The no. 1 ranked Tigers lose in the third round of NCAA play by Brittany Losey The men’s soccer team ended their season Saturday, Nov. 20 in Delaware, Ohio, after losing to Lynchburg College (Pa.) 2-0 in the third round match of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III Men’s Soccer Championship. “They came into [...]

The young team struggles to adjust to playing more experienced teams by Brianna Tammaro The men’s basketball team (0-5) lost in both of their games over the Thanksgiving break in the David Wells Classic in Claremont, California. The team suffered a 76-63 loss to Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (2-1) as well as a 67-54 defeat by Pomona-Pitzer (2-3). [...]

by Matt Stieb Hide yo’ kids, hide yo’ wife. Kanye’s climbing in your windows, snatching yo’ speakers up. Prepare to hear “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy� at all sports events, parties, radio stations and on everyone’s iPod for the rest of forever. This is easily the biggest release from Kanye, which is saying something given [...]

by Deanna Husting Holiday presents have become a big deal. People act crazier than usual on their quests to find the perfect gifts. My father is a manager for Best Buy and just listening to the abuse he suffers from customers around this time makes me sick. One woman frisbeed DVDs at his head one [...]

David Schmader’s one-man comedy explores the treatment of gays in America by Katie Bailey David Schmader performed his one-man show “Straight� at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 2 in the Attic Theater to begin AtticRep’s fifth season. In “Straight,� Schmader shares his experience as an undercover spy in the conservative Christian practice of conversion therapy. Schmader [...]

Alexander Trinh and Kevin Hawkins free fall from airplane with university banner by Upala Kalim Alexander Trinh, senior, and Kevin Hawkins, class of ’85, embarked on a skydiving adventure a few weeks ago. Miles above the Earth, the two jumped from the plane together while holding a banner with the Trinity University logo. Alexander Trinh [...]

by Tyler Sanders It’s December and what better way to write my humor column than by making fun of Christmas. Paragraph one: a parody of political correctness. I’ll apologize for not making fun of Chanukah and Kwanza. Paragraph two: Christmas is the best way to pledge one’s allegiance to consumerism. I’ll talk about how Christmas [...]

by Jacob Uzman This past weekend, the website WikiLeaks uploaded around 250,000 classified American diplomatic cables to its webpage. WikiLeaks also made the cables available to newspapers (such as the “New York Times�) for publication in their papers. These diplomatic cables included information ranging from what the US thought of other foreign leaders (Russian Prime [...]

The compensation awarded to former university president John Brazil in 2008 has ruffled some feathers in our community as well as the nationwide academic community (“Brazil receives 2.77 million with deferred compensation,� page 1). The extent of Brazil’s compensation package was publicized in large part by the “Chronicle of Higher Education,� which reported that his [...]

Number of elevator vandalisms is low at Trinity compared to other universities by Sneha Janardhanan The Thomas and Lightner residence halls elevators have broken down four times since the beginning of this semester. Out of Trinity’s 34 elevators, 11 have broken since the start of the semester and 46 since January. But according to Mike [...]