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Trinity men’s soccer ranked No. 3 in nation
Undefeated in SCAC, Tigers continue streak with win over Schreiner.
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Get to know the “Merc with a Mouth” Deadpool
Monica Clifford introduces you to Deadpool, one of Marvel’s most beloved characters.
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“The Glass Menagerie” comes to Trinity theatre
Opening tonight, Trinity’s theatre puts on its first play of the season, “The Glass Menagerie.”
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Trinity students register to vote
Student groups bring TurboVote to campus for early voter registration by James Godfrey NEWS REPORTER
photos by Mary Vanderbloemen Students sign up to vote for the upcoming elections (above). Through the use of TurboVote, students can sign up to vote quickly and easily online. Students wrote down various reasons for registration next to Vote Bot (below).
Last week, student organizations MOVE Trinity, Trinity Progressives, Pi Sigma Alpha and the Texas Freedom Network worked together to use the TurboVote service to help 200 students register to vote during early voting from Oct. 20-31 or on Election Day on Nov. 4. “We had been in communication with MOVE San Antonio since early summer,” said Amulya Cherala, president of MOVE Trinity. “We met with president Ahlburg and proposed the idea, and he was very supportive of it.” TurboVote is a service that allows people to register to vote online within a few minutes, offering them options to select whether they want to vote by mail or to receive email or text alerts about upcoming elections and deadlines. There is a portal specifically for Trinity students set up at trinity.turbovote.org where students can go to register. This allows them to register by themselves instead of doing so with a volunteer. Students from out of state can also receive absentee ballots from the service.
Tingle hosts third panel over sports internships For the third year, students attended Jacob Tingle’s Sports Internship panel by Katie Hayes NEWS REPORTER This year, the Sports Internship Panel included the following speakers: Mary Japhet, senior vice president of communications and community engagement at San Antonio Sports; Jordan King, tournament logistics manager at Valero Texas Open; Jeanne Garza, director of corporate partnerships at Spurs Sports and Entertainment; and Rick Hill, vice president of marketing at Valero Alamo Bowl. The panel was cosponsored by the sports management minor and Career Services and was hosted by Jacob Tingle, director of the sports management minor at Trinity. This was the third annual panel, discussing how to get job offers and the benefits of an internship.
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of times a sexual assault is committed when there wasn’t an understanding between the parties.” The app itself requires a user to register an account, after which they and their registered partner can enter their level of sobriety and confirm consent between one another. However, the app is not legally binding, a criticism which according to senior Christan Nardini needs to be cleared up to avoid any confusion. “This is not a legal contract at any stage,” Nardini said. “This is just a communication part at the beginning and it can be withdrawn at any part by anyone involved; it is not legally binding.”
In terms of consent, Good2Go hopes to encourage affirmative consent, a concept which is not often traditionally understood in conversations and discussion regarding consent and sexual assault. “The goal is to make it easy to ascertain affirmative consent,” Allman said. “Traditionally, consent has been understood as the lack of protest—so it’s consensual unless someone says ‘no.’ Affirmative consent is: it isn’t consensual unless someone says ‘yes.’” So far, according to Nardini, the app and its goals have been well received, albeit with some awkwardness at first.
Good2Go app addresses sexual assault issues Student developed mobile app to reduce sexual assault cases by Luke Wise NEWS EDITOR A team of individuals, including various Trinity students, have developed a new app, Good2Go, aimed at preventing sexual assault and fostering better communication among people. The app, which was offered for a brief period of time is no longer available for download as of the evening of Oct. 2. Senior Nick Allman
alongside family and friends who wanted to tackle the rising issue of sexual assault started the project. “The genesis of it was early July; it was born out of conversations at the dinner table with my family,” Allman said. “Eventually we invited family and friends of mine to be a part of it, and bit by bit the team grew throughout the summer until reaching its current size that includes Christian, some other students at other schools around the country and others who have helped us in various ways.” The process of building the app itself consisted of various programming and brainstorming, the latter which Allman said proved the more difficult challenge.
“The programming part isn’t hard, there are tons of people who have been trained to do this; the hard part is actually drawing up the specs,” Allman said. “That took us a long time, we weren’t completely finished until recently because we put a lot of thought into it all.” The app is a streamline procedure for gaining consent from individuals, in an effort to prevent miscommunication and eventually sexual assault. “Basically the app is meant to help reduce the frequency of sexual assaults,” Allman said. “It seeks to make communication easier and make parties’s intentions clear and to make the assessed level of sobriety more accurate to reduce the amount
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