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Sidewalk Symposium: What do you recommend doing to celebrate Fiesta?

Gabriella Garriga April 8, 2018

Taylor Moser, senior business and communication major: “Last year I went to NIOSA, and it was really fun and was really expressive of the San Antonio culture. I got to eat traditional food. That...

What is Fiesta?

What is Fiesta?

Kendra Derrig April 5, 2018

By Kendra Derrig and Kathleen Creedon A PRIMER ON FIESTA Fiesta San Antonio, or just Fiesta, may sound foreign to any student from out of town, but it's just what it sounds like: a party. For nearly...

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The good, bad and ugly of San Antonio

Historical and Cultural Good: McNay Art Museum This 24-room Spanish colonial-revival house turned art museum is really an artwork in itself. Wander around the maze of paintings, drawings, sculptures...

Housing: Welcome to our Trinihome

Housing: Welcome to our Trinihome

Editorial Staff February 22, 2018

We’ve written about the three-year on-campus residency requirement before. Multiple times, in fact. It comes up a lot, and for good reason. Students want independence and freedom when they come to college,...

Residents enjoy having pets as comfort in their dorms. photo by Amani Canada, photo editor

Living on campus with our furry friends

Bobby Watson February 22, 2018

Trinity's requirement for undergraduate students to live their first three years on campus forces most of its students to live in dorms and, more recently, the City Vista apartment complex. This has made...

Moral alignment chart: Residence halls

Moral alignment chart: Residence halls

Georgie Riggs February 22, 2018

Lawful Good: Murchison No longer HOPE Hall but still has a residual air of once having been tended by our community’s greatest servants. Has an elevator that connects lower and upper campus,...

graphic by Liz Day, graphics editor

Off-campus housing and city inequality

Noelle Barrera February 22, 2018

Trinity students make up a large portion of apartment seekers in San Antonio. According to the official Trinity University website, 75 percent of seniors live off campus. Many students live in Trinity’s...

Constantine Kouldukis, left, and Gabriel Levine, right, enjoy living the frat life together. photo by Amani Canada, photo editor

Living among the frat boys

Gabriel Levine February 22, 2018

With senior year at Trinity comes the opportunity to live off campus. For most people, this involves either an apartment or a house with one to three other people. I, however, decided to go for the sitcom...

illustration by Andrea Nebhut

With whom shall I room? How to handle roommate speed dating

Kara Killinger February 21, 2018

Picking someone to live with is no insignificant task. In fact, it can be kind of terrifying — think about all those couples who date for years but still hesitate to pack their boxes and move into the...

Sidewalk Symposium: Living on or off campus for seniors?

Sidewalk Symposium: Living on or off campus for seniors?

Gabriella Garriga February 17, 2018

Caleb Barbor, senior finance major, lives in City Vista. “I think City Vista is a good middle ground. When you rent a house, you get more exposed to cooking and things like that, but when you’re...

Don’t be afraid of 'feelings' during casual sex

Don’t be afraid of ‘feelings’ during casual sex

Gabriel Levine February 7, 2018

Last year I had some casual sex. It was a good time, very college. Yet, after my not-so-significant other left, I felt a strange vacancy, a lack of feeling. I went through a mental checklist. Had sex?...

illustration by Yessenia Lopez, staff illustrator

Let’s get kinky

Sam Ortiz February 7, 2018

Valentine’s Day is here and talk about love and sex is not in the air. People are whispering in dark corners, afraid to be verbal and casual about conversations of the sexual nature. Why is that? I set...