Trinity College is in the process of approving Former Minister Education Ruairi Quinn teaching position
Edited By Robert McAney The three monkeys has learned that former Education Minister and Labour Leader party leader Ruairi Quinn is to teach an elective module as part of two postgraduate courses offered by the School of Business, Former minister Ruairi Quinn has confirmed that he was approached by Brian Lucey, a professor in finance, with a view to heading a week-long intensive course that would focus on the formation of the single European currency. Students of
the Masters in Finance and Masters in International Management will have the option to take the course as part of their electives.. Mr Brian Lucey is quoted as saying in an interview with Trinity News “nothing is yet approved by College” and clarifying with “I can’t see any major issue.” Referring to the appoint of Former minister Quinn, who recently resigned from his role in cabinet as minister for education amid much opposition from teaching unions to proposed reforms to the Junior Certificate, was previously minister for finance during the period when the single European currency was being devised and served as president of the EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council. When asked Mr Brian Lucey what had attracted him to Minister Quinn, Mr Lucey responded, “Who wouldn’t want that experience involved in their school?” when asked about financial package awarded to Former minister Quinn Mr Lucy would not be drawn on financial consideration of former minister Mr Quinn’s financial Package. Former Minister Quinn is quoted in Trinity News that he is “looking forward to returning to academia” as he previously was lecturing part-time in architecture, which he is quoted as he found it “very rewarding and stimulating.” Full article can be read in the Trinity News
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This Is An Open Letter From An HIV-Positive 22-Year-Old Woman
This Is An Open Letter From An HIV-Positive 22-Year-Old
“Here’s how I learned at age 20 that I was HIV positive.” Your 20s is a time for staying out late, waking up early, working hard but living carefree. Lucie’s life isn’t like that. Not anymore, at least. Today, Lucie is just 22 years old. Back in 2012, while running routine blood tests for an operation, Lucie found out she was HIV-positive. And then everything changed. This is Lucie’s open letter to every each of us who thinks we’re untouchable. It was originally published by Lucie on Konbini. On June 28th, 2012, I sat on the seat that faced the gynaecologist in his office and he told me that my results from blood tests, found by an anaesthetist during an operation, came back positive for HIV. At the time, I immediately thought “my life will change,” then I asked myself “why me?”. I remember looking at the picture hanging on the wall to the right, I think there was a car in it. I don’t remember because a tear blurred my vision.
I remember that tear was the only one. A tear of shock, alone down my cheek. The doctor told me he was going to make an appointment with the Department of Infectious Diseases of the University Hospital and I had to redo a blood test in the afternoon to get more information about my condition . He asked me if I had any questions. I asked him if I was OK and where the virus was. I was told I was well and that I should not worry. I would be given the date of the next appointment later in the afternoon. Here’s how I learned at age 20 that I was HIV positive.
“After all, the guy was clean” On the first visit to the hospital, I was asked tons of questions to try to determine the origin of my contamination. “Have you been to Africa lately?”, “Did you go to the United Kingdom between such and such a date?”, “Have you ever practiced anal sex?”, “Have you ever used drugs by injection?” etc. I had had unprotected sex a few months before the report and I had an idea of what the origin of my contamination might be, even though I did not really understand. After all, this guy was clean, he
had not been with a lot of partners. The second suspect, I had given him a blowjob but surely that can’t be enough, though?” The virus is present in pre-seminal liquid” the nurse tells me. Ah. I was informed on the subject, and the basics, but like everyone else, I hadn’t known that. Before starting HAART (highly active antiretroviral therapy), it was all a bit abstract. I felt good, I was healthy, admittedly a bit depressed (but this is my normal state) and not sick. However, a few weeks after the announcement, I experienced an anxiety attack for the first time in my life. I remember it perfectly, I started to suffocate in a Monoprix shopping centre. I had a stomach ache. I got hot. I wanted out. On the way back to my apartment I felt that I was going to faint, but I wanted to head home as fast as possible. Just a second after closing the door of my apartment behind me, I collapsed in tears, sobs choked me, filled with the urge to vomit. It lasted a few long minutes. I had never experienced that. During the summer of 2012 I had several. Sometimes, I had the absurd impression that an insect, or a small alien, was walking through my veins, I wanted to rip my skin off. An indescribable feeling.
Three pills to be taken
every 24 hours It is mid-August 2012 when I start the treatment. Three pills to be taken every 24 hours. It became very real once I started. I am HIV positive. I will take a combination of therapies. Every day. For the rest of my life. I have not had a lot of side effects. In the corner of my eye, sleep is yellow. “The whites of your eyes may turn yellow a bit but it’s temporary.” Two and half years later nothing has changed. Several people thought I had something wrong with my liver. We wonder sometimes why my eyes are like that. I think it is a side effect of a medication that I take. No one ever asked me for my opinion though. Most times it is not noticed, it depends on the day, and the distance. It’s been a few months and the doctor who is treating me wants to change my course of medication, because of the side effects, but also because he is afraid of the potential impact on the long-term Truvada on my back. From my last exams, all my organs are working perfectly but Truvada is quite aggressive. Because of my young age, my doctor would rather change the drug and offer me a new prescription. It takes time because my virus has already mutated, it is resistant to a certain molecule that prevents me from taking certain antiretrovirals.
This is one of the first things he told me: there is no single strain of HIV. Without going into details, the virus may develop resistance to antiretroviral drugs and mutate. Contrary to what I thought, somewhat naively perhaps, I can’t have sex with another HIV-positive person unprotected because I would take the risk of being infected by the virus again, which may well have mutations other than mine. This undoubtedly complicates my treatment options. I kept an alarm on my phone for about five or six months. At 19:30, I would have to take my medicine. This is not so different from girls who take the pill. At first I often wanted to throw my phone out the window when it began to ring. After a while I could work out that it was going to ring a minute or two in advance and I would remove the alarm. I forgot to take one once.
Diverse Responses Soon after the announcement, even before starting the course, I’d told my closest friends. My mother was informed a few days later. She’d come to fetch me by car at the train station. I told her as we passed a roundabout; before the bridge. She asked me if I was okay. How I had caught it. What would happen. I explained. When we arrived home I think we stopped talking about it. It was a neutral reaction, without
judgment or fear-mongering, I understood later. Over the Christmas holidays. I told two of my sisters. It was in the room with my grandmother late one evening. My mother was in the room. I took out my three boxes of medicines. “What is it?” asked my older sister. I hesitated a little. “It’s a triple therapy. For HIV”. I looked at my mother. She left the room and closed the door. “What?”. I said to them, they both cried, too suddenly, they told me I was too stupid, I should have listened, I knew there were risks. I said, “I know.” My mother came back in and said it was one of the hazards of life. There are young people who die on the road while returning DVDs, or who are left disabled for life, others who have cancer, others who commit suicide, there are lots of children who are affected by diseases and never see their 20 years. There are all kinds of things that can fall on your face at any moment, anywhere in life. “Shit happens,” as they say. I was HIV positive at age 20 and I could do something about it. My father didn’t know, neither did my eldest sister. I don’t know when or how I gathered the courage to tell them. My father found himself by nosing through a pillbox one day he found lying in my room. We see the pills through the plastic. I don’t know
if he didn’t see because he wasn’t paying attention, or didn’t want to know what it was but he didn’t ask me anything.
A new sex report The announcement hit me hardest in November of 2012. It had been a few weeks since I had seen a boy. I was single for a long time and it was perfect for me but I liked… I liked it, I felt good when I was with him. We watched a movie at home one evening and at the end we started kissing. “Wait. I’ve got something to tell you. Before we go any further.” But it wouldn’t come out. Instead, it lasted a few minutes I think. “But tell me.” “I’m positive.” I burst into tears, he just hugged me. I think I cried a good five minutes before we started talking about it, then I explained my situation. He asked me to give him a few days to think about it. Raw anguish. It turns out that by now I am always with this same boy, but sometimes I think I would be better
off celibate, how does it go with the guys? As a couple, especially at first, the virus was like a third partner. We spoke freely, which of course was a big plus for me as well as for him. That didn’t stop him from not sleeping for days, afraid to take the test, he had not wanted me for days because of a ras-le-bol, almost disgust, the hood. The hood … We must see it as a teaser. You know when someone pulls out a condom something rather nice will happen.
“I’m not complaining” In the medical field, I have also been fortunate to have been no rejection or judgment. What I’m going to say might sound naive, I know this is a superficial analysis based solely on my subjective experience. I always had the impression that the people would feel pity and see me as a victim, a poor girl who has not had any luck, and I think it’s because I’m a girl, white, in her twenties. It’s very ironic but I sometimes wish people would imagine that it was my fault.
“I took the risk of exposing myself to HIV and other STIs” I have not had any luck. I did not have bad luck. I had unprotected sex with boys who said they were clean and I
believed them at their word. I took the risk of exposing myself to HIV and others to STIs. What is ironic is that I also never let anyone tell me that it was my fault. My sisters, my mother and I are allowed to say “it’s your fault.” No one has the authority or right to judge me. Either as a victim or as the responsible party. I am HIV positive. Period. I had a rather unpleasant experience at the pharmacy. It was not my usual pharmacist but a young woman, not much older than me, on an internship. I gave the order. “All right, you OK? – Yes, okay, so the treatment works okay. – “Because it is not easy, eh? Especially when you’re young I think we not realise…” She had the tone of someone who works with children, honeyed compassion, dripping. I remember that upon leaving the pharmacy I’d called my boyfriend to bitch about this intrusion into my private life. “But it left a good feeling.” I know that. This compassionate reaction bothers me because, I think, I’m not complaining.
The ignorance surrounding the virus Since then, my opinion has changed on everything related to HIV / AIDS. I am currently very aware of what is happening in this area of medicine. I noticed for example that many young people (roughly between 12 and
30 years) know very little or even completely ignore the difference between HIV status, HIV and AIDS. Little reminder so without going into scientific details. HIV, human immunodeficiency virus, attacks the immune system “colonizing” lymphocytes. A person carrying the virus is HIV-positive. When the virus was too attacked the immune defenses of a human being, talking about AIDS, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. The body can not defend itself against attacks from germs, bacteria and other viruses and so called “opportunistic” diseases can quietly install their offices until death. Antiretrovirals muzzle the virus, they prevent it from destroying the entire immune system. When a person arrives at the AIDS stage, there are also treatments to help the body defend itself. The Institut Pasteur explains better than me. I am HIV positive, but I do not have, and never have had AIDS. My therapy prevents the virus from doing what it is supposed to do, but it can’t return my body.
When ignorance becomes carefree Through social networks and those around me, I tried to do prevention at
my humble level, and I am desperate to see that it doesn’t affect anyone else I know. I was like “if my friends are experiencing my life maybe they will be more careful.” The day after a party, a friend told me she has with a guy. I asked him if they are protected. “No, we did not have a condom.” A close gay friend of mine is still having regular unprotected sex, he has known me from the beginning. One day we were discussing it in the street he said he’ll need go for the test soon because he’s taken risks. “Well, anyway if I catch it, it’s okay, you seem well. – Uh, yes, finally avoided anyway, it’s not joy all the time and it would surely be more complicated for you”. I know he said that with a touch of humour, but it hurt my stomach to hear that. Does the fact that I live with my virus increase my desire to protect those who don’t? It’s a depressing prospect.
“After the announcement, I did not want to trust anyone. I decided to be wary of everyone. All the time” This is an illustration of the knowledge shown by the new generation. A knowledge that I lived and that I must face the consequences. I was also one of the people who thought it will
never happen to them. After all, I’m French, heterosexual, I am 20 years old, AIDS, it doesn’t concern me. It doesn’t exist in 20 year old girls with HIV. If a guy tells me he’s clean, he had only two or three partners, why should I be wary? After the announcement, I did not want to trust anyone. I decided to be wary of everyone. All the time. That’s why we ask you to do this test regularly and know your status. Because when you say “I am clean” as your last test a few years ago and have had other partners, you may be lying. Without knowing. But you’re lying. And the virus in your veins laughs because he knows that you are not clean. Getting tested is scary, you’re afraid of the result and that’s normal. But isn’t it even more scary to tell you that you will potentially contaminate someone because you’re not sure that you’re HIV negative? With each new sexual partner, the condom is necessary. As stated in an excellent Aids campaign is saw previously, “no condom, no sex.” And that’s how it should stay, until you and your / your partner (s) have done a test.
The selfishness of risk taking I feel guilty sometimes. With myself at
first, for having preferred the pleasure of a moment over my long-term health, but also to the thousands of activists who have fought the last 30 years and all the activists who are still fighting so that AIDS epidemic can stabilise, then end. When I saw the superb documentary How to Survive a Plague by David France (2012), I felt bad. The Act-Up activists in the US have spent all their energy, rare energy, so that people with HIV have access to treatment, so that there is less discrimination, for the generations that will come after unfamiliar with this virus. My carelessness, my lack of caution, and finally my contamination are an insult to their struggle, lack of posthumous respect. I would like to apologise for past and present activists because by not fighting the epidemic at my level, I flout years of struggle and suffering. As if all they had done and are still was useless. I feel guilty and also indebted to the French State, because my medical care and my drugs are fully reimbursed by social security. I never had to worry about that. I sometimes say that France literally saved my life, I’m barely exaggerating. My therapy costs more than 1000 euros per month. The state pays for an error of judgment in my youth in a way. Through prevention campaigns
government health services are trying to make sure we do not get there. When I took the risk of exposing myself to HIV, it was as if I had said a big “fuck” to thousands of activists in all HIV-positive in the world, living and dead, and in my country trying somehow to sensitise youth to the epidemic. It’s very selfish. It’s disgusting. I could write about it for another pages and pages but the key is said. Hoping that my experience, I would have had to share a long time, serve a purpose. This is an experience of HIV among millions on the planet, personal and subjective. I am sure that many HIV-positive people have things to say about what I’ve written. We do not all live in the same way. For a long time I wanted to speak openly on Twitter for example, but I was afraid. I wasn’t practising self-inflicting discrimination whilst thinking that being positive was neither shameful nor serious. It was silly. I don’t know what’s made me decide to do this. I think that there is an urgent need for young people of my age to take a slap in face and wake up. This post is my slap.
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One in four female College students has had a non-consensual sexual experience One in four female College students has had a non-consensual sexual experience One in four female College students who responded to a students’ union survey has had a non-consensual sexual experience. The soon-tobe-released study, which surveyed 1,038 male and female students online between December 8th and 13th, found that 25% of women and 5% of men have been subjected to an unwanted sexual experience Just under a third (31%) of women who took part in the survey said they have experienced unwanted physical contact while studying at Trinity or in a Trinity social setting, compared with 8% for men. One in 13 respondents – 8% of women and 7% of men – reported having been stalked or subject to obsessive behaviour. 42% of female students and 8% of male students said that they had experienced verbal harassment, while one in 20 respondents said they have been physically mistreated by a partner. The study also reveals a worrying lack of awareness about sexual consent campaigns, with only 31% of women and 32% of men saying they had heard of any consent campaigns before. In a statement to Trinity News, Ian Mooney, SU welfare officer Trinity College, said the figures point to the need for student education on the issue of sexual consent. “Although phrases such as ‘non-consensual sexual experience’ may be somewhat ambiguous in meaning, the fact that such a large number of people feel that they have had one speaks volumes on an issue that’s not commonly discussed,” he said. Ellen O’Malley-Dunlop, CEO of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre, today told Trinity News that said she was shocked by the figures. “They certainly seem to mirror what is happening in American universities,” she said. Mandatory consent workshops Trinity News understands that Mooney is now seeking to introduce mandatory sexual consent workshops for students. In an agenda sent around to class representatives on Sunday ahead of tonight’s SU council meeting, he reports having consulted Oxford and Cambridge representatives about their own compulsory workshops. “They’ve told me what’s been good and what’s been bad, the troubles they faced,” he says. “The ultimate goal here for the year would be to introduce something similar for Trinity and hopefully avoid the troubles that they faced.” Mooney is also meeting officials from the Free
Legal Advice Centre (FLAC) and the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre to discuss the study’s findings and the possibility of collaborating on a sexual assault booklet or campaign. First comprehensive Trinity study His survey is the first ever comprehensive study of students’ experiences of sexual assault and harassment in Trinity College. It follows a landmark study, “Say Something”, published by the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) in September 2013, which found that 16% of students – and one in five women – in Irish thirdlevel institutions have experienced some form of unwanted sexual experience, with only 3% of victims having reported it to gardaí. Most perpetrators of sexual assault were acquaintances of the victim. The USI survey, which polled 2,750 third-level students, also found that one in 10 female respondents and 5% of male respondents said they had been the victim of obsessive behaviour. USI president, Laura Harmon, who was USI vicepresident for equality and citizenship at the time of the release of its “Say Something” survey, last night told Trinity News that the Trinity figures were “broadly in line” with its own findings. She is said there is a need for Irish universities to improve its protocols when it comes to dealing with sexual assault. “There is no standardised policy for higher-education institutions,” she said. “There should be standard procedures for when students report incidents to staff.” Harmon added that it is an issue she is currently working with minister for education Jan O’Sullivan on. If you have been affected by any of the issues raised in this article, you can get in contact with Ian Mooney (welfare@tcdsu.org), the Trinity student counselling service (01 8961407) or the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre’s 24-hour helpline (1800 778 888). Update, 16:05, 20/01: In a statement, College said it is “committed to the implementation of its policy of Dignity and Respect and in providing an environment where every student and member of staff is treated with dignity and respect.” It said it is “taking the findings of this survey very seriously and will work with the Students’ Union in addressing the problem which unfortunately it would seem is an issue across Irish campuses as the USI survey shows. Specifically in relation to any student who has been the victim of a sexual assault or rape, it is College policy to encourage them to immediately report
such incidents to the Gardaí for investigation and it fully cooperates with the Gardaí when they are investigating any such incidents.” Source Trinity News By Catherine Healy
Remarks of President Laura Harmon Gresham Metropole Hotel, Cork City, February 5th, 2015
Hi everyone, It’s wonderful to be here with you all this evening in the real capital. Thanks to Fine Gael LGBT and particularly to Deputy Jerry Buttimer for the invite. It’s also an honour to be in the company of such an accomplished panel and the Minister for Justice and Equality. As a proud Cork woman myself, I’ll be casting my Yes vote in Cork North West, in Baile Bhúirne. It might sound biased but it’s true that I’ve always found Cork people to have a great sense of fairness and fair play about them and it’s no wonder that there is a huge hub of activism and culture here in Cork and the city itself when it comes to LGBT rights. It also happens to be home to Ireland’s oldest gay bar of course – Loafers. It was as a student in UCC when I first came out as gay and the support network in Cork city is absolutely fantastic – with the many support and community organisations and a growing list of cultural events. From the Women’s Fun Weekend every May bank holiday where hundreds of LGBT women come to Cork, to the Cork Pride festival itself which has grown very year since it started. It’s fantastic to see tonight so well attended – if we went back 10 or 5 years ago things might have been different but we’ve come a long way in a short space of time – is clear that the time is ripe for this referendum. A lot of this is done to visibility and the positive impact of LGBT organisations but also the courage of people like Jerry Buttimer, like Dónal Og Cusack and like Valerie Mulcahy for coming out and telling their stories. We have LGBT people in all walks of life – our Minister for Health is an openly gay man; the Rose of Tralee (an icon in our culture) is herself an openly gay woman. An older family member turned to me recently and said ‘Laura – there seems to be a way more gay people these days then when I was growing up’ – And of course that’s not the case, is just that LGBT people are more comfortable in coming out because society is more accepting now.
But that’s not to say it’s easy now. It’s still very difficulty for many people to come out and I’m sure there were people who may have seen this event advertised and wanted to attend but were afraid or worried because they weren’t out so couldn’t join us. And that’s part of what voting Yes in this referendum will mean – a yes vote is a vote for equal marriage rights for all people but it also symbolises a view for those marginalised in our society – and we cannot underestimate the positive, validating message that passing this referendum will send to young LGBT people – who for the first time in the history of this state will be able to aspire to having the same quality of life, the same shot at happiness as their peers and the same dreams of getting married (be it a white wedding or whatever they want) to the person they love. The personal is often linked to the political. And personal stories and conversations will be a huge part of what wins this referendum. It won’t be won online. Dinner table chat with family; lunch time chats with colleagues; after class chats; taxi chats – whether you’re gay or straight we all have a role to play and a story to tell. Young people and students have an enormous role to play in this referendum and tent also recognise that they have a responsibility to be active. This is about the future of this country. USI and the student movement has been active in LGBT issues since the 1979’s and we were a driving force in the decriminalisation campaign that led to 1993. We sure as hell won’t be stopping now. We have been blown away by the level of enthusiasm and hunger that students have shown. Over 90% are in favour – we knew from opinion polls and also from campus referenda that have been held. 95% of UCC students who voted in a campus wide referendum two weeks ago were in favour of marriage equality and this is replicated right across the movement – in Trinity and Tralee, in Galway. CIT and UCC in Cork and students’ unions and LGBT societies across the island are a driving force
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Remarks of President Laura Harmon Gresham Metropole Hotel, Cork City, February 5th, 2015
in this campaign and not a week goes by where there aren’t event being held on campuses. We set a target of 10,000 new student voter registrations lay November. We more than doubled it. Students want to be heard on this issue. I believe it’s different to other issues we’ve voted on recently because the vote is so easily translated- your vote will either allow or disallow two people who love each other to be civilly married. It’s as simple as that. Every vote counts – as clichée as it sounds. The Divorce referendum in 1995 was passed by 9,114 votes -the same size as a medium sized college. Take all of you in this room. There are clearly more than 100 but let’s use 100 for example. If everyone gets 10 people to vote – yourself and 9 others – that’s over 1,000 votes from this room alone. That’s a lot of power that you have in your hands. And we can’t be complacent. I don’t want to be there in polling day in a count centre or watching the telly and the votes are coming in and it’s neck and neck – yes, no, yes, no, yes, no. I don’t want want to be thinking – I wish I’d done more and you don’t either. You didn’t talk to Mary in work; you didn’t ring your uncle Jack in Ballincollig or your aunt in Knocknaheeny or your granny who lives in Mallow. We need to make sure of it. But it’s positivity that will win through- positivity and community.
It’s going to be tough, referendums are tough but we will stick together. There’s going to be a lot of negativity spurted out on the airwaves about LGBT people and that where the support services and community organisations will really come to the fore. And we have love on our side – the most powerful human emotion. There’s nothing more powerful than love and this is about making love the law. There’s nothing more worthy of celebration than love and all love is worth celebrating regardless of whether it’s between two men or two women or a woman and a man. Marriage is the highest status conferred on a loving relationship in our society and people should have the choice to get married if they choose. USI launched our campaign officially on the 20th of January – our #MakeGráTheLaw slogan and our voteforlove.ie website. We’re gearing up for a second round of voter registration in coming weeks. We’ll be organising regional canvassing training and media events. When the date is announced we will do a mass promotion drive and endeavour to secure transport deals for students to may need to travel to cast their votes. I’ll close by saying this: We have an immense opportunity now; a rare opportunity to change Ireland for the better. We’re on the right side of history. Our moment is only around the corner. Let’s make sure of it, let’s ensure the Rebel County delivers a resounding Yes vote, let’s Make Grá The Law. Thank you.
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