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Trinity students join 10,000 protesters at Schools Strike for Climate Change

Posted in Governance and administration on March 16th, 2019 by steve

“Trinity students are among an estimated 10,000 people to march to Dáil Éireann to strike for climate action this afternoon. The students joined a Union of Students in Ireland (USI) – led student bloc under the Schools Strike for Climate Change …” (more)

[Peter Kelly, Trinity News, 15 March]

Tags: protest, TCD, USI

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Knights of the Campanile Implicated in On-Campus Hazing Evening

Posted in Governance and administration on March 16th, 2019 by steve

“On Wednesday, February 27th, reporters from The University Times witnessed an initiation ceremony for members of the Knights of the Campanile – the elite, invite-only Trinity sporting society. The Knights of the Campanile, established in 1926 – ostensibly to ‘further the sporting activities’ of the College – is an all-male society with over 1,200 members …” (more)

[Edmund Heaphy, Eleanor O’Mahony and Donal MacNamee, University Times, 15 March]

Tags: hazing, TCD

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