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Senior Column: 3 years of extras

Senior Column: 3 years of extras

Logan Crews, Editor-in-Chief April 27, 2023

I said goodbye to Trinity three years ago. Within two days of the news that COVID was not only interrupting our spring break but shutting down our university for the rest of the semester, I had driven...

Lessons from production night

Lessons from production night

Logan Crews, Editor-in-Chief April 27, 2023

For the final editorial of the year, the production team would like to present what we’ve learned over many a Wednesday night spent in the Dungeon — our final project, if you will. Turns out putting...

Campus crust level check

Campus crust level check

Logan Crews, Editor-in-Chief April 20, 2023

Anna Rudegeair is a TikTok user known for her signature “crust level check” videos. In each one, she implores people to stop scrolling and walk through a checklist with her to reveal their current...

No, I don’t regret majoring in Geosciences

No, I don’t regret majoring in Geosciences

Earth science is necessary, important and applicable across every single field
Logan Crews, Editor-in-Chief April 20, 2023

I’m a senior geosciences (and French) major going to divinity school in the fall. Over the past month approaching graduation, I’ve heard it all. “What does religion have to do with rocks?” “Do...

Setting student-professor boundaries

Setting student-professor boundaries

Logan Crews, Editor-in-Chief April 13, 2023

A student turns in an assignment a day past the due date, and their grade drops. A professor takes two weeks to grade what they said they would return in two days, and the most a student can do is complain...

Come one, come all! Witness the horrors of the newsroom

Come one, come all! Witness the horrors of the newsroom

Logan Crews, Editor-in-Chief March 30, 2023

This piece is entirely satirical. Read the rest of our April Fool’s edition, the Trinibonian, here. The Trinibonian newsroom has a certain reputation for being far away, dark and slightly dingy. Tucked...

Trinity parasocial relationships

Trinity parasocial relationships

Logan Crews, Editor-in-Chief March 23, 2023

Don’t know what a parasocial relationship is? Search “Taylor Swift Eras Tour” on Twitter, and you’ll get thousands of examples. Fans calling her “mother” or “lover,” writing directly to...

It's a small school, stop the gossip

It’s a small school, stop the gossip

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

We can hear you. We can hear the echoes of your roommate’s complaints from the second floor of Coates Student Center. We can hear you name-dropping at local coffeeshops, and we can even hear the Greek...

Bring back the Sperm Squad, bring back controversy

Bring back the Sperm Squad, bring back controversy

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

Trinity isn’t known for its school spirit. It’s not known for having a warring student body rife with controversy, either. We all know both of these things make for a more entertaining college experience,...

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Reconnecting with your inner child

Logan Crews, Editor-in-Chief February 23, 2023

College is stressful. Being an adult is stressful. Will the grind ever stop? If there is a higher power, does it have any mercy for our endless toil and suffering? It’s OK, here’s some Play-Doh. There’s...

Harry Styles being attacked by bees at the Grammys, color version

Another year, another round of Grammys backlash

Beyoncé’s snub highlights the fading credibility and relevance of the Recording Academy
Logan Crews, Editor-in-Chief February 16, 2023

If you haven’t already, it might be time to let go of the Grammy Awards as an actual authority on music. This year, the Recording Academy again failed to escape its regular accusations of racism and...

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Trinity officially welcomes new “storyteller-in-chief”

Vanessa Beasley takes her place as 20th president after week of inauguration events
Logan Crews, Editor-in-Chief February 16, 2023

Days before drones flew through the sky to spell out her name, the lobby outside President Vanessa Beasley’s office bustled with inauguration preparations. Letters from presidents of other universities...