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ProtecTU policies updated, COVID testing misconceptions addressed

ProtecTU policies updated, COVID testing misconceptions addressed

Gathering capacities increased, masks still required for all despite vaccination status
Logan Crews, Managing Editor September 30, 2021

Trinity students, staff and faculty received an email with renewed ProtecTU protocols on Monday, Sept. 26. As of Monday, capacity of indoor meetings and gatherings has increased from 50 to 100 individuals,...

New abortion bill takes effect in Texas

New abortion bill takes effect in Texas

Community reacts to unprecedented abortion ban
Phoebe Murphy, News Editor September 30, 2021

On Sept. 1, Texas enacted Senate Bill 8, one of the nation’s strictest abortion bills. The next day, the U.S. Supreme Court voted 5–4 to leave the bill in place after an emergency appeal from abortion...

2018 graduate Shelby DeVore returns to Trinity as Head Women's Golf Coach after three years.

Coach’s Corner: Shelby DeVore

Trinity graduate Shelby DeVore returns to Trinity as Head Women's Golf Coach
Alejandra Gerlach, Sports Reporter September 30, 2021

Shelby DeVore joined Trinity’s athletics staff as the Assistant Director of Golf and Head Women’s Golf Coach at the beginning of the fall 2021 season. Although this is DeVore’s first coaching position,...

Dolly, the beloved ex-SeaWorld performing cat

Dolly, the beloved ex-SeaWorld performing cat

VP for Alumni Relation Michael Bacon's cat has made her home on Trinity's campus
Mackenzie Cook, Pulse Editor September 30, 2021

Seeing a cat around campus is nothing new to a Trinity student. Due to the work of the Trinity Cat Alliance, many feral felines call Trinity University’s outdoor landscape home. There is an outlier in...

University plans for the renovated Chapman Center on upper campus, a part of the campus master plan.

University business school receives $25 million donation

Neidorff’s contribution is the single largest donation in the university’s history
Dana Nichols, Editor-in-Chief September 29, 2021

Trinity ‘65 alumnus and board of trustees member Michael Neidorff and the Neidorff Family Trust have donated $25 million to the university business school. The business school, soon to be housed in...

University offered faculty, staff monetary stimulus to alleviate budget problems

University offered faculty, staff monetary stimulus to alleviate budget problems

Fifteen faculty members and 41 staff took advantage of the Voluntary Separation Incentive Plan
Emma Utzinger, News Reporter September 23, 2021

A wave of faculty and staff left Trinity this spring following university efforts to cut pandemic-induced costs. In the past year and a half, Trinity University’s budget has taken a hit due to the...

Men’s soccer remains undefeated six games into season

Men’s soccer remains undefeated six games into season

Tigers continue their winning streak with wins against the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor and Concordia University
Luke Terry, Sports Reporter September 23, 2021

After winning their first four matches of this still-young season, the Trinity men’s soccer team received the news last week that they were ranked no. 12 in the first release of the United Soccer Coaches...

From left to right: Students Tucker Craft, Jack Maxwell, and Logan Martinez view seal display

Student-written labels featured at San Antonio Museum of Art

Labels were written by students of the art history course This Is America
Ashley Allen, Arts Columnist September 23, 2021

Ever notice museum tags at the San Antonio Museum of Art written by your peers when walking through the galleries? During spring 2020 and 2021, Trinity students enrolled in the art history course “This...

Trinity moves forward in master plan for Chapman-Halsell and Dicke Hall

Trinity moves forward in master plan for Chapman-Halsell and Dicke Hall

The newly renovated Haslell Center, the master plan's first phase, reopened on Aug. 11
Gloria Farris, News Reporter September 22, 2021

On Aug. 11, Trinity University opened its newly renovated Ewing Halsell Center, originally built in 1968 by famed Trinity architect O’Neil Ford. Now, the university presses onward in conducting the last...

TUPD Assistant Chief arrested for allegedly soliciting prostitution

TUPD Assistant Chief arrested for allegedly soliciting prostitution

Pete Perez was arrested at 5 p.m. on Thursday by the San Antonio Police Department
Dana Nichols, Editor-in-Chief September 17, 2021

Pete Perez, Assistant Chief of the Trinity University Police Department, was arrested at 5 p.m. on Thursday by the San Antonio Police Department for allegedly soliciting prostitution. Upon his arrest,...

Booster shots available to immunocompromised individuals

Booster shots available to immunocompromised individuals

Gloria Farris, News Reporter September 16, 2021

On Sept. 22, Trinity will begin offering COVID booster shots to students, faculty and staff who identify as moderately to severely immunocompromised along with a flu vaccination clinic for the general...

Self-portrait photography by Mari Hernandez open at Neidorff Art Gallery

Self-portrait photography by Mari Hernandez open at Neidorff Art Gallery

San Antonio artist explores story of Mexican-American experience and identity
September 16, 2021

From Sept. 9 to Nov. 6, the work of San Antonio based artist Mari Hernandez will be exhibited in a solo show titled, “Figments of Truth.” “Figments of Truth” is an installation that addresses the...