Trinity Master Plan Hosts Forum for Campus Improvement

By Katie Groke

Students Chris Soto and Marcella Reyes look at
alternative plans for the Trinity Campus
Photo by Katie Groke

Students, faculty, and staff gathered Tuesday to discuss possible improvements to the Trinity University campus, including parking, dorm renovation and additional entrance to campus, at public forums hosted by the Trinity University Facilities Master Plan Committee.

Suggested campus improvements include replacing parking lots on lower campus with an additional intramural field and grass areas for recreation. To compensate for the loss of parking, a parking structure outside the Bell Athletic Center is suggested. This would increase easily accessible parking for both student residents and visitors during sporting events.

People at the meeting also discussed possible improvements to upperclassman dorms, such as renovating three of the upperclassman dorms into single room styles, similar to the improvement done to the North Hall during last summer. They also suggested a possible apartment building for seniors and juniors to improve privacy.

Trinity Soccer Competes with Professional Clubs at Home and Abroad

By Dana McLaughlin

The Trinity Men’s soccer concluded their spring season with a hard-fought 3-2 loss to the newly founded San Antonio National Soccer League team, San Antonio Football Club (SAFC) at the Toyota Field on Thursday.

Trinity men's soccer team (in stripes) plays against 

San Antonio Football Club on Thursday at the Toyota Field

Photos by Dana McLaughlin

SAFC’s starting 11, including former Colorado Rapids midfielder Carlos Alvarez, former San Antonio Scorpion midfielder, Rafael Castillo and Chicago Fire defender, Greg Cochrane, presented a formidable obstacle to the Tigers early on in the match under the lights of Toyota Field.

The Tigers conceded their first goal of the match in the 35th minute as SAFC’s Michael Reed drove home Bobby Moseley’s well struck cross with a header into the back of Trinity's net.  

Lecture Discusses Biblical Influence of Gender Discrimination

Professor Valarie Ziegler gives a lecture
on Thursday at the Stieren Theater
Photos by Abi Birdsell

By Abi Birdsell

Trinity University hosted Valarie Ziegler, professor of religious studies from DePauw University, on Thursday to give a talk on gender discrimination related to the Christian belief and its impact on popular culture.

Ziegler’s lecture was titled “Submission, Sex and Sinraptors: The Evangelical Adam as Alpha Male in American Popular Culture,” as part of the Lennox Seminar, a yearly speaker series hosted by different departments. This year’s theme is “(Re)inventing the Bible,” which examines how communities throughout history have created and recreated the Bible.

The talk focused on the modern effort by conservative evangelicals and important religious authorities to model American society in the image of Eden. As a result, the subordination and submission of woman to men is emphasized.

Trinity Students Spend Spring Break in One of the World’s Top Geosciences Labs

Joshua Hernandes and Bethany Rysak in the
geoscience lab at Stanford University
Photo by Kathleen Surpless

By Nate Borchers

Bethany Rysak and Joshua Hernandez, two Trinity University students, went to California for the Spring Break.

But no, they didn’t get sun bathing on the beach. Instead, they submerged themselves in the geosciences laboratory at Stanford University.

In the lab, one of the world’s most advanced fallibilities of its kind, Rysak, a sophomore, and Hernandez, a senior, both majoring in geosciences, studied rock samples from sunny California’s Sierra Nevada mountain chain. So perhaps Rysak and Hernandez can still check off the “exotic location” box for their Spring Break.

Quality Coffee Time with the Trinity Cops

TUPD offers Trinity students donut holes and coffee
Photos by Nipuni Gomes

By Nipuni Gomes

Trinity University Police Department served up coffee and donut holes for students, faculty, and staff in the campus esplanade this morning, inviting people to have “Coffee with a Cop.”

This event is an initiative to foster the Trinity community’s relationship with its police department as well as raise awareness of the services TUPD has to offer.

“This is one of our best events because our community loves coffee and donuts!” said Paul Morales, Corporal of Community Awareness at TUPD. “I think we gain the students’ trust as being approachable, and not as some mean cops out there.”

Troye Sivan Performs in Houston during Spring Break

Troye Sivan performs in Houston on Thursday
Photos by Alyssa Olson

By Haylee Rodriguez

Troye Sivan stepped onto the stage in front of hundreds of screaming fans at the sold-out Houston concert on Thursday and delivered the opening lines of his song “Bite.”

“Kiss me on the mouth and set me free/Sing me like a choir,” Sivan sang as the crowd surged forward in an attempt to get as close to him as possible.

At House of Blues, a music concert hall in Houston, the 20-year-old Australian singer and​ songwriter​ delivered his final act of the United States part of his Blue Neighbourhood world tour.

California Bass Player Debuts at South By Southwest

Covet bassist David Adamiak and lead guitarist 
Yvette Young on stage during a SXSW event 
Photo by Amy Drozdiak

By Amy Drozdiak

The streets of downtown Austin have been abuzz this past week with energy, filled with more than 30,000 out-of-town visitors gathering for the internationally known SXSW Festival. On Wednesday night, David Adamiak and his Mathrock band called Covet made their SXSW debut.

Adamiak, 24, is the bass player for this Northern California based, three-member band, and acted as the band’s spokesman during the show at The Hideout, a funky, after-hours coffeehouse featuring an intimate acoustic stage.

Inside Trinity's Softball Team: Rebecca Berreth

By Sara McCarty

For two consecutive weeks recently, the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference named Trinity softball player Rebecca Berreth Hitter of the Week.

Berreth earned the title for the weeks of February 29 and March 7 for her outstanding statistics. So far this season, which started on February 19, she has had 22 runs batten in, three homeruns, while sporting a .487 batting average.

Off the field, Berreth also stands out as a student athlete taking on a demanding major, neuroscience.

College Students Spending Spring Break Exploring Social Injustice and Racial Reconciliation

SAUP students in the Fellowship Hall
Photos by Nancy Li

By Nancy Li

More than 100 college students from around Texas and beyond spent their Spring Break living in Highland Terrace Outreach Center, a church on the Southeast side of San Antonio, to learn about social justice issues in the context of the Christian gospel. One of these issues, racism, emotionally touched many.

“Race has been used to devalue people in the name of God,” Ryan Cook, a staff volunteer with the San Antonio Urban Project (SAUP) and a Trinity University alumnus, told 130 college students from Texas Women’s University, Texas Southern University, University of Oklahoma, Trinity University and other colleges on March 12, the first day of a seven-day missions project.

Cook shared his personal stories as a black man, including people telling him how he spoke well for a black man or when one of his coworkers looked at him and said that he could act out Ben Carson in a skit held among colleagues.

Trinity Baseball Triumphed Hectic Week

By Trevor Griffin

Trinity baseball team on the road on March 14 for
a game against Denison held at Texas Lutheran
Photo by Trevor Griffin

The Trinity University Baseball Team finished one of the most intense and action packed weeks of the year just in time for the Spring Break.

The team played nine games in 10 days between March 4 and 14, amounting to 82 innings all together. The Tigers won seven of these nine games to stand at 17-4 at the end of the 10-day stretch.

The tournament​ ​started with the Tigers playing a three-game series at Texas Lutheran University on March 4. After winning two of the three games, the team returned home to prepare for their upcoming games.

However, a severe storm and rain caused a cancellation of a game scheduled for March 9. After waiting for two days for the rain to die down, Trinity proceeded to play five hard fought games in the following five days, against DeSales University of Pennsylvania, Denison University of Ohio and three games against Southwestern University of Texas.

Lunar New Year Gala Celebrates Asian Culture at Trinity

By Nate Borchers

Sights, sounds and even smells of the Lunar New Year filled Laurie Auditorium on Friday night as 61 Trinity students danced, sang and showcased their talents in celebration of the holiday.

After being treated to Asian cuisine such as spring rolls, fried rice and satay, the audience filled Laurie Auditorium, some to see their roommates or friends perform, others to get a taste of the Lunar New Year celebration at Trinity.

“None of my family is of Asian heritage, but growing up in the Bay Area where there’s a huge Asian population, crowding China town in San Francisco to see the Lunar New Year Parade is just as much of a holiday for the rest of the population as it is for the Chinese, Vietnamese, etc.,” said Zachary Klein, a sophomore. “So in an odd way, attending tonight’s performance was kind of like going home.”

Trinity Lacrosse Gaining Momentum and Aiming Higher

Trinity University men's lacrosse team
(in black and maroon) hosts
Texas A&M Corps of Cadets on Saturday
Photos by Taylor Shelgren 

By Taylor Shelgren

Trinity men's club Lacrosse continued their winning streak on Saturday with two home wins in a roll, defeating San Antonio College 14 to 1 and Texas A&M Corps of Cadets 13 to 1.

The team crushed both opponents on Saturday and it is clear that they are a big fish in a small pond. Their record now stands at 3 to 0. 

“There are a lot of guys on the team who have played before, so we have a lot of developed talent that these other teams simply don’t have,” said senior Austin Phillippe, who plays midfield.  

Sarah Hepola Speaks about Binge Drinking and Sexual Assault

Sarah Hepola's book

By Davis Mathis

Sarah Hepola’s story has been part of the reason that college binge drinking gained much national attention in the past year, and on Thursday, the author and advocate shared her story with students at Trinity University.

Hepola, 41, author of critically acclaimed memoir, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget, told hundreds of students who filled up Laurie Auditorium, "My job isn't to make you drink less. That's your decision. My job is to make you think about drinking in a smarter way."

She told the audience that "blackouts" were often a part of her life when she was drinking, bemoaning the lack of education and information people have about the syndrome.