Dear Editor,I am the social media coordinator for the Trinitonian. As such, every day I highlight stories from the paper on our social media platforms. I do this job because I love the Trinitonian. Though there are legitimate concerns and things that can and need to be improved on, I have always admired the Trinitonian's dedication to publishing stories about...

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“As nice as it is to have you all here, I probably won’t see most of you after February.” Kezia Nyarko, junior and president of Trinity Diversity Connection (TDC), said this to a room of over 100 people who attended their event, How To Be An Ally For Black Students at a PWI, earlier this month. Kezia meant that as...

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Cowritten by Natasha Sahu; Illustration by Andrea Nebhut Since our time at Trinity, we’ve both encountered countless instances where we didn’t know how to pronounce a word, didn't know the name of a band or didn't recognize the latest $90 sandals. Neither of us knows what a Brockhampton is, nor are we trying anymore to keep up with American culture...

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Illustration by Genevieve HumphreysIn the Feb. 15 edition of this paper, Benjamin Gonzalez argued for the “right to deplatform hate speech” in order to deny “racists and xenophobes from using our university as a megaphone for their harmful ideologies.” The majority of college students agree. According to a Jan. 30, 2019 report from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education...

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Photo by Genevieve Humphreys This year, for the first time, the Office of Student Involvement will partner with Institutional Research and Effectiveness to analyze the roster of Greek students and examine the diversity of the Greek population in relation to Trinity. The Greek life community on campus teaches and lives by the four pillars of fraternity and sorority life: scholarship,...

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Photo by Henry PrattTrinity is not our home and never has been. I've reviewed some of the archived articles submitted to the Trinitonian by the predecessors of the Black Student Union and found them to be disturbingly similar to today’s. About 50 years have passed since these articles called for better representation, stronger community efforts and more attention from administration,...

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Photo by Genevieve HumphreysAccording to the Office of Admissions, the incoming classes at Trinity are increasingly diverse. This means that as diversity grows, Admissions employees work to make sure that all of Trinity’s visitors can get their questions answered, regardless of their background. Trinity hosts a variety of open house programs throughout the year for both admitted and prospective students....

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Illustration by Andrea Nebhut Of all the 'controversial' opinion columns I've written over the past year, I believe this will truly be the most contentious of all. Are you ready for it? The objectively best and most valuable First-Year Experience (FYE) class is HUMA: Great Books of the Ancient World. In fact, I'll even take it a step further to...

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Photo by Genevieve Humphreys. The Trinity chapter of the Young Conservatives of Texas (YCT), formerly known as Tigers for Liberty (TFL), plans to bring multiple speakers to campus this semester. As the main event of the semester, YCT invited Jonah Goldberg, senior editor of the National Review and columnist for the Los Angeles Times, to speak in Laurie Auditorium on...

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Graphic by Alexandra ParrisThe class of 2022, who claimed the title of the largest and most academically successful class that the university has seen in recent history, has completed the fall semester with more record-setting stats. One marker of academic success is in student retention between the first and second semesters. Of the 690 first-year students enrolled at the beginning...

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