Academe

A student journal which hopes to "encourage discussion between students of different disciplines" was published yesterday.

The editors of Beyond Babel hope to help restore "the sense of the university as a community where those of different backgrounds, interests and futures can pool their enthusiasms". The "sparkling academic culture" the editors want to precipitate would be one "where psychologists annoy theologians, physicists swap metaphors with novelists and musicians are inspired by genetics". Beyond Babel is designed to cater for those who want from their time in university "the sense of the pursuit of knowledge rather than a narrow expertise - a feeling often lost in the careers library".

The journal, which features contributions on everything from Shakespeare's sonnets to bioethics, and interrogates the function of art and Ireland's bail laws in between, is available from shops in Trinity and other "good Dublin bookshops" and costs £5.