It’s a wrap: Valentine’s Day and marriage equality

Trinitonian | February 17th, 2012 - 9:00 am
It’s a wrap: Valentine’s Day and marriage equality

by Sarah Dropek and John Dean Domingue   We hope your Valentine’s Day was everything you wanted it to be, and we’re here to give you a perspective of how ours was. Sometimes it’s pretty easy to consider heterosexual relationships the norm and forget about any relationships different from those. But as many of you [...]

Editorial: University response to power outage raises questions

Trinitonian | February 17th, 2012 - 8:59 am
Editorial: University response to power outage raises questions

Daily life at Trinity University was disrupted on Monday morning when campus lost power due to wet electrical cables and a resulting blown transformer. Power was restored to upper campus in time for afternoon classes to resume at 12:30 p.m., but lower campus was left without power until the early hours of Tuesday morning. This [...]

Sex, shame and why they shouldn’t mix

Trinitonian | February 11th, 2012 - 3:00 pm
Sex, shame and why they shouldn’t mix

by Sarah Dropek and John Dean Domingue In last week’s Trinitonian, Ashley Harris brought up many good points surrounding dating life at Trinity in her article “Sex in the Bubble.” Harris reminds her readers about the fear many women maintain of being seen as “that girl” after a hook-up gone public. We’re interested in exploring [...]

Editorial: Stray dogs a serious threat

Trinitonian | February 11th, 2012 - 2:58 pm
Editorial: Stray dogs a serious threat

In recent weeks Trinity has experienced an escalating number of stray dog attacks on local campus cats. The dogs seem to be entering campus from Brackenridge Park and usually travel in packs of three or four. These dogs are dangerous and have the potential to seriously injure people. The eight cat deaths from recent dog [...]

Sex in the bubble: from finding the one to one night stands

Trinitonian | February 3rd, 2012 - 12:38 pm
Sex in the bubble: from finding the one to one night stands

by Ashley Harris If you have ever tried to research Trinity, girls, you most likely have stumbled upon many websites that claim we are a non-dating school. They weren’t lying. Most people are single, in long-term relationships with people back home, or in a long-term relationship with someone they met the first week of school. [...]

Editorial: Facebook owns you. Get over it.

Trinitonian | February 3rd, 2012 - 12:37 pm
Editorial: Facebook owns you. Get over it.

Facebook made their newest upgrade, Timeline, mandatory for all 800 million users on Feb. 1. Timeline offers you a new way to tell your story, like your very own patchwork memoir. The streamline layout and ease of use are appealing upgrades, yet many people consider their posts from high school being a simple click away [...]

Cartoon: A Trinity Minute

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

By Kim and Chiara Ferrari

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 [...]

GOP Nomination: Race or last man standing?

Trinitonian | January 13th, 2012 - 1:48 pm
GOP Nomination: Race or last man standing?

by David Crockett OK, it’s time for my quadrennial rant against the contemporary presidential nomination process. No one would think it reasonable to declare a winner in a hundred yard dash after one step, or a marathon race after less than a quarter of a mile. Nor would we want to set the NFL playoffs [...]