Irish Student Newspaper of the Year 2008 ECONOMIC BANVILLE ATTACKS NEWS 4 PUBLIC AS LAB RATS SCIENCE 19 MELTDOWN HEAD-TO-HEAD OPINION 16 ACADEMIC FREEDOM ED 17 Spare some pity for NZ jobless bankers THRILLS WORLD REVIEW 13 VIVISECTION DEBATE TRAVEL 20 Tuesday 14 September 2008 www.trinitynews.ie Issue 2, Volume 55 Ents in chaos UCD MED DAY INVASION for Freshers’ Week events » SU employs Ents race runner-up Dave Byrne » Byrne quits midweek citing “series of errors” » Longworth denies the week was a failure By Brian Barry Byrne claimed that a number of the key events of Fresher’s Week were run poorly, due to Longworth’s inability to TRINITY’S ENTERTAINMENTS Offi cer implement itineraries for events which Nick Longworth has been strongly Byrne had drawn up for each event. criticised in the wake of Freshers’ Week Byrne claimed that ticket-paying punters following Dave Byrne’s resignation from the Ents team. Byrne - who narrowly “Ents isn’t lost to Longworth in this year’s Student about making Union election was a key member of last money, it’s about year’s Ents team under Ed O’Riordan. people enjoying Longworth hired Byrne to help in the themselves” production of gigs and club nights during the week. Byrne resigned on the were not admitted to venues, bands were Wednesday of Fresher’s Week because left without adequate sound systems for of his dissatisfaction with Longworth’s gigs, and a substantial amount of Student management of events. Union money had been spent needlessly. Byrne spoke to Trinity News about Furthermore, he felt he did not receive what he felt was a series of errors on enough support from Longworth in Longworth’s part. Byrne felt that his dealing with the problems that arose. own position on the Ents team had Longworth claimed that the week’s Med Day, they tell us, is all in a good cause, al- streamed through College last Friday were birds Square, collecting tins and the occasional can in become untenable. He said that although events ran smoothly. though quite why people should be expected to of an altogether different feather. Trailed by a few tow. Clearly, though, there was still something of Longworth was “doing his best” he was Dave Byrne said Longworth made pay for the privilege of watching a bunch of lads bemused but deeply suspicious security guards, a well-founded inferiority complex in the ranks; “making very basic errors”. continued on page 2 getting their kicks running around in a wig, skirt the mob of UCD medical students represented rather than charge towards their natural habitat at and giant fake breasts is hard to say. It’s a custom perhaps the most conspicuously unwelcome the science end, the intruders chose to extricate that is just about palatable when perpetrated by invasion since rebels attempted to storm these themselves via the Nassau Street gate, and as the our own medical students, who, let’s face it, don’t loyal precincts during the Easter Rising. Whoop- cries of the barbarians mingled with the traffi c get out much and could do with some fresh air ing and hollering, the vanguard came through noise, peace desended upon the cobblestones No classes during and a run around. Unfortunately, the horde that Front Arch in force and swung around into Library once more. – As seen by Conor James McKinney Morgan hearing East 17’s doomsday performance By Deirdre Robertson faces four more disciplinary hearings this College News Editor week. He explained that he is unable to By Daire Hickey and John Lavelle That”, met with mixed reaction from the teach as the hearings ‘ran into term time’. Club Philth crowd. A SENIOR lecturer in the English He is currently on an ‘alternate leave of After being ejected from the band, department in Trinity has been absence’ but could potentially be teaching EAST-17 ATTEMPTED to make a the former plumber attempted a solo temporarily suspended from teaching next term depending on the outcome of comeback during Freshers Week when career with help from Wyclef John. His due to an ongoing disciplinary hearing. the hearing. they played in Break for the Border most recent venture was a failed entry in Dr Gerald Morgan was the subject The current disciplinary action relates during Club Philth. The reaction was the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest. His of a leaked report last year which to an incident in 2002 when Dr Morgan lukewarm especially when frontman song ‘I Can’ later reached number 199 in recommended that he be suspended and sent e-mails to a number of staff members Brian Harvey spoke to Trinity News the UK charts. evicted from his rooms. The hearing is claiming that he was more qualified about his belief in a large Jewish Harvey “quit music for good”. But now under way but as it has spread out continued on page 2 conspiracy. it didn’t stop him continuing to make into term time, Mr Morgan is currently Life hasn’t been kind to East 17 headlines, often for the wrong reasons. unable to teach his Freshman or Sophister frontman Brian Harvey since the In 2001 he was hospitalised having options in the English department. halcyon days of the mid-nineties, when Brian Harvey, John Hendy and Terry Coldwell. been attacked with a machete outside Last year, Trinity News came into he was the poster boy for a generation a Nottingham nightclub. He then spent possession of a portion of Dr Morgan’s of teenage girls and single-handedly interview about taking 12 ecstasy tablets next you’re not worth a wank. I think almost two months in jail for breaching a disciplinary report. The suspension popularised wearing baseball caps at a a night. His record label forced him to we were mistreated, we were young restraining order taken out against him proceedings which the report mentioned 90 degree angle. leave the band, which fell apart soon and stupid.” he said, speaking upstairs by his ex-wife. began in May and are ongoing. Dr Morgan After fi ve years at the top of the afterwards. at Break for the Border nightclub after Harvey remerged in 2004 for a stint told Trinity News that he sat before a charts with such hits as “Stay Another Brian still hasn’t forgiven the media the London boy band’s Freshers’ Week on I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! disciplinary panel on May 6, May 26, June Day”, “House of Love” and “If You and the record industry for what performance. but walked off the show after arguing 25, June 26, September 1-5, September Ever”, East 17’s downfall was swift. happened. The aggressively anti-record label with fellow contestants. 29, September 30 and October 6 and he In 1997, Harvey boasted in a radio “One minute you’re massive, the lyrics of the band’s newest song, “Fuck continued on page 2 “Proposed pro-life society” promotion aborted by CSC By Conor Sullivan that only college societies and clubs may is not aware that there was any attempt wishing to set up a society must ‘examine 2007, students attempting to set up a pro- debate was being censored. The issue was advertise in college but a group wishing to collect signatures during Freshers’ the list of existing societies to see if there choice society, were told the ‘Students further aggravated when the college told to set up a society in college is allowed Week’. is one that is already recognised, and For Life’ society already dealt with the students that the best idea was to ‘pack the A GROUP called the ‘Proposed DU pro to call itself a ‘proposed society’. Mr Mr O’Gorman stated that ‘the posters which could accommodate your interest.’ issues of euthanasia and abortion. They house’ of the ‘Students For Life’ society life Society’ was asked to stop putting O’Gorman says these rules do not apply were removed by individual students.’ Following this, the group may draw up a and overturn the entire constitution of posters up around college by the Central during Freshers’ Week. Although the The CSC contacted an individual in the constitution along the lines of the ‘CSC “A society does not the society thereby turning it into a pro- Societies Committee during Freshers’ regulations published on the CSC website proposed society during the week about Draft Constitution’. If a proposed society exist only in virtue choice group. The students refused on Week last week. do not mention a specifi c time in which College ‘postering regulations which collects 100 Trinity student and staff of the aspiration of the grounds that this was immoral. According to Joseph O’Gorman, groups can or cannot put up posters, Mr prohibit the distribution of posters by signatures and I.D. numbers,the C.S.C individuals” said The ‘proposed DU pro-life society’ was honorary treasurer of the CSC, ‘an O. Gorman stated ‘in the past, groups groups which are not recognised within executive will decide whether the society Joseph O’Gorman unavailable for comment at the time of individual or a group, which is not a which set up a stand to collect signatures college.’ He was told that the group could should be recognized. going to print. Mr O’Gorman told Trinity society, put up posters in college during during Freshers’ Week, in order to set up a stand in college during term a Similar guidelines about ‘existing were turned down on the grounds that no news that the individual CSC spoke to Freshers’ Week. They advertised a propose that the society be recognized, proper.