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The Student News Site of Trinity University

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Just because it’s in your head doesn’t mean it’s not real

Just because it’s in your head doesn’t mean it’s not real

Sarah Fisher, Editor-in-Chief October 6, 2023

Last semester, I started getting nauseous all the time. Really nauseous. Sometimes I couldn’t bring myself to do anything but lay down, I could barely eat more than a few bites of any meal without feeling...

Photo credit: Ren Rader

Don’t let the camera eat first, or second

Mai Vo October 27, 2020

illustrations by Ren RaderI find myself asking the same question when going out with friends: Is Instagram influencing how we eat?There are few relationships that have become as inexorably intertwined...

Meghan Magill Photo credit: Kate Nuelle

Student Conduct Panel, dean’s office issue Health Pledge violation sanctions

Benjamin Adams September 16, 2020
Forty-two reports of violations have been made anonymously and through TUPD, Residential Life.
Jacke Robledo and Chantel Champagne talk while waiting for students to arrive. Photo credit: Kate Nuelle

COVID-19 testing reveals low positivity rate

Jake Perry September 16, 2020
Of 100 students, faculty and staff randomly sampled, zero tests to-date have come back positive.
Photo credit: Gracen Hoyle

Life lessons learned from inside a psych ward

Savannah Wahlgren September 9, 2020
During my junior year of high school, I spent eight days in a psychiatric hospital. Apart from a new set of coping skills and thought exercises, I managed to learn a few things along the way.
Students check-in at Laurie Auditorium for COVID-19 testing during move-in. Testing was provided free-of-charge by Trinity. Photo credit: Genevieve Humphreys

Isolation vs. quarantine and everything else you need to know about COVID-19 treatment

Neha Kumar September 9, 2020
University health staff monitors symptoms, conducts vital signs checks, and contact-traces for students considered have had close contact with or tested positive for COVID-19.
Photo credit: Gabrielle Rodriguez

A History of Sports and Diseases

Paige Wallace September 9, 2020
How athletics have adapted to global health changes
Photo credit: Nadia Crawford

Party on Prassel rooftop

Jake Perry September 3, 2020
Days into classes first-years were caught having an unsafe gathering on Prassel roof, breaking Health Pledge.
Photo credit: Genevieve Humphreys

Trinity reopens campus to select students

Benjamin Adams August 27, 2020
967 students are living on campus, including City Vista, 535 of which are first-years.
Everything you need to know to hate Daylight Saving Time as much as I do

Everything you need to know to hate Daylight Saving Time as much as I do

Victoria Stringer March 18, 2020
Daylight Saving Time does more harm than good in terms of both physical and mental health.
Photo credit: Andrea Nebhut

Acknowledging the intricate relationship between physical and mental health

Dana Nichols February 19, 2020
While exercising is seen as a form of "self care" and a healthy practice, there are ways in which it can be unhealthy that are important to address before it's too late
Photo credit: Ren Rader

Healthcare shouldn’t be a burden

Luke Eakin February 13, 2020

Illustration by Ren Rader Both of my older brothers, Caleb and Kyle, were born with cystic fibrosis, a genetic disease that mainly affects the lungs. It can also affect other organs, such as the liver...