Katherine Hewitt: Spreading Passion for Wellness

Katherine Hewitt at the Easting Disorder Awareness Week
earlier this month.
Photo by Andrea Acevedo and Elizabeth McEnrue

By Taylor Moser

Katherine Hewitt, the Trinity University Coordinator of Wellness, makes strides every day to make campus a healthier and more beautiful place for students and faculty alike.

Hewitt says she has always had a passion for working in public health. Before coming to Trinity, she worked as a Health and Wellness Coordinator in upstate New York. She found her way to Trinity on a mission to spread her passion for wellness and enlighten students of the significance of being healthy.

Hewitt is a Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) and uses her education to aid her in creating a greater community of wellness on campus. On a daily basis, Hewitt not only teaches but lives by what she calls the “four pillars of wellness”-- nutrition, physical activity, sleep, and no substance abuse. She considers them “a few key areas you can be successful in taking care of your wellness."

New Policies Aim at Expanding Study Abroad Opportunities

Trinity student Tierney Thomison currently studies abroad in Bolivia
Photo courtesy of Tierney Thomison

By Abby Tisdale and Katie Welch

A new model could provide better financial aid and therefore more opportunities of studying abroad for Trinity students, said a faculty and staff panel at a town hall Tuesday evening.

The panel featured Dr. Katsuo Nishikawa, the director of the Center of International Engagement, Glendi Gaddis, Assistant Vice President of Student Financial Services, and Nancy Erickson, assistant director of Study Abroad. Student Government Association (SGA) sponsored the townhall.

The new model is called home school tuition model, or HSTM. This model allows students studying abroad during fall and spring semesters to only pay for the normal cost as attending their home school, Trinity, including tuition, room and board. Students are also able to use federal, state and Trinity financial aid while studying abroad during regular semesters. Airfare, however, is not covered, said Nishikawa.

Rugby: Trinity’s Newest Sport Addition

By Johnna Guillerman

Rugby players on Saturday in a tackle before earning a try.
Photo by Johnna Guillerman

Trinity University’s brand new rugby team played their very first game on Saturday in the Rugby 7’s Tournament.

A total of five teams competed, with Trinity placing in 4th, marking a strong start for the team, established just eight months ago.

The team started when a group of friends passed the rugby ball to one another after class. The group got bigger, and they decided to start recruiting others and register with the school.

Joel Holmes: Football Player, Musician, and Maybe, US President

By Kate Irvin 

Joel Holmes has many different sides to his story and has not let those sides go unnoticed.

Left: Joel Holmes taking his stance in a Trinity football game.
Right: Holmes singing in the Trinity choir.
Photos courtesy of Bennet Soriano

The second-year starter at left guard on the Trinity football team also started for the Tigers as a freshman, which is not very common. He has played football since a young age and claims it to be one of his first loves. He came to Trinity to continue to playing football, but has found that Trinity offers many more opportunities.

Through the football teammates, he was introduced to Greek life and eventually became a member of the Bengal lancer fraternity. This club historically and almost exclusively has had football players as their members and is known on campus as the "football frat."

Mariana López Levi and Matthew Reynolds: Growing Music Talent at Trinity

Mariana López Levi and Matthew Reynolds
at their senior recital
Photo curtsey of Becca Bur

By Emma Lucero 

​Trinity University seniors Mariana López Levi​, soprano,​ and Matthew Reynolds​, baritone, gave their senior recital in Ruth Taylor Recital Hall on Saturday.

These accomplished musicians performed operatic arias, such as "O luce di quest'anima" from Linda di Chamounix, and Broadway show tunes​, such as "Giants in the Sky" from Into the Woods, in front of a large audience made up of family and friends.

Among them was Liezelle Lopez​,​ 23, a Trinity alum who knew López Levi and Reynolds from choir and voice lessons. She thought the recital was great and very entertaining. ​

Growing Pains of Parking as Bell Center Renovations Continue

Crowded parking lot at the Trinity Men's 

Baseball home opener last weekend

Photo by Abby Tisdale

By Abby Tisdale

Piece Pontikes, a Trinity baseball player, arrived on campus two hours before his team’s home game on Sunday, hoping to get a parking spot closer to the baseball field. "I still had to park all the way by the football field," he said.

Pontikes was not alone. Coming to the game between the Tigers and Babson University, parents and students had a hard time parking cars. Although the Prassel Garage was opened for additional student and visitor parking, due to the current construction outside the Bell Center, parking was tight.

“We shockingly got a spot right up front, which never happens,” junior English major Julia Camp, 21, said.

Dinesh D'Souza Visit Stirs Controversy at Trinity

By Andrea Acevedo

Around 1,500 people, mostly San Antonio residents and some Trinity students, filled Laurie Auditorium Tuesday night to hear political commentator Dinesh D’Souza.

D’Souza, who received a standing ovation as he walked in Tuesday night, spoke on the history of the Democratic Party, on his relief of having Trump as president, and criticized the values of modern day Democrats.

​D'Souza's visit was quite controversial among Trinity's students. After the lecture, many of the students lined up to ask questions countering some of D’Souza's viewpoints.