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By Jolie Francis + 6 others for Trinitonian - 6 min read
Admin. decision: Chick-fil-A stays
Photo credit: Oliver Chapin-Eiserloh
Photo by Oliver Chapin-EiserlohChick-fil-A was first brought to campus during Aug. 2018, after many students recommended it in the Food Services Survey conducted in Spring 2018. After almost a full school year of little to no opposition, the Chick-fil-A option in Revolve was met with backlash during Spring 2019. Some Trinity students began to show distaste and avoidance of the...
Photo by Genevieve Humphreys Student Programming Board (SPB) had been working since January to put together this year’s Welcome Week Concert featuring rapper Fetty Wap. When the day came, there was a concert provided for the students, but Fetty Wap was not a part of it. After an emergency landing due to weather conditions, Fetty Wap was unable to perform...
By Jolie Francis + 5 others for Trinitonian - 5 min read
Ramirez hired as new director of Career Services
Photo credit: Matthew Claybrook
image by Matthew Claybrook After a nationwide search, Career Services chose one of their own to serve as the new director of the office and as co-director of the Center for Experiential Learning and Career Success (CELCS). Katie Ramirez, formerly the associate director of Career Services and Trinity graduate, took up the mantle on July 1. In her previous position,...
By Jolie Francis + 4 others for Trinitonian - 5 min read
Author Eula Biss speaks tensions of immunization at the 2019 Reading TUgether Lecture
Photo by Mona Mirpour Trinity faculty and staff chose Eula Biss and her novel "On Immunity: An Inoculation" as the 2019 Reading TUgether selection. About 400 people from within and outside the Trinity community attended her lecture in Laurie Auditorium on Wednesday, August 21. Michael Soto, chair of the Reading TUgether Selection Committee and associate vice president for Academic Affairs,...
The tenure process for librarians reflects the same process for other faculty members and creates opportunities for them to explore opportunities that faculty members have. At Trinity there are eight librarians who have received tenure, which includes the most recent recipient Alex Gallin-Parisi, instruction and liaison librarian, who received tenure on Feb. 15. She is currently on leave and unavailable...
Photo by Genevieve HumpreysOut of the 11 potential registered student organizations (RSOs) that applied this spring, seven received approval from the Office of Student Involvement. Shannon Twamasi, coordinator of student programs within Student Involvement, said that when students first arrive at Trinity, they gravitate towards what they did in high school, and occasionally those same things may not be offered...
By Jolie Francis + 4 others for Trinitonian - 6 min read
Trinity community gears up for mayoral election
Graphic by Alexandra ParrisTrinity faculty, staff and students will flock to the polls this Saturday to cast a vote in the San Antonio mayoral election — a packed race of nine candidates, including one Trinity alumnus: incumbent mayor Ron Nirenberg. Although there are nine mayoral hopefuls, two candidates — Nirenberg, class of 1999, and Greg Brockhouse, District 6 councilman —...
By Jolie Francis + 5 others for Trinitonian - 5 min read
New Title IX coordinator officially hired
Photo credit: Kathleen Creedon
Photo by Kathleen Creedon Angela Miranda-Clark, class of 1989, began work as the Title IX coordinator and compliance officer on April 15. Students, faculty and staff worked together from the end of last semester to the beginning of April to review candidates for the newly-created dual position, ultimately hiring the Trinity alum. “[Miranda-Clark] is going to be working on Title...
By Jolie Francis + 6 others for Trinitonian - 7 min read
Does solar energy have a bright future on campus?
Photo provided by Elliot BlakeFollowing a presentation by senior environmental studies students, the university is looking into the addition of solar panels to the new Chapman-Halsell building and potentially across campus. The Chapman-Halsell project includes the creation of a new and separate building connected to Chapman-Halsell by an outside walkway. Gordon Bohmfalk, university architect and director of sustainability, hopes to...
Photo by Genevieve Humphreys A proposed modern language major and art history minor are waiting faculty assembly approval on April 12 in order to become official courses of study. Both the major and minor have already gone through levels of approval, but the last step is to be approved at the faculty assembly meeting. “Big changes — changes to Pathways...
