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The final S.R.C. meeting of this term was held last Tuesday evening.The main business of the meeting concerned the report of the sub-committee set up to investigate the future of Commons. It wasstressed that the committee was not meant to draw up comprehensiveplans but only to present facts and opinions. For this purpose theCommittee had run a questionnnaire among students, the results ofwhich were published in last week’s "Trinity News." After a numberof doubtful points had been examined, the report was adopted unani-mous]y. A vote of thanks for the work the committee had done wasalso passed.

The real purpose of the meet-ing was now reached when thequestion of what should or shouldnot be sent to the Board wasraised. The President stated thatthe Executive’s policy was infavour of sending the entirereport to the Board withoutspecific recommendations beingmade. However, this view of theExecutive encountered oppositionfrom the floor which culminatedin a number of motions being putbefore the meeting.

These motions containeddefinite recommendations aboutevening meals in College which,it was felt, should be sent to theBoard in addition to the com-mittee’s report. These motionswere: that compulsory Commonsfor resident students should bereduced from five to three daysper week; that the Commons’Fund charge of 3/- per day (paidby all resident students whetherthey attend Commons or not)should be abolished; that anevening meal other thanCommons should be provided inCollege for non-resident students.On being put to the meeting,these motions were all passedwith large majorities. The situa-tion is now that the S.R.C. willsubmit its report, together withthe recommendations, to theBoard.

The remainder of the meetingwas taken up by the formationof two committees, one toenquire into Higher Education inIreland and the other to investi-gate the lecture system. Finally,motions were passed in favour ofnotice of motions being sub-mitted to the Secretary four daysbefore Council meetings and thatthe S.R.C. might organise a termcalender of College events.

The meeting ended earlierthan usual, which no doubtaccounted for the absence ofchair scrapings denoting t h epremature departure of Councilmembers.

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TheBi-centenary

The celebrations for the Bi-centenary of the founding of theChair of Music can be called anunqualified success.

They started with the openingof the exhibition of printedand manuscript music m theLibrary on the afternoon of the2rid December by Dr. FrankHarrison, a Trinity man who isnow Reader in the History ofMusic at Oxford. During hisspeech Dr. Harrison said that hehoped that this exhibition wouldlead people to realise that thereis no barrier between popularfolk and art music. All musicmust be included, rounds andcatches as well as what might betermed " official " music. Helooked forward to the day whenthere would be a really goodhistory of music in irelandpublished.

At 4.0, the Ronayne-Stub duogave a very enjoyable recital withwo r k s by Handel, Schubert,Weber, Gogan and Beethoven.

The Bicentenary Concert tookplace that evening in a wonder-fully informal atmosphere, each ofthe composers who were thereand whose work was performedtaking a bow. A number ofworks were specially written forthe occasion: Dr. Groocock’s suitefor Flute and Pianoforte beingperformed by the composer andDoreen Droste whom he is veryshortly to marry; Dr. Fleisch-mann’s work, three songs ofColumcille with the poems readby their author, Roib~.irdO’Farachdin, and Dr. Boydell’swork, Carmen in Honorem ArtisMusicae (work by Dr. Wormell)all being very warmly applauded.His Grace the Duke of Wellingtongave a short talk on his ancestor,the first Professor Music, the Earlof Mornington.

The following day the Univer-sity conferred honorary Mus.D.’son Michael Tippett, Prof. AloysFleischmann and Joseph Groo-cock; an hon. Litt.D. on SirTyrone Guthrie, and an hon.M.A. on Michael McNamara.

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The women’s lavatories in Nos.6 and 7 have been sadly delayed,but it is hoped that they will beready for the first day of nextterm.

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TRINITY NEWSA Dublin University Undergraduate Weekly

Vol. Xll Thursday, 10th December, 1964 No. 6

Chairman:Douglas Halliday

Vice-Chairman:Jefferson Horsley

Editors;Bill Hutchinson, Mirabel Walker, Robin Knight

Business Board:Max Unwin, Charles Halliday, Hamish McRae.

Secretary:Caroline Western

NEWBORN OR STILLBORN ?Over the years the S.R.C. has filled our columns with its doings

and misdoings, and we now feel, as did the Walrus, that the time hascome to talk of many things relating to this (until recently) magnifi-cently barren institution. In Trinity the absence of a Union hastended to emphasise the total control of the Board over College affairsmindeed the idea of a Union is inimical to the tradition of happyamateurism among the student body of this College. In the placeof any central coalescence of undergraduate opinion we have a bodythat has, in the past, mainly belied its nam~the Students’ Repre-sentative Council. Notorious for its pettiness, its bureaucracy andits ineffectualness, it has muddled its way through session aftersession, scattering reams of superfluous paper in its wake, and bleatingmildly whenever it has been forced into taking a stand on any issuethat concerned student welfare. At one stage in the past there wastwo rival Councils---a schism that for many epitomised the hopelessduplicity that the S.R.C. had got itself into. Perhaps the greatest enemyof the S.R.C. (in spite of all the rantings by students in general againstany controversial move by the Board) has been creeping apathymattendances at Council meetings have been dreadful in the past.Partly as a result of this, discussion has previously been carried on inCouncil at (literally) lavatorial level with any matters more deservingof Council’s time being submerged beneath a flood of wordy philis-tinism. As a crowning glory, this term’s Executive was elected un-opposed in its entirety.

In its death throes last year’s Council coughed up a new Con-stitution with provisions for election to Council of faculty repre-sentatives. This has been duly done but not, however, in a satisfactoryway. The election, in spite of what Mr. White said in his letterwhich we printed last week, was not fought on real issues, and woollythinking clouded over any hope of a rationally fought campaign; infact, the whole thing degenerated into a furious (and rather un-dignified) scramble for power. A reasonable solution to this wouldbe to eliminate the existence of society representatives, therebystopping anybody getting on to Council through the back door (hencefreeing more seats for elected representatives) and forcing the new-comers, by fighting alongside seasoned campaigners, to base theirpropaganda on sensible issues and policies. The present set of noviceshave yet to prove themselves. The Presidency must be strong to keepthe whole business under control and to provide some sort of lead toCouncil, which, by its very nature, is inclined towards irrelevancies.The present President seems to have experienced some difficulty inthe first of these, but his direction of the S.R.C. into worthwhilechannels of action has been admirable. The reports produced thisterm augur well for the future.

However, the S.R.C. must remember that it is not the great divinityamongst students, and any move by it towards becoming a quasi-controlling body must be deprecatedmit reaches its fullest utility as acollator of general undergraduate opinion and a liaison with U.S.I. Itis only by taking its responsibilities to heart that it can gain accessto the ear of the Board.

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Snow, lights, horror, orgies, money, trees--whathave these six words in common? Not a film of" The Great Gatsby " set in the frozen North, northe outpourings of an Eskimo having a nervousbreakdown as you might imagine. This is farnearer home. This is what Christmas means tosix people I asked. O tempora! O mores! Andhave the sleigh-rides and shining children’s faces,the happy family dinner round the happy familytable, and all the rest of that Dickensian jazz,come only to this?

Some of us play it smooth, with orchids inour stockings, and Picassos at the foot of a gold-plated tree; Bach in the afternoon, and the oldyear toasted out with Vodka Martinis. Somereturn to the bosom of the family in darkestsuburbia, weedily dangling on their knees thedampest of their nieces, and discussing grandma’schilblains with all their spinster aunts in turn.Some play it fey, with much misty-eyed gazinginto the fire at the waning of the old year,rapturous embracing of the first darling littlesnow-flake, and little whimsy cherubs danglingall over the Christmas tree. Some plan iteconomically, with every penny they lay out cal-culated with regard to the profit it will accrue.For instance, the set of six purple-padded coat-hangers they send to granny are reckoned tomultiply their value fifty times in the form of acheque in return. This elementary economicssometimes founders when granny takes it into herhead that a nice present instead would be aminiature trowel and spade for the non-existentflowers in your non-existent window-box, or some-thing equally granny-like. Someone remarkedbitterly, "At least Christmas brings a little financialadvantage, but even that declines over the years."

The thing about Christmas is that it is in-escapable and obligatory. One has to observe itas it is a public holiday, and one has to lookmerry because gloom is utterly taboo. Ratherlike the coming of spring, there’s something com-pulsory in the air, which one cannot avoid. How-ever, since this is the only day that daddy doesn’tmind how much gin one drinks, and mummydoesn’t turn a hair at the wireless, gramophoneand tape recorder all being on at the same time,one might as well take a leaf out of Confucius andrelax and enjoy it.

P/ ’Jsc Do Ac/ )rsTen to eleven. You’re sitting happily in the

back stalls, munching your pop-corn or his lobe,perfectly at ease: at one with the celluloid.Suddenly there is much mingling of feet withfeet, and scurrying of bodies, and in a few minutesyou find yourselves, and a handful of hardy Anglo-Saxon perennials, alone in the flickers.

By what strange magic are Irishmen lured outof the cinema at 10.507 It would be wishfulthinking to attribute it to old Queen Mab at itagain. Possibly it’s the last 10 minutes beforeclosing, the last bus to Sallynoggin, or just thatthey’ve been going to the cinema every night nowfor the last 20 years and they know every endingand permutations of endings that the miracle ofthe cinematograph can produce.

To combat this, and other Celtic cinematicevils, essential cinema weapons include: an ink-filled water-pistol to fire at the hordes trampingin front of you before the end, Bostik to fix yourneighbour to his chair for the whole performance,and a catapult to fire dried peas at usherettes whostand smirking over their lollies in front of thescreen at the climax of the film when no-one isthinking of "Choc Delites." except perhaps thelonely men amidst the heaving couples in the backrow, and they certainly wouldn’t risk having theirlittle self-confidence shattered by walking thelength of the cinema for the transient consolationthat a Iolly offers.

In Ireland one either watches the audience orthe show. I have been to no other country whereaudience participation is so complete; where anactor in the theatre is given a standing ovationnot only on every entrance and exit, but everytime he opens his mouth; where every mention ofEngland is hissed, and Ireland is cheered; whereeach " bl**dy " is greeted with shocked gasps fromthe dress circle, and lascivious chuckles from thebalcony; where the actors (and the audience) arediscussed with the expertise of horse-dealers atBallsbridge; where sweets are munched with theenthusiasm of orphans on a Christmas outing.

This extrovert behaviour is a refreshing changefrom the reserve of the Anglo-Saxons, but onedoes sometimes wish that the Restoration traditionof theatre-going wasn’t followed with suchexactitude.

OLl/l’d . . .The term banged to a close on

the crest of an alcoholic wave,interspersed with an outbreak ofEssay Epidemic (if one daremention such lewd topics in thiscolumn). This is a sporadicdisease occurring at six weeklycycles throughout the academicyear. Its symptoms are furrowedbrows and early exits fromparties. These should be dis-regarded at the end of 2,000words.

Caroline Pack-Beresford held ahealthy party last Wednesday.College cricketers turned out inforce intent on bowling a fewmaiden overs (ugh). CharlesHalliday was at long leg withBrigid O’Brien Twigg, whilst BeyLabbett found fly slip more to hisliking. Malcolm Argyle was ashotly pursued as evermwhen willthe Oi be cast? Shan Williamsstraight from Cheltenham playingfields played a neat game withRoger Kynaston and a lump ofbirthday cake. Tony Stubbingswas actually seen to smile (in facthe almost laughed, but sshhh ...)but only at Julian Walker-Brown

who was drinking alcohol for thefirst time instead of orange juice.I really shouldn’t Julian, you knowmummy doesn’t like it.

From the elegance of mulledwine we passed to the cascade ofchampagne let loose by Liz Bellin Merrion Square. There wereapparently more people not askedthan asked to this party, thoughthis was difficult to believe. OnlySimon Bowler, Mirabel Walkerand Max Lightwood were notdrunk, others like Antony Hawserdisgracefully. John Tylor parkedhimself on the radiator till theinner glow matched the outer,but it was all glow for Tom, Haranand Richard Woodward whobroke their mid-week fast with avengeance. Gill Hanna took thebiscuit, prior to taking her word,from right under the nose of AIMacDowell who looked peeved.Lesley Love took on all-comersand dealt with them as expertlyas ever, and just to prove thatthere is a gnome in every home,Dan Corbett was on the spot tojest the blues away. Angela

Gibbon looked a shade ante-deluvian and i~lurray Scott-Dalgleish just ante.

Entrenched waiters overcome,we entered the Russell to findgracious Antonia Peck entertain-ing Trinity society against a back-ground of enthusiastic savages...or was it the other way round?Debbie Kitchen denied a rumourthat she had been parted fromher bicycle, but was not so sureabout Mario Pampanini. FrancisRainey benignly hummed asnatch of Bach, while JanThompson tapped a foot im-patiently. Keir Campbell resistedthe temptation in spite of histribal dress. Mary Geraldine wasBanking on the strike for a weekin London, and looked drunkenlydown at Heale. Chris. steeredclear of his usual Fehling, but AIMcDowell decided she had notreached her limit. Vanne Cowdyspread her wintry warmth,though Peter appeared to wantMoore. Rosemary Browne waslooking for someone to take herhome.

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REVIEWS REVIEWS

A Bouncing "Messiah"(Cbo a/ Society)

This term has heard quite a variety of music. Outside Choral andSingers, the Central Music Committee has provided entertainingWednesday lunch-hour concerts and in so doing has helped musiciansto find a more sure footing in College than they had a few years ago.

In turn this has raised thestandard of orchestral playing.This is immediately noticeable inthe Choral Society’s performanceof " The Messiah," where thereis now an assurance of attachwhere we used to hear such apathetic sound. Using pro-fessional players to lead the partsprovides a confident basis for theless sure musicians. There is agreat improvement in the brasssection also and for once thetrumpeter succeeds, where his

Under their new conductor, JulianHall, they have performed at ahigh standard on both occasions.In fact, at the Bi-Centenary Con-cert one felt they had been askedto do too much. This is not toimply that they gave a boringperformance, far from it. Theconcert at the end of next termwill be their own choice andshould prove even more en-joyable. R.D.H.

"Do You Know the

Milky Way ?"

A tendency to be over-lyrical isa weakness of the young drama-tist. Shakespears overdid it in" Titus Andronicus." And itseems to crop up often in Dublinproductions--there was " The BigLong Bender" and, some timeago, "A Sunset Touch," where anurse got highly poetic over achest X-ray at the end of a com-pletely realistic play. Both pro-ductions, it is true, were at theAbbey.

This over-lyrical tendency is themain fault of " Do You Know theMilky Way?" Willinger’s choiceof image is good--the Milky Wayof the sky for the fantastic level,

the hospital milk run for therealistic. But he piles on theallegory to such an extent thatone begins to feel ill every timethe hero mentions a star. For-tunately the second half is moreor less free of it and the effecttends to diminish among so muchthat is good.

And there is a lot that is. Theplay is a piece of post-warGerman soul-purging in whichChristopher Kiefer is plungedinto military service before hehas really left childhood andspends the passage of the playtrying to find the world he leftbehind. Wittlinger makes gooduse of the play within the playand of audience participation,and the construction is lively andunpredictable. There are somewonderful climaxes, especially thehammering on the door asChristopher reaches the highpoint of his description of a war

massacre. And there are somevery funny parts such as themetaphors of the judge as a littleboy whose skipping rope is takenaway until he delivers judgmentand counsel for the prosecutionwith his yo-yo.

The Gate production brings thebest out of the play with simplesets and bright, colourful lighting.Jim Norton tends to slightly over-play the squelchy bits, but gener-ally gives the highly-strung, oftenstarry-eyed performance t h atChristopher requires. Nilo O’Sheais brilliant in a series of characterparts which could have been madefor him. But why that curtainspeech telling us to send alongour friends if we enjoyed theshow, which surely betrays an un-necessary lack of confidence inthe production and adds anotherslight squelch at the end whenwe have been rehabilitated?

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precedessors failed, in that notice-able bar in the Hallelujah Chorus.It is a pity that the harpsicordcontinuo has not more ornamen-tation and especially in therecitative passages where it is sonecessary. By contrast the tenorsoloist, Frank Patterson, addssome fine ornamentation whichgives the familiar a new leaseof life. Minor criticisms are outof place in the long run since theoverall effect of this term’s" Nessiah " is very pleasing. Wesuggest that you should not feelembarrassed at carrying a cushioninto the Exam Hall; you will beenvied by many unless it is so bigthat you are raised to obscuretheir view.

Singers are not giving a concertthis term since they had too muchto sing in the Bi-CentenaryConcert and the Carol Service.

Margarethe Krieger

Exhibition

(Mod. Lang. Society)

This week sees the mounting ofan interesting and unusual ex-hibition by D.U.N.L.S. in the ArtSociety’s Rooms in No. 12. Thework is that of NargaretheKrieger, a 27-year-old Germanwhose present studio is in Heidel-berg. A numbered set of inkdrawings takes its inspirationf r o m Goethe’s psychologicaldrama, " Torquato Tasso." Thedrawings, executed this year, areintended not so much to providecommentary and illustration ofthe play as to express in pictorialterms isolated moments in whichthe subtle and complex emotionalundercurrents of the play cometo the surface in a confrontationbetween the protagonists. Afurther series m monochrome,this time of prints from woodblocks, makes use of the patternof the wood grain with startlingeffect. These prints, of whichthe themes were suggested byBrecht’s " Kaukasische Kreidek-reis" and other of his works,present us with an altogethermore dramatic, not to saydiobolic, aspect of Frl. Krieger’sby no m e a n s inconsiderableta I e n t, her figures recallingstrongly the demons of Goya’slast " mad paintings." These,together with a Paul Fechterseries, date from 1960-61. Pleas-ing persentation rounds off aninteresting and worthwhile ex-hibition which will remain openuntil Friday. M.S.

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Sheer carelessness, I suppose, but last week I made an almostirretrievable blunder. I’ve been here long enough. It’s not often Iloosen my mask of savoir plomb, but something prompted me tosay frankly and unblushingly that I did not Go to the Funnies. Un-ashamed I remained for a moment, until the disguested disbelief ofmy audience struck me like a stone. Leaving my coffee still warm, Icrept away to discover how best to contrive my return of face.

Be seen to Go to the Funniesimmediately, I realised. And pre-ferably be seen going alone atfirst so that the intensity of myaddiction might impress thecasual observer. The quickestmethod was to start with theW.U.S. cartoons: " Everybody’slaughing," shrieked the girl, toss-ing my mite towards educationinto the coffer. They were andthey were holding hands in theback row and they even clappedat the end. Clearly it was worththeir missing lunch and I prayedfaintly that there might be some-thing in it for me too. There wasRoss Skelton, that sincere phil-osopher, a rapt expression on hisface; Simon Bowler heckling fromthe radiator; Peter Adler photo-sensitive but fascinated; JimmyBrown gripping the hatstand. Imight have lost all hope had I notheard Hugh Teacher condemn itas codge wallop.

Fortunately there was an alterna-tive and I went along to GraftonStreet to rustle cellophane paperin the stalls, nearly bringing mycampaign to nought in my ignor-ance of the circle’s status sym-bolism. I think the m ostmemorable of those pieces wasan episode in the eternal cat andmouse saga. The underlyingtensions inherent in this strugglereflected the problems of co-existence for two esentially in-imical beings. The intense paininflicted by the cinecolor in thefourth row only served to under-line the irony implicit in such afight for survival. The onlysolution was for Nature to takeher course and death triumph asanother rat bit the dust. Butsurprise surprise. Jerry lives andit is Tom Cat who is expelledinto the desert waste as " PosseCat," forget the director, falls toa close.

A masterpiece of comedy wasthe Pathe News, the com-mentator so cleverly inserting aJoke into each announcement.What could rival the classiccustard-pie humour of a mockbattle between England andWales at Wembley; of courseEngland won. For the connoisseurI need hardly add that the softpile of a Youghal carpet for herrfor everr under the cluck inO’Connell Street had me institches.

I emerged somewhat shatteredand at tea that day conducteda lightning eve-of-announcementpoll. The results were puzzling:Legal Science, History, English,Modern Languages and twoGeneral Studies in favour of theFunnies, no one against. I had

already been amazed to see theG.M.B. half-filled by the NaturalSciences school and there weresome of them at Grafton Streettoo. The Funnies seem to havean intercultural appeal quite un-related to I.Q., and Robert Healewent so far as to say that theywere an acquired taste. That onehas to acquire of course, and Isaw that the only way to keepmy friends was to conform. Sowe went to the Funnies thatevening. We went again onSaturday too. I bought myself aYogi Bear balloon and borrowedChaplin’s biography. But some-thing still worries me . . . can Itell them that I used to laugh atJames Bond?

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Guess the urbane kick had beengoing bad on me some time whenI struck Zeb D. Toddler. Man,that cat had whiskers! Yeah, hetore the place right up that nightback in ’63, must’ve been Janu-ary or February, but they hadthose windows wide open and thekids were in orgasms all over thestreet, you couldn’t move inside,Nat’s it was, they were two deepthere and every man sent. Wellthat was it for me. Got me a pairof dark glasses and I was a jazz-man. Got a horn too and soonas my hair was grown a bit IcouldMt go wrong. Right fromthe first time I sat in I had ’em allshocked. Zeb himself was thereat first but he was pushing thequarter century and I guess hecouldn’t take it, anyway he wentdown cold on Nat’s lino and theyhad to carry him out. I thoughthe’d burned ’era up and my heartwas breaking but something hadme by the guts that night and Ijust had to blow and blow andblow more, man! The cats wentwild, just wild, they couldn’tleave me alone. Shoulder highthey took me, shoulder high bythe collar and pants all the wayoutside and put me down withthe fans right between the side-walk and the road.

Those boys were too excitedto know what they were doingthatnight-and by the time thecops got me out I was in a prettybad state, but that wasn’t whatthey’d meant, I could tell theyloved me and they got themessage, they were bright, thosekids, and I loved them for it. Itwas high summer when themedics finally let me go. Highsummer and I was crazy to blow.Took off to cut some disks for apal and here I am waiting for thenews to break, it’s great hereand that really digs me, I’ll geta date soon and then things’llreally move.

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The emergence from compara-tive somnolence of many minorsocieties in College has been anotable feature of the past coupleof years. A general improvementin the quality of meetings hasbrought with it a rise in attend-ance. An active, as against apassive, membership is the aim ofall societies; a high attendance atmeetings does not mean every-thing, but there does appear tobe a direct relationship betweenattendance and active member-ship.

Not all minor societies havebenefited from this resurgence.The Fabian Society, for example,still suffers, not only from itspublic image, but from theabsence of a reasonable numberof articulate members. Suchsocieties as the EconomicsSociety, the History Society andthe Geographical Society haveadvanced significantly throughenthusiastic a n d imaginativeleadership.

What of the major societies?Every society normally goesthrough the cycle of a period ofsuccess followed by a time ofrelative decline before anotherrise in good fortune. The Philseems at the moment to be inthe middle phase; it appears ableto draw a large attendance onlyto hear inter-debates or well-known distinguished visitors. Itsprimary feature, namely, paper-reading, seems to have lost itsdrawing-power. Thus, the Philfinds itself in the vicious circle ofsmall attendances, few new goodspeakers, few really good papers,small attendances.

The Hist is not so unfortunateas it is enjoying a rising attend-ance. Last year the averageattendance at meetings was 119,an all-time record, and this yearlooks like surpassing that figure.Although there is an absence ofbrilliant oratory, there is alwaysa surplus of people wishing tospeak and no more healthier signfor the future could there be.Nor is a broad base of enthusiasmlacking as the numbers (regularlybetween forty and sixty) atprivate business display.

However, to say the rise ofmany of the minor societies hasnot affected the major societieswould be misleading. The maineffect has been the devotion ofmany able people to minorsocieties who, heretofore, wouldhave found themselves strivingfor election to either the PhilCouncil or the Hist GeneralCommittee.

This, combined with the rise inthe pressure of academic workleaving less time for the in-creasingly time-consuming task ofbeing an officer of a major society,is a considerable problem facingboth the Phil and the Hist.

Meanwhile, let us be gratefulfor the diversity of character andthe independence of spirit whichprevails among all societies inCollege--unfettered by a domin-ating S.R.C. or a Union. So longas this is maintained, Trinity--no matter whether societies are"m periods of trouble or goodfortune--will offer a challenge allits own to its student population

Through the rather austerecolumns of " The Sunday Times"came the first report of astudents’ blacklist. NottinghamUniversity Union are hoping toprepare, with the help of otheruniversities, a list of all undesir-able students, to be circulated tovarious official bodies. So farTrinity, I believe, have not yetbeen consulted. Thank God forthat.

I can think of a no moredangerous or disastrous policy,whereby one sub-committeepacked with tin-god anthropolo-gists are for ever looking, listen-mg and judging their fellowstudents. The lack of life amongstudents is a favourite topic to-day; with the threat of beingmade an outcast for any sparkof rebellion or non-conformistbehavious, life w o u I d stopaltogether and become a mereexistence.

A team of four Players arescheduled to appear on thatrather crass little T.E. populargame "Take My Word" nextMonday night. The four areGillian Hanna, Jenny Holmes,Nigel Ramage and Constantin deGoguel, who will spend half-an-hour miming various titles ofbooks, plays, films or well-knownsayings. For the compulsive tellyaddict this could be an amusinginterlude.

A friend of mine tells an amus-ing story concerning the recent

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olumnS.R.C. elections. A fourth yearstudent was talking to theAppointments Officer and whenasked what he had done inCollege could think of nothing.Within a day he had got his namein the election poll, a propagandasheet was issued, and withinforty-eight hours he was back inthe office, smilingly insisting thathe was faculty representative for.... and could that be put onhis form. Good to see that thereare still public-spirited peopleabout!

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Yet another petition isrumoured to be circulatingCollege, this time it’s against theliving conditions of the animalsused for experiments in researchat the back of College. In otheruniversities petitions are raisedwhen the comings and goings ofmale and female students provokethe authorities into hasty action.When the Halls of Residencebecame the temples of rest orunrest, and the rambling grittyplains of mid and north Englandare hotbeds of discontent, inTrinity we still get into a frenzyover animals. That glassy starein the eyes of the ardent womancampaigner is not love, but puresympathy for the whippet houndwho has his tail lifted three timesdaily so that several daks slackedand anoraked biologists can seehow it all works. What sympathy,what compassion, what utternausea.

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Sports Editor

Robin Knight

COLLEGE SPORTA Review by the Sports Editor

During the past few years College sporting standards have declined,and to-day we are passing through a thoroughly depressed era. Atthe same time, more people are participating and in many casesfacilities have been improved out of all recognition. What are thereasons behind this apparently anomaly?

Firstly, I think it is only fair to point out that Trinity to-day ismeasured by vastly different standards to those which existed eventen years ago. If we have more people playing sport, so does thenation as a whole. In every sphere increased competition is beingmet, and the University is no longer the only place with facilities foryouths to take part in sport. The advantages of good coaching forthose between 15 and 21 are now available to many more. Manyclubs run junior teams, trained and coached by old, experiencedplayers. Youth clubs and religious organisations likewise have begunto cater for less fortunate people than ourselves. To-day practicallyanyone who has the time or the inclination can play one sport oranother. This is very much reflected by the type of opposition nowmet at club level.

Trinity is often accused of beingtoo English, and with this accusa-tion goes the implication that thepublic school attitude dominatesthe University. This criticism isincreasingly irrelevant but none-theless I think it is still valid atpresent. One of the proudestboasts of the British has beenthat they are good losers, thoughthis idea has taken a bit of abattering recently on the Foot-ball League grounds of England.And so was born the amateurishoutlook and lack of dedicationwhich has bedevilled Britishsport for a long time and, despitethe Olympics, is still the rulerather than the exception. Thisattitude was readily transportedto Trinity. It is very rare indeedin this University to find the menwith sufficient determination toovercome any disadvantage. Forinstance, one got the impressionwatching the Colours match afortnight ago that U.C.D. werethe dedicated side, who lived,slept and ate Rugby until theGreat Day, whereas Trinity,though realising what was atstake, went into the match ill-prepared--just hoping all wouldturn out well on the day--whichit did not. Nor is this the casein Rugby alone.

Readers will already be protest-ing that this is a small University,numerically, and cannot be judgedagainst places like U.C.D., Oxfordor Cambridge. To a certainextent this is, of course, true inthat few of our sides have any.quality in reserve. But so manyinstances come to mind of smallnations or communities con-sistenly producing winning sidesthat most people find this argu-ment misleading. Two placesspring readily to mind--Australiaas a country, and Hawick, a smalltown on the Scottish borderswhich has ruled Northern Rugbyin Britain for many years now.

Trinity sport fails most, I feel,through lack of spirit and, sur-prisingly, lack of coaching. To-day most undergraduates are onaverage two or three yearsyOUnger than they were ten yearsago. Physicially they are thusless mature and have probably notreached anything like sportingmaturity when they come here.

The pressure of accademic workis increasing term by term, cut-ting the time available for sportcorrespondingly. On the field ofplay few sides are fortunateenough to have experienced on-lookers who can guide captainsand, perhaps, coach sides.Furthermore, one cannot getaway from the fact that in allsports at the moment we havevery few outstanding performers.Whereas pre-war Trinity countedher Internationals, to-day she ispleased enough to have inter-provincial representatives.

Robbie Brightwell has gone onrecord as saying British athletesdon’t know what it is to hurtthemselves whilst training, andthen to keep on training evenmore. That was before Tokyoand maybe now he would be lessdogmatic. But the truth behindwhat he says still applies, inTrinity as much, if not more, thanelsewhere. It is in training andpractising that champions aremade; ability by itself is in-sufficient to-day.

To revive College sport, thisidea above all else has to beunderstood. Taking part in a gamewith the intention of winninginvolves sacrifices at the top level.No one is suggesting there is noroom for those who play gamespurely for enjoyment or exercise.But such people cannot expect tobe successful at first-class level.To win consistently involvesdedication, and until all Trinitysportsmen realise this we aregoing to continue to be secondbest, if that.

Undoubtedly this has been avery disappointing term, sports-wise. That we lack ability inTrinity to-day is depressinglyevident from the results that havebeen produced since October. Ifall our sides could capture thegiant-killing enthusiasm of thesmall clubs in the English F.A.Cup who yearly demonstratewhat can be done by spirit alone,and ally this to a realistic,twentieth - century attitude totraining, we might achieve some-thing. Firstly though, our sports-men must start to believe inTrinity as something worthmaking a sacrifice for. Let’s hopethe New Year brings some reso-lution into our play.

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Two Wins SPORTIN BRIEFRailway Union ........................2 ITr;nity ................................................ 3

Tnnity’s win on Saturdayevolved from a pattern similar totheir victory the previous weekat Hammond Lane. They werehard pressed for all the secondhalf but hung on to their tenuouslead to give them their third awaywin out of four matches.

On a big but bumpy pitchTrinity were more impressive inthe opening minutes. They usedthe open spaces intelligently andSowerby put them ahead afterNolan had set him up, by slippingthe ball under the advancing goal-keeper. The unpredictable bouncewas taking its toll, however, andother chances went a-begging asfirst Baker missed a goal and thenSowerby shot weakly when wellplaced. Railway Union withthrusts of their own were exploit-ing both the defence and thereferee with long balls which be-haved as if they were rugby ballsand not soccer balls. The onethat confused the referee led toRailway Union’s equaliser becausethe ball appeared to be at least ayard over the dead-ball line whenit was cleared. Protests achievednothing, but the next ten minutesdid. Angered by the decision tolet the goal stand, Trinity rose tothe occasion and firstly Leonordscored after a Nolan shot hadbeen smothered and then Nolanstabbed a ball home cleverly fromthe edge of the penalty area.

The second half was playedagainst the wind and the defenceheld out well, only conceding ascrambled goal from a corner.Haslett played soundly a n dO’Hoore’s return has added tothe defensive cover. The forwardshad their moments in this halfand moved the ball well whenallowed and Nolan was unluckynot to have a fourth in the dyingminutes. The problem of findingtwo competent wingers seems tohave been solved by Baker andUnwin.

Trinity ................................................4Downing College .................. 2Trinity continued their winning

ways with a victory over DowningCollege on a muddy pitch inCollege Park on Monday. Scorersfor Trinity in an exciting and skil-ful match were Leonard (2),Nolan and an own goal.

FencingIn a 15-hour marathon in the

Gym on Friday and Saturday,Trinity came second to Salle Duffyin both ep~e and sabre.

In the ep6e, Trinity had a fairlydecisive 11-5 victory againstU.C.D. and a poor 6-10 defeatagainst Salle Duffy I. U.C.D.’smain opposition was put up bytheir Olympic representative HikeRyan who suffered only onedouble defeat in the entirechampionship.

In the sabre, Trinity’s secondt e a m surprised everyone bynarrowly beating U.C.D. 9-7.

Trinity’s first sabre team, con-sisting of John Robinson, RickyRobinson, Brian Denham andVernon Armstrong, did not comeup to expectations, being badlybeaten by Salle Dully I.

At a meeting of the Captains’Committee recently the followingwere awarded pinks: Anthea Peel(Climbing), Martin H eato n(Shooting), Vernon Armstrong(Fencing), F r a n c i s Williams(Sailing).

Ten points in the last fiveminutes brought the 1st XV athrilling victory, 18-17, againstTerenure on Saturday. DavidBuchanan had an outstandinggame and scored one of Trinity’sthree tries, Max Stafford-Clarkeand Cyril Morrison getting theothers. Chris. Butterworth con-verted all the tries and kicked apenalty. Meanwhile in England,U.C.D., without three playersfrom their colours side, trouncedU.A.U. (Northern Group) cham-pions, Durham University, 23-0.

Freshman William Barr, whohas been leading the Trinitysquash team in their league cam-paign, crowned a fine term’s playby winning his match for Leinsteragainst Ulster on Friday. Leinsterwon every match in their sweep-ing victory.

Our rac i n g correspondent,"Croupier," was once again upwith the winners last week-end.Pressure of space prevented usprinting his learned expositionabout the respective merits ofArkle and Mill House in our lastissue. However, we can assurereaders he strongly tipped Arkle.To prove this, all future corres-pondence to him should beaddressed c/o Z~irs, where he istaking a rest--on his winnings.

Peter Stiven, Stuart McNultyAlan McConnell and RobinKnight were all in the Leinsterunder 23 hockey side which lost3-1 to Ulster at Portadown onSaturday. Ulster thus won theunder 23 championship. Man ofthe match was Ulster’s centre-halfand captain, Errol Grafton, aDivinity student at Trinity, whotravels North each week-end toplay for his club, Banbridge, andis also a full inter-pro player.

The recently-formed Ladies’Lacrosse team suffered anignominious defeat last week. Ateam of twelve rugger-playingmales of Gaelic origins challengedthem to a a match and won. Asfew of the men had the least ideawhat they were doing, one canonly assume that captain RobAndrews had convinced themthey were as great at Lascrosseas he assures us he is. Whatwill he catch next in his net?

The Golf team played theLeinster professionals two weeksago at Portmarnock. Conditionswere extremely w i n d y, butseveral good performances wererecorded. Jeremy Pilch beat JoeCraddock 4 and 3, receiving fourshots, and played top-class golfin doing so. Freshman John Graywent out in 36, but still lost 4 and3. Ned Stokes won Trinity’ssecond victory, the final scorebeing 6-2 to the professionals.Last year Trinity failed to win asingle game, so this was a slightimprovement.

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Seventeen crews entered theTrinity " At Home " regatta lastSaturday. Three crews fromTrinity took part and one ofthem, " Arcades," reached thefinal, held in almost completedarkness. Ably stroked by DonMcNeilly, " Arcades " defeatedU.C.D. by a canvas. This resultwas all the more creditable as theU.C.D. boat included the entireOld Collegians Henley crew.

Trinity 2nd XV’s crushingdefeat of U.C.D. last week-endbrought to an end a successfulterm’s rugby. Five victories andtwo defeats have been recorded.Once Paddy Hillyard had openedthe scoring following a fifty yardsburst, it was all Trinity, andwinger Ray scored two tries lateron. Hillyard and Adrian Snowcompleted the scoring with twomore tries. This was a welcometriumph for team work and somecompensation after the Coloursmatch.

The 2nd XI Hockey teamgained a long-overdue point inan away game with Railway Unionon Saturday. Bad finishing by theforwards prevented a win. DickHopkins and Tim Briggs stoodout in the defence, which mustbe the best in Leinster at thislevel. The Hockey Club seemsto suffer from the general lack ofattacking players in College sport.Four good Freshmen have beenfound for the 2nd XI defence, butnot one forward. Ken Pearescored the Trinity goal in this 1-1draw.

With half the Junior Leagueprogramme completed (con-gratulations Tony Crooks), the" Gaels" are once again headingthe table. The all-round standardhas been much higher than lastseason and they have not found iteasy to maintain their I00 percent. record. " Gaels" successis due, not only to team spirit,but also to solidity in the for-wards, opportunism in the backsand a good last line of defence.

The "Pirates," after a slowstart, have improved rapidly, andthey reached peak form whenthey inflicted upon "Freshers A"their second successive defeat. InHaslett, Smiley and Cosgrovethey have three useful forwardswho pull no punches!

After a brilliant start, "FreshersA" met in the "Gaels" theirWaterloo and have yet torecover. Both "Grasshoppers"and "Norsemen" have sufferedfrom a lack of scoring power.

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Players Rally to T.V. WinOn "(ue~da7 a;:t~r~oon a ~eam irora Players challenged the

" resident" team on the T.E. programme " Take My Word" (see" Nelson’s Column," page 4). It was called the " resident " teamdue to its unbeaten record over many weeks. The Players’ team,Constantin de Goguel, Gillian Hanna, Niger Ramage and JennyHolmes, got off to a bad start, and two mimes in succession were notguessed within the two minutes allowed.

By half-time (adverts) theteam of actors led by JohnFranklin were well over 100seconds in the lead. Then fol-lowed a series of very quickguesses by the Players’ team, in-cluding one of four seconds, andMaureen Potter had to use upseveral mimes from the " extra "list before the floor managersignalled the end of the pro-gramme. Much to the delight ofthe Players’ supporters in theaudience, it was announced bythe Mystery Voice that DublinUniversity Players had won. Theteam will be challenged nextweek by a team from U.C.D.--but since several members of ourteam will be in England, sub-stitutes will have to be found.

The programme will bescreened on Monday.

Shoulders to theWheel

Collectors of College crockerywill soon have another source ofpots, mugs and plates. The ArtSociety us completing the in-stallation of its new electric kiln,which has been bought with theaid of a most generous grant fromthe Arts Council of Ireland.College is providing for the in-stallation of the kiln which is tobe housed in a shed by the Print-ing House. The shed was dis,covered by the Agent at thebeginning of term, and the Clerkof Works is at present labouringto install a power supply.

The arrival of the kiln marksthe latest stage in the develop-ment of this new activity of theSociety. Last year, the Auditor,Alan Smith, bought a wheel withArts Council money and this wasinstalled in No. 12. The Societyarranged pottery lessons and theinterest shown then was felt tojustify further expansion. Someof the pots made last year wereused in the Players’ production of" Bartholomew Fair."

Anthony Vere Hedge, thisyear’s Auditor, said that he hopesto have the kiln fully operative bynext term. This depends on theClerk of Works being able toconnect up the power supply intime. There are plans afoot tobegin the term with an informalexhibition of pottery demonstrat-ing the entire process. Lessonsand the use of the equipment areopen to all members of theSociety.

Bridge TriumphTrinity’s Bridge team had a

notable and exciting win overU.C.D. last Friday, thereby be-coming the first holders of theDavidson-Barniville Trophy whichwas presented this year. Playbegan early in the afternoon andreached a climax late in theevening with the Trinity teamjust holding on to gain a narrowvictory. The team was: R. J.Burwood and P. Gardner, J.Orange and Miss T. O’Connor, P.Stocken and Miss D. Wood, R.Andrews and Miss J. Brodie.

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Trial Agam~eiore a packed jury, Roger

Casement again stood on trial forhis life at the Law Society onFriday, on an indictment oi:treason, at the prosecution ofMessrs. Charles Appelby and S6anBaine. Miss Mary Bourke and Mr.James McKenna were willing todefend.

The defence pointed out thatbecause of his ill-treatment by theBritish Imperialists, Casementwas very unfit physically--a factwell borne out by the appearanceof Henry Bourke (the modern-style Casement).

Very capable arguments by theprosecution established that Case-ment might possibly be guilty.The defence said one could justnot be sure, but thought that hemight as well be given the benefitof the doubt. The judge justdidn’t know.

At the conclusion of the trial,Nick Robinson thought it a goodidea to forget the whole affair--in spite of his magnaminity.

The judge gave his summing-upwhich confused everybody--and"twelve brave men and true"(they were really fifty) decidedthat Casement was better at theend of a rope than at the frontof a German column (and thiswithout any mention a boutdiaries).

Belfast CongressThe Irish U n i v e r s i t i e s

Economics Congress, 1964, washeld in Belfast last week, onthe theme of " Productivity andGrowth." Trinity’s contributionwas two papers from HowardKnott and Julian Oliver.

A party was shown round theglories of Stormont by Miss SheilaMurnaghan, who dealt skilfullyand convincingly with questionersbrought up in the Republiciantradition.

The Congress was characterisedby the friendly relations betweenT.C.D. and U.C.D., who agreedthat it was a pity that they hadto go to Belfast to find so muchin common.

Agent on SafariThe Treasurer and Agent have

now returned from their fact-finding tour of catering establish-ments of English universities.

Unfortunately, due to a back-log at work at Trinity, they havenot been able to prepare theirreport. As the Board met yester-day for the last time this term,the report will probably not bepresented until January. TheAgent told a "Trinity News"reporter that he was pleased withwhat they found out on the trip,which he felt was well worthwhile. However, he was unableto give any information as thereport could not be released with-out the Board’s permission andmuch of the information to becontained in it had been givenby other universities in con-fidence.

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Jokimas and Betty Bartkusarrived in Townsend Street fiveyears ago and have since made aonetime bacon shop into an insti-tution more useful than the Bankof Ireland, more frequented thanthe Buttery, and with wider,happier, social client61e than theBailey. To know how theycreated the atmosphere one mustdelve into their past. Mrs. B. leftIreland on the death of herparents in 1957 to join her unclein Canada. By one of thoseromantic quirks of fate thatevery girl dreams of, Mrs. B., de-layed by fog at London Airport,met a handsome Lithuanianrefugee who was then workingfor a plastics company. Canadawas forgotten during the nextfew months while Mrs. B. took ajob in a Bond Street dress salon.It was only a short time beforethey were married and moved toEariing where the young wife’stalented salesmanship was exer-cised at Benthills.

Never having had any wish toleave Dublin, Mrs. B. beganmaking plans for a return. " InEarling I missed the sea, yousee/’ and the smell of Anna Liffeywould be good for Jokimas’health, she acquiesced. But workwas hard to get in Ireland andfor the first time Jokimas had tobe patient.

Having left Lithuania in 1944,he was enrolled in the Luftwaffewhere he served for a year beforeinternment in a Belgium prison¯In 1946 he returned to Germany,but his patience ran out and by1948 he was in England workingfor Courtaulds. After sevenyears there he did a healthy fivemonths’ stint of market garden-!ng. Then came plastics andromance, then marriage and plansfor moving to Dublin.

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business of their own. Thus theNo. 12 legend began.

Graduates of the pre-Bartkusera may look back on a Dermotin a bar or a Hoira in a caf~ astheir nosalgic symbols of the lifeon Trinity’s fringe, but if anyrecent graduate remembers any-one better than Mrs. B. or Jack-imus it would only be romanticnotions of Jenny or Mrs. B.’srecently-married niece Helen. Mrs.B. enthuses as much about Jenny’saptitude for figures as she doesabout Jackimus’ mysterious reti-cence about the horses he hasbacked. Other people enthuseabout Jenny--and her figure.

Willing Bartkus is the onlyplace where tutors are met onequal footing. Both bleary-eyedand guilty at missing every churchservice and the last copy of the"Sunday Times" supplement thereis little consolation in Mrs. B.’s" You’re awful tired looking."You tell her when you got to bed."Oh good even Stephen"--amesmeric expression.

" Four onions too much foryou, I think. Oh yes, I think.Ham very expense," Jokimaschants as he dodges between thecounters. " Piggott, good Jockaay,but if him win can’t tell, can’ttell." The late Captain Becherhad more frustrating taunts fromJackimus than anyone--he neverseems to lose. But his accumu-lated winnings have enabled themto buy a small holding at BallybegSmall, Co. Wexford.

There they will have their firsthome since they were married,and Jokimas’ first home since1944. The experience gained atgrowing tomatoes in 1955 willstart to pay dividends. Jokimasis soon to become an Irish citizen;he should be made an honorarymember of T.C.D. Association atthe same time. How welcomehe would be at a graduates’dinner.

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