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The Student News Site of Trinity University

Trinitonian

Trinity moves Student Activity Fee into the general tuition

Trinity moves Student Activity Fee into the general tuition

Katie Amdur, News Editor February 20, 2025

Trinity is getting rid of the student activity fee and incorporating it into tuition. SGA predicts their future budgets for allocation to have zero carryover unlike years past, as the funding allocated...

Sadness and slumber or cocktails and crushes: Take this 100% accurate quiz to find out your Valentine’s Day plans

Sadness and slumber or cocktails and crushes: Take this 100% accurate quiz to find out your Valentine’s Day plans

Katie Amdur, News Editor February 14, 2025

Instructions: Keep track of your answers. Do not look ahead. 1. Rom-Com character to spend V-day with: A) Cher, “Clueless” B) Westley, “The Princess Bride” C) Mia Thermopolis, “The Princess...

The Student Funds have dwindled

Trinity’s Student Government Association announces changes in future funding
Katie Amdur, News Editor January 30, 2025

On Dec. 5, the Student Government Association announced dramatic changes to how various student organizations will be funded next year. These changes come after leftover pandemic era funds have finally...

YCT’s speaker sparks organized PRIDE protest

YCT’s speaker sparks organized PRIDE protest

Controversial figure Riley Gaines spoke as students gathered in protest
Katie Amdur, News Reporter October 31, 2024

On Oct. 28, professional athlete and political figure Riley Gaines gave a speech in Trinity University’s Chapman Auditorium. Gaines’ rhetoric sparked a protest in favor of transgender rights. As...

Celebrating Samhain: How students are practicing the pagan holiday

Celebrating Samhain: How students are practicing the pagan holiday

Trinity students celebrate the Celtic holiday that inspired Halloween as we know it
Katie Amdur, News Reporter October 31, 2024

Samhain [saa-wn] is a Celtic celebration of the transition from summer to fall. The week-long celebration is a chance for community time and honoring ancestors. Trinity University’s Alternative Faith...

Blue emergency box outside of Bruce Thomas residential hall

Exposing the silent threat

How Trinity University has handled stalking cases over the semester
Katie Amdur, News Reporter October 31, 2024

Four students have reported stalking cases to Trinity University officials this academic year. None of the cases have involved strangers, according to Darin Wilde, TUPD lieutenant. One case has been...

TUPD patrol car

Who you gonna call?

Katie Amdur, News Reporter October 17, 2024

TUPD publishes daily crime reports, which are compacted into a weekly report in the Trinitonian. All reported crimes on Trinity property are included in these reports, and in recent weeks there have been...

Natasha Trethewey signs a student's copy of her book after her poetry reading.

Trethewey’s poetic activism

Pulitzer Prize-winner Natasha Trethewey recited her poetry to Trinity University students
Katie Amdur, News Reporter October 10, 2024

Natasha Trethewey, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former United States Poet Laureate, spent the evening of Tuesday, Oct. 1 with Trinity University in Ruth Taylor Recital Hall reciting her poetry and signing...

A graph (to scale) ranking the quality of Trinity University’s water bottle refill station filters.

Red light, green light

Water bottle refill stations tested and ranked
Katie Amdur, News Reporter October 3, 2024

Students are raising concerns over the growing number of red lights on campus water bottle stations. Usually, these red lights signal that the filters inside the stations are in need of replacement, but...

Previously on SGA: Student organizations funded

Previously on SGA: Student organizations funded

Katie Amdur, News Reporter September 20, 2024

This week on SGA, senators brought up unchanged water filters, the menstrual product initiative and complaints about Mabee Dining Hall during climate check. Student organizations then presented funding...