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.

Trinity University Launches Planning Campaign for 150th Anniversary

Trinity's values, such as "Discover, Grow, Become," will be
highlighted during the 150th anniversary celebration. (The Roar photo)

By Marina Schweitzer

Trinity University is taking stock of the present and looking to the future in planning for celebrating her 150th anniversary.

The steering committee for the celebration is co-chaired by Angela Breidenstein, professor of education, and Jacob Tingle, director of Experiential Learning. The committee has launched a community-oriented planning campaign to help decide what the sesquicentennial celebration is going to look like. The year-long celebration will begin in January of 2019 and go through December. The university was founded in 1869.

The committee is intentional in not taking an approach of telling people what should happen for the sesquicentennial. Instead, “we chose a more constructivist community based organic approach, which is to say what does the community think we should recognize, honor, question, and celebrate," Breidenstein said. "That’s why we have done this campaign rather than saying here are the events. We want it to be really inclusive and far reaching and get people involved.”

President Danny Anderson Webinar Discusses the Value of a Liberal Arts Education

By Samuel King

Liberal arts degree is not worthless, but has just as much value as a business degree in its own way. Trinity University President Danny Anderson made that argument during a webinar On Thursday.

Anderson was joined by Trinity's Vice President​ for Strategic Communications and Marketing, Tess Coody-Anders (’93), in a conversation about the value of a liberal arts education in the 21st century.

David Cameron Conveys Message of Optimism During Speech at Trinity

By Matt Barnes



There was an aura of excitement in Laurie Auditorium last evening as an estimated 2,500 people attended David Cameron’s lecture. Cameron served as the prime minister to the United Kingdom from 2010 until his resignation in 2016.

The primary message of Cameron’s talk of about 45 minutes was optimism. “The theme for tonight is: ‘Where do we go from here?' And to answer that, we must ask ourselves: 'How did we get here'?,” he said at the beginning of his speech. The rest of his speech delivered a rather bright outlook on the future of the United States and Great Britain, a future largely dependent on a better understanding of the current unease of globalization and what lies ahead.

Trinity University Marches for MLK Day

Trinity Univesity participates in the MLK March
Photo by Taylor Moser

By Taylor Moser

More than 300 Trinity students gathered at the Bell Center on Monday morning to march down Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.

The gathering started at 8:30. Upon arrival, each student received a grey shirt bearing a quote from Dr. King: “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

Trinity University President Danny Anderson led the pack. "The MLK march in San Antonio is a great show of community commitment on behalf of Trinity University,” he said.

Trinity President Officially Inaugurated

Trinity president Danny Anderson
gives inaugural speech

Photo by Josie Liu

By Haylee Rodriguez

Hundreds of students, faculty, and alumni of Trinity University, and representatives from more than 30 institutions of higher education gathered in Laurie Auditorium on Friday to observe the investiture ceremony of Trinity’s 19th president, Dr. Danny J. Anderson.

Anderson assumed the presidency of Trinity University in May 2015. The investiture marked his formal installation as the president of the university.

At the ceremony, Anderson received the University mace and the medallion, hanging from a chain of medals each inscribed with the name and term of his predecessors. Both are symbols of the university presidency.