Ireland’s STUDENT NEWSPAPER Of The Year 2005 Trinity News Est. 1947 Ireland’s Oldest Student Newspaper Tuesday, January 24, 2006 [email protected] Vol.58 No.5 Rising Stars: Steve CilIian Murphy Clarke meets Bell X1 TNT MUSIC page 12 Interview Chomsky apologises to students for lecture cancellation Speech moved from Trinity to RDS, Three UCD lectures go ahead as planned The left wing intellectual College in the future. role in organising the event. David Molloy also turned down an invitation In an email to Trinity A further lecture could from the University Philosophical News, Prof Chomsky said, “I'm not be arranged, according to Controversial American academic Society to address Trinity students afraid I can't help. I had nothing to Amnesty Ireland. “Unfortunately, Noam Chomsky cancelled a sched- in the Graduate’s Memorial do with the locations of lectures. his schedule does not permit him to uled lecture in Trinity College last Building. His office told the Phil All arrangements were made by speak to any of these groups [uni- Wednesday due to excess demand that he could not accept an hon- Amnesty International.” versities], as he will only be in for tickets, while three UCD lec- orary patronage of the society as “I'd be pleased if you Ireland for a short time and doing tures went ahead as planned. his schedule was already full. could convey my apologies to stu- media work, etc. as well as his talk Professor Chomsky apologised to Meanwhile, Prof dents and others at Trinity who on the 18th.” students for the cancellation and Chomsky delivered three lectures were left out in these arrange- Trinity students and staff said he hoped to return to Trinity in at University College Dublin, ments.” He added, “I hope it will were originally allocated 150 the future. including an address to UCD’s stu- be taken care of in some later visit, places for this event, and received Chomsky was scheduled dent debating societies, the not too long delayed, I hope.” only an extra 25 tickets after the to deliver an Amnesty International Literary and Historical Society and According to a College venue change, despite the greatly lecture on ‘The War on Terror’ in Philsoc. Over 3,000 UCD students, spokesperson, the decision to move increased capacity. the Ed Burke Theatre last staff and guests crammed into the the lecture from Trinity was a taken Chomsky made head- Wednesday, January 18. But the O’Reilly Hall to see Chomsky on jointly by Trinity College and lines when he told the audience speech was switched to the RDS at Tuesday, Thursday and Friday last. Amnesty International Irish that Ireland may be complicit in a late stage because the Trinity lec- Chomsky also took part Section. The College originally “the supreme international crime.” ture hall was too small to cope with in a book signing in Tower Records considered a video link between Described by Bono as the demand for tickets. He was set and a private address to the the Ed Burke lecture theatre and ‘the Elvis of academia’, Chomsky to be the most high profile visitor Institute of European Affairs dur- the Examination Hall in order to is currently Professor of to Trinity of the year. ing his short visit to Dublin which provide extra seating. But the Linguistics in the Massachusetts Prof Chomsky, 77, is a ended on Friday. demand for tickets was far beyond Institute of Technology. In recent world renowned linguist and critic Prof Chomsky offered a expectation, the College said. As a years, he has become better known of American foreign policy who personal apology to Trinity stu- result the venue was changed to the for his opposition to American for- has been named as ‘the world’s dents for the cancellation and 1800 seater Shelbourne Hall in the eign policy, notably the Vietnam Academic Noam Chomsky speaking at the Amnesty International lecture at the RDS last Wednesday most cited living author.’ expressed a desire to visit the RDS. Trinity College retained a War. Photo: Dara MacDonaill courtesy of the The Irish Times Inside Ocean Colour Scene set to play Ball SU Nominations Open at a later stage. the price rise was “in line est album A Hyperactive Workout Get the lowdown on the latest cabdidate rumours John Lavelle Mr Hughes said with inflation.” Tickets are for the Flying Squad only reaching See page 2 that nothing has been expected to be made avail- number 30 in the British charts. Ocean Colour Scene are expected finalised yet but he told able for sale within the next The band, once to be announced as the first of the students to “expect a few weeks. described by Noel Gallgher as “the Society Funding headline acts for this year’s Trinity major announcement in The rock band second best band in Britain,” have Enda Hargaden looks at how much each society got this year Ball later this week, Trinity News the next few days.” MCD achieved critical acclaim previously been booked by MCD See page 18 can reveal. A source close to Ents promotions, which is with their debut album to play the Slane Festival in 2002 Officer Niall Hughes said that a organising the Ball in Moseley Shoals, released in and Oxegen in 2004. deal had already been struck with association with Trinity 1996 at the heyday of brit- Ocean Colour Scene are Rail Rip-Off? the Manchester band. Ents was unwilling to pop. Their first single ‘The already advertising a number of Anne Marie Ryan looks at differences in student rail discounts According to the source, comment on the matter. Riverboat Song’ was made gigs in Ireland in early May before See page 6 Ocean Colour Scene agreed to play Meanwhile, the famous as the theme tune of the Trinity Ball, which will take the Ball early last week. He added price of tickets is set to Chris Evans’ TFI Friday. place on Friday, May 12. that a number of up and coming rise to €74, up €4 from Since then the band has had Trinity Ball in depth: How Much is Too Much? acts would be added to the lineup last year. Hughes said that mixed success with their lat- Page 4 Christine Bohan looks at Trinity students’ drinking habits See page 2-3 TNT Trinity News Two Kearney makes first move Trinity FM in TNT returns wih features, columns, politics, books, theatre and more! See supplement towards modularisation piracy cock up the greater choice that it can offer Index John Lavelle students. Critics say that the sys- tion and could be subject to crimi- tem increases pressure on students Sarah Hickey nal prosecution. College News p1-3 SU & Societies p18 Trinity academics have begun dis- because of more frequent examina- A source close to the sta- News Feature p4 Comment & Opinion cussions about introducing a mod- tions and encourages students to Campus radio outlet Trinity FM tion told Trinity News that the situ- ularised degree programme to the forget about a subject once a mod- could face criminal prosecution ation came about due to a mix up National p6 p19-20 College. In what is being seen as a ule is completed. after the station was forced to stop in communications between the International p7 Letters p21 highly significant development, Some courses in Trinity broadcasting last week when it station and the BCI about the dates Features p8-10 Gaeilge p22 the prospect of modularisation was already have modular structures, was discovered that it was trans- for broadcasting in this term. raised by the Senior Lecturer, most notably Engineering. mitting illegally. Under piracy law, Trinity FM is only licensed to Film p11 Inter’l Students p23 Colm Kearney at a meeting of the Prof Kearney, who takes the station could also be subject to broadcast for three weeks in Hilary Music p12-13 Science p24 heads of department two weeks charge of the academic affairs of large fines and confiscation of and Trinity term. The dates for the Food & Drink p14-15 Sports Features p25-26 ago. the College, told Trinity News that equipment if the authorities decide first of these weeks were mistaken- Before Christmas, the next meeting of the heads of to pursue action. ly taken to be January 16 to 20. Travel p16 Sport p27-28 Trinity News reported that Prof department “would discuss the On Thursday afternoon The station has not made clear Careers p17 Kearney had introduced a proposal Kearney: Reform academic portfolio on offer, the plug was pulled on a broadcast what the actual agreed dates were. to scrap scholarship exams. during the academic year instead including the possibility of modu- when it was realised that Trinity Radio piracy is an If introduced, modulari- of in May. Modularisation could larisation.” FM's license with the Broadcasting offence taken very seriously by the Look out for Issue 6 in Week 6! sation would mean a radical over- also mean more emphasis on con- He added that following Commission of Ireland did not BCI with several recent raids on haul of Trinity’s course pro- tinuous assessment and more flexi- restructuring, it was now “an cover the broadcast. In effect this pirate operations in Cork and grammes. Individual subjects ble subject choices. appropriate time” to review the meant that from Monday to Dublin. While in the case of would be sub-divided into shorter Advocates of a modular courses available in Trinity and Thursday the station was broad- Trinity FM the piracy was claimed ‘modules’. The final examinations system point to the reduced Continued Page 3 casting on 97.3FM as a pirate sta- Continued Page 3 for each module would take place emphasis on end of year exams and 2 Tuesday January 24th, 2006 News Editor: John Lavelle COLLEGENEWS Trinity News Rumours fly as SU nominations open All positions set to be contested tion.