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!AND QUEEN TOG0 TO JAPANMr. Henry Moore’s sculpture, ’The King and Queen,’

at present on the Library forecourt, is to go to Japan for anexhibition of his work there towards the end of this year.The Board has accepted Mr. Moore’s generous offer to lendthe College another piece of sculpture in its place.

With his letter thanking Mr.Moore for this new offer, theRegistrar, Mr. Howie, also senthim a photograph of the front ofthe Library to assist in the choiceof another work. A selection ofphotographs of the sculpturesavailable for loan will be sent toTrinity by Henry Moore, and the

Registrar in consukation with hiscolleagues will make the choice.

Professor Dawson is makingarrangements for shipment of"The King and Queen." Mr.Moore has asked the BritishCouncil, which is organising theJapanese exhibit, to leave the col-lection of the sculpture fromTrinity to the latest possible date.

Clement Freud’s Cook InOn Monday night, in the New Library, Clement Freud

lectured and demonstrated " economy cooking " to a largeaudience. He stated that it was important to obtain themaximum flavour from a minimum amount of ingredientsin this form of cooking.

Unfortunately, the basic materialsneeded for the demonstrations--eggs, milk and potatoes---had beenforgotten, and were finally ob-tained from various sources of theaudience, which included a girl’sbreakfast.

He demonstrated how ea sy

soups and mayonnaise could bequickly prepared, dissected achicken, cooked it and handed outsamples to the audience.

Besides cooking a variety ofomelettes which, he said, differedfrom scrambled eggs only in tidi-ness, he showed the audience howto prepare a savoury corn fritterwith pancake batter and someIndian corn.

He concluded the evening by

3 CHURCH LANE ] handing out a few chops andGOWNS, HOODS, TIES, ]

chickens to a few members of theaudience to try out what they hadlearned at home.

Me Keown calls for Taxation.

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TUDENT ( RANThe agitation for a fully comprehensive grants scheme for Irish students continues.

The USI can now expect support from both opposition parties despite the presentGovernment’s lack of sympathy. The streets of Dublin may be used less as a mediumbetween student and public over this issue; the President-elect of the USI, CiaranMcKeown, feels that immediate militancy means playing the last card first and can onlyplease the ’ band-wagonners’

The agitation b e g a n onNovember 1st, 1968, when theMinister for Education, Mr.Lenihan, refused to review theIrish students’ grants scheme.

The Minister announced that itwould cost £1 million per annum,but this sum will only be reachedwhen the scheme is fully oper-ational. Students already atcollege were to receive no benefits.A march through the streets ofDublin on November 19th endedin a peaceful sit-down outside thegates of the Dfiil. The Govern-ment has not altered its attitudesince then.

or march-lovers.’ --Courtesy Jimmy Walshe

PUBLIC CAMPAIGNThe U.S.I. intends to continue

a public campaign concentrating onparents and schools, explaining theobvious necessity for a fully com-prehensive grants scheme. Thisessentially means that any personat secondary education level whohas the necessary qualifications,and who wishes to do so, must beable to attend a college of highereducation (from university toseminary). He/she should havea grant to cover books, fees, foodand accommodation, as well ashaving a little extra so that thestudent need not overwork duringthe summer.

Ciaran McKeown during histerm as President intends to makeit known that the means testmakes nonsense of any grantsscheme and must be abolished;

Alan Mathews and Eddie O’Connor, S.R.C. Pres. o[ U.C.D., in Galway.

it is the parent and not the studentwho must be taxed if this isnecessary.

VOLUNTARY TAXATIONAt the Galway teach-in on

Friday, the 27th, McKeownannounced his decision to set upa system of voluntary taxationthat could also ease the housingproblem recently brought to theforefront of public attention bylast week’s demonstrations.

He called for an army ofvolunteers to collect "taxes" from

MAN IN WONDERLAND ISTOPIC OF DISCUSSION

Saturday will focus on " ModernMan in Wonderland." Topics fordicussion include: "Modern manand his identity crisis," "Modernman and the line of despair," anda theological evaluation of modernman from the standpoint ofBiblical revelation.

The internationally knownfounder of L’ABRI Fellow-ship, Dr. Francis Schaeffer,will speak in the GMB onFebruary 1 on ’Christianityand Communication in the20th century.’

Situated in the Swiss Alpsat Hu6moz, in the past 14years L’ABRI has become aforum of debate and discus-sion for thinkers and studentsfrom East and West.

It is the centre for study of therapprochement between p h i 1-osophy, the liberal arts andBiblical theology.

Little known except by word ofmouth until early 1968, L’ABRIhas become more widely knownthrough the release of two booksby Dr. Schaeffer, " Escape fromReason" and " The God Who IsThere."

The conference to be held on

SRC BookpooiThe Bookpool is now open,

Monday to Friday, from 12.30 to2 o’clock in 4.12B.

At the moment they have about2,000 books for sale, belonging tothe World University Service.The books are mainly textbooks,covering nearly all the Collegefaculties, with a large quantity ofscience books.

Students who have books forsale can bring them along to theS.R.C. and fill in a form statingthe price they want for them. Thebooks then go on to the shelvesand when the book is sold theseller is notified and paid.

door to door, supporting the policythat if the Goverment will not act,U.S.I. will.

Alan Mathews, a speaker atthe teach-in, sonsiders CiaranMcKeown’s voluntary tax systema failure. " One cannot ignore,"said, "the Establishment statewhich has ukimate control andwill not be by-passed, unless onehas already overthrown thefinancial system."

Arts Freak OutFinalising Tina’s fight show last

Sunday night, Hayden Murphy,borne on the shoulders of TimBooth and Steve Bullock, floatedthrough the audience chantingmysterious cantatas and swinginga blazing thurible.

As the tempo of the Alex ClarkeQuartet built up, synchronisingwith the flashing lights, the poetled the crowd out of the hall onto the lawn outside. There greetedby an almost naked Olley Aid-ridge, his only protection being anempty beer-can and the business-end of a mop, an impromptupoetry reading began: T h ehappening then fizzled out to thecheers of the crowd, with Murphyrocking on the ground amidst asmoke screen with a fish’s head.

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SPORTSNEWS

HOCKEY

DisappointingPerformance

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In the first league match playedon the newly-built all-weatherpitch at Santry, Trinity wereclearly ill at ease, and onlymanaged to draw against a Cor-inthians side which was seldom areal danger.

The hard pitch, which calls fora different type of hockey, willcertainly take some getting usedto; Corinthians, experienced inthese conditions, settled downquickly and handled the ball moreconstructively in the openingminutes. Trinity slowly began toimprove and were soon gaining theupper hand through some attackingand thoughtful play by Barber andBrown. The forwards were un-lucky not to see their efforts re-warded, and even a series of shortcorners failed to produce a goal.So it came as a shock whenCorinthians took a 1-0 lead justbefore the interval through one oftheir rare raids. In the second halfthe side improved considerably,and were unlucky not to scoreseveral times. Time was now run-ning short, and it was not untilthe very last minute that Trinityequalised when Barber capped animpressive performance by scoring.

Trinity will have a lot of workto do if they are to win theMauritius Cup, for the IrishUniversities Championships, forthe second successive year. Thecompetition is being played inBelfast, again on hard pitches,where Queen’s will be very muchat "ease. It would be a fittingtribute to John Douglas, this year’scaptain, if the Mauritius was tostay in Trinity.

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ONLY 13 MENTRINITY, 16; CIVIL SERVICE, 11

In a match packed with incident, Trinity fully deservedtheir victory by 16-11 in Saturday’s game against CivilService from Belfast. It was even more commendable in thatthey finished with only 13 men; Docherty was forced to gooff early in the game with strained shoulder ligaments, andSmith was rather unfortunate to be sent off with little ofthe game remaining.

Civil Service kicked off and thegame was only a few minutes oldwhen Trinity lost the ever reliableDocherty with an injured shoulder.However, far from being a deter-rent, this served only to spurTrinity on. First Hawkesworthscored, then Donovan had twotries, one of which was superblycarried out. The Service sidemanaged to grab a penalty butMcCombe replied soon after withanother to leave Trinity 13 pointsahead at the interval.

The strain of having a manshort began to tell on Trinity inthe second half, and only a reallyspirited defence kept Civil Serviceat bay. As it was they managedto score a further 8 points but

Trinity rightly held on to win by16-11 points.

In general, Trinity’s win was inevery respect a team performance.While no one individual shone out,mention should be made of Dono-van, sound in defence and attack;McCombe for his constructivekicking; and Hawkesworth andCullen in the pack.

All in all it was an excellentresult from Trinity’s view-point:the team, considering their handi-caps, played with commendablespirit and elan throughout. Thesending-off of Smith should notdetract from a good, hard-foughtgame, with all credit to both teams.

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A fine example of Trinity’s binding in the lne out.

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TRINITY TOO GOOD FOR UCCU.C.C., 2~ TRINITY, 91;

The match between Trinity and Universitv CollegeCork, played at Portmarnock on Friday, turned out to be aone sided affair, with Trinity winning nine matches to twowith one halved.

An outstanding performancecame from Ian Elliott in thesingles, when he went around thecourse in a two under par 70. Inmost of the matches Trinityplayers won fairly comfortably;their two defeats came in thefoursomes, where the first pairlost, and when captain Caldwellwas beaten in the singles; however,

these were against players playingat the top of their form, and notnot through bad golf. Thisperformance should boost theteam’s morale for the Coloursmatch at the end of February; theyhave a number of games beforethat which should improve theirmatch play temperament, so vitalif they are to beat U.C.D.

TRINITY NEWS--Thursday, January 30, 1969.

SOCCER

Ist Xl Unlucky to LoseTRINITY, O; LONGFORD TOWN, 3

Although at first glance this seems yet another dis-appointing result for Trinity, they were a shade unlucky notto come away with at least a draw.

They were soon on the attackarid after 7 minutes McCombe sawa fine header saved at the foot ofthe post. Fitzsimmons was thenput through on his own but hithis shot too close to the keeper.There was a distinct slacknessabout the Trinity defence and dueto this and a general misunder-standing, Longford Town wentahead after 23 minutes with arather soft goal; 15 minutes laterthey wen further ahead, again afterslack defensive play.

In the second half Trinity beganto play more fluidly, choosing theirpasses well and good efforts fromSharpe and Wherry kept theLongford defence under pressure.

What should have been the cul-mination of the continuous pressurecame when Fitzsimmons beat thegoalkeeper and steered his shottowards an empty net, only to seethe full back slide across the goaland steer the ball away for acorner. Longford now began to getback into the game and a crossfrom the left saw an unmarkedforward head into the net to clinchthe game.

If the forwards would availthemselves more of the shootingpower they undoubtedly possess,and the defence mark their menmore tightly, they could still sur-prise everyone in the forthcomingCollingwood Cup. T.J.S.

SPORTS SHORTS

BASKETBALL : The IrishInter-varsity Basketball Champion-ships begin tomorrow in the gymat 6.30 p.m. Trinity, hosts thisyear, have great hopes of a doublesuccess; the ladies team are defend-ing champions, while the men’steam have been runners-up for thelast three years. Spectators areassured of a week-end of veryentertaining basketball.

FENCING: The Dublin EpeeCompetition, organised by Trinity,is taking place in the Dixon Hallthis Saturday. Last year competi-tors came from many parts ofIreland including Cork and Belfast.Trinity’s Olympic fencer, ColmO’Brien, won last year and willbe taking part in the competitionagain this weekend.

S Q U A S H: Last SaturdayTrinity played Queen’s in the gym;with ten players on each side, itwas practically a trial to see whowill be playing for the IrishUniversities team. Trinity won9-1, easily outclassing the opposi-tion; with a score like that, itseems probable that 5 out of the6 players in the Universities sidecould come from Trinity.

ATHLETICS: The a n n u a 1cross country match againstQueen’s was scheduled for lastSaturday in Dublin; but for noapparent reason the Belfast teamfailed to turn up, and so no racingwas possible. It is hoped to stage

the match sometime next month,and until then Trinity is continu-ing with a tough training pro-gramme.

SAILING: For most of thewinter the club has been scrubbingand preparing boats; The Fireflieshave recently been rigged andlaunched, and last Sunday therewere trials for the team. There isa full fixture list against localclubs arranged for February, in-cluding a race against NottinghamUniversity. In March a tour toEngland is planned, which willtake in the British UniversitiesChampionships, which were wonlast year by Trinity.

RACING: Trinity News manin the racing world, Even Break,had an unfortunate weekendhis predictions for last Saturdaywere not realised, and anyone whofollowed them would be badly outof pocket. However, his forecastswill be appearing again shortly,and he as convinced that hiscrystal ball has lost its blurredappearance.

BOXING: The annual coloursmatch against U.C.D., postponedfrom last term, will take place onSaturday; Trinity has six of lastyear’s Colours remaining, out of ateam of eight. Although someboxers are having difficulty inmaking the weight limits, prospectslook fairly good, especially in theheavier divisions.

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There no longer being a T.C.D.night at the Countdown Club,Denton Farquor last week dis-appeared into the depths ofD’Olier Street to inspect Sloopy’son its usual Trinity Wednesdaynight. It turned out to be apleasant compromise between LeDisque and Countdown, and wellworth another visit later in theterm. Jimmy Saville-Ballard dee-jayed with an eloquently silkyvolce, while Bouncer Andersonflexed his muscles at the door.Joanna Gant looked adoringly atthe D.J., who was unmoved, evenwhen relieved by Kirby.

Spittles and Nelson put on aprivate performance in the Hunk’sbefore venturing out unsuccessfullyinto the fray. Douglas Wan-Hippy found Christine to be aPushover, while de Mille, withMaeOnaehie behind him, movedon to Jane Roberts’ pasture. PeterW h e r r y celebrated somethingpropped up against a wall and hadto content himself with watch-ing FitzSimons’ technique onMacBeth Fenton.

Good news for the Trinity malepopulation was the magnificentarray of wallflowers. Pat Bushewas unfortunately not among them.Drawers (please call me Shaw)was only on the market a few

seconds before a glowing Tinsell,straight from squash, monopolisedher. Finally Yvonne never had achance with David Wells-Hotaround.

The following night the BoatClub was taken over by a largeconsortium from the Six Counties.The thirsty masses arrived on thedot of 10 and had polished off allthe drink by 11.45. Host MartyBleakley was perhaps trying to getrid of the drink quickly so that hecould get on with Faith Davison.Other hosts included John Kelly,Mary Green and Liz McWilliam,but they were nowhere to be seen,while Nibmar Spence paradedhimself conspicuously for hisguests. Heather Russell managedto draw Ron Wilson away fromBill Valk, but Mike Hutchin~n’sfriend wasn’t disclosing her name.Caroline Bradley and DudleySmith asked specifically to be in-cluded and denied a kinky re-lationship. Chief Groover BillTomkins was the only one to carryoff two partners, in the form ofLinda Wakelin and Anne Batter-son, but his success was only tem-porary. Jon Mitchell made publichis intentions on Janeen, but hewas well beaten to the draw byDavid Agnew. Khrosrow Fazelmade a brief appearance with hiswife; it was all a bit much for

There is a housing crisis in Dublin. The situation hasbeen critical for the last ten years or more but it required thepresent series of marches and mass democracy meetings tobring home to Dubliners the fact that there is somethingseriously wrong with the whole set-up, and not just with theshortage of houses.

Most Rev. Dr. Birch, Bishop ofOssory, recently spoke out aboutthe class-ridden nature of Irishsociety. Dublin and the large townsare the most serious offenders inthis respect. Workers live inworking class areas and the pro-fessional classes have their ownpreserves in the suburbs. Recently,with the increase in Dublin’spopulation, the Corporation hasbeen building new housing estatesand blocks of flats, mainly on thenorth side but the demand isgreater than the supply and as aresult families are homeless,divided and often evicted fromtheir old tenaments.

Those who are hardest hit bythe present situation are the youngcouples who have just married orare about to. The old answer forthese people, for whom the waitinglist is too long, is no longer there.The days of the cheap tenamentin the old Georgian dwellings arenumbered. Many have alreadybeen ,demolished or condemned,and the few available ones left areoccupied.

But even apart from the shortageand the poverty, Dublin hasanother problem in the quality ofthe houses it is building and thesituation of the new estates. Therecent building areas like Bally-mun have done absolutely nothingto lessen the old class barriers. Ifanything they have strengthenedthem. The city has been dividedinto two sectors. One is the middle-class belt along the coast and inthe south-west, and the other theworking class belt in the north andnorth-west. You could say in factthat Dublin’s citizens are gradedaccording to their address. ThankGod the last few weeks havebrought the criminal injustice ofDublin society home to more thanjust the corporation dwellers. It isa truism to say that Action is amore profound course than debatein certain situations, and it wouldseem that since the approvedchannels have failed to carry evena trickle of dissent, this is the timefor action. Walking to the Ministryof Justice is only lethargy.O’Morain’s too fat to run or toslip out the back door.

them. Mary Smyth and Peter Rossexchanged brands of ’flu in onecorner, while Sue Oxterby andChris Dove exchanged somethingelse. Colin Banks had somethingtucked under his garments whichfascinated Sheila Aiken; neitherlet on just what it was.

Hairstyle of the Evening Awardwent to Oliver’s Teddybear curls:they were a remarkable contrast toClaire’s, which he spent the eve-ning chasing. Lifebuoy Leonardwon the Tramps’ Clothing sectionwith his jeans, shirt and gown.Most Valuable Immigrant wasNeline Shah from the Indian.sub-Continenc B e s t BehavedNortherner was Andy McCannwho didn’t pick one fight; maybehe was thinking about the ReverendIan’s visit to London. Most Beauti-ful wallflower was Rhoda Swan,who won despite the attention ofRonnie Nelson. Nepotism makesme include James Little who wasrunner-up in every event, afterwhich I had had enough and it wasoff to Northbrook Road.

Once there I found Elizabeth(on loan from Hammer movies)and Carmel saying hello to every-one in their best city accent. Tonedidn’t do his fading image anygood by putting in an appearancein this bogland ghetto in whichNuala Stomaek and Simple Bean-pole starred. Times are bad whenI have to endure Michael theScribe making up to MedusaAdamson, and so I leave with theparting thought of when is Paddygoing to have a party of his own?

This week’s photograph is an interesting study of a Belfast girl by PaulO’Kane; for the sake of non-photographers, Paul shaded out all of thepicture except the face to get this effect. It seems that the annual ex-hibition is in some danger. It is usually held in conjunction with theArts Society, whose membership was considerably thinned down at theend of last year, and George Wynne-Wilson is worried about being ableto get enough entries to fill out the New Library Hall. So please,Trinity mists come forward with your masterpiecesl

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ACTION ON ou""-"o-"-’o... :

organisation in Dublin which actively seeks to protect

/ Ou /N(ithe rights of the family as guaranteed by Church and State.

-Bernard Brown, Chairman

By Mike Black

It seems that everybody, except perhaps the Inter-nationalists, suspects that the Dublin Housing ActionCommittee is the organ of a left wing and revolutionaryminority. There are whispers of cynical exploitation andpolitical opportunism in the activities of the committee andof the political groups that support it. But the position asregards housing in Dublin is serious and complicated enoughwithout such ’obscurantist’ manoeuvres as publishing thefact that Dennis Dennehy is a communist, as was recentlydone in a certain evening newspaper. The political issues ofthe case must not be allowed to obscure what is an immediateand pressing problem among a growing number of Dublin’scitizens.

Out of a population of overhalf a million there are about10,000 homeless people in Dublin,and the number, far from decreas-ing, is steadily growing because ofmigration, eviction, the deteriora-tion of often already uninhabit-able dwellings (notably the Den-nehy’s caravan), and the spirallingbirth rate. The D.H.A.C. listsseveral categories of homeless, in-cluding split farmilies wherehusband, wife and children areunable to live together, theseverely over-crowded (a dwell-ing in Corporation officialese isapproximately two rooms), andfamilies paying a rent excessive inrelation to income. Also includedare "most" caravan dwellingfamilies, and especially familieswho have been forced to squat ineither Corporation of privateproperty.

For these people there are twopossible courses of action: One isapathy, the price apparently de-manded by the Corporation for aplace on the housing list. Theother is action in conjunction withthe D.H.A.C. Bernard Brown, itsChairman, suspects that he hasbeen struck off the housing listbecause he has been squiatting atNo. 23 Mountjoy Square for fourmonths.

What is significent is that MaryDennehy received a letter from theCorporation last week, before herhusband’s release, stating that theydid not intend to offer her alterna-tive accommodation, butwhetherthis has any bearing on the factthat the Dennehys are squattingat No. 20 Mountjoy Square can-not be established beyond a sus-picion, fortunately for the Cor-poration. Bernard Brown statesfirmly that the Deputy LordMayor, Dermot O’Rourke, agreedwith him in private that there were"at least fifty" families squatting,but reduced this figure on theradio to twenty at the most.

This is the general attitude ofthose in authority. The Com-mittee proper of the D.H.A.C. iscomposed of six homeless peopledemocratically elected by themembers of the organisation, all ofwhom are also homeless. The twobest known are Bernard Brown andDennis Dennehy, the Treasurer.The D.H.A.C., Brown emphasises,is not a political organisation.Appeal to all parties for supporthave brought delegates from theYoung Socialists, the ConnollyYouth Movement, the IrishWorkers’ Party, the Sinn Fein, theIrish Communist Organisation andthe students for Democratic

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Fr. Michael Sweetman addressing a D.H.A.C. meeting.

Action. (The two major politicalparties, predictably enough, havenot seen fit to so much as replyto the invitations, issued beforeeach meeting of the D.H.A.C., tosend a speaker. Labour Partymembers have spoken, but theParty has not sent a delegate.) Tothose must be added FatherSweetman of the Society of Jesus,who has spoken from the D.H.A.C.platform. It is understood thathis superiors in the Society haverefrained from giving him any en-couragement, although he hasmade it plain that he speaks as anindividual and not as a cleric.

The D.H.A.C.’s position canperhaps be seen in a statementissued to the press by DennisDennehy last week-end. It statesthat "we in the D.H.A.C. realisethat the battle for the rights of thehomeless is only the beginning andour campaign will not end untilthe existing housing crisis is re-solved." Dennehy has been givennine days to rehouse his family,dating from the day of his release.He says in the same statement that"if I fail to do this, I face theoption of moving out on the streetor going back to jail." The pub-licity given to the Dennehys’ casehas given many the impressionthat it is an unusual and extremeone. But what of the othersquatters? Bernard Brown, toname one, is under court in-junction to vacate the premises atNo. 23 Mountjoy Square by the5th January. He has been unableto find anywhere for his wife andchild to live at a rent he couldafford on his wages as a postman.It is only a matter of time beforehis case, and that of othersquatters, becomes a repeat of theDennehy’s plight.

The Corporation, for its part, isat present building enough accom-modation to house 2,000 people ayear. This figure will have toreach 23,000 a year by 1980 for a

permanent solution to the problem.The homeless families remainhowever, and the D.H.A.C. pro-poses a series of immediate short-term measures, the most importantof which is the declaration of ahousing emergency in Dublin. Thiswould entail requisition of allhabitable vacant accommodationby the Corporation and its im-mediate allocation of the homeless.Other measures demanded are theprohibition of demolition and con-version to other uses of soundliving accommodation, and the re-pair of dwellings by the Corpora-tion where landlords refuse to doso. Some landlords find thatallowing a building to deteriorateuntil it is uninhabitable is a muchcheaper and quieter way of evict-ing unwanted tenants than takingthem to court. A short walkround the north side of Dublinwill give anyone a good idea ofhow effective this method is.

The only effective means ofaction in D.H.A.C.’s hands is thepublic meeting. But this, as manyhave found to their cost, is adouble-edged weapon. There hasbeen an avalanche of politicalslander a n d misrepresentation,many photographs of police insometimes violent action againstthe demonstrators. Of answersfrom the Government, of signs ofa solution by those who have thepower to provide one, there arenone. It is presumed that theCorporation are aware of thedangers of the present housingsituation. There has already beensome violence, both publicised andsecret, in the confrontations be-tween the akhorities and theD.H.A.C. supporters. There willdoubtless be more as the homelessbecome more militant and theCorporation more obdurante.

Less obvious and far moredangerous are the social con-sequences of such a situation. Anystudent of social science will know

what far-reaching effects bad ornon-existent housing has on theportion of society which is forcedto live in such conditions.Alcoholism, disease and a risingcrime rate are the more immediateresults. Unless something is doneimmediately~and the declarationof a housing emergency will beeffective only in followed up asquickly as possible by permanentcouncil houses in sufficientnumbers~there are going to besocial and economic repercussions

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S S ND SOCI TYStudents, jolted out of their apathetic vacuum by the French student the students are not necessarily in a ’position to display his dis- Society and especially t h e

riots of last May, by the occupation of Columbia in the spring, and by the committed to the Establishment content with the existing system, Government are suspicious of thisreaction of Czech students to the invasion of their country, now find the and its views. Those who are

as it is not usually going to do him new political consciousness on thegap between themselv~es and the rest of society widening. This is a new dependent on Society for their part of the students; they resentdevelopment; for up to the Second World War, universities (in the case means of existence are bound to any harmmthis is proved by the having anyone enter their domain.of the British Isles) were the bastion of the status qua. The university conform to the conventional mores many student demonstrations, even This was shown by Capt. O’Neill’swas considered as the place where one could acquire a "passport" into of Society. in Dublin. comment after the Derry march,a" good" job and the secure, privileged life in the existing class structure when he told students to returnthat went with it. The British Government helped to perpetuate this to their studies for which, he re-state by absorbing all those who received good degress into the Civil

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minded them, they had the supportService. This state existed because of a system of class education which of the taxpayer. This statementmade higher education available only to the children of upper middle/ implies that students have no rightupper class families. Thus it was in the material interest of the students to trespass in the domain ofto preserve the status quo. :::: politics, and also amounts to a

vague threat that if they do notconform to t h e conventionalpolitical system then they will notHowever, since the war (in the ture. But it is a new developmentbe supported by the state. This isBritish context--and in Russia that they now question the two inalmost on a parallel with thesince 1917) undergraduates have relation to each other. Russian situation at the moment

not all come from the sameprivileged background. This is Even the "advanced" Social where the intellectuals are relievedmainly due to the grants scheme, Democrat students in St. Peters- of their posts if they step out of

now m operation in England and burg University, when they called official party line by, say, express-

to a lesser extent in Ireland, and for a student strike, called for it ing sympathy with Daniel or by

the emergency of the "Affluent only on academic issues. Lenin condemning the Czecho invasion.

~ Society," which gives more people thought that this was radically The state is suspicious ofa better chance of going to univer- wrong and ascribed it to the fact students because they do notsity. These people are not pre- that: "The students who have accept the social and politicalpared to accept a status quo which entered the universities in the last Czech students demonstrating against Russian invasion, system automatically, or becausemilitates against them. Thus they two years (1906-08) have lived a

are now asking two fundamental life almost completely detached But the student’s life in College There is another view, however,they hold radical views. WitnessMr. Dillon’s hysterical outburst

questions." from politics, and have been edu- is not a function of his political that of people like Andre Clucks- last May, when he declared thatcated in a spirit of narrow views and he does have the mann. He concedes that "students Trinity College was a "nest ofFirstly, they are questioning the academic autonomism, educated freedom to develop politically in have been a critical mass, whose Reds" and politically intimateduniversity as an institution, and not only by the professors of the any direction, explosion can unleash a revolu- that these elements should be doneparticularly its structure. This has Establishment and the Govern-

been done before to a lesser extent, merit press, but also by the pro- People who have taken a jobtion." He also goes on to say(speaking in the French context)

away with. However, this radicali-sation of the under-25 generationbut it is only recently that students fessors of the Cadet Party." It was within Society have implicitly ad- that the riots in France were is, according to Andre Gorz, ahave been to take a positive Lenin’s view that the students of mitted that the Society is right generated by the youth in general, phenomena through the wholestand. For example, it would be the Russian universities should be and most of these people, if He says of youth: "The young capitalist world. It is denounced,hard to imagine them asking the made "consciously political" and questioned, will defend the system, man wanders in society; without particularly in Germany and GreatJunior Dean to " explain his not cling to "mere academic because they themselves have dwelling there, he is exploited by Britain, as adventurist and irre-actions" ten years ago. aims." Thus in even in our own accepted it by working in it. The the state, but not integrated by it." sponsible. The general view is that

Students’ Union, Howard Kinley, university student, however, has As one gets physically older, how- students are revolting merelySecondly, they are questioning the outgoing President, stated em- not made a conscious acknowledg- ever, one tends to rely more on the against the loss of class status; theythe structure of the society to phatically that " U.S.I. is quite ment of the "rightness" of the values of society without question- are all studying for self-advance-w h i c h a university belongs, definitely a political organisation." status quo, and because he is not ing them; one ceases to think ex- merit, that it, a privileged position,Students have questioned society committed, he can look at Society cept in the context of the society, but since there are not so manybefore, any they have, as men- It seems that this political in- in a less biased manner than most (Bertrand Russell is an example of students, there is not room for sotioned, questioned university struc- volvement has occurred because committed members. He is also a man who never got old and this many privileged people; so feelingis why young people admire himm alienated, they revolt.he never sacrificed his own values

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REVIEWS

"DECLINE AND FALL OF A BIRDWATCHER"

~or how to ruin a good novel.Frequently novels adopted by thescreen transpose badly. I think thisprobably happens when the directoror writer of the screen-play triedto keep too much to the originalstory without keeping the essenceof the author’s meaning and yetdoes not give his own product anyfeeling at all. Strick’s version of"Ulysees," I am told, was good.I believe that the Russian versionof "War and Peace," now showingin a two-part programme inLondon lasting six and a halfhours, has an incomprehensibleplot to those unfamiliar withTolstoy’s work, and will be un-satisfactory to devotees ofTolstoyana.

"Decline and Fall of a Bird-watcher" (why, for heaven’s sake,"~of a Birdwatcher ") will notappeal to those who know EvelynWaugh’s novel. The writer of thescreen-play, Ivan Foxwell, hastried to keep the spirit of the book,yet by updating it he loses thelate twenties’ atmosphere which isnecessary for the satire to have anymeaning. The rowdy upper-classstudent debaggers in Oxford, thedecrepit educational agency, theschool and the long prisonsequence all belong to earlier years.

The amount of money lavished

on the extravagances of the in-credible Margot Beste-Chetwyndedo not impress---gadgets are old-hat since " Flint." Margot’s sunkenbath, porcelain flower encrustedtelephone and so forth are the nowfamilar natural birthright ofHollywood.

Genevieve Page (Margot), thetop actress at the Comedie Fran-caise, seems to have been unfor-tunate in her English productions

Y.T.V.’s " Camille %8 "another modernisation of a novel~Dumas’ " La Dame aux Cam-elias," and is probably in dangerof being type-cast as a middle-aged seductress of pretty youngmen.

The film fails to captureWaugh’s atmosphere, but it doeshave some good cameo piecesRoland Curram’s mad Germanarchitect and Rodney Bewes (oneof the " Likely Lads ") as Potts,the detective. T h e cretinouswarders in the desperate prisonamused me, but in general the filmmissed ~ the frivolity becameboring. How the censor managedto find 8½ minutes of this cert."A" film which he could cut is awonder, but then his foibles arebecoming increasingly more in-comprehensible.

J.R.

"SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER"

Goldsmith invites us to "dub"him a quack if "She Stoops toConquer or The Mistakes of aNight" does not please us, butthere was no need. The Abbey’sproduction was a lively fulfillmentof an acknowledged masterpiece.Donal McCann as Tony Lumpkinplays the ne’er-do-well, drinking-with-the-lads, squire’s son who hashis dear Mama where he wants.

She, apart from being anaffected mercenary bitch, has thefashionable 18th century ennui andlongs for the Dublin deliglits ofRingsend and Ranelagh. AideenKelly performs superbly as MissHardcastle who stoops to conquerMarlow, a "modest" man, ajittering, gauche, pigeon- toed,stuffed shirt with "ladies" but anaccomplished bottom-pincher withthem that’s below him. And for themen in the audience, there is theadded thrill of those 18th centurydecoll&es revealing brandy balloonbosoms. The audience sees themistakes of the night a move ortwo ahead, but the delight is wait-

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"CHAMPION JACK"

He relives the hot-tar panacheof Fats Waller; he lives in Hali-fax; he smuggles porny photosfrom Copenhagen under his jacket;he is managed by his wife, is re-liable and the perfect gentleman.

Tramping out twelve bar bluestwenty years behind Leadbelly, hetackles incredible syncopation in-dependently in the descant, inthirds to thirteenths. He doesn’tmind if the piano’s out of tune, outof the spotlight, and nobody’s

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bothering to listen anyway; halg acrateful of bitter is lined up on thetop and he rambles on, playingright hand only when downing halfa pint.

Unassuming, unagressive andskilled in the art of eyebrowwobbling, his music and his facetoo are trad and corny, AuntJerimas. When we saw him atCamberweU Art College he seemedshy and attention-avoiding; he’dbeen marinating in the darkestpart of the bar for several hours,gracefully tolerating a bad localgroup who insisted on overflowinginto his performance time.

Eventually they left, and easinghis short way through the longvelvet limbs, he found the pianohiding behind amplifiers andstarted playing, conventional com-plaints about the troubles he’dseen, and babies raising sand.After about five minutes werealised it was protein-packed andshut up. Five minutes after thathe had gotten on to obscene songsand we joined in. With his hankieround his ears, and his eyebrowsnearly wobbling clean off, hecelebrated "Hey, momma take yo’false teeth out, ’cos Poppa wantsto tickle yo’ gums" and "HeyPoppa, get off the bottle, ’cosMomma’s still got tits," plus asong about his m0ther-in-law,"whose legs was so thin dey hadto tie knots in dem to make knees."Then he finished his twentiethlight ale and walked out, leavinga hole.

At Sunday of late he appearedon the regular Blues AppreciationSociety Sunday afternoon pro-gramme, with Blues House (theonly true blue group in Dublin)and Red (from Tipperary) oncountry guitar. The fans wereten deep and the applause wasmunificent. As for Champion Jackwe expected to be nauseated bythis display of reactionary blackminstrelling, but we weren’t. Heoperates the same principle as" Knees up Mother Brown." Letis all out, chillen. Corny, buttherapeutic.

E.G.

TRINITY NEWS~Thursday, January 30, 1969.

Dedicated to: KOLB, alias

the "bloody man," and the

"rude person."

"film "Decline and Fall" from the novel by Evelyn Waugh.

"THE INVESTIGATION" BYPETER WEISS.

At Players, Sunday, Feb. 2nd."The Investigation" is based

on the Frankfurt War Crimetrials, yet it is not meant to re-construct the actual courtroomscene. In this it is different fromPlayers’ previous "Theatre ofFact" presentations "In the matterof J. Robert Oppenheimer," andfrom Bill Bowder’s "MoorsMurders." The latter used con-ventionally dramatic effects as wellas relying on the lurid factualdetails. "The Investigation" letsthe witnesses’ appalling memoriesof Auschwitz stand for themselves."These statements are the realmaterial of drama which could notbe rivalled by any imagination. ButWeiss’ supreme achievement is theobjectivity of his approach, whichallows us to witness the painfuland painstaking search for truthand ultimately justice." (From theeditor’s blurb.)

Patrick Boyd Maunsell believesthat by calling it an " Oratoria in11 Cantos" Weis means it tobe treated as an opera librettowith the director supplying thenecessary theatrical devices (light,sound, music and mime), but feelsthat projections such as used in"U.S." would be out of place. Hisaim will be to use Players’ in-timacy to the full and to involvethe audience as much as possiblewith the spoken word.

Peter Weiss also wrote Marat/Sade which was Players’ U.D.A.production in 1966.

YIN AND YANG

The Art Society is thinkinga b o u t opening a macrobioticrestaurant. The nicest thing aboutthe one in 176 Westbourne Terraceis that the walls aren’t coveredwith ceramics, candles, photos ofProvence and decaying chiantibottles. The ant David Hicks,anti-Habitat decor is purely forsitting and eating in; there is, how-

ever, a radiogram, so that whenyou want you can plonk a recordon. You can also look straightinto the kitchen and watch yourfood being prepared. If you arebreadless, you can have free rice,Behami sauce and veg. or soup andveg. on demand~but nobody triedthis when I was there.

Accepting that the Westernworld is over-fond of touched-uptoo-much everything for itsstomach, you can spend a pleasantquid or two here on a few bowls ofchick-pea rice, goats’ milk yogh-ourt-Zimbabwe, they call it (Ithought that was the country),Umeboshi salt plums (gorgeous)and Lotus Root Tea with Ginsengand Elixir of Ginger (but 13/- asingle pot). I did not experienceinstant kama, but I did notice itwas a harmonious way of eating,without having to go into any yinand yang complexities.

INDEX

musicConcert by R.T.E. Symphony

Orchestra, Wed., 5th Feb., Exam.Hall, 8 p.m. Tickets free from26.3.1.

artNational Gallery

Turner watercolours from theVaughan Bequest. Exhibition everyJanuary when the light is weakest.Otherwise can only be seen byspecial request.

lecture

David Bowers (painter) on"The Sources of Modern Art."Feb. 3rd, 8 p.m., at the ArtSociety.

poetrySeamus Deane at the Art

Society. Sunday, Feb. 2nd, 8 p.m.

Material by StephanieGreen, John Rawlings, ElgyGillespie and Angela Clinch.

! I’P, INITY NEWS--Thursday, January 30, 1969.PAGE SEVEN

--Courtesy ’United Irishman’

The North of Ireland has been the scene of uglyviolence in recent weeks, with Civil Rights marches andcounter demonstrations by Protestant extremists. There hasbeen much discussion as to whether the Authorities have used

1 their powers excessively or indeed whether the powers thatI they have are themselves excessive. This article continues! that discussion, comparing the situation in the South.

Much of the law affecting

i Public Order in the North is con-~lled by the Public Order Act

i of 1951. Apart from the necessityto give 24 hours’ notice of all

i .public meetings to the police, themost striking provision of the Actis the right of the Minister to pro-hibit all public meetings for upto three months. We saw anexample of this recently when theformer Minister, Mr. C r a i g,banned all meetings in Derry.There is no such provision in theSouth, and not even the infamousCriminal Justice Bill intends to in-troduce it. It should rarely benecessary for a government to takea step to remove the right of in-dividuals to protest in publicexcept in a grave nationalemergency. The situation thatexisted in Derry when Mr. Craigtook such a harsh step did notamount to a direct threat tothe Constitution, whatever thePaisleyites may have thought.

In addition to the Public OrderAct there exists a piece of legisla-tion in the North that can be calledinto force during an emergency.This is the Special Powers Act.

¯ It gives to the police powers that

are so wide that few rights are leftuntouched. For example, theauthorities can arrest a personwithout warrant, and withoutcharging him with an offence andcan imprison him and deny hisright of access to the Courts. Thismeans that a person can be lockedup for any length of time andneither he nor anyone else can doanything about it--in fact the Actspecifically states that relatives andlegal advisers can be preventedfrom visiting a person imprisonedwithout trial. The Act not onlydeprives individuals of their rightsand liberty but also allows them tobe subject to acts of gross violencefrom the authorities. For exampleflogging may be allowed as apunishment, and the police may"compel " suspects to answerquestions when they are detained.

The Act was passed in a stormypolitical climate, one in which thethreatened and one can see whenthreatened and one can seen whenreading the Act that it was theintention of the legislators to pro-tect their new Constitution and touphold the position of the SixCounties which had taken a hardstruggle to establish. But to-day,

The R.U.C. in action during the Derry Civil Rights march.

despite the Civil Rights movementand various undiplomatic state-ments of Ministers of the Republic,it cannot be said that Ulster’s Con-stitution and existence is seriouslyin danger.¯ Why then must thisrepressive measure remains on thestatute books? Why can theGovernment not repeal it and, ifthe need arises, pass a newemergency Act more in keepingwith the situation that exists at thepresent time?

Ulster is not, however, the onlyjurisdiction that has an unrepealedbody of emergency law. In theRepublic the section of theOffences Against the State Actdealing with "powers of in-ternment" can be called intoforce when the Government (notthe Oireachtas, it will be noticed)declares that such a move is

necessary to secure the preserva-tion of public peace and order. Bythis section the Minister inquestion can order the detention ofany individual for as long as hethinks necessary. This section isnot in force at the moment, but inthe past when it had been used (aslate as March 1962) many peoplewere interned without oppor-tunity of redress. The Act is notas brutal in tone as the NorthernIreland Special Powers Act, but aswith the Northern Act its presenceis unnecessary. If the Govern-ment feels that it needs extrapowers during an emergency itshould vote itself these as in theordinary course of events and notcall into force regulations thatwere meant to deal chiefly withvigorous campaigns of illegalorganisations.

The rights of an individual toexpress his opinion, whether inprivate or in public, cannot bequestioned, and few governmentswould deny this. But in the Northa public procession can only takeplace ff 24 hours’ notice has beengiven and if the police have notbanned the procession, and eventhen there appears to be no guar-antee of protection for that pro-cession. Then in both the Northand the South there are unrepealedEmergency Acts which do nothingexcept act as a threat to an in-dividual’s right to liberty. Thesepowers go far beyond what isnecessary to avoid a breakdown ofpublic order and the respectivegovernments should take steps torepeal them immediately.

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O,F FUNDSAdrian Bourke, President of the SRC, has expressed

his disapproval of the present system of allocating money tothe various societies in the College. Of the £12 CapitationFee each student pays, £9 is for distribution to societies.Bourke feels that although DUCAC is a very fair mindedbody, generally speaking, funds are distributed in a some-what haphazard fashion.

For this reason he is negotiatingwith representatives from theG.M.B., the Eliz and D.U.C.A.C.to set up one body, which wouldbe called the Societies’ Com-mittee, to deal with the distribu-tion of grants to societies.

The two major societies, thePhil and the Hist, have so farobjected to this idea on thegrounds that they need far moremoney than any minor society tofinance their undertakings, and atthe same time they must pay forthe upkeep of the G.M.B. Whileagreeing with them on this matter,he also points out that a great dealof unnecessary expenses /~re in-curred. For example, Bourke says:"The Hist spent £12 on ballotsheets for twice yearly elections,while Baxter, Treasurer of theS.R.C., has said he can providethem for 16/-.

Further, Bourke objects to thefact that a fee of £5 is chargedfor renting the Phil receptionroom. This is a large sum to bepaid when one considers the com-parative poverty of the Gramo-phone Society.

Expenses and losses of the

major societies can be astonish-ing. One’s suspicion is aroused bythe fact that the Hist, as an all-male society, last year spent£9 13s. on flowers, and loosemoney on the operation of a tele-phone service to the amount of£35.

Also income from the twobilliard rooms in the G.M.B.amounts to approximately £.855and yet a grant is still necessaryfor the upkeep of the building.

Bourke feels sure that he caneliminate many unnecessary ex-penses if he can get the co-operation from all quarters in theformation of this Societies’ Com-mittee. Baxter has said he canwork wonders if he can open ashop in the G.M.B. and, he says,"The opening of a bar in thebuilding would hardly be re-sented."

He intends to put the proposalto the Board in the near futureand show them how it can work.He believes it is not likely toobject to putting an end to un-necessary expenditure of studentfunds and the introduction of amore fair system.

Republicans ConductCivil Ricjhts Probe

Recently the Republican Club held a meeting to discussthe setting up of a Civil Rights Movement in Dublin. Rep-resented at the conference were delegates from the YoungSocialists, the Connolly Youth Movement, the CollegeFianna Fail Cumann, the Internationalists, and others.

Although response to the idea to strive for the reform of socialwas favourable, due to constant injustice within the Republic itself.

interruptions from the Inter-

New SociologyLectureship

Miss Kathy Cullen has beennewly-appointed to a lectureshipin Sociology. A graduate ofUniversity College, Dublin, shedid her thesis on sociology ineducation.

She commented on " the dis-tinction between sociology, thet h e o r e t i c a 1 understanding ofsociety and social work which in-volves the application of theory toeveryday problems."

In March, Gill and MacMillanwill publish her book entitled" School and Family," which ex-plores the factors adversely affect-ing educational achievement.

OILGEYSERSEENERUPTING NEARFRONT SQUARE

On Monday morning last astudent, who was ill in No. 10,heard a peculiar noise from thearea between the Chief Steward’shouse and the Chapel. On in-vestigation he found that one ofthe oil tanks, which supply theButtery boilers with fuel, had over-flowed and the oil was gushing outof the top like a geyser. It con-tinued for four minutes beforeworkmen arrived on the scene toshut it off. The men weremystified by the whole affair. Oneclaimed it was a " student prank,"while another saw the lighter sideand commented that black was notthis year’s colour.

nationalists, no concrete objectiveswere decided upon. A furthermeeting has been called for, andthough the organisers consider thatthere are strong similarities be-tween the problems which faceboth North and South, they havedecided that their principal aim is

CHANGES FOR BALL

The only time I’mfree Fred is

after the Libraryon Wednesday.

This year’s Trinity WeekBall Committee, under theorganisation of Kerry

MacDermott, has decided onseveral major innovations.

~W’ell, Doris~ howiabout a few drinksand then downto Sloopy~s ?

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The most revolutionary of whichis the possible introduction of atwo-tier ticket system. The alter-native of last year’s " ball anddinner" ticket will be the new" ball and light snack" ticket. Ashort questionnaire will be held inCollege this week in order togauge a popular consensus of itsacceptance.

Due to rising costs, the originaldouble ticket will cost £6, whilethe new one will sell at £4. Im-plementation of the whole scheme,however, is dependent upon thepermission of the licensingauthorities.

It is also hoped that a well-known English pop group may beimported for the Ball.

Thursday, 30th January, 1969

USI’S ROLEThe most significant point to emerge from the USI

Teach-in at U.C.G. last weekend was the proposal to setup a system of voluntary taxation to deal with the housingproblem in Dublin and elsewhere. Ciaran McKeown, thenewly-elected president, told students that if the Govern-ment had not got the nerve to pay for the removal of in-

then the Union of Students would do so in order to’buy, build or rent’ houses for the homeless.

After Howard Kinley’s statement at the Congress thatUSI was ’ quite definitely a political organisation,’ it seemsthat it is now also keen to assume the role of a PublicCharity; for that is what the scheme amounts to.

The housing problem in Ireland is of course, as every-body should by now kno% serious, and immediate action isrequired; but the long-term answer can, in fact, only befound by the Government. Certainly, until decisive actionis forthcoming, schemes on the basis of fund-raising like the’ Shelter’ group in Britain, are necessary. But is it the roleof USI to launch schemes of this nature ?

USI is an organisation for students, and as such itsprimary concern should be for students. It seems a littleridiculous that it should at this stage be involving itself inwhat is essentially the concern of the State.

Students in general, and USI in particular, shouldconcentrate on the reform of the University rather than onthe reform of society. It is the students of today who will bethe Government of tomorrow, and the possible reformers.At present the universities churn out stereotyped graduateswho.are tailored to the needs of existing society. In order toachieve a sound basis for future generations of students, thepresent university structure, which only serves to perpetuate¯the existing order, must be destroyed and a valid andmeaningful one be substituted in its place.

It is with university reform that USI should now beconcerning itself.

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