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.

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.”

Beto O’Rourke Attracts Hundreds to Town Hall Meeting on San Antonio South Side

Beto O'Rourke spoke at a town hall in San Antonio.

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By David Smith

Hundreds of San Antonio residents​ and ​Texans, including several Trinity students​,​ packed into a community center on Monday ​on South Side San Antonio to meet Democratic congressman Beto O’Rourke​, who is running for U.S. ​Senate.

​Texas state Rep. Diego Bernal introduced O’Rourke, touching upon the challenges of the upcoming election, defeating current U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, and frustrations people felt toward the Trump administration. The audience stood up with applause as Bernal welcomed O’Rourke to the stage.

In his talk, O’Rourke addressed the frustrations of Texans from across the state, on issues from inadequate school funding to lack of healthcare. An El Paso native, O’Rourke did not support Trump’s wall plan. He said that future generations would be appalled that time was spent even in discussion of such a thing.

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.