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Mocha Month celebrates black history and culture

Mocha Month celebrates black history and culture

Maggie Lupo February 15, 2018

Picture this: Soul food on Superbowl weekend. That's how the Black Student Union (BSU) kicked off this year's Mocha Month, a series of events meant to inspire a larger dialogue around Black History Month...

Beloved bomb-sniffing dog retires

Beloved bomb-sniffing dog retires

Maggie Lupo February 7, 2018

Even though Trinity’s official mascot is LeeRoy the Tiger, for a while in 2012 there was another furry face on campus that was almost as familiar: Jurgens the dog, an explosives detection trainee adopted...

illustration by Julia Poage

Silver linings for people in long-distance relationships on Valentine’s Day

Maggie Lupo February 2, 2018

For people in a long-distance relationship, Valentine’s Day can feel like a cruel joke. It seems like every other ad features a couple going on a date — or exchanging a gift, sharing a motivated kiss,...

illustration by Andrea Nebhut, staff illustrator

Professors share harrowing tales of trivia

Maggie Lupo January 31, 2018

What river is controlled by the Aswan Dam? If you said the Nile, congratulations! You just correctly answered a $32,000 question from an episode of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" But if you didn’t...

Humanities Day a celebration of Trinitys core values

Humanities Day a celebration of Trinity’s core values

Maggie Lupo January 31, 2018

“I’ve never read a book that started with the sentence, ‘I did what my mother told me.’ ” These are the words of newspaperman and entrepreneur Robert Rivard, a guest on the second panel of...

illustration by Andrea Nebhut, staff illustrator

Reed returns from Nepal

Maggie Lupo January 24, 2018

When most people picture Nepal, they probably think about the Himalayas, colorful prayer flags or Marvel’s Dr. Strange. However, sociology and anthropology professor Richard Reed, who just returned from...

Rohan Walawalker, founder of Trinitys TEDx club, discusses the organizations inception. photo by Stephen Sumrall-Orsak, staff photographer.

New student organizations start first full semester

Maggie Lupo January 24, 2018

Chess. Fencing. Swing dancing. Knitting.These are just a few of the options available to Trinity students who want to get involved on campus doing things they love. But what if, for some reason, the thing...

photo by Stephen Sumrall-Orsak, staff photographer

Trinity hires new gallery manager

Maggie Lupo January 17, 2018

The bright, airy Michael and Noemi Neidorff Gallery inside Trinity’s Dicke-Smith building stands empty right now. Soon, though, the gallery will display its first show of the semester, under the direction...

Illustration by Andrea Nebhut.

A semester without smoke

Maggie Lupo November 29, 2017

This past August, Trinity University enacted a tobacco-free policy that banned the use of all tobacco products on campus. The policy is intended to make the campus a safer environment for students, faculty,...

Illustration by Andrea Nebhut

Students Reflect on the First-Year Experience

Maggie Lupo November 29, 2017

“Alien.” Steve Jobs. “Ex Machina.” The “Mona Lisa.” Sigmund Freud. What do these things have in common? They were all part of the curriculum of one of Trinity’s First-Year Experience courses...

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