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Everything’s bigger in Texas

Everything’s bigger in Texas

My once-in-a-lifetime American League Championship experience
Caleb Reed, Sports Editor October 27, 2023

For the first time in history, the Texas Rangers and the Houston Astros met in the MLB playoffs. The stakes couldn’t have been any higher: the winner would go to the World Series, the loser would go...

Making music festivals green: It’s on all of us

Making music festivals green: It’s on all of us

Ashwini Vivek, Opinion Columnist October 27, 2023

The first two weekends in October, people flocked to Austin to attend the Austin City Limits (ACL) music festival. The promising performances and beautiful weather enticed many to Zilker Park for a weekend...

Black and white and red all over

Black and white and red all over

Dean Zach and Diya Contractor, Copy Editor October 27, 2023

In the darkness, your stomach churns. Acid eats the ground-up remnants of an overpriced omelet, a mishmash of undercooked ingredients amputated and blended and fused to each other, a rearranged corpse...

Mabee Market mishaps: Kiosks, meal swipes and more

Mabee Market mishaps: Kiosks, meal swipes and more

Trinity students weigh in on the recent technical disruptions at Mabee Market
Cael Ferland, Pulse Reporter October 27, 2023

Recent technical malfunctions with the Chartwells dining system have students calling for a reevaluation of the management of Mabee Market. From high prices, technical issues and lack of item variety,...

Women’s Soccer finds their stride and scores big

Women’s Soccer finds their stride and scores big

Tigers find their way to 6-0 in a conference play with a big home win
Scott Lebo, Sports Reporter October 27, 2023

The 2023 Trinity Women’s Soccer season got off to an extremely rocky start. The team started the season with just two wins in their first eight games. Since then, the team has proved that this tough...

Show me the money: Project HOME funds student orgs

Show me the money: Project HOME funds student orgs

SGA initiative aims to lessen student organization stress with blanket funding
Monica Martinez, News Reporter October 27, 2023

Student organizations should see a money transfer in their accounts very soon, a result of SGA’s newly-implemented Project HOME. This $61,600 initiative will assist registered student organizations (RSOs)...

Ofrenda at Dicke Hall

Día de los Muertos: A tribute to culture and remembrance

TULA hosts Muertos Fest and displays ofrendas across Trinity campus
Eve Slemp, News Reporter October 27, 2023

For their annual Muertos Festival, the Trinity University Latino Association (TULA) created four ofrendas, altars of offerings dedicated to those who have passed away, across campus. This tradition started...

The best of horror: Dracula chapter VII

The best of horror: Dracula chapter VII

Jack Maxwell, Opinion Columnist October 27, 2023

Every October, I revisit my favorite pieces of horror media to get into the spooky season. A mainstay of my Halloween media consumption for a few years now has been Bram Stoker’s iconic horror novel...

Mental health resources miss the core problem

Mental health resources miss the core problem

Colin Houston, Opinion Columnist October 27, 2023

If you believe we live in a fundamentally functional society, I feel obliged to inform you that we don’t. Unfortunately, the society we live in is a catastrophic failure for most people, as all of our...

Stained glass windows in Parker Chapel

Ford, Dunn and the artists behind Parker Chapel

The creative efforts of these artists continue to make the chapel a campus icon
Lottie Correia, Arts Reporter October 27, 2023

Looking only at the facade of Margarite B. Parker Chapel, a visitor would not guess from the humble exterior what they would find inside. Walking into the chapel, there is a series of parabolic arches...

Woojin Han '26 , Marcos Morales '25,
Mollee Priddy '24

Stumberg ignites student entrepreneurs

Well and Worthy takes home $25,000 during final round
Eve Slemp, News Reporter October 27, 2023

In the final round of Trinity’s ninth annual Louis H. Stumberg Competition, Ashleigh Reese, sophomore anthropology and biology double-major, and Sofia Ortiz, senior political science major and entrepreneurship...

Concept: How well did you read this issue?

Catherine Zarr, Pulse Editor October 27, 2023

Across: 4. Head coach of Trinity women’s basketball team 5. Genre of Italian thrillers “The Fall of the House of Usher” is inspired by 7. Go to Mabuhay to see this type of dance 8. Artist...