Illustration by Andrea NebhutIn the past couple months, I’ve started giving thought to more than just the price tag on my clothes. Where do they come from? What are they made of? Under what conditions were they made? These are all questions that I started to consider when shopping, and with the answers that I found, I stopped denying what...

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Photo provided by Nathan Richter Nathan Richter, senior engineering major, comes from a family where most members work in STEM fields, specifically engineering. Involvement in the Trinity community is also a family tradition: two of Richter's three sisters, his uncle and one of his cousins graduated from Trinity. Another one of his cousins teaches in the Department of Chemistry. MARIA...

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Illustration by Andrea Nebhut A month ago Mary Oliver, one of the great contemporary poets, passed away at the age of 83. Her poetry is a beautiful blending of the natural and the spiritual, the very real and the mystical. At the time of her death people all over social media posted some of their favorite writings of hers, and...

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Graphic by Alex Parris; Illustrations by Andrea Nebhut and Genevieve HumphreysTwo weeks ago, I wrote about the value of deplatforming oppressive speech in certain situations, including refusing to have speakers like far-right pundit Dinesh D'Souza on our campus. This column garnered a good amount of response, including a column last week from guest columnist Benjamin Collinger. While Collinger brings up...

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While you might be familiar with Trinity’s current themed halls — HOPE Hall, Entrepreneurship Hall and Swashbucklers spring to mind — you might not know about some of the themed halls from Trinity’s past. Many of these halls arose from Trinity’s “Community Initiative” program in the 2000s, which somewhat resembles the living-learning communities Trinity has today. Themed environments were balanced...

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Illustration by Andrea Nebhut AriesOh, Aries. Nothing is complete without a battle for you. Always ready to confront, you’ve probably never had a problem with getting your thoughts across. But next time, why don’t you just ask your roomie to watch “Terrace House” on Netflix instead? TaurusSteady and reliable, the crazy plant lady of the signs, can you even see...

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I’ll say it outright: I think Trinity’s three-year on-campus residency requirement is a good thing. Many people may disagree, but I genuinely believe that having a campus community built around students living together strengthens our joined experiences and will carry us forward into the future. The biggest reason I came to this institution was the community. When I first came...

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This week at the Trinitonian, it's our housing issue. You might wonder why we would sacrifice a few pages of our precious editorial space to talk about ... buildings. The reason why we want to talk about housing is because it is a central part of our university life. Whether we're complaining about our dorms or discovering the difficulties of...

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Illustration by Genevieve HumphreysIn 2017, actress Alyssa Milano tweeted, “If you’ve been sexually harassed or assaulted, write ‘me too,’” and brought the Me Too movement to the general public. But what many people don’t know is that the fight against sexual assault in the workplace and beyond has been been fought by black women since the decades following the civil...

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Photo by Genevieve Humphreys The Tower, a publication which is edited and written by several Trinity students, has recently risen in visibility among the Trinity community. The publication, formerly called The Wendt, was started a few years ago by former Trinity students Jonah Wendt and Manfred Wendt, both class of 2018. The current leadership of the publication has revamped their...

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