The University Times

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

“Call Mr Quinlivan a fucking tool”

10 Feb - In a recent argument with a ‘mate’ of mine, former UCD Ents Officer Stephen Quinlivan, who said that my degree in pharmacy was a joke and that all that it amounts to is sitting in a shop and reading the piece of paper that the doctor gave to the customer and getting it off the shelf and giving it to them.

In Style: Abbreviations and Symbols

25 Nov - What follows is an extract from the University Times Manual of Style, compiled by editor Robert Donohoe.

"Wait... I've to write this every three weeks?"

3 Nov - It is 00.14 and I am officially starting this fourteen minutes after my deadline...

In Style: Commas, Apostrophes & Semicolons

10 Mar - What follows is an extract from the University Times Manual of Style, compiled by editor Robert Donohoe.

“Before the finger is pointed – I was there”

25 Nov - Throughout the last few days I have listened to a huge array of opinions on Thierry Henry and ‘Le Main de Dieu,’ most of them from angry Irish fans or embarrassed French supporters.

"I'll tell you sonny, back in my day..."

21 Sep - I couldn't tell you exactly how the idea for this article started, suffice to say, copious amounts of whiskey and whatever else you can think of were involved.

“I like trying on ladies’ bras”

10 Mar - With all this shit going in the newspapers about head shops it’s very hard to get a proper understanding of why people are so opposed to the idea of a head shop.

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Latest Times Out

“I like trying on ladies’ bras”

In Style: Commas, Apostrophes & Semicolons

“Call Mr Quinlivan a fucking tool”

“Before the finger is pointed – I was there”

In Style: Abbreviations and Symbols

"Wait... I've to write this every three weeks?"

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

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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