Trinity Female Athletes Dominating Male-Dominated Sports

By Abby Holland and Makenna Bentley

Victoria Trabysh, junior psychology major from Amarillo, Texas, found a passion for boxing after her senior year of high school. She found inspiration in her favorite professional female boxers Ava Knight, Mikaela Mayer and Claressa Shields, and dreamed of one day becoming a boxer like them.

“A lot of people think of combat sports, boxing in particular, as violent, but I don't see it as that at all,” says Trabysh. “I see it as a way to express yourself. In a lot of ways it gives me confidence.”

Trabysh has a rigorous training schedule. Going to the gym five to six times a week and training one to two hours each day. She is typically one of the few females to box at her Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) gym and does so with pride. “As hard as it is being one of the only girls, it also kind of motivates me,” she says.

Panel Addresses Gender Gap in STEM Fields

By Davis Mathis

Several Trinity University professors voiced concerns over the gender gap in the STEM fields on Thursday and shared their own experiences of gender discrimination.

Professors Kelly Lyons, in biology, Marilyn Wooten, in chemistry, Hoa Nguyen, in mathematics, Niescja Turner, in physics and astronomy, and Veronica McDonald, an engineer and Trinity alumnus, spoke at a panel hosted by Trinity Diversity Connection (TDC) and Trinity Women in Science and Technology (TWIST).

Science, technology, and math are widely known to be male dominated fields, but that isn't the full story, the panelists pointed out. To them, the discrimination and harassment they have experienced seems to be more of an active effort to keep women out rather than something that occurred naturally.

Lecture Discusses Biblical Influence of Gender Discrimination

Professor Valarie Ziegler gives a lecture
on Thursday at the Stieren Theater
Photos by Abi Birdsell

By Abi Birdsell

Trinity University hosted Valarie Ziegler, professor of religious studies from DePauw University, on Thursday to give a talk on gender discrimination related to the Christian belief and its impact on popular culture.

Ziegler’s lecture was titled “Submission, Sex and Sinraptors: The Evangelical Adam as Alpha Male in American Popular Culture,” as part of the Lennox Seminar, a yearly speaker series hosted by different departments. This year’s theme is “(Re)inventing the Bible,” which examines how communities throughout history have created and recreated the Bible.

The talk focused on the modern effort by conservative evangelicals and important religious authorities to model American society in the image of Eden. As a result, the subordination and submission of woman to men is emphasized.