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The climate crisis will reach San Antonio

The climate crisis will reach San Antonio

Adom Richards, Opinion Columnist January 30, 2025

In early January, one of Los Angeles’s worst wildfires in recent history ripped through the city, burning 23,000 acres and destroying around 5,000 structures. The crisis was exacerbated by the region’s...

Texans’ Buc-ee’s obsession: Dangers of mass consumption

Texans’ Buc-ee’s obsession: Dangers of mass consumption

Dylan Wilford, Opinion Columnist January 30, 2025

For Trinity students making the long haul back to campus after winter break, there is almost always one assured sight during the road trip: a bustling roadside Buc-ee’s. Buc-ee’s is best described...

Give me a break: Consequences of closing dorms on a residential campus

Julianna Plewes, Opinion Editor January 22, 2025

As our residence halls close and we head home for winter break, it’s hard to ignore how Trinity’s housing requirement continually fails students. Besides those lucky few who make it into the apartment-style...

Is AI a helpful assistant or power-hungry machine?

Is AI a helpful assistant or power-hungry machine?

Adom Richards, Opinion Columnist November 21, 2024

AI is on every corner of the internet, whether we like it or not. Website chatbots are now equipped with ChatGPT; AI-generated images are everywhere; our emails and search results are filled with suggestions....

Fentanyl

Drugspert: How to use fentanyl testing strips

Kieran Garvey, Opinion Columnist November 21, 2024

How to test your drugs for fentanyl: 1. Prepare your sample: Place a small amount of the drug you want to test into a container. You’ll need a minimum of 10 milligrams (approximately enough to cover...

Transphobia is welcome at Trinity

Transphobia is welcome at Trinity

Colin Houston, Sports (Interim) Editor November 14, 2024

On Oct. 28, I protested alongside many students, professors and community members against the imposition of professional transphobic grifter Riley Gaines on our campus. In doing so, we found that Trinity...

Free speech or hate speech … or both

Free speech or hate speech … or both

Julianna Plewes, Pulse Reporter November 14, 2024

Students who protested Riley Gaines, a recent controversial speaker, on campus called the presentation hate speech. While protestors argued that hate speech has no place on campus, opposing students and...

Trinity class rings are a pointless investment for graduating students

Trinity class rings are a pointless investment for graduating students

Will Sharp, Opinion Columnist November 7, 2024

Why do we attach so much meaning to expensive rings in the United States? In American culture, a ring symbolizes a sacred bond like marriage or a high achievement as a sports player. Undoubtedly, rings...

Graphic with data about students past and current taking film studies as an ISM and minor.

Lights, Camera, New Major? Trinity needs a film studies major

Kieran Garvey, Opinion Columnist November 7, 2024

As a sophomore at Trinity University with major declaration right around the corner, I’m facing the same choice many students do: deciding on a major. Since I applied to college, I’ve been passionate...

I can’t give up on the United States yet, and neither can you

I can’t give up on the United States yet, and neither can you

Diya Contractor, Opinion Editor November 7, 2024

“Are you okay?” The morning after Election Day, I woke up to several texts from close friends and family asking me if I was okay, how I was doing and to text them if I needed anything. In that moment,...

A plea for a mid-semester holiday

A plea for a mid-semester holiday

Beck Williams, Opinion Columnist October 31, 2024

For most readers, I imagine today is set apart only by its adjacency to yesterday’s festivities. For college students across the country, ‘the day after Halloween’ is a time of recovery, of lots...

We don’t have to be embarrassed by our senator: The case for Colin Allred

We don’t have to be embarrassed by our senator: The case for Colin Allred

Adom RIchards, Opinion Columnist October 31, 2024

Colin Allred is challenging the infamous incumbent Senator Ted Cruz in this year's election. Senator Cruz’s two terms in office have been mired by controversy, such as when Cruz read “Green Eggs and...