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Nikolai Trigoub-Rotnem celebrating after being declared president-elect in the SU elections Photo: David O'Dwyer

Fellows reject plan to increase student vote in provostial election

10 Mar - The fellows of the College have rejected a proposal put to it by the Board that would give the students a four per cent vote in the provostial elections next year.

NUI, Maynooth back in the USI

10 Mar - The National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM) Students’ Union, has rejoined the Union of Students in Ireland (USI). The organization is the sole national representative body for almost 300,000 students in Ireland. It campaigns for the rights of students, on a range of student concerns including grants, and the abolition of third level fees.

Controversial Islamic cleric speaks at Phil paper reading

10 Mar - Islamic cleric Anjem Choudary spoke to the University Philosophical Society (Phil) on February 18. Choudary was invited by the Phil to speak at paper reading and discussion.

Trinity SU delegates mandated to vote for reforms to the USI

10 Mar - Trinity College Students’ Union will be voting to remove a number of full-time officer positions from the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) officer board. The SU Council voted on February 23 to mandate the delegation going to the yearly USI Congress to vote in favour of various motions to remove a number of full-time and replace them with part-time officers.

Third-level grade inflation under investagition by Dept of Education

10 Mar - Minister for Education Batt O’Keefe is in the process of carrying out an investigation into the perceived ‘grade inflation’ that is occurring at Third Level Institutions.

Winners announced in 2010 students’ union elections

10 Mar - The results for the sabbatical team of 2010/2011 were announced on the February 18. The count was held in the Mont Clare Hotel on Merrion Square.

College working party looking at the student service charge

10 Mar - A working party of College Board has prepared a proposal that would change the way the student service charge is defined and applied in Trinity College.

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Latest News

16:10, 11th March

VDP win society of the year

Fellows reject plan to increase student vote in provostial election

College working party looking at the student service charge

Trinity SU delegates mandated to vote for reforms to the USI

Third-level grade inflation under investagition by Dept of Education

NUI, Maynooth back in the USI

Winners announced in 2010 students’ union elections

Controversial Islamic cleric speaks at Phil paper reading

College begins clamping vehicles

Accommodation office charges €11,276 for cleanup of rooms

College sells Garda Station premises to the State

Societies create The Lil’ Book of Shame for Haiti relief fund

Features

You sha’n’t go to the Ball

10 Mar - Steven Moloney discusses the pressures brought on by Trinity’s “Ball Season” and explains why he can’t attend all the balls he would like.

France’s affair with the veil

Why Howard Zinn would have been reading The University Times

Here comes the sun

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Sport

Disappointment in Donnybrook

10 Mar - The eerie mist that descended over Donnybrook Stadium at the final whistle seemed to reflect the mood of a disconsolate Trinity side after having been soundly beaten in the 58th Colours Match.

Balls and the early life of Buster Keaton

Trinity lose to UCD in Gannon Cup boat race on the Liffey

Croquet in the park

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Arts & Culture

Havin’ such a good time, havin’ a Ball?

10 Mar - Conor Sneyd investigates public reactions to this year’s Trinity Ball.

Have Hollywood girls gone to pot?

Fashion Victim: or is that cliché?

The princes and princesses of the Palace

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View the Paper as Printed

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 - Volume 1, Issue 7

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Opinion

Too easy to blame "dumbing-down" for grade inflation

10 Mar - The recent debate around grade inflation in the second and tertiary levels is a complex issue that can be all too easily blamed on the “dumbing-down” of curricula.

What a nice bunch of fellows

No country for old men

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Multimedia

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

Students stage library sit-in

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