Cartoon: A Trinity Minute

hduong | January 27th, 2012 - 1:13 pm
Cartoon: A Trinity Minute

By Kim and Chiara Ferrari

Swim and Dive teams prepare for season

Trinitonian | January 20th, 2012 - 1:09 pm
Swim and Dive teams prepare for season

The Tigers are getting ready for their promising upcoming season by Jessie Burch The Tiger swimming and diving team trained hard over winter break to be prepared for conference, now only four weeks away. The SCAC Championships will be taking place Feb. 18 in Rockwall, Tx, and the team has high hopes this year. The [...]

Women’s basketball wins two key games

Trinitonian | January 20th, 2012 - 1:08 pm
Women’s basketball wins two key games

The Tigers had a successful weekend beating both of their opponents by Brooke Sanchez The women’s basketball team earned a SCAC sweep last weekend, defeating Oglethorpe 77-51 on Friday night and conquering Birmingham-Southern on Saturday, 70-65. This improves their record to 6-9 overall and 4-2 in the SCAC. “It was a great weekend to build [...]

TV characters I Love to Hate

Trinitonian | January 20th, 2012 - 1:06 pm
TV characters I Love to Hate

by John Wendell Mendiola The characters here may be objectively evil, or they may be objectively kind. But for one reason or another I cannot bear to hold anything but ill will towards these people. They inspire and breed hate; the type of people that Mother Theresa wouldn’t think twice about strangling with a rosary. [...]

Graphic novels: Get into them or I will hunt you down

Trinitonian | January 20th, 2012 - 1:05 pm
Graphic novels: Get into them or I will hunt you down

by Margaret Browne Graphic novels take a story and break it down to the most expressive and illustrative of images in order to convey the story in a way that is aesthetically powerful, because it’s not only about the story but also its presentation—the images’ sequence, size, layout, etc. I’m still the novice when it [...]

Concert for the Cure at Cowboy’s Hall

Trinitonian | January 20th, 2012 - 1:01 pm
Concert for the Cure at Cowboy’s Hall

Kyle Park among the acts performing at the annual philanthropy event by Maddie Rau Tomorrow, Jan. 21 from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Cowboys Dancehall will host the 7th Annual Concert for the Cure. The highlight of the event will be a live performance by Texas country singer Kyle Park with the Aaron Einhouse Band [...]

Trinity to train explosives detection dog

Trinitonian | January 20th, 2012 - 12:59 pm
Trinity to train explosives detection  dog

Transportation Security Administration entrusts yellow Labrador Retriever to the university by Lauren Wilks This semester, Trinity University welcomes a new and unusual individual to campus: she’s three months old, very energetic and is in training to be a future explosives detection dog, entrusted to Trinity by the Transportation Security Administration via Lackland Air Force Base. [...]

Save Facebook, fight SOPA

Trinitonian | January 20th, 2012 - 12:56 pm
Save Facebook, fight SOPA

by Ashley Feinberg Unless you’ve been living in a cave awaiting the Apocalypse (Ron Paul), you were probably aware that, this past Wednesday, several high-profile websites were missing from our beloved interwebs. These sites that included Wikipedia, Reddit and the ever-erudite Cheezburger Network were protesting the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act (SOPA [...]

Editorial: Tough puppy love for a purpose

Trinitonian | January 20th, 2012 - 12:54 pm
Editorial: Tough puppy love for a purpose

These are definitely exciting times at Trinity, particularly in the newsroom. We have a new addition to our staff: puppy Jurgens! We’ve been trying to keep her a secret from the rest of campus, but we figured it was too selfish to keep her all to ourselves. Jurgens definitely fits in around here. Like any [...]

Construction delays cause class confusion

Trinitonian | January 20th, 2012 - 12:53 pm
Construction delays cause class confusion

Opening of new building put off, relocation of 75 classes originally scheduled to be held in CSI by John Reesman Due to logistical delays, the new five-story hub of the Center for the Sciences and Innovation (CSI) was unable to hold classes at the beginning of the Spring 2012 semester. Advanced contingency planning allowed enough [...]