarbrough’s suspension Read has said, after discussions with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. Larimer County Sheriff’s deputy. Gropp said Offi cers interviewed credited the chief for told the Collegian, “I feel like I’m working for European Commission, that he would be “very But evidence delivered to top he began recording lectures after what he robustly increasing the department’s budget, a criminal. People are afraid. What he is and surprised if they did not start funding work in this administration and later obtained by the called “asinine” and “wrong” statements from allowing for much-needed equipment like what the offi cers are is two different things.” area very soon”. Collegian shows CSU kept many of the chief’s Yarbrough, including what he thought to be new cruisers and rifl es (campus police in most Once using phrases like “reign of terror” Gabriele O’Connor questionable dealings quiet for years. sexual harassment and possible admission of universities across the United States carry and “juvenile” to describe the CSUPD work Despite a consistent fl ow of complaints of criminal culpability. fi rearms), but said they weren’t surprised by environment, that offi cer now says, “The harassment, fraud and threatening behavior “He constantly said things that were Yarbrough’s in-class comments. wicked witch is dead.” UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM, GERMANY to the school’s Offi ce of Equal Opportunity illegal,” Gropp said. “… I was fl abbergasted. “He says things in that class that ex-cons University offi cials say CBI’s involvement and Diversity (OEOD) and to former CSU He just completely dissolved and undermined don’t even write about,” said one offi cer who in the investigation refl ects a desire to have an LOVEOLOGY NOW A DEGREE President Larry Penley, Yarbrough was the credibility of every offi cer at CSU.” spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid objective look into the personnel complaints, promoted last year to vice president of public The lecture that inspired him to gather potential backlash from Yarbrough and CSU. but the offi cer also said the school requested THE UNIVERSITY of Potsdam in Berlin has sought safety in addition to being chief of police. recordings, Gropp said, was one in which he “Yarbrough made us look bad. The reason the bureau’s assistance when it was clear that to fi ll an educational gap and have introduced a He was handsomely rewarded with a says Yarbrough told the class “women want no one came forward was Yarbrough would the “possibility of criminal culpability was fl irting course onto its curriculum. The two week $156,000-a-year salary, easily making him the dick, even when they say ‘no.’ They want punish you -- visibly.” there.” course, which already has close to 440 students the highest paid law enforcement offi cer in the dick.” Since his arrival in September 2003, The investigation committee, which signed up, is open only to those in the University’s the state. “In my book he just kind of condoned Yarbrough quickly established a culture of includes OEOD Director Dana Hiatt, masters degree course in Engineering, as part of Both the university and sources close to rape,” Gropp said. “I was just fl oored … that oppression, fear and intimidation within his delivered an offi cial copy of complaints to its social skills section. In the course students will the investigation confi rmed that the inquiry was when I decided to start recording things ranks and drove out anyone who challenged Yarbrough Monday, offi cers questioned by learn how to seduce via text messages, emails stemmed from “fresh” complaints from and fi le a complaint.” him, sources said. the committee said. and how to network at parties. Students will also within CSUPD. Gropp brought his collection of recorded In addition to the fi ve or so complaints to Interim President Tony Frank, who be groomed on walking, body language, public Audio recordings of his class lecture turned lectures along with complaints from other the university, Yarbrough routinely exercised suspended Yarbrough after only a short time speaking and presentation skills. Professors at the into OEOD and Penley last year demonstrate students in the class to OEOD, but no public autonomous and discomforting rule of at the CSU helm, has promised a speedy University claim that the course will aid its students what many allege and describe as the chief’s action was taken against Yarbrough. the fl ow of information to the media and investigation but declined further comment, to succeed in their private lives. Satisfaction and rogue and potentially illegal police tactics. The university, Gropp said, gave him “the commandeered CSUPD facilities. citing an ongoing personnel investigation. success with your career is important, they say, but In one classroom lecture in spring 2008, run around,” and he stopped attending class By the time of his suspension, the chief Yarbrough did not return calls and e-mails must be accompanied by personal satisfaction, Yarbrough advised his students -- including after Yarbrough was informed of the inquiry, utilized three separate offi ces, two of which from the Collegian over three weeks time. and this course will equip them with the tools to do this. For American students who seek assistance in the department of Love, they can enroll in a course in Loveology University, a US-based online degree program. The aptly named university Students want $6.5 billion bailout provides online courses in love coaching. They offer a wide range of options such as one long term course to become a certifi ed “loveologist”. Caitriona Murphy Concern has now arisen over the effects of In order to make up for the lack of funding, The online university was founded by Dr. Ava Deputy Editor, International News debt on the career and life choices for students. Universities are being forced to hike up fees Cadell, an American doctor with a wide portfolio Due to the inability to pay off loans, many and students suffer the consequences. of qualifi cations. The creation of the university was AS IRISH students prepare for the next students are having to resort to dropping out, Students have reacted angrily to the her dream come true and she strives to promote protest against college fees in February, our changing courses or career paths and facing release of the new fi gures with a series of the benefi ts of healthy love and intimacy around Canadian counterparts are currently sinking huge amounts of pressure to get jobs after protests and campaigns springing up across the world. under extreme student debt. The Canadian they leave college. Many students take a year the country. Many student unions have The University claims in its mission statement Federations of Students (CFS) this week out after high school to work and raise money organized soup kitchens as a symbol of the that ‘we are proud to offer students the released new fi gures which showed that before heading to college. However, for those poverty students face from heavy debts. One opportunity to advance in the fi eld of sexual student debt now stands at a massive $13 seeking work during summer months or solution being proposed by the students is a health, personal development and love billion. This fi gure only refl ects loans which during the college year, competition is fi erce government bailout - turning half of student coaching to gain the skills essential for creating are owed to the Canadian government and and places limited. The worst effect of the loans into grants. Kaley Kennedy, the Ottawa healthy and fulfi lling love lives’. The website, does not include personal loans such as credit huge loans required to attend college is that representative of the CFS said that students loveologyuniversity.com, proudly touts its courses’ cards, which amount to another $5 billion. Universities have seen a lower enrolment rate are waiting for the government to reduce content: “Better Sex Tips, Tantra Sex, Love Coach, The CFS also announced that this debt grows over the last few years - young people are now their debts -"It seems like there's been a lot of Love Coaching”. In a promotional video on the by 1.2 million every day. choosing not to attend college. Katherine industry bailout, but students are still waiting website, Dr. Cadell explains the courses offered, These shocking revelations highlight Giroux-Bougard, national chairperson of the to see what's going to happen to their student saying, “We’re going to have the best fi eld trips... University students’ struggle to balance CFS emphasised the diffi culties that the debt debt." school was never like this.” work and college life whilst facing extreme places on students - "Saddling a generation The CFS has already written to the The cost of becoming a love guru? A mere debt. The average student in Canada leaves of students with billions in debt will have far government proposing several ways of $1999.95, for the longer courses. Multiple short college with a bill of $50,000 and a mere six reaching implications for Canada's economy alleviating debts. These include measures term courses are available free of charge and can month grace period before interest kicks in. and socioeconomic inequality." such as increasing student graduate funding, be done at a student’s own leisure. The majority of students can then only watch The CFS has blamed the cut-backs in giving greater fi nancial support to Aboriginal Claire Acton as the debt grows and they struggle to pay it funding and education grants over the last students and a boost in summer placement The CFS protest. Photo: Joey Coleman back. 25 years for the increase in University fees. funding. TRINITY NEWS 8 NEWS FEATURES January 27, 2009 Surviving library etiquette Offi cial library protocol is something which every student should observe, whether you’re a freshman or a sophister. Olivia May Russell gives us her tips on day-to-day sur- vival in this concrete book jungle

NYONE CAN walk into If you decided to take the more diffi cult the Trinity College route and enter through the Berkeley, Library. Well, actually God speed. If, heaven forbid, you’ve almost anyone, given the misplaced your card, you may have to sophisticated ‘glance’ plan your arrival accordingly to make Ascreening in the Lecky. But it takes a it within the 60 second window that true Trinity student to survive once the reception desk is open to dispense they’ve made it inside. As not every reading passes (only on Tuesdays and student knows the ins and outs of Thursdays of course.) But, if you have the library, it might be helpful to your card, you’re halfway there. Saunter offer a bit of a survival guide for this up to those discreet metal detectors and concrete jungle. Here are a few tips slide the ol’ card through. that they don’t tell you on that pseudo- If you make it past this obstacle on mandatory, painfully obvious Library the fi rst try, you should be proud. You induction course you slept through in are one of few. If not, general protocol fi rst year. First of all, before you even is to stand there looking stupid and Photo: Anna Laine think of sliding your card through the frantically fl ipping your card back and scanner in the Berkeley, you will need forth as a line forms behind you. If you’re comfortable, and with a view of the to be caught in close quarters with, it to never use your mobile in the library. to arm yourself. Your artillery-- 2 euro lucky, someone will step up and give you Pav so you’ll know exactly what you’re is better to leg it up the stairs. A lot of I don’t care how quiet you are being, or coins. When it comes to the TCD library a very brief and condescending tutorial missing. awkwardness can fi t in the long trip to that you have politely relocated to the 2 euro coins are the currency and can on how to read those hieroglyphics But if the Usher sounds like your the fourth fl oor. back stairwell to talk to your mother, you get you all sorts of important things like on the card scanner. You’ll be on your cup of tea, a warning is in order. While After administering CPR to yourself will be found. It may take fi ve minutes, photocopies, and printing. But before way after a few more tries. Now that the library in general is a magnet for at the top of the stairs, and you’re certain or it may take twenty, but it will happen. you go thinking you’ll just ask the kind you’ve made it into the fortress, you anyone you’d rather not run into, the you’re no longer sweating, pick a seat. The Library Cop has also been trained looking receptionist, think again. The will need to choose your seat. This is foyer which connects the three branches Congratulate yourself; you’ve made it in this fi eld of tracking mobiles and is a staff is a brick wall when it comes to easy and straightforward, unless its is a veritable vortex for any and all through a lot. You can now comfortably lethal hunter. My own theory is that he offering change—You WILL NOT be exam season. During this time, along people you pray to avoid on a daily basis. sit and study. But if you happen to be can smell fear, but no one really knows This applies especially to anyone you one of those strange people who needs how he does it. Once he’s found you have been intimately connected with. water in order to live, your troubles are there won’t be time for salutations, so It is a universal law, more certain than far from over. You may have noticed an if you plan to defy this advice, warn the This presence was the Library Cop. Ruthless gravity, that you will see them in this ominous presence lurking in the foyer other party ahead of time. and expertly skilled, he has been trained to fi nd, foyer. It will be awkward, and you will as you passed, squeaking and stuttering. Now that you’ve turned your phone curse the day you decided to actually But if you were too busy panicking, I’ll off and pounded your water, it’s time capture and kill all water bottles. Even if he you start doing the reading for your classes. enlighten you. This presence was the for some study. Only now you’ve been Common decency stipulates that you Library Cop. Ruthless and expertly through so much it seems like you think you’re being discreet, he will fi nd you acknowledge their presence, but, a chat skilled, he has been trained to fi nd, deserve a bit of a nap. The desks are is not necessarily required. A tried and capture, and kill all water bottles. If you spacious and with strategically stacked the exception. I don’t care if it’s your with the infamous and bank-breaking tested method I suggest is a stuttered are unfortunately unaware and have paperbacks acting as a pillow, your desk birthday or your last day on earth, those ‘super-fi nes’, comes the treacherous walk (as if you were thinking of stopping left your water bottle perched on your can be quite a comfy place to rest. But, if people are unwavering towers of resolve. competition for work space. Get there for a chat) shifty eyes, a nervous laugh, desk, beware. Even if you think you’re you are snorer, another warning is due. So, before you decide to carelessly stroll early and stake your claim. Mere library and cap it all off with a squeak of a hello. being discreet, he will fi nd you. The If you think you wouldn’t be able to live into the library unarmed, make sure you books won’t save your space so make Smooth. Usually does the trick. You can kiss of death takes the form of a stern down being awoken by your own sleep are worth your weight in this precious sure to leave a personal item. The more bet neither of you will be setting foot in look, a double tap on your desk and a purr, face down in a puddle of your own little coinage. personal the better, nondescript items that foyer for at least a week. menacing whisper of ‘no water’—it’s drool, then I would suggest you forego Now that you are prepared, you can often are relocated, and spaces usurped Once you’ve made it through this enough to send a shiver up my spine this indulgence. make your way into the belly of the beast. in this merciless game of musical foyer, you will be at the Usher lift. But, just writing about it. Of course, it could Now that you’ve gotten some study If you are entering through the Lecky, chairs. If it is not exam season however, the peril persists, so be vigilant. Besides be much worse; he is an innately kind under your belt, it’s time to get out of congratulations, you’ve picked the easy I suggest a cubicle in the Lecky. They the usually awkward silence that creature, despite his extensive training, there. Exit through the closest exit. As access point. Flash your card, look are quite cozy. Although, these are quite accompanies waiting for and standing so usually dispenses only warnings and you are leaving, make sure you have not sheepish, and stroll in like a celebrity. coveted spots and, like any prime real in the lift, this benign-looking, but not disciplinary measures. But these inadvertently stolen a book – this is hard Don’t be surprised if the guard doesn’t estate, won’t be there for long. If you’re incredibly convenient contraption can can be highly embarrassing, so be to live down- and don’t look back. I have look up or even acknowledge your not really into being forced to eavesdrop turn out to be quite the death-trap. Do a preemptive and keep your water bottle warned you of only some of the library presence. They have x-ray vision and can on other peoples’ conversations, quick scan and if you see anyone within on the ground. hazards, so when you return, remember see through that book they’re reading. then I’d suggest the Usher. It is quiet, several meters of it that you don’t want To avoid another pitfall, I advise you to stay alert. Around the world in third level fees

for the most part, undeniably excellent Amid the discussions around re-introducing THE COST OF LEARNING facilities. Australian universities have adopted fees to Ireland, Deirdre Lennon casts an eye PREDICTABLY ENOUGH, the a fair method of offering student loans, universities with the most costly to work in conjunction with the fees they on other countries’ third-level fee structures tuition fees are in the US. must pay. This was introduced in 1989 by The top ten are: the Department of Education, Science ACH COUNTRY who has had subsidized 3rd level education, besides 1. Sarah Lawrence College and Training to relieve some of the tuition fees established by their our registration fee. The argument $53,166 debt that students must pay on leaving respective governments for from the pro-fees side has remained 2. George Washington University college, a system adopted by the UK as Esometime have had recurring the same: we need to maintain our high $50,312 well. They have the option to pay about issues with deciding the amounts international standard as university 3. New York University $50,182 25% of their tuition fees - a sum entitled students pay on an annual basis. How funding dwindles. Students, on the 4. Georgetown University a contribution - with the government different will it be for Irish students, and other hand, will be facing, like our $49,689 supplementing this. Australian students how much might we have to pay if they UK counterparts to cite one example, 5. Connecticut College $49,385 then apply for loans, under the Higher are introduced? the possibility of a debt upon leaving 6. Bates College $49,350 Education Loan Programme to help The current ongoing furore over college. 7. Johns Hopkins University them with payments. But if they are able Although numerous European $49,278 to pay this contribution up front, they countries have free fee systems in place, 8. Skidmore College $49,266 automatically qualify for a 20% discount “Students could pay Sweden emerges as one country that 9. Scripps College $49,236 on it. Repayment is postponed until the is like our own. Sweden is similar to 10. Middlebury College $49,210 graduate is earning above a certain between $5,000 and Ireland in the way that their fees are wage, which set by the government. subsidized by their government, but Student loans should play an integral $30,000. The argument signifi cantly enough, this has applied Naturally, there have been protests part if fees are reintroduced, and the from those who are to fees for foreign students as well. This by students there to express their Australian model, as one of many like system has led to a considerable increase Scenes at last year’s fees protest. Photo: Cian Clarke dissatisfaction with this motion, which this, should be something that the Irish in favour of fees is in the amount of students from abroad was passed by the Stormont government government consider. that these universities studying there - almost 13,000. There 2004, and universities there have been are reintroduced - will face increases by one vote. Fears that a multi-tier The government has been stalling have been recent proposals to abolish facing the notion of “top-up” fees in like these, or are we depending on a system will be established through this on discussing the issue in general in have, for the most part, the free fees for foreign students, and the last few years. Wales and Scotland long term programme by the Irish Bill, where students will gain entry on the Oireachtas. As recently as last implement fees from January 2010 operate under different schemes and in government to ensure that fees will not their ability to pay rather than learn. Tuesday, Batt O’ Keefe stated that he undeniably excellent to make Swedish universities more accordance with their own Assemblies. be subject to this educational unrest Competition between colleges in may introduce proposals to government facilities” competitive. The Swedish government For example, Welsh students are faced every couple of years? the US, whose students are forced to in April on the issue of fees, and how offers the possibility that there will be with fees of £3,000, but many end The situation is similar in Northern pay massive fees per annum, and the committed the government will be the reintroduction of fees to Irish scholarship schemes and increased up paying £1,200 rather than the full Ireland, where fi gures show that the students of the colleges of Europe has to funding if students have to pay. universities begs the question: how have grants in place instead. amount, due to government subsidies. top up fees will rise to £3,225 from been going on for some time. While Meanwhile, the drums of student protest other European countries and indeed, Our nearest neighbour, England, Students in Scottish universities £3,145 per annum, in line with infl ation, students could pay between $5,000 and sound on next month for another day, the colleges of the US, fared under the has had fees in place since 2004, and never had to pay up-front tuition from September 2009. Fees were $30,000 depending on the university February 4th, of demonstrating against fees scheme? Since the abolition of fees payment to university before that was fees, and ministers there expressed reintroduced there 3 years ago, and and the course, the argument that reintroduction of fees. It remains to for Irish universities by the rainbow means tested. Increased tuition fees of their disagreement with top-up fees. universities are funded by the English emerges from those who are in favour be seen if it will have any effect on this coalition in 1995, we have had state £3,000 have been in operation since Is it probable that we in turn - if fees higher education funding council. of fees is that these universities have, present fracas. TRINITY NEWS January 27, 2009 FEATURES 9

Photo: Quade Paradise Hermann corrupted and lost? The Mexican drug war is far from won, though many fear it is over. Felix Patterson de- scribes his time along the US-Mexican border, and why the future has never been bleaker.

here do you reckon that for excursions into the Barranca del paradise is at? said Cobre, the Copper Canyon. Deep gorges Rawlins. of an almost unbelievable scale and John Grady nodded. magnitude were within driving reach of Thats what I’m here for. the town. Upon our arrival, however, we WThey rode down through the cooling were immediately touched by the drug blue shadowland of the north slope. wars; outside our hostel, the main square Evergreen ash growing in the rocky was decked in homemade banners draws. Persimmon, mountain gum. A proclaiming ‘¿Donde justicia?’, ‘Where’s hawk set forth below them and circled in justice?’ We asked the hostel owners the deepening haze and dropped. what this concerned. Six days before Cormac McCarthy’s descriptions of we had arrived, footsoldiers from one northern Mexico and the Sierra Madre of the drug cartels in Chihuahua State in All the Pretty Horses romanticised had pointed a machine-gun through an area of the world that remains the door of a private party and opened relatively untouched. The modern fi re. 13 people were killed including a reality in the same region is sadly thirteen year old boy and a nine month different; now druglords, or narcos, old baby. This was, apparently, to ‘teach roam much of Mexico’s northern states the town a lesson.’ exercising dominance through brutal In Bandit Roads: into the lawless and intimidating tactics. The future has heart of Mexico, Richard Grant travelled perhaps never been bleaker for those through the Sierra Madre to try and living along the US-Mexico border. explore the nature of the northern The rugged beauty of the landscape Mexican character. His travels took in states such as Chihuahua and Sonora him inevitably into the Copper Canyon. has attracted a successful tourism What we didn’t realise when organising industry through the construction of the our Mexican route was that we would be Copper Canyon Railway but despite this, travelling through what Grant describes northern Mexico retains an intimidating as ‘one of the biggest marijuana and opium-producing regions in the world, US into Mexico every day; the popular gangland-style violence has left no be nervous about Barack Obama, who with roving bandits and a murder rate tourist destination of Tijuana has been corner of Ciudad Juarez untouched. has never been south of the Rio Grande, far higher than the worst American the scene of about 500 executions since The city’s inhabitants wake up daily to as he may prove more reluctant to They had, typically, been ghetto.’ Fortunately, ignorance is bliss late September, over fi ve a day. fi nd victims killed in a baroque fashion; throw cash south. The economic crisis, decapitated along with six other and we never encountered this side of Terrifying stories of decapitation bodies are hung headless from bridges, combined with Obama’s hesitancy about Mexico face to face. But after reading and torture have begun to emanate stuffed upside down in giant stew pots, the effi cacy of the war on drugs, means men, whose corpses left no doubt Grant’s book, it was impossible not to from police sources and witnesses. lined up next to a school’s playing that the assistance may trickle in more be struck by the human consequences In Tijuana, one of the most notorious fi eld. Often, they are accompanied by slowly, over six years, instead of the who was responsible: their bodies, of the drug wars, if only because of a but least identifi able villains in the taunting, handwritten messages. One three years originally planned, sources placed headless shoulders to toe, fl eeting visit to the same towns as him. drug wars is Teodoro Garcia Simental, American was found with ‘Hecho en close to the program recently said. His descriptions when running from the a man behind a spate of gruesome Mexico,’ ‘Made in Mexico,’ scrawled This is not to say that Obama will had been arranged to spell out ‘3 L’, narcos are worth a mention: displays of charred and decapitated onto his right shoulder last year. merely issue morally indignant noises Tres Letras. These mountains have already taught bodies, signed with the moniker ‘Tres Along the northern border of Mexico from Washington, in contrast to the head me more than I ever wanted to know Letras’, for the three letters in ‘Teo’. such stories could be replicated too of the Catholic Church. Recently, despite and timeless quality. Last summer, I and about fear. I stand up and peek over the For those kidnapping victims who he many times to describe. Suffi cient to the ongoing deaths along the border, four friends fl ew to Chihuahua City boulder. The lights are still strafi ng the would rather not use as a message, say that the war has escalated since the drug war attracted international and took this same railway all the way darkness. They’re still out there. How can they are dissolved in barrels of caustic the declaration of war by President (over 700 miles) to the coast at Los they be so drunk and yet so persistent? acid, making identifi cation harder. Calderon just over two years ago. Mochis. In our one night in Chihuahua Ah yes, the cocaine. Instead of snorting One police offi cer openly admitted, Calderon emphasised spending on law we experienced much of what Mexico’s it like gentlemen, they poured out little ‘We’re scared. There’s no way US cops enforcement and promised to defeat The economic crisis, combined with northern arena has to offer. A dusty and white mounds of it on the palms of their would work under these conditions.’ In the drug cartels in pitched battle. So far, seemingly quiet city, we were all struck hands, threw it down their throats and October, hundreds of Mexican soldiers despite eager and expensive support Obama’s hesitancy about the effi cacy by a lurking, malevolent atmosphere; chased it back with more beer. attacked the neighbourhoods believed from the Bush administration the death everyone stared at us, the gringos. ‘You say you’re alone and unarmed,’ to be under the control of Garcia. For 24 rate has only risen and the cartels remain of the war on drugs, means that the During the night, spent in a grimy said the short fat one. ‘Aren’t you afraid hours, the killings stopped. Then, more as powerful as ever. Alejandro I arritu, assistance may trickle in more slowly, hostel with no running water, we were someone will kill you?’ than 40 people were slain over three director of 21 Grams and Amores Perros, woken to the sound of two prostitutes ‘Why would anyone want to kill me?’ days. Three of these were police offi cers. declared that ‘the war is lost.’ over six years, instead of the three ‘working’ down the corridor from us. The tall one smiled and said, ‘To They had, typically, been decapitated Obviously, Mexico’s relationship with years originally planned. The following morning, little please the trigger fi nger.’ along with six other men, whose corpses the US is of key importance and with the changed. In the gloom, whilst we waited The Mexican drug war seems to be left no doubt who was responsible: their advent of a new American government outside the train station, a huge 4×4 one of endless numbers: over 7,000 bodies, placed headless shoulders to the future is uncertain. Bush staunchly recognition when the Vatican’s second- drove past distressingly slowly twice. drug-war-related deaths since January toe, had been arranged to spell out ‘3 L’, backed Calderon’s offensive and pushed ranking offi cial, Cardinal Tarcisio But just as we felt that we were about 2007, shortly after the Mexican Tres Letras. for a passage of a $1.4 billion package Bertone, called for a ‘harsh deterrent’ to become mere statistics in Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon declared The epicentre of the violence, Ciudad of security aid, known as the Merida to the drug violence. The Vatican had crime wave, we were saved by someone war on drug traffi ckers, more than US Juarez, holds particular signifi cance for Initiative, to give Mexico aircraft, high- decided that excommunication from selling burritos. fatalities in the Iraq War; more than both sides. A quarter of all drug-related tech scanning gear, safety equipment the Catholic Church would succeed Our fi rst stop on the railway was 1350 murders in the border city of killings in Mexico were committed in this and training to combat the drug cartels. where armed soldiers and a US-funded in the small mountain town of Creel. Ciudad Juarez alone in 2008 whilst 60 sprawling border city last year largely Recently, the fi rst $400 million was narcotics squad had failed. Narco- Accurately described by Lonely Planet police offi cers were killed in the same because the Juarez cartel is battling approved by Congress and has been cultura, drug culture, uses a blend of as ‘picturesque’, with about 3,000 city last year; it is estimated that 2,000 with a number of rival traffi ckers for promised to the Mexican government. Catholic observance, superstition and inhabitants, Creel was to be our base fi rearms are being smuggled from the control over the path into the US. The Calderon’s administration is known to their own iconography; many involved in the cartels revere the so-called saint of the narco-traffi ckers, a Robin Hood- type character named Jesus Malverde. Despite this, the ‘harsh deterrent’ has so far been ignored. Instead, Obama is likely to follow the advice of a recent report from Washington that declared that the war on drugs had failed and would continue to do so as long as it emphasised law enforcement and neglected the problem of consumption. The Mexican drug war faces an uncertain future. For two years offi cials and journalists have assured themselves that things could not get worse. But as the drug-related murder rate in the northern states steadily increases and the new US government drags its feet over funding its neighbour’s internal war, Mexico faces the prospect of unending nightmare. The drug cartels continue to exert and spread their infl uence; Richard Grant’s lasting impression was of an ingrained, incurable violence, far- removed from the cooling infl uences of modern civilisation: I never wanted to set foot in the Sierra Madre again. The mean, drunken hillbillies who lived up there could all feud themselves into extinction and burn in hell. I was out of courage, out of Northern patience, out of compassion. They were Mexico. Photo sons of whoring mothers, who had been by Wolfgang fornicating with dogs. Staudt TRINITY NEWS 10 FEATURES January 27, 2009 ACADEMIC MEDICATION Remember the law when Ritalin: answer to success? going out

of stimulant abuse to the use of steroids clubbing... The use of prescription drugs for improved by professional athletes; analeptics are performance enhancers which facilitate brain power is increasing but nowhere as rap- the types of activity needed by a high- achiever. By Molly Joyce idly as in the US writes Caitlin Dolan Leach Drug abuse used to be linked to Free Legal Advice Centre recreation and general student laziness N ALARMING trend in 2005 estimated that prescription drug and lack of motivation; now drug use WE ALL know that feeling, that unique rage you the United States has abuse had tripled among its students has been transformed into feel when you’ve been queuing for half an hour increasingly occupied in the past decade, and other college a way of increasing study outside a nightclub – tired, impatient, freezing, the parents in recent years; campuses have conducted similar time, boosting scores and going-out buzz dying fast and, for the girls, your a large proportion of surveys with similarly worrisome focusing the attention. feet cramping from standing in ridiculously high AAmerican children are being treated results. While the heels – only to be turned away at the door when for Attention Defi cit Hyperactivity What was once a café-culture, a c a d e m i c you fi nally reach the entrance. Refused either Disorder (ADHD) with the prescription promoting the use of caffeine as the chic effect of for being too drunk, because the club is actually drug Ritalin. It is approximated that at way to battle exam time stress and fatigue a n a l e p t i c over-21s or perhaps for no real reason at all, it can least one child in every classroom, or fi ve now encourages the use of prescription use may be seem sometimes patently unfair that bouncers can percent of the population (NY Times) is drugs like Ritalin and Adderall. Where noticeable by lord over us in this way, ruining our night out and being treated with Ritalin, which is an once sipping a double macchiato in the its users, the leaving us to trek miserably around town searching amphetamine. student café was the most eloquent other physiological for somewhere else to have some fun. Critics have argued that child expression of the extreme stress one and psychological effects But what are bouncers and nightclubs actually psychiatrists and school counsellors felt, now the American student hands of the drug have not been fi rmly permitted by law to do? Are our rights being prescribe the drug without a thorough over a fi ver for the little ten milligram established; similar to cocaine and infringed by their blatant power trips? Read ahead evaluation, and that the drug culture orange pill, acquired by other students speed, analeptic abuse may cause g r o w, for a few pointers on the law relating to nightclub of America, in which everyone takes who have mastered the art of conning heart-disease and frequently results in it is highly entry etc. Although not exactly what you might like medication for a quick-fi x without college psychiatrists. increased anxiety, insomnia and rarely likely that more to hear, it hopefully will someday prove useful in addressing the underlying problems, It is de rigueur to manipulate the in types of psychosis in patients with no students with less-than-perfect arguing your way successfully into a club … or at is being extended to younger and system in order to obtain a prescription previous psychiatric history. attention spans will seek pharmaceutical least pissing off the bouncer while doing so. younger Americans. With 90% of for the drug, for one’s own use or to In 2005 the FDA issued a Public remedies. Ritalin prescriptions originating from sell to other desperate academics. Health Advisory on Adderall and now While many universities implement » Can clubs/shops/pubs refuse to sell you al- the US, the drug appears indicative of One student at a university in Ohio requires physicians to fully explain the awareness campaigns that inform cohol, or allow you entry onto their premises particularly American epidemic of over- admits that he talked his mother, who potential health risks associated with students of the risks of amphetamine where alcohol is sold, if you’re over 18? medication. is a physician, into over-prescribing normal use of the drug. use, the trend remains unchecked; in As these younger children grow-up, him medication for ADHD, explaining These fi ndings beg the question a culture that increasingly relies on Yes. Under s 25 of the Intoxicating Liquor Act 2003, the dependency on prescription drugs that it helps him to read much faster of whether this type of drug use will prescription medication to resolve which amends s 15 of the Equal Status Act 2000, remains a feature of their academic life. and for much longer; he says he nearly become typical of the American college its psychological angst, it is unclear they are allowed to do so as long as American universities have witnessed doubles the speed of his reading and can experience or whether Ritalin and whether physicians and psychiatrists an increase in black market sales of stay awake for hours fi nishing a paper, Adderall will be included in the War on will move away from this type of • they publicly display this policy of non-sale of analeptics, the class of prescription especially helpful skills as the end of Drugs; as pressure to succeed in high-level “solution” or whether drugs like Ritalin alcohol to those over 18 (e.g. ‘Over-21s only’) in amphetamine to which Ritalin belongs. term nears. institutions mounts and the emphasis will become the uniform answer to a conspicuous place either inside or outside the A study done by Columbia University in There are claims that liken this type on test scores and grades continues to collegiate success. premises, and • they do so in a non-discriminatory manner (e.g. everyone under-21 is refused, not just men under-21)

If these two criteria are fulfi lled, a policy preventing the sale or consumption of alcohol Drugs not without ill effects to people over-18 will not be considered age discrimination. positively acknowledged by universities we dangerously high blood pressure, blurred A scientist has proposed that universities allow the will all start taking pills before every essay vision, slow reactions, anxiety, seizure, deadline, exam, presentation and lecture. depression, vomiting, sweating, numbness, » Can clubs refuse you entry because they don’t use of brain enhancing drugs. Emily Monk warns Surely there are signifi cant issues of to name just a few… Though some of these like the look of you? equality as well; the drugs, already quite adverse effects may not be evident in the short of the effects and potentially dire consequences. expensive (less than a euro for 5mg, but the term, there is not yet enough information While clubs aren’t entitled to refuse you entry on average dosage when prescribed for medical about the long-term consequences this basis as such, under s 15 of the Equal Status A FEW weeks ago, a leading scientist (ADD), Attention Defi cit and Hyperactivity reasons is 30 mg a day and it is not uncommon or indeed how severe they may be. Act 2000 clubs will not be guilty of discrimination suggested that students should be allowed to Disorder (ADHD) and Narcolepsy. for people to take 60 mg a day, especially if Pills for slimming, pills for happiness, if they refuse to serve or allow on their premises take brain-enhancing drugs such as Ritalin, Professor Harris, who published his it’s a last ditch attempt to do an all-nighter), pills for concentration. America sneezes a customer in circumstances where they can Provigil and Adderall to boost their academic controversial views in Nature journal the drugs would only become more costly and the world doesn’t just catch a reasonably believe on the basis of their knowledge performance. in December, claims that “If they if demand were to increase as a result of cold, it catches a pill-sized “cure”. and experience that to do so would create a John Harris, professor of bioethics have advantageous effects in terms of legalisation, hardly short of promotion. Don’t misunderstand me, I think Ritalin/ substantial risk of criminal or disorderly conduct or and director of the Institute for Science cognitive enhancement, it would make It seems those who could not Adderall type drugs are fantastic; I’m all damage to property at or near the premises. Ethics and Innovation at the University sense to try to maximise their benefi ts.” afford the stimulants, or chose not for using the benefi ts of science to ease of Manchester, said that the government Really? If these performance-enhancing to take them for other reasons would proper medical disorders. But encouraging and medical profession should “seriously drugs are banned in sport, why should they be at a considerable disadvantage. medically-sound students to take pills to » Can clubs refuse you entry because they say consider” making cognition-enhancing drugs be allowed or even encouraged in academia? In addition, and seemingly like most “enhance brain power” seems ridiculous. you’re too drunk? available to students without prescription. Whilst the drugs are only available on things, there are numerous worrying side Their use will evolve from one of The stimulants are currently only available prescription, they continue to be diffi cult effects: dependence, violence, insomnia, medical necessity to everyday dependence. Under s 4 of the Intoxicating Liquor Act 2003 a on prescription and are only supplied to to get hold of and are used (one hopes) uneven heart rate, dizziness, fever, sore What is wrong with a bit of exercise, a club owner is guilty of an offence if he supplies people with Attention Defi cit Disorder with caution and in moderation. If they are throat, skin rash, aggression, hallucinations, party with friends and a good nights sleep? alcohol to a drunken person, or allows a drunken person to continue drinking. He is still guilty of an offence if he admits a drunken person to his bar, or THE TRINITY NEWS IAIN MULLINS allows drunkenness to take place in JUNIOR FRESHMAN DRAMA the bar-so yes, if they reasonably AND THEATRE STUDIES believe you to be too drunk, they can refuse you entry quite RITALIN SURVEY Yes1. legitimately. Also, clubs will be guilty of an offence if they allow 1. Have you ever heard of a prescription drug called ritalin? 2. No, I wouldn’t use it any disorderly conduct on their premises-for this reason, 2. Would you take this sort of stimulant if it were available over-the-counter? 3. I do, and they say it does work they will also probably refuse entry of people 3. Do you know anyone who has taken them and say they work? No4. they believe to be drunk or disorderly. 4. Do you think it should be available to everyone?

» Can you be removed from a club for being drunk?

CONOR CAMPBELL MARK WALSH Yes. If drunk, under s 6 of JUNIOR FRESHMAN BESS JUNIOR FRESHMAN BESS the Intoxicating Liquor Act 2003 you must N o1. No1. No1. leave the premises if requested to do so by 2. As much as I’d like to say no, I still 2. Yes, probably would under ex- the licensee (or his probably would under extreme treme circumstances agents). It also says circumstances, when Red Bull isn’t in this section, that enough No3. a drunken person shall not seek entry N o3. No3. No4. to the bar of a licensed premises. N o4. No4. Furthermore, if you engage in disorderly conduct on licensed premises, you must leave if requested THERESE MORELY RADIE to do so and JUNIOR FRESHMAN EUROPEAN JUNIOR SOPHISTER IRISH AND cannot re-enter the STUDIES ITALIAN bar within 24 hours after such conduct. 1. Not about Ritalin in particular, but No1. If you contravene of similar drugs any of these No2. No2. requirements, you 2. Probably not will be guilty of an No3. No3. offence. 3. Wouldn’t be surprised, but I don’t know 4. It should be kept under prescrip- This is the tion second in a series 4. There is probably a good reason of columns why it’s not, so no provided by the Free Legal Advice Centre. TRINITY NEWS January 27, 2009 WORLD REVIEW 11

COLD FRONT SWEEPS EUROPE SEAN DOYLE

GAS HAS BEGUN TO FLOW BACK INTO EUROPE, AS RUSSIA AND UKRAINE FINALLY COME TO AN AGREEMENT OVER TRANSIT COSTS. HERE’S A QUICK LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED WHILE THE TEMPERATURES DROPPED AND TEMPERS ROSE.

BRATISLAVA, SLOVAKIA CALLS TO RESTART NUCLEAR REACTOR

Fearing a nationwide blackout, Parliament gave the green light to restart a nuclear reactor which has been dormant since the country joined the EU. The Soviet-era power plant was shut down as a condition for entry to the Union. Slovakia was the fi rst country to have its gas delivery from Ukraine resumed and the nuclear option was put on hold – for now.

SOFIA, BULGARIA WORST RIOTS IN 10 YEARS RIOTS ERUPTED on January 14, amid rising political and social tension over continued energy shortages, government corruption, and the economic recession. Canadian politics gets a Bulgaria is 100% reliant on Russia for its gas; the current dispute resulted in home-heating cuts in major cities as well as school and small-business closures.

CHISINAU, MOLDOVA charisma injection BREAD QUEUES RETURN RESIDENTS BEGAN stockpiling bread and other products as industrial production was affected Canada’s new Liberal leader is causing a stir in Ot- by the almost total lack of fuel for manufacturing. Thousands were left without heating or hot water towa. The charming newcomer is being compared for over a week, as Moldova’s regional central heating network ran out of gas. The Moscow- to President Obama and has put the current gov- backed breakaway province of Transnistria was especially hard hit, as electricity was cut off to ernment on the defensive, writes James Lee. businesses and homes.

EXY. RIVETING. Controversial. preparation for the possibility of a Liberal- Not exactly the words often used to led coalition government. The previous party RIGA, LATVIA describe Canadian politics. When leader, Stephane Dion, had already agreed to your only neighbouring country step down as leader after a disastrous defeat HISTORIC OLD is the United States, it’s easy to be in the election. Only a few days after the halt Sovershadowed. But every once in a while, of government operations, Michael Ignatieff, TOWN TORN something comes up that reminds the world became interim Leader of the Liberal Party. that “America Jr.” is actually its own country, Upon examination, Ignatieff doesn’t seem APART and every now and then has headlines worthy to fi t the profi le of a typical Canadian Prime of note. Minister. Firstly, he is far too cool. In recent ON JANUARY 13 shops in Until recently, Canadians themselves have years, Canadian leaders have cut their teeth the touristic ‘old-town’ of been simply uninterested and bored with their in Provincial politics and have been generally Riga, as well as to the national nation’s politics. Like the rest of the world, disengaged from global politics. None would Michael Ignatieff could be Canada’s next Prime Minister parliament building were they were transfi xed on the duel between be described as charismatic, and most kept damaged as a peaceful Barack Obama and John McCain for master their personal lives hidden away from the found him to be approachable, affable, even such a long absence from Canada, why protest against harsh conditions imposed by an of the universe. In fact, supporters of the public. In fact, the last Canadian politician describing his lectures as “mind-altering”. He enter domestic politics now? Indeed, almost IMF bailout turned violent. Cobblestones, bottles, Opposition parties in Canada’s government to generate such buzz internationally was connected with students in a way that many immediately after resigning from his and rocks were thrown by rioters while the police will tell you that Obama’s campaign was the late Pierre E. Trudeau, renowned for his professors, more comfortable behind a desk esteemed post at Harvard, Ignatieff arguably made use of tear-gas and batons. precisely why Prime Minister Stephen Harper charisma and often controversial behaviour than in front of it, found diffi cult to achieve. inherited an uncontested seat in Parliament called an election for October 14, 2008. This and political stances during his three decade With all the success of Michael Ignatieff, in a Liberal stronghold. Shortly thereafter, he VILNIUS, LITHUANIA actually broke Harper’s own fi xed election reign from 1968-84 (with a brief gap in 1980). you would think he would be a celebrity in his was declared a candidate for the leadership of date law, which was modeled to an election Trudeau was also an intellectual, a term not own country, a scholarly hero of sorts. But the Liberal Party. His run for party leadership time line similar to the American 4-year often associated with today’s politicians, for all of his achievements, nearly all of them in 2005 saw old ghosts come back to haunt PROTESTS Presidential terms. Apparently, the “Obama and reserved for only the most worldly and were as an expatriate living abroad. Which him, ultimately sinking his campaign but Effect” carried a wave of left-ism north of the considerably published. is why despite all of his renown among the launching him into the national political TURN 49th parallel. With Harper and soon-to-be Aside from the launch into politics from intellectual elite, he is relatively unknown to spotlight. Critics immediately attacked his former President Bush nearly tied together at academic backgrounds, and being alumni the public in his native Canada. previously mentioned controversial positions VIOLENT the waist in foreign and environmental policy, from Harvard, the rational comparisons For many Canadians, he is known only on global issues. Since that defeat, he has this did not bode well for the future plans of between Trudeau and Ignatieff are few. In fact, as “an egghead”, and his accomplishments sought to redefi ne himself, as a centrist A PEACEFUL protest Canada’s fi rst Conservative government since Michael Ignatieff has established himself a are often lost on both the young and the alternative to the left and right, making against the Lithuanian 1993. reputation all of his own, known worldwide for old. Which is just fi ne with Ignatieff, or himself a household name across Canada and government’s The recent national election drew a award-winning books, both fi ctional and non- “Iggy”, the moniker bestowed upon him by building stronger alliances within the Liberal economic belt- record-low voter turnout, but in the end, the fi ctional genres, and countless publications in the media. In recent campaign efforts, he Party in the meantime, making him the leading tightening turned Conservatives won a minority government. human rights literature and newspapers all has been attempting to promote himself candidate to succeed his predecessor. Rather to rioting in Vilnius Merely two months following the election around the world. He has written a television as a “regular Joe”, with all the trials and than being elected through traditional means on January 16. The majority of the 7,000 people and bitter politicking, the three left-leaning play, which aired on the BBC in 1989. In the tribulations of a citizen growing up as a by his party, the current crisis in parliament protesting in front of the Lithuanian parliament opposition parties smelled blood following a 90’s, Ignatieff even became a household 2nd generation Canadian. But with “Iggy’s” and the state of leadership for the Liberals dispersed quietly after the protest. This eventually signifi cant blunder by the Conservatives and personality in the UK, as a political pundit family background, that is something of a allowed him to be appointed as leader of led to their dispersal by riot police with tear gas went in for the kill with a motion for a vote of on the BBC’s The Late Show and a highly tough sell. the Liberal Party, who have dominated and the arrest of up to 150 people, 15 of whom no confi dence. This move would have certainly publicized personal life, providing a celebrity On his father’s side, his grandfather, throughout Canada’s history, putting him one were later charged. There is some evidence that toppled the freshly instilled Conservative status which allowed him to adorn the cover Count Paul Ignatieff, was the education step closer to achieving the ultimate goal as the disturbances were organised in advance, and government, replacing them with a coalition of GQ magazine. He taught briefl y at a myriad minister for the last Czar of Russia. His the Prime Minister of Canada. knives, steel bars, and a small number of Molotov led by the Liberal Party. Consequently, on of universities, including the London School grandmother was the Countess Natasha, His rise has been equally the result of cocktails were found on rioters. December 4th, Harper did what no other of Economics, Cambridge, and Oxford, a princess, nonetheless. After fl eeing the individual boldness, political savvy, and Prime Minister had done in Canada’s short amongst others before eventually settling Russian Revolution, they made their way to unfortunate circumstance. That has pundits REYKJAVIK, ICELAND 141-year history: he asked Mommy England down as the Director for the Carr Centre for Europe and eventually Canada. His father, drooling at the thought of a Canadian and to step in and save his government. Human Rights Policy at Harvard University. George, despite arriving as an immigrant, U.S. future led by a cerebral Ignatieff/ The Queen of England, Queen Elizabeth Immediately upon his return across the quickly moved his family off to New York, Obama partnership. President Obama has PUBLIC FURY AS ECONOMY II, is technically still the head of state of pond, Ignatieff made his impact felt just as where he worked for the Canadian Foreign just announced that his fi rst foreign visit will the Dominion of Canada, through her much with his students as the human rights Affairs, eventually becoming an Ambassador. be to Canada, in keeping with the tradition FREEFALLS representative, the Governor General. The scene. His students and his colleagues alike In fact, Ignatieff lived most of his childhood of former American presidents, stressing position is mostly symbolic, and it has been abroad, until returning to Toronto to attend the strategic importance of the partnership ON THE January 20 protestors demanding the a long time since England’s Royalty has had Upper Canada College, a boarding school between the two G8 nations. resignation of major government and fi nancial a serious say in Canadian politics, designed Ignatieff has achieved a catering to the children of Canada’s elite. If the government’s proposed budget does offi cials stormed the Icelandic parliament. only to intervene at times of national crisis. His lineage is just as notable on his mother’s not satisfy the Liberals when the parliament Unemployment has soared in the Nordic island But with the nation holding its collective celebrity status as a widely side, a family of reputable scholars, leaders reconvenes at the end of January, Ignatieff is nation from almost zero to 7.8 per cent. Shares in breath, Governor General Michaelle Jean did of academia. With a pedigree like that, it ready to lead a new coalition. It is diffi cult to Icelandic companies, once considered one of the what is very much a rarity in parliamentary published author with a is hard to imagine that in the few years he say exactly who will be welcoming the new shrewdest investments in the European market, politics: suspend Parliamentary operations colourful personal life, actually lived in Canada, a young Michael President, but one thing for sure is that the have now largely ceased trading. until January 26, 2009, to allow time to draft Ignatieff learned what blue-collar life as a 2nd new crown-prince of the Liberals will have a new economic plan. allowing his to adorn the generation Canadian is truly like. his hands full trying to rebuild the credibility With the Conservative government on its cover of GQ magazine As a result, critics have questioned and standing of a Liberal party that has seen heels, the Liberal Party decided it was due his motives and his quick rise to power, years of decline as a result of scandal and time for a makeover in their leadership, in considering his newcomer status. After internal divisions. TRINITY NEWS 12 WORLD REVIEW January 27, 2009 13

US PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION

It was an unmissable occasion, a memory that will last a lifetime, and a story that will go down in history...

Kate O’Regan in Washington DC

T WAS perhaps the most signifi cant inauguration of this millennium, and I was one of almost two million people standing on the National Mall watching the I44th president of the United States take his oath of offi ce. As I stood metres from the swearing- in ceremony, the excitement and anticipation was palpable. The crowds had gathered since early morning, my group and I had boarded our bus for the city at 4am. For weeks in advance city offi cials had issued warnings of the large crowds that were expected A Palestinian is killed by Israeli shell fi re at a UN-run school in Jabalya, Gaza Strip . Photo: Reuters/Ismail Zaydah and the necessary road closures. Their scare-tactics had worked, and the city remained largely void of traffi c, save New dawn for the almost two million pairs of feet making their way towards the expanse of the National Mall. take the highest offi ce in the land. Watching a video of Luther King Jnr’s Who is to answer SATURDAY JANUARY 17TH I was struck during my speech, it is diffi cult not to be moved WHEN I arrived in Washington DC, time in Washington by by the sheer conviction and hope in his inauguration fever was morphing into words, while also feeling repulsed at inauguration hysteria. The city’s Union the sheer magnitude the inequalities still present in America Station was bustling with crowds, a sea in 1963. Many people are still fi nding it of Obama t-shirts, scarves, badges and of people’s adoration diffi cult to believe that Martin Luther baseball caps. Large groups gathered at King Jnr’s aspirations are at last a reality. for the land for Gaza butchery? for the new president - various meeting points throughout the They are aware that without Luther King station, mostly tour groups of students Obama lifted the spirit Jnr’s landmark address to the American Amidst increasing demands that an Interna- propaganda war, he can have one of or marching bands in town for the of the nation people, it would be unlikely that Obama those too. inauguration parade. Three days before would be about to take the offi ce of The Geneva-based organization he was due to take his oath of offi ce, One’ concert. The future fi rst family had president. The signifi cance of Obama’s tional Criminal Tribunal for Israel be estab- claims to promote human rights, but Barack Obama and his family, joined front row seats at the Lincoln Memorial. African heritage must not be diminished, privileges Israeli rights over Palestinian by Vice-President elect Joe Biden and The enormous monument to one of but Luther King Jnr was correct in lished, Sinead Walsh asks whether or not the ones. It accuses countries such as China, his wife, had taken the historic train America’s best-loved presidents was a calling for a nation that judged people Russia, Sudan and Libya of attempting route from Philadelphia to Washington fi tting location for such an event. Obama on the basis of their character, not by the UN has the power to respond. to “scapegoat the Jewish people” but DC. ‘The Obama Express’ as it was has been explicit in his wish to follow the colour of their skin. President Obama is remains silent on Israeli defi ance of called made several stops along the lead of this American hero. Despite the a testament to the coming of age of a of the free AS THE Israeli war on Gaza entered with anti-Semitism but which has been UN resolutions. It accused former way, attracting large crowds at each bitter January temperatures, almost nation. His election will hopefully, in the its second week, Mairead Corrigan regrettably extended - with much the High Commissioner for Human Rights stop. One of the largest gatherings was half a million people lined the park at words of Martin Luther King Jnr, “be Maguire, winner of the 1976 Nobel Peace same force and determination as the Louise Arbour - who previously served in Baltimore, where almost 40,000 Lincoln’s feet. The Obama family could able to transform the jangling discords Prize for her work in Northern Ireland, separation wall - to encompass any as Chief Prosecutor at the International people waited for hours in freezing be seen bopping to the music throughout of our nation into a beautiful symphony added her voice to the many clamoring criticism of the Jewish State. Criminal Tribunals for Yugoslavia and temperatures to hear their future leader the concert, which included such stars of brotherhood”. for an International Criminal Tribunal The Western press is routinely Rwanda - of an anti-Israeli bias in her speak. To a rapturous welcome, the as Beyonce, Mary J Blige, Sheryl Crowe While attending a seminar on the for Israel (ICTI) to be established accused of anti-Israel bias. The Eretz statements, but did not answer Arbour’s smiling statesman warmly greeted the and our very own U2. future of America, I was fortunate to hear under Article 22 of the UN Charter. Nehederet comedy show - the Israeli condemnation of extra judicial killings, crowd and made a short speech. In it, former President Bill Clinton address attitude towards the outgoing president, Such a step by the UN might seem equivalent of Saturday Night Live - occupation of Palestinian territories, he emphasised the myriad fractions of MONDAY JANUARY 19TH a small group of young Americans. George W. Bush’s arrival was met with a !!! OBAMA ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL appropriate after the deaths of over a recently satirized BBC coverage of the collective punishment of the Gazan society that must act to instigate change The electric atmosphere in the city was Clinton reiterated the sentiments Very few politicians chorus of jeers. However there were also thousand Palestinians, most of whom Gaza bombardment. It showed woman population, and disproportionate use of in America. He called on people of all still tangible the day after the concert. In being expressed by Obama in recent could have two million those in the crowd who called for the were civilians and at least 300 of whom in a hijab crying out in Palestinian. She force. And this was before the latest war colours, political affi liation, race and a poignant coincidence, the day before days, the need for a united nation, but offi ce of the president to be respected, were children, in the Gaza Strip during was subtitled as saying “The Jews cut our in Gaza. UN Watch echoes the Israeli sexuality to unite and work together for the inauguration, America celebrated also for duality within the governing people on the streets despite people’s political views. Operation Cast Lead. The indiscriminate water, electricity. How can we live like and US government tendency to criticize a better America, telling them, “Yours the birthday of Martin Luther King Jnr. body. Echoing Obama’s cautionary before dawn, fi ling The crowning moment of the killing of civilians by Israeli ‘defense’ that?” but the news presenter translated governments with poor human rights are the voices I’ll carry with me every The civil rights activist had delivered tone in the lead-up to his inauguration, ceremony was somewhat shaky, with forces certainly constitutes a war crime, her words as “Israelis killed my husband records in order to defl ect attention day in the White House”. his historic ‘I have a Dream’ speech Clinton also stressed that the future along in what seemed to both Obama and Chief Justice John as does the use of Palestinians as human and then raped my daughter.” He then away from their own war crimes. on the same platform that hosted the president faces many crises, and that Roberts fumbling their lines. It was an shields, the use of white phosphorus, told viewers, in the mincing tones of It was pressure from the US SUNDAY JANUARY 18TH ‘We Are One’ concert. With forty-fi ve it will only be possible to solve these be interminable queues apt beginning to the shaky road that lies and the shelling of schools, mosques, a BBC reporter, that Israeli soldiers The celebratory mood in the U.S. years separating the two events, it was problems if Americans work together. ahead for the new President, however hospitals, residential areas, media were drinking Palestinian blood and capital went up a pitch or two with the especially signifi cant for many African He emphasised the need for constant as he emphasised in his speech that centers and the UN compound in Gaza setting dragons on their houses. This gathering of some of the world’s most Americans that they should witness the debate, affi rming that the permanent another was remarkable and the police followed, any challenges ‘will be met’. city itself. However, if past experience reference to the medieval Christians vs. Israel’s refusal to ratify famous music artists for the ‘We Are day when an African American would mission of the American people was to did a great job of keeping everybody on He also extended a hand of friendship is anything to go by, the UN is unlikely Jews blood-libel might be funny - the the Rome Statute form a more perfect union. track. to those in the Muslim world who were to follow through with an International accent in which it is delivered certainly However others were not so lucky. willing to act cooperatively. Criminal Tribunal. is - were it not for the very real death toll means it lies entirely TUESDAY JANUARY 20TH There were stories of broken metal After an eight hour wait on a jubilant By David Traynor their helicopter, I could not help Israel has a long history of war crimes, in Gaza, not to mind the fact that Israel outside the jurisdiction I was struck during my time in detectors and long lines, which meant yet cold day, the ceremony seemed to Obama campaign volunteer but think of the mess George but calls for an ICTI only began in 2002 prevented journalists from entering Washington by the sheer magnitude that an estimated 2,000 people who had pass very quickly. The sound that will (pictured above in New Mexico) Bush has left behind for President after Israeli armed forces entered a Gaza during the offensive, except for a of the International of people’s adoration for the new tickets did not get to watch the ceremony. forever evoke memories of the day will Obama to clean up. On the refugee camp in Jenin in the West Bank limited number whose movement was president. It was almost a miraculous Yet even with such disappointment, be Aretha Franklin’s rendition of ‘My THOSE WHO saw Barack Obama domestic front, he has inherited and killed at least 50 Palestinians, about restricted to following selected Israeli Criminal Court situation where people of all classes million people on the streets before control. there were valiant tales to tell. Two local Country ‘Tis of Thee’, and the haunting stand on the steps of the U.S. an economy in tatters, a crippling half of whom were militants. Israel troops for a few hours. Nevertheless, an and race were gathered in one space to dawn, fi ling along in what seemed to be Thousands of local volunteers had girls recalled how they were stranded words of Elizabeth Alexander’s poem, in Capitol building swearing an health care crisis not to mention denied a UN fact-fi nding mission the Italian journalist was injured by Israeli herald a new age in American politics. interminable queues. Most people had turned out to patrol the streets and some blocks from the mall, unable to which she spoke of the slaves who had oath of offi ce to become the 44th the divisive social tensions brought right to enter the camp afterwards, gunfi re, while two Palestinian journalists regarding the war on terrorism which As I watched a woman carry a life-size the sense to wrap up well, with multiple to direct the more than one million access the ticketed area due to a fault built the shiny buildings of America, President of the United States must about by Bush’s tax cuts for the fuelling speculation - later quelled - that and a Palestinian cameraman died in led Mary Robinson to resign from the cardboard model of the president onto a layers (in this writer’s case it consisted people towards the Mall and national with the metal detector. Straining to only to then work in them as cleaners agree it was a sight to behold. rich. In terms of foreign affairs, a massacre had taken place. However, the bombardment. post of High Commissioner for Human subway, I could not help comparing the of at least ten), while some came armed monuments area. We spent a couple catch some snippets of Obama’s speech and doormen. Although the crowd Although I would have loved to President Obama faces what groups such as Human Rights Watch As was the case in Jenin, a lack of Rights in 2002, though Arbour declared revered image of the Pope, until recently with blankets. The atmosphere on the of hours weaving our way through the they were invited to listen in on the began to disperse at the announcement have witnessed the Obamamania could arguably be called wars of and Amnesty International maintained clear coverage of the event will hinder that her decision to resign last year was present in many Irish homes and that streets of Washington, on a bitterly streets of the city, being greeted along speech through another disappointed of the inaugural poem, those who left live in the Mall in Washington, I attrition in both Afghanistan and that war crimes had been committed, any subsequent investigation. And made more diffi cult by the temptation of the American leader. The selling cold January morning, at 4am could the way by friendly police offi cers Obama fan’s phone. He had called his before the end of the ceremony missed had the pleasure of viewing it from Iraq. Notwithstanding that, he will even if civilian losses were lower than Israel apologists will still be able to to stay on to face the pressure she had of memorabilia has been a profi table have been hostile. Instead there was and volunteers pointing us in the friend in California who transmitted a moving and witty benediction from the second best vantage point in be left with the unenviable task of Palestinian reports suggested. Demands draw on the irrefutable fact that Israeli encountered. Still, there can have been business since the election. As one TV a mood of celebration, of collective right direction (although at times we the ceremony from the television screen the Rev Joseph Lowery. Following a the world – a comfy leather couch repairing America’s image abroad for an international tribunal were civilians have also died because of little temptation to face comments such journalist pointed out, Obama is a one- happiness and of great joy in sharing a encountered confl icting directions, in through his phone. theme central to the Obama campaign in the crowded GMB. and its relationship with existing renewed in 2006 following the Israel- rockets launched by Hamas militants as “Resignation is too good for this man stimulus package for the American moment of such signifi cance. The chief which case we had to follow our best While the greatest cheers among and reinforced at the beginning of his As President Obama humbly and potential allies. Hezbollah war in which a thousand operating in Gaza. That is to say, three Nazi b****” which were left on the self- economy! of police estimated that there would be instincts). My instincts were defeated those assembled on the mall were term in offi ce, Rev Lowery called for the repeated the oath (after some So will Obama’s messianic people, mostly civilians, were killed and Israeli civilians died from Hamas rocket professedly Zionist blog Discarded Lies Whether Obama can salvage the 8,000 police offers, 10,000 national when we found ourselves swept into not surprisingly reserved for Barack elimination of prejudice and rallied for missteps) following the prompts of messages of Hope and Change over a million displaced in Southern fi re between the beginning of the Israeli on the day she announced her departure American economy or not remains to be guards and 1,000 FBI agents mobilised a tunnel, almost a mile long which ran Obama’s entrance and that of his wife an America that embraces equality and U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice, during the presidential campaign Lebanon. Israel was also condemned for offensive on December 27th and the from offi ce. Yet somehow these words seen. However he has already successfully for the occasion. As far as security was from one side of the Capitol Building to and children, other popular attendees inclusion. John Roberts, it really hit home become a reality under the Obama its use of cluster bombs. But it was never January 18th cease-fi re. The truth is that are more palatable than Harvard Law lifted the spirit of the nation and beyond. concerned nothing was left to chance, the other. However there was no crush included Colin Powell and the Clintons. to me the signifi cance of this day. administration? Already we have brought to trial. Is there any reason to the Western media has by and large Professor Alan Dershowitz’s recent Very few politicians could have two the weather was more diffi cult to of people, the respect shown to one As an unfortunate refl ection of America’s WEDNESDAY JANUARY 21ST Although I risk sounding cliché at seen his zeal in halting trials in expect it will be made answer for this faithfully documented this. The bias statement on The Huffi ngton Post Waking up in the United States on this stage, the fact that an African Guantánamo and making the fi rst year’s war crimes in the Gaza Strip? emerges not from one-sided coverage that “The only reason Israel has not Wednesday heralded the beginning of American has been elected to steps towards a withdrawal from There are three main factors of what is happening but from the won overwhelming military victories a new era in the Western world. The the offi ce of U.S. President a mere Iraq not to mention his executive preventing Israel from being brought to obvious one-sidedness of the confl ict in Lebanon in 2006 and in Gaza now, ‘change’ that had become key to the 41 years after the repealing of all decree on political ethics which justice. The fi rst is the presence of the itself. News outlets cannot be expected is that Israel has decided to engage in election was palpable, not least because remaining segregation legislation aims to diminish the power U.S - its greatest ally - and its greatest to give ‘balanced coverage’ to a clearly only limited and proportional military of the controversial and swift reversal in the U.S. is truly remarkable. of lobbyists in Washington. In ally’s greatest side-kick, the U.K., on unbalanced confl ict. Israel may well actions designed simply to stop the of some of the Bush administration’s That President Obama has addition, he is arriving in offi ce the UN Security Council. The U.S. ask why it should be prosecuted for war rocket attacks.” most contentious policies. For most captured the imaginations of with a clear mandate from the can and will veto any attempt by the crimes while Hamas, an organization The term scapegoat is of biblical college-aged young people, this election not just Americans but billions people not only in support of him Security Council members to set up an whose stated aim is the destruction of origin. On the Day of Atonement, was the most signifi cant of their lives, of people across the world is but also the Democrats’ overall ad hoc trial for Israel, who it considers Israel, is spared from such treatment, Aaron is said to have confessed the the fi rst election that they had actively somewhat overshadowed by control of Congress. to be playing a vital role in the so-called but the answer is simple: in cases of sins of the children of Israel over the participated in and the fi rst time they felt the massive adversities he now Despite all this, we are under war on terror, and it will also prevent international crime, you go after the head of a live goat which was then sent moved to voice their political opinion. faces. He made no effort to hide no illusion that change will be decisions taken against Israel at the bigger criminal. bearing their sins into the wilderness. As the city workers began the massive this fact in his inaugural address: rapid and far-reaching. One International Court of Justice from The argument doesn’t end there An International Criminal Tribunal for clean-up operation of Washington D.C., “Our nation is at war, against a look at some of the familiar being enforced, such as the 2004 ruling though. Hillel Neuer, executive director today’s Israel would not be a symbolic Americans were bracing themselves for far-reaching network of violence faces in Obama’s cabinet shows that the Israel-Palestine separation wall of UN Watch, an NGO, said that the sacrifi ce of the innocent. Rather it a challenging and ultimately brighter and hatred. Our economy is us that his administration may violates international law. The second “guilt-by-numbers” argument ignores would force the Israeli state - and not future. Barack Obama’s inauguration badly weakened, a consequence not be as radical as diehard is Israel’s refusal to ratify the Rome “the terror of ten thousand rockets the Jewish or Israeli communities - to as 44th President has inspired not of greed and irresponsibility on campaigners may have wished. Statute of the International Criminal over eight years.” That is ten thousand atone for crimes knowingly committed only hope, and not just a change in the part of some, but also our Whether President Obama lives Court (a non-UN body) because of rockets which killed about twenty against humanity. As long as the UN government policy. It has inspired faith. collective failure to make hard up to expectations, he will enjoy a a provision on population transfer Israelis. The numbers still don’t add is prevented from establishing such There is a renewed faith in democracy choices and prepare the nation for honeymoon period of support and which it claims was inserted by Egypt up, but if you want to talk about terror, a court, it is the Palestinian people - and faith that sometimes the good guy a new age.” adulation. How long this lasts is to undermine Israeli settlement policy. consider the slain Gazan children whose forced from their land, subjected to does win, and that in the land of the free As Barack and Michelle Obama anyone’s guess but when it is over, The non-ratifi cation of the Statute murders will inspire a new generation an apartheid-like political regime, and and the home of the brave, dreams can bade a dignifi ed farewell to you can bet your bottom dollar the means that Israel is entirely beyond of Palestinian martyrs, or the families now, again, indiscriminately killed by come true. George and Laura Bush boarding people will demand results. the ICC’s jurisdiction. The third factor, in the comparatively peaceful West Israeli armed forces - which is being and one which serves as a guarantor of Bank whose teenage sons have been made a scapegoat for the violence of the other two, concerns the media and kidnapped by Israeli soldiers in the Hamas. Small wonder if they begin to the stigma which is rightly associated last month. If Neuer wants an emotive identify with terror. TRINITY NEWS TRINITY NEWS Tuesday, October 14, 2008 14 OPINION January 27, 2009 “Schols doesn’t just take over, it inhabits like an alien pregnancy” somewhat by the fact that I’d never have You are, quite simply to everyone leading have been in second year, had I not done various arguments. It doesn’t just become course given my lack of attendance at his dinner until I’d go home at ten. a normal life, no fun. It takes confi dence schols. I don’t know if I ever developed your life; it inhabits you, like some sort lectures. We all make sacrifi ces, it seems I think the best thing about going for to step back from groups and such and that sparkle but my work did improve. alien pregnancy that takes over every cell European and US history were mine. schols is that it gives you confi dence in decide to do your own thing, especially This notion of some special genius of your body. They’re not important areas are they? GIULIA NI your abilities; you wouldn’t go through it when some make it out to be something quality present amongst scholars is Schol though, if I may say, was in What’s two continents, when I have, unless you had that. I don’t know whether that is outside the grasp of mere ridiculous. It’s probably what discourages some ways, for those prone to work hard an in-depth knowledge of pre-Norman DHULCHAOINTIGH you develop it or whether only those who mortals. some who could get it from doing it, anyway, easier than the summer exams. Ireland? are confi dent go through the exams -- it’s I remember going to one talk in because they lack the confi dence, or For one thing, in history at least you only I never thought I’d get it. But I always probably something of a mix of the two. January when I was preparing for the encouragement. I think it also encourages had three questions to answer instead of hoped. That, I suppose, is what keeps I DID schols two years ago in History It made me more independent as well, exam given by the Politics Department. those who don’t have the work ethic, but four on each exam paper. Next you don’t you staying in the library until ten when and Politics. Two different memories in study and life in general. You’re not One of the lecturers spoke and said know that they are very smart, to go for have to take exams in all the subjects there was, quite literally, no one else confront me when I think back: that of working to the same schedule as most what he was looking for was “sparkle”. it. That’s what needs to be publicised I you’re studying this year. I will always there. Indeed one night, I was studying a gnawing hunger of such force that I people in your course; course essays and I don’t think there has ever been a more think. remain grateful for that. Although in one of the alcoves in the Berkley started to eat my bus ticket on the bus such become quite low on the priorities. redundant piece of advice on schols than Schols is, as much as anything else, my knowledge of Eighteenth Century (quiet, isolated, corners for those of you home, and somewhere in a happier side In terms of general independence when that one. Maybe getting schol is about a test of endurance. Mostly it’s about European culture and politics had to unfamiliar with the terrain) the bell rang of my brain, of long chats with my good I signed up to do schols, I was basically having sparkle, but what they didn’t tell studying a lot. At the moment for those languish at such a level that I think that and the security guard shouted that the friends who were also doing schols, as saying that I wasn’t going to do what us was that your abilities improve the of you studying, it’s probably quite like particular lecturer would be embarrassed library was closing. I thought I’d fi nish we used the library in the same way everyone else was doing for the rest of more you work. It is possible to develop studying for any other exam. Just wait to be confronted at my utter ignorance off whatever page I was reading. Then other people would a coffee shop. The the year. I didn’t know that at the time “sparkle”. I was not at the top of my another month and you’ll be waking up of his subject; but then again he could the lights went off. The library is a very eating of the bus ticket can be explained but that was the gist of the arrangement. class in fi rst year, nor would I probably in the morning with new thoughts on also be surprised to learn that I took his strange place with all the lights off.

IN PROFILE: ENDA KENNY indeed, appear to be rising. year’s end. Only for a short stint in his long BIOGRAPHY For the longest-serving member of political career did Kenny play a role in Dáil Éireann, however, The Flaming government, when he served as Minister Lips - whose rise was more glacial than for Tourism and Trade during the short- » Enda Kenny has been a TD for Mayo since 1975. meteoric - might be a more appropriate lived Rainbow Coalition in the mid-1990s. choice. Kenny has waited; he is thirty- All great interviews spot the telling » He is a qualifi ed as a primary school teacher, and three years in politics. He inherited his details a transcript would never show: speaks fl uent Irish. The opposition constituency seat upon his father’s death, “’The place to be is in government, and lived with his mother during his always,’ says Kenny, who eschews a » Kenny enjoys listening to Bruce Springsteen and hill- fi rst years as a TD. At forty he married. glass with his bottle of sparkling water, walking in his spare time “Enda Kenny believes he is a better drinking it by the neck instead.” father for having come to it in his 40s,” It was the photographer Henri-Cartier » Responding to a jibe from a radio presenter that he the interviewer writes. The comparison Bresson who said the smallest human was “insipid”, Kenny acknowledged he lacked cha- with government is not made but I detail could become a leitmotif. Clearly, risma but argued he made up for this with a “strong think we can take it to be implied. what Kenny may lack in eloquence, personality and lots of energy.” is not enough For the past year, Fianna Fail and Fine charm or vitality, he makes up for in grit, Gael have played cat and mouse over and this is what the photographs really » Kenny said that he expects to become taoiseach economic policy. When the government show. Perhaps it is time for a leader who whenever an election is called, be it in 2009 or 2010. A Sunday Independent photo-shoot reveals a gritty, edgy launched successive crisis solutions, is not afraid of taking things into his own Fine Gael pointed out that it had been hands, to go against the grain, to drink » His personal satisfaction ratings have remained low Enda Kenny, writes Aaron Mulvihill. But will 2009 be his advocating that course of action all sparkling water from the neck, as it were. even as his party rides high in the polls along. This week Fine Gael accused time to shine, or is he doomed to languish in the the government of making up banking strategy “on the hoof”. In the best black and white background forever? parliamentary fashion, the blows rain down from the opposition benches until things take a turn for the worst, and failed HAT BETTER way to made me start. It was like Sin City meets suggestions are always tougher to criticise immortalize a colourless Questions and Answers, like James Dean than failed decisions. That’s the usual fi gure, the Sunday at an Ard Fheis. The effect was eerie cynic’s view. Other cynics point out that WIndependent photographer and profoundly disquieting, like seeing the two p a r t i e s must have thought, than to shoot him a pretty girl in a bikini and realising in black and white? A week ago, too, it’s your mother. It was precisely what I would have said my toothbrush has Sigmund Freud meant when he wrote more personality than Enda Kenny, and about The Uncanny - a dissonant mesh probably more statesmanship too. But of the familiar and strange. In the famous seeing a man in black and white changes essay he retells the story of a man who things. In the right light, grey hair acquires falls in love with what turns out to be a a silvery glow, wrinkles coalesce into the robot without eyes, which was built by fault lines of a knife-sharp intellect and a mad optician called Uncle Coppelius an empty expressionless gaze becomes who kills the man’s father and, using a the sort of steely tenacity that befi ts the demonic eyeglass, drives him to madness a r e of one m i n d , a n d declaration of a major war. and a bloody suicide. Is Enda Kenny the the only credible opposition is Labour. Of course, black and white are the Uncle, the Independent the eyeglass, I don’t know what the opposite uncompromising colours of a leader, of 2009 the year of Fianna Fail’s demise? of a cynic is, but there a man who knows right from wrong and Freudian psychoanalysis is powerful doesn’t seem to be many of won’t hesitate to make his opinion felt. The stuff. I took a lie down. them around. The few that Sunday Indo magazine in one momentous Like a lot of political photojournalism, remain have suggested photo-shoot probably succeeded where the text did not give such a revealing forming a government years of public relations efforts failed portrait of the politician, despite of national unity, with miserably. They forced readers to give ambitious promises to the contrary. Not all the main parties Kenny the time of day and challenged that I’m particularly upset by that - like represented. This them to think twice about the familiar, but Victorian children, I think politicians are idea has the support poorly understood fi gure who, for thirty best seen and not heard. Among the more of a staggering years, has languished on the opposition candid insights was the revelation that 73 percent of bench as shadow-this or shadow-that. the party leader has a Bruce Springsteen the electorate, The photographs are certainly a ringtone. Of course, his Facebook page a recent poll departure from how most of us picture says as much, but the signifi cance of this found. It is the political veteran, with his ginger seemingly minor detail only becomes looking likely hair, fl ushed cheeks and stiff, awkward fully clear in the interviewer’s probing that Kenny air. When I saw his face on the cover four-paragraph analysis of the fact. The will occupy of the Sunday Independent Magazine, Rising, we are told, has a deeply symbolic a cabinet I didn’t recognise him. A second look meaning for a TD whose star does, seat by the

“It was like Sin City meets Questions and Answers, like James Dean at an Ard Fheis. The effect was eerie and profoundly disquieting.” Lenient sentences barrier to justice for rape victims

rather than the assailant, would probably One report by Dr. O’Keeffe on how Europe study, which also claimed that ever for rapists to be convicted. The conviction rate for rape and sexual assault negatively impact upon the victim’s belief thirty-two gardaí of varying expertise the barriers to successful prosecution in But there is still the lack of cases to that a crime had been perpetrated, or respond to rape allegations makes for Ireland were mainly delay in reporting to actually reach courts. If only 2 percent is unacceptably low, and many victims are that they were somewhat to blame. A depressing news. Many believed that the the police, including loss of evidence and reach that stage, further laws concerning Scotland Yard study showed that one in point of the interview was to ascertain long delays in court proceedings. defi nitions etc. would not help the vast afraid to come forward writes Louisa McIndoe fi ve of the victims had not reported the whether the rape accusation was Other reasons for not reporting rape majority of victims. The drastic under- attack because they blamed themselves genuine or not, rather than collecting lie with the fear of judgement on their reporting of attacks has to be addressed, HE DUBLIN Rape Crisis cases. Of this three-quarters, just 2.5 or felt ‘“too ashamed”. The SAVI report and corroborating information. It would own conduct. Drink and drugs can be and the causes for this. To say that it is the Centre in December 2007 percent are brought to court. Therefore, showed that 30 percent of men and 25.5 contributory factors in rape cases, and low conviction rate that puts people off had to help one woman every if one hundred cases of rape occur, ten percent of women felt too ashamed or especially when the assailant is known, it reporting is probably misleading, and it day that had been raped. are reported, around seven have the embarrassed to report. can be a logical conclusion to just believe is far more likely to be a range of factors. According to the Rape Crisis assailant identifi ed, and two are brought Another factor is that many women “If one hundred cases that they would have assented, even if What clearly needs to change is society’s TNetwork Europe, Ireland has the lowest to court. One might be convicted. know the identity of their attacker. In the they cannot clearly remember. Some view fi rst and foremost, which would of rape occur, ten are conviction rate amongst all the countries The conviction rate is clearly same Scotland Yard study, of 128 victims, previous reports have shown that victims likely lead to a rise in the rate of reporting, that were surveyed. The rate has fallen completely unacceptable. However, is this 70 percent described the suspected rapist reported, around seven had an antagonistic view of the gardaí, as people would feel less ashamed and from 9 percent in the 1970s to just 2 the reason for women (and men, lest we as “a friend, a work colleague, or a fellow and fear of reprisal, the victim-offender would not blame themselves. The idea percent between 1993 and 2000. One of forget) not coming forward to prosecute? student”, and 97 percent of callers to the have the assailant relationship (LeBeau, 1988) and anxiety, that anyone can be blamed for rape due the sample results given in the study from The likelihood is that there are more Rape Crisis Line knew their attacker. identifi ed, and two are humiliation, anger and a familiarity to his or her attitude, clothing or how 2002 reports that 20.4 percent of women contributing factors. A recent study by Because they know the assailant, with the rapist (Peretti, 1983). Another drunk they get is abhorrent, and this are sexually assaulted, of which 6.4 Amnesty International shows that just victims are less likely to consider it rape, brought to court. One common reason (23%) is that rape is a assumption must be changed. Also the percent is rape. And whilst prosecutions under half of Northern Ireland students especially when it is a partner, with might be convicted.” ‘personal matter’. belief that rape is only rape if you do not are rising, conviction rates are actually believe that a woman is partially or totally marital rape especially under-reported, However, progress is being made know the assailant cannot be upheld. Of falling, with RTE news reporting that to blame for rape if she has been fl irting, and with a low conviction rate of just all the time. In 1981 Ireland passed laws all the barriers to conviction, attitudes only 1-2 percent of reported rapes result with one in ten believing that violence 7.7 percent. The cultural taboo around also appear that there is a class prejudice, concerning exclusion of sexual history are the most easily changed. Once ideas in a conviction. against women was acceptable if she rape also weakens the resolve to report with working-class people and those evidence, having rape in marriage like these are challenged, hopefully many What is particularly worrying is that refused sex, had been fl irting with other – victims are afraid of being accused of with addiction problems being treated identifi ed as a crime, resistance more people will report their attacks and the government funded SAVI report of men or nagged. 30 percent believed that lying or exaggerating. Public opinion is as making false accusations. Also, the requirement removed, sentencing length this will lead to a rise in the conviction 2002 into sexual abuse indicates that revealing clothing was a factor in rape, that rape is often falsely reported, used as fi les that are forwarded to the DPP reviewed and defi nition expanded. In 1990 rate. Victims should not be put off by the only 8-10 percent rapes are reported to and over a third believed women were a means of revenge for jilted lovers and (Department of Public Prosecutions) may the defi nition was further widened, more low conviction rate, but determined to the Gardaí. Over 95 percent of sexual partially to blame if they walked through such like. However, in reality the rate of contain badly obtained testimony from restrictions on sexual history evidence change it and shift the blame back on to assaults are never reported. Of these a deserted area. exaggeration or lies stands at the same the victims, which contributes to a lack were put in place and boys under the age attackers, and pressure the system into reported rapes, the gardaí identify the It would appear that the blame culture rate as all other crime – on average, 2 of court conviction. This was one area of fourteen could be charged. It would more convictions, which is only what perpetrator of about three-quarters of of shifting responsibility to the victim, percent of rape claims are false. highlighted on the Rape Crisis Network appear that there is more possibility than society deserves. TRINITY NEWS TRINITY NEWS Tuesday, October 14, 2008 January 27, 2009 OPINION 15

TRINITYNEWS.IE No respite for /COMMENT sufferers of TO WHAT EXTENT IS EUROPE THE ANSWER TO IRELAND’S ECONOMIC PROBLEMS? TO WHAT extent is Europe the answer to Ireland’s economic problems? The question reminds me of Cystic Fibrosis the great anarchist slogan that I used to see painted on London walls: “if society is the answer, you’ve asked the wrong question”. Not many people in Ireland appreciate as yet how much of the current recession is of our own making. Our recession is Though government may not have a one of the deepest by far in Europe. It was caused by a series of policy errors, many of which date conscience, it does have a budget, and it should from Charlie McCreevy’s stint as Minister of Finance, though the political roots of the problem stretch be ashamed of the treatment facilities it much further back. Business people a few years ago voted McCreevy the best Irish fi nance minister in provides for CF sufferers, writes Tom Broe history. Few economists would agree. “When I have the money, I spend it”, McCreevy said; “when I don’t, I don’t.” Spoken like a true accountant! But even the most basic THE GOVERNMENT’S problems At St. Vincent’s last year, a temporary charity. Surely the responsibility lies with Demonstrating If there is a waiting list for a double lung macroeconomics course points out the fl aws in this heightened during December with eight-bed unit for CF patients, with en- the state to provide adequate care for inhaler to young transplant then any name permanently way of thinking. Government fi scal policy should be unemployment reaching a ten-year suite toilets in each room, had its opening CF patients especially when Ireland, due patient with CF removed from it in 2008 was because of counter-cyclical. When the private sector economy is high and 22,777 people claiming delayed as the beds were occupied to its closed gene pool, has the highest premature death. Orla Tinsley, a 21-year in a downturn, the state, if it has the fi scal resources, unemployment for the fi rst time last by geriatric patients who had to be incidence of CF in the world with one old with CF and the 2008 Young Person should use them to offset the recession by increasing month alone. Dealing daily with job unexpectedly moved off their own ward. case in every 1,600 births. of the Year in recognition of her vocal spending or reducing losses, cuts in spending and a hostile Rather ominously, the number of CF CF patients who contract an infection campaigning on behalf of CF patients taxes. Irish fi scal policy, public has left Brian Cowen and his patients at the hospital, while it varies, is and require hospitalisation have the commented that “having patients on a by contrast, has been colleagues inured to hardships faced never less than eight and more often over following to look forward to: an excessive list that is effectively inactive is a unique pro-cyclical since at “When I have the by many Irish people. So just what twenty. wait in the queue in A&E, followed kind of cruelty”. least the mid-1960s, money, I spend complaint can 1,265 of our citizens have Funding earmarked for the provision by admittance to either a general What has become apparent since the and stands out among that the Taoiseach or his cabinet haven’t of additional support staff has only partly or respiratory ward, if a specialised recent economic downturn is that the European countries in it, when I don’t, I already heard and prepared a contrite been used, with only forty-four of the facility is unavailable, care from nurses state doesn’t have a conscience, but it this respect. sound-bite for? These people have cystic eighty-one approved posts fi lled. Even not trained to treat CF patients and does have a budget. This bodes badly for Irish governments, don’t.” fi brosis (CF) and are dependent on the were these posts to be fi lled, our staffi ng increased exposure to infection from the CF sufferers, as Dr. Pollock is quoted as especially Fianna Fáil- sub-standard care provided by the state. levels would still be inadequate when other patients and staff on the ward. As saying: led ones, mishandled the tax revenues that the Shorter life expectancy, diffi culty compared with levels based on recognised CF progresses the patient’s quality of life “The lack of segregation and isolation long economic boom generated. We should have maintaining body weights at healthy is continually eroded by longer hospital facilities, both for out-patients and in- been running much larger budget surpluses in the levels, persistent threat of lung infections stays, as infections become increasingly patients is dangerous, creating signifi cant good times so that we would not now be forced and regular hospitalisations are all diffi cult to treat and complications like risks of cross infection with virulent to slash expenditure. The Stability and Growth problems many CF patients have to “Any name removed diabetes develop. organisms additionally carrying risks of Pact adopted in 1997 was meant to enforce this live with. It is an inherited disease that from the waiting list in Eventually the patient is unable to go litigation if an outbreak were to arise”. outcome. However when Ireland became the fi rst causes thick, sticky mucus to build up in home because of oxygen dependence, Incompetence is costly, and no member state to be rebuked by ECOFIN in 2001 for the lungs and the digestive tract where 2008 was because of feeding gastrostomies and develop a government wants a repeat of the its overly expansionary budget, the Finance Minister it prevents the body’s natural enzymes premature death.” dependence on intravenous antibiotics. Hepatitis C and HIV scandals that strongly rejected the criticism and refused to change from digesting food. Patients who reach this “end-stage” are shocked the country in the 90s, leading course. Indeed the hugely generous SSIA scheme In 2004, a cystic fi brosis service then considered for lung transplants. to the Finlay and Lindsay Tribunals and was introduced later that year and the government review, the Pollock Report, was standards in care. These same patients are daily at risk the exposure of gross negligence in the continued to cut income tax. Such tax reductions completed independently. Typical of A four-bed unit for Crumlin is being of contracting an antibiotic-resistant provision of blood products. Genetically had been expansionary in the earlier years of social most independent reports into the funded by the Cystic Fibrosis Association infection which disqualifi es them from engineered blood products are now partnership as they helped to keep the lid on wage provision of services within the health of Ireland as the government refused to receiving a lung transplant. used for patients with haemophilia, demands. As house prices rose and unemployment service there were stinging criticisms, commit to the project. The CFAI are also Lung disease is the main cause of and according to the Lindsay Report of disappeared and the participation of married this time levelled at the standard of care partly funding a Microbiology Reference death of CF patients, and this can be 2002, Irish treatment “compares very women in the labour force reached Continental offered to cystic fi brosis patients. Among Laboratory for CF at Tallaght Hospital. circumvented by a double lung transplant, favourably” with treatment in other levels, labour supply became increasingly inelastic its recommendations were that all beds One wonders if the Minister for Health as often both lungs are infected. To date states. and the consequent impact of tax reductions fell on for patients with CF should be in single factors in donations from charities when only one double lung transplant has been One wonders is litigation on behalf of CF aggregate demand rather than aggregate supply. rooms with en-suite toilet facilities to preparing estimates for her department. performed in this state, back in 2007. patients required before this government All of these points were widely recognised within the prevent the transmission of infection and It is unacceptable that services for Ireland has the unwelcome distinction of shoulders some responsibility and does economics community, but were of course ignored that a neonatal screening programme an incurable illness with debilitating being the only state in Europe to perform more than contribute insipid press by government. Fiscal policy continued to be overly should be established. symptoms have to be provided by a more single than double lung transplants. statements. expansionary throughout the boom. Further policy errors over the period included the response to the house-price bubble, the failure to reform the tax system, Ireland’s laid-back fi nancial sector regulation and the fi rst round of public- sector benchmarking awards. Even as house price infl ation continued at double-digit levels, the kinds Symbolism of the 44th presidency of tax breaks that have made areas such as Achill and Clifden look like suburban Dublin enlightenment that Obama represents. This humanity he refl ects in all of us and how far “The current remained in place. With Obama’s inauguration, America is reality was brought to the fore within hours we have come. There is no denying that the The housing boom of his inauguration, with the fi rst step being time for lyricism and rhetoric is over, the jaw- recession is of our was compounded by repenting for past wrongs, and in turn inspiring taken to close Guantanamo Bay detention jaw of election campaigns has passed. It’s time Ireland’s joining the centre. This heinous manifestation of the to walk the walk and it’s a risk that many may own making.” euro, even though it international forgiveness and a new-found respect, politics of fear of the Bush years has been prefer the dream more than the reality. But was clear to all analysts the symbolic tumour in the beauty of the no one can doubt his determination to renew that Ireland was “asymmetric”: its business cycle was writes Debra Wigglesworth American idea. It has damaged its reputation America and to avoid the stale politics of the out of sync with the rest of the Eurozone and Ireland world wide as a champion of human rights but past. The challenges ahead are daunting: two was much more highly exposed to fl uctuations in WISE person once said ‘do not its knees all over the world in places such as the election of Obama symbolises the choice wars, a recession on the cusp of a depression, sterling and the dollar than other Eurozone member look to the past in regret, or to Darfur, Zimbabwe, Gaza and Israel, there is of freedom over fear. a chaotic health system, an education system states. The house-price consequences of the very the future with fear, but look still hope of a better day. This is the fi rst step in dealing with each that contrary to its by-line leaves many behind much lower interest rates that Eurozone membership around in awareness’. On 20 In a climate of drastic economic detainee according to the rule of law of the and an ever worsening environmental crisis. brought could have been offset by targeted January 2009, we all bore witness uncertainties, he articulates a vision through Constitution of the United States of America. The human condition just like the history measures but such actions were not taken. Ato a stunning moment in humanity’s history the politics of hope that we will endure and Obama assured the global community – “as of America contains not only reasonableness The debate among economists on whether or not and journey. The inauguration of Barack triumph. We are acutely aware in Ireland of for our common defence, we reject as false the and kindness but fl aws, contradictions, to join the Eurozone brought all these issues to light. Obama as the 44th President of the United the economic turmoil around the world that choice between our safety and our ideals. Our hypocrisy and confusion. America has had Were Ireland not now in the Eurozone we would not States of America personifi ed an evolution in is affecting us in our communities and in our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can a moment of clarity, but just like all of us, have the protection that Iceland must dearly have the collective conscience of humanity. It was pockets. Over the constant din of mediocre scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure America is still fi guring it out. wished for in recent times, but the current weakness a moment that transcended the divisions of politicians whose main message is ‘no we the rule of law and the rights of man...those Obama is not afraid of the grey area of of sterling compounds the effects of the recession race and religion. It was a moment for all of can’t’, Obama’s loud and clear affi rmation of ideals still light the world, and we will not give humanity and that fi guring it out sometimes on those very substantial segments of Irish-owned humanity to pause, refl ect and appreciate. ‘yes we can’ is our source of leadership in this them up for expedience’s sake.” means accepting that it cannot always be industry that either export to the UK or compete with It was a moment to appreciate the resilience leaderless time for Irish domestic politics. The reality is this, nothing that is fi gured out. He embraces this reality as sterling-denominated products on Irish and other and endurance of the human spirit and Even in the wider global community where wrong with America, even as wrong and to deny it, is to deny the complexity of the markets. behold the journey of humanity. A lucky so many have said ‘no we can’t’ to the blood- contradictory as Guantanamo, cannot be human spirit. We should all have patience for The real benefi ts or otherwise of social few who witnessed this moment sported streaked faces of the children of Gaza and fi xed by what is so right and true about Obama in fi guring this journey out, for his partnership will become apparent in the near future. commemorative badges with the words ‘I was Israel, ‘no we can’t’ to resolving the genocidal America. The softest pillow is a clear inauguration alone symbolises something Supporters of partnership such as Paddy Teahon, there’. But our shared belief in democracy, confl ict in Darfur, ‘no we can’t’ to reforming conscience. America can sleep bigger than personal success or secretary general of the Department of the Taoiseach equality and human dignity means we were the Zimbabwean body politic, Obama has soundly. With the inauguration accomplishment, and he realises this. when the process was established, have argued that there too. We contributed. the audacity to strip away the red tape of of Obama they are repenting The triumph of that moment does partnership has promoted a shared understanding We must appreciate how far we have bureaucracy and say ‘YES WE CAN’. for their wrongs both historical not cling to the opinion polls in the next among unions, employers and the government of come since the struggles and tragedies of I believe the politics of hope that he and recent, and in turn inspiring hundred days or of the future months. the key mechanisms and relationships that drive the Civil Rights movement and the deep represents is not just limited to the repetition international forgiveness and new It is an independent victory for America the economy. Other analysts viewed it simply as a segregation and prejudice that pervaded of mantras. It goes much deeper than that. It found respect. and for humanity. mechanism to deliver wage moderation in exchange American society and infl uenced the wider is the fact of his achievement against the odds The day of Obama’s Growing up in Ireland for income tax cuts. world. When Martin Luther King spoke out of ancestral and present-day adversity. It is the inauguration was not and not being exposed One of the outcomes of partnership has been across the Washington Mall, he spoke to a fact that it is not just his achievement it is our the time for doubt or to the history of racial to shift the burden of taxation away from income morally and socially confused world, a world achievement in evolving towards the truth of fear; it was a day of divisions and prejudices tax and onto much more cyclically-sensitive and that was not ready to listen and not ready to humanity not the deceit of evil – ‘to hold in a celebration for ever in American culture, the property-sensitive forms of taxation such as Stamp learn. But time is a great healer and a great single thought reality and justice’. evolving humanity fi rst time I gave it any Duty, Capital Gains Tax and Value-Added Tax. Again, teacher, it took the hopelessness of the civil We the student body as the ‘latte-drinking reaching this serious thought was the dangers of this should have been foreseen, and rights struggle to bring about the hope that liberals’ cannot forget the meaning of this milestone. It was when studying Harper the tax system reformed, before the slump hit. we beheld on 20 January 2009. President moment in terms of history, sociology and not the time to Lee’s masterpiece Europe was not a factor in any of these policy Obama’s hand on that Bible, in that moment politics. Within the safety of our campus we castigate the for the Junior errors. Only in the area of bank regulation is symbolised an emotional, moral, social and learn, we lecture and we debate about human hope of millions Cert. To cast the a European-wide initiative likely to emerge. If political evolution of the human spirit and of rights, equality, pluralism and democracy, as hype. The shadow of doubt other European countries facing less severe fi scal the meaning of humanity today. Like a hand these lectures and debates will never be the moment was upon the hope conditions can take steps to expand aggregate on a heart, his hand has revived and renewed same after this moment- Obama represents not to appraise personifi ed in demand, however, the Irish economy can ride on us. We didn’t thread softly upon it Mr King, all of our ideals and our aspirations for a more Obama based the historical their coat tails. but today it is no longer only your dream, it is just world. It is no longer about ‘sticking it on speculation moment of the living reality of the Free World. to the Man’ because we love ‘the Man’ just as and pessimism Barack Obama’s Frank Barry is Professor of International Business This testament to change brings hope to we love the ideals we wax lyrical about every about his abilities inauguration and Development, TCD. For more views on this where hatred reigns at this moment. A moral Wednesday and Thursday in the Phil or the but instead to would indeed question, including comments by Declan Ganley and enlightenment to moral bankruptcy. It brings Hist. appreciate this be “to kill a John O’Reilly, visit www.trinitynews.ie/comment the message that although violence, hatred In every human rights speech or essay we defi ning moment, mocking-bird”. and segregation are bringing humanity to now must allude to the hope of reform and the stunning TRINITY NEWS 16 OPINION January 13, 2009 How many European bans to change a bulb?

with the source of the problem: power them cheaper than they are now. apply, that the popularity despite the and spreads downwards from there. So, It would be a better EU that chose stations. New cheap emission fi ltering Governments can make money campaigns means that the will of the yes, even a small light near the ceiling to see advantages that merit existence, and processing has been developed, and while consumers can save money, and people should be respected. makes a difference, proportionately rather than disadvantages that merit is widely used in areas such as Wyoming the manufacture of green products Light bulbs are of course cheap, cutting down on your heating bills, and destruction, whether with electrical and California. is stimulated in a more natural way hardly a sin, but people don’t keep of course lights are often lower down products, agricultural products, or The need to tax or ban ineffi cient than by bans on one hand and clumsy buying something just because it’s too. anything else. DR PETER THORNES electrical products can also be subsidies on the other, ignoring what cheap. Light bulbs have a simple classic While this is logical, it has also been In the autumn of 1879, after tireless questioned given that more and more people actually want to use. appearance, a warm bright light quality, scientifi cally proven: For all the hype effort working with different materials, European households have and will To some, it may sound good in are easy to use with dimmers and auto- about “energy saving” fl uorescent Thomas Edison fi nally arrived at the TO QUOTE the proposing EU have emission-free electricity, from itself to “ban ineffi cient products”. switches, quickly come on in the cold lights, ordinary light bulbs can be invention we still see today, the world’s Commission Ecodesign Committee, nuclear and hydroelectric energy as However, it should be remembered and can be made in small sizes. more economical to use, as shown by oldest electrical invention in widespread December 2008: well as from more recently developed that ineffi cient products need some What about their ineffi ciency? Light the University of Toronto (2007) and common use. “The regulation [to ban light bulbs] renewable sources like solar and wind. compensating attraction for people to bulbs are really heat bulbs, 95 percent elsewhere. Unfortunately, government A beautiful, simple, safe, cheap, light- is only one of the Ecodesign measures France is almost emission-free want to buy them (think of sports cars, heat, 5 percent light output, more or agencies do not mention this fact in with-heat effi cient construction. Maybe that will be adopted by the Commission already, Sweden not far behind. Why or, as a household electrical example, less. They don’t waste heat, they “waste” their promotions. the time will come when, like its cousin, over the coming months, targeting should emission-free households, fan heaters, expensive to run but quickly light. Light bulb heat can be useful. Get All lights have their advantages. That the gleaming radio valve, it is needed no many more products such as consumer wherever they are, not be allowed to use heating a room). a 100W light bulb. is why they are on the market. You can’t more, the passing of old technology. electronics, white goods, or heating what they want? Taxation in the short Light bulbs are no exception. Better still, get twenty (2kW), but just “replace” them. Halogen lights are But let it be a democratic passing by appliances” term can help to pay for power station They have been safely used for over a quick, before Mr. Gormley comes and related to ordinary light bulbs and are the will of the people, not a passing by The ban justifi cation is that ineffi cient fi ltering and other green measures like hundred years and are overwhelmingly takes them away from you. Put them being pushed as a direct replacement, the dictat of well meaning politicians. products waste electricity, leading to home energy and insulation schemes, popular in the EU. Around nine out of next to a 2kW heater of your choice. but they cost more, look different, need How many EU Commissioners unnecessary carbon emissions. We can via a “carbon tax” on electrical products ten lights bought in every country are Light up, turn on, tune in. Satisfi ed? handling care and have a different light should it take to change a light bulb? all be concerned about the environment. according to their existing effi ciency ordinary light bulbs, as research by the Good. quality. None. How many European citizens However, electrical products themselves labelling. EU Commission itself shows. One EU Still, surely a little heat near the Still different, then, as are LED should be allowed to choose? Around do not, or at least should not, emit any Right now is hardly a great time for argument is that since people still buy ceiling makes no difference? Well, next lights. Many are predicting that LED 500 million. gases. new taxes, but by also including VAT light bulbs despite all the campaigns time you light a fi re stick your hand lights will become more attractive soon, Instead of targeting people’s activities changes, effi cient “A” labelled products against them, the bulbs must be banned. above it. Not too long, mind. Heat rises but that is surely something people can Dr Thornes studied medicine in in their homes, the EU should be dealing can be zero-rated in each case, making One might think that the opposite might Room heat rises towards the ceiling, decide for themselves. TCD and graduated 1981.

IN FOCUS: THE GMB “ “THEY DON’T REALISE WHAT A LUXURY IT IS”

created for them. The created haven Hist?” and I remember that it was then for the societies neither will change how to them a century ago. of the GMB societies is most apparent that it struck me. These people really it operates. My bias here is clear. The society I in Freshers’ Week, when hordes of fi rst believe their own bullshit. They honestly The strength of these societies does help run has nearly 3000 members and years fl ock towards the building. In believe that simply because they have not come from their current batch of currently we share a small room with having this asset the societies have an something, they should keep it. committee members, their strength lies two other societies. I know what it feels implicit advantage over others. When asked about writing a head to in the fact that they have been around like to be part of a successful and large EOIN O BRAOIN However, the GMB rarely sees head for this issue of Trinity News, the for centuries. They are only big because student society. anything near the level of activity that current President of the Phil cried off. they have always been big. To be honest, However I also know that as successful the two societies promise. The worst Why should he bother writing about they will continue to be successful, and as active as a student society can be, FIRST, LET’S look at the facts. In thing is, neither society seems to care, this? It means little to him or his society simply because they always have been. in the grand scheme of things, we are 1892, College couldn’t afford to build a neither society seems to want to expand because the simple matter is that they A great bloody big building helps them all just playing a game. Unfortunately building. In step some benefactors and or provide anything else. They have have that building and they aren’t going as well. in this game some societies have been the Graduates’ Memorial Building gets peaked and little has changed in the way to lose it any time soon. In a time when college authorities gifted a huge headstart. When all built. The catch, however, is that the they ply their trade in the fi ve years I If I was in his position I’m sure I still haven’t provided a student centre or societies are offered the advantage of building will in part always belong to have spent in this University. They don’t would have done the same. That’s the any public area for student activity alone large, comfortable common areas and the most prolifi c college societies of the seem to realise what a luxury the GMB crux of the argument. The Phil and the fact that the GMB remains under the historic buildings I think the sense of time. The Phil and the Hist have ruled really is. the Hist don’t need to deal with other control of twin societies that cater for, entitlement to which I earlier alluded the roost since. Fast forward a century The fact that the societies are two societies much, they don’t even need to maybe, two hundred current students might just get lost. or so and, simply put, I don’t hate them of the oldest student debating societies deal with their members much. As long on a regular basis is maddening. When for what they have, I hate them for not in the world coupled with the fantastic as every year, two thousand or so fi rst society rooms in the Atrium are closed Eoin Ó Braoin is the Secretary using it properly. surroundings from which they operate years sign up they don’t seem to care for access at the weekends and at ten o’ of DU Comedy Society. Despite While other societies share rooms leads to an air of self-importance and if their new members remain involved clock each evening it drives me loopy to Trinity News contacting several and spend an inordinate amount of gravitas that frankly has little place in in the society, as long as a fraction of see signs of life in the GMB. What makes current and former members of the time looking for venues for meetings the real world. I recall an incident with those members come to their events it worse it both societies think this is University Philosophical Society and and activities, the Phil and the Hist sit a former auditor of The Hist where I it doesn’t matter. As long as generous normal and not some ludicrous luxury College Historical Society, none were on high in the fi efdom that has been was asked “why would you do that to the alumni and the CSC continue to provide they have simply because of a legacy left available for comment. Church should not be judged by one man’s mistake The mishandling of the Cloyne abuse cases about. Does that mean I would have men ,who deceived the church as well as one of silence, that we should assume withdrawal of public services and it taken from the news, wiped off the the public, can destroy the respect and every priest in Ireland would have unemployment; many” people are papers and erased from the records of appreciation that thousands of priests done the same thing if faced with that returning to spiritualism and faith to was a grave error, but according to Ciara society? Not in a million years. throughout Ireland spent many years strengthen their hope for our bleak Victims of child abuse must be earning. looking future. Gately, all priests should not be tarred with heard, must be applauded for having Granted, there are many who might “For every corrupt The churches are fi lling up as people the courage to come forward to accuse me of being biased on account look for guidance (not to mention divine the same brush. prevent others from being abused, of my religion. But I want to shatter the priest who abused their intervention in the property market). and have every right to seek whatever twisted concept that every priest is a position, there are many So just when a Papal visit would be ASH CRISES, unemployment, so. compensation they wish, for what are paedophile in disguise simply because appreciated most, one bishop’s bad Lisbon re-vote and don’t But to add insult to serious injury, unimaginably traumatic incidents. I have seen so many good priests in more who quietly did decisions means that the whole country mention the words “Anglo- John Cooney of The Independent, Without any doubt, Bishop Magee was churches all over Ireland, some of whom their duty, kept their will be shunned. CIrish Bank” -- our poor state writes that tentative plans for Pope wrong to suppress these allegations and are now afraid to even mention the In times of scandal, when people has faced suffi cient turmoil within the Benedict XVI, to visit Ireland may be does not seem to have any excuse for his word ‘Cloyne’ for fear of being shouted vows and tried to make may lose their faith and the media attack last six months. If there was a prize for abolished due to the Cloyne affair. Plans actions. down. the Church as a whole, the Pope should “most miserable country in Europe”, were reportedly being considered for Yet what stings here is the The history of the Church is far from a difference in the most certainly not maintain a silent we’d have it in the bag. And if Ireland the Pope to visit Ireland later in 2009, generalising which will ensue. For every perfect, involving allegations of sexism world.” front or ignore the country that’s trying hadn’t enough trouble, the Cloyne coinciding with the 30th anniversary corrupt priest who abused the position and corruption to name but a few of to understand what went wrong in the scandal is now set to take our country to of his predecessor’s, Pope John Paul II, they were given, there are many more its ‘not so good’ moments. But the situation? parish of Cloyne. But a silent front is a new level of depression. visit to Ireland. who quietly did their duty, kept their entire concept of Church involves the However, it seems that if we are what we seem to be getting, as no words The Bishop of Cloyne, John Magee, As a practising Catholic, I watched vows and tried to make a difference in human interpretation of God, or as The treating the Catholic Church unjustly of assurance or advice has come through has been accused of mishandling child the progression of the Cloyne scandal the world. Yet it is those priests who Simpsons put it – “what would Jesus due to the Cloyne scandal, it may come from the Vatican and the unfortunate sex abuse allegations in a manner which on the news with a feeling of dread; will fade from public memory, who will do?”. full circle for us if the leader of the attitude seems to be the good auld “if has put children at risk. It brings back once again the Church will be accused, remain unrecognised, while we continue Needless to say, mankind has Catholic Church refuses to visit us on we ignore it, it will go away”. But this the sting of the many cases of child the collar will be associated with to associate Cloyne and other terrible frequently interpreted things the wrong account of the same Cloyne scandal, scandal must be faced down and dealt abuse in the church and controversy, paedophilia, and parish priests will be incidents with the word ‘priest’. way. But does this mean, even though This seems to me to be more than with, before the reputation of every due to the fact that despite calls for him afraid to even approach the subject It is frustrating to think that a one man felt that the best attitude in a bit ironic. With Ireland facing a good priest who dedicated their lives to to resign, Bishop Magee refuses to do which the congregation are all thinking collective group of about two hundred regards to a child abuse allegation was new period of fi nancial uncertainty, helping others in Ireland is destroyed. TRINITY NEWS January 27, 2009 EDITORIAL 17

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STUDENT CENTRE PUBLIC DISCOURSE Dear Editor, cases often of a sensitive and complex nature Intermission Studies Regulations. This in a most conscientious manner. The welfare of regulation was established by a working group I refer to a full page opinion piece in the Trinity College’s students is uppermost in the of which the Junior Dean was not a member. SEVERELY LACKING edition of Trinity News of January 13th last, Junior Dean’s dealings in all such issues. The requirement for students availing of these ‘Stokes: A dubious guardian?’ which due to its The Junior Dean is examining the recent regulations to sign a bond falls under the remit inaccurate, biased and destructive content in publication of an article in Piranha! on the of the Dean of Students. The policy was passed THE REPORTING of the progress of the Student Centre on relation to the Junior Dean, Dr Emma Stokes, grounds of the impact of the published article by Council in January 2008 and came into the front of this edition hardly makes for encouraging reading. the College requested that Trinity News and in terms of health and safety in particular. effect at the start of the 2008/2009 academic the author of the article provide a retraction Specifi cally, in relation to the opinion year. Prior to that the Senior Lecturer required It has emerged that plans that were previously drawn up have and apology with due prominence in the piece authored by Mr Gearóid O’Rourke students to sign a form, which on occasion, the been scrapped and that the project is back to square one. following edition of Trinity News. However, concerning the Junior Dean, the following Junior Dean arranged on behalf of the Senior It is now the case that the discussions around the Student having been contacted by College authorities in gross inaccuracies need to be retracted: Lecturer. relation to the publication of such a retraction, i) The Junior Dean did not ban Piranha! In relation to the publication of the above Centre have gone on longer than the term of any ordinary Trinity News’s editor, Mr Martin McKenna, College’s action in relation to its removal from allegations and inaccuracies, we wish to point undergraduate’s time in Trinity, so not many of the current has regrettably decided to refuse to do so. The circulation involved a broad range of College out that no clarifi cation was sought from the College has, therefore, been obliged to submit Offi cers. College by either the opinion piece’s author, Mr student body will remember Dr. Hegarty’s assertion in an this statement to set out the facts. ii) The creation of an Internal Press Gearóid O’Rourke, or the Trinity News’s editor. interview with Trinity News in 2003 that plans for the Student The following is some general context and Ombudsman was not initiated by the Junior We feel that this matter warrants serious Centre were “fi rmly in the pipeline”. SU Presidents come and comment on the situation: Dean: this was an initiative undertaken by consideration by the board of Trinity News in The Junior Dean is charged by the Board the College Secretary in discussions with the the implementation of professional and ethical go throughout this project, and now even the face of the College of the College with the general oversight of Senior Dean and Dean of Students. standards in the research and publication of authorities has changed, with Christoper Lyons fulfi lling the student conduct and, when required, action iii) The Junior Dean did not change the truthful and accurate editorial content. new role of Chief Operating Offi cer dealing with the project. is taken by her in accordance with College alcohol policy: she introduced operational regulations and statutes. As Junior Dean, Dr procedures in line with the policy regarding Yours sincerely, So much has been said on the nature of the Student Centre Emma Stokes, in carrying out these duties does times that free alcohol was available on that it would be redundant to repeat all the usual calls from so with the full support of all College Offi cers campus. Professor Patrick J.Prendergast students: another bar, a venue for events, reclaim Front Square and with the utmost integrity, dealing with iv) The Junior Dean did not change the Vice-Provost/ Chief Academic Offi cer from the administrators. Instead, we must learn from the unity of the ordinary student’s pleas on this topic over the last ten- odd years: they are not happy about this. Sadly, this latest development in the story is but symptomatic of a wider malaise regarding the plans for the Student Centre. The stakeholders in this project have not been nearly open Rooms with a view enough regarding the details of their progress. What is the necessity of the delay? What was the nature of the previous plan? Why exactly was it scrapped? None of these questions could be said to have been answered satisfactorily. Further, it is likely that the current students will end up paying for the Student Centre, if it ever arrives, despite the build time which will almost certainly outlast their degrees; such was the way the Sports Centre built, with Thomas Mitchell as provost introducing the £50 levy. Don’t forget, either, that despite this levy paid by students to build the Sport Centre, we are now paying to run it as well – with another levy, negotiated and put to referendum by another Students’ Union. For all these reasons, students must demand greater clarity from those involved. It is very diffi cult to avoid becoming cynical of the apparent bureaucracy and ineffi ciency that current developments seem to represent. It is also diffi cult to imagine how the Students’ Union, with its annually-changing composition, can deliver a message with the requisite consistency to effectively achieve its aims of delivering a Student Centre to students’ own needs and desires. Whatever the case, it is certain that the Students’ Union and the College authorities have not participated enough in the public discourse with students to allay such fears.

SU DIVERSIFICATION IS The Trinity rooftops provided this extraordinary view to onlookers on July 19, 1919 celebrating success in the Great War. TO BE COMMENDED I SPOTTED this remarkable photograph in DURING THE Students’ Union’s silly 2007 the recently-published Our War: Ireland and campaign to have the Irish tricolour fl own over the Great War, edited by John Horne and the college there was mention of fl ag protocol, THERE ARE many arguments to be made for and against published by the Royal Irish Academy. The but I have never encountered any in print. the range of services that the Students’ Union provides to the image shows men and women watching, from OLD TRINITY I have noticed that when a foreign dignitary the roofs of Trinity College, a victory parade on visits Trinity, the fl ag of Ireland fl ies above population of Trinity. Some might say that certain professional Westmoreland Street. The parade, which took by PETER HENRY Regent House, the fl ag of the visitor’s country services could better be provided by the College authorities place on July 19, 1919, celebrated success in the above number seven, and the impressively- themselves; others would defend the independence of the Great War. large fl ag of Trinity College above number Perhaps there was no rule against accessing many sports clubs’ ties. But this idea was given four. On Commencements days, the fl ag of the student representation. Ultimately, as with any organisation, roofs in 1919, or an exception may have been up in favour of fl ying the tricolour on one side, University Senate fl ies above Regent House. On there are many facets to their operation and it is perfectly made for the parade. But the modern DU the union fl ag on the other, with the college fl ag St Patrick’s Day, the fl ag of Ireland fl ies above Calendar is unequivocal: these days, “College in the middle. Regent House. And when a fellow passes away, acceptable to support some initiatives while rejecting others roofs and attic spaces are out of bounds.” By the mid-1930s the fl ying of the union the fl ag of Trinity College fl ies half-staff above – there is without doubt room for varying personal opinion. The spectacle we see in this photograph fl ag was considered provocative rather than Regent House. This paper does not shirk from expressing such opinions, may never be repeated, but regulations are anachronistic and it fl ew, offi cially, for the last But these are only observations: I do not occasionally ignored. Before the renovation of time, half-staff, on the passing of King George know the specifi cs. either positive or negative. In the case of this editorial however, rooms in Parliament Square in 2006, several V in 1936. Dubliners did not complain, but support is roundly given to a recent development: the SU Shop’s attic doors were unlocked, giving easy access to the Deputy Ulster King of Arms wrote to the THANKS TO Kevin Cunningham, BA 2007, decision to stock Schweppe’s Tonic Water. the roofs. In 2005, following a day’s drinking college to point out the heraldic irregularity of currently at Oriel College, Oxford, who sent me in College Park, I was lucky enough to be able the gesture. the following quote from Jonathan Bardon’s A As with most nascent initiatives, there were initial stumbling to watch the St Patrick’s weekend fi reworks When Germany surrendered on May 7, History of Ireland in 250 Episodes. Students of blocks: it took a few days for the bottles to be moved into their sitting at the chimneys of number ten. The 1945, the union fl ag was seen again – this time Trinity College in the late eighteenth century, following year, a companion and I had a close as a result of student initiative. Some excited Bardon writes, “acquired a reputation for wild rightful home in the chilled cabinet. But despite this, students escape from the porters when we were spotted undergraduates gained access to the roof of and debauched behaviour.” He continued: and staff are unquestionably better served now than before by boozing on the roof of number eight during Regent House and hoisted every fl ag they could “Sons of nobles and gentlemen for the most this welcome diversifi cation of the SU Shop’s assortment. Trinity Ball. get their hands on: among them the union jack, part, they strode about wearing gowns trimmed I would certainly not support allowing the Soviet fl ag, the tricolour and the stars and with gold or silver according to rank. Some The positive attributes of this particular libation need hardly be crowds of people unrestricted access to roofs. stripes. The union fl ag, for whatever reason, could afford to dine at the Eagle Tavern, home communicated to our readership. In the event that some visitors (Look at the chap sitting on the ledge of number was above the fl ag of Ireland on the staff, and of the notorious Hell-Fire Club, or risk a duel are perhaps reading this, and in the interests of completeness, seven – not safe!) But this picture highlights some members of an extremist political group, at Lucas’s Coffee-House on Cork Hill. Others the contrast between those more relaxed days taking offence at this, burned a union fl ag on would eat beefsteaks in The Old Sot’s Hole we shall nonetheless do so. Tonic Water, the oldest soft drink and our era of health and safety gone mad. College Green. The students, probably for a on Essex Bridge or mingle with the humbler in the world, is an unquestionable necessity in the fridge of any Risk is an element of day-to-day life, but some laugh, burned an Irish fl ag above Regent House classes in the ale-houses of Winetavern Street. apparatchiks’ refusal to acknowledge this leads in response. Not unexpectedly, this led to anger Generally known as ‘bucks’, they were often self-respecting Trinity denizen. Its old-fashioned bitterness is to closed-off balconies, an excess of security, on the streets, and it was a week before tensions eager to join fi ghts in the narrow streets, perfectly commensurate with our rarefi ed atmosphere. and less fun for all. in Dublin lifted. wielding the heavy keys to their rooms as Thus, the Students’ Union are hereby commended for their THE UNION FLAG fl ies above number Did Charles Haughey – a UCD student at the weapons.” seven in this photograph. I wonder what fl ag time – burn the union fl ag that day? An Irish Today’s “bucks” are still fi ghting and continuing efforts to better serve their charges. After all, you fl ew above Regent House that day, if any? Times obituary says so, as does Ian Wood’s drinking on Dublin’s streets. But these days it’s never forget to buy the gin. 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IN BRIEF

Invasion LUKE MAISHMAN

ZOOLOGY DUNG BEETLES HAVE BECOME of the MILLIPEDE MURDERERS DUNG BEETLES (Scarabaeidae) normally feed on animal faeces, which they gather into balls and roll with their bodies hind legs. However, one species has had enough of this lifestyle and has intrigued scientists by becoming a carnivore. The species Deltochilum valgum’s preferred food is fresh millipede up to 14 times its size, which it often completely decapitates when killing. Dr Tond Larsen of Princeton University decided to investigate the species in the wild after observing one of the dung beetles grappling with a millipede.

POLITICS OBAMA: A WELCOME CHANGE FOR SCIENTISTS Impressive though the whole body Among other guests, particularly the smokers among GLOBALLY Bodies the Exhibit brings to Dublin cadavers are, there are also many exhibits, Bod- us: A display showing the gruesomely displays that show only single organs or ies the exhibit blackened lungs of a chronic smoker THE NEW president’s stance on climate change a fascinating opportunity to see the limbs. A median sagittal section of the gives visitors the and a slice of pockmarked emphysema and stem cell use are a welcome change for many head offers a cross section, showing the chance to see infected lung are accompanied by the scientists tired of the “anti-intellectual nature of the anatomy of real dissected human bodies, internal organisation of the mouth, the the muscular explanation that tobacco smoke is one Bush administration” as noted by Professor Sulston airways and the esophagus as well as the system of the of the major causes of emphysema. Next of Manchester University. Obama has promised to perfectly preserved in a variety of poses. size of the tongue muscle, the skull and body. to this display a waist height transparent reverse the ban on federal funding of embryonic parts of the brain. The skin on the head container with a cigarette box size slot stem cell research, to introduce a system of permits By Luke Maishman world since it opened in Tampa, Florida is surprisingly thick I see, as thick as the in the top already contains four boxes for polluting similar to the EU’s Emission Trading Science Editor on August 20, 2005. skull bone in many places, and the brain of Marlboro and is accompanied by a Scheme and to re-engage with the international All of the bodies are preserved is exactly the same colour as it is in fi lms sign proclaiming, “On average a pack climate policy negotiations. STANDING IN a darkened room, permanently, predominantly by and diagrams – something that I had of cigarettes takes three hours and forty people all around me, the gentle babble plastination. The water and fat are always wondered about. minutes off your life. We’d like you to be of chatter. A lady in front of me moves replaced by plastics, yielding specimens Some of the more interesting small around longer. Leave your cigarettes in MEDICINE and I see a corpse staring back at me. that can be touched, do not smell or displays show only the blood vessels for this gallery and stop smoking now.” His blank eyes glare at me from a face decay, and even retain most microscopic a particular limb. In one display the The fetus and embryo display is ACUPUNCTURE BETTER THAN that has no skin, indeed he has no properties of the original sample. There vascular system of a leg and foot are separated slightly from the rest of the skin at all, the red meat of his muscles has been controversy about the showing all that remain, the intricate wool of exhibit and can be skipped entirely – CONVENTIONAL DRUGS? stretching across his limbs and torso. I of the exhibit, particularly in the US, blood vessels is so tightly knit that one measures to protect the sensitivities of turn, only to be confronted by another based on sourcing of the bodies from can clearly make out the outline of the guests. In the same way, if the reader A REVIEW by the Cochrane Collaboration has carcass sneering down at me, this one the Chinese government and fears that is sensitive to this issue I advise that unveiled scientifi c has no front to his chest. Transfi xed, my the bodies were not voluntarily donated they skip the rest of this paragraph. evidence for benefi cial brain focuses on the detail, noting the for such use. Unphased, I take a look and am able to effects of acupuncture. delicate spider-web of nerve fi bres in The exhibit is set up so that one “On average a pack of follow the progression from a four-week- Reviews were carried his chest cavity. Starting, I tear myself starts at the skeletal system, and cigarettes takes three old blob, about an eighth the size of my out on tension type away and run, pushing through the more layers are added as one moves fi ngernail, to the 16 week old, which headaches and migraines. crowds, who seem strangely unalarmed through the show: muscular, nervous, hours and forty minutes is bigger than both my fi sts together. Results show that and apathetic, they slow me as I feel the circulatory, digestive, respiratory, The fi rst to have eyes is the seven week acupuncture is superior to preventative drugs panic rising. I am confronted by more of urinary, and reproductive systems. off your life. We’d old while the eight week old is the fi rst for a migraine and reduces the frequency of the remains – a skeleton leers down at There is also a section showing the like you to be around embryo to be clearly human shaped. headaches when used with painkillers. However me; half of a woman, a jumble of tubes anatomical effects of diseases such as By my estimate 14 foetus and embryo the study found that the location of the needles is and organs seeming about to fall out tuberculosis and the effects of smoking longer. Leave your bodies must have gone into the making not as important as acupuncturists believe, making of her open left side. In desperation I on the body. A side display on embryo cigarettes in this gallery of this display. The sign at its entrance no difference to the effect of the treatment for turn again, but the crowd is too thick, I and fetus development is separated notes that the corpses all died as a result headaches and only a small difference to treatment cannot see the door. There are corpses from the rest of the exhibit by a sign that and stop smoking of complications during pregnancy and of migraines. all around me now. notes the potentially upsetting nature every foetus and embryo on display died I did not wake up and realise that it of embryonic and fetal bodies, with the now.” in the womb. had all been a nightmare; the above is option for guests to skip straight to the It took me an hour and twenty SURPRISING SPECIES an account, if rather imaginative, of a next part of the exhibit. original limb. Corrosion casting is used minutes to see the whole exhibit. Tickets real exhibit, which you can see in Dublin Most of the cadavers have several to make these, a sign explains; a dye are €20 0r €16 with student card, COOKIECUTTER SHARK this week. The Bodies exhibition, which of their systems still in place, normally pumped into the blood system hardens which is not bad for such a unique and premiered in Dublin on 24th January with the skin removed and sometimes and the fl esh and other body parts are engaging, if slightly gruesome activity. THE COOKIECUTTER in the Ambassador on O’Connell sections of the underlying systems cut removed by chemical methods. A whole I do not think that, as one comment on shark, Isistius brasiliensis, Street, is a controversial display of real away to allow us to see into the inner body corrosion cast shows the complete the website suggests, it will change the measures about 50 cm in human bodies that have been dissected anatomy of the body. One particularly network of arteries, capillaries and way you think about your body forever. length and is considered and preserved, then put on display in impressive display near the start of the veins. But it certainly offers more insight than a parasite. It is named for various poses and with different parts of exhibition has the entire muscle system In the section on disease and a half day in the Hamilton library, with its peculiar eating method; the anatomy revealed. The exhibition of a man posed as dancing with his damage to the body one gets a sense that the opportunity to look at the insides of cutting perfectly circular has shown in many locations around the grinning skeleton. the creators would like to better their real human bodies to boot. discs from the skin of marine creatures much larger than itself. Scientists think that the cookiecutter seizes its prey with its jaw then rotates its body to achieve the circular cut.

Education’s greatest enemy … and ally? EGGHEAD OF THE ISSUE TYCHO BRAHE By Shane Heffernan game Whyville?, a Sims-esque experience Secondly, games can adapt to the pace of experienced in gaming will be familiar with Science Correspondent aimed at conveying simple scientifi c, the user. Slower learners need not get left such systems. You slay an enemy; you get TYCHO BRAHE (1546- historical and economic concepts to kids behind and the best and brightest are no a magic sword for your troubles. You win a 1601) was the fi rst to WE ALL blame video games for dragging through interaction with the virtual world longer bound to the pace of the class. This race; you get a better car etc. make enough accurate kids and teens (and some of us well beyond thrown up by the game. Whyville? currently does, of course, sound like streaming and These factors help keep interest up where observations to catalogue our teens) away from their learning has over 4 million subscribers worldwide the question arises: Can it actually close it might wane. the Planets, his data responsibilities. There is, however, a growing and actively promotes its own adoption into the gap between B and D students? The Theoretically it all adds up to a better allowed Kepler to derive conviction amongst educational experts teacher’s curriculum. Some of the proposed answer, apparently, is yes. Games capitalise education for all but there is still the the laws of planetary motion. It was believed that effective video gaming technology advantages of games such as this over on different learning styles by presenting question of standardisation hanging over that Brahe died after his bladder burst at can become the saviour of education, blackboard learning are as follows: information in multiple visual and auditory this proposed medium of education. The a banquet as he was too polite to excuse particularly in keeping kids interested in Firstly, video gaming demands the modes. Information dosage is managed so success of an educational video game is himself, but recent investigations suggest engineering and science. participation of the student. The student is that no student gets lost early on. Complex not guaranteed and is a function of the suicide by mercury poisoning as a likely Many studies have shown that learning involved in every step of progression through tasks are presented fi rst as a small core pedagogical teaching practices embedded cause of death. through participation in appropriately tasks set out by the game and every action experience that is practiced multiple times in the game as well as the successful designed video games can be signifi cantly undertaken yields a response from the before being progressively extended into a implementation of all the features of design more effective in its methods than the game. By contrast, the average student in a longer, more complicated sequence. mentioned above. Costs associated with ON THIS DAY (27 JANUARY) … traditional dictation of a teacher or lecturer. classroom typically asks 0.11 questions per Furthermore, the interest of the less assessing a game’s worth as a teaching Indeed, video gaming has already found class. There is therefore little incentive to knowledge-hungry student is maintained medium may well ensure our kids will be » IN 1880, Thomas Edison received a patent its way into educational systems in various stay tuned in once something goes over your through rewards given out for completion toiling through Texts and Tests questions on for his electric incandescent lamp. forms, most notably the online subscription head. of even the most simple of tasks. Anyone their school nights just like us. IN 1948 the fi rst cassette tape recorder was announced. The ‘Wireway’ machine with a THE AERAS Global TB Vaccine so pharmaceutical fi rms have little A modern, safe and effective built-in oscillator sold for $149.50. Foundation is a global non-profi t SCIENCE WITH incentive to develop vaccines as there is vaccine is needed to prevent all forms research organisation founded in 2003 little revenue potential. of TB in all age groups. This is where IN 1950, Science announced a new antibiotic that is dedicated to the development A TB vaccine called the Bacille Aeras steps in – the organisation terramyacin, developed following 20 million of effective tuberculosis (TB) vaccine A CONSCIENCE Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine has works with scientists, academic tests on soil samples from around the world. treatments. TB is a serious and highly existed since 1921, but new drug- institutions, industry, foundations and contagious disease that is often fatal is resistant strains of TB have caused its governments throughout the world not treated properly, and it kills over 1.7 re-emergence as a threat worldwide. to ensure rapid development of at COMPETITION million people every year. The disease TB is often thought of as a disease of least one new vaccine for infants and primarily attacks the lungs, but also the past, or of developing countries; one for adolescents, and to ensure AND THE WINNER IS... attacks other parts of the body such as Compiled by Ailbhe Goodbody however, cases are on the rise in the availability of the vaccines when the kidneys, the spine and the brain. ? Europe, especially in countries like they are ready for use. Four TB vaccine THE WINNER of the Science with a Conscience A vaccine is a preparation that Spain and Portugal. TB is also the candidates are currently undergoing competition was Shane Heffernan, who’s entry stimulates the body’s immune system this person then has exposure to the leading cause of death among those human trials and two more are expected about Benjamin Kuipers was published in our 25 to fi ght off a disease. The weakened or disease, the body has antibodies to infected with HIV, with one-third of the to enter trials in 2009. With suffi cient November 2008 issue. We would like to thank dead microorganisms of the disease prevent the illness from taking hold. 33.2 million people living with HIV also resources, Aeras projects that it could all contenders for their excellent submissions are injected into the body, causing the However, economics is a challenge suffering from TB. Without treatment, have a new TB vaccine ready as soon as and note the extraordinary diffi culty in choosing immune system to develop antibodies in vaccine development; diseases such about 90% of people with HIV die within 2016, with the potential to save millions between such high quality entries. without the person becoming sick. If as TB exist principally in poor countries, three months of contacting TB. of lives. To the left is one of the fi rst runners up. TRINITY NEWS 20 TRAVEL January 27, 2009 Chasing Avoiding the cheese

By Derek Larney sky-high Travel Editor THERE IS nothing like a good race down a hill to get the adrenaline pumping and no-one does hill racing better than the local community of Cooper’s Hill near Cheltenham, home of the annual and world famous ‘Rolling of the Cheese’ air fares race. What exactly is the Rolling of the Cheese you may ask? To put it in simple There can be nothing more frustrating to fi nd terms it is a race where by an 8lb Double Gloucester Cheese is rolled from the top out those on the same fl ight are paying less of a very steep hill and is chased by a horde of locals and tourists. Every year than you are. Arm yourself with some tips to the festival takes place on the Spring Bank Holiday weekend and thousands fi nd those cheapies, writes Derek Larney pack the surrounding villages to witness this spectacled. The winner of the race is determined E ALL love a bargain business travelers and demand often either by the person to grab the cheese and this is very much exceeds supply so naturally the price will before it crosses the fi nish line or the a truism when it rise. By attempting to fl y on Tuesdays fi rst person over the fi nish line. As the comes to fl ights. you give yourself the best possible cheese bounces its way down the steep Nothing gives us chance of a cheaper fl ight. This rule gradient it reaches speeds of up to moreW satisfaction in traveling than the is only applicable on busy routes with 70mph, therefore it is rarely caught. knowledge that we just fl ew across a numerous fl ights a day which operate The winner normally comes bailing whole continent for less than €30 and every day of the week. down the hill soon thereafter only for the fact that a taxi to the fi nal destination Another way of fi nding cheap their uncontrollable run to come to a can often cost more than the fl ight. With fl ights is to have your ear to the halt with the aid of volunteers from the this in mind we decided to examine the ground about sales. The best way to local rugby team. tactics that anyone can use in pursuit do this is to subscribe to a websites Injuries such as twisted ankles and of rock-bottom fl ights, tactics which if weekly newsletter which should fl ag broken bones are common, a fl eet of used correctly can see you fl y for free or any bargains in advance. For instance ambulances awaits work at the bottom next to nothing. this week Iceland Express sent me a of the hill each year. In 2005 the last Firstly one must have impeccable newsletter advertising £90 one-way race of the day had to be postponed for timing. There is no defi ned time to book fl ights from London to Reykjavik- a an hour as there was an innumerable a fl ight to receive the best price but the steal considering normal fares are amount of injuries and the master of conventional wisdom on giving yourself around £150. By having subscriptions ceremonies had to wait for ambulances the best chances is to do so at least to budget airline sites you can know to return from the hospital. three weeks before fl ying for fl ights in in advance when bargains are due to The Rolling of the Cheeses has the EU and thirty days for those leaving become available. recently spread to Canada- the Dairy it. Occasional bargains do occur the day Lately Ryanair has taken to giving Farmers of Canada now hold their before a fl ight but these are too few to fl ights away for 1p- no taxes or charges keep an eye on prices without having to offer great value for money. own annual cheese rolling event in the rely on. Another key factor is fl exibility- need to be paid, penny fl ights are search for them daily. By taking account Although not as popular as they CHEAP FLIGHTS ON THE WEB ski resort town of Whistler in British by playing around with dates on a budget available. The annoying thing about this of fl uctuations you can arm yourself with were a decade ago courier fl ights still do Colombia. However, the Cooper’s Hill airlines site it is possible to save money. is the €5 per fl ight credit card charge the knowledge of when is a good time to exist and can give the fl exible traveler » Attitudetravel.com The fi rst event is still the original and the one that Flying home on Sundays will generally that is added on at the last moment. book. Other versions of Kayak include a heavily discounted long haul fl ight. stop for budget airlines world- attracts dozens of foreign competitors be more expensive than taking a fl ight But there is a way to avoid it. Ryanair AirfareWatchdog.com and Momondo. Courier fl ights involve giving up your wide. Offers a comprehensive to it each year. Anyone who is up for on a Monday for example. In fact, if you do not charge this fee for users of Visa com. FlyerTalk.com is a useful forum baggage allowance to a company who breakdown of who fl ies where a bit of hill racing is free to enter the want to hit the sweet spot of the week Electron cards- unfortunately no Irish where frequent fl yers discuss the merits wishes to transport urgent parcels or and when. Air Deccan who fl y competition at no cost- organisers always try to fl y on Tuesdays followed by bank issues these but there is a way to of one airline over another as well as documents and needs someone to hand from Kuwait to the Maldives advise potential competitors to make Wednesdays. The reasoning for this is access them. Go to EntroPay.com and containing plenty of bargain alerts on the delivery over to a representative at for as low as €90 one way. themselves known to the master of simple- Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays register for an online virtual credit cheap fares. the airport. Sites such as AirHitch.org » Skyscanner.net An excellent ceremonies before the race. are the preserve of people on weekend card. Ensure the currency selected is in Another technique for cheap long and Courier.org charge their members site that will check prices for In all four races take place and this city breaks, Mondays and Fridays are STG£. Then load up the minimum on haul fl ights is the use of so called ‘bucket a yearly subscription fee for details of a number of airlines on the year the fi rst cheese will be bowled off the busiest days for the card (€10 but they charge shops’. These are travel agents that are these fl ights. Courier fl ights are only route you need. It even gives the top of the hill at 12pm on Monday a 4.95% commission so it will found mainly in immigrant suburbs of really for those who are very fl exible live prices and a link if you 25th of May. The offi cial website for the costco €10.50). Then pay for your large cities. When an airline cannot fi ll with dates and are traveling solo. wish to book straight away. Rolling of the Cheeses can be accessed pennyp fl ight using Visa Electron a plane they typically dump tickets on However, for the patient traveler they » TravelZoo.com Mainly a web- at www.cheese-rolling.co.uk. There are in the drop down menu. Bingo! these agents at reduced prices. If you can prove to be the cheapest way of site for U.S. offers. Subscribe also some good videos of cheese rolling A fl ight for a penny! 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By Paul McDonnell after visitors tackle the 366 narrow, Belgian beers. De Halve Maan brewery winding steps. Along the way however BRUGES: FAST FACTS is the only remaining family brewery the mechanism of its 47 bells can be operating in the area producing Brugse ‘MAYBE THAT’S what ‘ell is, an entire seen along with the records of the city, » Getting There: Nearest airport Zot. A tour of the Brewery including eternity spent in fucking Bruges’. These housed behind an iron gate. Built in the is Ostend- Bruges; samples costs a modest €4.50 and is are the immortal words uttered by Ray 13th century the Belfry has been rebuilt many fl y instead to Charleroi available throughout the week. Their in the cinematic insight of Bruges aptly three times due to fi re damage and has with Ryanair. Sample fare at restaurant is the ideal location for named, In Bruges. From the outset Colin become the main icon of civic pride the end of January is €83. views of the adjacent streets and local Farrell’s cynical protagonist openly for the town. Another relic to a more delicacies with an alcoholic twist. proclaims his disgust at being trapped in opulent era is the Church of Our Lady » Beds: Snuffl e Backpacker After a few hours in Bruges the the boring, lifeless, conservative Belgian where a Michelangelo Madonna and Hostel has rooms from €13 touristy feeling wears off and you town. However as the fi lm progresses Child can be found, the only piece by the per night. Includes free wi-fi , feel like a local. Life is extremely laid the location takes on an idyllic fantasy artist to leave Italy in his lifetime. breakfast and walking tours. back and peaceful with little oddities nature that is steeped in sentiment Across the Burg square from the constantly introduced to daily life; such and beauty. The serene nature of the Belfry is the Basilica of the Holy Blood, » Price of a pint: from €1.80 as a unique glass for each type of beer surroundings and fascinating legacy of known locally as Heilig Bloed Basiliek. and the closure of the chocolate shops its buildings implore viewers to explore Flamboyantly decorated it moulds » Three course meal: €35 in hot weather. It’s the type of city the wonderland and appreciate the Romanesque and Gothic architecture that you assume was the exact same town beyond the chocolate-making and into one ostentatious chapel adorned decades ago and was spared the hassle ‘gay beer’. Perhaps this endorsement with gold leaf and marble fl oors. A of technology. is why the Bruges authorities kept the crystal vile reputed to contain a drop of The best way to enjoy Bruges is to Christmas decorations up until March Christ’s blood was obtained by Dietrich rent a bike, tour the windmills, take so that fi lming could take place. The of Alsace during the Second Crusade in a culinary tour or two and relax in location is aliased as The Venice of The and this is housed in the upper chapel a café with a pint of Duvel, safe in the North which if nothing else with ensure and is presented to the public every knowledge that the Belgians insist it maintains its position as the second Friday. A stones throw away from Photo By Wolfgang Staudt to when the citizens revolted against that the components of their brew most visited place in Belgium. the Basilica is the equally impressive Emperor Maximillian of Austria and are essential to maintain lifelong The city is one of the few remaining gothic town hall with dramatic interior the cobbled streets and 172,000 tones of and Friday and combining the culinary his advisor Pieter Lanckhals. Lanckhals equilibrium. truly Medieval European cities with very illustrations documenting the great the stuff produced every year. Producers delicacies (waffl es, beer and chocolate) was executed and when Maximillian Note: For those looking to be able to few restoration projects and virtually historic events of Bruges. Like many are connoisseurs of the art and unrivalled with the medieval industry. Surprising managed to escape his prosecutors he say they slept in the same bed as Colin no modern eye-sores. Its roots lie in of its neighbours the exterior has been in international markets so it is the ideal Chocolate Tastes sees Bruges’s top chefs decreed that until the end of time the Farrell (or even Brendan Gleeson) a history of trading which reached a shaped and carved from a destructive place to test the best as its goes directly attempt to create an array of chocolate waters of Bruges will be required to the hotel featured in In Bruges is pinnacle in the 13th and 14th centuries. tumultuous past which displays the from kitchen to shop creating a rich inspired menus over a two month period keep swans – the reason being the swans the boutique residence of Relais The focal point of the city is dominated juxtaposing artistry and architectural cocoa aroma throughout the town. beginning in February. The canals of long neck which is translated in Dutch Bourgondisch Cruyce Hotel. Also by the Belfry or Belfort, an 88-metre- styles of various centuries. Quasimodo Tours showcase the Belgian Bruges are clustered with swans and this to ‘Lange hals’…or ‘Lanckhals’! the restaurant where Ray enjoys an high bell tower which offers panoramic Bruges is every chocoholics dream chocolate experience in their Triple is refl ected in their offi cial chocolate; Another unmissable Brugian eventful meal with a prostitute friend is views over the surrounding areas – with 2,000 chocolate emporiums lining Treat tour running Monday, Wednesday The Bruges Swan. This title dates back produce is its vast collection of 350 Cafedraal, one of the fi nest in Bruges. TRINITY NEWS January 27, 2009 SPORT 21 Our mixed martial artists

By Mark Havel repeats to his associates that the event sold via KO, TKO, Tapout (making his opponent the UFC is the only big promoter, it has great out in only 4 days. Despite the rapid sale of give up, usually with a submission), or via a ease in putting together the big fi ghts that Hockey tickets, most people are still unaware of what points decision if the fi ght goes the distance. people want to see. SATURDAY THE 17th of January saw the the sport is, or even what it’s called. The But the MMA combatants are not to As of yet Trinity has no MMA sports club. Ultimate Fighting Championship’s (UFC) UFC promotes and runs Mixed Martial Arts be confused with tough men. During the although Judo Club members Pat Wheen, Colours fi rst ever event in the Republic of Ireland at events, or MMA. sports beginning it is true that a few tough Kevin Lally and Conor Flanagan, and non the new O2 arena. UFC 93, as it was called, Unlike other combat sports, like boxing, or brawlers rose to prominence, but today’s Judo club member Mark Havel have all saw such high profi le fi ghts as former Pride kick-boxing or anything else you can think athlete is well versed in many different competed in the Irish MMA League. Conor middleweight champion Dan Henderson, of, MMA athletes have at their disposal a fi ghting styles from Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu to won his weight division in 2005 and Mark Preview defeating former UFC middleweight Rich vast array of techniques which they can use Maui Thai, as well have as having excellent did the same in 2008. UCD has already Franklin by a point’s decision and Mauricio to defeat their opponents. They can throw cardio. caught onto this new sport, they have an Rua defeating Mark Coleman by technical punches, kicks, knees, elbows, they can The success of the UFC is partly to do the affi liated training camp to SBG, an MMA knock-out. grab hold of each other, throw each other fact that it is the only big MMA promoter. school run by Irelands fi rst Brazilian Jiu- THE 2009 Colours hockey extravaganza, due The event also saw the debut of the to the ground, and even on the ground the What this means is that the UFC titles, Jitsu Black Belt John Kavanagh, who himself to take place in UCD on Tuesday February Republics fi rst ever UFC fi ghter, Tom Egan. fi ghting does not stop. While on the ground Heavyweight champ, Lightweight champ, has a professional MMA record of 3 wins 3rd, promises to be as fi ercely contended and Although, much to the disappointment of the opponents can still strike each other, and and so on, are widely regarded as the and 3 losses. SBG is also where previously unpredictable as ever. ecstatic crowd, Egan failed to make it out of try to submit each other using various defi nitive titles. So unlike boxing, which as mentioned UFC fi ghter Tom Egan trains. Unlike the corresponding fi xture in most team the fi rst round, losing by TKO, but at only 20 submission techniques; arm-bars, chokes, vast number of organisations handing out Two TCD students, Mark Havel and David sports, Colours in hockey is contested over nine years of age, he’s sure to be seen again. leg-locks, and the list goes on. All this is done titles, there is only one noteworthy MMA Leen currently train at SBG. The popularity games, with four men’s teams and fi ve ladies sides The popularity of the event took many inside of an Octagon shaped cage during Heavyweight Champion, and that is the UFC is there, and within the next few years it lining out over the course of the day. This means by surprise, including UFC president Dana three fi ve minute rounds, or fi ve fi ve minute Heavyweight Champ. This makes the sport would not be at all surprising if Trinity had a that the often ignored lower division sides in each White, who, on his video blog, constantly rounds for a title fi ght. A competitor can win very accessible to new fans. Also, because MMA club of its own. club have the power to win the day for their college – so for example even if the First XI for both ladies and men were to lose (touch wood), victories for their teammates on the seconds on down would give Trinity a commanding overall victory. As a result, Colours is an occasion which promotes camaraderie within each club, wearing away the divisions that can often exist between serious and social sides. It may be somewhat less convivial than in previous years, however: The A quick powers that be in UCDD, unhappy with the drinking that traditionally accompanies this festival of hocky, have restricted the hosts to a 9am – 2pm slot on the day, into which all 9 matches have to be squeezed. Rumours abound that stringent security will surround the event to ensure that no supporters – or even players, as has been known to happen – are tempted to to smuggle in some refreshments. look at lax James McGann, part of the UCD organising team, is unconcerned about the effect this may have: “It’ll only supply us with more drinking time before the By Conor James McKinney an especially large net at the end of their Ball”, he points out. College Sport Editor stick - known technically as the crosse But the antics of social teams aside, Colours - so as to fulfi ll their preventative role is fi rst and foremost about victory. Trinity were OF ALL the sporting wonders that have more effectively. The women’s version pushing for a third title in a row last year but went crossed “on oyster-gray wind” over of the game is entirely non-contact, down 6-2 to the D4 foe (two matches being drawn). the Atlantic, lacrosse is the latest and while the men’s is more robust; Trinity This time around, the UCD Men’s First XI will look quite possibly the best, with intentional Lacrosse captain Diarmuid Farrelly to lead by example against Johnny Orr’s Trinity disrespect to the mind numbing stop- lauds it as “a fast-paced game, but it’s got Firsts. “Their position in Division Two shows how start trainwreck that is American the physicality too… it’s like ice-hockey, weak they are this year”, says McGann, who cockily football. Its history is interesting in but for Ireland.” That comparison predicts a 9-0 whitewash in UCD’s favour. itself, given that lacrosse has a good certainly holds true for the goals, which The men’s matches should be closer that than claim to be the oldest team sport in the are placed a few metres in from the this, at least: the Trinity First XI may be struggling world, and tinged with the poignancy end lines so that play can go on behind in Division 2, but their opposition look set to join of association with the doomed Native them. The exact attributes of the sport Training in UCD, providing us with all the gear”, which meetings with [DUCAC offi cial] Drinda them next season. Firmly rooted to the bottom American peoples who invented the are hard to capture in print – which in which was at- means that new players won’t have to Jones and she’s been good to me”. of the fi rst division, UCD suffered a 0-7 reversal “Creator’s Game” as far back as the 15th no way excuses the US governing body’s tended by Trinity put hand to pocket while trying it out. The club in UCD provides a good against Pembroke Wanderers in their last league century. bewildering description of lacrosse as “a students for the Amongst the beginners is Siobhan model; set up in 2005, it has sent outing, a result which was reportedly followed Modern lacrosse originates, as with combination of basketball, soccer and fi rst time last Carroll, who used to play hockey before teams to the likes of Frankfurt and by dissension and acrimony amongst the squad. so much else of worth, with the Jesuits, hockey” – so the best way to experience week. Photo: a back injury forced her into premature Vienna, and plans a trip to Amsterdam With the Trinity Seconds ahead of their UCD one of whom took note of a match it is probably to try it out for yourself. Jess Pakenham- retirement. The attraction of lacrosse? in a couple of weeks. Despite stiff counterparts in their division and our Thirds ranked he saw played back in 1683 (thereby Which is exactly what a score or so Money “I miss team sports, and everyone’s a competition with a host of other fi eld two divisions ahead of the men they will face on becoming something of a pioneer in the hardy Trinity students did on a chilly beginner here”, she shrugs. Farrelly sports on campus, it has a membership Tuesday, it should certainly be possible to reverse fi eld of sports journalism as well). The Thursday evening last week. Run in echoes this as a pull factor for new of around 85, of which three quarters last year’s results and make UCD choke on their game watched by Fr. Jean de Brebeuf SJ conjunction with an established club recruits: “there’s no pressure, it’s not are Irish. Anecdotal evidence suggests boasts. has played amongst the Huron tribe in in UCD and Dublin Lacrosse, the about winning, it’s about having fun”. that the club is fairly well known and The ladies matches will have a disproportionate Ontario, and more than three centuries introductory sessions were aimed at On top of the native players being well established on campus. bearing on the overall outcome, given that they on something very similar is still the giving beginners a taste of lacrosse and wooed, there should enough Americans Easier done in Belfi eld with its account for 6 of the 10 fi xtures on the day, and here national sport of Canada. introduce some of the basic catching, – easily identifi able tonight from their copious and beautiful sports facilities the picture is a little more cloudy. The Ladies Firsts, The subsequent spread of lacrosse holding and passing skills. Sean, a familiar manner with the crosse if the (I restrain myself from unleashing as is well documented, have been poor so far this across the English-speaking world has Boston-born enthusiast with more than accent weren’t enough of a hint – to yet another diatribe about the S-word season, although much improved since Christmas. largely passed Ireland by. It has a large a hint of his original American accent, keep the club afl oat, as has been the only with diffi culty). The diffi culties They have however done well against UCD in their following in England and the USA, says that Dublin Lacrosse was just “me case with other clubs playing imported associated with accessing our own league meetings, conceding one close encounter as well a presence in Australia, New and two other guys when it started fi ve sports, such as DU Ultimate Frisbee and grounds off-campus have no doubt been by a single goal and drawing the other. Zealand and most European countries. years ago”. It still wouldn’t boast a huge American Football. the death of many of a putative club; it’s Looking down the ranks, the Second and Third Most people here, if pressed, would membership, to be fair, but getting a The club will be meeting with DUCAC hard to see the good people at DUCAC teams are relatively well matched, but the lower probably admit to an impression of the Trinity club up and running to provide over the next couple of weeks to move being amenable to the use of College squads will give away a few divisions against sport as a posh boarding-school game some match competition would be a things along, as well as liasing with Ents Park for lacrosse at this early stage. Still: their likely opposition. One source close to DU for girls, or perhaps make reference to signifi cant step. Offi cer Nick Longworth to try and raise nothing ventured, nothing gained. The Ladies Hockey Club, although concurring in this the macho mutation with a signifi cant Peter Kehoe, a fellow JS Engineering some much-needed funds. “It’s been nascent Trinity club plans to piggyback newspaper’s view of the relative strengh of the following in the US made infamous in student, helped Farrelly get things diffi cult in that I have no money… we’re on the evening training sessions in UCD men’s club, predicts defeat for at least three of American Pie. started. “We were trying to set up a TCD pretty much existing on the charity of on Mondays and Thursdays this term, the ladies teams, with the other two “too close It may there therefore be worth club all the time, but we never really Lacrosse Ireland at the moment”, says with games every second Friday. You to call”. It will take all the passion and disregard attempting a brief sketch of what a game knew how to go about it”. He praises Farrelly; DUCAC are understandably could do worse than to give it a go. for underdog status for which Trinity hockey is of lacrosse entails. A standard match DUCAC for their helpful attitude – not reticent to start ladling out funds before renowned to prise the Colours trophy out of the lasts for 60 minutes, with 10 players on a always the experience of small clubs the putative club committee have For information on Trinity Lacrosse noisome grip of the vainglorious Belfi eld mob. Still, team (12 in the women’s game). To score, – but says that “Lacrosse Ireland were proved that they won’t do a runner with training times, or to join the club, if the rugby team can do it… put ball in goal. Goalie are armed with the real driving force behind it.. they’re the money. He has however “had a few contact [email protected]. The Colours matches take place in the National Hockey Stadium, UCD on February 3rd from 9am. All are welcome to come along and support. IRONMAN STATS Tri club raises 2K By Mick Smith away from the public eye in the relative saying that it was a pity that such seclusion of the Sports Centre, but by an active club was languishing on a evening time the eager triathletes had waiting list. DISTANCES RAG WEEK had a distinctly athletic toweled off and were outdoors once Overall, the triathlon took 8 and a feel to it this year, with a 5-a-side soccer again doing the rounds of College Park, half hours to complete, well under the tournament and a dodgeball session attracting more curious glances and Irish record of 9 hours 13 minutes 29 3.8KM SWIM being rolled out in order to pry open enabling the collectors to shake down seconds, set by Rich Brady at Ironman 180KM CYCLE the unwilling wallets of the student Pav-goers as Rag Week drew to a close. Florida in 2005. The Trinity team’s body. By far the most successful – and They must have done their job well, as achievement wasn’t quite the same 42.2KM RUN most challenging – of these sporting by the time the runners had fi nished as completing it solo, to be sure, but endeavours was undertaken by the DU after just over 2 and a half hours, the more than enough to justify Feighery’s SPLITS Triathlon Club on Friday January 16th. buckets were laden down with almost description of it as a “serious task”. “The Ironman triathlon is known 2,000 euro in donations from Trinity as the toughest one day endurance students and staff. New members are always SWIM: 58MINS 10SEC event in the world”, said captain Luke As we reported in Issue 6, the welcome; training times can be BIKE: 5HRS 1MIN 23SEC Feighery, and it was this that he and Knights of the Campanile are found on www.triathlon.tcdlife.ie. his club-mates set out to complete in experiencing something of a revival RUN: 2HRS 49MINS aid of St. Vincent De Paul. The event in those aspects of their activities comprises an 180km cycle, 3.8km that don’t involving drinking, and THE TEAM SPEED swim followed by a brisk 42.2km run. Feighery paid tribute for their help In deference to their continued desire with timekeeping, Tristan Kovero in Swimmers to live, the Trinity club opted to split particular. He also gave thanks “to all Luke Feighery, Tim Downing SWIM: 1MIN 32SEC each leg between four people, on the the brilliant collectors from St. Vincent David Cahill, Niall McAlinden, /100M basis that 50-odd kilometers of torture de Paul, especially Niamh Gaughan for Michal Ondrej is quite enough for anyone with a full her organisational work beforehand”. BIKE: 36KM/HR lecture load to content with. Gaughan, the VDP Vice President Cyclists Observant students may have noted in charge of fundraising, was thrilled David Cahill, Niall McAlinden, RUN: 14.9KM/HR the stationary Turbo Trainer bicycles with how the event went off. “It was Luke Feighery, Tim Downing parked under a canopy outside the an excellent day,... created a real buzz OVERALL TIME Buttery for most of the morning during around college”. The initiative was Runners the cycling leg; they surely couldn’t taken by the Triathlon club - “they David Cahill, Niall McAlinden, have failed to spot the yellow-clad SVP came to us and said they’d like to do Luke Feighery, Tim Downing, Christine Boyle of 8HRS 48MINS volunteers who patrolled the fringes, this for the VDP”. She also expressed Stephan Schlogl DULHC. Photo: Jes- hustling passers-by for their donations. support for them gaining recognition sica Pakenham-Money The swimming leg was undertaken as an offi cial DUCAC-affi liated club, TRINITY NEWS 22 SPORT January 27, 2009

RUGBY BOXING DUFC back on track Boxers win Seniors

SCORE

DUFC 3 THOMOND 3

By James O’Donnell Rugby Correspondent

ANYONE WITH the misfortune to be out of doors of Saturday the 17th must surely have regretted it. It was a fi lthy, mongrel, biting, clawing, snarling, howling nightmare of an afternoon, wind and rain competing to crush the spirits of those foolish enough to challenge them. Some people were on duty nonetheless, and on a pitch that verged on the unplayable the Trinity First XV got down and dirty with Thomond, a Limerick side well up for the physical contest. It wasn’t an ideal forum for debutantes, but Hugo Walford was pitched into the backline nonetheless; popular prop Colm Goode came into a pack that could at least expect a busy day. The game could reasonably have been cancelled - the fi xture at Merrion Road, not a million miles away, was abandoned due to the conditions - but having determined to play, the two teams got down to an ill-tempered affair, Ronan O’Brien, in the red of Trinity, in action against Patrick Solan of UCD. Photo: Jessica Pakenham-Money getting to grips with each other more often than they were able to hang on to Stephen Dowdall, in the fi rst fi ght of the ball. The almighty wind was blowing Mulvaney and Montgomery shine as Trinity Saturday afternoon earned him the directly across College Park from the Boxer of the Tournament accolade. Nassau Street direction, making the bring home the silverware despite late series No-one else joined him, although kickers’ lives doubly diffi cult. Wallace Brian Feehily earned a walkover victory opted to grubber the kick-off, an early of defeats, writes Conor James McKinney for lack of an opponent in his weight indication of man’s subjugation to class. Fitzgerald, Uzharkov and Oji all nature on this particular occasion. THE SENIOR Intervarsity Boxing on a split decision – O’Brien may count failed in their respective battles. Trinity Thomond made the best of it in Championships took place in the himself a touch unfortunate. nonetheless brought home the Gilmore the early stages, despite some rugged Astra Hall in UCD last weekend. DU There wasn’t much to cheer about Cup for the fourth year running. O’Brien defensive work from Gethings and Boxing Club have brought home the in the other bouts in which Trinity had was sanguine despite the relatively poor McDonnell in particular. A penalty just Gilmore Trophy on the previous three a stake, with Peter Linney losing out in results overall, noting that “there were a outside the 22, contemptibly easy on a occasions, and given that points were the 75kg class and Tom Pepper having lot of good fi ghts... this year we’ve kinda normal day, was just feasible enough for awarded for entry as well as for victory, to retire early with a fl are-up of an old been rebuilding, our Juniors team next their outhalf to send it through the sticks. the fact that Trinity were able to send shoulder injury. Luke Gordon had a year will be very good”. It was, to be fair, It was a stop-start affair thereafter, due Mark Murdoch enjoying his mudbath. Photo: Jessica Pakenham-money along ten fi ghters across a range of bruising encounter in the 91kg with a an inexperienced line-up, but they will in part to dropped balls and in part to weight categories gave them a massive tough opponent from NUIG, never really need to improve somewhat when they the tendency of the Thomond props to jerseys during halftime, in fact, to assist the Pav and a well-earned shower. advantage in the quest to retain it. Few recovering from a poor fi rst round in face some familiar faces from UCD in hit the deck for a breather every few the referee in telling the teams apart. Wallace was unavailable last Saturday of the other participating universities which he shipped several heavy blows. It Colours next week. minutes. The second half was nothing to as DUFC travelled into the mountains to were able to fi eld such a broad panel was left to Sean Mulvaney to delight the As in previous years, the bouts will The one moment of excitement in write home about either, with Trinity face De La Salle Palmerston. Less rain – some only sent one representative – Trinity support with a win in the 71kg take place in the opulent surroundings the fi rst half came courtesy of an ELV- continuing to dominate but unable to and less stubborn opposition meant meaning that the fi ghts were of more category against Michael O’Sullivan of of the Examination Hall, which should inspired kicking contest. Trinity blinked see their way clear to getting a score in. that Trinity were able to cruise to a of an individual signifi cance on the day. UCC. Despite taking an early fl urry of provide a good atmosphere. A sizeable fi rst, allowing the Thomond left wing Even Shane Young succumbed to the relatively easy victory. Midfi eld partners UCC were the main challengers on a punches which left him on the canvas, home crowd is expected on February to hack through. He chased superbly, knock-on bug. The touch judge on the Brady and the recalled Colclough went team basis, with fi ve entrants, while Mulvaney was able to steady himself 3rd - this writer, for one, will be relieved probably as much to warm himself up near side, able to observe proceedings over for a try apiece, with U20s outhalf UCD fi elded four. by the end of Round 1, achieve parity to attend a fi xture in the warm and dry as anything else, and reached the ball with a certain detachment with the David Joyce touching down as well On the Friday, club captain Ronan in the second and press for the win in having spent most of the weekend out in fi rst as it slithered to a halt just over gale keeping play almost totally on as knocking over three penalties and O’Brien was up fi rst in a Colours the fi nal round. Some judicious left- the rain. After that, the team will gear the try line. The referee adjudged his the far touchline, confi ded to your making all his conversions as his side encounter with UCD’s Patrick Solan. handed blows early in the third left his up for the visit of Oxford on the 20th. grounding to be unsatisfactory - the ball correspondent that “Trinity are just came through 30 points to 12. Well known to home supporters, who opponent bloodied and gave him victory did fl y away rather fast after contact was making a mess of it”. were confi dent of victory, Solan came on a unanimous decision (“there’s only made - but Trinity can count themselves It was hard to disagree, but there out swinging, looking to close on his one Sean Mulvaney”, came the cry from THE TEAM lucky that there were no TMO facilities was precious little they could do about THE TEAM opponent early. O’Brien’s more cautious the Trinity fans). available to the offi cials. it until the fi nal period, when a penalty approach was probably sensible in the There was no escaping the fact that 49kg: Brian Feehily The Trinity pack got themselves on opportunity with ten minutes remaining P. Gillespie, C. Jebb, H. Walford, circumstances, although he did allow it was an exhausting fi ght, and his 60kg: Ed Montgomery top after that scare, and were within presented itself. Wallace had missed an R. Brady, K. Stafford, A Wallace, E. himself to be cornered once or twice, captain’s judgment that he “felt the 63.5kg: Ed FitzGerald spitting distance of the Thomond line earlier kick from a little further out, Hamilton; C. Goode, M. Murdoch, but was generally able to fend off Solan’s effects of it on the Saturday” against an 67kg: Ronan O’Brien on a couple of occasions. One drive but his effort made the distance on J. Gethings, C. McDonnell, S. aggressive charges. A particularly neat opponent who came through the semis 71kg: Sean Mulvaney was thwarted by good counter-rucking, this occasion and the scoreline stood LaValla, M. Cantrell, S. Young (c), piece of footwork midway through more easily was probably accurate. A 75kg: Peter Linney another held up. It could just as well at the 3-3 for the remainder of the B. Coyle. Round Two allowed him to deliver a blow loss to the fl amboyant Alan Donnellan 81kg: Tom Pepper have been a try, but any decision plucked match. Which says it all, really. Neither to the back of the UCD man’s head and of Limerick Institute of Technology 86kg: Brian Uzharkov from the roiling mud was bound to be side bothered with the formalities of Subs: P. McCabe, A. Mathews, P. send him sprawling onto the ropes, to meant that Ed Montgomery in the 60kg 91kg: Luke Gordon of a somewhat arbitrary nature. The cheers or a handshake, instead making Danahy, E. Molloy cheers from the spectators. Ultimately class had to fl y the fl ag for Trinity; an 91+kg: Diriam Oji teams were instructed to fi nd fresh a headlong dash towards the shelter of though, a close fi ght was called for Solan excellent win over another Cork man,

MEN’S HOCKEY DUCAC to de- MEN’S RUGBY LEINSTER DIVISION 2 AIL DIVISION 2 SPORTS cide on Pinks Pos Team P W D L F A Pts Team P W D L F A TB LB Pts ROUNDUP 1. Clontarf 8 8 0 0 39 9 24 1. Lansdowne 9 7 1 1 170 96 2 1 33 2. Skerries 9 6 0 3 31 18 18 next week 2. Bruff 9 6 1 2 120 88 1 2 29 Results and fi xtures to February 10 3. Bray 8 5 1 2 19 12 16 3. UCC 8 6 1 1 157 97 1 1 28 4. Suttonians 8 5 0 3 42 13 15 THE APPLICATIONS for the 4. Bective Rangers 8 5 1 2 142 112 2 2 26 5. Avoca 7 3 1 3 12 12 10 award of the coveted University 5. Ballynahinch 8 5 0 3 216 106 3 2 25 MEN’S SOCCER 6. Dublin University 8 3 0 5 21 22 9 Pinks are in, and a DUCAC 6. Old Crescent 8 5 0 3 128 113 0 2 22 7. Weston 9 3 0 6 14 30 9 subcommittee will adjudicate 7. Greystones 9 5 0 4 152 181 0 2 22 SAT MAJOR 1D 8. Navan 8 1 0 7 8 33 3 on the award this week. The 8. Malone 9 4 0 5 106 102 0 5 21 9. Naas 7 1 0 6 4 41 3 offi ce at the Sports Centre 9. Dublin University 9 3 2 4 130 125 0 3 19 Pos Team P W D L F A Pts were, typically, unwilling or 10. Highfi eld 8 4 1 3 86 120 0 0 18 1. DUAFC 15 13 1 1 64 11 40 Trinity climb into 6th position but with little really to play for unable to reveal any details 11. DLSP 9 3 0 6 115 142 1 2 15 2. Brendanville FC 13 9 1 3 34 20 28 in the league, with promotion out of sight for another year when contacted last week, but 12. Belfast Harlequins 8 3 0 5 98 131 0 2 14 3. Templeogue United 13 8 3 2 35 14 27 and relegation not a possibility either. Trinity News understands that a 13. Thomond 9 2 1 6 99 140 0 4 14 4. Swords Celtic 12 8 1 3 34 18 25 decision will be taken in the next 14. Wanderers 8 2 1 5 82 137 0 3 13 5. Clonee United 9 7 1 1 35 15 22 17/01/09 Suttonians 5 0 DUHC few days, and we hope to be able 15. Clonakilty 8 2 0 6 86 105 1 2 11 6. Verona FC 14 5 1 8 27 38 16 24/01/09 DUHC 4 0 Weston to shed some more light on the 16. Instonians 9 1 1 7 118 210 1 1 8 7. Garda FC 12 5 1 6 21 36 16 31/01/09 DUHC v Naas subject in our next issue. 8. Dunboyne AFC 13 4 3 6 25 26 15 The Captain’s Committee, Trinity leapfrog DLSP following their convincing win on Saturday; the draw 9. Rush Athletic 14 3 4 7 31 36 13 LADIES HOCKEY under the stewardship of Dr. with Thomond, worth half that of a normal win under the AIL scoring system, 10. Confey FC 11 3 3 5 11 13 12 Trevor West, is the body charged assists the First XV’s rise back to a respectable if mediocre 9th place. 11. Boyne Rovers 13 2 4 7 19 41 10 LEINSTER DIVISION 1 with awarding University 12. Rathcoole Boys 12 2 2 8 14 39 8 Colours, known as Pinks (for 17/01/09 Dublin University 3 3 Thomond 13. Greenhills AFC 12 1 4 7 19 36 7 Pos Team P W D L F A Pts obvious reasons). The award is 24/01/09 DLSP 12 30 Dublin University 14. Loughshinny United 11 1 3 7 12 38 6 1. Railway Union 11 9 2 0 22 3 29 modelled on the Blues given to 31/01/09 Dublin University v Highfi eld 2. Loreto 12 7 4 1 28 6 25 top sportspeople by Oxford and 17/01/09 Templeogue United 1 2 DUAFC 3. Hermes 11 6 3 2 28 12 21 Cambridge. Last year only four 4. Pembroke 11 6 3 2 22 16 21 were given, with two going to ULTIMATE FRISBEE 5. Old Alexandra 12 5 4 3 23 19 19 the Tae Kwon Do club and two 6. UCD 10 4 3 3 12 8 15 being given for fencing. Each MEN’S SQUASH LADIES SQUASH UNIVERSITY LEAGUE 7. Glennane 12 4 2 5 19 23 15 club specifi es in its constitution 8. Bray 11 1 3 7 8 20 6 those criteria which must be PREMIER DIVISION FIRST DIVISION 24/01/09 UCC 13 7 DUUFC 9. Corinthian 12 1 1 10 10 42 4 fulfi lled in order for a member 31/01/09 NUIG v DUUFC 10. Trinity College 12 0 2 10 10 35 2 to be eligible for a Pink - these Pos Team P Pts Pos Team P Pts generally contain some reference 1. Fitzwilliam A 9 127 1. Total Fitness 10 109 TENNIS It’s crunch time for the First XI as they take on Glennane to international selection and 2. Fitzwillam B 9 119 2. Trinity A 10 101 at home hoping to avenge their tame capitulation out in victory in the Colours fi xture. 3. Sutton A 9 114 3. Mt. Pleasant A 10 76 WINTER LEAGUE Cookstown in November, while the fi xture with Bray on the Those deemed worthy are 4. Westwood A 9 98 4. Fitzwilliam B 10 69 7th will be the difference between survival and the long entitled to wear a special pink 5. Curragh A 9 79 5. Westwood B 10 67 Ladies: drop. scarf as well as a tie; it is also 6. Mt. Pleasant A 9 78 6. Aer Lingus A 10 35 01/02/09 Trinity 1 v Mt. Pleasant 2 widely thought that a Pink carries 7. Old Belvedere A 9 62 08/02/09 Trinity 1 v LCC 1 17/01/09 Trinity College 1 2 Loreto with it an increased chance of 8. Trinity A 8 12 28/01/09 Trinity A v Fitzwilliam B 31/01/09 Trinity College v Glennane induction into the Knights of the Men’s: 07/02/09 Bray v Trinity College Campanile, which organisation 28/01/09 Westwood A v Trinity A 01/02/09 Brookfi eld 1 v Trinity 1 was examined in detail our issue 08/02/09 Templeogue 2 v Trinity 1 of November 25. TRINITY NEWS January 27, 2009 SPORTSPORT 2323

SAILING: THE INVITATIONAL TROPHY

Conor James McKinney

THE COMMENTARY BOX

A WEE RANT ABOUT SANTRY

IT MAY sound like an incongruous subject for a Trinity newspaper to concern itself with, given the general apathy of the student body towards sporting endeavour in the College. But we’re going to talk about being a sports fan anyway. The great stir of passion that comes with supporting one’s team is unparalleled in human experience in any context outside some kind of ultra-nationalist rally. It’s not only enthralling and emotionally stirring, it’s damn good craic. Anyone who had the great good fortune to be watching the coverage of the Ulster vs Leinster game on Setanta will know the joys of a group of vocal away fans managing to position themselves directly under the microphones. Annoying for an Ulster fan, funny for a Leinster supporter and an unforgettable day out for those causing the uproar, of whom I happened to be one. LAST WEEKEND DUSC revived the historical smoothly resulting in the top eight teams qualifying much. After dinner antics and outrageous dancing In the throes of passion, it’s easy to forget that Invitational Trophy, traditionally between Cambridge for the quarter fi nals the following day. culminated in the traditional boat race, which your toes are being consumed by frostbite or Cruising Club and Trinity, and it proved to be a huge Fresh from a great day’s sailing the competitors proved to have drastic effects on the participants’ that God is gently hinting that it might be time to success. The festivities kicked off on Friday evening gathered at the Royal St. George Yacht Club for a coordination. dust off the Ark, as was the case last week when with members gathering for a welcoming drinks well received wine reception followed by a Black Tie Sunday dawned with breezy conditions and DUFC played Thomond. In such conditions, reception for the visiting parties, kindly hosted by Dinner. The support for the dinner was great, with glaring sunshine. Another competitive day’s sailing the sight of one lone Limerick man prowling a club member. With a few sore heads, but still in attendees consisting not only of young exuberant ensued, with both Trinity Firsts and Trinity Alumni the touchline, urging his team on with cries of high spirits, Saturday’s sailing got underway in ideal students but also senior alumni who shared their Firsts making it to the semi-fi nal. An all-Cambridge “Come on T’omond boys, come on T’omond” conditions with the supervision of Trinity’s coach, words of wisdom with us all. A special mention fi nal followed with Cambridge Alumni Firsts winning was awe-inspiring. It was in just such a state of Emma Lovegrove. We had a great turnout of 13 should go to two Alumni in particular, Patrick Blaney, the event. The weekend was thoroughly enjoyed by steadfast faith and teams competing in the event, with the Cambridge who introduced the evening on behalf of both DUSC all, with Cambridge and Trinity looking forward to devotion to their cause side bringing over two Undergrad and two Alumni and the RStGYC where he is Vice-Commodore; repeating the performance next year! that Latimer and Ridley teams, and Trinity entering two Alumni and seven and Alistair Rumball, our President, whose support Jessica Guy, Dublin University Sailing Club were led to the stake, Most sports Undergrad teams. The days sailing ran effi ciently and has been fantastic and we thank them both very Captain, with Clementine Budge and the American Revolutionaries are played in convinced to winter in Valley Forge. Santry... the very There are some name has chilling of this breed in our own institution; connotations there was certainly Weston story ends well for Trinity a decent showing at for those in the the rugby Colours in Donnybrook last know term, and rolling past College Park on Wednesday there was a small but signifi cant scattering of students having a gander at the soccer club in action. The problem in terms of getting more people out is that not every game is played on a dry Wednesday afternoon with benches overlooking the pitch, or even in somewhere within range of college and a decent pub, like the stadium in Donnybrook. With the exception of indoor sports like judo or squash, which are can also be played on campus and with space provided for viewing for any major fi xtures, most sports are played in Santry. The very name has chilling connotations for those in the know. Those two syllables conjure up stark and dreadful images, in much the same way as “Ypres” or “Hillsborough” will send a shudder down the spine of anyone unfortunate enough to have been involved in those tragedies. As this newspaper editorialised last week (under the heading “Trinity’s Sporting Embarrassment”, so at least you knew what you were getting), the state of the facilities out there are nothing to be proud of. Of course, in fairness to the place, it’s not like there is much in the way of an alternative; the city centre is pretty short on green patches in which exhibition matches might be played. Much as I’d like to see the reaction if the soccer team tried to set up their Colours game on the Green, we are always going to need to roam a bit in order to spread our wings. Santry is taking the piss just a bit – the closest landmark of note is the airport – but surely the only inherent problem is distance. In order to make it a little more palatable to anyone considering a trip out, much could be done by way of improvement. If there were SCORE depriving Weston of possession time own half acre in which to fi nish. Clearly Trinity defender although well worked was sent into the something like the Pav out there, for example, and again to deny them any sort of a man raised to look a gift horse in Barry Glavey side of the goal with the fi nal touch. there would be a lot more to be said for getting foothold in the match. It took a while for the mouth, the captain declined the clatters two Andy Gray was back in the game and a crew together for some of the banter that, as DUHC 4 Trinity to threaten themselves, however, invitation and tried to set up Hewitt opponents as looking far more comfortable than in his outlined above, supporting your team can be. WESTON 0 and those early chances for Hewitt instead. He was almost robbed, but the DU Hockey Club opening salvo. He duly set about looking It might require a fl eet of cars with appropriate aside the fi rst ten was uneventful. Andy covering defender had to concede the ease to victory for revenge against the side which had designated drivers, or a certain disregard for By Anthony Lamont Gray, returning from a 3-month injury short corner. over their Lucan been responsible for his injury back in Dublin Bus regulations on drinking on their fl eet, layoff, was fi nding things tough and was Glavey was in no mood to let Weston rivals. Photo: November, coming close with a mazy but what hell: we all know some sap who’s on a withdrawn in favour of Tyrrell as Pelow off the hook a second time. My notebook Jess Pakenham- run that won yet another (unconverted) no-drinking buzz – particularly at this time of year AFTER A disappointing run of results urged his charges to raise the tempo. records only the bald statement “B.G. Money short corner. Tyrrell, who came close – and as for drinking down the back, well, your post-Christmas, culminating in a His constant refrain eventually destroys it”, which sums up his powerful himself towards the end, fi nally set up columnist is confi dent in his reading of his fellow miserable performance in miserable found its mark. After Cinnamond won fi nish as well as anything. He was to add his junior strike partner for the goal he students insofar as the appeal of that goes. The conditions against Suttonians two possession in the engine room, a neat another a few minutes later, this time deserved to confi rm Trinity’s fi rst win of key is to make it attractive in the fi rst place. weeks ago, the First XI had a lot to display of skills from his captain Orr just high to the keeper’s right, celebrating in 2009. Humphreys and Sutherland came Having our teams be in with a shout of prove, if only to themselves, when they inside the circle won Trinity a shortie. typically fl amboyant fashion as Trinity on for late cameos and richly deserved winning would be useful, but the less said about took to the pitch against Weston. If the Weston dealt well with Glavey’s initial took a commanding 3-0 lead. In between First XI game time as the match ground that the better, perhaps. The facilities issue is a opposition thought that this poor run of strike but failed to clear, and when scores, the inevitable Cinnamond had to an unsurprisingly anticlimactic halt. different matter: I’d bet my right arm that few form would be enough for a repeat of Cinnamond picked out Hewitt in the thrilled the spectators with a jinking No complaints from Trinity, who will students know that up above the changing their win in November, they were sorely area the forward poached expertly to run that saw him ghost around two men hope to follow up with a victory over rooms is a function room and bar, with a balcony mistaken. It was a changed Trinity side put Trinity 1-0 up. and fl ash a shot across the face of goal. Naas this weekend ahead of the all- overlooking the astroturf and playing fi elds. from, with Daire Coady absent from the Glavey lined out in the centre of Even Cleere got a piece of the action important Colours clash on the 3rd. From the looks of things, none of them have defence, and there was no sign of DUHC defence as Pelow sought to shake from left back, although unable to fi nish been used since about 1593 – what an egregious stalwart Jason Bryan amid rumours that things up in the wake of the 0-5 loss from close range. Weston’s frustration waste. Opening up the bar, giving it a good he has been axed from the squad. in Sutton, and so didn’t have quite his was all too apparent as half time was THE TEAM scrub and making sure there’s someone there Trinity set the tone early when former usual infl uence on the game in open called, their silver-haired No. 9 spouting to operate it on matchdays could make all the captain Ben Hewitt swooped onto a long play. He was still capable of working his obscenities at an unperturbed Pelow. J. Hegarty, N. Odlum, B. Glavey, difference. At the very least, players would be ball from Stanley and rounded his man distributive magic on occasion, though, Weston made the game more of a I. Gorman, B. Cleere, A. Stanley, able to go en masse for a drink after they’ve before having a low shot saved at the and it was his long ball that enabled contest on the second half, but only J. Orr (c) A. Gray, S. Cinnamond, showered and changed – manky changing near post. He was unlucky not to win a Hewitt to set up Stanley for a strong because Trinity took their foot off the C. Moore, B. Hewitt. rooms notwithstanding – and any parents and short corner from his next attack, and reverse that went high and wide. With pedal somewhat. There never looked to signifi cant others that venture along, as does despite Ronan Pelow muttering darkly the game now fl owing well – mostly be much danger of the away side pulling Subs: H. Butler, T. Humphreys, H. happen on occasion, would have somewhere to to himself on the sidelines the early in Trinity’s direction – it wasn’t long a goal back; their best opportunity Sutherland, C. Tyrrell shelter from the elements. In Santry alone is the omens were good. before another chance was converted. came after Orr, tracking back well, necessary addition of socialising and alcohol that In a generally good fi rst half for Nick Odlum lit the spark with a break was unluckily penalised on the 25. The Man of the Match: Stuart is so prevalent in Irish sporting life neglected Trinity, Stuart Cinnamond stood out. up the right-hand side; Tyrrell received Lucan side managed to convert the Cinnamond and scorned, to the shame of all involved. His workrate in midfi eld was superb, his inside pass and found Orr with his ensuing free to a short corner, which CAMBRIDGE DU Sailing Club fl y the fl ag against top opponents in the newly revived CALLING Invitational Trophy

TRINITY NEWS SPORTTuesday, January 27, 2009 MATCH Trinity STATS

SCORE twice DULHC 1 LORETO 2

DATE 17 JANUARY thwarted VENUE Ladies hockey team let results slip through SANTRY their grasp against Loreto in successive TEAM league and cup outings at Santry 1. JESSICA ELLIOTT 2. AILBHE COYLE By Conor James McKinney Horan decided that it would take a bit of 3. CAROLINE MURPHY College Sport Editor individual brilliance to get the students back on track. Her barnstorming 4. VANESSA BUCKLEY TRINITY WERE denied a crucial league run through the midfi eld sent Loreto 5. CHRISTINE BOYLE point in the cruelest of fashion last suddenly scrambling; Costigan’s run weekend, when a last minute goal from wide distracted the defence, and when 6. MAEBH HORAN Loreto allowed the visitors to snatch all the fi nal ball was playing in to Lucy 7. KATIE O’BYRNE three points. Small, she had time and space to control Loreto were shorn of fi ve Ireland and pick her spot with the reverse. 8. RACHEL SCOTT internationals due to their involvement 1-1, and suddenly we had a game on in the series against Canada played that our hands. Loreto came roaring back 9. CLAIRE HEARNDEN (C) same weekend, so Trinity were looking furiously, necessitating good tackles 10. IRENE GORMAN to build on an improved performance from Murphy and Buckley to cut them against Hermes the previous week and off. At the other end, Small and Costigan 11. DANIELLE COSTIGAN take advantage at this cripplingly early were fi nding space. It was the latter who fi xture out at Santry. was picked out in the dead centre of the SUBS Unfortunately, the 10am start didn’t circle from a sideline ball, and played for seem to suit the students, who fell the sensible short. Duly awarded on the CAOIMHE COSTIGAN behind inside the fi rst minute. A free stroke of half time, it meant that Trinity NADIA DOUGLAS from outside the circle to the right were able array all ten outfi eld players caught the Trinity defence napping; around the setpiece. Three shots landed LUCY SMALL the ball was allowed to travel all the on target in the ensuing melee, but way through to the back post, where an two goalkeeping interventions and a MAN OF THE MATCH unmarked Ali Meeke was able to angle clearance off the line kept things level at it in from a couple of metres out. the break. In retrospect, it was a crucial CAROLINE MURPHY For a side yet to record a win in the chance missed. Trinity captain Claire Hearnden on the attack against Loreto on the 17th. Photo: Jessica Pakenham-Money A TOWER of strength at the league, this was demoralising stuff, and “I think we could be playing a lot back for Trinity two weeks in the visitors duly sought to capitalise. better”, said Hearnden as the action the break”, mused Bane; the words had Trinity had to regroup for another the next round. a row and was desperately The white shirts came pouring forward, resumed, clearly not content with a hardly left his lips when Irene Gorman crack at the Rathfarnham club the Dave Bane, speaking after the game, unlucky to see her side concede but it was the one emblazoned with potential point. Nor were her side; intercepted and nearly scored. Loreto following week, at a more sensible 1pm was clear where the problem lay. His late on in both fi xtures. Has a the number 7 that gave most cause for managing to keep out another shortie were getting wonderfully frustrated as tip-off time. Loreto had four of their charges were “fi tter, but kept giving the great positional awareness and concern. Time and again Nikki Keegan thanks to Elliott and Boyle, they went Trinity got the benefi t of a few close Ireland squad members back in the ball away in midfi eld” despite doing well the strength to fend off most tore through an unsettled Trinity back looking for a win. Small was desperately decisions – for a change – and backchat team for this Irish Senior Cup clash, to win possession in the fi rst place. He attackers. A play of proven four, and only luck and desperate close to scoring a second, but saw her fl ew to the detriment of their game. but incredibly went behind when Small cited one player in particular who made ability who is set to represent defence kept Loreto from adding to shot fl ash across the face of goal. It was Such was the open nature of the found the target for her second game in six excellent tackles in a short period Leinster u21s again this season, their total in the opening minutes. among the only chances Trinity would game as the fi nal ten minutes went by, it a row. The side were unable to protect only to lose the ball again in short order. Murphy will have a key role in Eventually, though, Trinity settled, get in the third quarter of the match as wouldn’t have been surprising if either their lead and adding insult to injury it The individual was not named, and in the remainder of Trinity’s league and although rarely able to keep Loreto sought to assert themselves. side had, as predicted, grabbed the win was a Trinity student who levelled the truth this has been a malaise affecting games as they strive to avoid possession long enough to mount an It was, perhaps, no coincidence that from a counter attack. It would have tie. Junior Freshman Lizzie Colvin, the team for much of the season. relegation. attack were able to release individuals they took control during the period helped Trinity’s cause if the forwards wearing the red and white of Loreto, Nonetheless there has been slow but in space and put the opposition that Horan was on the sidelines, and had been more clinical; Hearnden and equalised just before half time. noticeable improvement, if too late to under more pressure. Captain Claire they created a host of chances – most Costigan both got in good positions A draw, and a replay that would give yield results against the top sides. It Hearnden, energetic as ever, managed notably a short corner that went in only towards the end only for their decision- Trinity the chance to repeat last season’s should certainly be possible to beat Bray to win a short corner during a brief for the umpires to disallow it for high making to let them down. Loreto, for cup heroics - when they reached the and Corinthian in the coming months, foray into the Loreto half, and although ball, prompting a frank exchange of all their fl aws, were able to make their fi nal for the fi rst time in decades which would be enough to avoid the Rachel Scott’s botched push-out is best views between the respective coaches. fi nal chance count, and it was fi tting - seemed plausible until the fi nal drop. The more pressing task, however, consigned to the dustbin of history, it Dave Bane’s knowledge of the rules was that Keegan it was who cut through the quarter. Trinity were eventually worn is to turn over the ancient foe in Colours was at least a sign that Trinity could that shared by the offi cials, though, and midfi eld after Trinity’s fi nal attack, and down, and two internationals did the on Tuesday 3rd. threaten on the break. Trinity responded well to this stroke of with Murphy just unable to get to her damage. McKean and Symonds, both of Having withstood a barrage of Loreto good luck (no pun intended). put the killer pass across to Eilis Smith, whom scored during the series against More TN hockey coverage inside: pressure – Caroline Murphy beginning “The hope is they’ll keep pushing who fi nished through the despairing Canada, bagged three goals in the last Men’s side in victory over Weston, to shine at the heart of the defence – forward and we’ll get something on challenge of Coyle. Game over. ten minutes to take Loreto through to page 23; Colours preview, page 21. ULTIMATE FRISBEE Weakened Trinity lose out to Cork rivals

SCORE University College Cork. A DUUFC warm-up. Trinity never recovered from the runners was never going to be fully well in places and kept the visitors in before their opponents. One particularly squad was therefore dispatched to the going 5-0 down as they struggled to get effective. the game, but too many simple passes gruelling point saw possession change UCC 13 People’s Republic on Saturday in order to grip with the UCC defensive set-up. Ian French played a captain’s role in went to ground as Trinity struggled hands a staggering 15 times, with both DUUFC 7 to meet the challenge. The 4-man cup - essentially placing setting up Trinity’s fi rst point, playing in with the basics. Opportunities to fi nish teams fumbling in the end zone more The return from injury of former club half the defenders around the player Davi Perry to steady the ship somewhat, were spurned all too frequently; as with than once. Such statistics indicate the By Kevin Timoney captain (and DU Cricket captain, while with the disc in the hope of forcing but Trinity were still faced with a so many defeats in whatever sport one taxing nature of the game, but also we’re on the subject) Dave Misstear a turnover - is risky in the sense that mountain to climb at the half in the form follows, the difference between the two show that UCC made enough errors of gave the visitors hope that they could it leaves only three free to cover the of an 8-4 scoreline. The offensive effort, sides was not so make pure quality as their own to be ripe for the plucking had THE INTERVARSITY League was avenge the pre-Christmas defeats at rest of the pitch in the event that of traditionally a Trinity strength, worked the failure of the losers to take their Trinity been on form. An opportunity conceived in order to provide a the Cork Open and Indoor Intervarsity a successful long pass. Alternatively, chances. That said, there was little sign lost, perhaps; the two sides traded structured qualifying route for the UK ties against this opposition. UCC had patient passing between the handlers THE TEAM that the standard that has made DUUFC points until the close of play, with the Outdoor Nationals, in which the best most of the squad from those contests will inevitably tire the chasing players three-in-a-row Intervarsity champions scores at 13-7. Irish varsity Ultimate side is entitled available to them once again, however, out. But with Trinity unable to compose Heather Barry was capable of being reached as UCC The league rumbles on, with Trinity to compete (Trinity won it in 2007). It while Trinity were missing key players. themselves on the disc long enough to Ian French (c) stretched their lead out to 11-5. to travel to Galway January 31st and has proved a diffi cult concept to get up Keith Coleman was as lathair due to make either tactic work, they turned Daragh Gleeson The wind ensured frequent use of another trip to Cork in two weeks’ time. and running, given the diffi culties and injury and Cian Quinn due to Schols, over repeatedly in the opening stages Sam Mehigan the zone defence by both sides, a tiring Events in the DUUFC calendar in the expense associated with a trip to the likes while James O’Connor and Women’s and UCC took full advantage. Trinity’s David Misstear tactic that took its toll on Trinity, with meantime include the table quiz, a key of Cork or Galway to play a single game. captain Finola Barry were also unable defence was unforgivably slack on the Kevin Nagle a 9-man squad only in the initial stages fundraising event for the club which all DU Ultimate Frisbee Club are not ones to make the trip. turn, with six scores on the trot coming Gearoid O’Fearghail of a fi tness programme. The home side students are encouraged to attend. The to let such consideration get in the way Unfortunately, things didn’t go to from long throws to opponents running David Perry had 14 to chose from, a situation which Siege of Limerick, an open tournament of a good game of Ultimate, however, plan on a chilly afternoon as the team deep. A switch to front-up marking to Kevin Timoney could well have been reversed had which will pit Trinity against 24 of the especially when the opposition are this hurried straight from the team bus into blunt the long threat slowed the pace of MVP: David Misstear Trinity been playing at home, but today top sides in Great Britain and Ireland, season’s heavyweights Skulltimate, of combat without the benefi t of a proper attrition but without tighter marking on ensured that they ran out of oomph long follows on February 14/15.