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CPS Energy's description of the Olmos Park area outage.

Who cut the lights?

Colin Houston, News Editor September 26, 2024

Last Friday Sept. 20 at roughly 7:40 p.m., students across campus reported three power surges happening in quick succession.  Electricity was quickly restored on campus, however outages in the Olmos...

Student Inclusion and Belonging (SIB) team members pose with LeeRoy as El Mercado kicks off and National Voter Registration Day winds down.

Double header at the Magic Stones

National Voter Registration Day coincides with Latinx Heritage Month kickoff
Colin Houston, News Editor September 21, 2024

Two major events occurred at the Magic Stones this Tuesday: Trinity University’s National Voter Registration Day (NVRD) event and El Mercado, hosted by Student Inclusion and Belonging (SIB), which kicked...

The debaters from the first event in The Conversation series (From left: Jack Moore, Brooklyn King, Will Walker, Avery Wilson)

The environment on center stage

The debate program hosts public debate on climate change policy
Colin Houston, News Editor September 12, 2024

After a long pause due to COVID-19, the Trinity University Debate program hosted a public debate in Dicke Hall last Thursday. Four debaters, forming two teams of two, argued over the merits of a carbon...

Are professional sports fixed? (Spoiler alert: sort of)

Are professional sports fixed? (Spoiler alert: sort of)

How the relentless pursuit of profit has affected pro sports officiating
Colin Houston, Opinion Columnist February 22, 2024

If you ask someone who doesn’t watch sports to imitate a sports fan, they’re likely to say something along the lines of “Come on, ref!” Complaining about referees is comically common among fans,...

Vince McMahon getting kicked by a giant boot color

For Vince McMahon, writing was on the wall

Vince McMahon’s allegations were a long time coming
Colin Houston, Opinion Columnist February 16, 2024

In January, a lightning bolt hit the professional wrestling world when Vince McMahon, the longtime chairman who helped build World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) into the biggest wrestling company in the...

Colonialism and genocide don’t have two sides

Colonialism and genocide don’t have two sides

Trinity needs to speak for the side of justice regarding Israel’s campaign in Gaza
Colin Houston, Opinion Columnist February 15, 2024

A population of 2.3 million people, 47% of whom are children, are being relentlessly bombed, shot at, deprived of shelter and starved to death every day. Tens of thousands are dead, and our government...

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,...

SA’s reproductive justice fund is under attack

SA’s reproductive justice fund is under attack

Conservative interest groups reveal their audacity in lawsuit against fund
Colin Houston, Opinion Columnist November 2, 2023

In this week’s edition of news that strengthens the popular hypothesis that the state of Texas may actually just be Hell, a recent attempt by the city of San Antonio to allocate funds to reproductive...

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