New Junior Dean

gulf

Tim Trimble, BSc (Ulton.), PhD (Ulton.).

Takes over the reigns of discipline on 12th July.

just-joe

He has a phd in hotel management?! http://www.tripadvisor.ie/Hotel_Review-g187499-d238612-Reviews-Hotel_Ultonia-Girona_Catalonia.html

Is Emma Stokes leaving then or whats the story?

Jammyc

I can see the Goldfish getting as much fun out of this as they did with Stemma Mokes.

Denerick

Who cares?

Dublin4Life

Denerick wrote: »

Who cares?

I care man, and you should show some respect too:mad:

who do you think you are?, always leaving stupid comments then again you are a stupid person:rolleyes:

Denerick

Dublin4Life wrote: »

I care man, and you should show some respect too:mad:

who do you think you are?, always leaving stupid comments then again you are a stupid person:rolleyes:

I love you too.

El Siglo

Dublin4Life wrote: »

I care man, and you should show some respect too:mad:

who do you think you are?, always leaving stupid comments then again you are a stupid person:rolleyes:

Oh this doesn't end well.;)

Dublin4Life

El Siglo wrote: »

Oh this doesn't end well.;)

what does that mean PAL??:mad:

Denerick

Dublin4Life wrote: »

what does that mean PAL??:mad:

He means that if it ever comes to a troll-off, things will not end well for you... (LOL)

Dublin4Life

Denerick wrote: »

He means that if it ever comes to a troll-off, things will not end well for you... (LOL)

That sounds like fight talk too me, tell your little bang buddy to watch himself around boards.ie, I will be online watching his every move!!

Kwekubo

just-joe wrote: »

He has a phd in hotel management?! http://www.tripadvisor.ie/Hotel_Review-g187499-d238612-Reviews-Hotel_Ultonia-Girona_Catalonia.html

Ultonia is Latin for Ulster (as in University of Ulster). He's in the Department of Psychology.

Are the minions staying the same?

*waves*

Sir Ophiuchus

He taught the class in Criminal Behaviour this year. Maybe you can appeal to his knowledge that capital punishment and custodial sentences don't reform offenders to get out of expulsion/suspension for getting drunk, shashing windows in College and punching a Guard?

...probably not.

just-joe

Hmmm ahhh sure a change is always good. Especially if its a change from Emma Stokes. Not that I have any experience with her or anything.

El Siglo

Dublin4Life wrote: »

what does that mean PAL??:mad:

I ain't your pal, guy!;)

El Siglo

Kwekubo wrote: »

Ultonia is Latin for Ulster (as in University of Ulster). He's in the Department of Psychology.

So he went to the Polytech/Crayola Club then???:D

gulf

Hopefully he'll be more of a conservative RB McDowell/Sean Barrett type than a Tangney/Stokes liberal type. The college needs a bit of renewal and conservatism after what's gone on since the 60s. With a name like Trimble, I'd say he's exactly what's needed.

Denerick

gulf wrote: »

Hopefully he'll be more of a conservative RB McDowell/Sean Barrett type than a Tangney/Stokes liberal type. The college needs a bit of renewal and conservatism after what's gone on since the 60s. With a name like Trimble, I'd say he's exactly what's needed.

Yes I agree, lets bring back the pre 1793 consensus.

gulf

Denerick wrote: »

Yes I agree, lets bring back the pre 1793 consensus.

Was the College totally dependent on the whims of the populist government then? No - it was an independent body, mediocrity wasn't tolerated and intellectualism wasn't hampered by a bunch of politicians with socialist tendencies harping on about "equality".

Denerick

gulf wrote: »

Was the College totally dependent on the whims of the populist government then? No - it was an independent body, mediocrity wasn't tolerated and intellectualism wasn't hampered by a bunch of politicians with socialist tendencies harping on about "equality".

You're right boyo. The bleeding heart liberal government of WILLIAM PITT THE YOUNGER forced TCD to admit Catholics in 1793. The place has went downhill ever since.

A Neurotic

Denerick wrote: »

You're right boyo. The bleeding heart liberal government of WILLIAM PITT THE YOUNGER forced TCD to admit Catholics in 1793. The place has went downhill ever since.

*has gone.

How telling

Kwekubo

Honestly, it's like whack-a-mole.

Dublin4Life

El Siglo wrote: »

I ain't your pal, guy!;)

It takes the bigger man to walk way !!!

ApeXaviour

less of the inanity and back on topic please

El Siglo

Dublin4Life wrote: »

It takes the bigger man to walk way !!!

It takes an even bigger one to stand and bullshit...

Thread fail ftw!!!:D

ApeXaviour wrote:

less of the inanity and back on topic please

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjTii5yTHps

Sorry about the quality, youtube has gone to the dogs!

shay_562

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7GJcKuVGm8

gulf

Was there ever corporal punishment at Trinity?

robertdowling

gulf wrote: »

Hopefully he'll be more of a conservative RB McDowell/Sean Barrett type than a Tangney/Stokes liberal type. The college needs a bit of renewal and conservatism after what's gone on since the 60s. With a name like Trimble, I'd say he's exactly what's needed.

He is one of the coldest individuals you'll ever meet. He's Stokes x 10! Its not just the fact he's too miserable to pay for a flat himself or that he thinks he's gonna be a future Provost like Stokes deludes herself, he's one of these law and order Ulstermen. His style of tactic is to make out you are a criminal and not just some student who pissed off some lecturer so I'd be very wary of him. Why do you think he taught the criminology module in TCD this year. Imagine Stokes with brains and this is Trimble....not to be messed with. You'll be praying for Stokes to come back

gulf

robertdowling wrote: »

He is one of the coldest individuals you'll ever meet. He's Stokes x 10! Its not just the fact he's too miserable to pay for a flat himself or that he thinks he's gonna be a future Provost like Stokes deludes herself, he's one of these law and order Ulstermen. His style of tactic is to make out you are a criminal and not just some student who pissed off some lecturer so I'd be very wary of him. Why do you think he taught the criminology module in TCD this year. Imagine Stokes with brains and this is Trimble....not to be messed with. You'll be praying for Stokes to come back

Sounds exactly like what we need. A good clear-out of the mediocre middle class lounge-abouts that were given a golden pass to hang out in Willy Wonkas chocolate factory for four years courtesy of the Labour government. A sizeable percentage of the student population being sent down is, believe me, in everybody's interest.

The first thing I'd do would be to ban cans and plastic glasses from the Pav and make the consumption of alcohol a respectable pursuit. I'd also have the buildings office acquire a nice a sherry cabinet for my office in No. 9. Nothing like a good glass of sherry around 3 pm to warm your belly and put the mind at ease for a winters evening in the library. Also comes in handy when dealing with distraught students.

Denerick

gulf wrote: »

Sounds exactly like what we need. A good clear-out of the mediocre middle class lounge-abouts that were given a golden pass to hang out in Willy Wonkas chocolate factory for four years courtesy of the Labour government. A sizeable percentage of the student population being sent down is, believe me, in everybody's interest.

The first thing I'd do would be to ban cans and plastic glasses from the Pav and make the consumption of alcohol a respectable pursuit. I'd also have the buildings office acquire a nice a sherry cabinet for my office in No. 9. Nothing like a good glass of sherry around 3 pm to warm your belly and put the mind at ease for a winters evening in the library. Also comes in handy when dealing with distraught students.

David? David Thorne? Is that you?

dan719

robertdowling wrote: »

He is one of the coldest individuals you'll ever meet. He's Stokes x 10! Its not just the fact he's too miserable to pay for a flat himself or that he thinks he's gonna be a future Provost like Stokes deludes herself, he's one of these law and order Ulstermen. His style of tactic is to make out you are a criminal and not just some student who pissed off some lecturer so I'd be very wary of him. Why do you think he taught the criminology module in TCD this year. Imagine Stokes with brains and this is Trimble....not to be messed with. You'll be praying for Stokes to come back

It's not particularly easy to get called in front of the JD you know. As in, instead of one the assistants. Most antics in college are ignored completely by security.

robertdowling

dan719 wrote: »

It's not particularly easy to get called in front of the JD you know. As in, instead of one the assistants. Most antics in college are ignored completely by security.

Have a read of this...http://www.zoominfo.com/Search/ReferencesView.aspx?PersonID=931064004

Also the quote about being one of the coldest people came from a fellow member of staff not a student....!

jennedy

robertdowling wrote: »

He is one of the coldest individuals you'll ever meet. He's Stokes x 10! Its not just the fact he's too miserable to pay for a flat himself or that he thinks he's gonna be a future Provost like Stokes deludes herself, he's one of these law and order Ulstermen. His style of tactic is to make out you are a criminal and not just some student who pissed off some lecturer so I'd be very wary of him. Why do you think he taught the criminology module in TCD this year. Imagine Stokes with brains and this is Trimble....not to be messed with. You'll be praying for Stokes to come back

Stokes doesn't think she's going to be Provost, I also don't believe she even wants to. Junior dean is a crappy crappy job, it's very hard and there are absolutely no thanks involved. Would you ever want to be in charge of disciplining 10,000 plastered, drugged up, pissed off, sex crazed students?

I know a girl who had Stokes as a lecturere and project supervisor and from her description she sounds like a very reasonable woman in an impossible job. And I hardly think you can imply she is brainless, she does have a PhD, do you? I just think she gets a lot more flack than she deserves.

just-joe

dan719 wrote: »

Most antics in college are ignored completely by security.

Ha! Is it just me or is that completely untrue... Security take issue with absolutely anything and everything?!

dan719

just-joe wrote: »

Ha! Is it just me or is that completely untrue... Security take issue with absolutely anything and everything?!

Oh they'll take it up with you at the time alright, but rarely is anything ever followed up on. They tend to just tell you to get off campus ASAP.

Denerick

just-joe wrote: »

Ha! Is it just me or is that completely untrue... Security take issue with absolutely anything and everything?!

90% of the time they're dealing with obnoxious students completely lacking in self awareness and a distinctly middle class entitlement complex. The other 10% of the time they're powertripping Dubs taking out their inate angst against snotty middle class college students.

gulf

Denerick wrote: »

90% of the time they're dealing with obnoxious students completely lacking in self awareness and a distinctly middle class entitlement complex. The other 10% of the time they're powertripping Dubs taking out their inate angst against snotty middle class college students.

Lol. The college porters are on better pay, pension and terms and conditions than most post-docs.

You're right though, they see how the middle classes behave. Doubt it bothers them much and they just snigger to themselves at the hilarity of some gimp from Lucan crapping himself at the prospects of being rusticated by the JD. I'd say they have good banter in the front gate lodge. Saw the lads over at Lincoln gate watching the England match on the telly. Any time I've ever spoken to them, they're always very professional. They have the power to bend the rules for you and they will if you have gone to the effort of developing a reciprocal relationship.

Time Magazine

gulf wrote: »

some gimp from Lucan crapping himself at the prospects of being rusticated by the JD

The only gimp from Lucan I know on-campus is on very good terms with security. Ain't that right, gimpy? :pac:

El Siglo

To be honest, the staff in College with the exception of a few cretins in the records office* and the library** are pretty sound. Especially security, you'd have to do something really bad to piss them off and they're generally quite friendly. Not like the SS they have over in Belfield...:rolleyes:













*Slow, inefficient, treat you with discontent, generally people who've worked in that office for too long and are now biding their time to collect their big fat pensions.;)

**I'm annoyed by the fact that when you go to collect a reserved book, you have to write the call number out regardless, they wont even click the screen to check for you. I take exception to this really, especially when it's a long bloody queue.

just-joe

El Siglo wrote: »

Especially security, you'd have to do something really bad to piss them off and they're generally quite friendly.

Something really bad? Try these:

Sitting on a bench quietly playing guitar, harming no one. They tell me to move on and start mouthing off, radio-ing people etc until I move.

A friend of mine was standing in the middle of the road leading up to the sports centre, a van rushes up, and pushes past our group. No beeping of the horn or a siren or any indication of a rush. He moved out of the way when he realised they wanted to go by. One of them comes back down and starts to swear and shout at my friend for being in the way, "taking his name for the junior dean" and being in general very unfriendly. For standing in the middle of the road? Ridiculous.

Myself and a friend, on the way out, walk in to the security desk at front arch to sign people in. Chattin away but not drunk or loud. Mate has a bottle of wine, completely full, still corked and in a plastic bag.
Security guard: "Oy, what do you think you're doing with that in here?!"
Mate: "With what in here?"
Security Guard: "With that! In my office! You wouldn't walk into anyone else's office with that, would ya? Wouldn't walk into the junior dean's office would ya, eh!? Now put that outside and come back in with some respect."

Inside his office? Completely unprovoked and over the top, and being generally not nice.

These are some of the reasons why I really dislike the security in Trinity.

Denerick

just-joe wrote: »

These are some of the reasons why I really dislike the security in Trinity.

Have you ever considered the possibility that the security in Trinity just don't like you?

El Siglo

just-joe wrote: »

Something really bad? Try these:

Sitting on a bench quietly playing guitar, harming no one. They tell me to move on and start mouthing off, radio-ing people etc until I move.

A friend of mine was standing in the middle of the road leading up to the sports centre, a van rushes up, and pushes past our group. No beeping of the horn or a siren or any indication of a rush. He moved out of the way when he realised they wanted to go by. One of them comes back down and starts to swear and shout at my friend for being in the way, "taking his name for the junior dean" and being in general very unfriendly. For standing in the middle of the road? Ridiculous.

Myself and a friend, on the way out, walk in to the security desk at front arch to sign people in. Chattin away but not drunk or loud. Mate has a bottle of wine, completely full, still corked and in a plastic bag.
Security guard: "Oy, what do you think you're doing with that in here?!"
Mate: "With what in here?"
Security Guard: "With that! In my office! You wouldn't walk into anyone else's office with that, would ya? Wouldn't walk into the junior dean's office would ya, eh!? Now put that outside and come back in with some respect."

Inside his office? Completely unprovoked and over the top, and being generally not nice.

These are some of the reasons why I really dislike the security in Trinity.

Well, here's how I would defend the security regarding your assertions...:pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhvAs5GsMPw

just-joe

Denerick wrote: »

Have you ever considered the possibility that the security in Trinity just don't like you?

Erm, yeah.. and then I ask myself, why do they not like me when they have never met me and don't know me in any way?

ApeXaviour

Time Magazine wrote: »

The only gimp from Lucan I know on-campus is on very good terms with security. Ain't that right, gimpy? :pac:

Thanks for that... I can't even fault your accuracy in the name calling, since I'm currently in a sling.

Security are usually quite affable once you show them a modicum of respect. In saying that I've still been referred onto JD assistants three times, and in one case fined (quite unfairly I might add).


The assistants and Junior Dean take it in rotation I believe, i.e. it depends what night you were referred on by security as to who you end up seeing. Or so I was led to believe chatting to Ms. Stokes one evening.

ISAW

just-joe wrote: »

Something really bad? Try these:


A friend of mine was standing in the middle of the road leading up to the sports centre, a van rushes up, and pushes past our group. No beeping of the horn or a siren or any indication of a rush. He moved out of the way when he realised they wanted to go by. One of them comes back down and starts to swear and shout at my friend for being in the way, "taking his name for the junior dean" and being in general very unfriendly. For standing in the middle of the road? Ridiculous.

I would draw your attention to the college rule that pedestrians have right of way in all areas of college. Unless it was an absolute emergency or your friend was deliberately obstructing their behaviour was out of line. On the other hand i would not encourage anyone to behave like an ass even if it is withing the rules.

ISAW

just-joe wrote: »

Erm, yeah.. and then I ask myself, why do they not like me when they have never met me and don't know me in any way?

Many people elected or appointed to offices in Trinity say the same.

rjt

ISAW wrote: »

I would draw your attention to the college rule that pedestrians have right of way in all areas of college. Unless it was an absolute emergency or your friend was deliberately obstructing their behaviour was out of line. On the other hand i would not encourage anyone to behave like an ass even if it is withing the rules.

Not saying this in defence of the security guards in question, more as an explanation - that's an emergency entrance/exit for ambulances and fire engines. I was helping a friend of mine move out of goldsmith a few months ago, and his mam parked there (and was told by security that she could). I had brought some stuff down and was waiting for her to open the car, and a security guy came over and started giving out to me for parking there. He explained that it was an emergency exit etc.

just-joe

To explain, it turned out a girl had fainted in the sports hall. My mate wasn't trying to obrstruct them, just happened to be standing in the middle of the road, as were a few more of us but they kinda singled him out.

So they rushed up to the sports centre door and ended up just gettin in the way for when the ambulance came, going back down to where the lloyd is. The girl didn't even use the ambulance as far as I know, and they still had to come back down and give out. Oh well, gone from Trinity now so this is the last I'll have to suffer of them.

not even wrong

Garda impersonator convicted on firearms, child porn charges

...
He explained that he wanted people to think better of him and thought they would look up to him more as a garda than in his real job at the time as security man on Trinity College campus.
...

Larianne

not even wrong wrote: »

Garda impersonator convicted on firearms, child porn charges

:eek:

El Siglo

not even wrong wrote: »

Garda impersonator convicted on firearms, child porn charges

That's messed up, especially the child porn bit.

However, as Walter's go, he isn't a patch on this pathetic fool... The awards he gives himself are hilarious!:D