Mayor Ron Nirenberg Leads Fitness Council Meeting

Mayor Ron Nirenberg addresses the Fitness Council on Thursday
(photo by Sophie Dwyer)

By Sophie Dwyer

San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg attended the Fitness Council meeting on Thursday in Trinity University’s William H. Bell Center.

He met with around 40 representatives from various foundations, fitness organizations, and companies, as well as dieticians, wellness coordinators, health app creators, and disability advocates. The discussion centered on ways of improving wellness services in the city, including physical activity, nutrition, and mental health.

“We should be talking policy-healthy policy,” Nirenberg said at the meeting. Attendees talked about various wellness initiatives such as introducing workplace recess, policies on purchasing healthy foods for employees, and making outdoor spaces safer so people feel more comfortable being active.

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.

Nick Santulli: President of Student Government Association

Nick Santulli (first right) with SGA members at the state capitol
Photo courtesy of SGA

By Andrea Acevedo

With a single Ron Nirenberg for Mayor sticker on his left shoulder and a cheering crowd to his side, Nick Santali stood nearby, carefully reading the results of the San Antonio mayoral election. Santulli is no stranger to political rallies or gatherings.

When Santulli, junior political science major and president of Trinity’s SGA, isn’t registering people to vote or lobbying at the Texas state capitol, he is working to get Trinity students involved in their community.

He joined SGA in hopes of making greater impacts in his community and with the desire to see those changes make a visible difference. “I craved more direct action and results,” he said.

University Students Unsatisfied with Mayoral Election Town Hall

Manuel Medina (left), Ron Nirenberg and Mayor Ivy Taylor at the town hall
Photo by Andrea Acevedo

By Andrea Acevedo

Better public transportation, lower homelessness rates, and representing the interests of the San Antonio people were promised Tuesday night at a mayoral town hall debate. Yet for college students, the event left much to be desired.

The town hall was hosted by the Rivard Report, a local nonprofit online news organization. San Antonio Mayor Ivy Taylor and her mayoral election challengers, city councilman Ron Nirenberg and Bexar County Democratic Party Chairman Manuel Medina, participated in the debate.

A handful of college students joined about 150 community members in the low lit Pearl Stable, hoping to get better insight on the city politics. Zabdi Salazar, sophomore business major at Trinity University, is from Austin. “While this does not have a direct effect on me right now, if I ever choose to stay in San Antonio, it will be important to be informed,” she said. “I think that undergraduates need to be involved in these sorts of events because right now it is the older populations that mostly come to these events.”