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Analysis: who’s right about the status of the GSU Board?

The union’s leadership disagrees with its oversight body about who is allowed to conduct oversight on it

The Board of the Graduate Students’ Union (GSU) and the union’s leadership have presented competing views on the legitimacy of that board. In essence, the GSU Executive claims that the board’s term in office expired in July and that a …

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How can you not be romantic about baseball?

I never thought I’d become a sports fan. But in baseball, as in life, everything can change in a single moment

In school, I didn’t enjoy PE class. I was a weedy, asthmatic, bookish kid lacking the stamina and co-ordination that those two hours a week demanded of me. The problem only got worse once I reached second level, when I

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Science lectures may continue online after Reading Week due to admin issues

Students in a second year Biology lecture were told last week that “it’s just not feasible to start making a second timetable for all of the sciences”

Some science lectures may continue online after Reading Week due to admin issues.

Students in a second-year biology class last week were told that they, and potentially all science students, will not see an increase in in-person classes after reading …

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Campaign groups plan protest against College’s handling of reopening

The organisers describe the demonstration as “against Trinity management’s incompetence and miscommunication”

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Several student organisations are planning a protest next Wednesday, September 22 to demand more face-to-face teaching in Trinity this semester and refunds for students whose teaching is partially or mostly online.

Trinity College Dublin Campaign for F2F Teaching (TCD F2F) …

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TCDSU reaffirms commitment to stand for “all students” amid GSU constitutional crisis

Chair of the GSU Board Dr John Walsh has described the situation as “farcical” after GSU President Gisele Scanlon ordered the board to resign last night

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Trinity College Dublin Students Union (TCDSU) has reaffirmed its commitment to stand for all students. 

This comes amid an ongoing constitutional crisis within the Graduates Students Union (GSU). 

Speaking to Trinity News, TCDSU Education Officer Bev Genockey said that the

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Many schools unable to comply with College’s promised level of in-person teaching

Room allocation issues have prevented classes with fewer than 50 people from being held on-campus

Many students in Trinity are to have less in-person teaching this semester than College had previously said would take place.

In mid-August, Trinity announced a policy of capping the size of in-person classes at 150 students, leaving individual schools to …

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TCDSU organises full programme of events for campus reopening while societies struggle with uncertainty

Several society committees said that communication from College and the CSC had made planning for the term difficult

College societies have faced uncertainty regarding their ability to hold on-campus events, despite Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union (TCDSU) organising numerous Senior Freshers’ Week activities in Trinity.

As part of Trinity’s two-phase return to campus announced on August 27, College …