64 books Tailoring Under the supervision of host our London-trained cutter We books |vet C. TRIN’ITY N EWS GOWNS, HOODS, eny. books CASSOCKS, BLAZERS .=red A Dublin University Undergraduate Weekly 3 CHURCH LANE ters HODGES FIG61S COLLEGE GREEN :tta, BRYSON ... where else? THURSDAY,: 26th NOVEMBER PRICE THREEPENCE LTD. itch .~ese 4/-. HOSTILITY TO S,R.C. ELECTIONS Leaflets Litter College The candidates in the S.R.C. elections have been carrying out a vigorous election campaign. Most of those standing have circulated "manifestos" in which they state their policies and intentions. Re- action in College to this amongst undergraduates has not been altogether favourable. The Buttery has been the chief while almost all have described arena in the election struggle, their approach as " radical " or and large numbers of duplicated " far reaching." Annoyance has sheets have bgeen deposited daily also been expressed against the on its tables, and posters pinned tone of a circular exhorting to the walls of its entrance. Some students to vote in which the of these have borne large glossy coming of "democracy" to pictures of the candidate College (which the elections are concerned. Another important purported to represent) is de- electioneering medium has been scribed as "the greatest thing the chalking of notices on faculty since the sliced-pan." blackboards, but the techniques Fourth year undergraduate Nick used here have been extremely Simms dismissed the campaign as simple, with little use being made "a mass of meaningless paper," while his contemporary John Stitt I agreed " that it reeks of the worst NEXT WEEK sort of red-brick pettiness." On December 3rd, "Trinity News" will contain a 16 page Library Spot-Check Musical Supplement in addition A spot check of readers in both to its regular news and sports Reading Rooms was carried out coverage. last Friday in order to" inspect library tickets. Most of those of coioured chalks to create challenged were able either to psychological impressions of the produce their tickets or to con- characters of the opposing candi- vince the deputy librarian that dates. Personal canvassing has they were in fact authorised also been extensively employed. readers. These checks will be The reaction amongst under- held at various times in the The Annual W.U.$. Parade through Dublin on Monday last. --Photo " Irish Times " .g~ad~ates has ¯ generally been coming weeks in order to insure hostile to the campaign and in- that non-Trinity readers who are deed to the whole idea of S.R.C. using the facilities of the Library elections. This has been largely without official permission are induced by the exorbitant claims prevented from occupying seats and over ambitious programmes and books that are already in Language Laboratory proposed by most of those stand- short supply. To facilitate that mg for election. Some have end, readers are urged to carry Welco~ .a.d Appreciative II pledged themselves to " stopping their tickets when they are using .the inflationary price spiral," the Reading Rooms. for Trinity !. Entertain Report Planned Latest Techniques Adopted Following their highly success- at the ful meeting at which Mr. Enoch Powell spoke, the 1964 Com- Last Friday the Minister for Education, Dr. Hiller/, opened a mittee has announced its in- tentions of preparing a survey of language laboratory in Trinity. It is housed in West Chapel room E. Practically ( eor tan party techniques in the recent It consists of twelve booths each with a tape recorder. General Election in Britain. Be- Each listening booth is linked up in Gormanston College, Co. * Loont sides examining the factors which were important on a national to a central console, from which Meath, and in Kilkenny. Everybody Students in modern languages Dinin . Dancing . basis, it is intended that the the lecturer in charge of the class I report should include an analysis are able to make use of the new Nightly . Table d’Ho~e can play a programme to the e~ of influences which were im- laboratory in order to improve " Dinner and s la Cart0 Can Read ~ portant regionally. Among the students, and speak to all of fluency in French, Irish, Italian, l~rl~ . No Cover Charze.. latter the race issues in Smeth- them, or to an individual student, wick and West Belfast are ex- German, Russian and Spanish, without disturbing the others. and also for the literary study of Informsl Dress . pected to be included. The report wil! be published in College early Miss Winifred McBride, a poetry, prose and dramatic writ- in ~he New Year. lecturer in the department of ings in English as well as other Russian, is in charge of the languages. It is to be hoped that APCK this innovation is only the start Booksellers and _Publiskers ~, METBOPOIJR S.R.C. Results laboratory, which was donated of a new and vigorous approach O’CouMII St.. DUBL~[~ to the College by Mr. C. O. to language teaching in College, 37 DAWSON ST. Later editions will include the Stanley, Chairman of the Pye whch will help to dispel much of exclusive publication of the DUBLIN 2 1596 S.R.C. election results. See above. group of companies. Language the discontent felt at present by i laboratories have also been set many students in Mud. Lang. :;. TRINITY NEWS November 26th ’1964 TRINITY NEWS THE STATE OF THE PARTIES A Dublin University Undergraduate Weekly Vol. XII Thursday, 26th November, 1964 No. 4 Trinity Looks Right Chairman: Douglas Halliday Last term Jefferson Horsley looked at the relative Quintin Hogg who gave his large audience a Vice-Chairman: decline of the Fabian Society in College. To-day brilliant but a political oration. Finally, on the Jefferson Horsley he re-examines the current trend in College Friday night of the same week 150 people attended politics, paying special attention to what effect the a meeting organised by the 1964 Committee at Editors: which the ex-Minister of Health, Enoch Powell, Bill Hutchinson, Mirabel Walker, Robin Knight Labour victory in Britain has had on the various College societies. H.P. spoke. (On the same night President de Business Board: Valera was present at a meeting of the United Max Unwin, Charles Halliday, Hamish IHcRae. Nations Student Association to hear a paper Undoubtedly College is still conservative. On given by the Chancellor of the University, F. H. Secretary: Commons, always a good place for gauging Boland. What a week for the political student!) Caroline Western political opinion, one hears an interminable This 1964 Committee meeting deserves most grumble about the " damned income tax increase " attention. In the eyes of the Board this Com- or if one happens to be sitting in more intellectual mittee does not exist as no body is allowed to company one hears " The sine qua non of Socialism have definite political affiliation. Clearly the IN3IDE POLITICS is higher taxation." (The Irishman’s comment is, attendance at this meeting shows the potential naturally enough, restricted to some abuse about strength of those of conservative outlook within The notice boards of Front Gate provide the supreme demonstra- the 15% import tariffwnever let it be said that College, for it has only existed since the spring tion of Trinity’s submission to the maxim that education is as much to an Irishman would dare to meddle in English and even the Tory d6b~cle in Britain of October cultivate the intelligent use of leisure as, topromote academic achieve- politics!) Even the apathetic raise an eyebrow does not seem to have diminished its numbers. ment. We are daily inundated with rc~ams of paper beseeching us to when they find out that steel is threatened and Host of its work is done in discussion groups on pass the evenings in numerous weird and wonderful ways. However, that the price of petrol is increased. topics of a more intellectual nature. (It could amid this furious flurry of extra mural activity, it is well to stop and The " new dynamism " and the colourful legis- teach the Fabian Society a thing or two in this think exactly how these societies and clubs function, effectively or lation that Wilsonism has promised has not field.) Essentially passive, making no effort to try otherwise. There is no doubt that many of them become the vehicles brought a perceptible change in the topics of con- and convert the rank-and-file over to its way of of power for budding megalomaniacsmthe intrigues and machinations versation heard in the Buttery or the Coffee Bar. thinking, its emergence as a responsible society of society politics are blatantly open secrets for anybody brave, ¯ Someda~y it may infiltrate through to the brain of adds another voice to the argument against the enough to probe into them--and they are very much inclined to the ~/tud~nt that as part of the ’ top 3 per cent." archaic regulation fodbidding societies to affiliate pander to the personality cult. However, they help to distinguish the his influence in politics as well as in his own to parties of their choice. university from the technical college, providing supposedly intelligent academic field will be of some value. The Fabian Society has a real threat to its outlets for actual and potential interests. The keyword here is Democracy should not be abused by apathy, but dominance as the main political organ operating "intelligent." A society depends so much on its officers for its should give rise to discussion on all subjects. After in College, and I am glad to see that at last it is current character and direction that the over-riding (and original) all, we are not living in South Africa. shaking off his rigid doctinaire line and is now objective may have been somewhat swamped by either lethargy or However, it is probably too hard an indictment inviting speakers from the Right as well as the dictatorship.