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Sidewalk Symposium: How do you feel about TU Snaps?

Sidewalk Symposium: How do you feel about TU Snaps?

Student opinions on the campus-wide snapchat story
Logan Crews, Managing Editor October 14, 2021

Maggie Karim, sophomore biochemistry major “It’s a lot, I guess. There’s just a lot going on with it. Some of it’s interesting, some of it’s, like, questionable. It’s been very varied...

Tiger Learning Commons provides academic support amid midterms

Tiger Learning Commons provides academic support amid midterms

Students can find discipline-focused assistance through multiple offerings
Mikayla Mullin, Pulse Reporter October 7, 2021

If you have a ten page paper that needs editing, a calculus problem that you just can’t make sense of, or you just need help getting a handle on your classes this semester, you can visit the Trinity...

Students celebrate East Asian culture at Mid-Autumn Festival

Students celebrate East Asian culture at Mid-Autumn Festival

Attendees enjoyed lantern and origami making, treats and the less-traditional chopstick races
Mikayla Mullin, Pulse Reporter October 7, 2021

If you were craving mooncakes last weekend, you probably found yourself at Trinity’s Jim Potter Intramural Field attending the Mid-Autumn Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival was an event thrown by the...

Q: Do you have any specimens you took from the field?
A: Yes, absolutely! This is not a very gorgeous piece, but it’s a lava I collected in Iceland. Basically, we teach this course, we’re teaching it this spring, we’ve only offered it two times before, once in 2014 and one in 2018, so it’s not very frequent, and we meet in the spring semester once a week and we talk about all kinds of aspects of Iceland, not just the geology. Each student has to do a research project on what we are talking about that interests them and then we finish the semester; two weeks later, we meet in Minneapolis and we fly to Iceland ... we’re there for about 12-15 days, and we go all around the island. Students go finish their papers and then we go to the location of their research and talk to someone that is an expert in their field. So, for example, we’ve had students study a specific volcano, and we’ll get as close as we can to it. It’s a lot of fun.

TU Cribs: Don’t take these office hours for granite

Macks Cook, Pulse Editor September 30, 2021

Have fears of the unknown ever kept you from attending office hours? Are you nosy about the interests of your professors, but you can’t quite find a proper reason to sign up for a meeting with them?...

Prioritize your mental health during midterms

Prioritize your mental health during midterms

Trinity counseling services offers multiple therapeutic options for students in need
September 30, 2021

Being in college is not without its struggles, but it’s important to not let them take over. Trinity Counseling Services is there to help students address these struggles head-on. Trinity Counseling...

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...

Trinity Mutual Aid raises $3000 at community market

Trinity Mutual Aid raises $3000 at community market

Organizers leaned into their creativity when planning the event
Mikayla Mullin, Pulse Reporter September 23, 2021

If you walked into What’s Brewing Roastery and Cafe on Saturday, Sept. 11, you would have immediately been enveloped in the aroma of roasting coffee and the dinging of pinball machines. The real action,...

Fern finds a new home

Fern finds a new home

Beloved Trinicat removed from campus due to instances of hostility
Mikayla Mullin, Pulse Reporter September 16, 2021

For many Trinity students, we know the cats around campus as a way to comfort ourselves when we miss our own pets. However, some of the cats appreciate being petted more than others. Fern, in particular,...

Q: What classes are you teaching this semester?
A: This semester I’ve got three, [which is] not unusual for a visiting professor… Afterlives of Antiquity, a course on traditions of poetic image and filmic images of the afterlife and the underworld; FYE HUMA with my peer tutor Audrey Newman, and, in kind of an innovation for the department, intermediate and advanced Greek together... which is especially exciting because the topic [Biblical Greek] was chosen by student initiative.

TU Cribs: These office hours come with homemade cookies

Mackenzie Cook, Pulse Editor September 9, 2021

Have fears of the unknown ever kept you from attending office hours? Are you nosy about the interests of your professors, but you can’t quite find a proper reason to sign up for a meeting with them?...

Senior Diana Long works to examine inequities in K-12 education

Senior Diana Long works to examine inequities in K-12 education

From undergraduate research to her senior thesis, Long refuses to shy away from the 'second pandemic' facing San Antonio
Kayla Padilla, Editor-in-Chief May 1, 2021

Across the nation, the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the segregation of resources in K-12 education. Though many have written and reported on these inequities, Diana Long, senior, has long been aware...

Five Stumberg finalists to compete for $25,000 grand prize in fall

Five Stumberg finalists to compete for $25,000 grand prize in fall

The five teams were selected after a seed round competition
Kayla Padilla, Editor-in-Chief April 29, 2021

The seed round of the Stumberg New Venture Competition, a chance for 10 student teams to win funding for their startup, was held virtually last Monday. Five teams received $5,000 investments and advanced...

Fire alarms in Prassel spark frustrations

Fire alarms in Prassel spark frustrations

Facilities services working to address student concerns
Emma Utzinger, Pulse Reporter April 28, 2021

All residence halls are required to have a fire drill every semester; however, in Prassel hall, the fire alarms have gone off three additional times. Though these were unrelated instances, these alarms...