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Trinitonian SERVING TRINITY UNIVERSITY SINCE 1902 s WWW.TRINITONIAN.COM

VOLUME 109, ISSUE 20 s February 17, 2012

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS

Lights out at Trinity

What’s Inside n Power outage, lack of Internet access and failure of TrinAlert system cause mass panic among students by Rachel Puckett Reporter

Spring Musical “Robber Bridegroom” set to open this weekend in Stieren Theater. Page 11

photo by Purushottam Shah

An unscheduled power outage which affected the entire Trinity campus on Monday, Feb. 13 left Aramark workers scrambling to provide alternatives for student meals.

Lack of parking a dilemma Local Art Scene Check out some of San Antonio’s biggest art exhibits happening now around town. Page 15

n Restrictions on Alamo Stadium parking continues to be a problem for off-campus students without parking permits by Kenneth Caruthers

Intern

Alamo Stadium parking has remained a constant issue with students due to its restricted times. Alamo Stadium parking is open to Trinity until 9 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays and until 4:30 p.m. on Thursdays and Fridays. Assistant Chief of the Trinity

University Police Department Pete Perez said that the hours set for Alamo Stadium parking revolve around high school events held there such as track meets and football games. “Those hours came from during their football season because they have their high school football games there, and we have to be compliant with what they want. They also have their track meets there, so we have to be aware of that too,” Perez said. The parking situation is a major hassle for students that live off campus. According to senior Savannah Martinez, all of the limitations on parking are very inconvenient and frustrating. “As an off campus senior,

I’ve attended this school for the past three and a half years, and I think Alamo Stadium is there for those of us that don’t have parking permits to park there,” Martinez said. Senior Rachel Johnson, who also lives off campus, agrees that Trinity needs to provide better accommodations for its off- campus students. “As a senior who’s living off campus, I have to come and park to get to class everyday instead of walking from the dorms. As students who pay a lot to go to this university, or who pay anything for that matter to go to this university, we should be able to get to class,” Johnson said. n

n Power outage and delays in communication caused minor confusion for students and faculty by Rachel Puckett Reporter

Due to moisture infiltrating high voltage power lines leading into a transformer on Hildebrand Avenue that provides electricity to Trinity University’s campus, the university experienced a power outage Monday, Feb. 13, that left the lower half of campus without power from nearly 7 a.m. Monday to 5 a.m. Tuesday. The initial outage affected all of campus, but contractors were able to restore electricity to upper campus by 11:30 a.m. on Monday. Because upper campus was without power all morning, officials were forced to cancel all classes that met before 12:30 p.m. The delay between the initial power outage and the first email sent to students about the situation and cancelled classes caused some confusion. From the administrative side of the communication breakdown, things were hectic as the Crisis Management Team, a team comprised of faculty and staff members, collaborated to assess the damage done to the generator and decide on the best course of action for the university.

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Detterick says goodbye n After two years at Trinity, the vice president for Fiscal Affairs is headed to Virginia

Tennis leads 2-1 Women’s tennis team wins two matches and loses one in opening week. Page 21

by Avantika Krishna Reporter

WEEKEND WEATHER High

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Sunday 66° Low 48°

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photo by Abhishkek Chhetri

Mark Detterick, vice president for Finance and Administration, will be leaving his post at Trinity at the end of April to start a new job at the University of Richmond in Virginia.

Mark Detterick will be leaving his position as vice president for Finance and Administration at Trinity University at the end of April. Serving as a key member of the president’s executive staff since April 2010, Detterick will be leaving to serve as the associate vice president for Financial Planning and Budget at the University of Richmond in Virginia. Detterick will finish out his term at Trinity and move to Virginia to start his new job on May 1. A family man, Detterick and his

wife decided that leaving Trinity would be the best decision in the interests of his family and his three young children. “It’s the classic situation of someone who is outstanding at his day job but has very strong family values, and it was unfortunate for us but fortunate for his family that he is putting [them] first,” Ahlburg said. In the past two years, Detterick led the university’s strategic financial management and oversaw the three main resources of the university: human capital, financial capital and the university’s physical plan. Detterick reformed the finance department by involving the faculty in the budget process, made finances transparent and readily available and cut some unnecessary bureaucracy that made finances more complicated. n

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