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Jeremy Allen, assistant director for fraternity and sorority life, joins last year's Greek Council in a meeting last April. This year's Greek Council executive board will transition into their roles on Feb. 2, 2018. File photo.

New Greek Council executive board elected

Kaylie King January 24, 2018

Late last semester, nine of the 10 positions on Greek Council's executive board were filled after elections were held. The communications chair remains vacant due to a rule limiting any one organization...

Victoria Lange, left, introduced Christina Wang, center, and Saundra Decker, right, as the two women who would be sharing the stories of their experiences with abortion. Though Lange acted as an interviewer in this session, all six members of Abortion Hurts, God Heals are women who have found healing in faith post-abortion. Photo by Chloe Sonnier, staff photographer.

Tigers for Life sponsor post-abortion talk

Cathy Terrace January 24, 2018

For many, having an abortion is a life-changing decision. For the advocacy group called Abortion Hurts, God Heals, the post-abortion healing process starts with one's faith. Guest lecturers from the group...

Tune in each week for Kathleen Creedon's SGA summaries. SGA meets at 6 p.m. on Mondays in the Waxahachie Room in Coates University Center.

Previously, on SGA: New Year, New Senate

Kathleen Creedon January 24, 2018

This issue covers the first meeting of the year, Jan. 22. INDUCTIONS New SGA senators and cabinet members gathered in the Skyline Dining Room for a short induction ceremony. After quick speeches from...

David Tuttle, dean of students, has taken over as interim director of residential life as the department searches for a  replacement. Photo by Chloe Sonnier, staff photographer.

ResLife handles busy semester

Kendra Derrig January 23, 2018

The office of Residential Life is kicking off the spring semester with a long to-do list. Along with day-to-day operations dealing with student issues, conducting programming and doing regular administrative...

The Jewish Student Association is Trinity’s branch of Hillel, an international organization that develops Jewish student groups on college campuses. File photo

Trinity’s JSA-Hillel holds Shabbat service

Kaylie King January 19, 2018

The Jewish Students Association-Hillel (JSA-Hillel) has organized a Shabbat service open to all of campus to educate non-Jewish students, as well as encourage unity on campus. Shabbat is the observation...

Friends described Robert Foye as friendly, bubbly and competitive. Services for Foye will be held Jan. 18, 19 and 20. Photo provided by Heather Montoya.

Campus grieves after death of Robert Foye

Kathleen Creedon January 17, 2018

Last weekend, sophomore Robert Foye was found dead in his off-campus apartment. The cause of death hasn’t been determined, and an autopsy is scheduled to take place in the future. The 19-year-old was...

Darryl Waldron, right, worked as a professor of business administration at Trinity for 37 years. He is pictured above with his wife, Ayon Wen-Waldron, left. Photo provided  by J. Charlene Davis

Trinity grieves loss of business admin professor

Kaylie King January 17, 2018

Darryl Waldron, professor of business administration, passed away on Dec. 19, 2017, following an illness. In his 37 years on Trinity faculty, Waldron served the community in many ways; he acted as a professor,...

Presence is a program that is intended to help student organizations become more involved with their audiences on campus. The program collects information from Tiger Cards to help organizations learn more about the people attending their events. Photo by Kathleen Creedon, news editor.

Organizations check in with Presence

Cathy Terrace January 17, 2018

Student organizations now have access to register potential and current members on a new software system known as Presence, Presence, a program intended to help students manage their organizations more...

Temperatures plummeted earlier this week, leaving parts of campus frozen, including Murchison Fountain.  Photo by Andrea Nebhut, staff illustrator

Winter weather shuts down Trinity’s campus

Jordan Bruce January 16, 2018

After days of warmer-than-seasonal weather, temperatures plummeted in the early hours of Tuesday and have remained low all week. Trinity’s faculty, staff and students buckled down as a blast of cold...

Trinity students, faculty and staff joined thousands in the San Antonio MLK March, the largest in the nation. Photo by Chloe Sonnier, staff photographer

Lecture, march headline annual series of events to honor MLK

Kendra Derrig January 15, 2018

Trinity University's annual week of events commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. kicked off with a lecture from Kathleen Cleaver, activist, former Black Panther and professor of law at Emory University,...

Sophomore Simone Washington was one of the students who organized the activism fair. The fair is the last event of a week-long celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Photo by  Chloe Sonnier, staff photographer

Activism fair encourages student involvement

Kendra Derrig January 15, 2018

Students organized Trinity's first Activism Fair as a part of Trinity's MLK Week celebration. Approximately a dozen activist organizations from across San Antonio visited campus, including MOVE San Antonio,...

Next week, members of Congress will decide on a tax reform bill that includes an excise tax on university endowments that may cost Trinity $3 million. photo provided by Jomar Thomas on Unsplash

Trinity hires lobbyists to combat proposed endowment tax

Daniel Conrad December 16, 2017

Trinity University has enlisted former Texas congressman Henry Bonilla and two others to lobby against the proposed tax on private university endowments in the Republicans’ tax reform bill, which President...