Trinitonian Butterfly Invasion
Uneven Olympic Coverage
Greek Athletes
American snout butterf lies take over San Antonio skies leaving Trinity with mixed feelings.
Paralympic athletes break World Records with less media coverage than Olympic athletes.
Debate begins over whether student athletes should be allowed to take a bid. PAGE 20 A&E
PAGE 4 NEWS
Serving Trinity University Since 1902
Volume 114 Issue 7
PAGE 22 SPORTS
September 30, 2016
Good Kids tackles difficult conversation Sorority surrounding sexual assault on campus charity Performance inspired by the Steubenville High School rape case in the works
KATIE FARRELL performs as Deidre, a character inspired by Anonymous, in the Trinity theater production of Good Kids photo by CLAUDIA GARCIA
BY ELIZABETH McENRUE
PULSE REPORTER
This weekend, the theatre department will debut the first show of its 2016-2017 season — Naomi Izuka’s “Good Kids.” Kyle Gillette, director of “Good Kids,” chose this play based on a proposal from Tim Francis, lighting
designer and technical director. “Good Kids” is from a series of plays commissioned as part of the Big Ten Theatre Consortium. This initiative aims to produce and publicize plays from American female playwrights and is meant to draw attention to the scarcity of new works by women. These plays must include at least six significant roles for college-aged women.
“This one has to do with sexual assault and the aftermath in social media, and how people treat things differently. It is such an urgently important thing to do for our campus for obvious reasons but for any campus, really,” Gillette said. “We do want to put more focus on how theatre can be a way to explore the dynamics of things like rape culture, stereotypes about gender
and sexuality. How we can prevent [sexual assault] and also be there for people who are survivors. And what is the culture surrounding it, trying to understand that.” Loosely based on the Steubenville High School rape case of 2012, “Good Kids” is set in a Midwestern high school in the present age of smartphones and social media. “Good Kids” examines the fallout on social media when a casual sexual encounter goes wrong. As part of the marketing campaign for “Good Kids,” Katie Farrell and Liz Metzger, senior theatre major and undeclared sophomore, respectively, created a photo series depicting scenes of sexual assault. The inspiration for the “Good Kids” promotional photos came from a photoset titled “It Happens” by Yana Mazurkevich, a junior at Ithaca College in New York. Mazurkevich got her inspiration from the Brock Turner case at Stanford as well as stories from her friends. “Liz and I were hanging out one day, and we saw the original set of photos that came about after the Stanford rape case. We were like, ‘Hey, I wonder if we could do something like this for “Good Kids”?’ It would be a really good marketing campaign, and it would also just be really impactful. It speaks a lot to the show itself,” Farrell said. Metzger said that her inspiration from the photo series were the accompanying quotes. Further, she like the diversity represented through the series. Continued on page 18
TUVAC serves San Antonio for 40 years Changes to club attract new faces BY COURTNEY JUSTUS
PULSE REPORTER
The Trinity University Volunteer Action Committee (TUVAC) has worked for years to connect the Trinity community with an abundance of volunteering
opportunities. About two months ago, the Center for Experiential Learning and Career Success hired Scott Brown as an assistant director, giving him the opportunity to serve as staff advisor for the organization. “TUVAC has been around for over 40 years, so I know there’s a rich history here and that’s something I want to build on and enhance,” Brown said. “That requires listening and understanding what TUVAC’s
presence is, where we have been and where we want to go.” Brown works directly with five student coordinators to help plan different volunteering projects. He would like to link TUVAC activities to the Trinity Tomorrow plan, which seeks to build up opportunities for experiential learning through the cultivation of Trinity’s core values of impact, discovery, excellence, the individual and community.
“I think we’re well-positioned and increasing the number of experiential learning opportunities for students,” Brown said. “TUVAC can certainly be a vehicle for that because it really fits nicely into the core values of the institution. It empowers students to go out into the community, get a sense of what San Antonio is like, expand their worldview and make an impact through service.” Continued on page 17
night at Club Rio BY PHILLIP McKEON
NEWS REPORTER
Thursday, Sept. 29, the Alpha Chi Lambda sorority hosted their annual “Ignite the Night” philanthropy event at Club Rio. Ignite the Night has been happening annually for about a decade now. Lower ticket prices are expected to raise attendance levels. “Ignite the Night is a philanthropy dance for Alpha Chi Lambda, and we’ve been doing it every fall for about ten years now. It’s a whole bunch of fun, and tickets are a lot cheaper this year than they have been in previous years, so hopefully even more people will decide to donate this year,” said Annalisa Trevino, senior and president of Alpha Chi Lambda sorority. Alpha Chi Lambda works with An Orphan’s Bright Star to help children in Ukrainian orphanages. “All the proceeds go to An Orphan’s Bright Star, a charitable organization that sponsors orphanages in Ukraine. We partner with this nonprofit each year partially because it was actually started by an Alpha Chi alum, which is really cool. It’s very near and dear to our hearts because it’s something that was started by someone who we care a lot about as an organization,” Trevino said. A considerable number of Ukrainian children find themselves, for various reasons, living out their childhood in orphanages. “Of Ukraine’s eight million children some 96,000 live in staterun children’s institutions such as orphanages, boarding schools and shelters. Family poverty, unemployment, alcoholism and drug use are the main reasons for children being abandoned. Thousands of children also choose to run away from violence in their homes. They find refuge on the streets where they run the risk of contracting tuberculosis and HIV through injecting drugs,” according to UNICEF Ukraine. Continued on page 3