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Trinitonian

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World War III memes should send the right message

Benjamin Gonzalez January 23, 2020
Whoever holds the power in a joke makes all the difference
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1869 Challenge spurs controversy

Lindsay Morgan September 28, 2019
Attempts to gain donations called out online
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History with a Tweet

Thomas Harvell-Degolier April 3, 2019
Using social media as a tool in the academic realm
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Are we entitled to entertainment?

Kayla Padilla February 6, 2019

Illustration by Genevieve HumphreysIt all started at a tennis tournament. I was waiting for my match to begin when one of my teammates asked, “Why don’t you have any social media? You’re...

Student interns take Trinity's marketing to the streets

Student interns take Trinity’s marketing to the streets

Naomi Scheer November 11, 2018
The Office of Strategic Communications and Marketing works closely with a "street team" consisting mostly of student interns
Avoiding social media won't cure all problems

Avoiding social media won’t cure all problems

Natalia Salas November 2, 2018

This week, I set out to prove people wrong about our generation. I went the whole week without using any social media, including Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter with the intention of getting...

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Memory vs. moments: Where’s the balance in life?

Kara Killinger November 1, 2018

This past weekend, I went on a student bus tour of the Isle of Skye in Northern Scotland. Each place the bus stopped could be a desktop background, which is probably why Kanye West and Harry Styles have...

illustration by Julia Poage

Cardi B’s first album shocks and awes the haters

Daniel Rothschild April 18, 2018

“Is she a stripper, a rapper, a singer?” Cardi B raps about herself on "Drip," the second song on her new album "Invasion of Privacy." This is a kind of started-from-the-bottom statement that actively...

Tigers run social media for Final Four

Tigers run social media for Final Four

Hailey Wilson April 5, 2018

Trinity students leapt at the opportunity to experience the Final Four over the weekend as San Antonio hosted the culmination of the NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament. The weekend was filled...

Illustration by Yessenia Lopez, staff illustrator

Escape from the echo chamber

Benjamin Gonzalez January 24, 2018

As I scroll through my Twitter feed, retweeting Bernie Sanders’ passionate calls for health to be declared a human right, it’s easy for me to forget that most of the political opinions that appear...

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Why the Trinitonian is relevant

Manfred Wendt October 9, 2017

At a small school like Trinity, it is easy, and sometimes even fun, to attack the institutions on campus for not being as large, well-funded or putatively prestigious as institutions on larger campuses....