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BOMB ATTACK ON "T.C.D."The printing works and offices used by "T.C.D. Miscellany" were severely damaged in two separate

incidents last week. At 5 a.m. last Wednesday the premises of "T.C.D.s" printers were burnt out. Thisprevented the publication of last Friday’s issue of the magazine. On Thursday the "T.C.D." offices in thebasement of No. 6 were subjected to a bomb attack. An IBM electric typewriter, which was paid for by theCollege and which is essential to the production of the magazine, was completely destroyed. The typewriter,worth £250, was destroyed by a home-made bomb consisting of a six-inch copper tube filled with sodiumchlorate and sugar.

A second unexploded bombthreatened the life of the ChiefSteward, Mr. Alec McCartney.Nobody was in the "T.C.D."office at the time of the explosion,but Mr. McCartney and a porterwere summoned to the scene bymembers of the staff of the maga-zine who had arrived to find theiroffice in a shambles. -

Mr. McCartney first thoughtthat the typewriter had beenwrecked by the copper tube hefound lying in the office. Hepicked the tube up and was verylucky not to have been killed asit appears that this type of bombCan be activated by the heat of aperson’s hand. The explosion fromthe first bomb impregnated piecesof copper into the wooden beamsin the office and it is almost cer-tain that had anyone been in theoffice while either, or both, of thedevices exploded, they would havebeen killed quite quickly.

RED MONEYFOR U.S.I.

U.S.I. President RichardO’Toole negotiated a grant of$1,500 from the InternationalUnion of Students while on a visitlast week to Czechoslovakia. Themoney will be used towardsfinancing a seminar in Belfast inon "The Democratisation of Edu-cation." U.S.I. have also writtento U.N.E.S.C.O. protesting aboutthe recent increase in universityfees in this country. U.S.I. is co-ordinating the work of sub-com-mittees in various colleges whoare to make recommendations onthe latest proposals on the re-organisation of higher educationin Ireland. Trinity’s S.R.C.’s Edu-cation Officer, Pedro Ribeiro, isat present compiling and formu-lating submissions for U.S.I.which will eventually form part ofrecommendations repersentative ofthe views of a nation-wide cross-sectionof students.

The Gardai were called in toinvestigate the explosion becauseof the damage to College propertyand the threat to human life in-volved. Several students involvedin the earlier picketing of"T.C.D." last Friday have beenquestioned, but it is not knownhow far the Gardai have succeededin their enquiries.

"T.C.D." has been the centreof controversy since its publica-tion of a "Paki Poem" in its lastissue. Meetings were held betweenstudents who object to the racisttone of the poem, the staff of"T.C.D." and Dr. Kennelly, theJunior Dean in an attempt toavoid any further trouble over themagazine. Quite apart from thepoem, many students object to

what is called the cliquishness andreactionary nature of a publica-tion which uses the same title asthe College. It is understood thatmoves may be made on the Capi-tation Committee to stop any sub-sidy from the College to themagazine.

The S.R.C. last Monday passedtwo motions on "T.C.D." Onecondemned the violent attack onthe premises, while the secondcondemned the publication of a"racist poem." The fire in theprinting w o r k s, belonging toMessrs. R. D. Spicer, is under-stood to have been an accident.A former editor of "T.C.D.",Mark Keegan, says that "’T.C.D.’will be published as usual nextweek.

Business Studies

ill RevoltStudents¯ in first year Business Studies held a lightning strike on

Thursday. They picketed an Economics test, and only one BusinessStudies student passed the picket. About half of the J.F. Social Studiesand Economics students took the test, but this seems to have beenmore in ignorance of what the protest was about than a maliciousattempt to upset it.

The protesters fek that theBusiness Studies School lackedan identity of its own, and thatbecause of this there was no onewho could negotiate with theirinterests solely at heart in anyforthcoming talks on this issue.

They called for the appoint-ment of a separate¯ head of theBusiness Studies School. At themoment, Professor Ryan is headof both the Economics and theBusiness Studies Departments,and the students fek it was askingtoo much of the Professor tonegotiate on behalf of bothSchools.

Gerry Connolly, one of theleaders of the protest, emphasisedthat the students were far moreinterested in ensuring that the

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BOWS OUTAt last Thursday’s joint meeting of last year’s and this year’s S.R.C.

the only contested position for the new Executive was that of VacationWork Officer. Ronnie Ferguson beat Peter Joyce by 25 votes to 2i forthis position. Both are new councillors. Pat Murphy, a beaten Vice-Presidental candidate, was returned unopposed as Travel Officer. Jill¯ ¯the members of the new Executive supported Paul Tansey in his Presi-dential campaign and it would appear that the new President has aclear, if somewhat uncertain, majority on Council.

asked that nevertheless, this year’sS.R.C. should campaign firmlyfor representation of students andjunior staff. Mr. Revington alsodetailed achievements on ¯theservices side and explained howhis p!ans for a laundrette and freelegal aid were not realised due:tocircumstances beyond his control.

Motions were passed condemn-ing American aggression in Cam-bodia and supporting the BusinessStudies students in their campaignfor a separate identity for theirdepartment.

The rest of the new Executiveis: Welfare Officer: TommyHamilton; Education Officer:Pedro Ribeiro; External Rela-tions Officer: Derek Moran;Secretary: Willie Hamill; PublicRelations Officer: David Giles;Editor of "Liaison": KenO’Brien.

Political affiliations were thrownto the winds in the election forChairman between Rickard Deasy,a former Presidential candidate,and Mark Oxley, a former P.R.O.and " Liaison" Editor. Deasywon comfortably, thanks to strongright-wing support together withthe support of some of the moreradical left-wing of council.

In an informal report, the out-going President, Joe Revington,told Council that the S.R.C.financially had " doubled businessand halved the money." Hementioned the General Studiesstrike as being the first occasionon which the S.R.C. had takenmiltant action. He said that onlytwo out of 22 members of theAcademic Council favour studentrepresentation on that body and

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The Disciplinary Committeeproceedings are now public unlessdecided otherwise by the Com-mittee in specific cases. At arecent meeting a memorandumwas received from the Dean ofWomen Students about the revivalof rules covering the distributionof printed matter in the Buttery.It appears that costs are nothelped by the additional labourentailed in the clearing up of suchmaterial. The age limit in therules governing residence werereferred to the appropriate com-mittee when a request was madefor the limit to be dropped from21 to 18.

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The Trinity team who lost to U.C.D. in the Gannon Cup last Saturday.

BRYCE IS TRINITY’S OUTSTANDING

PLAYER IN BUSY WEEK’S CRICKETTrinity came off the field at 5.25 on Tuesday afternoon alter four days of cricket, in which they gained

two League draws and a 59-run victory. Both matches at the week-end were played in very cold weather, withbad light ¯playing a big part in denying Trinity any chance to press for a win.

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for the Gannon Cup on Saturday, and a tough U.C.D. crew went pastI~ win by 1] lengths.

Trinity had looked very fast inthe first half of the race, goingahead with a fast spurt just offthe start, but they never managedto settle properly and get clear oftheir eager opponents, and wereunable to reply efficiently to theirpowerful rally. Once behind, theytended to fall to pieces and failedto regain their form and get backon terms. U.C.D. can be wellpleased with their win, but it istoo early in the season yet to judgethe true speed of the Trinity crew.

It was a bad day for Trinityrowing in general. The JuniorVIII were unlucky to lose theirrace against U.C.D. when apleasure cruiser swamped them inits wash after they had led off thestart. The Maiden "B " crew alsowent down fighting by half alength in the most exciting raceof the day. Some consolation wasgained, however, when the MaidenIV won at Queen’s Regatta inBelfast.

SQUASH EXHIBITION

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l.C.D. Exh,b,t,ongain a 59-run victory in a two

toss for the third match insuccession, and once again electedto bat on a rather lifeless wicket,in College Park against Y.M.C.A.The innings started badly, Silver-stone and McKenna going early,but Bryce again came to therescue, scoring a very valuable 50,his second half-century in as manyweeks. Unfortunately, he foundlittle support from the other end,and only Halliday, whose splen-didly controlled aggression broughthim 48, managed to take his scoreabove the ’teens. Having battledafter ¯tea, Trinity then declared at161 for 9.

The light was getting rapidlyworse throughout the Y.M.C.A.innings, and if the visiting sidehad ever looked in real danger oflosing, an appeal would have beenimmediately upheld. In these cir-cumstances, Y.M.C.A. had noth-ing to lose in going for the runs,and Ridgeway’s hard-hitting 84proved their intention of going fora win.

Frankland again bowled verywell for his figure of 4-61, and itWas unfortunate that McCarey washampered by a broken finger inhis left hand. In a very close finsh,Y.M.C.A. reached 158 for 8, justfour runs short of victory.

On Saturday, HaUiday won the Trinity struggled to 158-9 dec., innings match. Silverstone and

PHOENIX: The game at Phoenix Park onSunday marked the 125th anni-versary of the first recorded matchbetween Trinity and Phoenix, anda tankard was presented by thePhoenix Club to be played for inthe annual league fixture. Aproblem was posed, however,when, in another exciting finish,the match ended in a draw.

Trinity batted first on a near-perfect wicket, and after losingtwo early wickets, Bryce and Coxpulled the batting together with37 and 42, respectively. Both wererather foolishly run out when

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with a stubborn 23 from Harteand a few lusty blows by Frank-land.

With the fight failing quickly,Trinity again had very littlechance of winning, and after asolid start Phoenix began to geton top. A fine partnership betweenMullen (32) a n d ex-Trinitycaptain Gerry Murphy (51) putthe home side in sight of victory,but when these two were dimissedand a short shower intervened,their task became almost im-possible and they ended up 15runs short of victory when stumpswere drawn at 7.45.

H. C. McCALL’S XIOn Monday and Tuesday,

Trinity entertained Con McCall’s~XI in a two-day friendly in

College Park. Con himself was,unfortunately, unable to travel,but Michael Rea captained astrong side of Ulster SeniorLeague players, and in the absenceof McCarey, Hewson andMcKenna, Trinity did well to

A new world record (as yet un-ratified) was set up at 3.0 a.m.last Saturday when an anonymousCollege " sportsman" reached thepavilion in College Park from No.9 in Front Square in the amazingtotal of four shots. It took himonly two shots to reach the cornerof No. 40 and the Museum Build-ing, from where he had no diffi-culty in reaching his targets inanother two. College’s new star hasleft the country for a few weeks toavoid the attentions of eagerreporters.

Bryce were top scorers in Trinity’sfirst innings total of 110, and withHalliday taking five wickets, thevisitors were dismissed for 92.

The second day’s play provided295 runs in less than 5½ hours,and entertained a large, scantily-clad crowd on a hot, sunny after-noon. Bryce, Harte and Silverstonegave the innings a good founda-tion, and a stand of 51 in under40 minutes between Kirk andKirby enabled Halliday to declareat 168 for 8.

McCall’s XI, needing 187 towin in 160 minutes, never reallylooked like getting the runs, andonly a stand between Rea andMcQuilken saved them from aheavier defeat. Halliday repeatedhis first innings feat in claimingfive wickets, while Harte, in hisfirst season behind the stumps,took three stumpings. Brycedemonstrated his all-round abilityby taking four wickets in thematch with his leg-breaks, and theTrinity fielding was of a veryhigh standard overall.

ATHLETICS

Inter-Vars,ty Athlet,csThis year’s Inter-Varsity Athletics Championships were held on

Belfield’s grass t~ack last week-end. For the first time it was necessaryto split the events into two sessions. The slowish nature of the track,coupled with very unfav.ourable weather conditions, did not allow anyfast times, although the star of the Championships, B. O’Regan(U.C.C.), did register relatively good times in the sprints.

Trinity’s performance in theChampionships was much as ex-pected, although individually someof our athletes did very well,notably John Dillon who won the400 metres and was second in the220, being our only male trackwinner.

Jane McNicholl was the out-stand member of Trinity’s ladies’team, winning the 800 and 1,500metres events. We can expect a lotfrom these two promising athletesin the near future.

John Mclntyre also did well,coming second in the 1,500metres, w h i 1 e K. Millingtonachieved the same result in the5,000 metres. I. Mowatt and T.O’Connor were outstanding in thefield events, and E. Areo did quitewell in the long and triple jumps.

The T~-inity teams did as wello~erall as could be expected, com-ing third in both the men’s andladies’ events, although 64 pointsbehind U.C.D. in the former and32 in the latter.

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annual Trinity Week "sevens" NO KNEES IN OUR

Jonah Barrington, the world’s leading professional squash player,will give an exhibition match in the Trinity squash courts on Thursday,28th May. The exhibition will open with one of his well-known"clinics," in which he examines the various aspects of the game andreveals its finer points. He will follow this up by playing against someof the top Irish players.

To squash enthusiasts, the nameof Barrington has become a house-hold word, a symbol of dedicationin sport. His rise to the top pro-voked intense interest as much bythe rapidity of his climb as by hisdynamic approach to the game.Physical fitness is the essentialprerequisite to his sort of gameand he relies on it to give him theedge over his opponents.

His list of successes is awesome.British Open Champion, ’66, ’67,’69; British Amateur Champion’66, ’67, ’68, ’69. He is the onlyindividual to have won both theBritish Open and the WorldAmateur Championships in thesame year (1969). In 1968 alonehe won the Open Championshipsof Pakistan, Egypt, Australia,

South Africa and New Zealand.Aspiring squash players may be

interested to note that Barrington’ssquash achievements at Trinitybelied his subsequent success. Hewas awarded his colours only inhis last season (’59/’60), playingas second string. He was also oneof four Trinity members to playfor Leinster that year, an honourthat was considerably easier toacquire in those days when Trinitywas the leading squash club inIreland.

Seldom has Trinity produceda sportsman of Barrington’s

¯ calibre. Rarer still do we have theopportunity of seeing such a playerm action, especially on our owncourts. This unique occasionshould not be missed.

HORSE RACING

By "LORD FORM"

Sorry to be unoriginal, butthree-year-old form this season,from Nijinsky to Rarity last week,has been pointing inexorably tothe exceptional class of DECIES,who will surely win Saturday’s2,000 Guineas at the Curragh(4.55). Clever Fella and Every-day can be expected to make arace of it. It seems equally safeto assume that LOVELY KATE,who won most convincingly at"The Park" last week, will winthe 1,000 Guineas (3.50, Curragh,Sat.); and sandwiched betweenthe two classics, the 4.20 may fallto LEIT MOTIF. On Friday inEngland, I suggest a follow-upbet on COOL ALIBI in Strat-ford’s 7.0, while HASCOMBEFAIR is on a light weight to re-peat E. Cousin’s success last yearin the 9.10 at Ayr.

STILL LOOKING FORTHAT JOB IN THE

SOCCER

Stranmillis, 1; Trinity, 1The 1st XI travelled to Belfast

last Friday to play against Stran-millis Training College, who hadwon the corresponding match inCollege Park last term. This time,however, Trinity held the homeside to a 1-1 draw, Bleakley scor-ing with a fine header.

RUGBY

Our congratulations to HoraceMcKinley who has been electedRugby Club captain for nextseason. "Father" McKinley, whoplays hooker, has always been agreat help to the club as a whole,both on and off the field, and wewish him the best of luck in thecoming year.

WANTED, MALE STUDENT,to lbce with family on SouthCoast, to teach Elementary Mathsand Latin to nine-year-old boyfor two/three hours daily duringAugust. Please reply to J. R.Jameson, 25 Suffolk St., Dublin,

will be held at Santry. This eventhas always been a tremendoussuccess and has attracted a hugeentry. As usual, three separatetournaments will be run simul-taneonsly, the rugby seven-a-side,the soccer five-a-side, and themixed hockey six-a-side. Entriesshould be written up on therugby/cricket notice board atFront Gate as soon as possible.

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. Exhibition Preview

TRI N ITY’S TREASU RESAn exhibition of books and manuscripts is being held in the Old Library to mark the re-opening of the

Long Room after a closure of over three years. The exhibition attempts to show the variety and extent ofthe Library’s holdings. Trinity has had a Library for the last 380 years and its contents form not only adistinctively Irish collection but also an important general European Library.

The exh~ition has been arrangedin three sections:

The first, not only in the orderorder of show cases but also intime, consists of manuscripts.Particularly notable are the fourIrish manuscripts, KeUs, Armagh,Dimma and Durrow, which in thepast have been permanently ondisplay in the Long Room. With

these are now shown the 8thcentury Book of Mulling, a copyof the Gospels in Latin from themonastery founded by St. Mullingin Co. Carlow, and the l lthcentury Irish Liber Hymnorum,the oldest surviving collection ofhymns in Irish and Latin. Thismanuscript is opened at the hymnknow as St. Patrick’s Breastplate.The English manuscripts includethe Book of St. Albans, datingfrom the 13th century and largelywritten and illustrated by Matthew

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Paris, a monk of the Abbey of St.Albans and one of the greatestEnglish chroniclers. Also on vieware the Winchcombe Psalter, theDublin Apocalypse and 14th cen-tury copies of the Koran and theHebrew Bible.

In the second section, followingthe manuscripts in time, emphasisis laid upon the printed book as a

physical object. Before showingsomething of the history of theearliest printing, starting with aleaf from the Gutenburg Bible of1455 A copy of Plutarch’s Livesof 1470 magnificently illuminatedin renaissance style, the firstedition of Dante’s Divine Comedy,and a copy of the first dated bookto be printed in England, the

18th May

Dietes of Sayengis of the Phil-osophers, printed at Westminsterby Caxton.

Almost a century after the arrivalof printing in Europe, Ireland’sfirst printed book, the Boke of theCommon Praier was issued inDublin. With this can be seen acopy of the New Testament of1602, the first substantial book tobe printed in the Irish language.

As examples of fine printingfrom private presses, works havebeen chosen from William Morris’sKelmscott Press, the Doves Press,and Elizabeth Corbet Yeats’sCuala Press. Care for the fine out-ward appearance of the book isshown in bookbindings dating fromthe sixteenth to nineteenth cent-turies, including bindings for suchfamous book-collectors as KingHenry II of France, Jean Grolier,and Cardinal Mazarin. To provethat some earlier readers haveactually opened their books, thesignatures of Mary Queen ofScots, of Ben Jonson and ofJonathan Swift can be seen, thelatter on a copy of Jonson’s Works.

The third section is devoted tothe work of Irish writers in bothmanuscripts and printed form.This is again arranged in chrono-logical order, and included are aletter f r o m George Berkley’sSwift’s Autobiography, Gold-smith’s signature scratched on hisCollege window pane, a volume ofWolfe Tone’s Journal and an earlydraft of The Playboy of theWestern World.

NEW-LOOK

TRINITY WEEKSHIFT I~l EMPHASIS OF

TRINITY WEEK

Trinity Week SecretaryDesmond Bayly said that thisyear’s "week" would be of moregeneral interest than in past yearswhen the emphasis was mostly onsport. While sport still has a largepart to play in the week’s activitiespeople other than sportsmen de-serve a look in.

The College Races remain themost important sporting event ofthe week and they should be ofwider interest this year as a matchhas been arranged with the WestGerman University of Mainz. TheMainz team has several WestGerman champion athletes, four ofthem in fact took part in the lastOlympic Games. The two otherfeature sporting events are newones, the first being the visit of theworld’s foremost squash player,Jonah Barrington. Barrington willplay an exhibition match with aleading Irish player and will thengive a "teach-in" on the game.Ulick O’Connor is bringing his"International Soccer" XI toCollege Park and this promises tobe one of the highlights of theweek.

NON-SPORTING EVENTSOn the non-sporting side of

things the main happening of theprogramme is the return ofClement Freud. He is going tohold another cook-in, but this timeit will be in the G.M.B. as a largecrowd is expected. It is hoped thatFreud will judge the Queen ofElegance competition at theCollege Races. There will be apoetry reading, an organ recital bythe well-known organist JamesDalton, F.R.C.O., and Players areputting on their revue as usual.

The main event of this week is,of course, the Ball which is on the29th of May. This year’s mainattraction is the Chris. Barber JazzBand and Otillie Patterson. BallSecretary David Walsh is verypleased to have booked them asthis is the first time that the Ballhas had a big name group fromEngland. Another English group,the Dark Blues from London, arealso playing. The ever-popularTrinidad Steel Band have alsobeen booked, as have the well-known Northern group, the Chips.Walsh says not to miss out on thefortune teller who will be underthe Campanile which is a goodplace to find out your fortune.

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BRIAN CARSONOne of Trinity’s outstanding sportsmen must be Brian Carson, an

Irish international badminton player. His sporting achievements arevery impressive. He has been playing competitive badminton since theage of 11, at the age of 15 he won the Leinster under 18 Championship,two years later he was playing on the Leinster senior team, and thisyear--at the age of 21--he was selected to play on the Irish team. Hehas played against England and Scotland and represented Ireland inthis year’s European Championships.

In spite of all these achievementshe refuses to let his life becomedominated by badminton. He trainshard, 1½ hours a day five days aweek, nevertheless he looks uponhis studies as the most importantaspect of his life at the moment.He is a third year Engineeringstudent and has just been electedto be one of the student repre-sentatives on the school Com-mittee. He feels that students inthe Engineering school do nothave enough say in the running ofthings, they have only three repre-sentatives on the school Com-

Academic Council as this is thekey to giving students a fair deal.

He thinks that being anEngineering student isolates onefrom the rest of College becausethe amount of work involved inEngineering leaves very little timefor extra-curricular activities.

The amount of badmintontraining he does would make himseem dedicated by Irish standardsbut not by general internationalstandards. He hates profession-alism in sport as he thinks it takesal the fun out of it and makes itseem more like work, he believes

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mittee and he hopes to see more.He did not like the originalMerger proposals insofar as theyaffected Engineering, but is notso worried about the new ones,though he is concerned that theymight lead to too many people atlectures.

On general staff student mattershe feels that it is insufficient tohave students on the Board. Thereshould be students on the

that sport is purely for relaxation.As far as the South Africans areconcerned, though he disagreeswith Apartheid, he thinks that if ateam is invited to play, peopleshould be allowedto protest, butthis should not prevent the gamefrom going on.

His immediate ambition is tobe able to do a post-graduatedegree and combine it with a lotof badminton.

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LURCAT IN THE LIBRARY--Photo by Sue Forbes

The first major exhibition to bebrought to Ireland by the CulturalService of the French ForeignMinistry since the Cultural Agree-ment between this country andFrance was signed in 1967 will beheld in the New Library Ex-hibition Hall during the next twoweeks. The exhibition is of 22tapestries by Jean Lurcat who,more than any other artist, wasresponsible for the revival of in-terest in this form of art thiscentury. Lurcat, who died in1966, produced several hundredtapestries, of which the mostfamous is Le Chant du Monde,

which is over 6,000 sq. ft. in size.His close association with archi-tects led to the increasing use oftapestries and other large artworks in public buildings, thuscontributing not only to the de-velopment of modern architecturebut also affirming that great artworks should be part of the en-vironment of everyone.

So once again the New Libraryexhibitors have triumphed with adisplay that is unusual and excit-ing. The tapestries are vibrantwith colour, magnificent in theirtechnical details, and astoundingin the workmanship involved.

Comment on KateAnyone remember "The Ginger

Man"? There were two thingsabout that book that probably heldTrinity students enthralled to thevery last page; one of these thingsgot the book banned; the otherwas the sheer fascination withwhich one reads of a place oneknows---i.e., in this case, Trinity.

This same fascination kept mereading to the end of the story,"Henry Died," by Kate Cruise-O’Brien, published in Saturday’s"Irish Press" in their new Irish

writing feature. This, pluscuriosity as to how much of it wasautobiographical. Being more ob-jective, I was disappointed. Theplot, the reactions of the two girlsu" typical students "---most in-volved after the suicide of the ex,fianc6 of one of them, was a littleobvious from a student; much ofit was belaboured with superfluousdescription---and, even worse,plain, sententious moralising. IfMiss Cruise-O’Brien is to continuewriting, one would like to see alittle more originality, and a gooddeal more pruning of rather self-conscious prose.

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The mind simply boggles at theachievement which seems all thegreater when the medium is woolrather than paint. Not surpris-ingly, the programme says ofLurcat that for "him touchingwool was delectable: and howmuch he enjoyed colours, ele-mentary colours." Certain motifscrop up again and again, andachieve the status of hall markswhich are fascinating to spotmfaces where they’re not expected,for instance. While most of thetapestries abound in detail, ourillustration (right) is of one of thesimplest designs. An exhibitionwell worth a visit.

REVIEWING JACKJack Harte was born in Sligo shows his keen sense of human

and is a graduate of U.C.D. Hisfirst mature poems, written withinthe last two years, are included inhis "Poems of Alienation"volume. One of these poems,"The Poet Encounters Ireland,"sets him firmly in the Irishtradition; there is in this poem allthe sense of high calling of Yeats’poetry, the satire of Austin Clarkeand the clarity and simplicity ofPatrick Kavanagh. "At t h eDance" is a moving piece and

situations. He is here less wordythan in the earlier poems.

Although a small volume, con-taining some sugary love poems,one can already detect a develop-merit towards a kind of socialpoetry. There is increasing bitter-ness in the poems "Faust, 1968,""On the Boat to England" and"The Rebel." The latter, a directattack on the present economicset-up and the soul-destroyingaspects of the machine age is in-

HARTEcisive and effective:

Factories swallow young girlsAnd vomit them back anaemic and

spent.Shivering they stand in a bus-

queue,Wilted at sixteen years old;But the Bentleys paws at the

tarmacAnd the springs in the back seat

are taut,A puff of cigar smoke erasesThe skivvys and scrubbers.

Say/t WThe young men of Trinity may

be surprised to find an article onthe sweet topic of flowers sprout-ing (if you’ll pardon the ex-pression) on the Arts Page). Yetbringing pleasure to your aestheticsenses is the object in view. WithTrinity Week looming brightlyahead, and most of our dollies justdying to hit the hostess scene,decor will become important. Andone way of vastly improving morepermanent decor like green dis-temper or brown paintwork, orenlivening a simple meal servedon Buttery crockery, is with a

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Flowersjudiciously placed arrangement offlowers.

Allow me, then, to address thefemales among us: If you intendspending your all on the booze (orthe steak) for this shindig (orquiet little dinner), and considerflowers an expensive irrelevancy,think again. A short trip to theDublin mountains or the land-lady’s garden should prove fruit-ful. Look for bracken, ferns, cowparsley, bluebells, gorse, ivy andyoung trees about to burst intoleaf. (Please do not break stemsindiscriminatelymuse secateurs ora very sharp knife.) Don’t despise

Co nedy at Savoy"Cactus Flower" is a new style

comedy founded on a reliableformula of combining fast move-merit of action with an arid-drywit, both of which have been timedto grasp maximum audience re-action.

Goldie EIawn, of "Laugh-In"fame, takes on her first majorHollywood role, and excels herselfplaying a gullible, yet shrewd ands~nsitive blonde---girlfriend ofJulian Winston (Walter Matthau),a Fifth Avenue playboy dentist.Matthau, who plays the centralcharacter, promotes the comedynot only by mastering his quickretorts, but also by getting theexact facial expression to countereach particular circumstance.

This is also with Jack Westonwho plays Julian’s indiscreet butlovable friend, Harvey Greenfield.But then Harvey has no directpart in those scenes where Juliangradually swerves from affectionfor the pretty young blonde toloving his more select receptionistnurse (Ingrid Bergman).

It is interesting to note howeasily Goldie’s performance canblend with that of a great actressfrom an earlier Hollywood genera-tion. Bergman, however, is moresophisticated and perceptive, andthis fits her methodical and com-manding role. But slowly thenurse discards her harsh exterior,and, as the cactus on her surgerydesk begins to bloom, she revealsher tender womanhood. First ratecomedy.

the weeds, either, some of themcan be extraordinarily pretty. For abig party, hobble an old-fashionedsoup tureen or a polished brassor copper coal scuttle----or, if youreally want to be the most talkedabout hostess, and you don’t needit for an ash-tray, resurrect apotty, china if possiblemand makea feature of it with a largearrangement in a prominentposition, bringing colour to a darkcorner, for instance, where it’s un-likely to be knocked for six.

For a small dinner party, hiethee to the florist (if you canstretch to the wine, then you haveto complete the picture withflowers) and look for tulips and/rises, which are cheap now, orroses and carnations, which aren’t.The former can look striking intall displays in shapely winebottles or cider flagons. And thelatter are worth considering be-cause a few can be made to go avery long way with a good helpingof foliage of your choice. Theycan make a very attractive centre-piece--perhaps in an entr& dish---with ivy trailing from it towardseach place setting. Think tooabout posy arrangements for eachguestmthe real personal touchmwhen you can put to good useshells, candle holders and evenstable bottle caps.

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1970 NITY NEWS- Thursday, May 14, 1970

I’ THE ADMINISTRATIVE,.

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IN TRINITY COLLEGEThe Board is the principal

governing body in academic andadministrative matters. Its con-sent is required for all enactments,changes or appointments of anyconsequence. In matters ofproperty and finance, discipline,domestic arrangements, and rela-tions with outside bodies, theBoard is, subject to the statutes,absolute. In affairs relating toteaching, examinations, degreesand appointment of academicgaff, it can act only in conjunctionwith the University Council,Divinity School or Senate of theUniversity. It consists of thefollowing members: the Provost,the Senior Lecturer, the Registrar,four representatives elected by theJunior Fellows from among them-selves, two representatives electedby those professors who are notFellows and chosen either fromamong themselves or from amongthe Junior Fellows.

The President and Vice-Presi-dent of the S.R.C. sit in on theBoard meeting as observers. Thisbody usually meets on alternateWednesdays during term.

Stm~mg Committees of theBoard are appointed annually forspecific purposes; for example: theFinance Committee, Library Com-mittee, Student Health Ser~ceCommittee, Trinity Hall Com-mittee, and Houses of ResidenceCmnmittee. There is no studentrepresentation on the Board or onthe Standing Committees; onlythat of Trinity Hall has studentrepresentation.

From the point of view ofstudent participation, four Ord-inary Board Committees are ofimportance. They are the Capita-

tion, Disciplinary, Amenities, andC e n t r a 1 Staff/Student Com-mittees. Students on the Discip-linary and Amenities Committeesare nominated by the S.R.C. andthese nominations are ratified bythe Board. There is no generalrule as to the ratio of students tostaff, but on the DisciplinaryCommittee, for instance, there arefour students, four staff membersand a staff chairman. TheAmenities Committee is in theunique position of requiring thattwo of the student members bewomen.

The Capitation Committee re-ceives approximately £36,000 inthe form of a £9 capitation feefrom each student and is respon-sible to the Board for the alloca-tion of these resources. About halfof this money goes to D.U.C.A.C.and the other half to the societiesand the S.R.C. This Committeehas met approximately nine timesthis year.

The Disciplinary Committeeexists basically to consider Collegeregulations and also to pass recom-mendations to the Board in casesof breaches of discipline broughtbefore it by the Junior Deans. Italso acts as a preliminary appealscommittee.

T h e Amenities Committeemakes recommendations to theBoard regarding changes or im-provement of College facilities.Its sub-committee on Catering re-ceives and considers suggestionswith reference to the Buttery,Coffee Shop, Dining Hall, RegentHouse. It has met on only twooccasions this year.

The Central Societies’ Com-mittee, a subsidary of the Capita-

tion Committee, represents theinterests of the smaller societies inCollege and was set up partly tocounteract t h e influence ofD.U.C.A.C. on the CapitationCommittee. It is financed bystudent money and last yearelected four members on to theCapitation Committee.

The G.M.B. Central Com-mittee is responsible to theCentral Societies’ Committee andwas set up to administer theGraduates’ Memorial Building,except the Debating Hall. It con-sists of three Hist members, threePhil members (always by con-vention the Auditor, President andTreasurer of these societies), anda Chairman who is theoreticallythe Provost’s nominee but inpractice he is nominated by theCommittee. A Curator is alsoappointed from the Hist or thePhil on alternate years and carriesout minor duties. This Com-mittee formerly dealt with theCapitation Committee, but nowthe G.M.B.C.C. is insolvent so themoney has to come through theC e n t r a 1 Societies’ Committeewhich does not appear to be tooopen-handed.

In general outline then, the non-academic administration may bedivided into two main areas ofactivitymthat in which there is nostudent participation and that inwhich students participate in anadvisory capacity but have noultimate power. The student situa-tion is only slightly better in theacademic sphere of administrationand it is hoped that this will becovered in next week’s issue.

JEANNE-MARIE WOULFE.

BLANEY versus LYNCHThere is no crisis

There is no crisis, it’s all a ninedays’ wonder, and there is notmuch point in getting all workedup. The sacking or resignation of25~/o of the Cabinet, the allegedinvolvement of a number ofCabinet Minister in illegal gun-rtmning, the declaration in theD~il of an ex-Minster that he didnot think anybody should stoppeople bringing arms into theNorth are not matters of concernto anybody but Fianna Ffiil.

Perhaps an historical analysis ofthe present situation should start

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with 1169, 1690, 1800 or 1916,but there is not much point asevery Irishman has learnt hisparticular interpretation. T h ebasic fact remains that the vastmajority of Irishmen in thepresent state of Northern Irelandwish to retain the link with GreatBritain, while the vast majority ofthe people of the Republic wantto see a 32 County Ireland. Thisdivision is reinforced by theparallel division of Catholics andProtestants. One can analyse thesituation to produce a divisionbased on class, but this is seeingthings not as they are but as somepeople would like them to be. Ifthe conflict was escalated intocivil war, the division would bebetween Protestant Unionists andCatholic Republicans. The out-come would not be Connolly’sSocialist Republic, but a FascistOpus Dei state. The battle ofthe Bogside could be the begin-ning of a sectarian civil war withthe Catholic working class fightingthe R.U.C. who are supported bythe Protestant working class.

Individuals, such as DeputyBoland, who are willing to suggestthat force cannot be completelyruled out, and even An Taoiseachwho said that "they could notstand idly by" if the Catholicswere attacked in the North, are

helping to provoke civil war, in-tensify the fears and suspicions ofthe Protestant Unionists a n dstrengthen the hand of Paisley,Craig, Boal and the other ex-tremists. Who can now trustFianna Ffiil? Who now believesthat Lynch can remain in powerwhen Boland, Haughey, Blaney,O’Morain, etc., are kept in theDfiil, in the Party, and areapplauded by so many of theircolleagues? How can students, whohave never seen a gun and haveno conception of the horrors of asectarian civil war, s u p p ortHaughey and Blaney? Does any-body really believe that Haugheywill not sit quietly in the back-benches?

The only solution to the par-tition problem is to remove thefears of the Protestants by makingradical changes in our Constitu-tion, guaranteeing de jure recog-nition of Northern Ireland. EitherFianna Ffiil must purge itself ofits chauvinistic Republican ele-ments, or allow a coalitiongovernment to take over. Lynch isnow putting party interests abovethe long-term interests of thenation, and, because of this, wemay have to suffer one of the mostbitter sectarian civil wars in ourhistory.

ROGER COLE.

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A model of the New Library.

LIBRARY PROBLEMSAs exams approach, the thirst

for knowledge seems to takepreference over those r a t h e rdifferent appetites which reignsupreme for the other elevenmonths of the year. The result isthat our students are drawn fromtheir favourite beds, pubs andbookmakers to converge like lem-mings on the shrines of learning.By the end of April, people be-come aware of the shortcomings ofthe libraries, which all seemhopelessly overcrowded. The fugcreated by so many people in suchcomparatively small spaces cansend even the most diligentstudent off into the land of nod.And then there are those anti-social people who insist on reserv-ing places for a couple of hourswhile they go to shop or sun-bathe. Some people have evenbeen seen to write essays standingup against the magazine rackswhile others lounge at their desksreading the paper.

The lot of the scientists is theleast enviable of all. The ScienceReading Room, which occupieshalf of one of those shacks besidethe New Library, came underheavy criticism in a recent andmost enlightening survey carriedout in the School of NaturalSciences. Nearly 70% of thestudents who participated in thesurvey said that they often foundthe Reading Room full, whichmeans that an alarming number ofpeople are unable to work whenand where they want to. Almostas worrying is the fact that 55%are in the habit of reserving desks

for themselves if they have toleave theReading Room for awhile. Other complaints mentionedin the report were: "The lectureroom next door, the gravel pathoutside the Reading Room, thenon-working whisperers, the rever-berating floors, and the crampedarrangement of the uncomfortabledesks."

Natural Science students havethe worst problems of all, but it islikely that their opinions and com-plaints are representative of themajority of students. Other im-provements suggested a r o u n dCollege have been that thelibraries should stay open onSaturday afternoons, as there arepit/fully few places where one canwork at the week-ends. Some feelthat the libraries should stay openlonger in the evening, but thiswould place an unreasonable de-mand on the staff concerned.

It has often been suggested thatlibrary borrowing facilities begreatly increased. This could havetwo beneficial effects. Firstly, itmight make more seats availableif people could take books awaywith them for a couple of days,and, secondly, the increased avail-ability would probably discouragepeople from "borrowing" bookson a permanent basis.

While there is obviously boththe scope and the need for im-provements in library facilities inTrinity, it should not be forgottenthat our library is one of the bestin Europe.

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VETS COME TO T.C.D.The recent Merger proposals

advocated that there should be asingle facuky of VeterinaryMedicine and that it should belocated in Trinity.

The Irish Veterinary Associa-tion have stated that they con-sider: (1) That all subjects in aVeterinary course should be taughton the one site; (2) That this siteshould be on a university campusclose to and integrated with otherfaculties.

The Board has accepted thatthe Veterinary Faculty should belocated on the campus, at leastfor the pre-professional subjectsand pre-clinical sciences as thereis ample space for the purposeand it would avoid duplication ofcourses as vets take many medicalsubjects in these years. It is alsohoped that the Government willfinance the erection of buildingsrequired for this part of VeterinaryEducation.

However, after this phase ofVeterinary Education a problemarises, that of attempting to keepthe whole of the Veterinary courseon the same campus and the diffi-culty of doing this in the contextof an urban university environ-ment. The difficulty is, of course,that an animal hospital has to beprovided for research work andfor animal husbandry teaching.

In attempting to get the best ofboth worlds, the Board considersthat all pre-professional and pre-clinical teaching should be doneon the Trinity campus, but thatclinical students, involving animalhealth and hygiene, should be con-ducted an a modern field stationand hospital designed for thatpurpose.

The Board considers the siteat Abbotstown appropriate forfurther development as theGovernment has already investedheavily in a field station there.

Baxter RepliesAlan Baxter, the centre of the S.R.C. finance controversy, has

written to "Trinity News ":

Dear¯ Editor, -- Being anoptimist at heart, I write again to"T.N." hoping that this time youmay see your way to actuallyprinting it. It is regrettable thata letter correcting certain untruthsin an anonymous article written bythe Editor should fail to appearin later issues. Perhaps the changein editor will change this rathersad state of affairs.

Your front page article of 7thMay was an improvement onprevious articles in one respect. Itdid point out that the financial

S.R.C. DEFENCEDear Sir or Madam,----We, the

Executive of the S.R.C., object tothe whole tone of the editorial inyour issue of 7th May. Specificallyand without prejudice we demand

a printed apology with regard tothe totally unsubstantiated accusa-tion that "the office in Collegespecialises in losing forms not onlyfor employment but also for travelbookings," nor do we agree thatwe lose forms at all.mYours faith-fully,

W. HAMILL, Secretary,D.U.S.R.C.

Mary Punch, last week’s editor,replies:

Editorial are not written to bemet with general agreement."Trinity News" is and always hasbeen an independent voice insideTrinity College; editorials havebeen written in the past criticisingvarious people, activities a n dbodies in the College, but this isthe first time that a body has beensufficiently thin-skinned to objectto the whole tone of a criticaleditorial. Last week’s acting editordoes not apologise for the tone ofthe editorial, but perhaps it wasrather harsh to criticise the travelservice which has been reasonablyefficiently run during the pastyear, although prior to Mr.Revington taking office there hadbeen some disastrous errors, suchas a person arriving in Paris think-ing he was in London, due to aclerical error. Mistakes like theselinger longer in the mind thanefficiency and the only way inwhich the travel office and indeedthe S.R.C. is going to eradicatethe overhanging aura of ineptitudeis by not only doing good but bybeing seen to be doing good.

mess was largely due to a previousarticle.

With regard to my "non-attendance" at Capitation Com-mittee meetings, it is true that Mr.Bourke represented the S.R.C. inmy absence on one occasion whenI could not attend. I resigned fromthe Capitation Committee sometime ago and Mr. Lee now repre-sents the S.R.C. in my place. Myresignation from the Committeewas due to the intense personale n m i t y displayed by certainmembers of the Committee, nat-ably Dr. R. Browne and G.Murphy. The sub-committee re-ferred to in the article was not"set-up to produce accounts "=butto examine accounts prepared bya staff member of the School ofBusiness Studies and myself. Dr.Browne sat on this sub-committeeand his performance there con-vinced me that it was pointless forme to continue. As prejudicesrather than reason are the maincriteria for decision making on theCommittee ,I wanted no furtherpart of it.

The position now is that theCapitation Committee are await-ing audited accounts for the sixmonths period ending on March31st. Certain firms with which wedo business still have not sent up-to-date statements. Without thesestatement an audit is impossible.If the Committee wants a com-plete audit then I’m afraid that itmust accept the inevitable delayinvolved. Slanderous remarks andinsinuations about me made byDr. Browne both on Committeeand in private do nothing to helpthe situation.

Something I cannot understandis why I wasn’t consulted eventhough articles about me appearedthree weeks in a row. I supposeit depends whether "news" orthe truth is "T.N." prime ob-jective.--Sincerely,

S. A. BAXTER.

"Trinity News" has notpreviously receiv.ed letters fromMr. Baxter. However, we believethat he did post one intended forus in the "T.C.D. Miscellany"letterbox. At last Monday’s S.R.C.meeting a motion was passedcalling on Mr. Baxter to producethe S.R.C. accounts within oneweek. Failing this, it is expectedthat the Council will take strongeraction.

LEE is V.P.Following Greg Murphy s resig-

nation from the S.R.C. Vice-Presidency, nominations w e r eagain opened for that office. Itwas felt that the new vice-presidential election should beheld as soon as possible so that itwould not interfere with thosecandidates or canvassers who haveexams at end of term.

When nominations closed, IvanLee was the only candidate nomin-ated, and was therefore deemedelected.

Mr. Lee, a final year Classicsstudent and a Foundation Scholar,had been beaten by only 64 votesin the earlier vice-vresidentialelection. He has been in theS.R.C. for the past two years, andhas served on the Executive as anordinary executive member, Secre-tary and Welfare Officer on theresignation of Jim Hamilton.

Lee is most concerned about thefinancial state of the S.R.C. andhopes that it can be improved bymore frequent auditing and stock-taking. " Only when it’s againon a sound financial basis will theS.R.C. regain the confidence ofthe students."

LOW POLL INPHIL ELECTIONS

The new President of the Philis Richard Pine, a third yearGeneral Studies student fromSussex. Pine secured 11 votes inthe election, Bill McCormack got8 votes and Marcus Collie got 5.The new President thinks that thepresent voting qualication in thePhil (attendance at one privatebusiness meeting) is unsatisfac-tory and believes that far moremembers should be able to vote.He would like to see ordinarymembers take a far greater interestin the running of the society.

Pine delivered his first paper tothe Phil 18 months ago. It wasabout Oscar Wilde and was anotable success. Since then he hasdelivered papers on Franz Kafkaand "The Romantic Tradition inArt[" He was a defeated candi-date in last year’s Presidentialelections. This year he was Secre-tary of the Society and won asilver medal for oratory. He saysthat he is writing a book aboutOscal Wilde.

Letter to The EditorSir,--I wish to point out that

any suggestion of bias on the partof Prof. Ryan is not necessarilyagreed to by the majority of thosewho took part in the "BusinessStudies Revolt." I did not signthe petition as the signatures weretaken before the petition was com-posed. Many of the people whosigned the petition did so invehement protest at the proposedremoval of Business Studies(which protest I supported byboycott) and did not intend tosuggest that Prof. Ryan had actedor would act against the bestinterests or Business Studiesstudents.

PETER MORIARTY,J.F. Business Studies

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VOTES AT 18It seems that the Government doesn’t respond to groups who cannol

exert some sort of electorial pressure on them. In the case of students

this was seen by the way the recent fee increase was initiated, withoutconsulting the students concerned at all, because they knew that studentshad no retaliatory sanctions.

Students as a group have a common interest and must have someofficial channel for articulating their grievances. The most obviouschannel would be to have voting rights extended to those between 18and 21. It is amazing that there has been so little agitation for this inIreland, especially seeing that the precedent for it has already been

established in England for it this year. U.S.I. and its various constituent,arganisations should be urged to take up this cause.

THE EXPLOSIONAlthough most would agree that the "Pakie Poem" published in

"T.C.D." had racist connotations, whether intended or not, and wouldcensure " T.C.D." for publishing it, none should agree with or supportthe irresponsible actions of those who attempted to blow up the

"T.C.D." offices. This attempted sabotage could easily have resultedin the death or incapacitation of members of the T.C.D. staff, eventhose who had nothing to do with the poem being printed, and those

who perpetrated this immoral deed should be classed with the people inLimerick who tried to get the Maoists to leave the city by shooting atthem and breaking up their shop.

If the people who attempted to blow up "T.C.D." were genuinelyworried about the impact of the poem or the ideas of the "T.C.D."staff, then they could have attempted to close down "T.C.D." altogetherby: (1) Approaching the Junior Dean and asking him to ban it; (2) By

boycotting the magazine itself; (3) By approaching the CapitationCommittee and asking that "T.C.D." loan should be discontinued.

Instead, these irresponsible sensationalists, not taking the trouble

to ultilise the legal and democratic channels, have made "T.C.D." moredetermined than ever to publish, so that if this was their aim it has beenthwarted.

It has also shifted the whole emphasis in the debate to the "BombIncident" from the "Poem Incident," thus effectively letting "T.C.D."

off the hook without explainng their position, and public opinion is nowstaunchly behind the "T.C.D.", whereas, if the explosion had not takenplace, this would almost certainly not have been the case.

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