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Tackling turnover: Trinity faculty make a grand exit

Tackling turnover: Trinity faculty make a grand exit

Trinity faces the challenges and possible benefits of the rotating faculty and staff
Monica Martinez, News Reporter September 7, 2023

This semester has seen the exit of numerous faculty and staff members. While this behavior is typical at most institutions, Trinity has high numbers of interim and new staff across student affairs, residential...

Bombay Bicycle Club

Exploring San Antonio as off-campus life takes center stage

How the shift to college life and lifted restrictions have changed going-out culture
Samira Turino, Arts and Entertainment Reporter March 9, 2023

With heavy COVID restrictions becoming a thing of the past, the St. Mary’s St. sidewalks are again filled with students making their way to Bombay Bicycle Club on Thursdays, a day more infamously referred...

Tess Coody-Anders, vice president of Strategic Communications and Marketing, brought her background in public relations and healthcare administration to Trinity, an unexpected benefit during the pandemic.

A lighthouse in the COVID sea: Tess Coody-Anders

Emma Utzinger, News Reporter December 2, 2021

You open your inbox and there it is: the weekly COVID update that Tess Coody-Anders writes, giving the numbers, the precautions, the updates. In the turbulent world of the past year and a half, everyone...

"Super Seniors" are back for a fifth year

“Super Seniors” are back for a fifth year

Trinity athletes take advantage of NCAA ruling that grants them an extra year of eligibility
Alejandra Gerlach, Sports Reporter September 9, 2021

As the fall 2021 season kicks off, many have looked forward to the return of regular seasons. While many aspects of the season are back to normal, the impact of the pandemic remains evident. Under normal...

Baseline and surveillance testing conducted on arrival to campus returned eight positive cases. Over 1,000 tests have been administered in the weeks since classes started, according to an email from Tess Coody-Anders, Vice President of Strategic Communications and Marketing.

In-person classes resume amid Delta variant surge

Students readjust to campus life as ProtecTU guidelines continue
Gloria Farris, News Reporter September 9, 2021

Despite students’ growing anticipation of a “normal” fall semester, the new COVID-19 Delta variant and its transmission among the Bexar County population prompted a change of Trinity University’s...

Students reflect on study abroad in China one year later

Students reflect on study abroad in China one year later

Seniors Anna Lund and Tryne Vander Straten recall being optimistic about returning to normalcy in early 2020
Kayla Padilla, Editor-in-Chief March 22, 2021

By late January of 2020, six Trinity students were abroad in China, with one other awaiting a late start to their semester. Around this time, the COVID-19 outbreak began to spread quicker, and almost immediately,...

Tigers dive straight into the SCAC Championships

Tigers dive straight into the SCAC Championships

The championship is the only confirmed in-person meet as of now
Alejandra Gerlach, Sports Reporter February 7, 2021

Trinity athletes whose seasons are typically in the fall or winter now face an abbreviated season occurring in the spring. This is the case for Trinity’s swimming and diving teams who traditionally have...

Harrison Hartman, Anna Miller, and Lauren Dotson studying in the CSI

Trinity is cautiously “opening up” as quarantine anniversary approaches

Two weeks after students, faculty and staff arrived on campus for the spring semester, Trinity is opening its grounds in a way that looks very similar to the fall.
Gloria Farris, News Reporter February 7, 2021

On Jan. 14, Danny Anderson, university president, announced in a mass email that for the first two weeks of Trinity’s spring semester, classes and activities would be conducted virtually. Anderson explained...

What I learned in 2020 from the pandemic

What I learned in 2020 from the pandemic

Yukiko Yamazaki, Opinion Columnist February 7, 2021

In this writing I hope to find closure and meaning for one of the most difficult years many of us have endured in an effort to “move on” in a healthy way. Self-isolation at home was both a terrifying...

Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: What we can learn from the 2020 pandemic episode

Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood: What we can learn from the 2020 pandemic episode

The children's show is no stranger to addressing difficult, sometimes taboo issues
Kayla Padilla, Editor-in-Chief January 28, 2021

In 1954, Daniel Tiger was brought to life in the hit children’s series, “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.” The once stuffed, lumpy-looking puppet has taken on a new cartoon look in “Daniel Tiger’s...

Photo credit: Gracen Hoyle

The harm in upholding pre-pandemic measures of success

Dana Nichols November 4, 2020

illustration by Gracen HoyleIn almost every single class I’ve had over the past three weeks, each of my professors has addressed how overwhelmed and drained we are — students and faculty alike....

Photo credit: Kate Nuelle

Just because you’re hurting does not mean you can hurt others

Shelby Sperling October 21, 2020

illustration by Kate NuelleSo you’ve had a bad day, or maybe even a bad month. Heck, maybe you’re having a bad year. If that’s the case, you’re not alone. Whether you struggle with...