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The Student News Site of Trinity University

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Campus construction continues

Campus construction continues

Facilities Services progresses with Dicke Hall, water leak projects
Abby Power, News Reporter March 3, 2022

Two construction projects are in progress across Trinity’s campus. First there is the Dicke Hall project, which is near completion and will open next fall, along with an ongoing water leak project affecting...

Oh, rats! Thomas Residence Hall experiences its first rodent problem

Oh, rats! Thomas Residence Hall experiences its first rodent problem

Facilities Services and Residential Life work together to trap and remove the rats
Emma Utzinger, News Reporter March 3, 2022

On Feb. 3, rats were spotted on the seventh floor of Bruce Thomas Residence Hall. These rats caused a significant disturbance to the students living there. However, Facilities Services, Pest Control and...

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News brief: ProtecTU policies to change

Sarah Fisher, News Editor March 3, 2022

Trinity University has required masks in all indoor spaces since students returned to campus in the fall of 2020. Now, after monitoring the changes in COVID transmission on campus and in San Antonio, the...

New Works SA Officers

Catching up with New Works SA

Theater non-profit makes strides with community outreach and new musical
Ashley Allen, Arts and Entertainment Reporter March 3, 2022

New Works SA, a San Antonio-based theater non-profit, plans to premiere their newest project, “Girl In The Cocoon,” in July. The company was born in 2019 as the brainchild of Trinity students Wren...

Self-preservation comes first for transgender youth

Self-preservation comes first for transgender youth

Logan Crews, Editor-in-Chief March 3, 2022

I know I’m not alone when I say I’m tired. As a student, there are already a million and two things to keep track of: papers, meetings and the email I forgot to send that I remember suddenly at 4:30...

Trinity University commemorates Black History Month

Trinity University commemorates Black History Month

Douglass Day, other events celebrated in the TU community for BHM
Abby Power, News Reporter February 24, 2022

Black History Month has historically been celebrated during February across the United States. It was officially designated in 1976 during Gerald Ford’s presidency, after decades of Black communities...

A lighthouse flickers out: Tess Coody-Anders leaves Trinity

A lighthouse flickers out: Tess Coody-Anders leaves Trinity

Emma Utzinger, News Reporter February 24, 2022

Tess Coody-Anders, Vice President of Strategic Communications and Marketing and leader of the Nerve Center, will be leaving Trinity University at the end of February. Coody-Anders, a Trinity alum, has...

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Explore “Unreal Paradise” in Neidorff Gallery exhibit

Artist Marnie Weber features over thirty years of artwork in her collage series
Ashley Allen, Arts and Entertainment Reporter February 24, 2022

The collage exhibition “Marnie Weber, Unreal Paradise: Collage Works from 1992–2022” is now on view in the Michael and Noémi Neidorff Art Gallery in the Dicke-Smith Art Building until March 26....

Finding a solution for expensive textbooks

Finding a solution for expensive textbooks

SGA collects student data to assess expenses per department
Audrey Deering, Pulse reporter February 17, 2022

Every student knows the feeling of reluctantly paying hundreds of dollars every semester for textbooks, despite already having received the bill for their semester tuition. No one enjoys the recurring...

OPINION: The greatest game you need to see

OPINION: The greatest game you need to see

Caleb Reed, Sports Editor February 13, 2022

To say that this season has been wild would be an understatement of nearly criminal proportions. The NFC was a juggernaut, and the AFC was weaker than in years past. Teams swapped the #1 seed in both conferences...

Changing Seasons: A summer in the FCBL preps MJ Metz for spring baseball

Changing Seasons: A summer in the FCBL preps MJ Metz for spring baseball

Junior MJ Metz emerges as a leader for Trinity’s 2022 baseball season after a summer playing in the Futures Collegiate Baseball League (FCBL)
Luke Terry, Sports Reporter February 10, 2022

Junior MJ Metz stands in from the left side of the plate at 6 foot 5 inches, 225 pounds. He’s physically intimidating as is, but when you put a baseball bat in his hands he has the capacity to truly...

The Omicron variant brings changes to the spring calendar

The Omicron variant brings changes to the spring calendar

Emma Utzinger, News Reporter February 10, 2022

Originally set to start on Jan. 12, Trinity’s spring 2022 semester was pushed back to Jan. 31 due to concerns over the Omicron variant. With spiking COVID numbers in Bexar County, the Nerve Center and...