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From the Editors’ Desk: The year at home and abroad

Editorial Staff November 30, 2017

As the year comes to a close, we can’t help but reflect. We all just spent time with families and friends thinking about what we’re thankful for and now it’s time to think back on what we’ve gone...

graphic by Tyler Herron

From the editors’ desk: Support your Trinity staff!

Editorial Staff November 16, 2017

Last Monday, Nov. 13, was World Kindness Day. Since 1998, the World Kindness Movement has worked to promote niceness across the globe; the easiest way to do this is to take time out of the day to perform...

Foreign correspondent Soleil Gaffner ate a macaron from the top of the Eiffel Tower, just to prove she could. photo by Soleil Gaffner, opinion columnist

American Tigers in Paris: Gaffner travels

Soleil Gaffner November 15, 2017

When you're abroad during the fall semester, there aren't any big vacations that you can take. The Madrid Institute for International Education for Students (IES) schedules all classes Monday through...

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Building for the world versus building for locals

Micaela Hoffman November 15, 2017

In San Antonio we have an awesome festival every fall called Luminaria that just finished up this past weekend. It is a night dedicated to the arts, and it's completely free, and in the usual San Antonio...

illustration by Andrea Nebhut

What’s the beef? Ending food antagonism

Benjamin Gonzalez November 13, 2017

Nowadays, terms such as "˜vegan' and "˜vegetarian' carry loads of connotations along with them. It's become a common joke, but the stereotype of the "˜preachy vegan' often pops up in popular culture....

illustration by Yessenia Lopez

The caffeine-fueled search for your “˜third place’

Max Towers November 13, 2017

Last Thursday I arrived at the Alamo Quarry Starbucks, intent on getting my calculus homework out of the way. To the dismay of both me and my dead computer, every seat adjacent to an outlet had been taken....

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American bustle

Camille Reyes November 13, 2017

The recent sexual assault and harassment scandal concerning Harvey Weinstein has propelled the issue back into the spotlight, one only widened through remarkable, grass-roots social media movements such...

illustration by Yessenia Lopez

Civil society is true survivalism

Gabriel Levine November 13, 2017

The world feels unstable. Domestically, political and social divisions are at a higher pitch than ever in my living memory and perhaps since the tumultuous years of the 1960s. I've felt a distinct loss...

graphic by Tyler Herron

Diane Graves, a passionate mentor

Nicholas Shockey November 9, 2017

What has been the most important part of your time at Trinity?  For me, it is the faculty who care deeply for their students, whose passion is helping students find their own. The right mentor can cultivate...

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From the Editors’ Desk: Your money is being misused!

Editorial Staff November 9, 2017

Trinity relies on a technicality in order to scrape money from the student activity fee, the $150-per-semester payment that every student pays on top of their tuition. What they're doing is legal, but...

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TU focuses on the wrong housing issues

Theresa Ho November 8, 2017

I finally started to read the Campus Master Plan this weekend. Fifty-six pages in, I am humbled by the obvious time and energy the Campus Master Plan Committee put into this document. As it is, Trinity...

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The Texas House loses its moderate

Manfred Wendt November 8, 2017

The political realm of Texas was shocked this past week when Speaker of the House Joe Straus announced that he would not be running for re-election for House seat 121, a seat he has held since 2005. He...