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by Aly Mithani SPORTS EDITOR On Wednesday, March 5, the San Antonio Alumni Chapter hosted the second Food for Thought Lecture in the Fiesta Room. The speaker was Trinity’s men’s soccer head coach Paul McGinlay, and the title of the lecture was: “The Third Decade of Trinity University Men’s Soccer.” In attendance were members of the San Antonio Alumni Chapter, numerous representatives from the Trinity athletic department, members of past and current Trinity men’s soccer teams, President Dennis Ahlburg and former Trinity President Ronald Calgaard. During the lecture, McGinlay presented a history of Trinity’s soccer past, celebrated its present by recognizing members of the current team and pondered the future of the program.
During this discussion of the future, McGinlay brought up the possibility of becoming a school with a Division I athletic program. “I see this not as an athletic decision. It is really an admissions decision. I think our profile would improve if we are competing against schools that are more like us,” McGinlay said. During the lecture, McGinlay discussed the differences in endowment between Trinity and other Division III schools in the state of Texas. According to his research, the total endowment for all the other Division III schools in the state of Texas is $1.16 billion combined. According to US News and World Report, Trinity’s 2012 endowment was approximately $915 million. McGinlay repeatedly emphasized a quote that he imparts to his soccer team on a regular basis. McGinlay tells his players, “I don’t want you to be anyone else. I want you to be the best original of yourself.”
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photo by Miguel Webber Biographer Walter Isaacson stressed the importance of the intersection of humanities and science. Isaacson, who has written biographies about Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs and Benjamin Franklin, told students that these great men all possessed great creativity.
New marketing initiatives spark questions of photo consent Photographs showcasing student tactile engagement valued over classroom settings by Faith Ozer NEWS REPORTER Trinity University’s new marketing platform showcases students on the university web page, billboards around San Antonio and print media attempting to highlight new branding platforms and leaving some students curious about photo consent practices. The latest marketing practices revolve around four brand themes: large-school resources in a small- school environment, preparing to lead, engaging with the world and a challenging and supportive academic environment. According to Sharon Schweitzer, assistant vice president for external relations, the university aims to represent these themes in content they develop from student experiences.
“Showing Trinity from a student perspective is better marketing for prospective students and shows what we do from the student perspective as a small, residential, liberal arts university,” Schweitzer said. After interning at a pediatric AIDS clinic in Swaziland over the summer, senior English major Barley Halton’s story and personal photographs were showcased in Trinity Magazine, with one photograph of Halton’s making the magazine’s cover. “When the article itself came out, I was getting all of these messages from people ‘Oh, I saw your picture.’ Then it turned out that they actually used one of my pictures for the cover of the magazine, which was great. Sure, I loved having my face everywhere, but it was just unexpected, that’s all,” Halton said. “That’s where there’s a grey line, because I did submit my photos, and I knew that they were going to use it for the magazine, I just didn’t know they were going to use it for the cover.” Unlike Halton, who submitted his own photos for use in the magazine, some students take part in university photo shoots potentially utilized for
Trinity marketing. While doing research with Troy Murphy, assistant professor of biology, junior biology major Matthew Mitts had his photo taken by a Trinity photographer. The photo features Mitts using binoculars at a research site and is on a billboard at the intersection of highway 281 southbound and St. Mary’s Road.
“We have a research site over at Incarnate Word at Headwaters, and we were just told that we were going to have a photographer come out and take some photos of us. Her name was Jeanna, and she was a lot of fun and we showed her everything. The photo was done as someone was processing birds, and there was a bird on
a branch,” Mitts said. “I am actually taking a photo through my binoculars, and I look dorky, but I am actually instagramming a photo through my binoculars. She took a photo of us looking, and we all thought it was hilarious.”
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photo by Anh-Viet Dinh Matthew Mitts, featured in this billboard at 281 south and St. Mary’s Rd., was photographed during research on the black-crested titmouse.
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A Montana bride, Jordan Graham, was convicted Thursday for killing her husband of eight days after the couple argued about regrets over their marriage. She was sentenced to 30 years and five months by U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy. Molloy said that he saw no remorse from Graham, who claimed to still love her deceased husband. Graham killed her husband by taking him to a cliff and then pushing him over. Graham didn’t stay behind to see if her husband survived.
U.S. President Barack Obama met with Pope Francis on March 27 to discuss a variety of issues, including abortion, U.S. immigration laws, human trafficking, religious freedom, contraception, the poor and the marginalized, and, in broad terms, conflicts within the Middle East. In addition to Obama’s 52 minutes with Pope Francis, Obama also met with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state. The Vatican called for respect for humanitarian and international law.
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Schuster discusses university policy at second Sexual Assault Forum Saundra Schuster talks about cons of immediate expulsion punishment
by Cassandra Watson and James Godfrey NEWS REPORTERS Last Thursday night, March 20, in Chapman Auditorium, the Student Government Association, Greek Council, and the President’s Office sponsored the Sexual Assault Forum, where Saundra Schuster, a partner at the National Center for Higher Education and Risk Management (NCHERM), addressed the history behind current sexual assault policies and where the university plans to go in the future in relation to risk. David Tuttle, dean of students and vice president for student affairs, began the discussion by recapping topics discussed at the Sexual Assault Forum that took place earlier this semester. “At the previous forum, we spent a lot of time talking about policy and procedures and trying to make sure people had accurate information about things that were taking place. We looked back a little bit. My hope for this evening is that we can look forward from where we’re at, and this is hopefully an ongoing dialogue,” Tuttle said. Tuttle updated the audience on the changes already put forth by the administration. Some
changes include moving toward an investigative process in dealing with accusations and adjusting the appeals process to better correct procedural errors. There was also mention of including more information about sexual assault policy and procedures in New Student Orientation. “One of the students from the last forum talked about why our procedure doesn’t include a statement about past behavior from the parties involved. We have now drafted some language from our consultant that we’re adding to the policy,” Tuttle said. Schuster explained in detail why the desires of some of those requesting changes to the policy cannot be made, such as changing the punishment for being found guilty to immediate expulsion from the university. Schuster explained that this policy, when carried out by universities in the United States before, lead to a massive decrease in the number of assaults reported, with victims believing that the policy gave them no say in the result of their assault, and the accused feeling as if they were not given due process. Schuster explained that there is a delicate balance between sentencing those who are found guilty and maintaining the rights and interests of both parties fairly. “As a victim, that individual is entitled to have some say on the [consequences]. When hearing boards are faced with the fact that they have no responsibility in sentencing, they become hesitant
[to prosecute the accused],” Schuster said. When investigating the sexual assault policies on campus, Schuster confirmed that Trinity was moving in the right direction, especially compared to other higher education institutions. “When I did my audit in the weeks prior to my visit, Trinity was way ahead of the game in policies,” Schuster said. “The adoption and the movement and the direction of this more fair and equitable approach regarding appeals is great. The reason we think it’s great is not because it benefits the administration. It’s because it continues to honor human dignity.” Though student responses to the seeking of policy change vary, there are a few students really leading the movement. One of those is Anna van Buskirk, a junior who has helped push the policy change and education of students since the beginning of the issue. Van Buskirk meets regularly with Sheryl Tynes, associate vice president for academic affairs, senior Laura Kalb, and senior Nipur Agrawal to discuss policy changes and educational programs the university might instate in the future to further awareness and help with better response to reports of sexual assault. “It’s essential that the students are involved,” Van Buskirk said. “They need to be given the opportunity to contribute where they need to.” They are currently working on educating current students,
and are drafting additional programming for New Student Orientation, to bring students to campus with an awareness of how to prevent sexual assault. “It’s so important that students support each other,” Van Buskirk said. “I know Trinity students have the capacity to look out for each other.” Schuster also explained that there is a delicate balance between sentencing those who are found guilty and maintaining the rights and interests of both parties fairly.
“In our campus the most extreme thing we can do is say ‘you can’t be a student here anymore’. That is devastating. But it doesn’t say you can’t be here anymore and you have to go to prison. What it says instead is that ‘you don’t meet the behavioral standards for our community. You pose a risk. You violate not only our policies, but federal laws too’... Trinity University Must engage in a fundamentally fair process before they remove a student from school,” Schuster said.
On a local level, the club looks to promote and motivate students to join the cause. To Descoteaux, this impact is important in order to gain support and show the plight of the tiger. Alongside raising local awareness, the club works on a national level with various other schools, such as Missouri and Clemson. “Our other goal is to work collaboratively with the T4T National Coalition,” Descoteaux said. “The Coalition is a group of many other tiger-mascot schools who all work together for common goals and initiatives.” The different universities work together to accomplish their goals, attending various conferences and organizing conference calls to generate new ideas. “One thing we do is hold weekly conference calls with the other schools,” Sandigo said. “It’s a great way to get new ideas and connect with the rest of the coalition.” The club also takes part in various initiatives for protecting the tiger, with a trip to D.C. last summer. “Last summer, members for the coalition traveled to D.C. to meet with congressmen to discuss the Big Cat Bill,” Descoteaux said. “The trip to D.C. was coupled with a letter-writing campaign where the Coalition
wrote to our Congressmen in an attempt to garner support for the Big Cats Bill.” The bill, the Big Cats and Safety Protection Act is a major piece of legislation for the coalition that looks to enact protective laws around the tiger and other big cats. “This bill hopes to ensure the prohibition of breeding and possession of big cats in private hands,” Descoteaux said. “The Big Cats and Public Safety Protection Act would ensure that private ownership of big cats would be limited to accredited zoos and wildlife sanctuaries.” The club also has future plans for other trips, including
sending Trinity students to India to study and research tigers. Club members will also be attending a conference on April 4-6 at University of Missouri after the success of last year’s conference. “Last year’s conference was particularly helpful in gaining advice about starting a new club on campus,” Descoteaux said. “We hope to continue that success and learn how we can better reach out to Trinity students and really make ourselves a presence on campus.” To club members at Trinity and those at other universities, the tiger is an important part
of our schools and must be protected. The coalition looks to do just that, through legislation, awareness and any other means available. “As a club and, furthermore as a Coalition, we have the real power to enact change,” Descoteaux said. “That’s what I think is really cool about the National Tigers for Tigers Conference-it provides a forum for students to collaborate with not only other students, but with adults who have made careers in the fields of conservation or wildlife policy”.
photo by Megan McLoughlin David Tuttle (left) watches as Saundra Schuster (right) addresses the Trinity community in Chapman.
Tigers for Tigers roars ahead to National Conference by Luke Wise
NEWS REPORTER Trinity’s chapter of the National Tigers for Tigers Coalition is heading to the University of Missouri to participate in a national conference over the importance and necessity of tiger protection. The club is part of the national coalition of schools, composed of 13 various universities all with one thing in common: an interest in protecting their mascot, the tiger. The club, formed in March of last year by seniors Alese Descoteaux and Gabriela Sandigo, looks to follow the goals set forth by the national coalition on their webpage, which is to “improve the status of tigers, both captive and wild and take direct action to ensure the survival of the tiger.” To members of the club like Sandigo, it is crucial to inform and educate students about the facts, and the importance of protecting tigers. “One thing we are really looking to do is raise awareness,” Sandigo said. “A lot of people aren’t aware that tigers are endangered and nearly extinct – we want to have students be aware of this fact.”
photo by Anh-Viet Dinh Right to left, Alese Descoteaux (senior), Gabriela Sandigo (senior), Shelby Frank (junior), Alyssa Fink (senior), Sabrina Cortez (junior), C.J. France (junior), and Tito Sandigo (junior) are members of Trinity’s Tigers for Tigers chapter.
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Lynda Barry mentors students and wows in the Stieren Arts Enrichment Series by Cassandra Watson NEWS REPORTER Last week, writer and cartoonist Lynda Barry spent time at Trinity to give three master classes in writing and gave a talk titled “A Reading with Commentary” on Thursday, March 20. The talk was held in the Great Hall in Chapman. The events were organized by Jenny Browne, assistant professor of English. Kelly Carlisle, associate professor of English, introduced Barry and expressed her gratitude toward Barry and her time on campus.
“Your average formulaic introduction does not quite seem adequate. In fact, if I were to deliver such an introduction I would feel as if I had somehow failed Lynda Barry, who has spent the past four days here at Trinity teaching our students and professors how to be creative,” Carlisle said. Carlisle went on to describe the numerous awards Lynda Barry had achieved in her life. “Among her honors are two William Eisenberg Awards, the American Library Association’s Alex Award, the Washington State Governor’s Awards, and the Museum of Wisconsin Art Lifetime Achievement award,” Carlisle said. “She is currently an assistant professor of interdisciplinary creativity at the University of Wisconsin Madison, and the discovery fellow at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery where she studies creativity in the company of scientists. She has
appeared on Letterman seven times.”
“Arrangements and lines and shapes of letters and words on a series of pages make a world we can dwell and travel in.”
Lynda Barry Writer and Cartoonist Three master classes in writing were held for creative writing students interested in learning from Barry. In order to bring out the creative process, she encouraged the students to enage the mindset of being deeply immersed in activity or play.
“But play is exactly the right word. And how to play was exactly the most important thing she could have taught us about art. In her classes and books, Lynda Barry teaches us that the physical and mental experience of play lead to creativity. The products of play are images, art and story,” Carlisle said. The classes consisted of writing and drawing activities meant to bring out student’s thoughts and stories. “She took us for two hours and we drew a lot and spontaneously wrote. She would have us draw cartoon characters based on something she’d say and then show everybody how we all had the same images essentially,” said senior Nikkin Rader. “She had these tricks on how to write. It was to help you think of word associations for an image and then how that could
bring up intuitive and deeper thoughts.” The entirety of Barry’s talk centered around a question that she has been thinking about since she was in college. “Marily Fraska was my teacher at Evergreen State College, and she asked me a question when I was 19 years old (I’m 58 now) that has changed the course of my life. It was a very simple question, or I thought it was simple. And the question was ‘what is an image?’” Barry said. Barry now studies the cathartic effect that artwork has on humans from a very early age at the Wisconsin Institute of Discovery. “This ability to create characters and to use an image to make things tolerable is something that we’re born with, and when I started looking at this thing that we call ‘the arts’ I became interested in researching the biological function this use of ‘the arts’ may have,” Barry said.
“She was very emotionally electrifying. She was like a child embodied in this older woman. She had a way with visually and verbally touching every audience member’s soul a little bit.” Nikkin Rader Senior
Throughout the rest of her talk, Barry read aloud samples from her own writings broken up with commentary about her past experiments analyzing handwriting among scientists and comparing images drawn by children and adults. She noticed that even among adults who haven’t drawn anything in years, an aliveness still existed in their pictures. “But paper and ink have conjuring abilities of their own,” Barry said. “Arrangements and lines and shapes of letters and words on a series of pages make a world we can dwell and travel in.” After the talk, Barry held a book signing. Every copy of all her available books were bought up before everyone had a chance to browse. “She was very emotionally electrifying. She was like a child embodied in this older woman. She had a way with visually and verbally touching every audience member’s soul a little bit,” Rader said.
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Pressures to move to DI TUPD “Gentle Giant” passes away are tabled for the present • continued from Page 1 McGinlay feels this statement holds true for Trinity University as well and thinks that the school’s academic profile is its first priority. “I think the perfect world would put us in a perfect conference with like institutions and the schools that are more like us happen to be Division I. If they were Division III, and we could participate in a conference, there would be no discussion,” McGinlay said. At one point, McGinlay specifically referenced the football team’s upcoming schedule changes. Starting in 2016-2017, the Trinity football team will play against each team in the SCAC twice per season, once at each team’s home site. “I think at the current moment our schedule, beginning in 2016-2017, is different than what people are used to in college football. I think that we can field an extremely competitive team, and continue building on the tradition that has been put in place at Trinity through DIII football,” said head football coach Jerheme Urban in an e-mail. During his lecture, McGinlay discussed the case of the Pioneer Football League, which is a Division I FCS conference made up of twelve members who choose not to award athletic scholarships. Its members span across nine states, from California to New York. “If Trinity, in 1999, were a DI non-scholarship program, I definitely would have chosen Trinity. The overall athlete at the DI non-scholarship and DIII level are very similar. However, I think the allure to have
played “DI” football would have excited me. Just as important, I think that the allure of having major DI schools on campus throughout the year competing in other sports would have added to an already great atmosphere,” Urban said. Senior midfielder Darren McAfee, along with McGinlay, helped present Ahlburg and Calgaard with framed No. 10 Trinity soccer jerseys to represent the leadership the two men have provided the university. For him, Trinity has the talent necessary to make a jump to Division I athletics. “I think in America there is an overexaggeration on the division separation which is initially a turn-off for competing at the highest level. For Trinity, when you come visit, there is not a big difference in the quality of players. That played a big role in my decision and I did not mind the fact that it was a Division III school, because there were players that were perfectly capable of playing in Division I,” McAfee said. Although he recognizes the value of the elevated competition in Division I, Ahlburg thinks the Trinity definition of studentathlete would be altered too significantly by a shift to DI. The president embraced a strategy of trying to look for schools that are similar to Trinity to join the depleted SCAC. “There are schools that look a lot more like us in terms of size and some of the academic measures and there are some schools that are different in a number of dimensions. What we try to do is, within the constraints we all face, to build a stable and competitive environment,” Ahlburg said.
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Officer dies in the line of duty; remembered by fellow officers for his kindness by Nivedita Maredia NEWS INTERN The Trinity community learned about the passing of Trinity University Police officer Marc Kelley on March 17. Kelley was responding to a fire alarm call when he collapsed. Kelley worked with the Trinity University Police Department (TUPD) for three years. Fellow officers remember Kelley as a pleasure to work with, and his death served as a severe shock to TUPD. All officers were able to attend his funeral service to pay tribute. “It just hit you like a brick wall,” says sergeant Mark Vallejo, who was the honor guard at Kelley’s funeral. “One minute I was clocking in and he was clocking out and the next minute he was in ICU.” For our TUPD officers, it was not only a shock, but also a reality that was difficult to accept because of Kelley’s youth.
photo courtesy of TUPD Kelley, after three years of service, died on March 17 responding to a fire alarm.
“It was really hard to accept because he was young and he died doing something over and over again, and that’s what made it a bitter pill to swallow,” says Joe Hernandez, who was the flag bearer at the funeral. TUPD officers applaud and commend his hard work, dedication to his profession and his strength of character. “I have known him for the three years he’s been here. Mark was a very good worker and he was on the bike team. He’s always on time. We never had to follow him around; we gave him a job and he’d do it. He was very patient and hard to anger. He did his job well,” Vallejo said. “We couldn’t have asked for anything better.”
Marc Kelley is remembered not only as a hard worker who was dedicated to keeping the Trinity community 100 percent safe; he is also remembered as a team player. “I did not speak to him as much because we were all just coming and going. He was a nice person and really quiet. He was known as a gentle giant because he was really nice and did not speak ill of anyone, said officer David Estrada. Hernandez shares his sentiments when he got to know Kelley’s personally. “We shared a lot of our lives together. Mark never cursed, he joked around, but he never took it to an extreme,” Hernandez said. “I remember him as a gentle giant.”
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News Students featured in university marketing • continued from Page 1 According to Mitts, after the shoot was completed the photographer, Jeanna Goodrich Balreira, associate director of creative communication, showed Mitts and the other students the photos she took. “Then about a month before the billboard she emailed us and was like, ‘Surprise! Remember that photo you guys laughed at me taking? It’s going up on a billboard!’ Then she showed us the whole spread of the billboard, so I knew about it for the longest time,” Mitts said. “I like to joke with people and pretend that I had no idea, but it was actually really nice, full of transparency.” Mitts was later featured in a Public Broadcasting Service commercial. According to Goodrich Balreira, Trinity sends a photographer to most campus -sponsored events, but there are certain types of events which offer better photo opportunities, unlike class lectures or pictures with large amounts of students. “We do look for more handson and tactile events that are happening so that we can show engagement and interaction. Students sitting in a classroom and staring at a whiteboard isn’t exactly the best photo opportunity for engagement, but we understand that that
happens,” Goodrich Balreira said. “Of course the sciences tend to lend themselves better to the hands-on experience, but then we have a class, for example, that is reading the ‘Odyssey’ in Greek, so we try to be able to focus on that kind of stuff as well.” According to Goodrich Balreira, by focusing on smallscale or interactive events, student consent is more easily attained, whereas in large events, such as Diwali, participation implies knowledge that photos - not exclusively by Trinity - are taken. However, when photos of these larger events are utilized, main participants in pictures are often sought after. “We really are looking for close-up of faces, close-up of activities, close-up of different hands-on experiences, so if it was a sea of faces, I’m not quite sure that that would be something that we are looking for,” Goodrich Balreira said. “I think most things are very deliberately showing eyes and smiles and we can clearly identify the people with those eyes and smiles, and just at least make sure they know that we are thinking of using them for something in marketing, whether it’s an ad or a billboard. I don’t want it to be a surprise to anyone, and I think that’s very important for their peace of mind as well.”
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What is the best prank you have ever pulled?
Sarah Perkins Junior
“I put signs all around my neighborhood with my friend’s contact information, saying “call this number to buy a 1998 Camry for $300” and my friend got a ton of calls from random people asking to buy his car.” Trevor Griffin Junior
“Some friends and I hid a bunch of milk cartons in our cafeteria for a month and then opened them on April Fools’ Day.” Anusha Bradley First Year
“I put Saran Wrap over a toilet seat…that was pretty funny.” Michael Carroll First Year
“In Peru, my friends and I knocked out my best friend David, pushed him under one of the bunk beds and turned off the lights and acted like we were sleeping. When he woke he had no idea that it had only been a couple minutes. He came to wake me up and I screamed, “David, you’re alive!” And everyone got up and proceeded to tell him that he died and that we put his body under the bed to hide the evidence. David never quite trusted me again after that. He still isn’t sure if he died.” Michael Miller First year
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“As a camp counselor, I took small furniture out of the male counselors’ cabin and put Cheerios all over the floor, in the beds and dressers, and laid out a heart made of spoons, then put butter over all of the handles.”
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Media With Medina Cynara Medina, Professor Almost two years ago, Megan Julian invited me to write a column for the Trinitonian. At the time, she was managing editor of the paper. Though I don’t have that email anymore, I remember it well. I was to write an opinion column about media. However, looking over the work I have produced for the Trinitonian over the past two years, this column has covered topics far more varied than that. I’ve written about Black Friday, the repeal of DOMA, sexual abuse, catfishing, surveillance, plagiarism, elections and the Brady Bunch. Now, I am down to two last columns, and I’m not writing about media for either of them. These are my final weeks at Trinity, too. I could say that I’m
like a graduating senior, as I am leaving at the end of four years. It’s nothing personal. The visiting part of being a “visiting assistant professor” means that I was to remain here for a limited time. So, at the end of my contract, I will be going elsewhere to teach other students. Trinity has been great, but it’s coming to an end, so what better way to wrap it up than to have the current Trinitonian staff help me compile a bucket list? I could not come up with anything better, so I went to them for advice. They gave me a list of ten items that would be the perfect ending for my four-year visit at Trinity. Here it is: 1. Get dumped in the fountain. 2. Climb the tower. 3. Spend a night in the library. 4. Attend rave at the library. 5. Go inside every building on campus. 6. Take a picture with LeeRoy. 7. Attend milk and cookies and earn a mug.
8. Take a picture with LeeRoy statue in front of Bell Center. 9. Venture into Murchison cave. 10. Walk with the nurses. So far, I have been dumped in the fountain and have ventured into the Murchison cave. I wholeheartedly recommend the first one, especially if the weather is nice. The latter… not so much. I’m fairly sure that I got bitten by some kind of bug, perhaps from whatever inhabits the so-called cave, and I don’t think it came from a Trinity cat. Let’s just leave it at that, shall we? Maybe some of you might wonder why I chose to complete a bucket list. It’s simple. I wanted to just do something fun before I left Trinity. I love working here and being part of this community. After almost four years, there are things on this campus that I had never attempted nor knew about. It’s time to remedy that. It’s almost time to climb the tower. Cynara Medina is a professor in the communication department.
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Communication professor Cynara Medina crosses off Number 6 on her Trinity bucket list after posing with Leeroy.
EDITORIAL
Marching through the semester As the month of March draws to a close, the Trinitonian feels that it is important to reflect upon it. In the past 30 days, Trinity has hosted writers and poets. The administration has heard petitions from departments urging a gross overhaul of university policy. We have continued a campus-wide discussion of the university’s sexual assault policies. March was packed full of important happenings. For starters, on March 5, the athletic department hosted a luncheon where they proposed a departmental shift from Division III athletics to Division I athletics. The idea to move Trinity to DI follows several years of unstable conference play at our current level. Their push comes at an interesting time in light of the university’s significant rebranding campaign. However, the athletic department’s suggestion was met with immediate resistance from university administrators. Despite the administrators’ resolution to remain DIII, we suspect the athletic department will continue to push for the move, and thus this story will remain relevant for many months. Outside of this debate, the university also continues to discuss changing its sexual assault policies. On Thursday, March 20, the university invited Saundra Schuster of the National Center for Higher Education Risk Management to speak to students about sexual assault on college campuses. Schuster assured students that Trinity’s policies are consistent and, in some cases, even more advanced than policies at other schools. Open forums such as this one between members of the Trinity community are incredibly important as the university works to make its policies even better. Finally, March at Trinity was marked by visits from writer and cartoonist Lynda Barry and former CNN chairman and CEO, TIME editor and biographer Walter Isaacson. Both Barry and Isaacson spent their visits emphasizing the importance of creativity, specifically the intersection of the sciences and the humanities. Their talks were especially pertinent to our campus. As the semester presses on, we urge you to pay attention to what’s happening on campus and to appreciate the usefulness of a liberal arts education.
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The importance of preseverance Keeping up what you love The Short List
Coleen Grissom, Professor Resourcefulness and perseverance have always fascinated me. My father possessed both these qualities and made him a hero in my eyes. For years I was wishywashy about whether I should emulate those abilities or just be glad I could call on him to make repairs, change a tire, jump start a battery, solve a geometry problem, assemble a new gadget (which, even then, came with badly translated Taiwanese instructions), or throw a spit ball. Sadly, before his death, the only one I really mastered was that illegal spit ball, which is harder with a softball than you might think. Although I’ve never fully developed my “resourcefulness gene” because I’d rather read a book than clean an aquarium and pay for repairs instead of making them myself, I have always been persevering. So much so that sometimes I pretend my first name is “Perseverance” instead of the dreadfully old-fashioned, “Patsy.” Perseverance has served me well. It got me through those difficult high school and undergraduate school years in which I was bright, athletic, studious and witty, but had not blossomed into an east Texas version of Elizabeth Taylor. Alas, though I persevered far longer than reasonable, I never got close.
Perseverance, combined with my well-honed appreciation of the absurd, helped me survive those decades as the only female administrator – the one receiving less pay and fewer fringe benefits. Nevertheless, I think, perhaps, I was both wise and resourceful when I just smiled each time a trustee referred to me as “Legs” and asked me to replenish his coffee. And, both perseverance and resourcefulness, along with the slow, but steady, march of social change supported all of us who worked for and eventually achieved for Trinity women students the freedoms and responsibilities the men had long enjoyed. Does today’s undergraduate experience help students become more persevering and resourceful? I know that in selecting texts I realize my preference for ones in which admirable characters possess these qualities: the “father” in Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road”, Pvt. John Bartle in Kevin Powers’ “The Yellow Birds,” Joe Coutts in Louise Erdrich’s “The Round House,” Zeb, Toby, and their pals in Margaret Atwood’s “MaddAddam,” to name just a few. I also tell everyone I see to view the recent Robert Redford film, “All Is Lost” which may well be, as some critics allege, “a parable of old age,” but which is simultaneously one of the most mesmerizing depictions of resourcefulness and perseverance I’ve ever seen. Only last week an article, “Does Teaching Kids to Get ‘Gritty’ Help Them Get Ahead?” by Tovia Smith of NPR,
addressed a new approach to teach young students “persistence, determination, and resilience” - an effort to assist children in becoming more tenacious by helping them realize that “mistakes and failures are normal parts of learning – not reasons to quit.” Although no course labeled, “Developing Resourcefulness and Perseverance” and certainly not one called, “Developing Grit” appear in the new curriculum, I believe that the experiences of life in a residential community with all sorts of diversity except intellectual ability, the wide range of studies, and the availability and willingness of faculty to assist students in acting imaginatively, solving problems and overcoming difficulties all combine to make available to our students the developing of these essential lifelong skills. In a recent interview, Dr. Thomas Jenkins of classical studies expressed a view that I think most faculty hold – we want to help our students develop pathways to knowledge, techniques for finding answers. In other words, we hope to help you become resourceful and persevering. Whether you are just stumbling toward the end of your first year, a graduating senior, a new employee or a long-time, wizened one, I hope you’ll consider the value of including these qualities in your educational goals. Coleen Grissom is a professor in the English department.
Staff Column
Lauren Schroeter, Columnist I used to draw a lot, and though I won’t state any definitive judgements on whether I was good or bad, I certainly wasn’t the best, though I did rather enjoy myself. Though I drew all the time, I never really improved very much. I guess I never really had a point of reference to compare myself to, in a way, and there were no classes where I could just sit and draw all the time instead of paying attention to what was going on. In high school, I became friends with a girl who was absolutely phenomenal, and we would sit next to each other in our classes and draw together. Sometimes I would just sit there and watch her draw, and I would think about the strokes of her pencil and how she was able to draw almost anything. I guess I was able to somehow absorb her technique because I started getting better, too. We had a lot of time to draw; I mean it was high school so it’s not like we were learning anything substantial. Once I came to college, I didn’t really draw anymore. At first it was because I didn’t feel like it, I was too tired, I was too depressed, or I had no idea what even to draw. The thing
is I just kind of stopped. Sure, every once in a while I’d take out my sketchbook and maybe doodle a couple things, but that was maybe once or twice a month at best, and if I put my pencil down to do something else I didn’t really have the motivation to pick it back up and finish what I had started. When I finally regained my will to draw, I was too busy to actually act on it. It would always happen around times where I had a bajillion tests, essays or projects, and wasting two hours on something completely unrelated would have delayed me getting to bed until five in the morning. I just didn’t have time. So, it was this vicious cycle of either being too unmotivated to draw or too busy to draw, that when I was motivated I was too busy, and when I had nothing to do I was too unmotivated. You may think that I’m going to say something about overcoming this, but you’re wrong. I’m still wedged firmly in the wheel of unmotivation, so no inspirational resolutions here. This weekend I did start making art again, and I had forgotten how satisfying it was. It was one of those rare occasions when my motivation to do art coincided with me not being very busy. I know that my motivation will probably fade within the next three or four days but I’d like to make use of it as much as I can until that happens. Lauren Schroeter is a junior majoring in geology and religion.
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Hobby Lobby and the fight to protect religious freedom From the Wild Frontier David Crockett, Professor This week, the Supreme Court heard arguments in cases involving Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Woods Specialties Corporation. Both companies are owned by Christian families who object to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) requirement that for-profit corporations provide insurance coverage for abortifacient forms of contraception, which violate the religious principles of the owners. I could address any number of fascinating topics connected to this case, but perhaps the most troubling one, in the long (or short?) run, is the fact that the implementation of the ACA is taking us down the road toward potential widescale civil disobedience. In this country, a substantial percentage of the population believes abortion (including abortifacient forms of contraception) is a violation of an objective moral order that incorporates as one of its uncompromising precepts the natural right of innocent human beings not to be deliberately killed. Some ACA mandates constitute direct support for illicit actions, and thus are regarded by many people as unjust regulations. For millennia, political philosophers have wrestled with the question of what recourse citizens have when faced with unjust laws. Laws may be unjust because they violate the temporal good of a polity, but they can also be unjust when they violate divine law. For those of certain religious persuasions, the Hobby Lobby case, and cases similar to it, involve violations of divine law, and that’s why the issues of birth control and government-mandated health insurance intersect with the free exercise of religion. Some argue, of course, that Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Woods are companies, not people. But people don’t lose their sacred rights of conscience just because they incorporate, or because they hire hundreds of people to work for them. Participation in abortion-related activities constitutes formal cooperation in evil. There is remarkable consensus across religious and philosophical lines when it comes to how religious citizens should respond to
violations of divine law. From the Jewish scriptures we see that the Hebrew midwives disobeyed Pharaoh’s order to kill male babies, King Saul’s troops disobeyed his order to massacre the priests at Nob and the three Hebrew captives disobeyed Nebuchadnezzar’s order to worship his statue. From the Christian New Testament we see that Jesus Christ went to the cross for the kingdom of God, and when the early apostles were told not to proclaim the Gospel they famously proclaimed that they “must obey God rather than men.” From Greek tragedy, Antigone disobeyed Creon’s edict to leave her brother unburied, adhering to the higher law of Zeus at the expense of her life. From Greek philosophy, Socrates
refused to live quietly and was willing to die rather than disobey his god. From the Scholastic era, Thomas Aquinas argued that when human law commanded someone to act contrary to divine law, the only possible response was disobedience. Martin Luther and John Calvin concurred with Aquinas on this question, and Thomas Becket and Thomas More died for that principle. It’s worth pointing out that this issue of moral and religious conscience was precisely what some opponents of the ACA warned about. In fact, the ONLY reason the ACA got to President Obama’s desk for signature was because several antiabortion Democrats in Congress received assurances from
their colleagues that Americans would not be forced to violate their consciences by participating in morally objectionable procedures. Apparently trust has a very short half-life. We are swiftly moving toward a scenario in which the only recourse for persons of good conscience may be noncompliance with the law. Some fundamental principles allow no other options. In this case, it seems that religious liberty is to be sacrificed on the altar of sexual freedom. The ironic thing is that the First Amendment was designed to protect us from the central government meddling in religious affairs – and yet, here we have a central government doing precisely that. This entire fracas is the result of an
over-reaching and grossly bloated law. On the one hand the administration seems unwilling to grant any sensible exemptions, while on the other hand it passes out exemptions like candy when it suits its political needs. Jesus famously taught that we are to render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s – a rejection of the notion that we should give the things that are God’s to Caesar. To switch to another religious symbol, this whole controversy testifies to the danger posed by a state that has become an engorged beast, preventing anyone from buying or selling unless they bow to its authority. David Crockett is a professor in the political science department.
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Liz Ward unveils “Unchopping a Tree” illustrations W.S. Merwin’s book, published by Trinity University Press, served as inspiration for art by Heather Bush
CAMPUS PULSE REPORTER
On Thursday, March 20, Trinity professor and artist Liz Ward spoke about her collection featured in the Michael and Noemi Neidorff Art Gallery. Ward’s silverpoint drawings are included in the Trinity University Press book “Unchopping a Tree” by W.S. Merwin. When Ward was asked to illustrate for the book, she immediately agreed. “What Trinity University Press didn’t know is that I had had a poem of Merwin’s hung up in my studio for decades like a talisman. He is an important poet for me, so I was just ecstatic with the thought of this–and also intimidated and terrified with all the rest of it,” Ward said. The collection features pieces that span the years of 1995 through 2013. After agreeing to the task of creating art that responded to
Merwin’s book, Ward decided to return to a piece of hers from 2005. This piece, created using silverpoint techniques, can be linked back to an even earlier piece of Ward’s from 1995. Composed of four large panels, the 1995 piece features the tree ring imagery that inspired her silverpoints. “Liz’s work is silverpoint, so it’s kind of like drawing with a mechanical pencil, but instead of lead, you use a kind of wire made of silver,” said senior Natalie Cap. The book’s text, along with these original pieces, served as a starting point for Ward’s 2013 collection. “My challenge for the rest of the book was to make new work,” Ward said. “You don’t want to go backwards as artists. You always want to go forwards, and you’re always excited about the new thing that you’re working on.” To create the drawings featured in “Unchopping a Tree,” Ward removed herself from her usual studio and set out to create her work in France. “There was a wonderful paper mill in the area–an ancient paper mill where they took old linen rags and actually beat them underwater,” Ward said.
photo by Megan McLoughlin Senior Cade Bradshaw examines the work of Liz Ward at the opening of the “Unchopping a Tree” exhibit at the art gallery.
Ward used paper from this mill to create multiple layers, giving her silverpoint drawings a unique texture. Each piece is intricately detailed, with repetitive, rhythmic lines that embody images of a tree on a cellular level. Several of Ward’s students attended the exhibition’s
Smithsonian honors former Trinity basketball player with display Singh, first Sikh to ever play in NCAA, overcame discrimination and rule roadblocks by Davis Mathis CAMPUS PULSE REPORTER What do Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, Frederick Douglass, the Wright Brothers and Darsh Preet Singh have in common? They are all featured in Smithsonian displays. Former Trinity basketball player Singh now has a display honoring him as the first Sikh player to ever play in the NCAA. Singh was co-captain of the basketball team his senior year in 2008 after walking on as a first year in 2004. He is memorialized for his role as a pioneer for Sikhs everywhere who will see his example of overcoming any struggles to make it as far as they are capable of going. Singh faced discrimination, jeers and even a rule roadblock in his journey to play college basketball. The NCAA does not allow headgear in games, so he had to persuade referees to allow him to wear his turban as a symbol of his faith while he
played. Eventually, a petition was sent to the NCAA, and Singh was allowed to wear the turban while he was on the court. Singh described some of the hostility he faced while playing. “In high school I faced a lot of taunting about the turban and my ethnicity and such, and it continued in college. Playing in the South didn’t exactly help, but there were so many great people to defend me or help me through it,” Singh said. “While being yelled at and called awful names and blamed for things that have nothing to do with me was not fun, there were so many more supportive people than the ones who taunted.” Despite the adversity he faced, Singh believes it was all worth it in the end. “I got some of it from players when we were away from the referees and there were often fans who yelled things. Pleading with referees before games to let me wear the turban was always a struggle and not particularly fun,” Singh said. “All in all, though, it was an incredible experience that brought me so many great friends and had way more positives than negatives.” Singh’s determination and hard work was seen by those around him. His coaches
were impressed by the way he handled himself in the situations. Head Coach Pat Cunningham was impressed by how calm Singh handled things. “He seemed so patient. He was never violent or inappropriate with his responses. He just handled everything with class. It was really incredible,” Cunningham said. Cunningham was not the only person impressed with Singh. Assistant Coach Ross Burt noted Singh’s work on the court for the team as a player and leader that made him a key component on the Trinity squad. “He worked so hard on the court. His improvement from year to year was inspiring by itself,” Burt said. “He led the team through his actions and taught them how to fight through basketball adversity by fighting through real life adversity right in front of them. His play reflected who he was because he always fought and did his best. You basically had to respect him.” The Smithsonian display has Singh’s jersey and a sharing of his story. He says that he hopes one day it will be replaced by a Sikh player who made it to the NBA.
opening to support their professor. “Liz is one of my favorite professors, and her work is always environmentally themed, which is what I’m focused on,” said senior Cade Bradshaw. Both Merwin’s book and Ward’s drawings engage with the environment, imagining
the impossibility of putting back together a tree after it’s been chopped. Ward hopes that her drawings have remained true to the themes of the book, responding to the text rather than simply illustrating it. Ward’s drawings will be featured in the gallery through Saturday, April 5.
Trinity celebrates diversity at International Banquet Students share culture, food and talent with campus community by Davis Mathis CAMPUS PULSE REPORTER On Thursday, March 27, Trinity students gathered to celebrate the international students of Trinity University. The International Club held their annual banquet and culture fair, where students were given the chance to try foreign cuisine and mingle with each other. First year Todd Edwards thinks the banquet is a great idea. One of the reasons he attended Trinity is the diversity that it brings to campus. “I think it’s a brilliant idea. When international students are extremely prevalent at a school, it only makes sense to give them a way to showcase their culture,” Edwards said. “The banquet gives people a chance to understand just how many international students are of this school and what we add to campus.
It also allows many people to get a glimpse at other cultures and understand the fact that being an international student comes with a bit of a culture shock and difference.” The banquet was open to the entire campus. A variety of students, faculty and staff were present. Trinity President Dennis Ahlburg and Penelope Harley said in the opening speech that the banquet continues to improve each year. Junior Tam Ngo enjoyed the event and thought it was a great environment. “It was great to have the opportunity for us to show off all of these different cultures to the Trinity community. I really liked all of the awesome performances,” Ngo said. The International Club had great expectations for the event. One representative, Suphada Lertphinyowong, spoke very highly of the for the event. “It was a great experience for everyone and a time for us to grow closer as a campus. When cultures are thrown together, it is imperative we try to understand each other,” Lertphinyowong said.
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McNay Second Thursdays Come out to the museum for a night of free music from DJ JJ Lopez. San Antonio food trucks will also be on the grounds, and beer will be available courtesy of Crispin Ciders.
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SUNDAY, APRIL 13 Ruth Taylor Recital Hall | 3 p.m. Jazz Ensemble Concert Director Martin Roemisch will lead the Jazz Ensemble in its spring concert.
Trinity Diversity Connection presents stand up comedian Eliot Chang. Chang’s Comedy Central half hour was voted #2 in Comedy Central’s “Standup Showdown” (out of 48 halfhour specials). His other television appearances include E!’s “Chelsea Lately,” Showtime’s “Minority Report,” Spike TV’s “Crash Test” and NBC’s “Law & Order SVU.”
FRIDAY, APRIL 11 Stieren Theater | 8 p.m. Opening night of “The Skin of Our Teeth”
SATURDAY, APRIL 5 Skyline Room | 7 p.m. Skyline Swing
Director Kyle Gillette and students present the final production of the 2013-2014 theatre season with a classic from Thorton Wilder. The play condenses all of human history into a family comedy. George and Maggie Antrobus, married for 5,000 years, face daunting tasks, from inventing the alphabet and the wheel to keeping the hearth fire burning in the face of repeated imminent apocalypses. Their wry and seductive maid, Sabina, laments that everything “is always beginning again,” while their children grow up in a world of pet dinosaurs and mastodons in a quaint suburban home.
TUESDAY, APRIL 15 Ruth Taylor Recital Hall | 7:30 p.m. Trinity Symphony Orchestra Concert The Trinity Symphony Orchestra, comprised of wind, brass, string and percussion players, will perform at its annual spring concert.
KRTU Jazz 91.7, Tucker’s Kozy Korner and SA Swing Dance Society bring you the finest jazz and dancing in San Antonio, featuring the famous Jim Cullum Jazz Band.
SATURDAY, APRIL 26 SUNDAY, APRIL 6 Ruth Taylor Recital Hall | 3 p.m. Handbell Ensemble Concert Katie Robyn will direct the Handbell Ensemble in its spring concert.
FRIDAY, APRIL 11 Murchison Lawn | 7 p.m. H.O.P.E. Hall Sleep-Out Join members of H.O.P.E. Hall for the third annual sleep-out. The evening will consist of a “hunger banquet,” s’mores, board games and other activities that will promote an awareness of homelessness.
Laurie Auditorium | 7:30 p.m. Choral Union Concert Featuring the Symphonic Wind Ensemble and the combined Trinity Choir, James Worman and Gary Seighman will direct the groups in a performance with selections from “Water Music,” by Malcolm Arnold, a three movement celebratory piece for winds and percussion, and guestcomposer James Syler’s Sympony No. 1, “Blue,” a five-movement choral symphony.
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New free app brings greater security to campus ELERTS consolidates multiple police services into one convenient location by Julia Elmore CAMPUS PULSE INTERN Just before spring break, the Trinity University Police Department announced a new application available to students and faculty that offers a variety of features to notify officers if a problem arises. The app is called ELERTS and can be downloaded to any smartphone or tablet. There are multiple features that connect students with TUPD both on and off campus. One of the main features is called the Virtual Escort program. This feature is intended to give users quick access to TUPD if they are alone. Users open the virtual escort as a precaution and keep it open until they reach their destination or need police assistance. If users select that they need police assistance, TUPD officers can determine the user’s location. “The Virtual Escort feature, through GPS, lets TUPD know that you’re out walking around, but it doesn’t signal them to come unless you press the button saying you’re
unsafe,” said Paul Morales, community awareness resource officer. Construction taking place all around campus has caused Trinity students and faculty to park in new areas that may be unfamiliar to them. Many already feel the reassurance provided by the Virtual Escort feature. “The Virtual Escort is my favorite feature,” said the Rev. Stephen Nickle. “It’s like having [assistant chief of police] Pete Perez in your pocket!” Another feature of the ELERTS app is called Sky Writer. Sky Writer can be used on or off campus. It notifies email contacts of your progress when traveling. “The Sky Writer helps when you’re off campus. Anywhere in the world where there is Wi-Fi, this will work,” Morales said. “You can send a message letting someone know you’re okay or need help. The person will receive a picture of where you are on a GPS map.” Aside from aiding students in dangerous situations, the ELERTS app also serves as a place for students to report disturbances or suspicious activity that may not pose an immediate threat. “The night we came back from spring break there was
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photo courtesy of Trinity University YouTube channel Trinity University Chief of Police Paul Chapa shows off the ELERTS app, which is now available for Apple and Android devices.
an alarm going off. After a good amount of time passed without the alarm stopping, I decided it was time to use my handy dandy app,” said first year Hanna Niner. “I just reported the problem and received a call saying the problem would be addressed.”
While the ELERTS app is not intended to replace cell phones or the blue emergency towers around campus, it does consolidate many police services into one convenient place. “It is easy to quickly report a problem and everything
is really comprehensive and easy to navigate,” Niner said. The ELERTS app is free and is growing in popularity, not only at Trinity, but also at colleges across the state. The long-term goal is for everyone in the Trinity community to use the ELERTS system.
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Do you even read, bro? Five ways to easy free reading
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You just popped in the Mason Walker get right in the mind workout tape. And people, if you follow these instructions exactly you might bear to pull a rapper, a NBA player, or at last a dude with a car.
Think of it as a mental workout. With that in mind, here are five ways to make time for such a workout. And you do not need to consult a doctor before initiating in this regimen.
In one of his best (and, I should warn you, one of his naughtiest) stand-up bits, comedian Patton Oswalt explains to us why he works out so infrequently. Every night, when goes home, he imagines that all his machines audition for his attention. The at-home treadmill, calm and softspoken, asks Oswalt to get on a moving belt and sweat for fortyfive minutes. Then, the Internet gets up and auditions, pitching laziness and self-gratification.
Any guess as to who wins? I think this is also true for Trinity students. Those who are trying to do a lab write-up on cell division whilst authoring a paper on Walt Whitman and interning at a poli-sci magazine have not exactly cornered the market on free time. And when we DO have said free time, it is increasingly tempting to fritter it away on sillier parts of the Interwebs. Doing so is the mental equivalent of lying face down on a couch. There is nothing at all wrong with that— a little indolence is necessary every now and then. But just as your body demands that you spend some of your free time off the couch and on the treadmill, your mind demands that you spend some of it off the quick-click Internets and inside a good book.
2. Communal coercion Find people who want to
4. Short and sweet If above approaches are too time-consuming for you, pick a poem or short essay of under
This might be a bit surprising but apparently the cosmos we live in - this little universe that we exist in filled with billions and billions of stars has enough stuff in it that it is impossible to cover everything in one season of a TV show. Neil deGrasse Tyson is the host of the 2014 version of “Cosmos” with the subtitle “A Spacetime Odyssey.” Just like his predecessor, Tyson is a scientist well-known for being a “science communicator.” He does not talk to science, I
know, disappointing. In fact, he communicates science to the ignorant, non-science masses like me and maybe you. For fans of his predecessor, Carl Sagan, do not worry. This article will talk about both versions of Cosmos - the TV shows, not the TV show and the magazine. “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey” is only its third episode but it lives up to the almost universal (hehe) praise for the original series. Neil deGrasse Tyson’s show follows the same 13 episode format as the original where the host takes the viewer on a journey on a “Ship of the Imagination.” Oh my god. The cheese in this show is thick. It is definitely thicker than the original series but it might be because it is intentional here so it does not have the same magic, charm that Sagan’s unintentional
cheesiness had. The method of conveying information is a lot more effective this time. Science can seem like a lot of mumbojumbo without pictures - really, who reads books without pictures - but Tyson’s narration is accompanied by a lot of CGI. The “Ship of the Imagination” travels from outer space outside Earth down to the very atoms that make up the universe. This show feels very sleek and shiny but the science is easy to understand. A lot of bemoan the abundance of reality tv show and other shows that provide seemingly shallow entertainment; well, this is the quintessential antithesis to that point. Do not just whine about bad TV, go and watch this. Tell everyone you know to watch it. The more people watch this show, the better the world will be.
Fun fact: Seth MacFarlane, the very same who is famous for his non sequitur and non funny animated shows, is an executive producer for this show and his fame and money was apparently important in getting the show made. “Cosmos: A Personal Voyage” is the original series created by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (his widow) and Steven Soter - the latter 2 actually serve as writers for the new series. The show came out in 1980 but it is surprisingly very relevant to people 34 years later. Sagan’s charm and enthusiasm is evident even in 2014. Granted, some of the science does not hold up to discoveries since 1980 but Sagan does not focus on the nitty-gritty science as much as a look into the Cosmos through the short-spanned, short-sighted yet important len of humanity.
1.Twenty-twenty My preferred approach. Read twenty pages during the first half of your day, and twenty more during the second. This asks for only a little over halfan-hour of your time, and it makes a Big Heavy Book a lot less intimidating. With this approach, you could get through D.H. Lawrence’s “The Rainbow” (highly recommended) in well under a month.
read the same book as you. Meet once a week to discuss a selected portion, and keep one another on track. This does have the unfortunate effect of making free reading feel a little like homework, but it has worked for me—twice. 3. The deadline deal Rather than set a daily or weekly page-number rate, set a broad deadline (i.e. a certain week, not a specific day) by which you will have finished a certain text. If you are the kind of reader who will read one hundred pages one evening and then two paragraphs the next, this option is for you.
three pages, and make that your daily reading. Stir, rinse and repeat with different material. Shakespearean sonnets and Theodore Roethke come to mind here, or, if you want something a little lighter but not totally without weight, E.B. White’s “New Yorker” essays. 5. The quotes approach If none of the above options will fit into your schedule, buy a giant book of famous quotes (Bartlett’s and Quote Junkie come highly recommended), and read one a day. A little nourishment is much better than none. Well, there you have it, folks. Now, someone please publish a manual on how to get me to the weight room.
“Cosmos: A Personal Voyage” returns with a big bang
Carl Sagan may be one of the best human beings to have existed. Neil deGrasse Tyson was actually inspired by Sagan and has thus followed in his footsteps. There is a lot of science but there there is no such thing as knowing too much science. Carl Sagan did his best - and was effective - at bringing complicated science to everyone. He championed teaching everyone about ourselves and the world we live in. Aside from explaining about how and why things are the way they are, Sagan also advocated how our actions affect the world and each other. We should all strive to not only know science but also to be good human beings - aware of the effect our actions have and striving to do what’s best for humanity and the world we live in.
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Trinity has talent and so can you Written by Maddie Smith and Graphic by Caroline Jakubowski
Apparently, Trinity University is chock-full of undiscovered talent, something that only very recently became news to me. That’s why we have something called Spotlight this Saturday evening, a showcase event for all the creative types to show off their sweet skills. Many of the performers have been preparing their acts for years, meticulously crafting until they found perfection. All of their confidence and drive depends upon this one evening and whether or not they will be declared ultimate champion of Trinity University’s talent show. But let’s say you signed up at the last second thinking that this would probably be a good way to finally make your mark. You probably figured that you’d develop a talent in a few weeks, but the show’s tomorrow and you’ve come up with zip. Well, here are a few last-minute talents you could probably pick up overnight. Disclaimer: you are not guaranteed first place if you perform one of these because I’m sure a lot of people are going to read this article and want to try some out. Tie a Shoe Really Fast Without Looking I once found a statistic which read that only about five percent of the human population knows how to tie their shoes. If you add that with “really fast” and “not looking,” you’ll become an instant legend. Just watch out for the number of people who try getting you on your knees afterward— we’ve all been there.
Overcome Your Fear of Public Speaking There isn’t going to be a dry eye in the house when you singlehandedly plunge yourself into the depths of your greatest phobia in front of a crowd of people. Some ideas include telling the audience about all the things that make you feel incredibly vulnerable or one-man acapella-ing. They say the best way to get comfortable on a stage is to picture the audience in their underwear, but you should probably go up in your underwear, too— super effective. Sing Lady Gaga Covers Works every time.
Impersonate Your Best Friends and Professors There’s nothing funnier than humiliating not only yourself, but also the people who care about you most. As an add-on, make the people who have control of your future absolutely despise you. It’ll be a hilarious story for the grandchildren.
Admit to Murder It doesn’t really matter if you committed it or not, we want the pizzazz! The spark! The fun! The only way to achieve this is with a funky shock factor. Knock ‘em dead, tiger! Cry Don’t plan anything. Just think about that one time you had to put down your best friend, Sprinkles.
Do a Racially-Charged Standup Bit Trinity kids love getting just a little offended. And I’m sure that once you explain that it was all in the name of comedy, they’ll realize just how stupid they were being. Sarah Silverman has to do the same thing. Bail Let’s be honest: you’re useless. The best and only thing for you to do at this point is break your own leg and say you can’t do the show. Everyone will thank you, God included.
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Indie Overnight Playlist Matthew Peebles provides us with a list of only women this week, because he thinks “Strong female vocalists are so sexy.” We couldn’t agree more. “Riverside” by Agnes Obel “Pardisco” by Charlotte Gainsbourge “Lemonade” by Cocorosie “Plastic Soul” by YACHT “Bateau Rouge” by Thievery Corporation “Pretty Clementine” by Nicolette Good “Suicide” by The Raveonites
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Sponsored by the YMCA, Síclovía will occur Sunday, March 30 from 11 am to 4 pm. It will begin at the intersection of South St. Mary’s Street and East Cesar E. Chavez Boulevard, and travel south along Steves Ave. and Mission Road to Mission Concepción. In total, it will be about 2.5 miles. Síclovía is an event that promotes healthy and social exercising by making streets carfree for a few hours so people can walk, run, ride their bikes, etc., without any danger. Often, families will enjoy the day together without having to pay for any expenses or worry about being put in harm’s way. The streets are crowded with children, adults, teenagers and pets because any and all are welcome to join in on the fun. There will be an estimated 65,000+ participants.
Síclovía comes from the Spanish word “Ciclovía,” which means “cycleway.” It was started in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1976. Now, many major cities practice Ciclovía every Sunday or major holiday, and about two million people participate. That’s roughly 30 percent of the population. Now, countries like Australia, New Zealand and Peru also celebrate it, along with other cities.
There will be many vendors and booths for both information and entertainment. People can learn more about diet and exercise from the Humana booth, which will offer free testing for things like BMI and muscle mass. People will also be giving out delicious food and drinks. There will be
water stations provided, since you cannot bring your own into the event. There will also be a plethora of exciting and artistic merchandise available. Drivers can expect roads to be closed about two hours before the event and ninety minutes afterwards. People will need to find alternative routes if they plan to use the above- mentioned streets during these times. When parking, remember that meters are free on Sundays. The best parking options seem to be in the SAISD Lot, San Antonio River Foundation lot, Juvenile Detention Center lot, Robert B. Green Elementary lot, City of SA Office of Sustainability lot and City of San Antonio Development Services lot. If you are interested in volunteering for this event in the future, the best way to do so is by going to www.ymcasatx. org/SíclovíaVolunteer and filling out the forms. Volunteers can do many tasks including handing out water, picking up trash and giving out information. It’s sure to be a fun time. On the same website, you can also donate money for next year’s event or try to open a booth of your own. Just make sure you aren’t a criminal!
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2014 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships highlighted by Culberson’s 100-yd freestyle win
Junior Stephen Culberson wins school’s first swimming title by Elif Yucel
SPORTS REPORTER
Last weekend, junior Stephen Culberson of the Trinity men’s swimming team won the 100-yard freestyle event at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships with a time of 44.18. He also had the best time in the preliminaries earlier that morning, with a time off 44.29 seconds. Culberson is the first Trinity swimmer to win a national championship. The men’s team tied Calvin College for 21st place overall, and the women’s team placed 24th overall. “Well, my initial goal was just to make it, so I was really happy just making it, and once I got there I really wanted to get top eight because that’s the AllAmerican award,” Culberson said. “I just put it all out on the line in the morning preliminaries; I was pretty surprised when I got first seed and that was when it hit me and I thought, ‘I could actually win this thing.’ I knew it was going to be difficult, but I just relied on my training to get me home and it worked out.” The men’s relay team of Culberson, first year Isaac Johnson and juniors Adam Thomas and Kevin Thomas finished 17th in the 400-yd freestyle relay with a time of 3:03.90, barely missing the consolation final for Honorable Mention AllAmerican. “Next year we want to do a lot better. Just going to the meet, getting the jitters out
Women’s Tennis Home vs. Schreiner 3:30 p.m. Track and Field Tiger Relays at Home
photo courtesy of Russell Kramer (North Coast Athletic Conference) Junior Stephen Culberson celebrates after winning the 100-yard freestyle event at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships with a time of 44.18 to bring Trinity its first swimming National Championship.
and being in that environment was really great. We now have nationals’ veterans; it’s a really good step for our program. Now it’s not about making nationals, it’s about scoring at nationals, moving up in the team ranks. Maybe that’ll leave a little bit of a chip on their shoulders, that we didn’t get a top-20 team finish,” said assistant coach Michael Schuber. “I think that it’s very possible next year, especially with the recruits that we have coming in and with the talent that we have returning, and also with the change in mindset about what our potential is and what our expectations are for ourselves. I’m very proud of everyone, and I think that it is easy to focus on Stephen’s win but I think
Baseball Doubleheader away at Hendrix 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. Tennis Doubleheader home vs. Hardin-Simmons and Laredo CC 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Track and Field Texas Relays away at Austin, Texas Softball Doubleheader away at Texas Lutheran 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.
Baseball Away at Hendrix Noon Softball Doubleheader away at Texas Lutheran 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.
Stephen’s success is really a sign of our whole team’s success.”
“I think that it is easy to focus on Stephen’s win, but I think Stephen’s success is really a sign of our whole team’s success.”
Michael Schuber Assistant Swimming Coach Sophomore Kara Beauchamp also barely missed the consolation final of the women’s 200-yard breaststroke, finishing 17th with a time of 2:21.04.
Women’s Tennis Home vs. Gustavus Adolphus 4:30 p.m.
“Wednesday was the 200 IM for me; it was okay, I added time,” Beauchamp said. “It’s hard to taper for conference and then build back up and then taper again perfectly for nationals. Overall it was a really great experience, and I’m really excited for next season because I know that we can accomplish even more.” Sophomore women’s diver Ashley Heline received Honorable Mention AllAmerican for the second time in the meet. She placed ninth on the 3-meter board, scoring 456.85 points and placed twelfth in the 1-meter board with 389.70 points. Senior Katie Sheldon finished eighth on the 1-meter board with 407.9 points.
“We’re looking to establish more of our prominence at a national level,” Culberson said. “We’re tired of just being a conference champion program. I’m really excited about next year, and I think everyone else is, too. It was a really good first step just getting people there. I’m just really proud of the team and the way they stepped it up. We went from being a team with only one coach for half the year to being successful at a national level, and no one had really even heard of us before we got there, and I think that’s changed and I’m really looking forward to next year.” Culberson also became only the sixth NCAA champion in an individual sport in Trinity’s history.
Baseball Away at HardinSimmons 4 p.m. Softball Doubleheader away at Mary Hardin-Baylor 3 p.m. and 5 p.m.
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Softball team takes five of eight games during lengthy home stand over four doubleheaders Team improves to 12-9 and 7-1 in conference play by Elif Yucel SPORTS REPORTER The Trinity women’s softball team played a total of eight games, four doubleheaders, in six days. They won five out of the eight games and their record has improved to 12-9 and 7-1 in conference games. Trinity split a doubleheader against Pacific Lutheran University (Wash.) on Wednesday. The Tigers conceded the first game 4-2, but won the second game 4-2. Trinity trailed Pacific Lutheran by two runs but came back in the bottom of the fifth inning with two runs to tie the game. The Lutes added a run in the sixth and seventh inning to seal the game. “Pacific Lutheran has always been a great team, so we’re proud to have gotten a win,” said senior second baseman Christina Armstrong. “Our team did well with stringing hits together when we needed to, and we took advantage of the mistakes they made on defense.” In the second game, the Tigers secured a run in the first inning and runs in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings. The Lutes scored two runs in the sixth inning, but the Tigers added another run to close out the game. First-year second baseman Hillary Hoffman scored runs in
both games, as did sophomore pitcher Kaci Welik. Welik also struck out three batters and only allowed two runs on six hits for the game. “Yesterday we struggled to move runners and score when we had the opportunities,” said head coach Brandi Crnkovic. “Our defense is still getting adjusted after losing senior shortstop Brooke Sanchez to an injury, but the girls have done a good job stepping up.” On Tuesday, the Tigers played a doubleheader against Linfield, losing both games. The Tigers lost the first game 4-0, holding the Wildcats until the fourth inning, where they scored two runs. Linfield added another two runs in the seventh inning to close the game. Armstrong had the only hit for the Tigers. Welik allowed seven hits, two walks and struck out eight batters in the game. “As for the games against Linfield, it was a learning process,” said junior outfielder Lauren Mercado. “They were a good team and we did not come out to play that second game. We take it, learn from it to make us better and forget about it. We don’t need games like that to hold us back, especially this far into season, because we know we’re better.” In the second game, the Tigers were unable to hold back the Wildcats. Linfield scored four runs in the second inning, three runs in the third inning and seven runs in the fifth inning. They had 14 runs off of 18 hits. Sophomore outfielder
Emily Fleischmann and junior catcher Caitlynn Dykes had the only two hits for the Tigers in the game. Sophomore pitcher Katie Castillon pitched the first two innings of the game, but first-year pitcher Katie Glomb came on as relief in the third inning. The Tigers had a weekend sweep against Austin College last Friday and Saturday. On Friday, the Tigers won the first game 5-2 and won the second game 3-2 with a late run in the bottom of the seventh inning. The Tigers were up 5-1 by the fifth inning, but the Roos were able to score one last run in the seventh inning. Welik struck out twelve batters in the game. “We played very well against Austin College, really stepped up our offense and scored some runs,” Crnkovic said. In the second game of the doubleheader, the Tigers trailed by two at the top of the fifth inning, but scored a run in the fifth and sixth inning to tie the game. They avoided extra innings with a run batted-in by Hoffman, which allowed first-year catcher Sydney Ramirez to score. On Saturday, the Tigers closed out their SCAC weekend against Austin College with two high-scoring shutout victories. They opened the first game with three runs in the first inning, followed by four runs in the second inning and one run in the third inning. The Tigers held the Roos to end the game
matter what division you are, its who’s the most prepared,” said Joe Meno, volunteer track and field coach The Tiger women were led by senior distance runner Jackie Newell’s win in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a time of 11:38.84, winning the event by nearly 25 seconds. Junior sprinter and jumper Sarah Picket also had a strong performance in the high jump, tying for fourth place by hitting a mark of 1.53 meters.
race of the season. I’m looking to improve a lot from there, though. I was happy I won, but I’m not settling for that performance,” Newell said. Newell and senior thrower Kelsey Ozele received SCAC honors after the meet for their outstanding performances. Oelze earned the conference honor for the second consecutive week. She finished second in the javelin with a throw of 37.97 meters. Oelze also posted a personal season-high shot put mark of 10.63 meters, and chalked up a throw of 28.45 meters in the discus. Sophomore sprinter Bailey Drury and senior sprinters Salome Wilfred both had good showings in the 100-meter dash. Drury finished 11th overall with a time of 12.66, while Wilfred finished in 15th place with a time of 12.95 seconds. The two Tigers were top athletes among Division III runners. On the men’s side, senior jumper George Warren
photo by Matthew Brink Sophomore pitcher Katie Castillon delivers during Trinity’s 14-0 loss to Linfield University on Tuesday, March 25.
8-0 in the fifth inning. Welik pitches three innings of game, striking out two batters and only giving up two hits. The Tigers started off game two with a run in the first inning from Fleischmann. In the second inning, the Tigers scored a whopping five runs on five hits. The Tigers scored another run in the fourth inning to end the game in the fifth. Castillon only allowed three hits in three innings and struck out three batters. Glomb came on as relief in both games, only allowing three hits in four innings.
The Tigers will play a double header against Texas Lutheran University tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. and again on Sunday at 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. “Texas Lutheran, who is our toughest competition in conference, will be a challenge, but we’re working hard to come out on top with a few wins,” Armstrong said. “We have to play our best by making no errors defensively and not leaving runners on base offensively in order to win.”
finished second in the high jump with a height of 2.01 meters. Junior distance runner Ian Plantz finished third in the 800-meter dash with a time of 1:57.64, racing to the line less than five seconds after the winner had crossed.
from either high school or past competitions, and they all have great sportsmanship, so I have no problem being out-competed by humble and enthusiastic people,” Plantz said. Senior sprinter Will Paulus took 13th overall in the 400-meter dash, leading all D-III runners with a time of 50.54 seconds. Sophomore sprinter Vincent Omegba finished fifth by reaching 12.49 meters in the triple jump. “Winning conference and improving both as individuals and as a team are always priority, a goal which the student athletes and coaches of Trinity University Track and Field make sure is emphasized from the very beginning of the year. You can always tell when a Trinity athlete is competing because the stands and field event areas are never quiet. We’re all shamelessly loud when it comes to cheering each other on,” Plantz said. Trinity returns to action this week, hosting the Tiger Relays today at home.
Trinity track and field team stands out during a difficult meet at Texas A&M University-Kingsville Tigers shine against tough competition in Cactus Cup by Kaileigh Phillips SPORTS REPORTER
Trinity University’s track and field teams participated in Cactus Cup, hosted by Texas A&M UniversityKingsville on Saturday, March 22. In a meet dominated by Division I and Division II, Trinity was able to stand out with several top performances in both the men’s and women’s events. “The non-DIII schools have a lot of scholarship athletes, so in a lot of ways their ultimate purpose for training and competing is different. In most events, they have more depth than DIII schools. It’s not daunting for Trinity track and field because we can rise to the occasion and compete against these athletes. During the race, it doesn’t
“During the race, it doesn’t matter what division you are, its who’s the most prepared.” Joe Meno Volunteer Coach
“It was great to win the steeple chase this weekend because it was my first steeple
“I’m looking to improve a lot from there, though. I was happy I won, but I’m not settling for that performance.” Jackie Newell Senior
“The race unfolded exactly as I planned with a strong last 200-m. I was only out-competed by a Dl competitor for first and a Dll competitor for second, so for me it feels as good as any first-place finish as a Dlll athlete. I knew quite a few of the athletes in the race on Saturday
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Trinity drops to No. 3 in the nation after two losses in three games to Dallas and Concordia Tigers give up No. 1 rank, but are still 21-3 on the season by Kaileigh Phillips SPORTS REPORTER
photo by Nayeli Perez Sophomore outfielder Austin Singer follows through on a swing during Trinity’s 8-2 victory in seven innings over the University of Dallas on Saturday, March 22.
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The third-ranked Trinity Tiger baseball team lost for the second time in three games, and fell to 21-3 on the season after the games that took place between Saturday, March 22 and Tuesday, March 25. The Tigers opened their weekend by splitting a doubleheader against the University of Dallas on Saturday, which ended their winning streak. “The streak was nice, but it was more a reflection of us just playing good baseball than anything more. I don’t think our players paid too much attention to it, and I know that we as coaches didn’t,” said assistant baseball coach Zach Fregosi. The Tigers opened the day with an 8-2 seven-inning win, scoring seven of the eight runs in the first three innings of action. The Tiger pitching staff allowed just three hits in the game to preserve the win. Junior pitcher Zack Speer improved his record to 5-0 on the season, allowing one run on just two hits, and recording three strikeouts. Sophomore first baseman Drew Butler went 2-4 with a run and two RBI in the opening game, while Bianchi picked up three hits and drove in two runs. He knocked in both runs by homering in his second consecutive game. Sophomore infielder Carter McEachern went 4-6 with two runs scored in game two, while Connor Moore was 2-5 with two runs and two RBI. “Our coaches know what we need to do in order to be prepared for each game and they run practice in a manner that makes us game ready,” Moore said. The second game of the day went extra innings as Dallas rallied from a five-run deficit to pull off a 9-8 upset win in 10 innings. The Crusaders hit a pair of home runs to account for a five-run fifth inning, tying the score after the Tigers seemed to be in control. Four of the Dallas runs were unearned following a two-out error by the home team. Trinity then hammered three hits in the bottom of the eighth inning, scoring three runs to take the 8-5 lead. Dallas fired back by plating three runs in the top of the ninth to extend the game. In the 10th, Dallas scored without getting a hit, stealing home to take the 9-8 lead. Dallas drew a leadoff walk, and then advanced to third on a wild pitch and a passed ball. In the bottom of the inning, senior catcher Chris Bianchi led off with a single into left-
center to set up the tying run, but senior infielder Christian Muscarello’s two-out line drive was snagged on a running catch by the left fielder to end the game. The following day, the Tigers defeated the University of Dallas by staging an eighth-inning rally to win 5-4 in an SCAC game. The Tigers took a 2-0 lead in the first inning, but the Crusaders took advantage of three Tiger errors in the second inning to produce three runs and take a 3-2 lead. Dallas added an insurance run in the seventh to make it 4-2, setting up the Tiger rally. Trinity began with a run in the bottom of the seventh to cut the lead in half, then pulled in front for the first time since the opening frame with a tworun eighth. Infielder Trent Rape cracked a run-scoring single to score senior outfielder Pat Hirschberg. Sophomore infielder Connor Moore drove in the winning run with a sacrifice fly to center. First-year pitcher Kevin Flores came on in relief in the second inning, pitching a total of 7.1 innings, and giving up one unearned run on four hits. Hirschberg hit 2-3 at the plate, and stole two bases, while sophomore Jeremy Wolf also went 2-3 in the match-up. Wolf also drew a walk in the eighth to set up the winning run, which was scored by outfielder Brody Fehmel. Following the game Tuesday night, Concordia upped its record to 17-2 with the win, after dropping a 5-1 game. Concordia opened the game with a run in the bottom of the first, followed by a two-run third inning. The Tornados added single runs in the seventh and eighth to go up 5-0 before the Tigers finally got on the board in their last at-bat. Trinity rattled off 10 hits in the game, but managed just one run in the ninth inning. Butler went 3-5 in the game, while Hirschberg, Singer and Bianchi had two hits each to account for nine of the team’s 10 hits. Senior pitcher Kyle Bogese was charged with his first loss of the season, falling to 4-1 on the year. Bogese allowed three runs, two of which were earned, on just one hit and struck out four, but walked five batters. “We prepare all week with hours of practice and drills. A lot of people say we ‘live in the Bell Center’ because we are always working to prepare,” Bogese said. Senior pitchers Carter Lauck, junior outfielder Nick Griffith, and sophomore pitcher Ryan Gray finished off the game, giving up two more runs on five hits. Lauck also recorded four strikeouts. Trinity opens a three-game road series at Hendrix College this weekend, beginning with a Friday night game at 6:00 p.m.
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AL East: Boston Red Sox Tampa Bay Rays New York Yankees Baltimore Orioles Toronto Blue Jays
The defending World Series champion Red Sox are not going anywhere even after losing center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury to the rival Yankees. However, the Rays will be hot on their tails for a second year in a row after bringing back star pitcher David Price and getting another year of experience for budding outfielder Wil Myers. The Yankees splurged on Ellsbury and Masahiro Tanaka, which will push them closer to the top, but not quite there. The Baltimore Orioles added pitcher Ubaldo Jimenez, but that move will not be enough to push them to the top of the toughest division
in baseball. The Blue Jays’ heavy spending offseason two years ago failed to pay off last season, and will fail again this year. AL Central: Detroit Tigers Cleveland Indians Kansas City Royals Chicago White Sox Minnesota Twins
After shelling out a king’s ransom to keep Miguel Cabrera in town through the end of his career, the Tigers will ride another MVPcaliber season from Cabrera en route to a division title. The Indians made the playoffs a year ago behind a plethora of young talent that will continue to improve this season. The Royals are improving from being regular cellar dwellers and could get their first set of back-to-back .500 seasons since the 1993 and 1994 seasons. The only thing White Sox fans have to look forward to this season is Paul Konerko’s farewell tour and the 25-pound sundae the team will be selling at home games. That is still more
than what Twins fans have to look forward to. AL West: Oakland A’s Texas Rangers LA Angels of Anaheim Seattle Mariners Houston Astros
The Oakland A’s moneyball philosophy has gotten them into the playoffs the last two seasons and will do so again this year. The Texas Rangers will snag the second wild-card spot behind a revamped lineup featuring recently acquired slugger Prince Fielder. The Angels have a gem in Mike Trout, but he is surrounded by an aging core that can’t get him to the playoffs. The Seattle Mariners will enjoy Robinson Cano’s production, but that is about it. The Astros continue their rebuilding project. Stay tuned for progress over the next few years. NL East: Washington Nationals Atlanta Braves Philadelphia Phillies Miami Marlins New York Mets
The Washington Nationals will be the team everyone expected to dominate the National League a year ago after bolstering their rotation with the addition of Doug Fister. The Atlanta Braves try to defend their division title with a significantly depleted rotation due to season-ending Tommy John surgeries for Kris Medlen and Brandon Beachy. The Phillies core of talent is in its twilight years and won’t contend without an infusion of young talent. The Mets and Marlins will continue to have empty stadiums due to a lack of talent on their rosters. NL Central: St. Louis Cardinals Pittsburgh Pirates Cincinnati Reds Chicago Cubs Milwaukee Brewers
The St. Louis Cardinals came up short in the World Series a year ago, but will return with a vengeance and a healthier pitching staff. The Pirates shocked the baseball landscape last year, but the bigger surprise
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is that they are here to stay. The Cincinnati Reds will take a step back under firstyear manager Bryan Price. The Chicago Cubs will try to develop their young talent for future seasons, while the Milwaukee Brewers will hope that outfielder Ryan Braun doesn’t tangle himself in more steroid allegations. NL West: Los Angeles Dodgers Arizona Diamondbacks San Francisco Giants Colorado Rockies San Diego Padres
The Dodgers recently surpassed the Yankees for the league’s highest payroll and their investments will pay off with another division title. The rival Diamondbacks will come in second for the second straight year as well. The Giants will bounce back behind the strength of their pitching staff, but will struggle still on offense. The Rockies will do the opposite due to hitter-friendly Coors Field. The Padres will struggle both with pitching and offense because they lack talent everywhere.
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Men’s golf finishes sixth in West Cup Trinity’s west coast trip ends with a score of 932 by Claire Hoobler-Curtis SPORTS REPORTER During this past week, from March 23-25, the Trinity men’s golf team traveled to La Verne, Calif. to compete in the West Cup Tournament at the Bear Creek Golf Club. The Tigers ended up finishing sixth out of 17 teams total with an overall score of 932. Highly ranked schools such as Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, University of La Verne, Southwestern and California Lutheran all placed above Trinity, with University of Redlands winning the tournament. Trinity finished ahead of Christopher Newport University, Pacific Lutheran University,
Chapman University, Willamette University, Hardin-Simmons University, Occidental College, Gustavus Adolphus College, Linfield College, Lewis & Clark College, Pomona-Pitzer Colleges and Whittier College. Even though the Tigers ended with a top-half finish, the team feels that they were not able to put things together until the third and final round of play. In the last round of play, the Tigers finished on a strong note with a score of 302. “We made up a lot of ground in the final round to finish in sixth place and not pick up any losses from schools ranked behind us nationally,” said senior captain Tyler Lehmann. First-year Trevor Warner added, “It did not go as well as we would have hoped. We were unable, as a team, to post a good score until the third round. I would have
liked us to be able to finish in the top four, which would help bolster our chances of going to nationals.”
“We made up a lot of ground in the final round to finish in 6th place.” Tyler Lehmann Senior Captain
Warner, who had the best individual finish for Trinity at 11th place, shot a 229 overall and picked up the best Trinity score at par72 in the second round. Lehmann finished with a final score of 233, which landed him in 23rd place, junior Kalen Vos finished in 26th place, senior Austin Jung came in 33rd place and senior Erik Long-Goheen finished 54th.
“I think I drove the ball fairly well all tournament. I hit about 75 percent of the fairways, which I was happy about. I also putted fairly well all tournament,” Warner said. Next up, the Tigers get ready to head to Georgetown, Texas, to play in the West Regional Invitational hosted by Southwestern University from April 6-8. “We are getting ready for Southwestern’s tournament in a couple of weeks, where our goal is to win and become one of the top 20 ranked teams in the country,” Lehmann said. After that, the men wrap up their regular season with the SCAC Championships in Boerne, Texas at the Tapatio Springs Hill Country Resort and Spa, April 21-22. Trinity is the defending champion of SCAC, and last season’s win was the first time they had won since 2005. Last year, the Tigers did not make it to the NCAA DIII National Championships.
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44.18 Junior Stephen Culberson won the 100yard freestyle national title with a time of 44.18 seconds.
8 Trinity’s softball team played four doubleheaders, totaling eight games, over a span of six days. The team had five wins and three losses over that span, including four wins over Austin College.
25 Senior Jackie Newell won the 3000-meter steeplechase run at the Cactus Cup with a time of 11:38:84, winning the event by nearly 25 seconds over the competition. graphic by Caroline Jakubowski
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photo by Anh-Viet Dinh
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Left: Trinity men’s soccer head coach Paul McGinlay presents former Trinity President Ronald Calgaard and current President Dennis Ahlburg with two framed No. 10 Trinity soccer jerseys to honor the pair’s leadership of the Trinity athletic department during McGinlay’s Food for Thought lecture on Wednesday, March 5. Top Right: During the International Banquet, senior Shruti Singh and other performers teach the audience various dance moves in their culture. Bottom Right: Sophomore infielder Carter McEachern slides safely into second base during Trinity’s 8-2 victory in seven innings over the University of Dallas on Saturday, March 22.
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