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Women’s soccer continues winning streak
Tigers bring their unbeaten streak to six games following two wins in conference.
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Criminally good television
What is the best TV show of all time? Mason and Monica square off.
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Trinitones and AcaBellas welcome new members
Trinity‘s a cappela groups added new singers, including first years and upperclassmen.
theTrinitonian Volume 112, Issue 6
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• September 26, 2014
Trinity installing 11 B-cycles come January SGA and Trinity are set to install bikes on campus. by Katie Hayes NEWS REPORTER
In January 2015, Trinity will install 11 B-cycles on the south side of Verna McLean residence hall on lower campus. After a year of negotiation, the Student Government Association lowered the price from $65,000 to $20,000.
“It’s a product of a lot of hard work by a lot of good people,” said Evan Lewis, president of SGA. “It’s a good way not just for Trinity students to connect with the city of San Antonio by biking into San Antonio, but it makes us part of this citywide network.”
Many students are excited about the B-cycles. “I think it signifies Trinity moving in a greener direction,” said Hayley Sayrs, social media chair and events coordinator of Students Organized for Sustainability. “I like the aspect of fitness and
photo by Sarah Thorne Trinity is set to install 11 B-cyles near the entrance to campus next to Verna McLean Hall in January 2015. Students will be able to purchases passes to access the bikes.
students being able to have a bike here and not necessarily worry about shipping it.” Chris Williams, a bike rider on campus, agreed. “It will be beneficial to students because they don’t have to outright purchase a bike or worry about locking it up,” Williams said. Williams has found that bike-riding gives him a change in perspective. “Being a bike rider, compared to driving a car, you tend to see things more—see more of the city. Things start to slow down and you start to notice things that weren’t there before as opposed to driving in a car. I think you just start to appreciate the city more if you ride a bike and see San Antonio for what it is,” Williams said. To spread the word and fuel excitement among students, SGA plans to buy passes in bulk to hand out at their events. “We’ll give [the passes] out at different events that SGA will host, either through a lottery or a first-come firstserved basis,” Lewis said. “Then we hope to tie a certain number of weekly or day passes to those.”
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TUPD offers students self-defense course Rape Aggression Defense Systems class for women comes to Trinity by Courtney Shikle NEWS REPORTER The Trinity University Police Department sponsored a Rape Aggression Defense (RAD) Systems class this past week, offering female students, faculty and staff a free, three-day course that taught the participants how to defend themselves in high-risk situations. The course is split into three different sections— two classroom portions and one hands on training simulation. “During the classroom portion, we provide a lot of
the do’s and don’ts of being on campus and being away from home, the typical, ‘lock your doors and make sure you are aware of your surroundings, especially going out,’” said Laura Hernandez, RAD instructor and corporal investigator for TUPD. “It also educates the students on how to be a little bit more aware of her surroundings and a bit more independent.” Hernandez has been teaching RAD for nearly two decades. The class primarily teaches the students how to be aware of and get away from an attacker rather than trying to fight back. “Awareness is the main point,” Hernandez said. “We are not teaching the students how to fight. I believe that every woman should fight, but we are not here to teach the students how to fight. We are here to teach them how to stun and run.”
The course teaches students how to react properly to a multitude of dangerous situations in order to be prepared for anything, from assault to abduction. “Most of us don’t know what to do in a dangerous situation and we kick, flail and basically end up doing all the wrong things,” said sophomore Nipuni Gomes. “This course teaches us how not to do that and how to be prepared, to have a plan and how to react accordingly to every situation. We were taught how to react if someone chokes us, grabs us from behind, grabs our wrists, if they try to force us into a vehicle, and so this course is a great way to not freeze and to know what to do in any given situation.”
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photo by Jordan Leeper Laura Hernandez, corporal/investigator, helps students learn self-defense skills.