Trinity Hosts First Ever Solidarity Summit

The First Solidarity Summit at Trinity
(photo by Alexandra Gereda-Gordon)

By Alexandra Gereda-Gordon

Nearly 80 students, staff, and administrators filled the Fiesta Room on Friday to attend the inaugural Solidarity Summit hosted by Trinity’s Diversity and Inclusion Office (DIO). 

This brand new event was created to increase awareness of diversity issues on campus and for students and faculty to come together to support one another.

Joshua Anaya, a first year student at Trinity, decided to attend the event to find out “what kind of action we can take as students to take accountability and embrace more solidarity on our campus.”

Trinity Women’s Basketball Loses Heartbreaker to TLU in SCAC Championship

Trinity Women's Basketball Head Coach Cameron Hill addressing the players
 during the SCAC Championship game (photo by Joshua Moczygemba)

By Samuel McWhorter

There was an air of inevitability late in the fourth quarter for the Tigers, verging on a storybook second straight comeback win. And then they lost.

On Sunday, third-seeded Texas Lutheran University managed to hang on in their home gym for their first SCAC Championship since 2014 by a final score of 68-62. The first-seeded Tigers trailed by 15 points at one juncture, and they never seemed out of it.

Sixth Communication Day Highlights Student Work

Networking reception of the sixth annual Communication Day

(photo by Makenna Bentley)

By Makenna Bentley

At the sixth annual Communication Day on Friday, current Communication majors were put into the spotlight together with the alumni.

This year’s Communication Day, an event hosted by the Department of Communication celebrating the Communication major by inviting its alumni back to Trinity, added a new program: student work showcase.

On the fourth floor of the Richardson Communications Center, home to the department, about 30 projects done by Communication majors, ranging from short narrative films, video games, podcast, sitcom, documentaries, to multimedia journalism, were on display in the computer labs.

Lady Tigers Win 16th Consecutive SCAC Swimming Championship Title

From left: Caroline North, Ashley Ward, Paige Johnson and Mabel Fowler at the award podium.
(photo by Erin Crooks)

By Erin Crooks

Just as the Tigers are fast on land, they also dominate in the pool. After a long and successful season, Trinity University women’s swim team took home on Saturday the title as SCAC Champs for the 16th year in a row, beating long-time rival Colorado College by 102 points in the final meet. 

Trinity men’s team came up short to rival Southwestern University and finished 2nd, losing their 7-year winning streak.

The fourth and final day of the 2019 SCAC Swimming & Diving Championship Meet started off with a bang, as junior Jacob Hurrell-Zitelman captured gold in men's 1650-yard freestyle, being the first SCAC swimmer in history to win the event three times in a row.

Trinity Students Cheers on Street2Feet Race

Street2Feet participants pass
Flores Street on Saturday.
(Photo by Meredith Peckman)

By Meredith Peckham

At 7:30 a.m. on Saturday, more than 30 Trinity University students queued up along Flores Street in downtown San Antonio, to cheer on participants of the Street2Feet 5K running race.

The race began at 8:00 a.m. with the starting line on West Houston Street. More than 1,000 people registered to run, including 40 homeless individuals who had trained for months for this 5 kilometer race, according to Stree2Feet co-founder Elizabeth Rosenblum.

Street2Feet provides exercise programs for individuals experiencing homelessness in San Antonio, as a way of building healthy body and spirit. “This race is a fundraiser and an extension of Street2Feet,” said Rosenblum. She noted that both homeless and settled individuals participated.

Poet Presents A Love Letter to Blackness

The poet Kai Davis reads her poems in the Skyline Room on Thursday.
(Photo by KaDarius Lee)

By KaDarius Lee

Trinity University’s Black Student Union hosted a spoken word night on Thursday, featuring the poet Kai Davis, as part of the Black History Month.

About 30 students gathered in the Skyline Room to hear Davis present her love letter to Blackness.

An African American queer woman, Davis mostly deals with the complex issues of race, gender, power, and sexuality in her work.

Trinity Student Directs Powerful Performance of "Vampire Lesbians of Sodom"

The two vampire lesbians, La Condesa (left), and Madeleine Astarte (right),
played by Aria Gaston-Panthaki and Sophia Elsadig respectively, casting a spell.
(Photo by Kathryn Gore)

By Sophie Dwyer

Trinity Theatre brought the off-Broadway show Vampire Lesbians of Sodom to campus over the weekend, directed by Trinity junior Sarah Bastos, a Theatre major.

The show focuses on the never-ending lives of two lesbian vampires who continue to meet at different points through time, and how their relationship evolves. While the show contains plenty of comedy, the core meaning lies in the emotion of characters spending eternity as marginalized individuals.

Originally written by American playwright and actor Charles Busch in 1984 with a $36 budget and first performed in a bar, the show’s spirit spoke to Bastos. She said she chose to direct this piece because she “figured that this would be a really fun, really campy, really interesting play to direct.”

2019 Spring Career Fair Sets Attendance Record

Spring Career Fair in 2018. (Photo courtesy of Career Services)

By Matthew Thomas
Trinity students flocked to the Spring Career Fair at Laurie Auditorium on Wednesday, setting a new record of 362 participants, the highest thus far for a spring career fair.

The students, most of them seniors, met with representatives from 49 employers, including USAA, Trinity Real Estate Finance, and Valero.

Career Services normally plans the fair three to four months ahead of time, meeting with the companies and putting the fair into motion, said Katie Ramirez, the associate director of Career Services. The goal was to “make sure that it is a diverse group of employers and that it’s not just representing one major or industry,” said Ramirez.

Health and Fitness Day Brings a More Holistic Approach to Wellness

Dr. Claudia Kypuros from TU Counseling Services (right)

and Melissa Woodul, sophomore Russian major (left),

with Leeroy at the Fitness Day. (Photo by Abby Holland) 

By Abby Holland

Mental health and physical well-being go hand in hand and are equally important. That was a key message of this year's Health and Fitness Day, held on Wednesday.

This event has been a part of Trinity’s campus for nearly 20 years. The theme for this year was “How do you Rec?” While in the past the event primarily focused on physical well-being, this was the first year the event included additional aspects on the wellness spectrum.

The Fiesta Room transformed into an active, health hub, filled with vendors from Trinity clubs and organizations, as well as local organizations. Among them were San Antonio Eating Recovery Center, San Antonio Walks, and Trinity University Counseling Services.

San Francisco Meditation Teacher Visits San Antonio

Howard Cohn's public lecture on Friday, Feb. 1. (Photo by Miranda Smith)

By Miranda Smith

Veteran yogis and meditation newbies alike gathered at Friends Meeting House Friday evening in anticipation of Howard “Howie” Cohn’s lecture, “Celebrating the Three Jewels: Awakening, Truth, and Community.”

Cohn is a founding teacher of Spirit Rock Meditation Center in the San Francisco Bay area and has been their senior teacher for more than 30 years. He is known for leading Vipassana meditation, also known as Insight or Mindfulness meditation.

Trinity Kicks Off Sesquicentennial Celebration with Community Service and Big Party

The Wild Bunch Band, featuring Asst. Professor of Scenic Design
Scott Neale on harmonica, plays for festival guest. (Photos by Jackson Beach)

By Jackson Beach

Carnival rides, corn dogs and a capybara greeted guests of the TU150 Kickoff party on Friday evening. The party celebrated the official beginning of the year-long commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Trinity University, founded in 1869.

Despite cloudy skies, hundreds of Trinity students, staff, faculty, and alumni gathered to enjoy festivities on a campus transformed into an amusement park.

The lawn near the Storch Memorial Building served as a petting zoo with critters of various shapes and sizes, including a llama and a porcupine. Tents serving agua fresca and an assortment of skewered treats dotted the grounds near the Miller Fountain.