Conservative Students Striving to Have a Voice on Campus

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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.

Tigers for Life Hosts Lecture About Biology Research

Gabriela Rennebeck talks at the Tigers for Life meeting. 
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By Jackson Beach

Tigers for Life, Trinity's student pro-life group, met on Thursday to hear biologist Gabriela Rennebeck talk about embryonic development.

Rennebeck has a doctorate in biological sciences from the University of Texas at Austin and works as the laboratory coordinator in several biology courses at Trinity.

She discussed the latest findings of her research, which involves examining the quaking gene in zebrafish embryonic development. Rennebeck noted that the quaking gene found in zebrafish is also found in humans and her research is part of a larger movement towards personalized medicine.