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Dear readers,

Starting January 2020, The Roar will be on a new platform with a new website. Please visit: https://trinitytransmedia.com/theroar/

Our social media sites remain the same. Thank you for your continuing attention and support!

The Roar Editor

Bye for Now!

Student reporters listen to TPR reporter Paul Flahive during class
(photo by Josie Liu)

Dear readers,

As of Friday, May 24, the last story of the spring 2019 season of The Roar was published.

The Roar will hibernate until its next season, spring 2020. Big shout out to the following student reporters for their hard and great work of producing stories for The Roar, and please don't forget to check out their story behind stories on our podcast: Jackson Beach, Makenna Bentley, Jillian Cready, Erin Crooks, Luke Dias, Sophie Dwyer, Alexandra Gereda-Gordon, Colton Hawkins, William Hinman, Abigail Holland, Kadarius Lee, Samuel McWhorter, Ian Nielsen, Meredith Peckham, Nick Smetzer, Miranda Smith, Matthew Thomas, Mark Tindall, and Isabella Weston.

Thank you very much for all the support! See you next season!

Stumberg Winners Gear Up for Their Summer Adventure

By Matt Thomas and Mark Tindall

In March, five student entrepreneur teams from Trinity each won a $5,000 prize in the first round of the Stumberg Venture Competition. That is not the end of the story, but the beginning of a new adventure.

With the $5000 seed money, the five teams will stay on Trinity campus over the summer to participate in the Accelerator Program, working 40-hour weeks with pay of $10 per hour (in addition to the prize money). Each team has a unique business idea, for-profit or non-profit, which they hope to further materialize through the summer program.

Conservative Students Striving to Have a Voice on Campus

The homepage of The Tower

By Will Hinman

In 2017, Manfred and Jonah Wendt, then Trinity sophomores, distributed flyers advertising an upcoming talk by conservative filmmaker, Dinesh D’Souza. Taking issue with D’Souza’s provocative conservative ideology being put on display at Trinity, some students collected the flyers and appended them to the Wendts’ dorm door with a variety of handwritten additions. The notes ran the gamut from politely critical to simply rude. Taking the notes as harassment, the Wendt brothers filed a complaint with Trinity University Police.

Receiving coverage in not only the Trinitonian, but also the SA Current, the Rivard Report, and even the far-right outlet, Breitbart, this incident was one of the most public examples of the disparate political views on Trinity’s campus.

Trinity Female Athletes Dominating Male-Dominated Sports

By Abby Holland and Makenna Bentley

Victoria Trabysh, junior psychology major from Amarillo, Texas, found a passion for boxing after her senior year of high school. She found inspiration in her favorite professional female boxers Ava Knight, Mikaela Mayer and Claressa Shields, and dreamed of one day becoming a boxer like them.

“A lot of people think of combat sports, boxing in particular, as violent, but I don't see it as that at all,” says Trabysh. “I see it as a way to express yourself. In a lot of ways it gives me confidence.”

Trabysh has a rigorous training schedule. Going to the gym five to six times a week and training one to two hours each day. She is typically one of the few females to box at her Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) gym and does so with pride. “As hard as it is being one of the only girls, it also kind of motivates me,” she says.

Student Research Bringing Attention to Campus Accessibility

The path leading to the only entrance to the Coates Library.
Click here to view 360 degree photos (photos by Nick Smetzer).

By Nick Smetzer

As summer approaches, plans are being made to renovate portions of Trinity's upper and lower campus. While standard updates to older buildings may be welcome, students, faculty and staff at Trinity have been making a particular effort to improve campus accessibility.

Graduating senior Cathy Terrace, majoring anthropology, has spent her last year at Trinity studying the campus’ history with accessibility, and has noted several areas that pose particular challenges to students.

“Students with mobility impairments who can’t take stairs, for example, are denied easy access to a lot of areas on campus,” said Terrace. An example is the Storch building. "You have to physically leave the building if you leave either half of the basement floor of Storch.”

Latin Jazz Series Showcasing Unique Sound of San Antonio

By Miranda Smith

In the past three months, the Latin Jazz Brunch Series has provided a stimulating experience to both its musicians and listeners.

The event is sponsored by San Antonio’s jazz radio station KRTU based at Trinity University and is coordinate by Henry Brun, a KRTU radio show host.

Brun, 58, was first captivated by jazz while living in Puerto Rico as a boy. He began professionally performing jazz at 11. Since then, he has played around the world, and has performed with his award-winning band for nearly 30 years. For the past 10 years, he has also hosted a Sunday afternoon radio show on KRTU called "the Latin Jazz Brunch."