Recently, while reading "Fault Lines: A History of the United States since 1974," a new book by Kevin M. Kruse and Julian Zelizer, professors of history at Princeton University, I was struck by the absence of Native voices in their discussion of modern U. S. political history. While Kruse and Zelizer's new book is excellent, the absence of Native experiences...

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One hundred years ago, Waxahachie was abuzz with excitement as residents prepared to greet an estimated 600 visitors from all parts of the country. They came to celebrate the first 50 years of Trinity’s institutional history that began in 1869 inside a renovated farm house in nearby Tehuacana. According to local newspaper Waxahachie Daily Light, many of the visitors were...

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Upon the approach of baseball season, the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association released their National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III Preseason Poll, in which Trinity was dubbed the No. 4 team in the nation. This ranking is identical to the national ranking the team finished with in the 2018 season, prior to their loss during the Southern Collegiate Athletic...

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This break I spent a lot of time watching soccer, specifically Everton, the team I support. Everton is in the British Premier League, and they have recently been giving a master class in how to be truly awful at soccer, which has resulted in me being somewhat grumpy. This made me wonder, why do I follow Everton and their struggles?...

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This year’s Ignite the Night, Alpha Chi Lambda's annual charity event, was supposed to be a fabulous event for all of us. Yet, after realizing the music wasn’t nearly as enjoyable and fun as we had anticipated, my friends and I decided to leave early. I awoke the next morning to a Twitter thread by my friend Sidney Hopkins, a...

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As the semester comes to an end, students have mixed emotions and perceptions of how it has gone. For some, it is their first taste of academic life at Trinity. For others, it is one of their final semesters, if not the last. First-year students have spent the last few months experiencing life at Trinity and beginning their college careers....

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Florence + the Machine has been rocking our world since its 2009 debut album, “Lungs,” introduced the ultimate banger, “Dog Days Are Over.” We spent our formative years finding new meanings in frontwoman Florence Welch’s all-knowing anthems that feature symphonic builds, grandiose lyrics and belting choirs. So last weekend, these two Texans decided to find their way to Glasgow, Scotland,...

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With the advent of the Holiday Season, Trinity University’s oldest tradition is just around the corner: on Sunday, Dec. 2, the annual Christmas Vespers service will be held at Trinity’s Margarite B. Parker Chapel at 6 p.m. The candlelight service will feature prayer as well as performances by Trinity’s choir programs. Members of Trinity’s vocal ensembles, including Trinity Choir, Voix...

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The students behind TigerThon, Trinity’s dance marathon that supports the Children’s Hospital of San Antonio, plan to become a Registered Student Organization (RSO) within the next year. TigerThon began in May 2017, and the first dance marathon occurred last spring semester on Feb. 24. This fall semester, members of TigerThon have worked to promote and fundraise for their dance marathon...

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While the student activity fee (SAF) goes towards many student organizations, part of that money is retained by the Student Government Association (SGA). The SAF, which consists of $150 paid by each student every semester, funds almost all of SGA’s internal budget. Four percent of the SAF is retained by the university while the rest of the fund is managed...

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