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Jerheme Urban to return to the field after 25-year absence

Jerheme Urban to return to the field after 25-year absence

Taking advantage of COVID year, Urban returns for Mega-Senior season
Overhyped Tiger Fan, Shorts Peddler April 4, 2024

This piece is entirely satirical as a part our April Fool’s edition, the Trinibonian. With spring football practices rolling around, a familiar face has been spotted in a new position. Trinity football...

Shohei Oh-Gambler: Involvement with the mob?

Shohei Oh-Gambler: Involvement with the mob?

Shohei Ohtani’s recent gambling allegations have fans questioning his true identity
Big Money, Reposter April 4, 2024

This piece is entirely satirical as a part our April Fool’s edition, the Trinibonian. The Dodgers took a chance this offseason and signed former Los Angeles Angel Shohei Ohtani for a ten-year, $700...

March Madness takes a new form

March Madness takes a new form

64 teams compete in a single-elimination tournament to determine who can create the best memes
King Memememememe, Reposter April 4, 2024

This piece is entirely satirical as a part our April Fool’s edition, the Trinibonian. March is an important time of year for college basketball programs across the country, but studies have shown...

Rom coms (color)

The MCU killed the rom-com star … or did it?

Sarah Fisher, Editor-in-Chief February 8, 2024

During winter break, I kept seeing TikTok ads for one particular movie: “Anyone But You,” starring Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney. These ads promised to revive the rom-com, a genre that has been pronounced...

Selma Sanchez, junior

Sidewalk Symposium: What is love? (Baby, don’t hurt me)

Daniel Itkins, Pulse Reporter February 8, 2024

Selma Sanchez, junior communication and Spanish double-major What is love? “Love is this feeling that you get when you are surrounded by the people that you care about and those that you want to take...

A dream for now: Trinity’s future with sex ed

A dream for now: Trinity’s future with sex ed

Library liaison Alex Gallin-Parisi hopes to implement sexual education curriculum
Monica Martinez, News Reporter February 8, 2024

Alex Gallin-Parisi, outreach and engagement librarian, noticed a lack of comprehensive sexual education for students on campus. Later this semester, she’ll go through the process to mend that. “Over...

Rethink the idea of soulmates: Mine’s my twin

Rethink the idea of soulmates: Mine’s my twin

Emma Power, Opinion Columnist February 8, 2024

My sister is my soulmate. We, as twins, are not the obvious candidates for being labeled soulmates, but, considering that Master Class says that soulmates have an intense connection with each other, I’d...

Cupid on vacation (color)

Why does Cupid get to take a vacation?

Riya Vankamamidi, Opinion Columnist February 8, 2024

If you’re currently in a happy relationship, bam boom we hate you. For many, Feb. 14 is a day of pure love and bliss, but for the rest of us, it’s a time to angrily devour heart-shaped chocolates and...

Social anxiety: When your heart is in a cage

Social anxiety: When your heart is in a cage

Colin Houston, Opinion Columnist February 8, 2024

For most of my life, I wasn’t aware that I suffered from social anxiety. It was only recently, on what was probably the easiest day of my psychiatrist’s career, that I was diagnosed with the disorder,...

First-years Alex Polster and Aaralyn Burt hold hands

Expressing love in friendships: An ode to platonic love

Life’s too short not to tell your friends you love them
Aubrey Jackson, Arts & Entertainment Reporter February 8, 2024

Expressing love platonically is severely underrated. It doesn’t make sense to me that love is seen as normal and inherent when people are dating but not when they’re friends. I would argue that love...

“Passages” and the double standards of sex scenes

“Passages” and the double standards of sex scenes

It’s time to be candid about Hollywood’s seeming distaste of onscreen depictions of gay sex
Om Dighe, Arts & Entertainment Columnist February 8, 2024

In late January, the nominations for the 96th Academy Awards were announced, with “Poor Things” receiving 11 well-deserved nominations. The film is easily my favorite from last year, thanks to its...

How parasocial relationships impact society

How parasocial relationships impact society

The pros and cons of obsessing over celebrities online
Eve Slemp, Arts & Entertainment Editor February 8, 2024

Have you ever had a special connection with a celebrity and thought, “We are meant to be; … we just haven’t met yet.” Well, I have some news for you: you’re experiencing the effect of a parasocial...