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Trinitonian

The Student News Site of Trinity University

Trinitonian

The Student News Site of Trinity University

Trinitonian

Why do we choose consequence over community?

Why do we choose consequence over community?

My car just got towed for no reason
Diya Contractor, Managing Editor November 12, 2025

It was the one evening I had managed to carve out all semester, and it ended up costing me $234. The one night I wasn’t in the newsroom at a meeting, working, editing or pretending fluorescent lights...

Fizz is poisoning the culture at Trinity

Fizz is poisoning the culture at Trinity

It’s time to change how we approach taking accountability
Samara Gerstle, Editor-in-Chief November 6, 2025

*Warning: The following discusses themes of suicide and harassment. The ragebait and mockery on Fizz is all fun and games for a while. Until real accusations start rolling out. Until students feel empowered...

The Trinitonian stands against the Trump administration’s compact

The Trinitonian stands against the Trump administration’s compact

Free speech isn’t free if it costs your job, your funding or your platform
Diya Contractor and Samara Gerstle October 23, 2025

In our newsroom, accountability is non-negotiable. We don’t publish anonymous columns, and we only grant anonymity to sources only when publishing their name would cause them demonstrable harm. We believe...

The best thing you can do at Trinity is leave.

The best thing you can do at Trinity is leave.

Seriously get out of here while you still can, and go Czech out the gorgeous view.
Diya Contractor, Managing Editor October 9, 2025

I was explicitly encouraged to zone out during my classes last semester. It’s unreasonable to expect attention from a student when they have the option to gaze out the window at an actual castle. I...

Don’t forget about your friends

Don’t forget about your friends

Don’t let Trinity fool you: Academics aren’t everything
Samara Gerstle, Editor-in-Chief October 2, 2025

One turns into five. Five turns into 20. Twenty turns into never-ending rounds of “I’m sorry” and a series of empty “We’ll call soon’s.” The messages just keep piling up, and you keep telling...

The editor's desk

Editorial: Free speech is running away

Why we schedule crash outs for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday every single week
Diya Contractor, Managing Editor September 26, 2025

I’ve written more pieces as managing editor than there have been issues this semester. Samara Gerstle, Trinitonian editor-in-chief, and I are always on-call to a staff of… 30? 40? I don’t even...

You’re looking at the man in the mirror

You’re looking at the man in the mirror

Samara Gerstle, Editor-in-Chief September 19, 2025

On Wednesday, I spoke to Associate Dean of Students Ben Williams. He told me that somebody leaked his phone number. He’s received back-to-back calls from churches that espouse anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric, from...

The Trinitonian is not out to get you

The Trinitonian is not out to get you

Diya Contractor, Managing Editor September 12, 2025

I like to think that the Trinitonian has garnered a good reputation for itself. We won best small all-around newspaper in Texas and Oklahoma in 2024, so this isn’t solely my vanity. However, this...

The Trinitonian is for you

The Trinitonian is for you

We know your stories matter. We want to share them.
Samara Gerstle, Editor-in-Chief September 8, 2025

When I was hired as a news reporter at the Trinitonian in September of my first year, I had no idea what I was getting into. I knew nothing about journalism; I came to Trinity as an English major who loved...

Samara Gerstle starts her senior year at Trinity this year.

Advice for your first year, from a 14-year-old boy

Samara Gerstle, Editor-in-Chief August 22, 2025

As I’m sure most of your friends, family and teachers have told you already, the transition to college is a big one. You’re starting a new school, meeting new people, moving cities, states...

Diya Contractor starts her senior year at Trinity this year.

How cream cheese got me to college

Diya Contractor, Managing Editor August 22, 2025

I remember the exact day I chose to attend Trinity University. I was on spring break of my junior year of high school, and my mom had insisted on a family road trip to San Antonio, while I’d insisted...

I’m urging you to become a journalist

I’m urging you to become a journalist

Catherine Zarr, Editor-in-Chief April 25, 2025

I was dramatically singing along in the car to Lady Gaga’s “Alejandro” when I got the call. Alicia Guerrero, the Trinitonian’s adviser at the time, told me that I would be next year’s editor-in-chief,...