The blackmail follows various blockades on the customery vacationer landmark, which has brought about a fall within the faculty’s price ticket gross sales.
Scholars need the school to word incorrect building up in one-year Masters’ charges, and rather introduce a €2 worth hike on tickets to the Secure of Kells to pay for operations on the faculty, which they imagine will internet €1m in income.
The frame gained an e mail this morning informing it of the nice, the schools scholar newspaper Trinity Information has reported.
Trinity Faculty is closely reliant at the source of revenue generated by means of vacationers visiting the Secure of Kells.
Tickets to talk over with the Secure of Kells price €18.50. In 2022, the exhibition, together with source of revenue from the Worn Library store and guided excursions, introduced in €16.7 million.
On April twenty eighth Pupil Union officers wrote to the Provost of Trinity through which they threatened “actions that are seriously damaging to the reputation and finances of the university”.
Rather than submit to the students demands, the following day, Aidan Marsh wrote an email to the Students Union Officials on behalf of the Junior Dean.
Mr Marsh said he wanted to put the students “on notice” that “any such actions may represent disciplinary offences that would lead to the institution of disciplinary proceedings against persons involved.”
He mentioned: “Should this happen, your letter may be used in evidence.”
Mr Marsh warned student union officials that they may face huge costs in compensation, which student union officials have since estimated at €100,000 and above – based on daily ticket sales to the Book of Kells.
Mr Marsh also warned students that penalties “for a major offence” may include “disqualification from an examination”, suspension of “accommodation privileges” and “suspension from the University and College”.
The e-mail warned that for the “avoidance of doubt”, the monetary consequences will turn into “a debt to the university” that will have to be paid if the scholar needs to graduate.
In reaction, the scholars’ union President László Molnárfi slammed Trinity Faculty officers and mentioned that the school has now “dropped its pretence of being a progressive college”.
Mr Molnárfi mentioned that the e-mail represents an “ill-fated attempt” to “intimidate and suppress the students movement and we will not stand for it.”
He mentioned that “the university seems to think we shed our constitutional rights once we walk through the university gates – we will defend our right to protest”.
Meanwhile, in a letter dated 2nd May the Junior Dean invited student union officials to meet at his office. Mr Molnárfi has indicated that he is willing to attend this meeting with other student’s union officials.
When contacted in regards to the e mail, a spokesperson for Trinity Faculty Dublin mentioned: “We do not comment on individual cases and correspondence between the Junior Dean and students.”
