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Sex Marks the Spot: birth control dangers and costs

Sex Marks the Spot: birth control dangers and costs

Katherine Hewitt November 17, 2017

Q: What are the costs of birth control if obtained through student health services? Which birth control is most effective? A: According to TU Health Services, students can receivea  prescription for...

Making connections reconvenes at City Vista. Photo by Stephen Sumrall-Orsak

Making Connections reconvenes, bringing networking opportunities for students

Victoria Abad November 16, 2017

Last Thursday, Nov. 9, students, faculty and alumni arrived at the City Vista Apartments in business attire, kicking off an evening of networking for Trinity professionals. Making Connections is the concerted...

After two years of retirement, Sammye Johnson is returning in the spring to teach her Arts Criticism course. photo by Amani Canada, photo editor

Sammye Johnson returns after two years of retirement

Dominic Walsh November 15, 2017

In May 2016, Trinity said goodbye to Sammye Johnson, distinguished professor emerita of communication, as she retired after 35 years at the university. But a few lucky students will have the chance to...

Richard Zare lectures on the dangers of alcohol consumption. Illustration by Andrea Nebhut

Richard N. Zare lectures on drops of wine and excesses of alcohol

Kara Killinger November 15, 2017

Wine cries. People who drink wine have probably noticed the small drops that form around the side of the glass. In a sped-up recording of this phenomenon the droplets look like they are bouncing off the...

Illustration by Yessenia Lopez

Seniors start UU club

Kara Killinger November 15, 2017

Mackenzie Hill and Claire Burrus both identify as atheists; they are also both thoroughly invested in their church. This semester, the two seniors are starting a religious club on campus, focused more...

Sex Marks the Spot: women who have sex with women, boundaries

Sex Marks the Spot: women who have sex with women, boundaries

Katherine Hewitt November 10, 2017

Q: Safe sex between two females? How? What precautions? A: Women who have sex with women (WSW), can have mouth-to-genital, mouth-to-anal, hand-to-genital, or toy-to-genital interactions. Although WSW...

Cayley Mandadi’s spot in the cheer line was saved for her with a bow and initialed horn at the final home game.  photo by CHLOE SONNIER

Friends of Cayley Mandadi celebrate her life with memorial service

Kara Killinger November 8, 2017

Parker Chapel was packed on the morning of Sunday, Nov. 5. Pews were filled with friends, family, teammates and classmates who cared about Cayley Mandadi. Not everyone there knew each other, but all were...

Trinity visits Rice University for GCURS presentation

Dominic Walsh November 8, 2017

Last Saturday, several Trinity students presented their research at the Gulf Coast Undergraduate Research Symposium (GCURS), which is an annual research conference at Rice University with 10 sections ranging...

graphic by Tyler Herron

United Way makes strides on campus

Bobby Watson November 6, 2017

On Oct. 25, Trinity held a Super Nacho Hour on the Coates Esplanade. The event was a more grandiose version of the university's weekly Nacho Hour in Coates University Center. This was one of many events...

Students play at BSU Field Day. photo by Chloe Sonnier

Black Student Union organizes field day fun

Kara Killinger November 6, 2017

On the warm, cloudy morning of last Saturday, Nov. 4, excited children zoomed around the intramural field. They kicked soccer balls, shot Nerf guns at a target, giggled and tumbled around. All the while,...

Sex Marks the Spot: definitions, genitalia, frequency

Sex Marks the Spot: definitions, genitalia, frequency

Katherine Hewitt November 3, 2017

Q: How can you identify if you’ve ever had sex? What counts? A: The short answer is that sex can mean many different things to many different people. There’s not one universal definition of sex...

Sunshine cottage brings joy to hearing impaired children. Illustration by Madelyn Gaharan

Sunshine Cottage shines with new music program

Victoria Abad November 1, 2017

Junior music education major Ana White is organizing what she calls an "instrument petting zoo" for kids with hearing loss on Friday, Nov. 10. The event will take place at Sunshine Cottage School for...