Photo by Kate NuelleTrinity is a bubble existing in the context of a large city with a long, rich history. Two Trinity anthropology students, senior Connor Halbert and junior Gabrielle Rodriguez, have the opportunity to explore this history through their internship at the University of Texas-San Antonio (UTSA)’s Center for Archaeological Research (CAR). Rodriguez and Halbert will soon begin their...

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Illustrations by Andrea Nebhut Quince Duncan Quince Duncan is regarded as Costa Rica's first Quince Duncan is regarded as Costa Rica’s first Afro-Caribbean writer Afro-Caribbean writer in the Spanish language. His novels and short stories have often focused on the Afro-Caribbean population living on Costa Rica’s Caribbean Coast, though his recent work focuses more on indigenous populations. His work has...

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Trinity’s track team kicked off this season with new personal records (PRs) and a record-breaking jump at their first meet. Both the men’s and women’s teams hope to carry this momentum into the rest of the season with the ultimate goal of winning their conferences. In the first meet, held at Trinity, the men’s and women’s teams competed against 12...

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During their annual spring break trip, the Trinity softball team traveled to the Tucson Invitational Games, where the team earned a 3–2 record after recording three wins on Thursday and two losses on Friday. “The Tucson Invitational Games are a three-week-long tournament that’s primarily organized so that teams can travel and play during their spring break. We chose this tournament...

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The Trinity softball team lost both games of a doubleheader to National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) member Our Lady of the Lake University (OLLU) on Tuesday, April 2, at the Trinity University Softball Field. Despite the team’s strong performance against University of Dallas the prior weekend, the Tigers fell 9–1 in game one of the series, and 6–3 in...

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This past fall semester I was kicked out of our student gym for wearing athletic attire that exposed my midriff. That night, I had gone to the gym intending to use the cardio room, but upon entering I was asked by a student employee to “cover up or leave” for “safety reasons.” The same employee informed me that five other...

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Illustration by Andrea NebhutI’ve grown up with the words “con amor no vas a vivir,” or “with love alone you’ll never survive,” echoing through my house while I wrote love stories that mirrored anything but my parents relationship. Recently, I’ve been reflecting on whether my love life is meaningful enough. So many of us love romance films only for our...

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Illustration by Genevieve Humphreys Too often, the argument that someone is a sister, mother, girlfriend or daughter, is used in order to combat sexual assault and harassment. While I understand where this argument is coming from, it is most definitely not the way to go about defending women. First and foremost, women are human beings before they are somebody’s anything,...

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Illustration by Andrea Nebhut"Better a small serving of vegetables with love than a fattened calf with hatred." Proverbs 15:17My town didn’t have Chick-fil-A, so naturally, we ate at the chain for every field trip, church trip, track meet and speech meet. I assumed it to be another mediocrity Christians felt the duty to drastically overhype, like TobyMac songs or Tim...

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Photo by Daniel Conrad It’s graduation season at Trinity, but not for me. I graduated a year ago, in May of 2018. In the year since, I’ve become a working adult, moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico to do research at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The most difficult part of this transition was the sudden glut of free time I...

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