Graphic by Quinn Butterfield Trinity student voting rates tripled from 2014 to 2018 due to campus involvement in the registration process. The National Study of Learning, Voting and Engagement (NSLVE) released a campus report detailing the percentage of students who voted in the last national election and the percentage of students registered to vote. More than 1,000 campuses from all...

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Photo by Oliver Chapin-Eiserloh New changes are coming to TigerPaws with several areas of the system getting revamped in the coming months. Both the Office of the Registrar and Student Financial Services are updating their areas of TigerPaws. Trinity’s TigerPaws system is the branded version of Web Advisor, a component of the enterprise resource planning (ERP) system that deals with...

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The following covers the meeting on Oct. 30. CLIMATE CHECK Sophomore senator Oliver Chapin-Eiserloh mentioned that students in Thomas Residence Hall were complaining about the noise from football games on the weekends. (Chapin-Eiserloh is a photographer for the Trinitonian.) Sophomore senator Rachel Kaufman has been in contact with members of the Department of Athletics and explained that they have tried...

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Photo by Oliver Chapin-Eiserloh Fraternity and Sorority Life (FSL) is test running a new recruitment timeline that has been condensed compared to years prior due to student feedback. All three rounds of rush events now occur in the fall semester, and Bid Day has moved up to Jan. 31, about a week earlier than its former date. Previously, third round...

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Graphic by Quinn Butterfield. In the 2018-2019 school year, 90 percent of full-time Trinity students received merit-aid scholarship. In the past, these students would lose this merit aid if their GPAs fell below a 2.5. That’s about to change. Student Financial Services has reduced the GPA requirement for the renewal of merit scholarships to the standard of Satisfactory Academic Progress...

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Photo by Oliver Chapin-Eiserloh According to the U. S. government, at least 42,000 migrants have been forced back into Mexico after crossing the border. By law, they must remain in Mexico until their immigration court hearings, which are often set for months or years in the future. One hundred and forty-four miles from the border, about 80 people gathered in...

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Ever wonder what spooky urban legends best encapsulate what you’re studying? Below is a guide! Art History: Kuchisake-onna (口裂け女, "Slit-Mouthed Woman")Art history majors are no strangers to complexity in storytelling, which is why the story of Kuchisake-onna, also known as the slit-mouthed woman, is the tale most fit for this major. Kuchisake-onna is a Japanese legend of a woman who...

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Photo by Oliver Chapin-Eiserloh In 2017, Trinity purchased the Oblate property located across from Thomas Residence Hall. Since the purchase, Information Technology Services (ITS) has moved into the building on the Oblate property, Trinity has started construction for a new track and field sports facility, and steps have been taken by Facilities Services to protect the endangered Robber Baron Cave...

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Photo by Oliver Chapin-Eiserloh Trinity’s graduate programs handle academic integrity violations through a version of the university’s original policy, approved 1996, which was once used for both graduate and undergraduate students. The newest version now used is called the Academic and Professional Integrity Policy and only applies to graduate students. After the switch to the current Academic Honor Code for...

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Photo by Oliver Chapin-Eiserloh This semester, Trinity will become a certified testing center for two Microsoft Office Specialist Certifications: Excel 2016 Associate and Excel 2016 Expert. The certification will allow students intending to enter the business sphere to gain a certification that demonstrates their skills to employers. James Maxey, visiting instructor of Finance and Decision Sciences, spearheaded this initiative over...

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