Tailoring Under the supervision of our London-trained cutter GOWNS, HOODS, CASSOCKS, BLAZERS from 3 CHURCH LANE COLLEGE GREEN DIXON :I~GISTERED AT THE G.P.O. AS A NEWSPAPIII OOPTRIG]tT BRYSON HEMPENSTALL 111 GRAFTON ST. Vol. VIII--No. 3 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17th, 1960 PRICE 3& LTD. WHO’S TO BE WHO IN D.U.C.A.C..V Conflict of Personalities BOMBSHELL IN THE THIS NUCLEAR ~’OR the first time in several years it looks as if there will be a con- CHEMISTRY DEPT. AGE |" tested election in D.U.C.A.C. at their annual general meeting. The The Chemistry Department has decided Professor E. T. S. Walton gave the ~minee of the Captains’ Committee, Chris. Wood, is from a minor club to introduce a terua examination for all introductory lecture of D.U.E.S.A.’s students except Senior Sophisters. The " Symposium of Atomic Energy " last {Fencing), which is unUsual--but D.U.C.A.C. and club officials strongly reason given is that students do no work deny that this is a contest of the "minor" versus the "major" clubs. during the term and this is shown in the Wednesday. His delivery could not be low standard in recent examinations. described as elegant, but he held his Opposition candidate, C. J. Lea, is from the Football Club, but Chris. The students, while agreeing that the audience interested for about 1½ hours. Wood claims strong support from some of the major bloc. principle of term exams, is good, feel He dealt with the history and elementary that the announcement should have been theory of the subject in the last 70 years. Some say C. J. Lea is doing too much made earlier. The first to hear the news already--he is active in two clubs--and were some students who had gone to The complacency at the apparent com- Professor Cocker’s house for tea on pleteness of physics by 1890 was feeling is beginning to run high. As we "Trinity News" Sunday. A notice went up in the De- shattered by a series of new disco’veries go to press there is talk of a third candi- partment on Tuesday. --the electron, X-rays, radio-activity and date, but whether he will get as far as Fund The examination is to take place on quantum and relativity theories, the Monday after the end of the lecture Much fundamental research was done the A.G.M. is doubtful. John Baxter, term, still legally in the Michaelmas present Secretary of D.U.C.A.C., said (See Editorial) at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cam- term. Many students, however, have bridge, where Prof. Walton himself "negotiations " were going on at present Those who would like to arranged to go home on the Saturday worked under Rutherford, and he spoke between the opposition camps. As he help should leave their contri- before or even earlier. Some have of the great physicists he had known-- fur- ~elicately put it: " It has not yet been butions in the box in No. 3, in arranged to take up holiday jobs with J. J. Thompson, who went round in a the Post Office. Others are in-colved in bowler hat and a mood of abstraction; was ~ttled who is going to be Secretary." an envelope marked " Congo Christmas plays and the like. The :ain; Whether or not the A.G.M. gets an Fund." Where names are Searle, who watched total eclipses as a past announcement has caused great indigna- hobby, de Broglie, Geiger and others. ’k to opportunity to elect a Secretary ’for a enclosed, t h e subscriptions tion and the Chemistry Department is T h e fundamental particles, alpha and tJaange, therefore, depends on how much will be acknowledged. being censured for its lack of con- particles, electron, proton and later the rapport the two can muster beforehand. sideration. neutron were discovered and investi- All may yet be well--the Captains’ gated. Artificial disintegration of nuclli was accomplished and the possibility of nominee may well go forward unopposed. a chain reaction suggested. This cul- But there is a new and healthy interest minated in the atomic bomb and, later, among would-be electors as to what they THE PHOENIX RISES controlled in the atomic pile for- the pro- are going to be asked to do, which up to duction of useful energy. now has been conspicuous only by its Many of the qustions then put to Prof. Opera Group Bloody But Unbowed Walton were concerned rather with the absence. nature of the particles than with their r The good Opera Company, almost by Surprising. Despite the fact ’~hat the use. He was also pressed for details of "Irish Independent" thought the Group’s the work for which he and Cockroft were definition, suffers "in the cause of art." production of two Menotti Operas "a awarded the Nobel prize. His account Catholics in It is a curious fact that, on the whole, musical event of the first importance," gave students cause for wonder at the the opera-going public, while retaining and the "Irish Times" commented tbat work which could be done with limited a strange superiority complex over those ’~he production was a "dari~ag and pro- and even dangerous apparatus. College m~rtals who prefer the fillums, is con- vocative gesture." There was no stam- tent to base its likes and dislikes on pede for tickets. ~ Next week we shall be publishhlg, :much the same structure of criteria. The Obviously the g~oup now needs money, The Hist. and Phil. are running il ruder this title, a special feature-supple- Opera g0er likes what he knows. The before attempting Artistic martyrdom a fund for Joe Mooney, their ex. tne~t on the subject of those students in D.U. Opera Group’s financial debacle in in the holy cause of the unknown and Trinity who ~re Roman Catholics--who the music festival, therefore, was not unwanted once more. The next oroduc- billiard marker. A circular lette~ they are, what they think, and what they tion, it is hoped, will be of "Trial by has already been sent out, but both are goiag to do. We hope that this Jury." There are thirty Chorus pa~’Ls, ymtture will receive support from all several solo parts, and we need stage Societies would be most grateful those who have any interest in this most management, a.nd willing hands to make for contributions, which may be important of all College affairs. Art Society costumes and scenery. We can’t afford to hire. The production, if all goes well, sent to either Treasurer. ! Miss Cheli Duran outlined the aims of will take place "in the round," in the the Art Society in its meeting on the 14th middle of next term, we hope in the Animal House for Trinity November. The Society is to include exam. hall. There will be auditions early The recently-established branch of within its wide-reaching arms all forms next week, possibly on Monday at 4.0, World University Service is to hold its Trinity is to be the first place in o’f ’visual art, except anything that might encroach on the precincts of other at .the top of No. 6. Keep your eyes first meeting on Friday at 8 p.m. in West Ireland to have facilities for endo- associations in College. Its meetings will peeled. Chapel. The opening note is an auspicious :.¢rinol.ogical research. An animal house one in that no less a man than the m going to be built at the back of the be in the form of lectures, debates and Associate Secretary ’from the head- Science departments, with the money films. quarters in Geneva, Mr. Cyril Ritchie, donated from the Wellcome Trust. The constitutional business of the will t e present to speak on " Trinity in Animals in good health will be kept evening was rather long, and one section SUBS FOR STUBBSP the Y Tor d University." of those present afterwards expressed under ideal conditions here and will be Mike Stubbs, whose drawings you may The aim of W.U.S. will be to contribute used for studies in endocrinology, the opinion that the Society was con- to the material needs of Universities in centrating overmuch on constitutional have seen in another publication, has physiology and biochemistry. achieved the considerable distinction of under-developed countries and, in Trinity When asked if this would attract questions. " Art was its business. Why itself, to help integrate foreign students did it not get on with it?" But an having a collection of his cartoons pub- into College life. more research students, members of the encounter with the sincerity and en- lished in a neat little book by Hedges PFrohysiology staff¯ said that it would thusiasm of Cheli Duran explained every- Figgis and Co. A brief glance revealed bably increase staff research activities that the drawing is better than the ideas; which would mean eventually more re- thing. " The constitution," she said, " is important. Without an approved con- there are few who can better Stubbs’s search students. thick-soled, narrow-trousered teddy boys. stitution we cannot get a grant or I rooms." But more important than this Not at all a bad idea for a Christmas Entertain was the necessity, she felt, to prevent present, especially as it cost a mere 7/6. I the Society being run by a clique, which at the has happened to more than one society of a smilar type in College. On the whole, there seems to be tre- Happy Event mendous enthusiasm and drive behind MASON’S this Society.