The Saturday February 8 election is an unusual historic opportunity for students, with the most recent Sunday Times Red C poll suggesting the possibility of a lead for a party other than Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil for the first …
Proceduralism is killing TCDSU
SU Council should not be a space where campaigns are put on trial by a suspicious and disbelieving jury
Procedure takes priority in TCDSU. Every motion given a hearing must be proposed and seconded by two class reps, or other Council members. Alternatively, ten “ordinary” students can propose a motion. It is not clear why this is a requirement, …
Focusing on rankings will only accelerate Trinity’s decline
Trinity’s preoccupation with rankings and prestige is to the detriment of its students and staff
The average Trinity student will work a part time job during the college year and, when hitting a bout of bad mental health, might run into lengthy waiting periods to see a counsellor or psychiatrist with College mental health services. …
A recent history of race science
Race science is more a construct of the social and political environment than of science
The idea of dividing humans into categories of superiority is not new. In Ancient Greece, Plato believed human reproduction should be monitored and controlled by the state. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, eugenics, the science of improving humans …