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Previously, on SGA: COVID Concerns

Previously, on SGA: COVID Concerns

Phoebe Murphy, Opinion Editor February 10, 2021

The following covers the meeting on Feb. 3. CLIMATE CHECK First-year senator Steven Cox read from an input form sent by a student who expressed concerns about the lack of social events on campus and...

Maria Zaharatos, Taylor Condron, and Wren Ramos studying in Coates student center

Trinity approved as distribution site for COVID-19 vaccines

Approval marks next big phase in the school’s COVID response
Sarah Fisher, Reporter February 10, 2021

With COVID-19 vaccinations becoming more available to the public, Trinity has been making plans on how to distribute the vaccine to members of the Trinity community. Trinity was recently approved to serve...

Art is all around us if we look a little closer

Art is all around us if we look a little closer

Ashley Allen, Arts Columnist February 10, 2021

Where can we find art? When thinking of appropriate places for art, often museums, galleries or private collection spaces come to mind. However, art outside of these boundaries is still art, and should...

Jimmy Smith looks on from the sideline as junior AJ Clark dribbles up the court against Colorado College. The Tigers are 5-1 in the shortened 2021 season thus far.

Coach’s Corner: Jimmy Smith

Smith joins Trinity after three years leading team at Millsaps
Brian Yancelson, Sports Editor February 10, 2021

After three years leading the Millsaps College Majors, Jimmy Smith is now the head men’s basketball coach at Trinity. Smith replaces Pat Cunningham, Trinity’s winningest men’s basketball coach, who...

Coach Lahoud at scrimmage

From SAFC to Trinity: Former pro player Michael Lahoud joins men’s soccer team as assistant coach

National champion retired from playing after time in MLS, USL and NASL
Paige Wallace, Sports Reporter February 10, 2021

In January, Trinity’s men’s soccer team announced that they were adding Michael Lahoud, a former national champion and professional soccer player, to their staff as an assistant coach. Lahoud won...

Photo courtesy of Juan Sepulveda

Trinity Professor Worked for Biden Transition Team

Juan Sepulveda held two roles in the Biden/Harris transition team
Mikayla Mullin, Pulse Reporter February 7, 2021

The game “Six degrees of Kevin Bacon” is based on the assumption that everyone in Hollywood has no more than six degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon. Well, no offense to Kevin Bacon, but Trinity...

Tigers dive straight into the SCAC Championships

Tigers dive straight into the SCAC Championships

The championship is the only confirmed in-person meet as of now
Alejandra Gerlach, Sports Reporter February 7, 2021

Trinity athletes whose seasons are typically in the fall or winter now face an abbreviated season occurring in the spring. This is the case for Trinity’s swimming and diving teams who traditionally have...

Harrison Hartman, Anna Miller, and Lauren Dotson studying in the CSI

Trinity is cautiously “opening up” as quarantine anniversary approaches

Two weeks after students, faculty and staff arrived on campus for the spring semester, Trinity is opening its grounds in a way that looks very similar to the fall.
Gloria Farris, News Reporter February 7, 2021

On Jan. 14, Danny Anderson, university president, announced in a mass email that for the first two weeks of Trinity’s spring semester, classes and activities would be conducted virtually. Anderson explained...

What I learned in 2020 from the pandemic

What I learned in 2020 from the pandemic

Yukiko Yamazaki, Opinion Columnist February 7, 2021

In this writing I hope to find closure and meaning for one of the most difficult years many of us have endured in an effort to “move on” in a healthy way. Self-isolation at home was both a terrifying...

Ruff-down: Adoptable pets to compete for "Lombarky" trophy in 17th annual Puppy Bowl

Ruff-down: Adoptable pets to compete for “Lombarky” trophy in 17th annual Puppy Bowl

The puppies come from all across the country to compete against each other
Kayla Padilla, Editor-in-Chief February 6, 2021

Last year’s Puppy Bowl winners, Team Fluff, are making another appearance at the much anticipated championship game this Sunday. Puppy Bowl XVII, airing at 2:00 p.m. EST on the Animal Planet channel,...

An Eye for an Eye: In Defense of "The Last of Us Part II" Part Two

An Eye for an Eye: In Defense of “The Last of Us Part II” Part Two

Om Dighe, Opinion Columnist February 3, 2021

Despite releasing in June 2020 to critical acclaim, “The Last of Us Part II” was a victim of many people review-bombing the game online, specifically on Metacritic, shortly after its launch. This meant...

McFarlin Dormitory for Women Exterior View. c. 1955. 98-18-019, Trinity University History, Coates Library Special Collections & Archives, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas.

O’Neil Ford’s architecture “guided by the hills”

Ashley Allen, Arts Columnist February 3, 2021

I remember only a brief part of my first Trinity tour. My tour guide stopped outside of Storch Memorial Library—we faced the San Antonio skyline with our backs to the academic buildings. The tour...