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Free the press, it’s for the people

Logan Crews, Editor-in-Chief February 16, 2023

About two weeks after a train carrying hazardous materials derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, residents who had evacuated are coming back home. So is journalist Evan Lambert, after his arrest at a press...

PSA: The library is not a bedroom

PSA: The library is not a bedroom

Logan Crews, Editor-in-Chief February 9, 2023

This editorial could be summed up in six words: please stop canoodling in the library. With a few more words, we could add the Coates Student Center, the hammocks outside the chapel and really anywhere...

No more Zoom, bring back snow days

No more Zoom, bring back snow days

Logan Crews, Editor-in-Chief February 2, 2023

For as sedentary as it makes us, Zoom has made us forget the importance of rest. This week, Trinity announced that students would attend class virtually due to inclement weather on Tuesday, Jan. 31...

Humanizing mass shooting victims

Humanizing mass shooting victims

Logan Crews, Editor-in-Chief January 26, 2023

Eleven people have died since Monday, Jan. 21, when a shooter made his way through Lunar New Year celebrations in Monterey Park, California. Eleven people whose families and friends are reeling from an...

Make the break your own

Make the break your own

Logan Crews, Editor-in-Chief November 18, 2022

Thanksgiving break is weird as a college student. All breaks, really, are weird, but especially this week at the almost-end of the semester that gives you a second to catch your breath before throwing...

Double-check the checkmark

Double-check the checkmark

Logan Crews, Editor-in-Chief November 10, 2022

As of Wednesday of this week, any old Twitter user can get a blue verification check for the low cost of $7.99 a month. Well, “low” if you don’t count the cost of disinformation, digital identity...

Legendary journalists give perspective

Legendary journalists give perspective

Logan Crews, Editor-in-Chief November 3, 2022

Last weekend, three Trinitonian staff members set off to Washington D.C. only two hours after editors vacated the newsroom at 2:13 a.m. Student journalists from around the country flocked to the Grand...

Open letter to visiting alumni

Open letter to visiting alumni

Logan Crews, Editor-in-Chief October 20, 2022

Trinity isn’t the way you left it, for better or for worse (you can make that judgment for yourself, though). It’s not just the pandemic — it’s new leadership, new generations of students, new...

When your “unproblematic” favs let you down

When your “unproblematic” favs let you down

Logan Crews, Editor-in-Chief October 13, 2022

Whether you like it or not, Rex Orange County’s music has been inescapable over the past few years. Maybe you’re a superfan, or maybe like the Trinitonian production team, you hear songs like “Loving...

End the mental health competition

End the mental health competition

Logan Crews, Editor-in-Chief October 6, 2022

Today marks the end of Trinity’s Mental Health Awareness Week, a much needed call to attention for students, staff and faculty at this university. Through collaborations with Chapel | Spiritual Life,...

Retire the three-year residency requirement

Retire the three-year residency requirement

Logan Crews, Editor-in-Chief September 29, 2022

Trinity University isn’t the only university that is likened to a “bubble,” but given the size of our campus and its placement within the seventh largest city in the country, the Trinity bubble is...

Get to know us: people behind the paper

Get to know us: people behind the paper

Logan Crews, Editor-in-Chief September 22, 2022

For our fourth editorial of the semester, we’re going to get a little more personal. If you find yourself holding the Trinitonian in your hands every Friday, or waking up to our newsletter in your inbox,...

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