Irish Student Newspaper of the Year 2008 BRAIN DRAIN UNFORGETTABLE PISTE Can young Team erases memories OFF entrepreneurs from mice Snow holidays save us? on a shoestring budget BUSINESS 18 SCIENCE 19 TRAVEL 20 Tuesday 11 November 2008 www.trinitynews.ie Issue 4, Volume 55 Flyers out as €800,000 SU promos slammed By Naomi O’Leary Pav plan JUNIOR DEAN Emma Stokes has sent an email warning students not to distribute promotional material within college as it constitutes “littering”. Ms. Stokes noted that many fl yers advertise “cheap alcohol”. This warning has particular resonance following much negative portrayal of Trinity students in revealed the media. An Independent Complaints Panel decision in April upheld that Student Union promotions on campus » Function room available to sports clubs encouraged excessive drinking. The Panel ruled that the Student Union promotions » New toilet facilities to end queues were in breach of the Mature Enjoyment of Alcohol Society (MEAS) Code of » Pav may remain closed next September Practice on the Naming, Packaging and Promotion of Alcoholic Drinks. By Conor James McKinney the building to allow wheelchair users to Anonymous members of the public access the bar area. The existing concrete had made complaints about promotion staircase at this point will be replaced by for the “ENTS Christmas Party” and THE DUBLIN University Central a more modern metal structure. “Twisted Tuesdays”. The ‘Ents Christmas Athletics Club (DUCAC) plans to begin DUCAC have not been able to provide Party’ was held at the Purty Kitchen work on a major redevelopment of the an estimate of the cost of the development in Temple Bar and was promoted by Pavilion Bar this summer. An application posters advertising ‘mulled wine, Santa’s for planning permission was lodged late Dr. Trevor West, helpers with vodka supersoakers! €2 last year, and granted on February 1st DUCAC Chairman, drinks!’. The Panel concluded that this 2008. Architects Arthur Gibney and said the project was a drinking game, likely to encourage Partners, of Harcourt Street, have drawn would be “pushed excessive drinking. In the case of the SU up the plans, which were approved by the hard” event ‘Twisted Tuesday’ held at Citibar, College Site & Facilities Committee in the Panel considered the use of the term November 2007. as of yet. Trinity News understands from ‘twisted’ and the student market at which The new Pav will be extended out on one source however that the project is it was aimed. It ruled that the phrasing either side, such that the only outdoor expected to cost €800,000. The last encouraged excessive drinking. Citibar seating remaining will be be at the front, major work to be carried out on the said that the event was run by the SU to the immediate left and right of the building in 1989/90 – when women’s and when a complaint was made, every front door. To the right of the existing changing rooms and other facilities were action was taken to pull all promotional building, as viewed from the front steps, added to the ground fl oor – cost around ‘Twisted Tuesday’ material. Alcohol will be new toilets, which should see the £250,000. Part of the Pav’s €116,000 watchdog MEAS has asserted that end of the queues that currently form profi t for the last fi nancial year will be put Licencees Citibar and the Purty Kitchen for the facilities during busy periods. towards the redevelopment. A further are responsible for their promotions, To the left will be a function room, unspecifi ed amount will be returned even when those promotions are run by accessible through sliding doors from the as usual to the main DUCAC budget to a third party. main indoor seating area, which will be support its activities. Former Ents offi cer Ed O’Riordain, available for sports clubs to rent out. Both One matter of concern for students who was in charge of promotion of both new wings will have a glass and timber is that it looks likely that the Pav will be events, said that he found the promotion frame facing the front of the building, closed for part of next year, leaving Trinity of events on campus was already with panelling at the rear. In all, around with no bar on campus for that period. A severely restricted. He stressed that 89 square metres of new fl oor area will DUCAC spokesperson was keen to stress over regulation and bureaucracy of the be added. that there was no desire to close the Pav necessary promotion was an inhibition In another sign of College’s on their part, since the profi ts made from to the creation of a vibrant student commitment to universal access, a lift will social life, of which SU events remain an be installed at the north-east corner of Continued on page 2 Med Day participants were well prepared as the scene outside the Physiology building attested. Photo: Rachel Kennedy essential part. HOUSE 6 SKETCH Cancer Society get cheeky “Ring the alarum bell!” By Deirdre Robertson Cancer Society. College News Editor Previous events organised by the society have included members running THE RINGING of the alarum bell even as they stood in the downpour, ‘CLOTHES MAKE the man. Naked people the New York Marathon, the ‘Pink didn’t have quite as dramatic an effect the minds of these public-spirited have little or no infl uence on society’ said Party’ run jointly with DUBES, a Buttery on House 6 as in the closing scenes of gentlemen were still bent on casting Mark Twain. Yet Trinity College Cancer table quiz and the annual Daffodil Day MacBeth, when it called the tyrant’s down the Great Evil that menaces the Society would strongly disagree with collections in which 40 volunteers raised armies to battle, but as the fi re the student way of life. As the shrill this statement as they launch their 2009 €10,000 selling daffodils, pins and alarm sent out its urgent peals on a clamour of the alarm ceased, the naked students calendar. keyrings. particularly dismal afternoon last week thoughts of all four ran as one: the bell The society has warned students not to This year, however, the society has it certainly sent the hacks scurrying. tolls for fees. be too surprised ‘if you catch a glimpse of planned more elaborate events. The This unexpected distraction from the Thankfully, the denizens of House 6 college studs in the nip around the Ussher Charity Ball on 25 November will be vital business of the day rendered the didn’t have too long to wait - had they library or other unexpected spots”. the fi rst mixed Charity Ball in Trinity, great and the good of College society gone down with pneumonia out there The calendar is a fundraising initiative a Full Moon Thai Party will include the temporarily powerless as they huddled in the cold, whatever would we have by the society who have raised over essential glow paint and buckets and the together under umbrellas, bemoaning done without them? - as our beloved €80,000 in the past two years for cancer afformentioned naked calendar promises the time spent away from their various College Fire Safety Offi cer was on hand research. ‘Students go starkers – all in the to ‘get your blood boiling on those nippy machinations. to give the all-clear. Commendations name of charity!’ says the society of their The November spread from UCC’s naked calendar. Winter evenings’. Here was Joe O’Gorman, telling were given to all present for the timely new calendar, which will be released on According to the society, the calendar anyone who would listen that the manner of their exit: the evacution 24th November. during their Rag Week. The students of middle-aged Yorkshire women who will ‘celebrate the beauty of the naked offi cial gathering point in such took place in under a minute, This latest fundraising idea will volunteered to strip off in various were trying to raise money for Leukemia body’. Society members described it as emergencies was the Campanile. confounding those who feel that the see the ‘crème de la crème of Trinity locations around college including the research. Since then, naked calendars the ‘fi rst annual Trinity College Cancer There stood Ronan Hodson, who hacks have too little appreciation for hotties’ strip off in various locations science lab, the café, a classroom and the have emerged in every aspect of society Soceity calendar’ suggesting that this is was the best dressed of the bunch their own importance. Eyeing each around campus. Speculations are rife canteen. from Sligo farmers to French rugby an event students can look forward to and knew it. Notable by her absence other with redoubled suspicion, back that the Trinity Rugby Team will be The photographs raised €5,000 from players to the Dublin Firemen Brigade. every year. was Orlaith Foley, evidently having went the stalwarts of offi cialdom to assuming ‘compromising positions’ on the 1,000 calendars bought. This infl ux The Trinity Cancer Society has become Claire Duffy, Marie Claire Collins and decided that her role as Welfare resume their daily grind. the college pitch but nothing has yet been of donations is explained by the Trinity one of the largest societies on campus Suzanne Gaffey pointed out that students Offi cer charged her with remaining in PS: It’s a long way down from the confi rmed. Cancer Society’s opinion that ‘the novelty having signed up over 1,300 members. who pay €6.99 for photographs of their the building lest any student needed second fl oor, but Martin McKenna The Trinity Cancer Society members factor of seeing unsuspected people strip Alumni student Rory McGowan set up the naked peers will not only gain ‘a feast for rescuing from the potential fl ames.