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Student media must protect international students’ rights

Catherine Zarr, Editor-in-Chief April 10, 2025

Getting a criminal conviction. Working in the U.S. without permission. Failing to maintain a full course load.  Receiving a traffic ticket three years ago. Participating in a protest two years ago....

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Here’s why we’re moving to artificial intelligence

Hambag Girdle, Damaging Editor April 3, 2025

This piece is entirely satirical. Read the rest of our April Fool’s edition, the Trinibonian, here If you didn’t already know, starting in the fall semester, Trinibonian will be switching to an...

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Ratrut or Kakadia? We didn’t have enough time to decide

Samara Gerstle, Managing Editor March 27, 2025

Today, March 28, the student body will find out who will represent them as their class senators, SGA vice president and SGA president. This decision will come after a three-day voting period from March...

Trinitonian editorial staff statement on Trinity Athletics Transgender Participation Policy

Editorial Staff March 20, 2025

On March 19, Trinity University announced in an email that they had updated ATHL-0003 Trinity Athletics Transgender Participation Policy to restrict women’s sports to “student-athletes assigned female...

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‘The men had no rules. The women had a thousand’

Catherine Zarr, Editor-in-Chief March 20, 2025

Crack open a Feb. 26, 1930 copy of the Trinitonian, flip to page three, and nestled between an advice column about roommates and a first-year’s essay about freight solicitors, you’ll find a comic that...

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All is quiet on the university leadership front

Catherine Zarr, Editor-in-Chief March 6, 2025

Amid the recent barrage of executive orders targeting higher education institutions, I’ve been refreshing my email daily, waiting to hear from our university’s leadership about how or whether these...

I don’t care how smart you sound

I don’t care how smart you sound

Samara Gerstle, Managing Editor February 27, 2025

This week, I attended my first Distinguished Scientists Lecture Series: Thomas Sanger’s lecture on sexual diversity on Feb. 24. He described a variety of complicated subjects — subjects that, as someone...

We need to rethink zero tolerance hazing policies

We need to rethink zero tolerance hazing policies

Catherine Zarr, Editor-in-Chief February 20, 2025

This week marks the end of Greek life orientation, where potential new members can finally fully join their organizations. This year’s orientation was the first after Gamma Chi Delta was publicly found...

You gotta look for the love to love

You gotta look for the love to love

Samara Gerstle, Managing Editor February 14, 2025

I used to be a Valentine’s Day hater. The holiday felt so fake — a scam curated by Hallmark to sell cards and streams of their terrible romantic comedies. I, a self-proclaimed contrarian in high school,...

I’m begging you, keep our organizations alive

I’m begging you, keep our organizations alive

Samara Gerstle, Managing Editor February 7, 2025

In last week’s edition, Katie Amdur, our wonderful news section editor, reported on the upcoming budget cuts for university-sponsored organizations and registered-student organizations. I won’t get...

We can’t forget immigrants or their stories

We can’t forget immigrants or their stories

Catherine Zarr, Editor-in-Chief January 30, 2025

This week, Kat McKinney reported on the fear and uncertainty some Trinity students are facing under Trump’s new immigration policies. The interviews included in this story make it clear that these policies...

The Trinitonian exercises editorial independence

The Trinitonian exercises editorial independence

Diya Contractor, Opinion Editor November 21, 2024

Jeff Bezos is at it again. The Washington Post’s editorial team made the decision to stop endorsing presidential candidates going forward. One of their TikTok reporters blamed Bezos for this, claiming...