“The rules of the dating game are changing. For Trinity College students in Dublin nightclubs, it can help to have a flyer with advice on sexual consent close to hand. It spells out in an easy acronym: FRIES or ‘freely-given, retractable, informed, enthusiastic and specific’ …” (more)
[Carl O’Brien and Jenna Clarke-Molloy, Irish Times, 3 November]
“Campaigns like SHAG and SHIFT weeks aim to put the focus on the big issue of sexual consent at third level institutions. From ‘Cups of Tea’ and business cards carrying definitions of sexual consent to flash-mobs, sex magicians, posters and workshops, the message to third-level students across the country this autumn is simple: no means no …” (more)
[Áilín Quinlan, Irish Examiner, 9 September]
“Young people’s ambivalence towards what constitutes sexual consent when alcohol is involved is captured in new research which shows that while the majority of college students (86%) agree that alcohol impacts on the ability to give consent, more than a third (37%) feel that a woman can still give consent after drinking heavily …” (more)
[Catherine Shanahan, Irish Examiner, 7 July]
“Over 90% of sexually active third level students in Ireland have not had an STI test. This is despite almost a quarter of them admitting to having had more than five sexual partners each …” (more)
[Denise Calnan, Independent, 22 July]
“Survey in NUIG and UCC reveals different attitudes between genders to casual sex. More than one in 10 women students at universities in Cork and Galway believe they were sexually assaulted in the past year when drunk or drugged …” (more)
[Joe Humphreys, Irish Times, 4 June]
“One in four female students at Trinity College who responded to a students’ union survey has had a non-consensual sexual experience. The soon-to-be-released study, which surveyed 1,038 male and female students online …” (more)
[Catherine Healy, Trinity News, 20 January]
“As freshers arrive at Cambridge University next month, on their packed timetable of welcome meetings, matriculation photographs, punting trips and city tours there will be one extra date for their diaries …” (more)
[Sally Weale, Guardian, 19 September]
“UCC students are more likely to have taken illegal drugs, are less likely to be teetotallers, are more sexually active and are more financially independent than students of UCD or Trinity College …” (more)
[Eoin English, Irish Examiner, 8 July]
“With apologies for the salacious title of this post. When you and I were students, and when we were staying in some student residence or other, some of us if we’re old enough may have been subject …” (more)
[Ferdinand von Prondzynski, University Blog, 24 January]
“Facebook pages that encourage students to rate the performance of their sexual partners have provoked uproar on university campuses and may leave the social networking giant open to legal action …” (more)
[Oliver Duggan, Independent, 29 May]
“As a university lecturer, of course I know what students get up to when they’re not studying – not that I hear it from any of my own students. Of course they drink. Of course they have casual sex and regret it afterwards …” (more)
[Jenny Muir, East Belfast Diary, 7 October]
“It may be known as the dismal science, but it seems that economics has a rather racier side. Undergraduate economists were found to be the Casanovas of British students in a survey …” (more)
[Sam Marsden, Daily Telegraph, 26 September]
“Student Beans has published a British university sex league, which consists of the results of a survey of the number of sex partners since starting university. At the top is Bangor University with an average of 8.31, followed by Heriot-Watt and Plymouth. This is probably a result of savage cuts which have curtailed library hours and left students with nothing else to do …” (more)
[Richard Holmes, University Ranking Watch, 17 June]
“Almost three-quarters of Irish students surveyed have had sex without a condom, with 13% citing impairment due to alcohol as the reason for having done so, a survey has found. The survey, published today, was carried out by the Union of Students in Ireland …” (more)
[Pamela Duncan, Irish Times, 13 February]
“Madam, – As an Irish third-level student I take exception to M Clenaghan’s letter (February 15th) which suggests that the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) is acting inappropriately by providing free condoms to third-level students as part of its Sexual Health Awareness and Guidance campaign …” (more)
[Paul O’Dwyer, Irish Times, 22 February]
“Madam, – Some 45,000 third-level students are to be given a sexual health awareness pack from the Union of Students in Ireland (Home News, February 9th). I hope it will give a clear message explaining that intimate physical contact can be postponed while young people get to know each other and allow their friendships to grow slowly. Will the students learn from this pack that the only safe sex is faithful sex within a committed loving relationship? …” (more)
[M Clenaghan, Irish Times, 15 February]
“A sexual health awareness pack is to be distributed to third-level students throughout the State as part of a new safe-sex campaign by the Union of Students in Ireland. The packs, to be given to some 45,000 students across college campuses, will contain condoms and information on contraception …” (more)
[Pamela Newenham, Irish Times, 9 February]
“A sexual-health awareness pack is to be distributed to third-level students throughout the country as part of a new campaign being launched today by the Union of Students in Ireland (USI). The packs, which will be received by some 45,000 students across college campuses, will contain condoms and information on contraception …” (more)
[Pamela Newenham, Irish Times, 8 February]
“Last week I was walking across the DCU campus when I came upon a frantic young man in a car who, as he told me, had an urgent appointment in the university but couldn’t find anywhere to park. On this occasion I was able to help him, but these days we have constant car parking issues. In his book, The Uses of the University, Clark Kerr, the late chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley, suggested that a university president has three key tasks that the institution’s main stakeholders will expect to see achieved: ‘sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty’. Only the last of these, Kerr suggested, presented a problem …” (more)
[Ferdinand von Prondzynski, Irish Times, 6 October]
“I am a regular reader of A University Blog – I find it quite insightful and an enjoyable read. I have to say this latest post struck me as the most interesting in recent times. The post focuses on whether colleges should interfere in the lives of students especially when it comes to sexual matters – students will do what they do – regardless of what you tell them. But will they? In light of the recent stories about student prostitution – not less the one I wrote about in the Sunday Independent – I found it necessary to make a couple of observations and post a few questions of my own …” (more)
[Tallyman, 4 September]
