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October 07, 2016
Tiger swim team hopes to keep winning streak alive during upcoming season Team captains express optimism about new team members and coach’s training regimen
BY ELISE HESTER
SPORTS REPORTER The Tiger swim team has a history of success. Trinity has won the women’s swimming and diving conference title for the past 13 years, and the men have done the same for the past five. Junior Captains Rebecca Andruzzi and Charles Clark have high hopes for the success of the team this season, and both see the addition of new first years, a team weightlifting program and season-long, tough mindsets as factors that can lead to a successful season and another conference championship. Welcoming seven new women and 11 new men to the swim teams increases the number of young member on the teams, which not only builds a foundation for future seasons, but gives new possibilities to the outcome of this one. “[New members] make up 50 percent of the guys team, so it’s gonna be good to see how they develop as swimmers and how they contribute to the team,” Clark said. The girls’ side of swim has no current seniors, but plenty of new swimmers to make up for what they lost last year. “From the girls’ side we are in a rebuilding
JACOB HARRELL, a first year from San Antonio, practices his butterfly stroke.
photo by HENRY PRATT
phase,” Andruzzi said. “We brought in a new miler, we brought in some new sprinters, we brought in middle distance, we brought in people all across the board so we can be pretty diverse which is exciting, and we won’t lose anybody next year.” In addition to new swimmers, the Tiger program also maintains its strength as swimmers
outside the pool, through dryland workouts, running and weightlifting. “We lift three times a week,” Andruzzi said. “On Saturdays, we’ll usually have threehour practices with running and lifting and swimming.” Mandatory weightlifting, implemented for the first time this year is something that will
strengthen the performance of the Tigers when it comes time to race. Time spent lifting can also lead to a stronger team bond, said Andruzzi. “It’s really good we’ve started doing weights as a team,” said sophomore swimmer Ivy Claflin. “It’s brought the team closer together.” The swim team stay deciplined while training for this rigorous and exhausting sport that is just as mentally demanding as it is physically. “We train really heavily throughout the season,” Clark said. “Usually on days that we have home meets we’ll have a full practice before the meet.” Though exhausting, hard work in training is what will lead to a stellar performance by the Tigers in this coming season. “It’s really important for the whole team to keep the mindset that, if we want to be successful, we have to work really, really hard,” Claflin said. Throughout the season, the teams will compete in dual meets where they go head to head against one other university. These meets give swimmers a chance to gauge their performance before heading into conference where they will hopefully see their best times of the season, the times which they have worked for all year long. “The satisfaction of looking up at the scoreboard and seeing the time that you wanted is really worth the pain that you put yourself through,” Clark said. “It always is, it draws you back in.” “It’s an addiction,” Andruzzi said.
Open-access movement Campus clubs get the comes to Trinity campus chance to earn stripes Student Government Association works with students New program initiated to help improve the success and staff to provide Open Educational Resources of student clubs and Sheryl Tynes, vice president for Student Life BY CHRISTIANA ZGOURIDES NEWS REPORTER and professor of sociology agrees with Graves. organizations Student Government Association (SGA) is working to bring open-access textbooks to Trinity. These textbooks are published under an open copyright, would be available for free online, as well as in print for a fraction of the price students currently pay. The price of textbooks has been a source of stress and indignation among many students. In January 2016, a strongly worded post in Overheard at Trinity about the price of textbooks got almost 150 likes. Carlie McCrory, the current junior who wrote the post, was frustrated by the high price of a particular textbook and by the larger system in which publishers drive up prices by frequently publishing new editions that professors then require students to purchase. Diane Graves, University librarian and professor, commented on McCrory’s post with a link to Openstax.org, an open-source textbook site.
“I don’t think it lends itself to goodwill with our students when you guys have to go and pay 300 bucks or 200 bucks for a couple paperback books,” said Tynes. Graves explained that the system of driving up textbook prices for students is similar to the one that makes academic journals so expensive for the library to acquire. Institutions like Trinity support faculty research, which is then reviewed by an editorial board. Then, faculty often sign away their rights to their article to for-profit journals which sell them back to higher-education institutions for tens of thousands of dollars a year. In 2009, Graves was a key leader in getting Trinity to adopt an open-access policy for faculty produced academic work. Since the policy passed, faculty make their work available in Trinity’s Digital Commons, where they are free for public access.
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BY KATHLEEN CREEDON
NEWS REPORTER
The Student Involvement (SI) staff has developed a program to recognize and promote student organization success. The Earn Your Stripes program will be implemented this year and intends to improve student organization sustainability. The program’s goal is to help organizations become more successful. The SI recognizes the increasing number of student organizations that were not renewing their registrations and decided to create a program to resolve that turnover. “We needed something to establish higher levels of sustainability, so when students come back for Alumni Weekend in 2040, their organization still exists,” said Jamie Thompson, director of Student Involvement and Trintiy alumnus.
Thompson wants to go beyond merely maintaining organizations. SI wants to preserve organizations. SI did extensive research before finalizing the program. They looked at various markers and models of student organization success to try to define organizational success from a big picture. “It basically came down to were elements that fit into three boxes: sustainability, member development and engagement and involvement,” Thompson said. Those three elements, along with a fourth that includes required steps, compose the four categories of “stripes” organizations can become successful and grow. Organizations that complete 15 of the 20 stripes will receive honors at a new excellence awards ceremony that will be held in April. Although organizations were previously recognized at the annual Student Leadership Awards, SI is starting a brand new excellence event. This change was proposed when the SI staff realized the only people attending were those who received awards, and organizations were limited in the number of members who could go to the ceremony. Continued on page 3