San Francisco Meditation Teacher Visits San Antonio

Howard Cohn's public lecture on Friday, Feb. 1. (Photo by Miranda Smith)

By Miranda Smith

Veteran yogis and meditation newbies alike gathered at Friends Meeting House Friday evening in anticipation of Howard “Howie” Cohn’s lecture, “Celebrating the Three Jewels: Awakening, Truth, and Community.”

Cohn is a founding teacher of Spirit Rock Meditation Center in the San Francisco Bay area and has been their senior teacher for more than 30 years. He is known for leading Vipassana meditation, also known as Insight or Mindfulness meditation.

Seizing the Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity: Trinity Students' Involvement in the NCAA Final Four

By Lauren Bagg

Trinity student Amanda Gerlach, a sophomore communication and Spanish double major with a sport management minor, was an ambassador for Westwood One Radio Row during the NCAA Final Four, held in San Antonio earlier this month. Her job was taking past and current coaches, players and other people involved with college basketball for interviews at different radio stations.

Gerlach saw this as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity because she was able to “spend time talking with them too, which was really nice!” she said. “I even got a picture with Bill Walton.”

Symposium Addresses and Encourages Civic Engagement

An audience member asks a question at the 
Civic Engagement Symposium on Monday
Photo by Johnna Guillerman

By Matt Barnes and Johnna Guillerman

Five panelists discussed voter rights and civic education in the Pearl Stable Monday night, at a symposium organized by Trinity’s political themed online magazine, The Contemporary.

The panel consisted of Marisa B. Perez-Diaz, Texas State Board of Education member, Jason Stanford, communications director for the mayor of Austin, Juany Torrez, founder of Organize SA, H. Drew Galloway, the executive director of MOVE San Antonio, a voting recruitment organization, and George Rodriguez, a conservative activist who worked for the Reagan and George H. W. Bush administrations.

Benjamin Collinger, Trinity sophomore and the Executive Director of The Contemporary, introduced the panel with a brief statement, “We need the mobilization of millennials to represent us in this era of political polarization. We are gradually building a movement.”