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.

SGA Weighs in on Chik-fil-A Controversy

By Will Hinman

Should or should not Trinity take Chik-fil-A out of the Revolve? The SGA had a debate about it on Wednesday.l

The discussion didn’t come up until toward the end of the meeting. After other businesses were dealt with, SGA President Ty Tinker told the senate that he had set aside the last few minutes of the meeting for a discussion on Chik-fil-A. Quickly the counsel came to life.

Nathan Tuttle: Writing His Own Trinity Story

By Alex Gereda-Gordon

Nathan Tuttle is the Residential Life coordinator most of Trinity students know, but might not know much about.

Yes, he is son of Dean of Student David Tuttle, but that is only a small part of his own Trinity story.

Coates Center Undergoes Major Makeover

By Sarah Wysocki

The Coates University Center is blockaded by giant boards and largely inaccessible. Behind those boards is a busy construction site. In a couple of months, when these boards are removed, a brand new Coates Center will emerge.

An imminent result of this multi-million dollar renovation is relocation of several university services. Counseling Services will move to where Student Involvement currently resides, in the west wing of Coates. Student Involvement will be relocated to the first floor of the current bookstore, where the new Diversity and Inclusion Office will also reside.

The bookstore itself will move to the lounge area where the mail center used to be. The Center for Experiential Learning and Career Success (CELCS) will stay where it is, but will expand to encompass the current second floor of the bookstore: the textbook area.

Students Discuss Living with Conservatism at Trinity

By Jacob Rossitter

Dean of Students David Tuttle hosted a conversation with students yesterday​, discussing what it means to be a conservative student on Trinity campus.

Among the 16 students who participated the discussion titled “Being Right: Living – and Living with – the Conservative Viewpoint on the Trinity Campus,” only two identified themselves as being conservative. The majority of the participants identified themselves as liberals.

One student told the room that he came to the discussion because he was “tired of his echo chamber.” Another student said that although she had a “very strong opinions about things,” she still wanted to “hear what the other side had to say.”