Troye Sivan Performs in Houston during Spring Break

Troye Sivan performs in Houston on Thursday
Photos by Alyssa Olson

By Haylee Rodriguez

Troye Sivan stepped onto the stage in front of hundreds of screaming fans at the sold-out Houston concert on Thursday and delivered the opening lines of his song “Bite.”

“Kiss me on the mouth and set me free/Sing me like a choir,” Sivan sang as the crowd surged forward in an attempt to get as close to him as possible.

At House of Blues, a music concert hall in Houston, the 20-year-old Australian singer and​ songwriter​ delivered his final act of the United States part of his Blue Neighbourhood world tour.

California Bass Player Debuts at South By Southwest

Covet bassist David Adamiak and lead guitarist 
Yvette Young on stage during a SXSW event 
Photo by Amy Drozdiak

By Amy Drozdiak

The streets of downtown Austin have been abuzz this past week with energy, filled with more than 30,000 out-of-town visitors gathering for the internationally known SXSW Festival. On Wednesday night, David Adamiak and his Mathrock band called Covet made their SXSW debut.

Adamiak, 24, is the bass player for this Northern California based, three-member band, and acted as the band’s spokesman during the show at The Hideout, a funky, after-hours coffeehouse featuring an intimate acoustic stage.

College Students Spending Spring Break Exploring Social Injustice and Racial Reconciliation

SAUP students in the Fellowship Hall
Photos by Nancy Li

By Nancy Li

More than 100 college students from around Texas and beyond spent their Spring Break living in Highland Terrace Outreach Center, a church on the Southeast side of San Antonio, to learn about social justice issues in the context of the Christian gospel. One of these issues, racism, emotionally touched many.

“Race has been used to devalue people in the name of God,” Ryan Cook, a staff volunteer with the San Antonio Urban Project (SAUP) and a Trinity University alumnus, told 130 college students from Texas Women’s University, Texas Southern University, University of Oklahoma, Trinity University and other colleges on March 12, the first day of a seven-day missions project.

Cook shared his personal stories as a black man, including people telling him how he spoke well for a black man or when one of his coworkers looked at him and said that he could act out Ben Carson in a skit held among colleagues.

Trinity Baseball Triumphed Hectic Week

By Trevor Griffin

Trinity baseball team on the road on March 14 for
a game against Denison held at Texas Lutheran
Photo by Trevor Griffin

The Trinity University Baseball Team finished one of the most intense and action packed weeks of the year just in time for the Spring Break.

The team played nine games in 10 days between March 4 and 14, amounting to 82 innings all together. The Tigers won seven of these nine games to stand at 17-4 at the end of the 10-day stretch.

The tournament​ ​started with the Tigers playing a three-game series at Texas Lutheran University on March 4. After winning two of the three games, the team returned home to prepare for their upcoming games.

However, a severe storm and rain caused a cancellation of a game scheduled for March 9. After waiting for two days for the rain to die down, Trinity proceeded to play five hard fought games in the following five days, against DeSales University of Pennsylvania, Denison University of Ohio and three games against Southwestern University of Texas.