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VOLUME 109, ISSUE 26 s April 20, 2012
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Earth day activities promote greener space
What’s Inside
Learning a lesson Marc Ellis speaks on lessons of the Holocaust during lecture Page 11
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Handle with care Check out our run-down of Earth Day festivities you won’t want to miss Page 15
University is raising prices and standards n New scholarship requirements and tuition increase will go into effect at the end of the spring semester by Kenneth Caruthers Intern
Serving it up Tennis team plays through a tough weekend, winning two out of three home matches Page 19
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Various activies around the Trinity campus marked Earth Week 2012. The Trinity Trash Hill event (above) on Monday and Tuesday collected all of Monday’s trash from around campus to create a visual representation of the amount of waste the university is producing. On Wednesday, a lecture given by David E. Shi, president emeritus of Furman University, explored ways to control consumption and prepare for a future with less global resources.
Effective at the end of this semester, Trinity University is implementing an increase in tuition and new scholarship requirements for students. Trinity students will be required to maintain a 2.5 cumulative grade point average or better to renew academic scholarships. Previously, Trinity students had to maintain a 3.0 cumulative GPA or better to retain their academic scholarships. In addition to this scholarship change, Trinity is also increasing the tuition beginning in the fall semester by 4.5 percent. Christopher Ellertson, the associate vice president for Enrollment and Student Retention, explained that Trinity decided to change its academic scholarship GPA requirement after comparing it to those of other higher education institutions. “We changed the renewal criteria because we want to provide students with an opportunity to be successful here and not to lose their scholarship
support,” Ellertson said. “If you take a look at our merit scholarships, we did a survey of like institutions, and that change is actually more consistent with what other institutions do. The students that we offer scholarships to contain a higher percentage of those who would be able to retain their scholarship with a 2.5 versus the 3.0 renewal criteria. A lot of students will come in and some will struggle with the transition in that first year from high school to college because there are certain areas of academic rigor that will be very demanding that first year.” Ellertson also explained that the change is meant to benefit students and encourage them to take harder classes that they might have shied away from in the past. “We want students to take the most challenging courses possible. We don’t want students to back away from challenging courses or have advisors not recommend courses out of fear of losing a scholarship,” Ellertson said. The Financial Aid Office will monitor this new standard at the end of each academic year. If a student fails to meet the standard yet demonstrates sufficient financial need, they will convert the scholarship to need-based grant. n See TUITION Page 3
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Teachers from Germany socialize at an event earlier this week as part of a twoweek seminar on campus.
Trinity hosts seminar
16 teachers from Germany recently converged on the Trinity campus for “The Fulbright Teachers Seminar on Diversity in U.S. Education” from April 7-21. They spent two weeks at Trinity and around San Antonio to learn about cultural diversity, especially as it pertains to education. During the seminar, the German teachers attended presentations and discussions with experts, including Trinity professors, and got hands-on experiences at area schools. The university won a national competition, beating out cofinalist Penn State, for the honor of hosting the seminar. As a part of the cultural exchange which the Fulbright program fosters, an American group of teachers will spend two weeks at the University of Tubingen later in the summer.
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Trinitonian April 20, 2012
TUPD Briefs Information for these briefs was obtained from the public police records of the Trinity University Police Department located at 538 Kings Court.
Theft
04-13-12, 115 Oakmont 10:55 a.m.
A faculty member reported two textbooks missing from her office.
Alcohol and Beverage Code 04-14-12, McLean Hall 10:36 p.m.
Possession of Alcohol by a Minor: Officers assisted Residential Life staff with an alcohol violation.
Alcohol and Beverage Code 04-14-12, McLean Hall 10:55 p.m.
Consumption of Alcohol by a Minor: Officers assisted Residential Life staff with an alcohol violation.
Alcohol and Beverage Code 04-15-12, Prassel Hall 12: 15 a.m.
Possession of Alcohol by a Minor: Officers assisted Resident Life staff with an alcohol violation.
Alcohol and Beverage Code 04-15-12, Witt Hall 12:15 p.m.
Consumption of Alcohol by a Minor: Officers assisted Resident Life staff with an alcohol violation.
Burglary of a Motor Vehicle 04-11-12, McLean Hall 2:29 p.m.
A staff member reported that his vehicle was burglarized and his radio and speakers were missing.
World&Nation LOCAL
An ambitious proposal to expand Loop 1604 and U.S. 281 without tolls could be scaled back several miles unless more money for the project is identified. The decision to build without tolls could now depend on whether Bexar County and San Antonio receive more than their expected share of a TxDOT $2 billion windfall. There may be only enough money for the U.S. 281 section and expansion of Loop 1604 from Bandera Road to either Potranco Road or Texas 151. mysanantonio.com
NATIONAL
Dick Clark, known for his time hosting American Bandstand, died Wednesday at 82 years of age. Clark suffered a heart attack Wednesday morning at Saint John’s Health Center after entering the hospital Tuesday night for an outpatient procedure. Clark had a stroke in December 2004, shortly before he was to appear on the annual televised New Year’s Eve party he had produced and hosted every year since 1972. He returned a year later and continued to make brief appearances on the show. nytimes.com
INTERNATIONAL
South Korea unveiled new cruise missiles on Thursday saying that it could hit any target in North Korea, and it warned Pyongyang it would immediately retaliate against any provocation. The announcement followed a failed North Korean rocket launch last week that Washington, Seoul and others say was a cover for testing long-range missile technology. Pyongyang, which said the rocket was meant to put a satellite into orbit, unveiled a new missile of its own on Sunday during a military parade. cnn.com
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ASR wrapping up semester-end business by Rachel Puckett
The Association of Student Representatives held a meeting at 7:30 p.m. on April 18 in the Woodlawn Room. The meeting began with a visit from Jerry Ferguson, director of the Tiger Card Office. Ferguson spoke to the senators about the importance of ASR’s participation in both the off-campus merchant program and the Taste of Trinity event that occur during Welcome Week. Ferguson encouraged senators to support these programs and events by visiting local businesses and suggesting that they become a part of the off campus merchant program and reminding businesses to participate in the Taste of Trinity. Ferguson also talked about the future of Tiger Card technology. Eventually, he would like to see the technology allow students to make deposits to their Tiger Card accounts via smart phones. Following Ferguson’s visit, the senators turned to business that had been tabled from the previous week. The first issue concerned the budget proposal submitted by the Trinity
Diversity Connection. After a brief discussion of the technology portion of the request, the senators voted on and approved the budget proposal.
ASR is sponsoring a Greek town hall meeting at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, April 24, in the Fiesta Room. A panel of administrators will take questions from students about the future of Greek life. All students are encouraged to attend. The next portion of the meeting again focused on technology. The second discussion revisited the request made the previous week by Campus Publications for funding to replace outdated computers and software in their offices. The initial requested asked for $41,567 from the Capital Equipment Fund that would cover 14 computers and several software programs. Campus Publications reached this estimate with the help of an employee from Information Technology Services.
With the continued assistance of ITS, Campus Publications was able to reduce this amount and resubmit the request. These efforts produced a reduced request of $38,533. The senators voted on and approved this amount. The final issue discussed during Wednesday’s meeting focused on the upcoming Greek town hall meeting that ASR is sponsoring to provide students the opportunity to ask administrators questions concerning the future of Greek Life in the wake of recent sanctions handed down to four Greek organizations. It was confirmed that the town hall will take place at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, April 24, in the Fiesta Room. It will feature a panel made up of David Tuttle, dean of students, Raphael Moffett, director of Campus and Community Involvement, and Dennis Ahlburg, president of the university. The meeting concluded with a broad discussion of issues ASR would like to pursue during the 2012-2013 school year as well as a brief discussion of the proper methods to follow when pursuing an issue.
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Health & Safety Code 04-18-12, Beze Hall 7:58 p.m.
Texas Controlled Substance Act: Officers assisted Residential Life staff with a drug violation.
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Trinitonian responds to the case of the missing newspapers by Kellie Benn
Last Friday morning, the latest issues of the Trinitonian all over campus disappeared from their racks as they were thrown into recycling bins and trash cans by some members of the campus community. The supposed source of contention was an article that the Trinitonian printed in the April 13 issue related to the suspension of four Greek organizations on campus. In particular, the
controversy seemed centered around a letter written by Raphael Moffett, director of Campus and Community Involvement, which outlined in detail some of the allegations against the Greek clubs. There was some speculation around campus about how the letter had been obtained by the Trinitonian and whether it should have been printed. “There have been rumors flying
around that the administration gave us the sanction letter. That’s not true,” said Katie Bailey, editor-in-chief of the Trinitonian. While many of the missing newspapers were recovered from recycling bins by Trinitonian staff members, the staff was forced to print 500 extra copies in order to ensure that the 2,200 copies of the paper promised to advertisers were available for distribution. This cost the newspaper, which operates as a legitimate business and partially sustains itself through selling advertisements, an additional $600. Trinity University Police
Department got involved at one point when two students were caught throwing away papers in Mabee Dining Hall. The two students later approached Trinitonian staff and paid $40 for the 80 copies of the paper that they threw away, making the total losses sustained by the paper $560. The first copy of the Trinitonian is free to every member of the campus community, and subsequent copies cost $0.50. The act of throwing away several hundred copies of the newspaper constitutes a theft, and individuals involved in the crime could be
subject to legal ramifications. “That is now in the hands of of the university to decide further action. As of now, we are not interested in investigating who stole the papers or pressing charges,” Bailey said. On Friday afternoon, the Trinitonian received a cease and desist letter from a lawyer claiming to represent the Gamma Chi Delta organization, one of the clubs suspended, demanding that the paper remove the article and sanction letter from the website by 4:30 p.m. At this time, the Trinitonian staff has chosen to leave the article on the website.
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News racks all over campus stood empty on Friday morning as newspapers were dumped by the stack into recycling bins and trash cans.
Tuition increasing n continued from Page 1
A few special scholarships have separate renewal criteria. The Semmes Distinguished Scholarship in Science, for example, still requires a 3.0 cumulative GPA. Besides changing the GPA requirement for merit-based academic scholarships, Trinity is also going to increase its tuition by 4.5 percent for next school year. Glendi Gaddis, director of financial aid, believes that the challenge with tuition is finding a way to make it affordable without losing any of the quality of a Trinity education. “If you think about education, it’s like everything else: costs go up. I think the challenge for all colleges and universities, not just Trinity, is how do we continue to provide the experience that we want to give students while still efficiently containing the costs without deluding the quality,” Gaddis said. “Some places think what’s most important is keeping the costs low, and it’s OK if the quality is a little diluted. When people come to Trinity and when
they receive that diploma from Trinity, they want it to reflect a quality experience.” Mark Detterick, outgoing vice president for fiscal affairs, pointed out that the increase in tuition is consistent with what Trinity has done in the past. “Trinity continues to invest heavily in our students and increase access opportunities with a financial aid budget of nearly $36 million. Major capital improvement investments, such as the Center for the Sciences and Innovation, attracting and retaining our talented faculty and staff and implementing technological efficiencies will continue to be strategic priorities. While annual gifts assist in supporting these priorities, additional funding will also require increases to the sticker price of a Trinity education,” Detterick said in an email. “Trinity’s increase in tuition is consistent with the prior year, the smallest yearover-year increase for more than a decade. Trinity’s financial prudency is a significant factor in various media outlets ranking Trinity as a ‘Best Buy.’”
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Trinitonian April 20, 2012
Three professors say goodbye to Trinity n After 71 combined years at the university, instructors are set to move on to new lives by Aly Mithani
educator’s life is to watch students make progress from wide-eyed first years to well-educated, confident young professionals every single semester,” Hubbard said.
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At the conclusion of this semester, three of the professors in the department of business administration will be leaving Trinity University. Carl Hubbard, Phil Cooley and Kate Lopez will all be leaving Trinity after a combined 71 years at the university. Hubbard, the longest tenured of the three, has been at Trinity for 37 years, joining the faculty after receiving his Ph.D from Texas Tech University. He detailed his arrival at Trinity as happenstance of an academic convention he attended in the San Antonio area to present his Ph.D dissertation. However, upon his arrival, Hubbard became engrained into the Trinity and San Antonio communities. Hubbard started off teaching courses in Trinity’s MBA program, which had classes on campus during the day and night classes at Randolph Air Force Base and the Southwest Research Institute. Over the years, Hubbard has also taught classes for the health care administration Master’s program and many undergraduate courses. “What is really important in an
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Business professor Carl Hubbard will leave Trinity after 37 years.
Whereas he arrived at Trinity with a wife and child, he departs with a second child, a SAFD firefighter and paramedic, and two grandchildren. Hubbard will now spend a majority of his time running a consulting practice he started a year after his arrival at Trinity. This practice, which is solely operated by Hubbard, works with many firms in the state of Texas and the San Antonio area, in particular.
Cooley, like Hubbard, has spent most of his academic career at Trinity, arriving 27 years ago from the University of South Carolina. “The president at the time of my arrival, Dr. Ron Calgaard, was the reason I came to Trinity. His assertiveness and his vision sold me. I was coming 1,275 miles west from Columbia, South Carolina to San Antonio with a wife and two daughters. You’ve got to be pretty well persuaded, and he sealed the deal,” Cooley said. After growing up in Michigan, attending Ohio State University, and teaching in South Carolina, Cooley became part of the program and culture at Trinity and has been here ever since. One of the main fixtures of the Trinity business department has been the student-managed fund class, which Cooley started in the spring of 1998 and has taught every year since. Originally, Cooley along with three students proposed the class to the Board of Trustees and received $500,000 to invest. The class gives students the opportunity to invest Trinity’s money into the stock market and learn critical investment strategies in the process. Since 1998, the Trinity Board of Trustees has given $2.4 million toward the class. However, the studentmanaged fund stands at $3.25 million, a testament to Cooley’s vision and teaching ability, especially considering the tough economic times during which the
class invested. Both Cooley and Hubbard are taking advantage of a one-time severance offer from the school for professors above the age of 63 with 10 years at Trinity, which is being offered in an attempt to lower the average age of the school’s faculty.
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Business professor Phil Cooley will depart after 27 years at the university.
Cooley now plans to be a full-time grandfather, with grandchildren in Philadelphia, Atlanta and another coming soon in Tokyo, while still serving on the board of directors of two publicly held companies and a consumer credit counseling non-profit. Cooley will continue to live in the San Antonio area. Lopez’s time as a Trinity faculty member began in 2005.
She is a Trinity alumnus, having received an undergraduate degree in 2000 and a master’s degree in accounting in 2001 from the university. Lopez regards the opportunity to teach at her alma mater as a unique, rare and wonderful opportunity. “I have absolutely enjoyed getting to interact with my colleagues and my students. I have learned so much from all the committees I have been on and all the colleagues in my department, and my students have been an absolute pleasure to teach as well,” Lopez said. When looking back on her time at the school, Lopez has enjoyed seeing the face of Trinity change through the years from renovations on Northrup Hall to the newest CSI additions. Lopez will join the faculty of St. Edward’s University in Austin in the fall. For the fall semester, the business department has already hired three new professors to replace Hubbard, Cooley and Lopez. Page Fields and Mike Wilkins, a husband-wife duo from Texas A&M University, will arrive next semester to take over the positions left by Hubbard and Lopez. Fields will assume Cooley’s position as the Prassel Distinguished Professor of Business and will take over the student-managed fund class as well. Shage Zhang will arrive to take over Hubbard’s position from a graduate program.
University announces graduation speaker by Kenneth Caruthers
Joe Armstrong has been selected as the keynote speaker at Trinity University’s undergraduate spring commencement on Saturday, May 12. Armstrong graduated from Trinity in 1965 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism, and he went on to earn a juris doctor degree from the University of Texas School of Law.
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Joe Armstrong will speak at this year’s commencement ceremony on May 12.
Immediately after arriving at Trinity in 1961, Armstrong made an impact on campus. He was president of the student body, and he worked to bring great entertainment and lecturers to the campus. In 1976, Armstrong received Trinity’s Distinguished Alumnus Award. While at UT, he was editor-inchief of The Texas Law Forum. In
addition, he received the highest honor a student could be given by the faculty, the Dean Hildebrand Award. Armstrong has worked at ten magazines, including Rolling Stone, where he was the publisher and the president. He has also been a media advisor to publications such as Time and USA Today. Besides engaging in numerous publishing ventures, Armstrong has been actively involved in volunteer efforts. Over the years, Armstrong served in the Peace Corps, Paul Newman’s Hole in the Wall Gang Camp for children with life-threatening illnesses, the Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders in Austin, the Lance Armstrong LiveStrong Foundation, and Habitat for Humanity in New Orleans. He has also made several trips to Cuba to assist in orphanages and in the building of a chapel. Shannon Leigh Baldwin, a graduating senior from Houston double majoring in political science and human communication, will also speak at the undergraduate commencement ceremony as a representative of the class of 2012. The undergraduate ceremony will begin at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 12, in Laurie Auditorium. Tickets are required for entry to the event.
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University maintains high retention rates n Number of withdrawal applications for students wanting to transfer out of Trinity has dropped in past two years by Avantika Krishna Reporter
Despite a tough economy, Trinity University’s retention rates remain steady and in line with other universities of comparable size and similar student population. According to Trinity’s Factbook, available on the Information Resources and Administrative Affairs section
of Trinity’s website, retention rates from the first to second year have remained fairly consistent over the years. “While there is some yearto-year variability, we have not observed substantial trends in the last few years,” said Diane Saphire, director of Institutional Research, in an email. Since 2001, Trinity’s retention rates have hovered around 90 percent with the lowest percentage in recent years at 87 percent in 2005. Last year’s retention rate was at 89 percent, a percentage expected for an institution of Trinity’s caliber and size. “At least from a financial aid perspective, the last several years have been difficult times
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Trinity’s Taste of Diversity was held on Friday, April 13, in the Storch Courtyard. The annual event celebrates the diversity on campus. This year, 13 groups provided unique, ethnic cuisine. The event also brought in henna artists and different cultural performances.
for a number of our families. This is the first year that we have seen the expected family contribution for our families increase. During a time of economic hardship, that’s a good thing that we’ve been able to maintain our retention rate. We have also invested more money in financial aid to help out those students and families who have greater financial need,” said Chris Ellertson, associate vice president for Enrollment and Student Retention. Overall, students who come in with a strong academic record are more likely to remain at Trinity and maintain similar performances in college. “In studies we have done, we find that Trinity’s retention and graduation rates are right in line with those of similar institutions with similar student characteristics,” Saphire said. “There is a strong relationship between graduation and retention rates and the academic credentials of students at entry.” Institutions that are more highly selective and admit students with higher academic credentials (such as SAT scores) tend to have higher graduation and retention rates. Trinity’s rates are typical of institutions with similar student characteristics. “If you look at schools that would have higher retention rates than Trinity it would be those schools with students that
have higher market positions and would be able to be more selective in their admissions process,” Saphire said. Instead, at Trinity, the total number of withdrawals has actually dropped in the past two years. The data from this year will be collected and analyzed in August when students return from their summer vacations. “[The] total number of complete withdrawal applications processed by the Registrar’s Office has dropped over the past two calendar years. In 2009, we received 82 withdrawal applications; in 2011, we received 61,” said Alfred Rodriguez, university registrar, in an email. According to Ellertson, there was an extensive analysis done of the students who had withdrawn, un-enrolled, taken a leave of absence, etc., but there was no discernable pattern explaining why these students left. “We’re studying this and Diane [Saphire]’s research would indicate the same – it’s more individual and personal than it is an overarching reason. When I first started looking at retention data, I was hoping for some kind of trend or silver bullet, so to speak, that we could address institutionally and improve our retention rate,” Ellertson said. Each case is very individual and there are no consistent
trends that could be concluded from the data. “Our retention rate is strong as it is and for an institution of our academic profile and for its selectivity its retention rate is right where it would be predicted,” Ellertson said. “If you could look at why that population is leaving – there are various reasons. It’s more idiosyncratic than it is several reasons that might make it easier for the institution to address. It really differs from person to person.” Since there is no consistent underlying reason why students choose to leave Trinity, Ellertson said the only way to really improve Trinity’s retention rates by a few percentage points was to make the admissions process more selective and more extensive. Currently, the university is discussing adding in interviews and other supplements to the admissions process, which would generally help the university select higherperforming students who would be more likely to stay at Trinity throughout the years. Moreover, the additions to the admission process would assist prospective students in making more informed and well-rounded decisions about attending Trinity, since they will have a more comprehensive feel of the university and its requirements of students.
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No Red Bull allowed at last flash rave of year by Rachel Puckett
This semester’s flash rave, a biannual event that takes place in Coates Library the night before finals begin, will lack one of its most popular elements: Red Bull. Laura Kalb, secretary of the Student Programming Board, is in charge of planning this semester’s rave. Kalb divulges that the lack of Red Bull is the result of concerns about the library’s mural. “It’s not that SPB is trying to rid the event of Red Bull. It’s just that the rave happens right next to the mural. That was a really big concern for the library as well as part of the administration,” Kalb said. The mural in question measures 15 feet by 80 feet, is titled “Man’s Evolving Images: Printing and Writing” and covers the south stairwell in the library. It was created by James Sicner and has become a point of interest on campus. It has also become the backdrop for each flash rave. The rave takes place at the base of the stairwell, often expanding and wrapping up the stairs. Despite the brevity of the rave, the event requires a standard amount of cleaning up, and Red Bull adds to the mess. Kalb stated that, in past years, cleaning up has fallen onto the shoulders of library staff.
“It can be a clean-up kind of a thing. It’s been put on the library more so than the students cleaning up after is kind of what happened,” Kalb said. “So it’s protection of the mural and to prevent serious clean up.” In addition to the absence of Red Bull, this year’s rave is different because of its organizers. In past years, independent students have organized the rave, but, henceforth, the Student Programming Board will organize it. Kalb explained that this change is not an indication of an administrative take-over. “The Student Programming Board is taking over the event, I guess you could say,” Kalb said. “But I’m still a student; I’m still planning it; it’s still a student run thing. And, by all means, it’s not becoming centralized. It’s just to make sure the event continues to be continuous and stay on the same par level, so there’s not a gap in leadership, and, more so, so that we can work with the staff a little bit better.” In terms of structure, this year’s rave will be nearly identical to its predecessors. It will be 15 minutes long and, once it concludes, students can move directly to the midnight breakfast hosted in Mabee Dining Hall.
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Members of the Urban Studs have introduced Adirondack chairs around campus for student use.
Urban studies students create places to sit by Kellie Benn
Members of the Urban Studs, the urban studies club, recently collaborated with a committee headed by seniors Jane Wilberding and Roha Teferra on surveying, researching and purchasing 10 Adirondack chairs currently located throughout Trinity’s campus. This week the chairs were placed by Miller Fountain and Coates Library but will be moved to two different locations next week by the swimming pool and between Coates University Center and Northrup Hall. With input from students,
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the committee will decide on a permanent location for the chairs. “We provided the chairs to promote a better sense of community on campus and just for student enjoyment and to lounge in the sun
and shade and do homework or not do homework and just enjoy them,” said first year Ben Conway. The committee hopes to be able to provide more chairs for students in the future.
Poets rap about prose by Rachel Puckett
American poetry giant Gerald Stern visited the stable at the Pearl Brewery on April 17 to spend an evening conversing about the influences and motivations behind his latest book of prose. The book, Stealing History, is the second book Stern has published with Trinity University Press and deals with the tendency of writers to “steal” historical events and make them their own. Tuesday’s event was titled “The Poet in Society” and featured another prominent American poet: Dean Young, a professor of poetry at the University of Texas at Austin. The two men discussed the difference between writing poetry and writing prose. Stern explained that his prose often moves like a poem, focusing on associations and what he called “chance writing.” The importance and use of humor in poetry was also discussed throughout the night. Jenny Browne, poet and assistant professor of English, found the discussion of humor interesting. “Both Gerald Stern and Dean Young are thought of, I think, as funny poets, but I think that’s deceptive because one of the things that they talked about was that the things we laugh at aren’t always very funny. There was one moment where with Dean Young where some said, ‘Why do you write such funny poems?’ and Dean Young said, ‘Well, because life is short and then we die,’ and then the person started laughing,” Browne said. The conversation also included a discussion of whether or not rap should be considered
poetry. Young opposed labeling rap “poetry,” a position he defended by explaining his belief that poetry is a writing-focused art, while rap relies heavily, if not entirely, on speaking. However, Young id inform the audience about his belief in the importance of singing. Browne found his discourse on the importance of turning thoughts into music captivating. “That was the thing I walked away with. Both of them were these brilliant, funny, political, thoughtful people who also just emphasized the idea that poetry’s this way of making a music of ideas,” Browne said. Stern has published numerous books and volumes of poetry. In 2006, he was elected chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. The award followed an a career that includes the following honors: Paris Review’s Bernard F. Conners Award, the Bess Hokin Award from Poetry, the Ruth Lilly Prize, four National Endowment for the Arts grants, the Pennsylvania Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize from American Poetry Review, and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Young has also published numerous volumes of poetry in addition to the receiving fellowships from Stanford University, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. His work has also appeared in The Best American Poetry series.
National Day of Silence
Sarah Dropek and John Dean Domingue discuss the signifance of today. Page 8 April 20, 2012
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-A Trinity Minute-
Thanks for the publicity, bandits
Last Friday the Trinitonian hit the stands, but only for a little while. Students, faculty and especially we at the Trinitonian were shocked to see many newspaper stands suddenly empty later that morning. Students were walking around with puzzled looks on their faces, asking “Where can I get the Trinitonian?” Unfortunately, full bundles of our campus newspaper were taken from their stands and thrown into the trash. Actually, many of them were tossed considerately in the recycling bins. Somehow that didn’t really make it all better for us. Besides committing a crime (the first issue is free and all subsequent issues cost 50 cents), these Trinitonian bandits were attacking the principle that we as Americans fight to protect: the right to information. The right to ask questions and find answers. The fact that this kind of petty crime and disregard for the rights of others to information is happening at Trinity is unfortunate. The bandits also disregarded the fact that we at the Trinitonian are trying to run a business. Not only do we have a responsibility to provide information to our community, we are accountable to our advertisers. Advertising revenue is essential to running our business. In order to keep our end of the deal with our advertisers to distribute 2,200 issues, we had to print 500 more copies, which cost us money that we just don’t have. It is safe to assume that the reason the newspapers were stolen was the front page article detailing the alleged violations behind the suspension of the Gamma Chi Delta sorority. That was clearly the most controversial piece of news we broke in that issue (unless the culprits really were the cast of “Cloud 9” and they hated our review). Over the past week we at the Trinitonian have heard comments of both support and opposition. We would like to now address our critics: We contacted members of the suspended Greek organizations for interviews before and after publication of the April 13 article and no one was willing to make any comment. If the article is missing those voices, it’s because they chose to keep quiet.
We reported the information we had at the time. We took special care to indicate that the contents of the sanction letter that we published were allegations, not facts. If you would like to make a public statement against those allegations, please contact us at trinitonian@trinity.edu. It is useless for us to receive comments that the allegations we printed are mostly untrue if no one is willing to provide details supporting those claims.
If you found irony in the fact that we ran an article on the best bars in San Antonio along with an investigation of hazing activity in our Greek system, you probably didn’t read either of the articles (and you don’t know what irony is). The article by Deanna Husting promotes safe and legal consumption of alcohol and in no way promotes the kind of illegal behavior outlined in the sanction letter.
The (actual) irony of the whole situation is that by trying to make the information unavailable, the bandits merely heightened everyone’s demand for it. They made the article forbidden fruit and everyone eager to eat it up. By noon on Friday, trinitonian.com had 2,500 hits, a record hike in viewership for one month let alone a single morning. After digging through trash and recycling bins all morning, we handed out a good portion of the recovered papers to grateful students and faculty members. We are a newspaper. Our job is to report the news. We are dedicated to reporting the facts accurately and without libel. If you think we’re doing a bad job, write us a letter and we’ll publish your criticism for the whole community to see. We don’t have time for personal attacks.
Government gone wild The Feiner Things by Ashley Feinberg
Senior
There’s apparently something in the water over in our nation’s capitol. And by “water” I mean “vodka,” and by “something” I still actually mean “vodka.” For those of you in the Trinisphere that have spent the past week desperately clicking your browser’s “refresh” button in hopes that maybe TUGossip will reanimate itself just in time to further lower students’ IQs before finals, I’ll assume your world has consisted entirely of a “forum disabled” screen; bitter, life-affirming tears; and posts that employ caps-locks exclusively. So allow me to provide some background. Recently, a report came out revealing that the General Service Administration’s (GSA), an independent government agency whose main purpose is to develop government-wide cost minimizing policies, spent around $823,000 of taxpayer money on a conference for its employees in Las Vegas. While certainly a significant sum of money in its own right, the controversy has mainly surrounded what was being purchased. Among the more preposterous, conference-goers walked away with almost $4,000 in t-shirts, $6,325 in velvet-boxed commemorative coins, $7,000 in sushi, and almost $80,000 in light
refreshments and breakfast. Sure, the public’s angry, but who are we to put a price on the memories? Although, $3,200 spent on a resident conference mind reader might be a good place to start. But wait – that’s not all. Our government-spending watchdog getting a little souvenir-happy was only the beginning. Also early this week, it was revealed that, while in Columbia for the Summit of the Americas, a secret service agent caused a stir when he refused to pay a prostitute, which is a legal occupation in the country, for her, as they say, services. Well, naturally the woman complained, and it soon came to light that in fact 11 agents in all are being investigated for sex with under-age women, drunken driving, barroom brawls, drug use and engaging with ladies of the night. But wait again! There’s still more to come. At this very same Summit, none other than internet-meme and occasional Secretary of State Hilary Clinton was photographed drinking – gasp – beer, ordering – louder gasp – shots of whiskey, and partaking in – let out your shrill screams – profane gyrations of unspeakable parts of the body. You may have heard it being referred to as “dancing,” but if the moral warnings of the 80’s documentary Footloose taught me anything, it’s that rock ‘n’ roll is the devil’s music and successfully driving tractors requires absolutely no previous experience whatsoever. n See BOND Page 9
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editorial
Reading for pleasure?
Looking for something to stimulate your mind this summer? Check out David Crockett’s recommendations. Page 9
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Opinion
letter to the editor
Giuliani “fracking” wrong Dear Editor, Several students commented to me about misleading statements on energy that they heard at a recent campus talk by Rudy Giuliani. Unfortunately, unscrupulous politicians today are minions of the fossil fuel industry. In 2007, running for the Republican presidential nomination, Giuliani received more money from fossil fuel companies than the next two candidates combined. According to a Trinitonian article, Giuliani referred to wind and solar energy reliance as “just plain stupid,” while promoting coal, hydroelectric, nuclear and “fracking” operations. I would like to comment on that. Coal’s major contributions to atmospheric carbon dioxide pollution and global warming are well-documented, as are its detrimental roles with acid rain and mercury contamination over much of North America. In addition, its extraction has led to hundreds of mountains being reduced to rubble and surrounding ecosystems ruined in Appalachia, as well as destruction of Native American lands and livelihoods in the West. Regarding the potential of hydroelectric power, the United States currently gets about 7 percent of its electricity from this resource. It has significant advantages and disadvantages, but consequences of global warming are reducing its potential, and the United States Geological Survey states that “most of the good spots to locate hydro plants have already been taken.” Maybe Giuliani knows more than the USGS, or maybe hydropower is his smokescreen to take attention away from wind and solar. Nuclear fission actually has tremendous potential for providing energy, but also potential for disasters. Unfortunately, here in the United States, we’re still stuck with old problematic nuclear technology as industry tries to cut corners to make quick profits. In order to realize the advantages of this technology, we will have to move beyond our current reactors that burn dwindling supplies of uranium-235. “Fracking,” or hydraulic fracturing, involves the injection of millions of gallons of valuable water, laced with hundreds of chemicals (including numerous known toxins and carcinogens) into shale rock formations, where ultra-high pressure fractures the rock and facilitates increased extraction of fossil fuels. This is an old technology that is being used recently in much more destructive and dangerous ways. Problems are rampant because the industry is effectively unregulated. During 2005, Vice President and former CEO of Halliburton Dick Cheney pushed through a law called the “Halliburton Loophole,” whereby fracking cannot be federally regulated under major aspects of the Clean Air, Clean Water, and Safe Drinking Water Acts. There have been thousands of reports of water, air, and people being compromised near fracking operations. In addition, the Environmental Protection Agency has documented dangerous levels of carcinogens like benzene in wells and aquifers, and research at Cornell University as well as at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration indicates that methane emissions from fracking probably cause more global warming per amount of energy obtained than would result from burning coal. Going back to wind and solar again, the energy available is totally renewable, it’s continuously more than 10,000 times what we currently use and it’s clean. Wind energy is surging in the world, but, in the U.S., fossil fuel companies are blocking it as their paid minions in Congress recently took away any tax incentives for further development of wind resources. In the case of solar power, I like to consider an illustrative example comparing its potential with fossil fuels. If the totally devastated land at the Cheviot coal mine in Canada were covered with inexpensive, off-the-shelf solar panels, we could get ten times as much energy over time compared with that from the coal extracted and we would still have the land for future uses. How is that “just plain stupid”? n Gordon MacAlpine is a professor of physics and astronomy.
Recognizing the significance behind National Day of Silence Guest Column by Sarah Dropek and John Dean Domingue Senior and Junior
Much of what we have covered up to now has been focused on ways in which you can take action to mold your community to be what you want it to be. One of the most elemental ways to do this is by the simple act of speaking. We’ve all heard the catchphrases: “Be the change you wish to see in the world” and all the rest of them. These sayings are great but end up sounding prosaic over time, and we stop realizing the importance of what they mean.
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Today is National Day of Silence, and several students on campus will take a vow of silence for the day to draw attention to the silences forced on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people who are targets of bullying and harassment in their schools.
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Trinitonian April 20, 2012
Today is National Day of Silence, and several students on campus will take a vow of silence for the day to draw attention to the silences forced on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people who are targets of bullying and harassment in their schools. Day of Silence exists because there are many people who do not speak up when they see bullying
in action or hear people saying hurtful things unintentionally. Those who feel they cannot speak up for themselves fall into silence, so today we renew our commitment to speak up. Ironically, we speak up in the demonstration by refusing to physically speak. This day encourages us to think about three kinds of silence: silence as a form of inaction, forced silence and silence as a form of action. When someone fails to speak up when they could step in as bystander, this inaction causes harm. One of our favorite quotations from Elie Wiesel, and you probably know it too, speaks to this exactly: “We must take sides . . . silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.” Bystander silence forces the victims into silence themselves. The effects of this silence manifest in many ways, often unseen. Targets of harassment, bullying and micro-aggressions can slowly sink into despair, and unfortunately, this ends in suicide far too often. The silence of those participating in today’s demonstration is not the failure to act but rather a conscious decision to use silence as a distinct and intentional action. If you cannot take a vow of silence today, at least absorb the message about the good and bad kinds of silence. Speaking up can take the form of intervening if you see someone being verbally harassed and walking with the targeted individual to a safe area. And though it sounds a lot like “tattling,” an important and effective way of intervening can also mean telling an authority figure about the situation, which can keep you safe if a direct intervention could be harmful. Whatever form intervention takes, we would urge you to decide to be an active (instead of passive) bystander. Because, like the tired phrase goes, it could mean the world to whomever you help. As
forms of intervention, these are great, but another important way to bring about change is by teaming up with other people. You might be unsure of how to speak up in a big way. Sometimes we are too; so both of us, along with other students from Trinity, are going to Austin over Memorial Day weekend to the Harvey Milk Day Conference. This conference was started in 2010 to commemorate the birthday of Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay elected officials in the United States. Now, in the conference’s third year, it attracts more budding community organizers than ever before. If you want to learn more about the conference, you can go to http://getequaltx.org.
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Those who feel they cannot speak up for themselves fall into silence, so today we renew our commitment to speak up. Ironically, we speak up in the demonstration by refusing to physically speak.
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Learn at least one thing from today: speak up, especially when it feels the least comfortable, because those are the moments when it counts the most. Take the vow of silence today if you want, but, after today, speak up as loudly and as often as you can because you will never know how many people you help by doing so. Hopefully we can learn that in a world of only silence, nobody wins. n
Sarah Dropek is a senior anthropology major . John Dean Domingue is a junior majoring in art and sociology.
Nutritionally navigating NIOSA : Tips and tricks Guest Column by Angela Aladjem
Campus Nutritionist
It’s hard to pass up a party as fun as NIOSA, especially since it is only a small part of a oncea-year celebration. Certainly, a couple of nights at this festival could leave you feeling more than full. Here are some tips to make it fun while keeping your waistline in mind as well as some selections from various cultural areas. 1. Eat first: Have a small,
light snack before you leave. Focus on fiber and protein to keep you fuller, longer. 2. Focus on your favorites: Survey the grounds when you get there first. Don’t rush to decide what you want. Take the time to narrow it down to something you can’t have anytime (cheeseburgers, hot dogs, fries, etc.) and a few items you will really savor and enjoy. Remember, one single item that only passes your lips once in a while is not going to make or break your healthy diet. 3. Bring friends to the festival. Have a few good friends with you to share items with. It is much better to taste a few of the things you want.
Also, studies show we enjoy indulgent items less and less with each bite we take. 4. You booze, you lose… calories that is. Alcohol calories can quickly add up. Drink slow and have plenty of water in between each drink. 5. Focus on the festivities: Don’t worry so much about the food. You are not just there for that, but rather to experience the culture and company. Enjoy! Here are some selections from some of the booths. Arneson Theatre: Banana Smoothie-split with a friend if you plan to have other items. Makes a great, refreshing desert. Chinatown: Try the chicken
lettuce wraps or Yaki Tori. A fortune cookie is a good little sweet, costing only 25 calories each! Avoid the tempura and other fried foods. French Quarter: Skip the sausage and po boys, which are very high in fat. The café au lait is a nice pick me up and lighter in calories. Escargots, while in butter, are also a lighter choice Froggy Bottom: Try the Bongo k-bobs (beef shish k-bobs) that are likely grilled. Main Street USA: A fried green tomato will cost you 150 calories, but one would be okay. Also, soft pretzels are low in fat, but if it is a big one, split it with a pal. Mexican Market: Enjoy the
fajita de pollo or bean taco or the Elotes (corn on the cob). If you must have a fried delight, split it with a friend Mission Trail: The prairie chicken looks pretty good with onions and peppers. Ask yourself if you need the tortilla. South of the Border: Try the Aguacetes. Skip the sour cream Villia Espana: Go for the tapas bandas (sans cheese) or the shrimp parilla.
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Angela Aladjem is a registered dietician. To learn more about her involvement on campus e-mail healthnutrd@ gmail.com.
Opinion
Sidewalk Symposium What’s your dream job? Autumn Kervella First year To be a manager of an MLB team.
Taylor Klekamp First Year I would love to start my own nonprofit animal shelter.
Rebecca Reinhardt Junior I want my own show with the Travel network where I get to eat as much as I want.
Aparna Gomes Sophomore To be a pediatric surgeon.
Soltana Peffley Senior To be a doctor in international health.
Catherine Lepie Junior To get paid to do nothing.
Trinitonian April 20, 2012
Seven summer reads From the Wild Frontier by David Crockett
Columnist
A few years ago I had a conversation with a friend of mine in which we brainstormed about a “top ten list” of the most influential books in our lives, excepting sacred texts. It may be old-fashioned in an age of kindles and nooks to think that everyone ought to have their own personal library – and I realize, of course, that such libraries can be virtual – but I’d like to think that every Trinity graduate could construct a similar list. So, with classes swiftly drawing to a close, I thought I would share some recommendations for summer reading, if not from my own top ten list, at least from my top hundred (or thousand).
“The Abolition of Man” by C. S. Lewis
This short book may be the finest book about the natural law written in the 20th century. Lewis takes what at first seems to be a rather technical critique of modern educational practices and uses it to explain the importance of a transcendent standard of truth and virtue, and the danger to humanity of ignoring that standard. You’ll see this book mentioned frequently by critics of cloning, embryonic stem cell research, and other biotechnology issues. The fictional working out of Lewis’ thesis can be found in his space trilogy, particularly the third volume, “That Hideous Strength” (which makes this a two-fer recommendation).
“Once an Eagle” by Anton Myrer
AnneMarie Witecki Junior To be a lawyer.
Chinedeum Abuah Junior To be an economic researcher.
Hannah Roberts First year
To be a high school English teacher, preferably for seniors. compiled by Purushottam Shah
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Where my Lewis choice is very short, this one is very long, even epic. This book is a magnificent novel about what it means to be a soldier. Tracking the career of its central character from World War I to Vietnam,
it helped me understand how to think about things like duty, honor, and integrity in my very brief “first career” in the army. More than one service branch places this novel on its recommended reading list for its officers. In an era in which an increasingly smaller percentage of the population has military experience, books like this should be more widely read.
“The Socialist Phenomenon”
by Igor Shafarevich Written by a Soviet dissident, this trenchant analysis of the collectivist impulse focuses particular attention on the selfdestructive goals of the socialist project. I know students today have no conscious memory of the Soviet Union, but there are still plenty of examples of this impulse out there. For those who look with bewilderment at my own ideological proclivities, you can start here. Or just read some Solzhenitsyn.
“The Divine Conspiracy” by Dallas Willard
If we take for granted that Jesus of Nazareth is one of the more influential figures in human history, one could then argue that his Sermon on the Mount is one of the more important discourses in human history. Willard’s book is a profound meditation on that discourse, and it transformed my perspective on the Christian life.
“The Republic” Plato
It’s a badly translated title, but everyone ought to have some Greek stuff in their bookcases, and you can’t go wrong with Plato, even if I tend to side more with Aristotle in my politics. But Plato invented utopian literature before Thomas More, social contracts before Locke and Hobbes, and invisibility rings before Wagner and Tolkien. There’s something here for everyone, but it takes time and reflection to approach
understanding, which are at a premium in our society today.
“Lucifer’s Hammer,” by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
Yes, I’m a sci-fi geek, and I enjoy post-apocalyptic tales, but this one does a great job of vividly portraying Hobbes’ state of nature. One of these days when the zombie apocalypse occurs, we’re going to need books like this to help us rebuild civilization. And this is just a cracking-good yarn.
“Between Heaven and Hell” by Peter Kreeft Everyone knows that John F. Kennedy was killed on November 22, 1963. Did you know that Aldous Huxley and C. S. Lewis also died on that same day? Peter Kreeft is a Boston College professor of philosophy who uses this coincidence to craft an imaginary conversation among these three individuals in that nether region after death, concerning such topics as the meaning of life, faith and reason, and truth in religion. Lewis is the Western theist, Kennedy the modern humanist, and Huxley the Eastern pantheist. It’s written in Socratic style, and is very accessible, even to those who shun such topics. There you go – seven books you might not otherwise consider, two novels, two on religion, and three on philosophy. Buy them new or used, paper or e-book, or check them out of the library. Trinity’s library has all but the last one. You’ll find them interesting and thought-provoking. After all, education does not end just because classes are out. ..versus a 33 percent tax rate. Neither is there anything more moral about a progressive tax scheme, which is a rather naked attempt to confiscate wealth (property) from one class and redistribute it to another. n
David Crockett is an associate professor of political science.
Party politics, literally n Continued from page 7
So you may be asking yourself in between mouse clicks, what does this all mean? Is it simply a coincidence that so many parts of our government have been caught “letting the good times roll,” as the kids (either without friends or on ecstasy) say? The answer, desperate gossip-mongers, is a completely unfounded and conjectured-based “no.” With so many government gaffes in such a short amount of time, the whole situation reeks
of elaborate, viral marketing campaign for which there can only be one product: Government Gone Wild. The only video series that lets you see government employees spending your hardearned dollars freely and without care on booze, sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll music (the latter comes in a 20-minute C-SPAN debate on arts funding in schools – you won’t want the kids in the room for this one, especially if little Becky loves her violin). At a time when our national debt has reached unprecedented highs and social security and
Medicaid are poised to become tales of the past, I, for one, am proud to be a citizen in a country where our public officials are getting their hands, quite literally, dirty in order to bring in the revenue this country needs. I know I’ll be ordering my first installment of the Government Gone Wild series as soon as the website goes up and pre-orders are being taken. I’ll just be refreshing my browser if you need me. n Ashley Feinberg is a senior
English and communication major.
Opinion
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Meet the Press 1. What is your favorite part about working for the Trinitonian? I love that we get to be in the know about everything that’s going on around campus before everyone else. 2. What is the most interesting assignment you’ve been given? That one’s tough, so here are my top three: I really liked writing the article about Jurgens at the beginning of this semester, I also enjoyed covering the Student Managed Fund class and writing about LGBT History Month . 3. What is your spirit animal? Well I just took an online test that informed me that my spirit animal is the owl. But I also really like llamas.
1. What is your favorite part about working for the Trinitonian? I love getting to write about so many different sports and interview so many different people. It’s really enjoyable to stick with a sport for a whole season and get to talk to athletes and coaches week after week. It also keeps me updated on all the sports!
Lauren Wilks Pulse Reporter
2. What is the most interesting assignment you’ve been given? The most interesting would be the Trinibonian articles; those were a lot of fun to write and I got to be a little more creative. However, the most fun would have to be when football won their last regular season game and my article was on the front page. It was a really exciting piece and everyone was extremely ecstatic, so it was a fun one to write.
Brooke Sanchez Sports Reporter
3. What is your spirit animal? A tiger, of course! Just kidding. But according to the online quiz I just took - a wolf.
this week in history
We were digging through the archives of the Trinitonian and found these interesting clips. They’re from the April 21, 2006 issue, exactly six years and one day ago, when the Triniteers fraternity had their charter revoked over hazing violations. The process was similarly mysterious to this year’s investigation of the Gamma Chi Deltas, Chi Delta Taus and Bengal Lancers: in his article “Teers face revocation,” then news editor Marcus Funk wrote “...due to the particularly embarrassing and salacious nature of these accusations, a decision was made to judge the case internally. The details and specifics of the accusations have not been released.” Kappa Kappa Delta member Corey Sanders and Triniteers vice president Derek Stahlman chat at Bid Day 2004 in the picture above. Then editor Creighton Welch expressed in the editorial the Trinitonian’s unforgiving stance on the issue: “Get rid of all sororities and fraternities and start over.”
Surprise your mom with clean clothes when you go home!
Earth Week Students, faculty and staff have many opportunities to celebrate Earth Day Page 13 April 20, 2012
Event Calendar National Day of Silence
10 a.m., Friday, April 20 Magic Stones
Trinity’s Sexual Diversity Alliance hosts its annual National Day of Silence to raise awareness about anti-LGBT bullying.
Choral Union Concert 7:30 p.m., Saturday, April 21 Parker Chapel
Trinity’s vocal ensembles collaborate for their annual spring concert directed by Gary Seighman and Ken Greene.
Handbell Ensemble Concert 3 p.m., Sunday, April 22 Ruth Taylor Recital Hall
Diane Persellin directs Trinity’s Handbell Ensemble’s spring concert.
Greek Life Town Hall 6 p.m., Tuesday, April 24 Fiesta Room
Trinity’s Association of Student Representatives will host a town hall meeting open to the public to address and discuss the University’s decisionmaking process regarding the recent sanctions against four Greek organizations.
Alpha Chi’s Fight Against Brain Cancer 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 24 Tigers Den
Alpha Chi Lambda sorority hosts a fundraiser to benefit alumna Shanna Hoffer who was recently diagnosed with brain cancer.
Momentum 2012
7:30 p.m., Thursday, April 26 Laurie Auditorium
Loon-E Crew, Prowlers and others perform a variety of dance styles in Trinity’s annual dance performance showcase. Symphonic Wind Ensemble 3 p.m., Sunday, April 29 Ruth Taylor Recital Hall
Trinity’s Symphonic Wind Ensemble, directed by James Worman, performs Johann de Meij’s “Lord of the Rings.”
compiled by Joe O’Connell
Pulse
Look Ahead Blind Trinity alumna applies for Make-a-Wish Foundation
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Theologian discusses effects of Holocaust n Director of the Center
for Jewish Studies addresses the current state of the Israeli people by Pamela Torres
Reporter
Marc Ellis, director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Baylor University, gave a lecture at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, April 16 at the Chapman Auditorium on the relationship between the Jewish people of Israel and the Palestinians. This lecture, titled “The Holocaust and Social Justice: Have We Learned the Lessons of the Holocaust?” described the way the people of Israel have oppressed the Palestinian people since the end of the Holocaust. Ellis began his lecture with Holocaust theology. He quoted Richard Rubestein when he asked, “Where was God at Auschwitz?” and “Where was humanity?” He then talked about the different Holocaust theologians. He discussed Emil Fackenheim’s argument that the Jewish people had to rely on themselves, not just God, in order to be empowered. “He also believed the covenant had been broken – that we could no longer rely on God after the Holocaust, we have to rely on ourselves,” Ellis said during the lecture. “Israel, again, is central for our empowerment. In fact, it’s a religious obligation to build up Israel after the Holocaust. It doesn’t involve God; it doesn’t have to be articulated in an overt, religious way. You can be religious or you don’t have to be religious as a Jew; it doesn’t matter – you were going to
photo by Abhishek Chhetri
Ellis lectured on the the relationship between the Jewish people of Israel and the Palestinians and how it has evolved since the end of the Holocaust. be taken by the Nazis because you were Jewish. Therefore, after the Holocaust, we build religious and secular in between. We built Israel.” Ellis also discussed the oppression that the Israelis have imposed on the Palestinians. He talked about “Jews of conscience” who do not support the manner in which the Israelis are treating the Palestinians. “Here are what I call ‘Jews of conscience,’ who continue the tradition of thinking
through Jewish power after the Holocaust and who feel that the lessons of the Holocaust are empowerment but not abusive empowerment,” Ellis said. In his lecture, Ellis argued that oppression will not help Jews feel better after the tragedy of the Holocaust. “Jews cannot be healed by oppressing other people,” Ellis said. “By oppressing the Palestinian people, we are further from healing.” He believes that there will
be a peace agreement that will unite both the Jews and the Palestinians into one group of united people. “One day an Israeli Prime Minister will come to Jerusalem and call Palestinian leadership and say, ‘What we as Jews have done to you, the Palestinian people, is wrong. What we are doing to you, the Palestinian people, is wrong. Let’s begin again. Begin again with justice
Jazz Ensemble to perform on campus. The show consisted of mostly jazz, with a few funk pieces and even a couple vocal renditions by Katy Silva, the guitarist. Senior Will Aufricht, who is graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Music, plays the tenor saxophone. He has been involved with the ensemble ever since his first year, and now is the first Tenor chair and had several solo pieces at the concert. “The first Tenor chair is traditionally a soloist position so I had many improvised solos,” said Aufricht. Another Senior, Bryan Caffey, is majoring in Engineering Science and plays the Bass Guitar. Caffey says he has also been “slappin da bass, laying in the pocket and grooving” since his Freshman
year. “I like ‘Hit the Brick’ by Gordon Goodwin because it has a rock feel to it, and I get a solo,” says Caffey. Aufricht said his favorite pieces from the concert were ‘Afro Blue,’ ‘How Sweet It Is’ and ‘Someday My Prince Will Come’.” First year Daniel Thale-Galat heard about the concert through Facebook. “I liked seeing people I know and people in my classes perform the most,” said Thale-Galat. “I would go to another concert.” Every semester, the Jazz Ensemble plays one concert at the Blue Star Brewery and another one for the Swing Fling, held in the Fiesta Room. Aufricht leads a jazz combo that plays at other events as well. “We have played many times at Dr. Ahlburg’s for
luncheon’s and social events, for the engineering banquet, for sorority fundraisers,” Aufricht said. “I love to play at the Blue Star Brewery. It is the perfect environment for a jazz concert, where people can order drinks and food and listen to us in a relaxed and social environment.” There are several events coming up before the end of the semester where the Jazz Ensemble will be performing. The first is on Saturday, April 21, for the Spring Fling in the Fiesta Room. Monday, April 23, is the Fiesta Texas Cavaliers River Parade at 7 p.m., where the Jazz Quintet will perform on a barge with Trinity president Ahlburg. And at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 27, the Jazz Ensemble can be seen at the Blue Star Brewery.
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Jazz Ensemble performs spring concert n Trinity musical talent
serves up hot licks through a variety of jazz styles in Ruth Taylor Recital Hall by Alison James Intern
The school year is drawing to a close, and with it there are only a few remaining opportunities to catch a performance of Trinity University’s very own Jazz Ensemble. On Tuesday, April 17, the Jazz Ensemble held a show in the Ruth Taylor Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m. Under the direction of Burris, this was only the second time for the
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Middle East justice and equality. We begin to walk that path together.’ In the beginning, both Jews and Palestinians have memories of disaster. They keep those memories. But in walking the path of revolutionary forgiveness, we create new memories together. And as we create more and more memories of justice and equality, the memories of our brokenness recede until, one day, the violation of one is the violation of all. That’s when we achieve revolutionary forgiveness.” First year Monica Clifford attended the lecture and felt that there is more than one side to the story of the conflict between the Jews and the Palestinians, but the lecture showed a side of the Holocaust that not many get to see. “It came across as slightly onesided; I kind of wish that he’d addressed Palestinian bombers and such – the retaliation against the state of Israel,” Clifford said. “But overall, I thought it was a really critical look just because so many people are like, ‘Oh the Holocaust, we need to let the Jews do whatever they want,’ when in fact, they can’t do whatever they want just because of the Holocaust.” First year Leah Hoffpauir also felt that there were other opinions that should have been discussed, but it was good to hear about how he developed his perspective.
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“He didn’t really talk much about the opinions and the points of the people who are opposed to helping Israel,” Hoffpauir said.
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I thought it was a really critical look just because so many people are like, ‘Oh the Holocaust, we need to let the Jews do whatever they want,’ when in fact, they can’t do whatever they want just because of the Holocaust.
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For Trinity University... Competition Category Grand Champion (Overall Recycling Rate) Per Capita Classic (Recyclables) Waste Minimization (Recyclables and Trash) Gorilla Priza (Recyclables) Paper (Recyclable Material) Corrugated Cardboard (Recyclable Material) Bottles & Cans (Recyclable Material) Food Service Organics (Recyclable Material)
And the winning residence hall cluster is...
Residence Hall Cluster Thomas and Lightner Witt and Winn Prassel North and South
Recycling Rate 30.1% 24.0% 15.5% 15.3%
Average of all Residence Halls: 17.4%
Congratulations, residents of Thomas & Lightner!
Watch for an email from the Residential Life Office with more details.
First year
“I think that maybe we should just stay out of it, but I did like how he talked about the different theologies and beliefs of the different people and how they influenced his points and his views of everything.”
8-week Cumulative Totals 19.66% 11.80 pounds per person 60.02 pounds per person 40,174 pounds 5.92 pounds per person 4.57 pounds per person 1.31 pounds per person 1.09 pounds per person
Trinity’s GHG reductions during the competition:
26 metric tons
of CO2 equivalent,
or the same as taking 14 cars off the road.
Trinity University would like to congratulate the national winners of RecycleMania 2012... Grand Champion: American University (85.16%) Per Capita Classic: Union College (61.79 lbs/person) Gorilla: Rutgers University (2,489,528 lbs) Waste Minimization: Valencia College (2.75 lbs/person) Paper: Augustana College (31.84 lbs/person) Cardboard: Union College (29.42 lbs/person) Cans & Bottles: Kalamazoo College (14.05 lbs/person) Food Waste: Bard College (31.27 lbs/person)
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Earth Week promotes sustainability in a modern society n Students celebrate
creating a green planet by Maddie Rau
Reporter
This past week marked the commencement of Trinity’s firstever Earth Week, filled with a number of environmentally friendly events and activities. Earth Week was sponsored by Campus Planning and Sustainability Facilities Services, Students Organized for Sustainability, and Trinity University Community Gardening Club. Beginning on Monday, April 16, highlighted events included the Trinity Trash Hill in the Northrup Parking Lot, an Earth Day Lecture, the SOS Earth Day Festival and the Art Exhibit: Exposing Connectivity Through Waste. Earth Week concludes with tomorrow and Sunday’s “Zero Waste at the Ballgame,” where there will be a student-coordinated effort to make the Trinity baseball series a “zero waste” event. Last Tuesday David E. Shi, President Emeritus of Furman University, presented an Earth Day Lecture titled, “Taking the Long View: Adapting to a Sustainable Future.” He expressed that it was important to use Earth Day to examine where we’ve been, how far we’ve come and how much farther we need to go to become a truly sustainable society. “It is hard to strive to live in a better world when you are paralyzed by fear,” Shi said. “This is not to make you feel guilty about the earth’s future, it is more to get you to refresh your priorities.” He explained that today, the context of Earth Day has changed since the first one on April 22, 1970. Shi said he himself was a college freshman at the time, and the environmental pollution was widespread with thick smog, toxic
chemicals, pesticides and raw the beauty of nature?” asked Shi. I am interested as an academic and sewage. “We are at a critical juncture, a as a citizen.” “Anew generation of complicated tipping point, and these challenges Norman explained she thinks problems has emerged that are less are urgent but not readily solved. the biggest environmental visible, more complex and more Greening the world begins with issue today is the outcome of daunting,” Shi said. “We are now greening your own worlds, and you the Supreme Court’s ‘Citizens talking about adapting to realities have the power to change the world United’ case in 2010, which of climate change and litigating the to some degree.” held that the First Amendment effects—depending on the choices Judith Norman, associate prohibited the government from we make over the next century, professor in the Department of restricting political expenditures by we have the ability to either hasten corporations and unions. or slow these effects. We must “That’s the worst thing begin challenging new that has ever happened realities with the to the planet,” said impact of 7 billion Norman. “You people on this count on the planet, all Art Exhibit: Exposing Connectivity Through Waste eager to 10 a.m., Friday, April 20 have a Tigers’ Den
Celebrate student art exploring connectivity of systems as related to waste and sustainability.
Green Features Tour of the Center for the Sciences and Innovation 11 a.m., Friday, April 20 Center for the Sciences and Innovation
Director of campus planning and sustainability John Greene leads a tour highlighting the sustainable features of the newly-constructed building.
Zero Waste at the Ballgame 1 p.m. and 4 p.m., Saturday, April 21 1 p.m., Sunday, April 22 Baseball Field
Cheer on Trinity’s baseball team in their three-game series against higher Austin College and join student-coordinated efforts to make this quality of life.” baseball series a “zero waste” event. While government Shi admitted to regulate graphic by Katie Browne “sustainability” is standards, but not a graceful or precise it is being severely term, he found the word to compromised by unlimited invoke a compelling premise—that corporate funds. Citizens United our current way of doing things has blocked the ability of the is unsustainable. He reasoned that Philosophy, shared her thoughts on government to make corporations the term involves thinking and the creation of Trinity’s first-ever clean up—they will pollute because behaving with the future in mind, Earth Week. they want to do things as cheaply promoting both the health of the “I’m so excited to see an as possible. We have got to put environment and human society. issue that really cuts across the more regulatory peace into the “Think about what sustains you, spectrum politically,” Norman said. government.” what fulfills you on an individual “Everyone unanimously sees that Senior Jane Wilberding, an level—is it simply air, food and this is a huge problem and how urban studies and business double shelter, or is it more than that—like public these issues are. Personally, major, spoke about her experience
with this year’s Earth Week as a member of both SOS and TUGC. “If anybody was wondering about the trash heaps on campus earlier in the week, we were collecting Trinity trash from everywhere except the dining hall,” Wilberding said. “Basically, every student produces a pound of trash daily, excluding food. Looking at what’s in the trash, it is probably 80 percent recyclable, and I think people who took the time to inspect it and respond to it realized how much we waste on campus.” Wilberding added that Earth Week is a great step in the right direction for Trinity in creating increased environmental awareness. “I think the purpose of Earth Week is to promote environmental stewardship. Even though Trinity is a small college, we have been taking a lot of initiatives to create a more green campus. We recently established an environmental studies department at Trinity, and the SOS club just got funding from ASR to work on more projects, so I think it’s a win-win for everyone,” Wilberding said. Junior Mitch Hagney, an international environmental studies major, also commented on his involvement with Earth Week as a founder of TUGC and presidentelect of SOS. “I think we are becoming competitive with activitist universities, and we have enough students working together to focus on activist campaigns—this shows how important these issues are,” Hagney said. “To me, the creation of Earth Week [at Trinity] shows that environmentalism is a core concern and issue, and it is a testament to student interest that this is happening for the first time ever.” Hagney expressed that Earth Week is intended to make students aware of the small ways to be more sustainable, and to make individuals more environmentally responsible.
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David Shi explains man’s energy consumption in the past, present and future stressing the importance of building sustainablity in modern society.
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National Day of Silence calls for an end to bullying Alliance raises awareness about LGBT issues by Lauren Wilks Pulse Editor
Today, Friday, April 20, Trinity’s Sexual Diversity Alliance is putting on an event to coincide with the National Day of Silence for an End to Anti-LGBT Bullying. SDA participates in the National Day of Silence every year. Each year since 2010, SDA members display around campus plywood cutouts of people with the names and facesof LGBT people who have committed suicide because of bullying. “We also put up posters with statistics from the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network studies that have been done regarding anti-LGBT bullying that goes on in high schools and middle schools around the country,” said junior John-Dean Domingue, the president-elect of SDA. “Another thing we do is that we give out cookies wrapped in saran wrap that have statistics on them—which is kind of morbid but we want to be serious without being sad, and educational without being too intense. Our ultimate goal is to increase education and awareness,” Domingue said.
Bullying is a nationwide issue, and more specifically, anti-LGBT bullying is a still an ongoing problem: according to a recent GLSEN study, 90 percent of LGBT students were assaulted or harassed over the year-long study in 2008 compared with 62 percent of non-LGBT teens. About two-thirds of LGBT students reported feeling unsafe at school because of their sexual orientation as recently as 2009. “It just says so much that we have to update the stories and images on the plywood cutouts
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John Dean Domingue
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every year—there are always many more stories than there are plywood cutouts. At the start of this month, there was a sixteen year-old boy in Flour Bluff, which is near Corpus Christi
photo courtesy of John Dean Domingue
Students display signs with statistics on anti-LGBT bullying during last year’s National Day of Silence at Trinity’s Magic Stones who we had to add. That death, because it’s really recent and so geographically close to where I grew up, really hit close to home for me,” Domingue said. “This year SDA’s participation in the National Day of Silence is to educate members of the Trinity community that bullying and harassment due to sexual
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Cloud 9
by Caryl Churchill Directed by Stacey Connelly
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orientation are not only global or national issues. Bullying and harassment happen on Trinity’s campus as well. SDA encourages members of our community to be more aware of the impact that their words and actions can have on their peers,” said sophomore Lyndi-Paige Pyle, who was recently elected to serve as SDA’s new social activism coordinator. Members of the Trinity community are invited to gather silently at the Magic Stones from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. this Friday. There will be a silent lunch at some point during the event as well. If students cannot make it out to the Stones, they are encouraged to take a vow of silence for the day to spread the message of the national event.
“Students can take the silent message into the classrooms. If you come by, we can give you a stack of speaking cards that students can give to their professors to explain why you aren’t speaking,” Domingue said. “We are silent on the day of silence to call attention to the people who are forced to be silent because of anti-LGBT bullying. If people feel threatened, they stay silent simply to stay under the radar. We’re silent to people’s faces so that there is increased awareness of the silence that they might not see every day. Those who take the vow of silence stand with and support those who are forced to be silent,” Domingue said.
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Neon Trees review
“Picture Show” leaves something to be desired for skyrocketing group Page 17
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“The Cabin in the Woods” review by John Wendell
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If you’ve never seen or heard anything about this movie, stay away from any reviews or spoilers! Avoid the trailer as well! I won’t spoil anything in my review, but if you love horror movies or hate them – go watch ”The Cabin in the Woods”! Drop the newspaper, get off the toilet and run to the Quarry Theater right now! Joss Whedon (AVENGERS IS ALMOST OUT) and Drew Goddard’s long-delayed film, “The Cabin in the Woods,” finally came out last Friday. This film, starring pre-Thor Chris Hemsworth, has been finished for more than two years but encountered problems due to MGM filing for bankruptcy. Oh, what a shame that would have been if this movie never saw the light of day! Thankfully, the old gods’ thirst for blood was satiated, and the film is playing on the big screen, so we can satisfy our thirst for seeing the young and beautiful murdered violently.
I loved this movie. Every sentence in the first paragraph ends with an exclamation point. I want you to re-read the first paragraph again, but this time imagine me sitting uncomfortably close to you, screaming directly in your ears. Talking about the movie is a slippery slope of telling you what exactly about the movie works while not divulging the man behind the curtain. Though there is a big question throughout that’s resolved by the end of the movie, the amazingness doesn’t depend on the payoff. I could have known the “big secret” beforehand, and the movie would be just as great. Knowing as little as possible about “The Cabin in the Woods” will make your first (of many, if you’re anything like me) viewing far more fun and weird though it really doesn’t matter. The execution of the plot, the characters and the pointed look at the current state of horror films elevates it above the plot twist. The third act of this movie nullifies any gripes I may have (which are very few and far in between). The dialogue is smart and witty, and the plot doesn’t allow you
to walk into the theaters and just turn your brain off. This isn’t your typical horror/ slasher film. For one thing, you will cringe with the tension and atmosphere in one second then literally laugh out loud the very next. I cannot stress just how weird this movie is, and I mean that in the best possible way. Eight minutes after a certain point in the end, the lights in the theater turned on and I just started laughing. I wasn’t sure what I had just watched. It felt like the producers were playing a practical joke on me, the viewer. But I was okay with that. In fact, I loved it. Why are you still reading? You will hate this movie. You will love this movie. It doesn’t matter how you feel after, but you will feel something strong towards this movie, so go see the wonder hidden inside “The Cabin in the Woods” for yourself.
Score: 9.5/10
Earth Day provides an opportunity to promote change by Deanna Husting
Earth Day used to be a bigger deal for us when we were in elementary school and given construction paper to make celebratory crafts with or soil to plant seeds in. But, at that age, we really didn’t know why the Earth needed saving; heck, when most of us were growing up, “sustainability” was a relatively up-and-coming term. So it’s crazy to think that over the span of our 20something years we have hurt our home so much. Now, no one expects one of you — or even all of us here at Trinity — to save the Earth in one week. But over the course of our lives, we should try to be a little more aware. This past week Trinity hosted Earth Week with lectures and activities to remind everyone that there is a holiday in April besides Easter, and it is called Earth Day. Technically, the official holiday is on April 22. This is the first official day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and of fall in the Southern Hemisphere and was chosen to be Earth Day for this reason. This Sunday, if you want to celebrate Earth Day, engage with the earth and ignore your TV. For those of you that live off campus, spend 20 minutes walking down your street and pick up any trash you see. Ride
your bike or walk instead of driving (if you can). Today (Friday) there is an art exhibit entitled “Exposing Connectivity Through Waste” from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. in the Tigers’ Den. The first step towards helping with the fight for conservation is
1 p.m. This student-coordinated effort’s goal is to make this Trinity baseball series a “zero waste” event. All the events you saw
graphic by Katie Browne
acknowledging that the problem exists; visit the exhibit and see for yourself. This weekend, make your way over to the baseball field for the “ZERO WASTE AT THE BALLGAME” event (3-game SCAC series vs Austin College). Times are Saturday at 1 p.m and 4 p.m. and Sunday at
happening this week were made possible by Campus Planning and Sustainability, Facilities Services, Students Organized
for Sustainability and Trinity University Community Gardening Club. Did you know that if every newspaper was recycled, we could save about 250,000,000 trees each year? Sadly, only 27 percent of all American newspapers a r e
recycled. For those of you fond of chocolate, be conscious next time you toss a wrapper. More than 20,000,000 Hershey’s Kisses are wrapped each day, using 133 square miles of tinfoil. All that foil is recyclable, but not many people realize it, according to the blog “yumsugar. “
So, back to our childhoods, do you remember Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax? While the rhymes, pictures and characters were fun, the book is a warning to anyone who is silly enough to think their actions don’t have an impact greater than themselves. Now, the book has been turned into a delightful movie, and everyone should listen to the message of the Lorax: The Lorax: “I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues. And I’m asking you sir, at the top of my lungs that thing! That horrible thing that I see! What’s that thing you’ve made out of my truffula tree?” The Once-ler: “Look, Lorax, calm down. There’s no cause for alarm. I chopped just one tree, I’m doing no harm. This thing is most useful! This thing is a “thneed.” A thneed, a fine something-that-all-peopleneed! It’s a shirt. It’s a sock. It’s a glove! It’s a hat! But it has other uses, yes, far beyond that. You can use it for carpets, for pillows, for sheets, for curtains! Or covers for bicycle seats!” The Lorax: “Sir, you’re crazy. You’re crazy with greed. There’s no one on earth who will buy that fool thneed! “ [a man drives by, buys the thneed and pays the Once-ler] The Once-ler: “The birth of an industry, you poor, stupid guy! You telling me what the public will buy?”
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DVD/Blu-ray May 1 - “Haywire”; “Joyful Noise”; “New Year’s Eve” May 8 - “The Vow”; “Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie”; “Underworld Awakening” May 15 - “Chronicle”; “Albert Nobbs”; “One for the Money” May 22 - “The Grey”; “This Means War” May 29 - “We Need To Talk About Kevin” Video Games May 1 - Mortal Kombat (Vita); Sniper Elite V2 (PS3, 360, PC); Tera (PC) May 2 - Fable Heroes (360) May 8 - Starhawk (PS3) May 15 - Diablo 3 (PC); Game of Thrones (PS3, 360, PC); Max Payne 3 (PS3, 360, PC) May 22 - Dragon’s Dogma (PS3, 360); Ghost Recon: Future Soldier (PS3, 360, PC); Risen 2 (PS3, 360, PC); Sorcery (PS3) May 29 - Resistance: Burning Skies (Vita)
Movies May 4 - “The Avengers” May 11 - “Dark Shadows” May 16 - “The Dictator” May 18 - “What To Expect When You’re Expecting”; “Battleship” May 25 - “Men in Black 3”; “Chernobyl Diaries” Music May 1 - B.o.B, “Strange Clouds”; Carrie Underwood, “Blown Away”; Marilyn Manson, “Born Villain”; Norah Jones, “Little Broken Hearts”; Rufus Wainwright, “Out of the Game”; Santigold, “Master of My Make Believe” May 8 - Chris Brown, “Fortune”; Damon Albarn, “Dr. Dee”; Keane, “Strangeland”; Silversun Pickups, “Neck of the Woods” May 15 - Best Coast, “The Only Place”; Killer Mike, “R.A.P. Music”; Santana, “Shape Shifter”; Tenacious D, “Rize of the Fenix” May 22 - John Mayer, “Born and Raised”; Kris Allen, “Thank You Camellia” May 29 - Regina Spektor, “What We Saw From The Cheap Seats”; Sigur Ros, “Valtari”
compiled by Brian Westfall, information from Metacritic & IGN
Indie Overnight Playlist 1. La Sera - Drive On 2. M. Ward - Sweetheart 3. Theesatisfaction - Naturale 4. Tanlines - Green Grass 5. Spiritualized - Hey Jane 6. Alabama Shakes - Rise to the Sun 7. Maps and Atlases - Old & Gray 8. Lost in the Trees - Neither Here Nor There 9. Zammuto - Yay 10. Miike Snow - Paddling Out
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Discussing music with
Isaiah David Putman
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James Woodard and “The Grasshopper Lies Heavy” The following information was collected from an interview with James Woodard. For the sake of space, this piece is arranged as a write-up rather than as the lengthy dialogue it turned out to be. James Woodard, born in Miami and raised in San Antonio, is the guitarist for instrumental band The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, which was recently named Best Instrumental Band by the 2012 San Antonio Current Music Awards (they also managed to place in the Best Hard Rock, Best Hardcore, Best Heavy Metal and Best Drummer categories). James, who started the band around 2006, recently put up most of the music he has ever recorded (with TGLH, MEGA MAN [him on bass], The Islands and the Sea [him on drums], and LYSOL [him on everything]) on Soundcloud.com for free streaming. A record that is not available online is their new split 7” with God Townes, available through their label at texasisfunny.com. This single (their ninth official release, their first on vinyl) also features a download code through which you can get an extra track by each of the bands (James insists they’re not throwaway tracks: they only record the good stuff they use in their live sets). The record is going to be released as part of the globally celebrated
Record Store Day this Saturday, April 21. Both bands are marking the event that day with a show at The Ten Eleven (the only acceptable venue for TGLH). A brief review of the record, titled collectively as “IN LOVE”: Both TGLH tracks, “Sucker” and “Dead Songs for Dead Bands” (both recorded and engineered by Krazy Kat legend Bob Catlin), are among my favourite recordings by the band because they come closer to recreating the energy of their live shows (regarded by some as the loudest in San Antonio) than much of their previous work (which is also why you should check out their 2010 live album “Every Man For Himself and God Against All”.) These new songs are also much noisier than their other recordings and feature a barrage of guitar feedback and other effect-pedal noise. They aren’t simply noise, however, and prominently feature TGLH’s signature driving rhythm in odd meters, which gives away James’ desire to make music that is significantly emotive. God Townes, led by former Sohns guitarist Marcos Gossi, is not a band whose work I am familiar with. Nevertheless, I am impressed with each of their contributing tracks, “Big Branch” and “W.H.A.N.S.,”
THE GAMES WE PLAY by Judson Rose
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“The Path” and avantgarde gaming I absolutely love it when something about a piece in any medium is different, pushes this boundary and that and, above all, makes me think a little to understand what I’m seeing and why I’m feeling it the way I am. Maybe it’s because I just watched Walt Disney and Salvador Dali’s “Destino” and Lars von Trier’s “Melancholia,” but I find myself both excited about surrealism and the avant-garde in gaming — and frustrated at the lack of examples of it. This scarcity, though unfortunate, does make games that do attempts to do something innovative with gaming all the more important. Such is the case with 2009’s “The Path” from developer by Tale of Tales, who describe the work as a “short horror game.” The game takes its inspiration from the story of Little Red Riding Hood and twists it into a fascinatingly surreal study
of several distinct characters along their journey to grandma’s house. In it, players assume the role of one of six girls ranging from ages nine to 19 and varying greatly in personality and style. From there, players appear on a path leading to a shrouded wood and are prompted to go to grandma’s house — and to stay on the path. But nobody stays on “The Path,” although players can if they want. That’s the beauty of this game as an art piece: whatever prompts the player received at the journey’s outset, they are completely free to disregard everything and go where they please. Players can walk and sprint a little and stop near objects to examine them, but there are no other inputs. Without combat and a slew of other things that typically make games games, players instead wander the forest, happening
in a way that usually evades me regarding local SA bands. People who need lyrics in their music will probably prefer these songs over those of TGLH, but all four tracks are as strong as I could ask for. I even bought two copies. James Woodard isn’t only a musician. He is also painter and art collector (he owns the painting by SA artist Linda Arrendondo that serves as the cover art for “IN LOVE”), who does large abstract canvasses, “non-representational,” “third generation modernist style.” He runs a guitar effect pedal shop, McCandytone Boutique Pedals, which he builds and paints himself. He does absurdist comedy videos with Pretendicles and was recently pulled over by cops for suspected murder (of a friend he was fake-murdering for a sketch). He also contributes music reviews for the San Antonio Current, writes for a number of art-related publications and has his own blog called “Imawritesomeshitboutmusic.” He and bandmate Mario Trejo worked at Krazy Kat Music for four years until last week when the company surprisingly fired everyone, including 18-year employee Bob Catlin. So go support those guys at their show on Saturday by getting their new record or by adding a Woodard to your art collection. upon landmarks and sights specific to their character. The experience is surreal. Players will catch passing glimpses of a mysterious little girl in white with whom they can interact, the environment; most importantly, in the shrouded wood lurks the (big bad) Wolf, which is represented not as a literal wolf, but as a malady or trauma specific to each girl. Once players find their wolf, they are whisked off to Grandma’s house for a mind-boggling walk through a horrific surreal dream. After said dream, the player begins again with a different girl — although any girls that players have taken to the house will be ominously absent. And that, in a nutshell, is “The Path.” It’s not the best looking, best controlling and most action packed game ever made because it doesn’t need to be. Critics have had issues deciding if this is even really a video game or something else; however, just as Michael Bay-esque bigbreasted explosion romps and films that depict a flock of hats flying about are both considered movies, so too is this a game. Color me excited for more like “The Path.” Also, it’s $10, so there’s that.
Score: 9/10
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Neon Trees’ “Picture Show” fails to impress
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¡Viva! Editor
The three most epic ways to get out of a final
FACT: Finals blow, and they are coming up very soon. FACT: You have much more important things to do like sleeping or drinking (or sleep drinking). FACT: I’m here to help. These are the three most insane ways to get out of a final.
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by Margaret
Browne
Oh hey you guys are music listeners? Great! Me too! Wanna know which band I almost never listen to? Neon Trees. Is it because I don’t like them? Nah, I don’t dislike Neon Trees, I’m just not amazed by them. Will it stop me from giving my amateur opinion on their new album “Picture Show”? No … unfortunately for anyone who is more informed than me, it will not. So this is how I am going to assess the album during what is called “Marge’s Album Amateur Hour.” Sorry for any of you diehard fans out there (and by this I don’t mean fans of the movie “Die Hard,” but rather, committed, zealous Neon Trees fans), but this album and this band just don’t impress me all that much. Not to say that they don’t impress me at all. That’s what all that much means; it’s
not a ton and it’s not nil, it’s just “OK, cool, this is a fun band.” They’re talented, they have some really high energy, sometimes interesting music and their song lyrics are not half bad…though oftentimes hard to discern (lyrics are a big deal for me.) But I wouldn’t say Neon Trees is more outstanding or distinctive from a lot of other bands out there right now. The few truly interesting and memorable songs on “Picture Show” (“Everybody Talks” and “Mad Love” for me) get somewhat lost in the otherwise slightly homogenous tracks. Sorry die hard fans … and this time I do mean the Bruce Willis enthusiasts. Maybe if I spent a lot of time sidling up inside each song and savoring it and permitting it to make me feel all sorts of bubbling emotional responses I would be more amazed. Some albums take time to unlock. But I’m not entirely convinced from a couple of listens that it’d be worth it. The album is fun, but not fascinating. Sometimes it does make me
feel emotion-type sensations. Mainly like living inside some high school fantasy (I’m thinking of a cliché laughing nighttime montage of my friends and I standing up through a car’s sunroof in formal dresses.) I also enjoy shaking my hair to their sometimes very ’80s-esque beats. And at other points in the album (again, “Everybody Talks” and also, “Weekend”), I feel compelled to do some high paced dances that involve mass amounts of twirling, dipping and high kicking. Sometimes simultaneous high kick-dip combos. But to get real, it doesn’t take a ton to start me up on high kick-dip combos. Like their first album, which produced “Animal,” the song that everyone knows and I felt tired of after a couple of weeks, I think “Picture Show” will produce a couple of fun singles that will exhaust themselves quickly while still maintaining Neon Tree’s marketable, and yes, enjoyable sound.
Score: 6.5/10
New TV shows and their likely fates by Brian Westfall
¡Viva! Editor
It’s the middle of the spring season, which means failing shows are getting the can across networks to make room for some new shows to prove that they have what it takes to stay in the regular rotation. Here are some new shows that have premiered or will premiere recently along with my prediction of how long the show will last. Enjoy. “Veep” - HBO Premiere Date: April 22 “Veep” casts Julia LouisDreyfuss as the new Vice President attempting to control her idiot staff while vying for political respect. The show has the benefit of being on HBO, allowing the curse words to fly in what looks to be a very smart show filled with wry humor. Also, Buster from “Arrested Development” is in it. That’s a good sign already. Prediction: Five seasons
“NYC 22” - CBS Premiere Date: April 15 From Mr. Badass himself Robert De Niro, “NYC 22” follows the personal lives of a group of NYPD rookies. Unlike other cop shows, this one seems to have more youth appeal and humor to it. Although having De Niro helps, this genre is full as it is - leaving this show no chance. Prediction: Six episodes “Girls” - HBO Premiere Date: April 15 While the plot sounds old and tired – four 20-something-yearolds trying to figure out life in New York City – the casting is exceptional, the dialogue from executive producer Judd Apatow is heartfelt and familiar and the humor is delightfully subtle. If HBO can attract the college-aged audience this show demands, then look for “Girls” to be the surprise hit of the spring. Prediction: Seven seasons
“Don’t Trust the B**** In Apartment 23” - ABC Premiere Date: April 11 Awful name aside, “Don’t Trust the B” actually has potential. Starring Krysten Ritter as the roommate from hell and James Van Der Beek as, well, himself, this show relies on a ridiculous set of characters stuck in equally ridiculous plot devices. Airing after “Modern Family” also doesn’t hurt. I expect good things. Prediction: Three Seasons “The Client List” - Lifetime Premiere Date: April 8 “The Client List” revolves around a Texas mom who, due to economic circumstances, must work at a massage parlor that gives a little extra “service” on the side. Of all of the shows on this list, “The Client List” is the biggest wildcard. If it balances sensuality and story well, and if Jennifer Love Hewitt puts on an awesome performance, we could have a big winner for Lifetime. Prediction: Cannot tell
1) The Doppelganger Materials: makeup, choreography skills and a naïve friend. Using the makeup, make your friend look EXACTLY like you, you know, except for that ugly smirk you always have. Have them go in and take the final for you. Halfway through the exam period, burst through the door and scream that your friend is actually your evil twin, determined to blindly take the final in your place and sabotage your GPA. Using your choreography skills, perform the orchestrated fight sequence that you practiced earlier (should I have said that in the beginning?) Now here is where the “naïve” part comes in. Kill your friend. Yeah, it sucks. They thought it was going to just be pretend, but we don’t have time for those shenanigans. End their life. Afterwards, just start balling and shouting things about losing a brother and us not being so different after all. If your professor still gives you the final, then what’s the difference between murder and double murder? Nothing. Do it. (Disclaimer: Don’t actually kill anyone. It’s a joke people.) 2) The Speech Materials: balls, gravitas and cajones. Everyone is sitting, pencils out, ready to take the final. But not you, you stallion. Stand up and head to the front of the class and give the greatest speech uttered by a barely-adult who knows nothing. Mention things like tests treating us like we’re all the same, the beauty of creativity and 9/11. All great speeches mention 9/11. The only requirement here is to end your speech with, “Now, WHO’S WITH ME?” If everyone gets up and leaves the class with you, then you won, soldier. If everyone laughs at you, then good luck with that whole barista thing. 3) The Time Warp Materials: time machine, sexual proclivity and a bag of Fritos. Don’t go to your final. Instead, get in the time machine and go back to when your professor’s mom was in high school. Then eat the Fritos, because time traveling can give you the munchies and old food sucks. Find your professor’s mom and woo her. Take her on dates, go to 5 cent movies and enjoy not being drafted. When the timing is right, make sweet love to her (good luck ladies.) Nine months later, your professor is born. Jump back in the time machine and go to your final. When your professor hands you your test, slap the crap out of them and tell them that children don’t get to tell their parents what to do. Put them in timeout. Behold as you become the coolest student of all time.
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In this issue Men’s tennis plays three tough matches at home pg. 20: Top five sports to watch for guys and girls pg. 21: Women’s tennis has difficult matches pg. 22: Basbeall continues wins pg. 23: Softball goes 3-2 over the week pg. 24: This week in photos
This weekend at home 10 a.m., Saturday, 4/21 Men’s and women’s tennis play in their last home match against Hardin-Simmons University 1 p.m., Saturday, 4/21 Basbeball takes on Austin College at home. 1 p.m. & 3 p.m., Saturday, 4/21 Softball plays Southwestern University at home. 1 p.m., Sunday, 4/22 Basbeall finishes doubleheader against Austin College. 1 p.m. & 3 p.m., Sunday, 4/22 Softball finishes games against Southwestern.
In the Spotlight Elana Edwards Track and Field Edwards, a junior from Austin, was named the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Women’s Field Athlete of the Week after the Alumni Classic Meet held at home last weekend. She had season-best marks in both the high jump and triple jump which put her in the top five for SCAC for both events. Edwards is a two time SCAC Champion in both the high and triple jump.
n Tigers prepare
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By Chloe Pope-Levison
Reporter
The men’s tennis team had a busy past weekend, playing three matches in two days against McMurray University, St. Mary’s University and Oklahoma Christian University. “All in all, the weekend went pretty well,” said head coach Russell McMindes. “We’re still battling a bunch of injuries, so we didn’t really have our full lineup for all matches. We’re getting more experience for some of our guys, and everyone came out to play, so I was happy with that.” On Friday afternoon, the Tigers blanked McMurray 9-0. “Everyone showed up to play, we won at every line convincingly, and it left no doubt that we were the better team,” said senior Ben Carroll. In doubles, first year Jordan Mayer and sophomore Greg Haugen won in a narrow match in the No. 1 position, while first year Charlie Curtis and first year Aaron Skinner won at No. 2, and Carroll and senior Franklin Davis won at line three. In singles play, junior Erick DelaFuente won at the No. 1 position, while Haugen won at No. 2 and Mayer won at No. 3. Curtis, Skinner and sophomore Arvind Fernando won to round out the four, five and six positions, respectively. “We came out and played well,” Fernando said. “We
did a good job taking care of business.” The Tigers started out Saturday with a narrow 5-4 win over St. Mary’s. “It’s tough anytime that it’s in town because you want to beat the in-town rivals,” McMindes said. “Their team has really improved, and we didn’t have our full team, so it was nice to survive and take out a win from that one.” Trinity won two of the three doubles matches, as Curtis and Skinner won 8-3 at No. 2, and Carroll and DelaFuente won 8-6 at No. 3. Curtis won in the No. 3 position in singles, followed by wins from Carroll at No. 5 and Fernando in line six.
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“We should have beat them much easier because we’re a high quality team, but it was good to come off with a win under pressure,” Fernando said. Later, Trinity lost 9-0 to Oklahoma Christian in their first shutout loss of the season. “We got beat pretty bad,” Carroll said. “They’re NAIA and
photo by Christina Velasquez
First year Charlie Curtis competes in Saturday’s home matches. all the players are international, so we had a tough go, but I think everybody got some good match experience in. It was a good building block match for conference in a couple weeks.” Curtis was the only player who didn’t fall in straight sets, losing 7-5, 2-6 and 7-10 at No. 3 singles. Trinity takes on HardinSimmons University at 10 a.m. this Saturday in their last home
Track and Field holds annual Alumni Classic
Ben Caroll Tennis
Caroll, a senior from Indiana, has been named the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Character and Community Athlete of the Week. Caroll is involved in numerous things such as the Pi Kappa Alpha faternity and co-chair of Trinity Ambassadors. He has also received the Trinity University Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Service.
game of the season. The following weekend, Trinity will compete in the SCAC tournament. “We’ve got one more match against Hardin-Simmons to get under our belt,” McMindes said. We’re trying to work hard on mental skills, mental toughness and high intensity drills, so we’re really peaking at the right time and can go into conference and just do what we’re capable of doing.”
photo by Abhishek Chhetri
Senior Ryan Gill throws the discus in one of the multiple events he competed in at the meet on Saturday. around, with several personal improvements on things we’d n Final meet before bests and record marks. been working on in practice.” conference prepares “I think we had a solid Senior Corey Callahan had athletes weekend as we gear up for an eventful day with a near conference in two weeks,” said personal best in the long jump By Brooke Sanchez head coach David Svoboda. and a 400-meter dash that put Reporter “I’m pleased with where we her in the eighth slot for the The men’s and women’s are at. Corey Callahan and fastest time in Trinity history. track and field team hosted the Ryan Gill had personal bests She also ran the 4x100-meter Alumni Classic last weekend as in multiple events and our relay, the 4x400-meter relay, their last meet before conference women in the 1500-meter ran high jump and the 100-meter next weekend. The meet featured awesome. Across the board we hurdles. “I was really happy with outstanding performances all had some nice season bests and
how I competed this weekend,” Callahan said. “It started off well with long jump and that positive momentum carried through the rest of the day. The results of this past weekend give me a lot of confidence going into the conference meet. My number one goal is to walk away with the conference title. I think our team is stronger than it’s ever been, and I really believe we can win the championship if we work together and focus on what needs to be done.” The 800-meter and 1500meter runs proved to be strong as well, with several Tigers topping the lists. Senior Jordan Hanson just missed her personal best in the 800-meter with a time of 2 minutes 21.70 seconds, giving her a third place finish. In the 1500-meter, sophomore Vanessa Moreno ran in at 4:48.00, the fourth fastest in Tiger history and the second place finish in the meet. Moreno reached a new personal best with the time. Sophomores Maddie Murphy and Rosemary Steup came in at fourth and sixth place, both reaching new personal bests as well. n See TIGERS Page 23
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Top 5 sports to watch The fun is in the pregame Top choice has international sex appeal Guest Column by Kevin Reynolds Sophomore
5. Football
Football is America’s new pastime; the Superbowl is one of the most watched events of the year. Football is so important to our lives that we will sit through coverage of the most boring event known to mankind, the NFL draft, just because it is semi-relevant to how our teams will play at some future time. That’s dedication. Pros: Bragging rights, bragging rights and more bragging rights. Did I mention the Superbowl is the most watched event in the U.S.? If your team wins it, no fan of any other team can say anything to you for a year (not that I would know, sadly, thanks to some great time management by Andy Reid in 2005, but I’m not bitter…) Cons: Roger Goodell doing all he can to turn the NFL into the “No Fun League.” I mean can anyone even touch a QB anymore? Might as well use flags.
4. The Lingerie Football League
In America we are always finding new ways to combine things, like Apple did with phones and being a hipster, or Dominos did with pizza and Oreos. The LFL is no different. We combined the time you spend watching NFL games and NFL cheerleaders. You’re welcome world. Pros: Professionalism, good fundamental football, dedicated and knowledgeable fans... OK, who am I kidding? Cons: Your girlfriend will like it even less than watching normal football, and the uniforms could really be a little skimpier.
3. Hockey
Basically the only professional
sport which has managed to completely avoid the growing cancer of player safety rules. Hockey is one half brawl, and one half brawl while skating at each other at speeds approaching 20 mph. You must be certifiably crazy to play in the NHL. Pros: The bounty system is encouraged, and they have the biggest trophy of all the professional leagues. Cons: It is the one thing we will never beat Canadians.
2. The Olympics
Let’s face it, this is the only time we as a country care about fringe sports like air pistol, steeplechase or the kind of football the rest of the world plays. We do this because ending up with our national anthem played the most number of times at the Olympics is the closest feeling we get most of the time to winning in No. 1. Pros: “The Miracle on Ice,” the fact that every country is included so no one can avoid being measured, and losers who don’t have freaks of nature like Michael Phelps being forced to sit through our anthem eight times just during the swimming portion. Cons: The games don’t happen every year, and after the opening ceremonies I kinda just follow the medal count.
1. Warfare
The sport before sports; basically the only indisputable way to decide whose country/ city/school has the biggest… will power; I guess we’ll go with that. Pros: No refs, ultimate bragging rights (I never get tired of reminding the world of our back to back 1918 and 1945 championships) and it’s televised on all the major networks. Cons: Higher mortality rate than all other sports, except the Lingerie Football League.
Breakfast of Champions by Lydia Duncombe
Sports Editor
5. Football
Screaming at the television or at the players is a great way to bond with your friends. Something exciting never ceases to happen in a football game, i.e. fights, big hits, touchdowns, etc. I don’t know wwhy but it is just so entertaining to see people get flattened like pancakes.
pay full attention to the game. It’s a sport where one can multitask because things move so slowly. The sport is also very easy to understand; little intelligence level is needed to understand how the sport works.
it takes a lot of practice and hard work. Defying the laws of gravity is no big deal for them. How badass can you be going down a MOUNTAIN at 20-40 mph, the risk of injury is beyond ridiculous.
Pros: Tight pants. Peanuts are good too. Cons: I repeat: its very slow moving and the players don’t have to exert much physical exercise.
Pros: You immediately have an enemy to hate on, skiers. Cons: Doesn’t come on TV a lot, basically just the Olympics. If you live in a Southern state it’s harder to appreciate not being able to see it up close and personal.
3. Lacrosse
I never realized how interesting it was till I actually started playing it. The Native Americans invented it so its considered America’s oldest sport.
Pros: Food served during the Super Bowl: I love me some cheese, crackers and B-B-Q. Also, football is a great excuse and socially acceptable reason to drink. Cons: The Dallas Cowboys are in the league. Football means soccer in every other place other than America, which is confusing/
Pros: Men’s Lacrosse can acutally beat the oppoents with their sticks, how awesome is that? Cons: It has a lot of rules so hard to follow as a fan. It hasn’t really reached the south yet so many people aren’t fans.
2. Snowboarding
It’s freaking awesome! Not many people can do what snowboarders can accomplish;
4. Baseball
You don’t actually have to
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Difficult matches for tennis n Tigers go 2-1 over
the weekend at home by Riah Risk
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The Trinity women’s tennis team pulled a 9-0 shutout win against McMurry University Friday April 13. This win brings the Tigers to 14-5 for the season and marks their sixth consecutive team win. “McMurry is a scrappy team, at times unpredictable. We knew we had an advantage in terms of skills and ranking, and we ended up doing what we were supposed to do,” said sophomore Lavinia Bendandi. Bendandi won 6-0 and 6-1 in her singles match. First year Mackenzie Knoop and junior Thavindra Ekanayake were among the top five players, with wins in both singles and doubles. Knoop and Ekanayake won 8-1 in their doubles match and were in the top two singles positions immediately after. Knoop won 6-2 and 6-0 in the number one position, and Ekanayake went 6-0 and 6-0 in the number two position. Sophomore Kylie Hornbeck was nominated SCAC player of the week and went 6-0 twice in the number four slot. “I was incredibly excited to find out and especially surprised, really, since I play number four for Trinity. I think, though, that this just shows how strong our team is this year [because] Thavi and Mackenzie have both been SCAC players of the week this year as well, so to have had three of us this season is awesome,” Hornbeck said. “Kylie has been great all year. She’s the perfect teammate and competitor. She’s hardly lost any matches all year. She has proven to be very reliable. The best part is her demeanor and work ethic. She’s put in time to work on anything we’ve asked her to do,” said head coach Russell McMindes. Hornbeck’s doubles partner, senior Katie Griffith, also had a successful weekend, winning 6-0 and 6-1 in her singles match. Then she paired up with Hornbeck to win 8-3 in the number two position. Sophomore Stephanie Williamson was able to win 6-1 and 6-2 in the number six position, and then teamed up with senior Kassie Seger to win 8-4 in the number three doubles position. The Tigers also had matches against University of Central Oklahoma and Oklahoma Christian University. The Tigers unfortunately lost 8-1 and 7-2. These two losses bring the Tigers to a 14-7 record for the season. Mackenzie Knoop was able to snag the Tigers’ only win in the opening match against Central Oklahoma, scoring 7-6 and 7-5 in the number one singles position. When Knoop paired up with Ekanayake for their doubles match they unfortunately fell short, losing 8-5. “This past weekend was a bit rough, as we had one convincing win and then a couple of lopsided losses,” McMindes said. “The thing we have been pushing the most is just trying to improve each day and work on being the best competitors we can be. Making sure we don’t fold when the pressure mounts or
things get close.” Both the teams of Griffith and Hornbeck and Williamson and senior Kassie Seger fell short in the matches losing 8-6. In Hornbeck’s singles matches she came short with a 7-5, 5-7 and 7-10 loss. “We were not particularly happy about the matches this past weekend. Yes, the teams we played were strong, but I don’t think any of us went into the matches with the right mindset. This week we’ve really been trying to regain our focus,” said Hornbeck. Against Oklahoma Christian University all Trinity’s points were via default. “Team effort in every single practice is the most important thing. As our coaches say, it’s not about talent anymore, it’s about who works harder,” Bendandi said. “I believe we are working very hard, so hopefully it will pay off in conference and later on.” The Tigers conclude their regular season schedule at 10 a.m. on Saturday, April 21, by hosting Hardin-Simmons University. “I feel very confident. It’s our last home match and final match of the regular season before conference, so I know the girls will be excited and eager to perform,” McMindes
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Baseball wins n The Tigers go 6-0
against two teams over the weekend and Tuesday by Brooke Sanchez
Reporter
Senior right-handed pitcher Ben Klimesh earned the win, striking out four and allowing only four runs – three of which were earned. The Tigers were down 4-3 going into the final seventh inning, but runners in scoring position with two outs brought sophomore center fielder Pat Hirschberg to the plate. Hirschberg got the two-run single to center to eventually win the game after coming back to shut out Hendrix with a double play at the bottom of the inning. “Klimesh battled for a win in the first game,” said assistant coach Zach Fregosi. “We scratched and clawed our way until Pat Hirschberg delivered a two-run, two-out single to give us the W.” photo by Christina Velasquez
First year Mackenzie Knoop serves the ball at Saturday’s match.
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Seven game winning streak continues for the men Tigers break n continued from Page 21 Sophomore shortstop Christian Muscarello, junior catcher Kelly Woodruff and Hirschberg each had two hits in the game. Along with Hirschberg, junior second baseman Kevin Clements had two RBIs. Game two was back and forth much of the game, but the Tigers ended up holding Hendrix off to get the win. “Our other pitchers stepped up to help us get the win,” Clements said. “This weekend was our team’s best offensive performance overall, and it came just at the right time because we needed to provide more run support than usual.” Junior right-handed pitcher Michael Bentz was credited with the win in relief and first-year righthanded pitcher Zack Speer got the save. Clements and junior third baseman Kevin Francke each had three hits in the game, Francke getting four RBIs in the game. Hirschberg, Woodruff and senior designated hitter Dominick Robusto added two each, Hirschberg scoring three of the Tiger runs and bringing in another. “We wanted to continue where we left off in game one and keep playing well,” Pappas said. “We had
our other ace on the mound, Ryan Lucero. He pitched well initially but came out with an injury in the middle of the game. Once this happened, we had some other pitchers step up and pitch strongly. Tanner Barron and Zach Speer both pitched really well and were vital to the victory. With the third win at Hendrix, the Tigers claimed the West Division’s first seed for the conference tournament. The scoring took place in the first five innings of the game as the Tigers took the lead and held Hendrix off. “It was awesome to finally play well at Hendrix,” said sophomore right fielder Ryan Schweers. “A sweep was huge with a bunch of guys helping the team win. Our pitching staff is continuing to excel, and our offense seemed to put it together in a lot of positive ways.” Junior right-handed pitcher Franklin Bay got the win in relief and junior right-handed pitcher Tanner Barron got the save. Robusto went 3-5 with two RBIs. Clements was 4-5 with two RBIs and a run. Woodruff scored two runs and Pappas brought in two more. “The offense carried us this weekend,” Fregosi said. “Our pitching has been great all year, and they hit
a little hiccup this weekend. Good teams find a way to pick each other up, and our offense carried us. It was great to see a total team effort and the heart and determination to grind out victories.” In the first game at Schreiner on Tuesday the Tigers tallied up six runs in the second inning to get things going. Schreiner didn’t seem to have much of a chance as the Tigers continued to push runs across. Barron got the win for the game, striking out eight and allowing five hits and giving up two unearned runs. Pappas and junior first baseman Will Donnan both went 4-4 and Francke and Schweers both went 3-4. Donnan drove in four runs, and he and Schweers each scored two more. Robusto was 24, scoring three runs and bringing in two more. Clements went 2-3 with two runs and two RBIs. “We got leadoff guys on and hit with runners in scoring position,” Schweers said. “We executed our offensive approach against Schreiner.” Schreiner got ahead in the second game, but the Tigers responded in the second and stayed ahead. “I’m very pleased with the Schreiner games,” Fregosi said. “That’s a hard place to play and an
easy game to look past. Offense was outstanding and disciplined, and we had a great outing from Nick Griffith on the mound. It was a total team effort.” First-year right-handed pitcher Nick Griffith earned the win, giving up three runs on six hits. Pappas, Clements and Muscarello each had four hits in the game. Pappas scored twice and brought in two while Clements and Robusto each had four RBIs. Muscarello scored four for the Tigers. “This past weekend, along with the double header vs. Schriener on Tuesday; has put us in a great position to finish out the regular season very strongly,” Pappas said. “We wanted to come into the last series of the year on a role, and we have a lot of momentum and positive energy on our side. This weekend is crucial leading up to the conference tournament. Playing well in our last regular season games allows us to go to the conference tournament loose and have a lot of fun playing for a conference championship.” The Tigers conclude the regular season at Austin College this weekend before they head to Millington, TN for the SCAC tournament.
personal records at home meet
n continued from Page 19 “The women’s team is looking very strong overall,” Callahan said. “We are hoping to come home with a conference championship at the end of next week. If we can perform the way we know how, we are definitely capable of winning the title.” Further on the women’s team, junior Elana Edwards jumped 1.58m for the high jump, grabbing sixth place for the meet and second for the SCAC. Her seventh-place 10.27 triple jump puts her at fourth for the conference. Edwards was named the SCAC Women’s Field Athlete of the Week with her strong outing. “Our women are geared up and ready to go for conference,” Svoboda said. “I think we are focused on the task at hand and everyone wants to upset Rhodes.” On the men’s side, senior Ryan Gill’s 49.95m javelin throw pushes him up to the 10th slot in Trinity history. He was also a part of the 4x400 meter relay team along with first years Ian Plantz and Mike McIntosh and sophomore George Warren. The team earned a new seasonbest with a 3:26.45 finish.
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“I think the meet was a step in the right direction,” said junior Sal Perdomo. “I still wish that the guys had one more meet to tune up before conference, but we are ready to go and excited to go to Birmingham to compete.” Plantz came in sixth in the 800m run as the first Division III finisher. The 4x100 meter relay team came in fifth, with first years Michael Jackson, Darian Sommers and McIntosh and junior Jesse Wright. “Our men still have some work to do before conference,” Svoboda said. “Unfortunately we have a couple injuries we still need to work through, but physically we are getting there. We need to start turning things up mentally if we are going to accomplish our goals.” Up next for the Tigers is the SCAC meet in Birmingham, AL next weekend. “We want to bring home the big trophies,” Svoboda said. “That’s been our focus all year, and we are ready to accomplish that.”
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faces tough competition Biking girl problems Softball Overall record Staff Column by Jessie Burch
Reporter
There is nothing like that feeling of absolute dorkiness the moment you get to campus, sweaty from a long-distance bike ride and have to walk through campus. Your peers—hair done, makeup on, and most often with coffee or boyfriend in hand—team the walkways on their way to class; meanwhile you, huffing, puffing and sporting a huge backpack and a nerdy helmet, steer carefully through them to the nearest bike rack. Oh wait, you mean that hasn’t happened to you?! Well, as I sit here reflecting on my senior year, those are some of the great moments that stand out in my memory. When I decided to live in a house about three miles away from campus, I never could have guessed the glorious intricacies that my daily bike commute would entail. I’d like to take this opportunity to share with you some highlights from a year in the life of an off-campus commuter, a beastly biker, a piddly peddler—namely, me! First thing you should know: I am really, really hot. All the time. All day, e’ery day. Jealous? Don’t be, because when I say I am the hottest kid on campus, I mean it quite literally. Especially in these humid spring months—it’s getting to the point where I need a spare change of clothes and a towel with me at all times. Additionally, I am über fashionable. Hand-in-hand with my natural hotness, I make runway models look ridiculous when compared to my fanciful wardrobe choices. Among my favorite accessories is my safety-first helmet—it goes with everything! Of course, the occasional plastic poncho is a must—not only is it exceedingly stylish, but also protects both body and backpack from pesky precipitation!
On days when my midthigh, padded bike shorts don’t fit the bill, pants with a rubber band on the leg are a fabulous alternative. You may not believe it, but I am not only popular and goodlooking amongst my peers, but all the dogs in my neighborhood really like me, too! This fact can be attributed less to my style and more to the reality that I am the best, most entertaining part of their day. As they chase me, barking and growling down the street (and frequently, up hills), I try to remember that they are having the time of their lives and to forget the myriad reports of feral dog attacks in San Antonio. Really, it’s a mutually beneficial relationship, because those playful pups give me all the motivation I need to do a speed workout. As if that’s not enough, San Antonio drivers love me, too. What’s not to love about bikers, really? Although we may impede traffic at times, we provide comic relief to make up for it. It’s always fun to watch a newbie biker at stoplights when she can’t get her feet out of the clips in time and gently, oh-so-slowly, tips over. Or when, full speed ahead, the gear shift suddenly catches and she is jolted into a wobbly mess. Or there are those really amusing times when she doesn’t get a good kick start and almost falls over in the middle of an uphill intersection. (I speak in the third person here because I’d rather pretend that none of that has happened to me…) Besides all of that, people generally think I’m a B.A. and assume I am either a hardcore environmentalist or a fitness nut. When compared to the much lamer reality—not having an alternative mode of transportation—I’m inclined to let them think so. Overall, it’s been a great experience biking the commute every day. My cool index has increased substantially (if you don’t believe me, just re-read this column); my calves are buffer than ever; and, most importantly, I will never, ever take a car for granted again.
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by Chloe Pope-Levison
Reporter
The Trinity softball team lost a doubleheader to the NAIA ninth-ranked University of Houston-Victoria on Thursday, Apirl 12, and Hendrix over the weekend. “We lost both games, but we were competitive,” said junior first baseman Megan Russell. “I think we need to sharpen up on some things, but we proved that we could play competitively with those kinds of teams.” Although Trinity lost the first game 3-1, junior pitcher Sydney Friday allowed only three runs on six hits. “Sydney had one of her best performances in the first game throwing a one hitter, and overall had a great weekend pitching,” said assistant coach Brandi Crnkovic in an email. Trinity lost the second game 6-4. On the mound, first-year pitcher Lauren Mercado went 5.1 innings and gave up six runs, only four of which were earned. Friday finished the effort, recording four strikeouts. The Tigers went 3-1 against Hendrix College in conference play on Saturday and Sunday. “I think the weekend went very well,” said junior third baseman Nikki Powers. “There
was one game we should’ve won, but overall I think our team will be where it should be for this next weekend and the conference tournament.” Trinity won their first game on Saturday 8-0 in a five-inning game. Friday led on the mound, pitching a one-hit shutout and
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I think our team will be where it should be for this next weekend and for the conference tournament.
striking out five. “We were really sharp and our pitching was excellent,” Russell said. “Offensively we executed and did what we needed to do.” Russell contributed with her second home run of the season, going 2-3 with four RBIs, and senior outfielder Karen MacPherson went 3-3 with three runs scored. The Tigers won the second game on Saturday 5-0. Mercado allowed only four hits, while first-year catcher Caitlynn Dykes went 2-3.
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Senior Jessie Burch happily rides her bike to school ever yday.
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Nikki Powers
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“We didn’t have as good of hitting,” Powers said. “I feel like Hendrix is a team we should run-rule every time, but we still did well.” On Sunday, Trinity won the first game 9-0, but lost the second game 2-1 in an extra inning. In the first game, Dykes broke Trinity’s single season record for RBIs, while Russell also tied Trinity’s career record for RBIs with 100. Mercado went 2-4 with two RBIs, and sophomore middle infielder Chrissy Armstrong went 3-3. “It wasn’t the closest game, but we still came out and did what we needed to do,” Russell said. The second game remained run-less until the top of the eighth, when senior outfielder Rachel Garrett scored for Trinity. However, Hendrix managed to load the bases and, with two outs, drove a single to left field. “The last game was tough,” Powers said. “We couldn’t get a hit to fall. We didn’t expect it to end the way that it did.” Next weekend, Trinity will battle for first place in the SCAC West against Southwestern University. “They’re going to be a tougher team than we saw last weekend,” Powers said. “We’re going to have to have solid defense and timely hitting. They’re our rival team and we’re looking forward to a good bunch of games.”
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24 April 20, 2012
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Top: Elana Edwards competes in the high jump event at the annual Alumni Classic last weekend. Bottom left: Students enjoy the variety of foods at Trinity Diversity Connection’s Taste of Diversity Bottom Right: Junior Nykolas McKissic shared his student athlete history at the 3rd annual Sports Management Symposium put on by Trinity, University of the Incarnate Word and St. Mary’s University.
photo by Kendra Moloney
photos by Emily Daum