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Women Take Charge in Computing Club

First-year Kylie Moden forms club in response to gender inequality in computer science.

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End of an Era: Steve Mohr Retires

Jerheme Urban,‘03, takes the helm of the Tigers’ football team.

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Tuttle Takeover of Overheard at Trinity

David Tuttle, Dennis Ahlburg and Briana McGlamory transform in student memes.

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Trinity community ‘Stands in Solidarity’ BARE hosts first meeting

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Organization builds on social media outreach, BARE hugs, Makeupless Mondays and more

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photo by Anh-Viet Dinh From left to right, philosophy professor Judith Norman, philosophy senior secretary Shirley Durst, sophomore Sarah Walters, senior Savannah McDonough and senior Graham Bates stand with signs at Miller Fountain on Nov. 20 in response to a proposed “Catch an Illegal Immigrant” game by the Young Conservatives of Texas at the University of Texas at Austin. (See pg. 8)

CPS Automated Demand saves energy Trinity awarded the Energy Saver Award and a $5,600 check by CPS Energy

by Luke Wise NEWS INTERN In conjunction with CPS Energy, Trinity University joined other institutions by agreeing to conserve energy over peak seasons last summer. The program, CPS Automated Demand, helped the school conserve energy

and electricity, goals the University is keen to acheive.

Although having only participated in the program for two months, with the software in place, Trinity looks to participate fully for a second year. For the school’s participation in the program, CPS Energy, the largest municipally- owned utility company in the United States, awarded the university a check for over $5,600 and a crystal Energy Saver award. Director of campus planning and sustainability John Greene stated that this program will help the company better control

temperatures and efficiently manage energy use.

“If they [CPS] sense there is a peak demand, specifically during the summer season, they will basically take control of our chillers and air conditioning temporarily through an automated program to reduce output,” said Greene.

This program with CPS comes as a larger plan for sustainability by the university, with aims to reduce waste but to further manage energy programs to be as efficient as possible.

institution had with the website.

“It is more than a new website. It is a totally new site meaning from the bottom up we decided to build as if we didn’t even have a website,” said Charles White, vice president of information resources, communications and marketing.

According to White, the website was cluttered and its search enginge did not function well. The website is also a part of a larger effort to expand university marketing.

“It didn’t seem to present the face of the university that the constituents wanted to reach,” White said.

White stated the website was more of an informational portal than a marketing tool for the university. The website was an effort to increase prospective student interest in Trinity.

“We are seeing increased competition for Trinity type students. We were seeing a lot of competition from other colleges for those students,” White said.

Trinity is trying to broaden its marketing efforts by displaying the achievements and academic rigor of the university.

“We realized Trinity had not had any kind of marketing orientation. We

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After being officially recognized as a legitimate Trinity organization, Beauty Advocates for Realistic Expectations (BARE) called their first meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 19, to discuss new ideas and hear from the BARE faculty advisor and Body Image Program co-founder Carolyn Becker.

“Think about what you want from a group like this,” said senior and core team member Taylor Rubottom. “We are all here because we care about this a lot.”

BARE was founded this summer and is led by seniors Leslie Barrett, Shelby Seier, Leslie Green, Taylor Rubottom, Sara Robertson, juniors Alison James, Hope Hood and sophomores Ashley Heline and Eliza Grady.

Their intention has been to make body image awareness a more popular subject around campus.

“We have done a few other things besides Makeupless Mondays,” said senior and BARE co-founder Shelby Seier.

“We started a blog, which is on various issues we come across, and we are open to having guest blog posters.”

Seier continued to explain that BARE has also done a lot of social media outreach, BARE hugs (slips of paper that said things like “I admire you because…” and are passed around to people), along with Post-It notes and sidewalk chalk opportunities to write something people love about themselves.

BARE hosted an opportunity for people to write things they love about themselves with sidewalk chalk at the bottom of Cardiac Hill on Tuesday.

“I think a recurring thing that we see with those events is that a lot of people will say ‘oh, ‘I don’t know’ or ‘that’s cocky, I can’t say what I am proud of or what I love about myself,’ or I have nothing to be proud of,’” Seier said. “I think that mindset is something that a lot of people our age are experiencing because we are taught to be humble and to not be proud of our individuality.

These exercises are there to get people out of that mindset and to acknowledge that they do have really beautiful things about themselves.”

Becker gave a speech regarding how the Body Image Program got started.

This project focuses its efforts on body image intervention and has gotten worldwide attention. The program alone has gotten attention from the national sorority Delta Delta Delta as well as programs in the United Kingdom.

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University website redesigned with competition in mind Website receives facelift as Trinity attempts to attract prospective students

by Sonam James NEWS REPORTER On Nov. 8, Trinity University updated its website to be more user friendly and to attract prospective students. The updated website is meant not only to attract visitors, but also to fix any problems that current users and the

didn’t do marketing we simply believed that we are good and everybody knows we’re good,” White said.

The university created a special marketing team to redesign the website.

“We created a marketing unit within the institution, and the first task of that marketing unit was to rebuild the website,” White said.

The university used an open source platform to build the website. The platform is Drupal, which is developed by a community of users that update the platform software.

The platform is free for anyone

to download and share with others.

According to White, 95 percent of first contact with the university comes from the website.

The website was mainly being used by those who were a part of the institution.

Very little activity was coming from prospective students.

“We found that, in our analytics, are numbers on where people were coming from to the website - that 95 percent of them were coming from inside the institution,” White said.

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On Thursday, Nov. 21, former president George W. Bush ate lunch with Republican governors in Scottsdale, Arizona. Bush and approximately a dozen other GOP governors ate lunch at a meeting of the Republican Governors Association at an Arizona resort. Bush offered encouragement for the 2014 election season. Bush was invited to the lunch by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. According to Hannah Abney, spokeswoman for the former president, Bush was invited to lunch to speak about his time in the Texas governor’s office and his time as U.S. president.

On Thursday, a Boeing 747 Dreamlifter, after departure from JFK International Airport, landed mistakenly in Wichita, Kan., at Jabara Airport. Jabara does not typically handle landings or takeoffs of aircraft that size. The intended destination of the Dreamlifter was McConnell Air Force Base, located 12 miles away from Jabara. An investigation has been launched into what caused the pilot to land at Jabara. The Dreamlifter needs a runway of 9,199 feet for takeoff.

The Jabara Airport has a runway of 6,101 feet. Favorable weather and a light load allowed for safe departure.

Afghanistan’s president, Hamid Karzai, recently urged Afghans to let U.S. forces stay another decade. Karzai said that an American military presence in Afghanistan is the country’s best hope for stability. Karzai did add that there is no trust between him and Washington, D.C. In a meeting of the grand assembly, Karzai informed them that even if they approve it, he might leave the deal to be signed by his successor as president next year. Karzai encouraged the estimated 2,500 delegates assembled to think of future generations and the opportunities available with a stability situation.

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Student Goverment Association funds 57 percent of student requests SGA ends funding requests for Fall 2013, operating with fewer funds due to student enrollment

by Sonam James NEWS REPORTER The Student Government Association, formerly known as the Association of Student Representatives, ended funding requests for this semester.

This semester there was a 33 percent increase in the amount of funding requests compared to last year. 80 funding requests were proposed and 57 were either fully or partially funded.

The largest funding request that was not issued to a Big Six organization was granted for Model UN with $4,000, allocated for travel costs.

Another large funding request approval granted $1,400 to TUFit. Additionally, the Student Athletic Advisory Committee asked for $5,400 in funding but received only $2,700.

Because of low student enrollment, SGA has less money allocated from the student activity fee than they have had in past years.

“This fall we did, however, have a significantly decreased student activity fee or decreased allocation from

the student activity fee,” said Evan Lewis, newly elected SGA president.

Money allocated to groups goes toward food, equipment or anything that is seen as essential to the event. The Filipino Student Association proposed a funding request in which everything but benches for a cultural dance was funded for Mabuhay.

“They funded everything that was essential. We would like to have our benches because there is a really interesting cultural dance that we need the benches for,” said Tess Macapinlac, sophomore and FSA member. “In terms of ASR funding, they have always been very reasonable in discussing and hearing us out time and again.”

The Prowlers, an 18-member dance team, received $6,610.00 from SGA last year for new unifroms. This year they submitted a request that was only partially funded.

“We were hoping to get uniform shoes. We have these uniforms that ASR generously provided last year, and that has been really helpful to us in a new sense of purpose with this new image. With that, not having shoes to go with that has been a struggle,” said Helene Nepomuceno, senior and Prowlers captain.

Lewis stated the shoes would be difficult to fund because

Rec Sports they are considered more of a personal item.

According to Nepomuceno, the Prowlers received funding from the athletic department before they were removed from it in 2011. Now they rely on SGA for funding.

“Our biggest problem since then has been where to find funding,” Nepomuceno said.

According to Lewis, funding is $30,000 lower this year than last year. Some funding requests that were not timesensitive or that involved

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events for next semester were tabled until the spring.

“As we got towards the deadline this year, we had a limited amount of money to spend, so we decided that those events that could be looked at next semester would be looked at then,” Lewis said.

Time-sensitive funding proposals do not typically take priority over proposals that are not.

“For the most part, it’s a first-come, first-served basis.

It wouldn’t be fair to a group

that planned their event out six weeks in advance and came to us with a funding request to get bumped aside by a group that is submitting a funding request for a large event next week,” Lewis said.

To keep spending levels the same, SGA has been using the reserve accounts that consist of money left over by previous SGAs and money that is given back by groups that did not use all the money allocated to them.

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JFK Assissination: 50 Years Old 50 years ago today, on Friday Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy’s motorcade processed through the streets of Dallas, one of the stops on a statewide tour he took of Texas that fall to smooth frictions in the Democratic Party. As the parade wound through the streets, shots ripped through the air. The president was struck in the back, neck and head. His wounds were fatal, and he was pronounced dead at 1 p.m. that afternoon.

In light of this massive piece of American history, the Trinitonian decided to take a look back through its archives to see how the staff in November of 1963 handled this massive tragedy. The results were both surprising and illuminating.

Because of the way Thanksgiving fell that year, the newspaper had to wait a full two weeks before it was able to publish anything about the president’s death.

No website specials, no tweets, no Facebook updates. Just 14 long days and nights spent reflecting on the future of the nation.

What the students produced is an interesting combination of direct commentary on the assassination and unconscious portraits of the way Kennedy’s death impacted campus. An editorial was run on the front page of the newspaper, page two featured an article about the eternal flame and page six contained an on the homecoming cancellation in wake of the president’s death.

We hope you find this glimpse into the universities past as intriguing as we do.

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Prospective and current students at heart of office moves; Northrup becomes a hub

by James Godfrey NEWS INTERN This semester marks the first year that major offices on campus inhabit new locations after several moves this past year. Various offices on campus were relocated to make space for the admissions office move to the east wing of Northrup Hall’s first floor, and have since settled into their new spaces.

“Part of the design incorporates a sort of onestop-shopping approach for students,” said university registrar Alfred Rodriguez.

“Admissions, financial aid, and the registrar offices are all strategically located in a central place on campus.”

The move was decided on by a committee that considered several proposals involving the idea of creating a more centrally located place to attend to the needs of prospective and current students. Among the ideas

considered were a welcome center, which has been put on hold for the time being, and the move that eventually took place. Because there were already other offices located in the space admissions now inhabits, there were several decisions to make regarding where offices would be relocated on campus. The move took place predominantly over the summer, and at times involved renovation of the new spaces to better suit the needs of those offices.

“Everyone on our staff was in awe of how John Greene handled the move and renovation. He and his department were absolutely critical in making the transition so smooth and quick,” Rodriguez said.

The admissions office has observed a greatly improved response from visiting families and prospective students after the move, with the new movement to Northrup allowing these visitors to experience the energy on campus and interact with students and professors in the hall. Additionally, the office that admissions is now housed in allows for more visiting between touring families, current student and staff, which makes for a more welcoming atmosphere.

photo by Megan McLoughlin Above the front entrance doors to Northrup Hall, this greeting now welcomes visitors to Trinity. This addition comes as the admissions department makes its transition from lower campus to Northrup.

Admissions intends to use major visiting days next semester to encourage staff and students to come and speak with visitors about their

experiences at the university.

This informal meeting style will be especially beneficial for prospective students, so that they are able to see what current students think of attending the university.

These major visit days will most likely fall on Mondays and Fridays, and this program will be instituted next semester.

“Our staff really appreciates the cooperation of the other offices in this move,” said director of domestic recruitment Justin Doty. “It’s a different atmosphere here, and it really seems to be making a huge difference for our visitors, who feel more connected [and] less removed from the heart of campus.”

Additionally, associate

vice president for student affairs and dean of students David Tuttle was relocated to the Coates University Center, allowing him a more accessible location to students. His intention for the future is to set out a sign near Einstein’s inviting students to visit him during his directaccess office hours, and to get a dog that students will be able to interact and de-stress with, much like Jurgens during the 2011 and 2012 years.

“This all was really a result of the initiative by the administration to bring admissions to a more central location, so it was all a domino thing with the greater good in mind,” Tuttle said. “I think the changes have worked out really well.”

• continued from Page 1 Becker announced that the Body Image Program, a program that has only been available for sororities and female athletes, will be broadening its subjects.

“The thing that has frustrated me is that we are limited to a subsection of the campus,” Becker said.

“Starting this winter, that is no longer true. We will be launching the body project campus-wide and co-ed.”

Submissions to train and become a peer leader are currently on-going training and would start at the beginning of January.

The meeting on Tuesday was a trial run for future meetings, Barrett said.

“We will be deciding the consistency of meeting in the near future and are thinking they will be at least once a month beginning next semester,” Barrett said.

• continued from Page 1 Current students are still adjusting to the new website and have given mixed reviews of the functionality of the website.

“The search function is really inefficient when you are trying to find something,” said Erin Rand, a senior.

“I think the new website is really nice. It seems pretty simple and organized, which is an improvement over the previous website, where I felt I sometimes had to do a lot of searching to find what I needed,” said Ana Esparza, a sophomore.

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program specialist and then program coordinator. I was NEWS REPORTER running the program that they had in Australia. I never Andre Martinez, the most thought that my career would recent addition to the study start at the university but abroad department, spoke then it ended up working in with the Trinitonian about study abroad.

What brought you to his transition to Trinity.

Trinity?

My wife works across at the What is your official job University of Incarnate Word title?

Study abroad advisor. She is an English professor Everything from the process there and now we have a baby to where a student comes in and I did things across the and says that “I’m interested city such as website design, with study abroad” and so then I saw the job posting bringing them back to and it’s perfect.

Are you going to have a campus.

When was your official specific amount of students to advise? first day?

That I don’t know. Right My official first day was last Monday, but I came in now it’s just Nancy Ericksen. last week on Tuesday and I think that we will share Thursday just to get the the workload working with office ready and learn how all the students. From what I understand, we have things go.

How did you decide between 60-200 students in you wanted to get into any semester.

Is there anything that study abroad and come to you want the Trinity Trinity?

Originally I was in study community to know about abroad at the University of you?

I’m very happy to be here.

New Orleans for 12 years.

I kind of fell into it because The people are so nice - all I was a student worker in the students, faculty and the office and then I was staff that I’ve met - and it’s promoted up to become a very refreshing. Students are normal office worker, then happy to be here.

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Trinity may expand CPS program to second year • continued from Page 1 According to the university’s webpage on sustainability, the school strives “to reduce its global footprint in energy and recycling, developing ways to protect its environment in research and writing, and training students to carry forward the work of making tomorrow greener than today.”

“We are getting more and more data these days that allows us to really see how our energy is being used and to manage it more efficiently and strategically.”

John Greene Director of Campus Planning and Sustainability This goal echoes among faculty and students alike, with programs like the recent cooperation with CPS showing the desire for efficiency and energy management. With the recent renovations of various dorms and CSI, Greene is hopeful for further progress in sustainability and operating efficiency.

“We are getting more and more data these days that allows us to really see how our energy is being used and to manage it more efficiently and strategically,” Greene said. “Obviously we want to control our costs, and the biggest way we can do that is operating efficiency.”

In terms of efficiency, CSI has received one LEED already, along with Miller and Calvert dorms receiving the awards in 2009 and 2012, respectively. LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, an award the University, given recent renovations, is looking to receive more of.

“A big part of these awards is designing campus buildings for energy efficiency,” Greene said. “We also hope to get another one for the renovated Witt-Winn.”

To students as well, the issue of sustainability of utmost importance, not only in maintaining cost efficiency, but also in doing our part to be conscious citizens.

To sophomore Zachary Galvin, the idea of energy conservation is something all students should not only be aware of, but should engage in.

“I think it is important that Trinity maintains energy efficiency because, as a decentsized institution, we use quite a bit of energy,” Galvin said. “And, while efficiency does help save the university money, it is also important that we all do our part in sustaining our environment.”

On top of maintaining good programs for sustainability, these steps can be ways to get students involved and informed. To first-year and geosciences major Yvette Muniz, the idea of energy conservation not only benefits the society in continuing efficiency, but also in creating conscious citizens and engaging students.

“I think it is important for the university to strive for programs on energy efficiency as a way to educate students on sustainability and to get them thinking about all the little things people can do in terms of conserving energy,” Muniz said.

With all the importance dedicated to energy conservation and efficiency, the university is eager to build on its reputation as a leader in sustainability, something set in motion by former university president John R. Brazil in his 2007 American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment. The commitment, still honored today, strives to ensure the university, “its practices and operations are sound, socially constructive, and economically viable” while maintaining Trinity’s “commitment to environmental sustainability.”

SGA finishes allocation • continued from Page 3 “We have been using it as a rainy day fund. We are hoping this decrease in enrollment is temporary, so we are trying to keep spending levels at about the same. Because if it is a temporary thing, then we can spend money and recoup that later instead of just cutting groups off. We want there to be good events going on campus,” Lewis said.

Even with low enrollment, SGA looks to spend the same

amount they had spent in the previous semester.

“We are looking to spend on track with what we had last semester. I would just invite student groups to send proposals as early as they can, because we have had five proposals, six proposals and fifteen proposals. Obviously when you are competing at the end of the semester for the last $5,000 then your proposal is going to have an unusual amount of scrutiny placed on it,” Lewis said.

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The Meaning of Giving

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Work hard to get the grades you deserve From the Wild Frontier David Crockett, Professor With just two weeks of classes left, it’s time to turn our attention to that enduring ritual of the end of semester: student evaluations. While I’ve got no personal gripe with these things, I have to confess to some misgivings about them. I’m not convinced students are qualified to evaluate many aspects of teaching, and there is a lot to be said for the notion that student evaluations have played a large role in grade inflation. After all, professors are human (no, really). We like to be liked, and the easiest way to be treated kindly by students is to grade them a little easier. And when upwards of 40 percent of college grades are now As,

I can understand why some students complain about my grade distribution.

Probably the most common negative remark on my evaluations is that I am a “harsh grader.” This statement is a proxy comment for “I have to work hard in this course, and I still might not get an A.” But the Courses of Study bulletin clearly states that “C work” is “average,” “B work” is “good,” and “A work” is “superior.” Of course, we all know that’s not true. I doubt there is a course anywhere on campus in which the average GPA is a very average 2.0.

And A-level work ought to be superior. If we water that down, we end up in the world of The Incredibles, in which Elastigirl tells her son Dash that everyone is special – and he sensibly replies that in that case, “No one is.”

But if I relax my standards for what constitutes an A, I do a disservice to the many students who DID earn an A, now and in the past. In a

sense, I water down their accomplishment and that would be unjust.

The complaint about harsh grading is connected to another complaint, which is that it is too hard to “get” an A. Of course, no one “gets” an A – you EARN it. And it OUGHT to be hard to earn an A. Many of our students are used to being in the top 10 percent of their high school classes, perhaps doing so without working very hard at it. Welcome to the real world.

Someday you will work for an irrational boss, so consider this your warm-up.

Another version of this criticism is the student who says he or she tries really hard, but his grade does not reflect the effort he put into the course. To this person I am tempted to reply that he or she just may not be an A student. That sounds harsh, but I don’t mean anything negative by it. There’s nothing wrong with not being an A student. I wasn’t one as an

remain nameless due to a certain corporation’s rules against libel).

I waited my turn in line and then asked for a serving of mashed potatoes and the employee proceeded to use the potato serving spoon to scoot my ham over before she put it back in the mashed potatoes. I have seen this happen over and over again.

Cross-contamination is a huge issue for students who are trying to eat kosher or halal.

This is a serious issue that none of the powers that be are taking seriously.

Cross-contamination is against the national standards placed on said corporation, but it happens every day. Don’t even get me started on how this affects students with food allergies.

Notice that I have not once mentioned quality of food, aesthetic appeal, availability or even taste. We know that the powers that be could care less about that and, honestly, who doesn’t roll their eyes at some white suburban kid demanding they get gourmet sustenance?

I am making a sincere and honest plea for the people that give Trinity its prestigious reputation of being diverse and culturally wellrounded. Make the dining hall a safe place to eat. Cross-contamination and proper labeling are issues that have been complained about but minimally addressed. Students who pay $45,000 to attend a university should not be stuck in their rooms eating microwavable food because there is little they can comfortably eat (according to their religion and health).

This issue is one that has to be taken seriously if Trinity is going to maintain its current reputation for diversity within its student population.

The face of cross-contamination Staff Column Abby Miracle Trinity does a great job of creating the image of meeting the needs of it’s students. But when it comes down to the line — the nitty gritty, the detail — it’s a mess.

They preach and preach to us about how diverse this campus is. There are graphs that show all of the different countries in the world that our international students come from and a group for nearly every religion on campus, but the most basic needs of the students that Trinity has gone to the corners of the Earth to find are nowhere close to being met. I’m ranting and not giving you any proof, I know. Let me transition. Here is an anecdote: This scenario actually happened to me as I was eating dinner in a large facility where students congregate to eat because they are forced to pay exuberant amounts of money to eat there before the school year even begins (this facility shall

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“Students who pay $45,000 to attend a university should not be stuck in their rooms eating microwavable food because there is little they can eat comfortably (according to their religion and health).”

There should be serving dishes that are always “porkless.” At breakfast, there should be a way for a student to order an omelet that doesn’t end up with bacon and ham bits in it.

Abby Miracle is a junior majoring in English.

undergraduate. I didn’t figure out how to be an A student until I was a senior in college.

I’ve told this story before, but several years ago I walked into a final exam and the students were complaining about something, and I casually replied that effort did not equal excellence.

They were stunned that I would say such a thing. Many students seem to think that if they study X number of hours for an exam, or spend X number of hours on a paper, they DESERVE an A. But this perspective ignores the very real possibility that the student, while studying long hours, did not study WELL. I can’t read your minds. I have no way of assessing effort and sincerity. All I have is what’s on the page. Grades are a very crude effort to assess student comprehension and performance, but their very precision is a myth. Can I really say, at the end of a course, that the student who earned an 87.4 is really one

percentage point better or smarter than the student who earned an 86.4? Of course not. But the final product is my best attempt to evaluate what is accessible to me in terms of your learning. And it is very possible that someone who earned a B in a course in fact learned more than the student who earned an A. If I have done my math correctly, you (or your parents) spend roughly $240 per week for one course here at Trinity. You’re not buying a grade with that money, you’re purchasing the opportunity for a great education. Grades are not the most important outcome of that transaction, and they can’t assess what is truly enduring about your experience here.

So, before you write your student evaluations, take an honest look at your role in your education, and what you owe to your teachers.

David Crockett is a professor in the political science department.

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History lessons 50 years ago today, on another brisk Friday morning, a gunman shot and killed our nation’s 35th president. In the following 50 years, the United States refused to let John F. Kennedy’s violent end define his legacy. Instead, we recognize him as the man who boldly led us into the New Frontier; the man who reformed education, Medicaid and welfare; the man who founded the Peace Corps and inspired a league of physicists to put a man on the moon. At the same time that we mourn his untimely demise, we also realize that his life was much greater than his death.

Now, it isn’t the usual role of the Trinitonian to get all philosophical. We mainly just like to complain about other people complaining about involvement. Despite our preferences, we feel like this moment’s potential for reflection is simply too great to pass up. Now, to our knowledge, no one has ever been assassinated at Trinity, and hopefully we will continue that streak far into the future. What we’re trying to say is that life is full of abrupt endings that have nothing to do with death.

We are thinking of our sports teams, specifically volleyball, cross country and the men’s and women’s soccer teams. All of these teams have had phenomenal seasons, due in large part to magnetic team chemistry and nearly flawless executions.

Despite its prowess, the volleyball team fell last weekend to Cal Lutheran. It would be a crying shame to let one defeat define the volleyball team’s season. Should the soccer teams and the women’s cross country team face the same fate (we’re knocking on every wooden surface and tossing salt around the newsroom to ensure that we didn’t just jinx anything), we can only hope the players and coaches would focus on the terrific seasons they have played.

A national title would be awesome, but should the odds not be in our favor this year, we are completely prepared to write your legacy as one of record-breaking goals, assists and run times as well as continued selections for All-Regional and All-American teams. Wherever you may play this weekend, be it Indiana or Iowa, play confident that a school — well, definitely a newsroom — anxiously awaits news of your success. Good luck! Buena suerte! Bonne chance!

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Say ‘No’ to predatory culture and Stand in Solidarity Staff Column

Carlos Anchondo, News Editor Thank you to everyone who attended Stand in Solidarity on Nov. 20 at Miller Fountain. At the event, students were encouraged to share thoughts on immigration reform and write on a poster (currently in Coates) the reasons

they “stand in solidarity” with the 11 million undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States. A second thank you to Katsuo Nishikawa for bringing Telemundo and Univision to campus for media coverage.

I organized this event in response to a “game” that was planned at UT-Austin for Nov. 20 by the Young Conservatives of Texas, UT chapter. The game, which was cancelled, assigned five volunteers to wear signs reading ‘illegal immigrant’ and offered UT students the opportunity to catch these individuals to receive a $25 gift card. Chapter chairman Lorenzo Garcia said the event was

not intended to instill anger or promote prejudice, but instead to educate college students about a serious issue.

Like thousands of others at college across the U.S., I objected to this event because of its predatory nature and the environment of fear I believe it would have created at the UT-Austin campus. Over 400 undocumented students attend UT. Those students should feel comfortable at their university, not humiliated by the heinous actions of a select few.

I maintain that Lorenzo Garcia and the YCT approached the conversation about immigration reform in the wrong manner. Their

“catch an illegal immigrant” game was a scare tactic, not a productive addition to dialogue.

Honestly, I was disappointed in the YCT when they cancelled their event. According to Garcia, the event was cancelled due to pressure from the university and safety concerns. I think that if Garcia had the cojones to organize such an event, he needed to follow through. That said, it is still incredible to me that someone would consider this game an acceptable mode of protest.

Immigration is a divisive issue, with many complicated facets.

One aspect that I believe must change is the language we use.

In my opinion, no human is illegal. Instead of saying illegal immigrant, I think we should say

undocumented immigrant. A critic might argue that the term illegal is used in reference to the illegal act an immigrant makes by coming to the U.S. without utilizing the proper process. That is a valid argument, but I think it warrants a separate discussion.

My issue with the YCT’s proposed game is a matter of respect. There is a civil way to discuss an issue and then there are tactics of intimidation and fear mongering. I urge everyone to get involved, no matter your stance.

Have the conversation. Talk to your local representatives. But do so in a fruitful way.

Carlos Anchondo is a senior majoring in communication and International studies.

The gift of giving The Short List Coleen Grissom, Professor On the one hand, material gifts have never been particularly important to me. Sure this is the result, in part, of having been born during the Great Depression and experiencing childhood during the Second World War. I recall the thrill of using a large safety pin to attach one of my mother’s hose to the back of the sofa so that Santa could fill it with tasty treats and small gifts. That they were mostly oranges, apples, peppermint canes, pecans, a few walnuts and the almost-impossible-to-open Brazil nuts didn’t disappoint me.

In the bottom of the hose, near the toe, I usually discovered a piece of jewelry from Woolworth’s Five-and-Dime, sometimes a tiny necklace with my birthstone, the garnet and usually the chain didn’t stain my little chubby neck green until the second or even third wearing.

We didn’t own a nutcracker, so the family shared daddy’s pliers, and I didn’t realize until years later that we never called the hard shelled Brazil nuts by that name, but used, instead, a dreadful racist epithet. (Have I already noted in these columns that the “good old days” really weren’t?)

On the other hand, I have pretty much always had everything I wanted, partly because my upbringing did not encourage acquisitiveness. Some friend gave me a coaster on which I place my coffee mug each morning on my desk as I attack whatever’s awaiting me on my MacBook Pro. That coaster’s message: “Happiness is wanting what you have.”

Gift giving and receiving is, therefore, a challenge for me. I have a hall closet crammed with objects I’ve received from loving friends and family, and I intend to re-gift most of them – many to the rummage store that supports the Hill Country Animal League. And,

in my obnoxious way, I inform most who give gifts to me that “I really don’t need anything, but here are some non-profits I would love for you to donate to in my honor.”

I even tried for years to browbeat my loved ones into letting me do the same for them and I’ve written several checks to Young Life in Nashville, Calvary Baptist Church in Henderson, Texas, and the Good Shepherd Medical Center in Longview.

Eventually, my loved ones rebelled and requested more personal gifts, so I adjust and purchase items from Coldwater Creek and Amazon.com. I am slow and set in my ways, but, with harassment, I come around.

Way back in 1956, I read and admired Erich Fromm’s The Art of Giving, and, on my birthday in 1970, a Trinity student, Pat Fry (now Godley*), who was a Spur, a campus leader, bright and quite promising, sent me a passage from that book. As the commercialized season for gift-giving approaches, what Fromm wrote captures what I really believe about “giving.”

(Bite your tongue and ignore his sexist language.)

“What does one person give to another? He gives of himself, of the most precious he has, he gives of his life. This does not necessarily mean that he sacrifices his life for the other – but that he gives him of that which is alive in him; he gives him of his joy, of his interest, of his understanding, of his knowledge, of his humor, of his sadness – of all expressions and manifestations of that which is alive in him. In thus giving of his life, he enriches the other person, he enhances the other’s sense of aliveness by enhancing his own sense of aliveness. He does not give in order to receive; giving is in itself exquisite joy. But in giving he cannot help bringing something to life in the other person and this which is brought to life reflects back to him.” *google her – She’s one of many alums who bring honor to this institution.

Coleen Grissom is a professor in the English department.

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“All the hours of sleep I’ll make up over the weekend. ” John Nguyen Senior

“Eating a lot of food with my family.”

Yanina Soudaly First Year

“Food and sleep.”

Taylor Mobley Sophomore

“Being around with my family and playing games with them.”

Cairo DeGaillard Sophomore

“There’s nothing better than stuffing the way my aunt makes it.”

Jason Nguyen First Year

“Football.”

Troy Nelson First Year

“Not going to school.”

Georgina Cortinez First Year

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Lauren Schroeter, Columnist I’ve been trying to write a story for several months now, but the problem seems to be that I don’t quite know what to write about.

I know I want to write - I can recognize that feeling - but I just cannot for the life of me come up with something that interests me as a writer. I’ve come up with little things — snippets of fictional conversations between nameless characters, images of people performing certain tasks — but nothing that I can turn into a 10-plus-page story. It’s not writer’s block; I’m pretty sure if someone else were to lay out a plot for me and tell me their idea, I’d be able to write it out to their liking. It’s more like a deficit of decent ideas.

That’s not to say I haven’t written any stories since this idea deficit began. Midsemester, I managed to type out something decent, but that plot and premise had been stewing in my head for nearly three years. It hardly counts. I could

write that idea because I already knew what it was; I already had it in my head. Now, I don’t have any ideas to fall back on, and it’s frustrating.

“It’s that time of the semester where I start getting stressed out by all the work I haven’t done, yet I am sitting here stressed out by something that I can’t even properly qualify.”

It’s that time of the semester where I start getting stressed out by all the work I haven’t done, yet I am sitting here stressed out by something that I can’t even properly qualify. It’s not just stories that I’m stumbling on, but poetry as well. All the images I come up with seem stale to me, like a four-monthold, half-eaten bag of pita chips and expired hummus. It just comes out feeling like something I’ve written before, something that’s false and overdone to the

point where even I am tired of it.

I want to write about things that are disgusting. I want to capture the filth that oozes from every pore of our modern world.

I want to call attention to our societal hypocrisies, I want to write about flesh twisting into grotesque shapes. Maybe that’s my problem - that I’m too caught up in this one facet of the world.

But the real problem is that I can’t escape it, no matter where I look, I see dirt, and garbage, and horrid things and I love it.

Writing about these things in particular brings me happiness and makes me feel alive.

But now I feel that it’s eating me away. This thematic hangup is holding me back and preventing me from exploring it further, because I continue to look at it in the same way. All signs point to me needing to take a step back, but if I step back too far, will I still be able to retain my connection? It’s an irrational question; of course I won’t lose that connection to the obscene.

It’s such an integral part of me that I couldn’t possibly forget about it, but at the same time, this question twists uncomfortably at my esophagus, because I am afraid.

Lauren Schroeter is a junior majoring in geology and religion.

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First year Kylie Moden founds Women in Computing Trinity club serves as a response to the gender discrepancy found in computer science field

by Chloe Pope-Levison CAMPUS PULSE REPORTER As of January 2013, there were 41 declared computer science majors at Trinity University, and of those 41 majors, nine were women.

Although the gender discrepancy in fields such as law and medicine has evened out over the last few decades, women in computer science are still significantly underrepresented. In response to this, first year Kylie Moden recently created the Women in Computing Club on campus that supports these women and encourages them enter the field of computer science.

“Throughout high school I was involved with the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT), which gets you into this community of fellow girls, and that’s how I learned the

value of having a Women in Computing group supporting you,” Moden said.

For many of the Trinity faculty members, including Paul Myers, professor and chair of the computer science department, the Women in Computing Club is long overdue.

“It’s been a priority of mine for some time to try to encourage women to go into computer science and support them while they’re here, but I just never really implemented much other than in my own personal advising,” Myers said.

“Then out of the middle of nowhere comes Moden. She made an appointment with me to see if the department would be interested in this club, and after giving her the initial hard time I told her to come in and said that it is really a dream come true.”

The main focus of Women in Computing is to provide support for women who are interested in computing, as well as to show women different professional development and education opportunities and make members aware of the statistics in the computer science industry. For example, a recent study showed that over the past fiscal year, more

photo by Jennie Ran Members of Women in Computing formed the club to encourage and support women into the field of computer science.

women were hired in the industry, but that the retention rate is quite low.

“I joined Women in Computing for networking. It’s a great network of people that will help you get internships and jobs and it just seems silly not to take advantage of it,” said junior Samantha Lavallee. “It’s another resource and almost all of my computer science friends are males, so it’s good to meet other females.”

This past weekend, members of the Women in Computing

First Time Offenders improve improv Group breaks away from Trinity University Players to pursue different opportunities

by Rose Minutaglio CAMPUS PULSE REPORTER A sign of good entertainment is catching yourself smiling— probably with an embarrassingly goofy grin—throughout an entire performance.

First Time Offenders is that type of show.

Inspired by the infamous comedy troupe Upright Citizens Brigade, FTO was formed a few years ago with the intention of being an improv/parody/sketch comedy group. The organization was originally a subgroup under the Trinity University Players, but FTO decided to break away in order to pursue different funding and leadership opportunities.

The relationship between the student-run theatre company and the improv group remains completely amicable, and crossover is seen between the two organizations.

“Essentially the two are sister organizations. This is the first year, though, that we broke away from TUPS and had a chance to recruit people and get people

really interested in our club,” said Marcella Muysson, a sophomore biology major and a core member of FTO. FTO is all about saying “yes” and trusting each other.

To members, it is about challenging themselves to become better at improv, although ultimately making people laugh is the main goal.

“We are trying to improve our improv skills—thinking of things on the fly and just running with it. So, not only is FTO super entertaining, but it translates really well into life,” said Shelby Seier, a senior theatre major and president of FTO. Members of FTO admit that improv is no easy feat.

It goes against every level of comfort that humans are innately used to. Therefore, it is important during sketches to ask few questions and to remain completely focused.

It is essential for members to be open to new things, to say “yes” and to “go with the flow.” They must be open to anything and everything, while taking risks without the fear of failure.

“I think there is a component where you have to have some sort of natural ability, but anyone can learn to improvise,” Seier said.

Every Friday at 3 p.m., FTO hosts “improv jams”

that are open to everyone, no experience necessary. They play games, work on technique and focus on improvement of improvisational skills. The rule of thumb is that the more you play, the better you get.

This year, the group is looking to incorporate long-form into their routine. Long-form is a type of comedy predicated on producing longer, more intricate scenes that really tell a story. This evolvement of FTO from past years is also evident in the type of humor they incorporate into sketches.

“Our quality of jokes has really changed from last year. We focus a lot more on technique this semester. The types of jokes we make this semester have changed in a positive way… we have expanded our joke range,” Muysson said.

Junior human communication major Andrea Medina says her favorite part of the show is getting to see friends and colleagues perform on stage.

“Maddie Smith is my favorite, especially her optimism and joviality,” Medina said.

FTO hosts two semester shows in which they play games in front of the audience. In addition, they host two parody shows that occur after main stage shows, such as “Pippin” or “Body Awareness.” Their next show is scheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 11.

Club, including Moden and Lavallee, drove 15 hours to Lake Guntersville, Ala., to participate in the Southeast Women in Computing Conference. The conference included keynote speakers and seminars on topics ranging from cloud computing research to résumé workshops to preparing for job interviews.

“One really cool talk was given by Ruthe Farmer, director of Strategic Initiatives at NCWIT, about the Sit With Me campaign, in which people sit down to take

a stand on women in computing and how there needs to be a focus on this in education,” Moden said. “Famous people that are leaders in the industry sit in the chair, like Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, and they share a story about their experiences helping women in the computing field. The campaign sounds cool, and we might be trying to implement a Sit With Me campaign here on campus.”

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Sales contribute to human rights efforts Intervarsity holds Fair Trade Sale and University Presbyterian Church hosts Alternative Gift Market

by Meagan Oglesby CAMPUS PULSE REPORTER Interested in giving a gift this holiday season that actually makes an impact on the lives of others? From 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. this Sunday, Nov. 24, the University Presbyterian Church near campus will be holding an Alternative Gift Market and Craft Fair along with a blood drive.

Through the Alternative Gifts International program, gifts can be purchased that support over 30 different kinds of projects. Examples of these projects include reclaiming land, supporting individuals experiencing poverty and empowering people through education and training.

One of the newer projects this year is a mission to rescue victims of sex trafficking.

A day of investigative work or an aftercare package for survivors of sex trafficking can be purchased to help support this project.

“It’s really an overview of problems in the world and the solutions. It’s not very often that we get to hear about both at the same time,” said Molly Roth, a member of the University Presbyterian Church who is helping put on the event.

Several of the gift options are below $20 and very friendly to a college student’s budget. For example, purified water for five children in India for a year can be purchased for just $6.

Each of the gifts comes with a card that explains what exactly the gift is doing and how it is making an impact.

“These gifts have a lasting impact on a real person’s life. I can’t think of a better gift than that,” Roth said.

Some of the gifts also benefit local projects in the San Antonio community. One of the projects is to provide school uniforms for students at Beacon Hill Elementary.

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Sexual Diversity Alliance holds Transgender Day of Remembrance tomorrow at Holt Center Event honors victims and humanizes issue of violence

by Meagan Oglesby CAMPUS PULSE REPORTER To honor victims of hate and discrimination due to perceived or actual gender identity or gender expression, the Sexual Diversity Alliance will be holding a Transgender Day of Remembrance at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow, Nov. 23, at the Holt Center.

This event is meant to honor victims, but also to bring to light an issue that affects a large and growing part of the population. “[Transgender people] are very present. Even though we think it’s so distant and foreign, there’s more than you think,” said sophomore Sydney Wright, president of the Sexual Diversity Alliance.

Although this is a very prevalent issue, the members of the Sexual Diversity Alliance believe Trinity would benefit from learning more about the transgender community and the problems they face.

“A lot of people don’t really know much about transgender people. They do make up a very small percentage of the population, but I know multiple transgender students here at Trinity, and most students couldn’t tell you what transgender is or anything about it,” said senior Christopher Unger, the treasurer of the Sexual Diversity Alliance.

The Transgender Day of Remembrance is an international event that occurred this past Wednesday, Nov. 20. Several organizations in Texas took part in the event with a candlelight vigil, including the Metropolitan Community Church of San Antonio.

Another goal for the Transgender Day of Remembrance is to humanize the issue of violence against this part of the community.

“Most people don’t know anyone that is transgender even though we have a transgender population at Trinity, so we want this to put a face to the issues,” Wright said.

The event will include a candlelight vigil, during which Wright will read an official list

photo by Anh-Viet Dinh Trinity students, faculty and community members gather outside of Parker Chapel during last year’s Candlelight Vigil.

of the people who have been killed in the past year due to their actual or perceived gender identity or gender expression.

Along with the members of the Sexual Diversity Alliance, members of the transgender community of San Antonio will be coming to speak and share their experiences. The night will also include musical performances by the band Othello and David Spener of the sociology and anthropology department.

Organizations from all over Texas have been invited

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photo by Anh-Viet Dinh Senior Jenni White browses through fair trade products during Intervarsity’s Fair Trade sale in Coates University Center.

• continued from Page 10 “A lot of kids at the school are living in poverty, and we help them to have clean and wearable school uniforms,” said Reverend Kelly Allen, the pastor at the University Presbyterian Church.

Other gifts can benefit some of the church’s own projects, like scholarships to attend the UPC children’s center, supplies and donations for the annual youth mission trip and donations for the Deacon’s Fund, which supports special needs in the San Antonio community.

There will also be free international food and music during the fair. Students are

encouraged to come out as long as they would like, even if only to learn about the different projects.

“Why not come? Free food, free current events education and an opportunity to do something good for other people. I can do that for an hour,” Roth said.

Intervarsity recently held a similar Fair Trade Sale last week selling various items like chocolate, mugs and scarves from all over the world. The club was able to raise about $1,600 for the various Fair Trade organizations.

Most of the items come from Trinity students and alumni who have worked with Fair Trade organizations around the world.

“We know one Trinity alum who went to Manila and actually worked with the women and made cards with them” said junior Angela Chen, an urban studies major and small group leader for Intervarsity.

Intervarsity has been holding Fair Trade sales on campus for almost ten years now, usually around the holiday season.

Chen enjoys being involved with the sale and getting to share the idea of Fair Trade with other students.

“We aren’t doing this for profit. We’re just doing it to support these organizations,” Chen said.

to participate in Trinity’s own Transgender Day of Remembrance. These include UTSA’s LGBT group, Get Equal Texas, the San Antonio Gender Association, Transgender Education Network of Texas and more.

The Sexual Diversity Alliance has also been in Coates this past week handing out flyers and “No Trans Hate” stickers to promote the Transgender Day of Remembrance.

The club hopes that promoting this event will also shed light on

the violence that transgender people often face.

Darcie Marquardt, a sophomore member of the Sexual Diversity Alliance, helped run this table in Coates this past week.

“I think it is good to spread awareness so that people know something is going on.

The point of the event is to remember the pain of what people have gone through, but also so that people know that this is happening and that they can change it,” Marquardt said.

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Keep calm and race on: Trinity gets into Thanksgiving spirit with annual Turkey Trot First year Ryan Hernandez wins 56th yearly contest

by Chloe Pope-Levison CAMPUS PULSE REPORTER On Thursday, Nov. 14, over 68 various Trinity University students, faculty and staff gathered at the Intramural field to participate in Trinity’s 56th annual Turkey Trot. The task? Run a 2.1 mile loop around Trinity’s campus.

The prize? One prime frozen turkey.

“The Turkey Trot has been going on for forever. I had to look up dates in old Trinitonians to see when it first started,” said Caroline Keener, assistant director of athletics for recreational sports. “Jim Potter, the father of Trinity Intramurals, started it, and it went on when I was a student—we have always continued on the tradition.”

This year, first year Ryan Hernandez won the race.

Sophomore Paxton Deuel won the frozen turkey. Because the runners who placed ahead of him are involved in university athletics, they could not accept a prize like the turkey.

The remaining runners won a participation prize of a neon shirt portraying James Hill, assistant to the director of athletics, who coincidentally was the one who shot off the gun to start the race. Trinity’s registered Intramural hashtags and Twitter handle covered the back of the shirt.

“It’s usually a pretty big event, and I’ve found that if you give out neon shirts you get a lot more people,” Kenner said. “It’s a great way to stay active, be competitive with a bunch of people at Trinity and learn a new jogging path around the campus.”

The 2.1 mile race, which is put on by Trinity’s Intramurals Program, took the runners around the entire circumference of the Trinity campus.

“The Trot is held on the Intramural field, where the race begins,” said junior Cody Leiffer. “The track outlines Trinity’s campus, so by starting on the Intramural field, runners go up Stadium Drive and take a left into the field behind the library where Frisbee golf is played.

Runners then cut back onto the pavement when they reach the area behind Halsell

Hall, then make their way to Shook for a long straight away by dorms North, South and Prassel. After taking a left onto Ledge Lane by Prassel, runners make their way to the soccer field and finish back at the Intramural field.”

There is no prior sign up needed to participate in the Trot; one simply needs to show up to the Intramural field with enough time to sign in before the start of the race. For many runners, the Trot was a good way to get in a light run and great exercise (and a free t-shirt), particularly before the monumental Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon, held the following weekend.

“To be honest, I ran for the shirt, but it was a really nice, fun run and I am on the crosscountry team, so doing two miles instead of the regular five or six or eight was a lot easier for me,” Hernandez said.

“It was fun seeing the different sports teams and the different people who you would not normally see exercise exercising together. I would encourage everybody to sign up for the Turkey Trot next year because it is a lot of fun, and if you win, you get a turkey and everybody gets a t-shirt.”

photo by Aidan Kirksey First year Isaiah Lopez runs the final stretch of Trinity’s 56th annual Turkey Trot.

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PROM DRESS DRIVE Donate your gently used prom dress to young women in the community. Bring your dresses back with you after Thanksgiving Break! All dresses may be dropped off in Coates in CUC122 between now and December 6.

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Travel the world with your taste buds International Club features cuisines from different cultures tonight on the Witt-Winn roof

by Subrat Mahapatra INTERN Tired of eating the same old food at Mabee?

The International Club is providing an alternative as it hosts Cooking Night featuring delicacies from all over the world.

The annual International Cooking Night features dishes prepared by some of the different cultures that are present at Trinity University.

“Our own cabinet members are in charge of creating dishes according to those that perfectly resemble their own

culture and traditions,” said junior Song Yie Kim, president of the International Club.

“The Ecuadorians are coming together with a traditional dish of ceviche and the delicious tres leches. The Indian group brings together southeastern spices in a terrific balance of spice and taste with the butter chicken followed by their sweet kheer, which is given as a well-known dessert.”

“Spicy lovers will eat their fill with our delicious butter chicken,” said first year Chinmay Chobe, an International Club chef. “I know that’s what I am looking forward to!”

First year Devina Kumar is excited to sample cuisines he has never eaten before.

“It sounds interesting. I’m looking forward to eating butter chicken and trying some cuisines I have never had, like Ecuadorian,” Kumar said.

The Vietnamese group brings to the table a delicacy from Asia that consists of pineapple and beef with a side of stir-fried tofu and a dessert of banana pudding.

The Thai and Korean groups are combining their two cultures and taste pallets to create the khanonahgai, which is a chicken dish that is submerged in lots of oriental spices.

First year Bintee Karia is looking forward to tasting the khanonahgai the most.

“I have been waiting to try this dish out ever since I had it once at a restaurant,” Karia said.

The actual cooking of the food is going to take place all over campus where kitchens can be found, but the food will be served from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. tonight on the Witt-Winn roof.

Everyone is welcome, and the food is free.

photo by Anh-Viet Dinh Sesame chicken is a close equivalent to butter chicken, which will be served tonight.

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On Dec. 12, the Women in Computing Club is having a Christmas party. They will air the documentary “she++” and, if possible, demonstrate 3-D printing with the AT&T Center for Learning and Technology’s new printer. Women in Computing is open to anyone who identifies with computing and coding, such as a web developer that also works with the art department or a math major that likes to code.

“Women in Computing is overdue, and it’s just wonderful that it’s finally happening now because computer science is still an area where women are hugely underrepresented,” Myers said.

“It’s just starting, so the sky’s the limit now.”

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On Nov 18, 2013, four women, known as the San Antonio Four, were freed from prison after their convictions of sexual assault were overturned. The women— Elizabeth Ramirez, Kristie Mayhough, Anna Vasquez, and Cassandra Rivera— were accused of sexually assaulting Ramirez’s seven-and nineyear-old nieces in 1994. All were tried, convicted and given hefty sentences despite their innocence. These cases are a landmark of inequality in the justice system.

The women are all both Hispanic and homosexual, which were arguably contributing factors in their original sentencing. During the trial, the young girls gave incredibly inconsistent stories, and the described attacks were hard to imagine. The women were allowed to show limited evidence, and the science used to prosecute them was faulty.

Because the trial took place in a less welcome time for lesbians, the women were doomed from the beginning.

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Throughout all the trials, the women always claimed their innocence. Even when plea deals were offered to the women, which would get them out of prison in exchange for an admission of guilt, the four held their ground.

Since they have been put in prison, the lives of their families and friends have continued.

Many of the four have had to stay behind bars while grandparents and parents passed away, children grew up and the world changed. In jail, other convicts targeted them for being “child molesters,” but the women never wavered. Now they are free to reap the benefits of both honesty and endurance. They will have to adjust to the new world and their new places in it, but at least the public knows the truth. They taught the world a lesson about sacrifice and honesty. They will now seek to gain legal “actual innocence” from Texas courts, meaning that all charges would be dropped because the court admits that the former convicts did not commit any crimes.

Perhaps the largest contributing factor to these women’s freedoms is the work of The Innocence Project of Texas, “a non-profit organization dedicated to securing the release of those wrongfully convicted of

crimes in Texas and educating the public about the causes and effects of wrongful convictions.”

This organization created widespread public support for the women, debunked the medical testimony and encouraged one of Ramirez’s nieces to come forward and admit to lying about the assault.

This case marks one of the first times Texas’s new bill regarding reviewing old cases that used “junk science” has been put to use. It is legendary and gives hope to future court cases.

Austin director Deborah S. Esquenazi has been chronicling the events leading to the women’s incarceration, their attempts at freedom and their overturned convictions. She is filming a documentary surrounding the trial and the women, while explaining the intricacies of the Texas judicial system. In particular, the filmmakers are shadowing famous attorneys Mike Ware and Jeff Blackburn to understand every aspect of the case. The film will also explain how both prejudice against Hispanics and homophobia harmed the women’s chances at being found “not guilty.”

The documentary is currently unnamed and does not have a set release date, but should be out within the next year.

I didn’t truly discover the genre of hip-hop until the summer before my senior year of high school, and when I did, it was like an entire new world had just opened up. (I felt a similar way when I discovered the beauty of country music two summers ago). Hip-hop spoke to me the summer of 2009 when my friend and I were in a five-week language program in China. We were staying in the old part of Dali, a small city in the Yunnan Province. At night we would venture out to our usual bars to drink and play pool, and it was at one of these bars that I had my first taste of Gang Starr and Mos Def. The bar was playing “Above the Clouds” and “Ms. Fat Booty,” and that marked the beginning of my hip-hop enlightenment.

Later that summer, we traveled to Beijing to stay with my friend’s brother and two of his college friends who were all working in Beijing. I told one of them that I had just recently started listening to Mos Def and Gang Starr and we immediately became friends.

He taught me about the history and evolution of hiphop and about all these great artists of whom I had never even heard before. Later, when we returned to the States, he

gave me about 40 albums from various hip-hop artists, and ever since then I have become a (slightly pretentious) hiphop aficionado. So this 10-year anniversary has reminded me that, in the midst of all the songs that are playing on the radio, all the new artists who are being uploaded and written about on goodmusicallday.com and earmilk.com, and all the Macklemore and Schoolboy Q you’re listening to, you need to pay tribute to the greats. Below I have included a map of my music expansion, starting with my top five favorite hip-hop artists; it is a list of artists who made me love and appreciate hip-hop, and a list of people that I strongly believe anybody who listens to rap music ought to know.

Gang Starr: Gang Starr is what made me start probing into hip-hop of the 90s, a decade I believe truly encompasses the heart of hip-hop. Everyone should be aware of the brilliant music produced by DJ Premier and Guru, the duo that combined to make up Gang Starr. Bottom line, Guru was an absolute mastermind. Favorite songs: “Above the Clouds,” and really everything on the “Moment of Truth” album.

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photo courtesy of Mason Walker Keep an eye out for the soon to be released Sundance grant winning “San Antonio Four” documentary.

Hip a hop and you don’t stop Elif Yucel Sports Reporter

Last Thursday was the 10th anniversary of the release of Jay-Z’s “The Black Album,” one of the greatest and most iconic hip-hop albums of all time. If you didn’t listen to hip-hop before, you got your taste of it when this album was released in `03, because within days of release the infamous intro to “99 Problems” was ingrained in everyone’s head.

For some reason, I have the 10th anniversary of this album marked as an event in my calendar. I’m not exactly sure when or why I added this to my phone, but I guess it’s for the same reason I have his birthday listed as an annual event: I’m paying tribute.

I’ve been listening to rap since I was about seven years old, and when I say I “listened to rap,” it was whatever people at school were listening to (50 Cent was pretty hype in fifth grade) and whatever my brother had lying around, some Blackstreet and Outkast.

Mos Def: He’s the second hip-hop artist I discovered.

He just has a smooth voice, and his raps are smart and thought-provoking. I think his best album is “Black on the Both Sides.” He’s the Mighty Mos, enough said. Favorite songs: “Ms. Fat Booty” and “Auditorium.”

Jay-Z: Who you know fresher than Hov, riddle me that. Jay-Z is my favorite artist of all time. The ways in which he has influenced the genre of hip-hop is immeasurable.

The illustrious king has released more than 12 albums throughout his 17-year career, and his style and influence on other artists is apparent through the likes of Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Drake, J.Cole, Kendrick Lamar and so on.

Hands down, his best albums are “Reasonable Doubt,” “The Blueprint” and the “Black Album.” Favorite songs: too many to name, really, but I think I will always have a soft spot for “Heart of the City.”

The Notorious B.I.G.: Everyone knows Biggie Smalls, and his legacy will never be forgotten. Biggie is one of the few artists who, album after album, produced songs with the rawest raps; he’s a storyteller. He’s got a heavy

voice, but his style is smooth and his delivery is flawless.

Favorite songs: “Gimme the Loot” and “Big Poppa.”

The Roots: I got sucked into the sound of The Roots immediately. They were my morning drive to school every day during my senior year of high school. They’ve released over 10 albums, and they’re all pretty great. The Roots combine great lyrics against jazz-style beats.

Favorite songs: “Birthday Girl,” “How I Got Over” and “The Seed 2.0.”

All the other greats that influenced me: Big L, Big Pun, Binary Star, Birdman, Black Milk, Black Star, Blackstreet, Blu, Clipse, Common, Crooked I, Dead Prez, Digable Planets, Dilated Peoples, Dr. Dre, Eminem, Eric B. & Rakim, Eyedea, The Fugees, The Game, Ghostface Killah, GZA, Havoc, Hieroglyphics, Hi-Rez, Hi-Tek, Ice Cube, Inspectah Deck, J Dilla, Jay Electronica, Jurassic 5, Kanye West, Lauryn Hill, Lil Wayne, Ludacris, Lupe Fiasco, Method Man, Mobb Deep, N.W.A, Nas, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Outkast, Pharoahe Monch, Public Enemy, Q-Tip, Raekwon, RZA, Run DMC, Slaughterhouse, Snoop Dogg, A Tribe Called Quest, UGK and Wu-Tang Clan.

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The countdown to Thanksgiving break is on! Here are some things to look forward to.

Turkey day cinema to watch while you get over you turkey or tofurkey coma

Although Thanksgiving is and forever will be my favorite holiday, I must admit that it has yet to really impact popular culture in the way that Christmas has.

There’s no Thanksgiving music channel on XM. There’s no “Twenty Days of Thanksgiving” marathon on TCM. Nonetheless, there are a few movies that will go down well with stuffing, loud relatives and the like.

Scent of a woman— Whatever you’re doing for Thanksgiving break, it is probably a lot more relaxing than chauffeuring an angry Al Pacino, which is how Chris O’Donnell’s character spends his Turkey Day in this picture. Pacino is hilariously miscast as

a Southern-fried Colonel, and the plot is one of the most absurdly overcooked, awards-show-ready narratives in existence. But “Scent of a Woman” is still great as a guilty pleasure, and watching O’Donnell’s insane Thanksgiving break will make yours look positively luxurious by comparison.

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles— In which Steve Martin’s uptight businessman relies on John Candy’s boisterous salesman to get home in time for turkey. Martin, one of the most sublimely zany comics of his era, reminds us that he is also a perfectly capable straight man, and Candy, gone too soon, reminds us what an inimitably hilarious performer he was. He also delivers one of the greatest one-off lines of all time: “Six bucks and my right nut says we’re not landing in Chicago!”

Hannah and Her Sisters— Woody Allen has made just about one

masterpiece for each year I have been alive. Of those masterpieces, “Annie Hall” is widely regarded as the best.

I beg to differ. Both it and “Manhattan” are eternally wise and witty contributions to the American cinema, but this 1986 gem is, I think, Woodman’s strongest work.

Optimistic but still realistic, this perceptive drama traces the love lives of the three titular siblings over several years. It is an honest, delicate, affirming picture about the struggle to be happy, and it concludes with —you guessed it— a warm and joyous Thanksgiving dinner.

An American Tail— Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, falls in the midst of Thanksgiving this year, which means I will have the distinct pleasure of washing down my turkey with that most delicious of dishes, the latke.

If you gentiles wish to get into the Hanukkah spirit, watch this Walker family

classic, an animated musical about Fivel Mousekowitz, a young, cute-as-a-button Jewish rodent journeying to America with his family. If “Oliver and Company” and “Fiddler On the Roof” had a kid, it would be this movie, folks.

Thankskilling— Intended for a slightly different demographic than the previous film, this terrifying slasher flick turns the tables on Thanksgiving convention.

Here, the TURKEY is the one doing the cutting up, and the humans are on the receiving end. Made on the cheap and unabashedly full of sex, violence and profanity (“Gobble, gobble, mother”... well, you get the idea), this is not one to watch with your Thanksgiving dinner companions, unless you happen to be spending the holiday at Quentin Tarantino’s house.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Now Oscar season begins in earnest.

Stuck on campus during the break?

Don’t worry.

You can eat a Thanksgiving meal on campus ran by some fantastic students.

Email Marek Bruckner at mbruckne@ trinity.edu for the details

Don’t forget what the holiday is actual about

This year is quickly approaching its conclusion.

Everyone has notions about where they will be in the future, yet rarely does the present notion of the future actually match the future.

There was this unfocused image in my mind of what this year would be like. As the weeks passed, the image slowly came into focus, and it was a very different picture from what I was expecting. Time passes and new images form in our heads; it is an endless cycle that occurs in all of our lives.

Even when is — are a ridiculous amount of things

to be thankful for, it is easy to fall into the trap of being constantly disappointed or experiencing general unhappiness when things do not go our way. It seems to me that it is impossible to suddenly and completely stop feeling a certain way, especially over matters we really care about. This is my attempt at having a balanced perspective on life by being thankful.

My peers had internships, research and jobs at delis or something. With the ever-looming pressure of adult life, I spent the whole summer at home with my family— probably the last one. My sister and I do not share too many interests due to a sizable age gap; I just cannot get interested in Monster High and Club Penguin. Bryan Cranston was amazing as the highschool-teacher-turned-

meth-kingpin in "Breaking Bad," but I did not truly fall in love with him until "Malcolm in the Middle." We spent weeks watching all 151 episodes.

The one downside to a summer at home that I failed to account for was the fact that nothing demanded my attention. When my girlfriend started drifting apart from me, I could not escape my own worries and thoughts. I lost interest in everything— even food.

For some reason, "Orange is the New Black" drew me in. Piper's relationship while incarcerated felt similar to my long-distance relationship. It helped me get through the situation with the weird story and the even weirder characters.

The show focused more on being entertaining but still had an emotional weight— I could not stop watching.

The paper you are holding in your hands requires a ton of effort put in by a ton of people every single week (except next week, but my point still stands). This year, for some reason, I have made friends with a lot of those people. It could just be that the folks who already graduated were just losers.

The likely reason might be that the folks currently working are also losers, so we all get along better. I have met some amazing people who can make me think and laugh and be generally happy (along with folks I’ve met from TigerTV). I am hopeful that I can keep my oddness to a minimum so I can convince them to be my friends.

“Django Unchained” released right at the end of 2012, so a lot of the conversations and awards surrounding it took place in 2013. The thing I am most

thankful for is the director: Quentin Tarantino. Tarantino is hated by some (he is kind of a jerk), but loved by many.

His movies are so iconic and ingrained in pop culture. His movies are smart, stylish and filled with interesting characters. Broadway 50/50, a restaurant chain in San Antonio (if two restaurants count as a chain), contains a tribute to Elvis Presley, but is mostly packed with homages to Quentin Tarantino. The tables and walls are littered with stills from the movies , and the menu items are named after characters, movies and places from his movies. A girl— a big fan of Tarantino— and I walked through the Skybridge and through University of Incarnate Word to find the restaurant closed due to a grease fire. In the end, though, neither the restaurant nor the director matterd. I was just thankful for the company.

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Indie Overnight Playlist

Why the light-rail is not a plausible idea for SA

The awe-inspiring Matthew Peebles, who I would want on my team if we were ever in “The Hunger Games,” provides another sensational mix this week.

“Pure Morning” by Placebo “It Starts and Ends with You!” by Suede “La La Love You” by Pixies “Patricia the Stripper” by The Wombats “Season in Hell” by Dum Dum Girls

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Light-rail is a real buzzword right now. Progressive Texans seem to think it is the solution to all our public transportation woes— that it will revitalize our urban cores, help restore our natural environment and change the pattern of sprawling development we’re so accustomed to. It will eliminate traffic, improve accessibility and turn the grueling commute into a painless experience.

Like most privileged white people, I love the idea of lightrail. I think about fast, futuristic trains, the New York City subway and the intricate transportation networks of Europe. I fantasize about being able to take a train from my new apartment at the Pearl to Whole Foods, and then down to the Bluestar for a gallery opening followed by a craft cocktail. Transit time would be minimal, and I could rest easy knowing I’d saved the planet and supported the urban renaissance. Aren’t you hard just thinking about it? Forget the white picket fence, ranch

house and 2.5 kids: this is the new American Dream….well, the creative-class millennial dream, at least.

In cities with high density like San Francisco, New York and Chicago, rail makes sense, but I’m not convinced it does in San Antonio.

I want that streetcar as much as all you other future yopros do, but consider the real needs and existing infrastructure of this city.

First of all, what San Antonio already has is a very sophisticated network of streets and highways. Sure, many of them are too wide or too narrow as I discussed in my last column, but, regardless, this is a car-dominated city where most people, even many poor people, take private automobiles to get everywhere they need to go.

Traffic is sometimes an issue, but not really; a trip to Austin puts things in perspective.

Second of all, this is a bluecollar city. Yes, that is changing (and rapidly so), but the point is that we have a large population of low-income residents who need affordable, efficient and reliable public transportation, but we have limited municipal funds.

The up-front cost of installing rail lines is immense, and once those lines go down, the cost of redirecting them is significant as

well. Proponents of rail argue that this kind of transit spurs development and produces nodes of growth all along its paths. This is absolutely true, but, without an intricate system of crisscrossing lines, the automobile will still be necessary for real connectivity.

So why not focus investment on buses? We already have the streets, and buses are cheap, relatively efficient and can be adapted to any network of routes. Sure, our bus system right now is slow and unappealing, but imagine a state-of-the-art bus system like that in Curitiba, Brazil—a city comparable in size to San Antonio.

Curitiba is home to the world’s first bus rapid transit system, and it’s a huge success, with more than one million riders daily. Curitiba is consistently ranked one of the world’s greenest cities, and its residents spend less money on transit than most other Brazilians. The busses are sleek and fast, just like trains, but the network is much cheaper.

It is a model that cities like San Antonio need to pay closer attention to. It’s time we stopped fetishizing rail travel, and started really thinking about what’s best for the city at large.

On Wednesday night, something strange occurred on the Overheard at Trinity Facebook page. It was a bonafide...

“Paula Dean Tuttle”

by Luisa Ruge-Jones 320 likes The picture that started it all.

“My favorites were the phoenix wright ones, dean hubble, and dean turtle off the top of my head.

There were more, I loled everything William made.”

- Pramath Parijat, senior

“I Like Tuttles”

by Ashley Leek 271 likes

“Dean Turtle”

by Shannon Perry 220 likes

“My favorites are the ones that don’t make me look the most ridiculous.

I would say Dean Puddle, Dean Puzzle, Dean Putt-Putt, Charlie Dean, and Vanilla Dean. I think it is funny. I trust the worst ones were not posted, which is kinda scary for several reasons.”

- David Tuttle, dean of students and Internet sensation

“Queen Tuttle”

by Chandler Grace 168 likes

“Personally I think Banana McGlammory served as an unexpected yet delightful tilt in the sea of Tuttle fish.”

- Krista Campolo, senior “MUHAHAHABA DEAN PUDDLE SPACEJAM” - Nikkin Rader, senior

“Mr. Clean Tuttle”

by Ashley Leek 160 likes

“‘Queen Tuttle’ was so much woman that it smashed my internalized misogyny, overrode my testosterone production and turned me into Judith Butler. Gender Trouble: With a Foreword by Miley Cyrus to be released Fall 2014.”

- Alfred MacDonald, page administrator for Overheard at Trinity

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Men’s soccer team heads to the Sweet 16 Tigers rack up backto-back shutouts to advance to Iowa regional finals

by Elif Yucel SPORTS REPORTER

Last weekend the No. 7 ranked Trinity men’s soccer team won the NCAA DIII Tournament regionals round.

The Tigers shutout California Lutheran and Puget Sound and are now 20-2-1 for the season.

They will travel to Iowa this weekend for sectionals.

On Saturday, Trinity defeated Cal-Lutheran 2-0.

Junior forward Johnny Lawson scored in the 14th minute of the game, his 15th of the season, on assists from senior forward Yuri Ribeiro and senior midfielder Darren McAfee.

Junior midfielder Simon Uribe scored the Tigers’ second goal of the game in the 10th minute of the second half on an assist from Ribeiro. Junior goalkeeper Matt Cardone recorded a career-high 10 saves during the game, while Cal Lutheran goalkeeper’s recorded 14.

“We actually played better than the score line indicated.

We were offside a lot, particularly in the first half, so that denied some goal scoring opportunities. It could have easily been 5-0 or 6-0. We didn’t play our best. We should have won by a more comfortable margin, but in the end, we had two very good goals, got the job done and were able to keep the squad mostly fresh for Sunday’s game,” said assistant coach Edward Cartee.

Trinity went on to defeat Puget Sound 4-0 on Sunday evening in the second round of the tournament.

“On Saturday, we came out knowing that Cal Lutheran was going to be a hard team to play against. They kind of sat back so it was harder for us to break them down and score, whereas opposed to Sunday’s game, it

Men’s Basketball Away at Hoopsville National Invitational Women’s Soccer NCAA Third Round Home vs.

Montclair State at 5 p.m.

Swim & Dive Away at Tiger Invitational

photo by Nayeli Perez Sophomore midfielder Victor Araujo runs past defenders during Trinity’s 4-0 victory over the University of Puget Sound on Saturday, Nov. 16. The victory put the Tigers into the Sweet 16.

was more open, especially in the second half, so we could find those goals we needed to advance to the next round,” said sophomore midfielder Zach Brock.

“In the end, we had two very good goals, got the job done and were able to keep the squad mostly fresh for Sunday’s game.”

Edward Cartee Assistant Coach Brock scored first for the Tigers in the last 15 seconds

Men’s Basketball Away at Hoopsville National Invitational Cross Country NCAA Championships at Hanover, Ind. Soccer Men’s NCAA Third Round: Away vs.

Wartburg at 7:30 p.m.

Women’s NCAA Quarterfinals if Friday win at Home at 6 p.m.

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of the first half on an assist from senior defender Jeff Hayes. Hayes scored in the 63rd minute of the game on an assist from Ribeiro. Uribe scored two minutes later on another assist from Ribeiro.

Ribeiro now has 18 assists for the season and is second in Trinity’s record book for the most assists in a single season; he is one assist away from Noe Casanova’s old record of 19, set in 2008. First-year forward Callum Squires scored the Tigers’ last goal of the game, an overhead kick, in the 78th minute. Sophomore midfielder Murray Fraser and first-year midfielder Todd Edwards combined for the assist.

“We knew that Puget Sound would be a tough opposition, but we also knew that they would be tired because they had a long hard game the night

before, so we were desperate to outwork them. Brock’s goal in the last seconds of the first half broke the opposition. It changed the game completely, and in the second half we just pushed on,” Squires said.

“Brock’s goal in the last seconds of the first half broke the opposition. It changed the game completely.”

Callum Squires First-year Forward

With the wins, Trinity will advance to the thirdround of the tournament,

competing against Wartburg (17-4-2) at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday in Dubuque, Iowa.

If they win Saturday night, they will go on to play the winner of the Loras (17-13) vs. Westminster (13-8-1) game at 5 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 24. Loras’ website will have a live webcast of both games available to watch.

Should the Tigers win the next two matches, they will advance to the NCAA Final Four for the first time since the 2007 season. For those matches, the team would return home to San Antonio as both the men’s and women’s Final Fours are being held on Dec. 6-7 at Blossom Stadium. The Tigers are striving to win the national championship ten years after the school’s only other title in 2003.

Women’s Basketball Away at Angelo State University 6 p.m.

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Women’s cross country win regionals to qualify for NCAA Championships; men’s team finishes 9th No. 12 ranked women’s team wins fourth regional title

by Kaileigh Phillips SPORTS REPORTER The women’s cross country team won the NCAA Division III South/Southeast Regional for the second year in a row last Saturday, Nov. 16, while the men’s team earned a ninth-place finish.

The 12th-ranked women captured their fourth regional title with a score of 36 at Christopher Newport University (Va.). A total of 33 teams competed in the women’s 6k race.

Emory University (Ga.) was runner-up (76 points), and Bridgewater College (Va.) placed third (106 points).

With the win, the Tigers have earned a trip to Hanover, Ind., for the NCAA Championships tomorrow, Nov. 23. Trinity placed 12th at last year’s national meet.

“Our team has some big goals that we have been working very hard to achieve and we will go out on

Saturday and give it our all,” said senior Vanessa Moreno.

Trinity’s men scored 241 points and placed ninth of 31 team entries in the 8k race.

Bridgewater (74) emerged as regional team champion, and Emory (91) finished in the No. 2 slot.

Senior Maddie Murphy won the women’s individual title, with a time of 21:33.89 minutes, establishing a new personal best, and nearly toppling the school record for the 6k. Moreno was runner-up to her teammate, clocking in at 21:59.04, which ranks third all-time at Trinity.

In addition, Murphy earned honors from the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association and was named the South/Southeast Region Women’s Athlete of the Year.

“I feel very fortunate to receive such an honor, and I’m truly thankful for my teammates who inspire, motivate and push me every day to be better and work harder. I could not have accomplished this success without them,” Murphy said.

A total of seven Tiger runners, including Murphy and Moreno, placed in the top-35 standings, earning All-Region accolades.

Senior Rosemary Steup (22:23.90) finished fourth, junior Michelle Oberndorf (23:01.87) placed 14th and junior Nicola Hill (23:05.32) was right behind in the No. 15 slot. Senior Jackie Newell (23:05.73) finished at No. 17, while junior Autumn Kervella (23:39.91) came in at No. 32.

“The proudest moment of that race was watching Maddie secure that firstplace finish, me coming in second and turning around to watch Rosemary, Michelle, Autumn and Jackie finish to win with a perfect score.

It was a rather unexpected but fantastic finish,” Moreno said.

Murphy and Steup are the first and second Trinity cross-country studentathletes to compete at a national championship meet in all four years. Murphy is only the second Trinity runner to win regionals. This is the first time in Trinity cross-country history that

athletes finished 1st and 2nd at regionals.

Sophomore Taylor Piske was the Trinity men’s only All-Region runner, finishing in 22nd place with a time of 25:55.25. Senior Gerardo Hernandez (26:44.39) came in at No. 52, and sophomore Chris Soto (26:53.57) was 57th.

Head coach Derick Lawrence was recently elected the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Men’s and Women’s Cross Country Coach of the Year for the second year in a row, and also received high honors from the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. Lawrence, who is in his second season at Trinity, is the first coach to sweep both Coach of the Year accolades in back-to-back seasons since DePauw’s Kori Stoffregen in 2005 and 2006.

“It is a great honor to be named the conference coach of the year. When I found out that the only other coach to win in back-to-back years for both women and men was my college coach at DePauw, Kori Stoffregen, it made it

even more special. He was one of my mentors both as an athlete and later as a graduate assistant coach at DePauw upon graduation,” Lawrence said. “To have an athlete, Maddie Murphy, be named regional athlete of the year and to be named regional coach of the year in the same year is very exciting. Two other athlete and coach combinations achieved the same status this year out of the eight regions on the women’s side and only two on the men’s side, so it doesn’t happen too often. Maddie has worked incredibly hard to get to this point and is well deserving of the honor. She is dedicated to achieving her goals and this is an achievement she can be very proud of.”

The women will compete tomorrow in the NCAA Division III Championships in Hanover, Ind. The women’s 6k race begins at 11 a.m.

(EST) at Hanover College.

The championship will consist of 32 teams, with seven runners per squad, and 56 individuals from additional schools.

Volleyball team ends season with Sweet 16 loss

Team finishes with 36 wins, two short of a school record

by Davis Mathis

SPORTS INTERN The Trinity Tigers volleyball team came into this season with high expectations, and while they did not reach the ultimate goal of winning a national championship, it was a season to be proud of.

The team won 36 matches, which is the most since 2002 and two shy of the school record of 38.

After winning the conference tournament two weekends ago, the Tigers began the NCAA Division III playoffs last Friday with a 3-1 match victory over University of California at Santa Cruz. After the win, the Tigers faced conference rival Southwestern University for the second consecutive weekend. After going down 2-0 as they had the previous weekend, the Tigers once again made a dramatic comeback to take a five-set victory. The match included an incredible fifth set where each team had multiple chances to win the match.

“We always felt that we could make the comeback and win the match. The belief was there…the match

was incredible and the fifth game was amazing where both teams played incredible,” said head coach Julie Jenkins.

Following the dramatic win over Southwestern was the Regional Final against the region’s top-seed, California Lutheran University.

Despite coming out and dominating the first game, Trinity ended up falling 3-1 in a heartbreaking loss.

While the team was clearly disappointed that they did not advance further in the playoffs, they are using the loss to fuel the team.

“We always felt that we could make the comeback and win the match.

The belief was there.”

Julie Jenkins Head Coach

“The Sweet 16 is still pretty good, so I am sure the loss will just motivate us even more to win out next season,” said junior outside hitter Maggie Emodi.

Emodi was named the school’s 17th All-American of all time after having already won the Southern Collegiate

photo by Shelly Gordon Junior right side hitter Audrey Hazelwood reaches for the ball during Trinity’s NCAA first round victory over the University of California-Santa Cruz on Friday, Nov. 15.

Athletic Conference Player of the Year award and reaching her second consecutive all-South Region team.

Junior middle blocker Erin Cusenbary was an honorable mention for the All-American team and a member of the allRegion team. Junior outside hitter Layne Hubbard was named an honorable mention for the all-Region team. All will return as seniors for the squad next season. Coach Jenkins was also named the coach for the all-Region squad.

“I know the team next year is going to be tremendous.

Absolutely amazing,” Jenkins said.

Despite the loss, the team remains proud of their achievements.

The team reached the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2009. That year, Trinity defeated Southwestern in the Sweet 16 to advance to the NCAA quarterfinals, where they lost to Juniata College (Pa.).

“Even though we didn’t win our last game this weekend, I’m incredibly proud of how

the team performed. I think we all played our hearts out, and it showed in how close the games were,” Cusenbary said.

The Tigers are graduating only four seniors: middle blocker Jana Tucker, setter Maryn Swierc, middle blocker Kelsey Daniel and defensive specialist Leslie Green. Next year, the squad will have six seniors, three juniors, six sophomores and a yet to be determined first-year class that are primed to continue the success the squad reached this year.

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Women’s soccer secures Sweet 16 spot Tigers will host next two rounds this Friday and Saturday

by Claire HooblerCurtis SPORTS INTERN Last Monday, Nov. 18, the women’s soccer team played in Bloomington, IL where they defeated Augustana College and Illinois Wesleyan University in first and second round play. The game had been postponed from Sunday, Nov. 17, due to poor weather conditions.

“Due to the conditions we definitely weren’t able to be in our normal rhythm. However, we saw a different side to the team.

We saw a group who fought and battled for the victory,” said assistant coach Owen Collie.

The Tigers took down Augustana 3-1. Augustana got on the board first in the 27th

minute, before the Tigers rattled off three consecutive goals.

Against Illinois Wesleyan, the Titans struck first when Tillie Bill scored in the 73rd minute, and then nine minutes laters, in the 82nd minute, the Tigers leveled the score with a goal from junior Emily Jorgens. The game then went to double overtime, but since no goals were scored in either overtime, the game went into penalty kicks.

First to the spot was Sydney Fox of IWU, who made their first shot, then junior Shelby Hopkins leveled the score at 1-1. Next, IWU made their second shot and senior Michelle Lanier tied up the score once again at 2-2. On the third round of penalty kicks, IWU’s Alex Partipillo had her shot blocked by junior keeper Devan Osegueda and then firstyear Yasmeen Farra put her shot away which put the Tigers up 3-2. In the fourth round of kicks, both Mary Kate Schmidt of IWU and sophomore Kimberly

Polasek made their attempts to bring the score to 4-3. For the final round of kicks, IWU’s Ashley Montijo stepped up to the spot and scored, bringing the total to 4-4, but the Tigers won when Jorgens buried her shot to put the Tigers past IWU at 5-4.

The team attributes their success to a strong will to win and the penalty save by Osegueda.

“Our determination to win the game and our confidence in ourselves contributed to a successful performance. I was very confident in our team’s ability to win the game. We had been dominating throughout the game so I believed we were going to win. Devan, our keeper, made a fantastic save in penalty kicks which ended up being the decisive factor,” Jorgens said.

Overall, the team was happy with the win and feels that they are on the right track so far.

“It just felt like it was the right thing. It felt like we were gonna

win. It wouldn’t have felt right if we lost, it didn’t feel like our time to go home,” said first-year Jordan Leeper.

The win advances the Tigers to the Sweet 16 for the first time since the 2011 season and are looking to win their first national championship.

The women play No. 5 Montclair State University (Neb.) in the third round at home, today at 5 p.m. Montclair State has not lost a game on the season with a 20-0-1 record.

“We want to play to our potential and dominate throughout the game. We hope to bring a lot of energy to the field and put the pressure on them. Since it is an elimination game, the result is extremely important, but I am confident that we will win if we play our game,” Jorgens said.

The winner of the game today will play either Illinois Wheaton or Emory University, tomorrow at 6 p.m. at home.

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6-0 Trinity men’s soccer outscored their opponents 6-0 in the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament.

The Tigers will play in the Sweet 16 against Wartburg College on Saturday. With a win, they will reach the NCAA quarterfinals.

2009 Volleyball reached the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2009 with a 3-2 come back victory against Southwestern.

The Tigers did the same to the Pirates in the SCAC title game. graphic by Caroline Jakubowski

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After 24 successful seasons, Trinity head football coach Steve Mohr announces his retirement Jerheme Urban ‘03 will take over coaching duties

by Kaileigh Phillips SPORTS REPORTER After 24 seasons coaching the Trinity Tigers, Steve Mohr will be stepping down as Trinity head football coach.

Mohr has been described as the most successful coach in program history after establishing new school records in both total wins (186) and winning percentage (.715) during his career. Mohr is third among active NCAA Division III coaches in victories (186), and is also in the top 20 in winning percentage among active coaches in Division III. He led Trinity to 16 SCAC Championships, and took the Tigers to the NCAA Playoffs on 12 different occasions. Trinity has made three trips to the NCAA Semifinals during his tenure (1998, 1999, 2002).

Despite these incredible accomplishments, Mohr would say that his proudest accomplishment as a coach is not his number of wins, but rather the type of men his football program breeds.

“The fact that we graduate all of the students who play for the team and their accomplishments as alumni is my proudest moment as a coach. As coaches, we built the program to turn young men into adults. We are really proud of our students, because they represent the school in a positive way, for both academics and football,” Coach Mohr said.

In 2002, Coach Mohr led Trinity to its only appearance in the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl, as the Tigers finished as national runners-up to Mount Union College (Ohio). He has

earned American Football Regional Coach of the Year honors five times in his career, and also earned the National Coach of the Year award in 1998 (American Football Gazette and CBSsportsline.com) and 2002 (Football Gazette).

“I am fortunate to have been surrounded by such a great group of assistant coaches, who have helped lay the foundation for our program with their support and loyalty. I am also thankful to have had a strong administration that has believed in me and players that have bought into my coaching philosophy,” Mohr said.

A self-proclaimed “Yankee,” Mohr had never even been to Texas when he accepted his first head coaching position with Trinity University. A colleague encouraged him to accept the position since football was such a major aspect of Texan culture.

Mohr has been involved with Division III sports for over 38 years and has never coached at any other collegiate level; a choice he is very happy with.

“Division III athletes don’t play for the money or huge crowds; they play for the love of the game.

And that is the most gratifying thing as a coach, because we put in a lot of time and effort in order to be successful on the field,” Mohr said.

Mohr’s choice to retire as head coach was something he had been contemplating for several months.

“For coaches that have been coaching as long as I have, a timer goes off and you realize that it is time for a change. In order for success and tradition to continue within a program, it is necessary for change,” Mohr said. “People always say it is disappointing to end their coaching career on the note that our season ended, but I know I will be able to better serve the university with my new position.”

Mohr will be assuming the position of Assistant Athletic Director for Football Development. The position is twofold and involves the athletic department reconnecting with alumni who played for the university, but have not had a connection to the school in 1020 years. The long-term goal of this plan is to one day renovate the Trinity football stadium.

Stepping in for Mohr will be nine-year National Football League veteran and former Tiger All-American Jerheme Urban, who has served the past two seasons as an assistant coach, including this last season as the team’s offensive coordinator.

“After coach Mohr made his decision to retire from coaching, I knew it would take a special person to fill those shoes, as it is never easy to replace a legendary coach,” said Bob King, director of athletics in a press release.

“Fortunately, upon looking for potential replacements, we found that the best candidate was already at Trinity. I am flattered that a person as talented and gifted as Jerheme would even consider Trinity as his first head coaching job. I am excited to work with him, and I’m eager to see what the future holds for both Jerheme’s career and for the Trinity football program.”

Urban led the 2002 Trinity football team to the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl under Mohr, and still holds Tiger records for career touchdowns, career receiving touchdowns, single season touchdown receptions and single season touchdowns overall.

Urban earned his bachelor of arts degree in english and history from Trinity in 2003, then signed to the NFL shortly after. During his nine-year NFL career, Urban played wide receiver for the Seattle Seahawks, Arizona Cardinals and Kansas City Chiefs.

“It is with great honor that

scored seven of the Tiger’s first half points. Trinity shot 12-30, 40%, in the second half, while Whitworth shot 12-26, 46.2 percent. Overall, Trinity shot 22.2 percent on three-pointers.

Kitzinger completed the game with 11 points. Junior guard Matt Hopper was 4-4 on field goals, scoring nine points for the Tigers.

“Against Whitworth, which was the best team we played, we were a little bit on our heels and ultimately didn’t have enough energy and competitiveness in general to get the job done. We came out sluggish and we didn’t shoot the ball well, and it affected our defense and rebounding,” said senior guard Joe Shotland.

On Saturday, Trinity fell 4967 to Pacific Lutheran. In the first half, Trinity only trailed 24-26. Senior forward Jonathon Wilt and Kitzinger each scored

seven points. Wilt had five of the Tigers’ 15 first-half rebounds.

Sophomore guard Jimmy Clark and senior point guard John LaVanway both scored four points. Pacific Lutheran pulled away from Trinity in the second half, outscoring Trinity 41-25 and shooting 59.3 percent to the Trinity’s 37.5 percent. The Tigers’ bench produced 16 of the Tigers’ second-half points.

Overall, the Tigers went 1854, shooting 33.3 percent. They recorded 26 rebounds and eight assists for the game.

“We had a hangover effect the next day against Pacific Lutheran. Out of the three, they were the worst team we played.

We just didn’t come out with enough energy,” Shotland said.

Trinity capped the weekend off with a win against Puget Sound, defeating them 77-56. The Tigers led 32-26 at the half, shooting

photo by Aidan Kirksey Steve Mohr announced his retirement from coaching after 24 seasons as Trinity’s head football coach. Mohr has the most wins (186) in school history.

I accept the position of head football coach for the Trinity Tigers. I understand the pride and tradition that comes with wearing the Trinity helmet, and I look forward to the responsibility of leading our young men into a new era of Trinity football,” Urban said in a press release.

“Coach Mohr has taught me a lot of football over the past 14 years, and I look forward to building on the foundation that he has put in place. I cannot put into words how humbled I am to be the one asked to lead a program that has seen such a steady voice over the last 24 years, and I want to thank President Ahlburg and director of athletics Bob King for this opportunity. “ Mohr is highly supportive of the university’s decision to

promote Urban to head coach, as he believes Urban will be a positive role model for the players.

“When Jerheme came to Trinity, he was a quarterback, and when he broke his wrist, he got switched to a wide receiver.

It was one of the best breaks he could have had in his career, no pun intended,” Mohr said.

“He is one of the all-time greats of Trinity, and he worked for everything he achieved, starting from the bottom and working his way to the top. Not everyone that walks around on campus achieves what he has during his career and it especially doesn’t happen very often at the D-III level.”

Mohr and Urban will assume their new positions immediately.

31.2 percent. Junior guard Matt Selling and Kitzinger combined to produce 22 of the Tigers’ firsthalf points. Kitzinger also had five rebounds for the half. In the second half, Trinity outscored Puget Sound 45-30, shooting 62.5 percent. Kitzinger scored 10 points, while Wilt and junior guard Craig Saltarelli scored nine and seven, respectively.

The Tigers completed the game with 32 rebounds, 17 assists and seven steals.

“The first two games were very similar. Offensively, we just couldn’t make shots, and, defensively, we didn’t give the effort that we should have and knew that we needed to, so we came out of the gates pretty slowly the first two games.

Luckily on Sunday we had a third game and it could have gone one of two ways. We could have gone down the same path,

but our guys responded really well. They did a great job, completely turned it around, it was a night and day approach to the first two games, against a good Puget Sound team. It was a good ending to a slower start than we were preparing for,” said assistant coach Ross Burt.

This weekend the Tigers will travel to Maryland to play Keystone College (Penn.) and Ohio Wesleyan at the Hoopsville National Invitational Classic DIII Hoops Tournament.

“We played some really good teams this weekend, all in the top 25, and it was a necessary experience. Unfortunately it took two games for us to play like we are capable of playing, but we are looking to strive off of the last game. We know what it takes to get it done at that level,” Kitzinger said.

Men’s basketball opens season with tough games Tigers leave Puget Sound tournament with 1-2 record

by Elif Yucel SPORTS REPORTER The Trinity men’s basketball team traveled to Washington last weekend to open their season. They competed in the Puget Sound Tournament, and lost their first two games against Whitworth and Pacific Lutheran, but rallied to defeat Puget Sound. Their record is now 1-2.

On Friday Trinity lost their season opener to Whitworth 5371.

In the first half, Trinity was outscored by Whitworth, only scoring 24 points to Whitworth’s 38, shooting under 36 percent.

Senior guard Rob Kitzinger

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Women’s hoops start off season with three wins Tigers get off to hot start with victories at home and on road

by Kaileigh Phillips SPORTS REPORTER The Trinity women’s basketball team opened up the 2013-2014 season with a 69-50 win over Moravian (PA) College on Friday, Nov. 15, and then wrapped up its part in the Southwestern TipOff Tournament with an 8462 win over Hardin-Simmons University on Nov. 16. In addition, the Trinity Tigers women’s basketball team opened its home campaign with a 91-78 victory over the Wayland Baptist Flying Queens on Tuesday, Nov. 19.

The Tigers held a 32-25 lead at the half, despite shooting just under 31 percent in the opening period during their match against Moravian. Trinity hit 5 of 12 three-point baskets in the half to stay in front. The second half was better, though the team still shot less than 40 percent. The Tigers hit 15-15 from the free throw line in the game, including 12-12 in the decisive second half.

Sophomore forward Anecia Richardson led all players with 25 points for the Tigers, connecting on 11-18 from the field and 3-3 from the foul line. She also picked up five rebounds, two assists, two blocks and two steals.

“Our preparation is always good. We work hard to address all of the things that we will be faced with from a tactical standpoint. I feel like that is 100 percent our job as coaches.

The cool thing about this team is that the players have focused, learned and retained everything we have worked on in our preparation for playing games and it has really paid off,” said head women’s basketball coach Cameron Hill.

Trinity improved to 2-0 on the season during their next game against Hardin-Simmons, shooting just under 50 percent from the field in the game, and

holding the Cowgirls under 40 percent shooting overall. The Tigers led 39-23 at the half, then connected on 19-31 (61.3 percent) from the field in the second period to finish off the victory.

Sophomore guard Caitlin Barrett led four Trinity players in double figures, knocking down 7-8 from the floor for a game-high 19 points. She also had four assists and three steals in the game.

Coley scored 15 points to go with four rebounds in just 20 minutes of action, while Murphy Burns had 13 points, six rebounds and four assists for the Tigers.

Junior guard Lauren Splawn came off the bench with 10 points, hitting 2-3 threepointers to lead the Tiger reserves. Senior forward Libby Kruse had eight points, a gamehigh nine rebounds, and a team-best five assists.

“Whatever happens with wins and losses and titles

and all that will be a direct reflection of how well we work and play together and how badly we want to become the best team we can be,” Hill said.

Richardson led the team with 21 points, hitting 10-14 from the field. Richardson was also selected as the first Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Basketball Player of the Week this season, after she exhibited a stellar performance last weekend.

“I was really excited that I got player of the week. It is a great honor to receive and pushes me to try to be even better for the weeks to come,” Richardson said.

Richardson began the campaign with a strong game against Moravian, which included 11-18 shooting and five rebounds. Richardson scored six points against Hardin-Simmons, on 2-of-4 shooting. She also pulled in three rebounds and blocked three shots.

The Tigers remained undefeated with a 3-0 record following the home opener against Wayland Baptist.

Wayland Baptist, a member of NAIA Division I, dropped to 2-3. Trinity set the tempo of the game in the first half, with a 49-28 lead at the half. The Tigers hit 53 percent in the first half, while the Queens made 42 percent of their shots. Wayland Baptist’s last lead of the game (17-16) occurred with 11:36 remaining in the first half. The Tigers posted their largest lead of the matchup (48-26) at the 1:49 mark in the opening half.

“It felt great to get a win over Wayland Baptist. We shot the ball very well and played great defense for the majority of the game. Starting off the season with three wins gives us a lot of momentum going forward but we know that we have to take it one game at a time,” said junior guard Hannah Coley.

The Tigers continued to dominate in the second half,

with 68 percent shooting.

Trinity led by as much as 21 points in the half, and Wayland Baptist could get no closer than 11 points, which came late in the game.

Trinity scored a season-high in points, shot 59 percent (3458) from the field, 38 percent (6-16) beyond the arc and 74 percent (17-23) at the charity stripe. Wayland Baptist hit 43 percent (29-67) from the field, 31 percent (4-13) in 3-point range and 70 percent (16-23) at the free throw line.

“Our main goal is to win every game. In addition to winning, we want to try to recreate what we did well and learn from our mistakes. We want to be playing our best towards the end of the season and we can use each regular season game to do that,” Coley said.

The Queens held a 37-34 advantage in total rebounds, but Trinity hit the defensive boards for a 25-18 edge.

Tigers lose to Austin College for first time in 20 seasons

the fight to defeat a highly motivated team like Austin College.”

resulted in a 26-3 victory for Trinity.

“We came in to this game knowing it was going to be tough,” said junior Matthew Kennemer. “I felt we were extremely well prepared for this game. It’s just the failure to execute around game time that was the low point. I felt our seniors really played well throughout the game knowing it was going to be their last. It was the most disappointing thing to me not to send out our seniors with a win but I think they did everything they could do in an attempt to win the game.”

While the graduating class of seniors have been

an influential part of the team, this year’s first-year class as well as the incoming first-years are expected to play an important role in the future of the team.

are extremely confident going into this offseason because we know we are getting a lot of great players back from injury and we have a lot of guys returning with experience. We are going to do everything we can to make next season as successful as possible.”

“Despite the disappointing season, we are very excited to improve in all areas this offseason and get Trinity back to the top of the conference,” said assistant coach Brant McAdams.

Ending the season with a 1-2 standing in the SCAC and a 5-5 overall season ratio, the Tigers have hope for the future.

photo by Megan McLoughlin Junior center Taylor Hollins shoots as she is surrounded by a team of Wayland Baptist defenders during the Tigers’ home opener, a 91-78 victory on Tuesday, Nov. 19.

Football season ends with 35-7 loss at Austin College

by Julie Robinson SPORTS REPORTER On Saturday, November 16, the Trinity men’s football team fell to the Austin College Kangaroos.

This was the Tigers’ last game of the year, and ending the season with a 35-7 loss was difficult for the team.

“We played hard throughout the game and we definitely didn’t give up,” said junior Connor Yorloff, “We just lacked

“We just lacked the fight to defeat a highly motivated team like Austin College.”

Connor Yorloff Junior Linebacker

This was the second time this year that the Tigers played Austin College.

The first of which was in late September, which

“We are extremely confident going into the offseason.”

Matthew Kennemer Junior Wide Receiver

“We lost a lot of really good players to injury this year and we are a very young team,” Kennemer said. “We

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Top Left: Sophomore Natalie Seitzman observes an experiment during Molympics, hosted by the Chemistry Club on Thursday, Nov. 21.

Participants performed experiments and played chemistry games.

Bottom Left: Seniors cheer runners in the Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon on Sunday, Nov. 17.

The Trinity community showed their support for the marathon participants by lining Stadium Drive in droves and holding up signs.

Right: Senior Joey Kozak practices his pole-vaulting technique for the upcoming track and field season.

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Trinity ROLLED Congratulations and thank you to the Trinity University community for the outstanding show of support, spirit, and pride during last Sunday’s San Antonio Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon.

SPECIAL THANKS to

Acabellas, Admissions, Alumni Relations, Conferences and Special Programs, Facilities Services, Greek Council, HOPE Hall, KRTU, Othello, President’s Office, Residential Life, Student Affairs, the Student Government Association (formerly known as ASR), Trinitones, Trinitonian, TUPD, University Communications, the Victory Bell, and all the departments, organizations, groups, and individuals who made this a special event.

most spirited BEST ORGANIZATION - ATHLETICS BEST ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT - NEUROSCIENCE BEST ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENT - RESIDENTIAL LIFE WILD CARD - FACULTY IN REGALIA

Please congratulate the following runners who trained and competed as part of The 6th Annual Dean of Students Half Marathon Challenge.

Ann Andrews, Emily Acker, Greg Beam, Ciara Bergin, Gabriella Caglieris, Aaron Cohen, Scott Cohen, Christy Custer, Cathy Davison, Erin England, Jack Fielder, Tim Francis, Betsy Funk, Amy Grice, Nond Hasbamrer, Ruth Hahn, Kelly Hewes, Courtney Iverson, Pete Kelly-Zion, Taylor Kirby, Bonnie Kircher, Wendi Landrum, Mark Lewis, Alexis Maiella, Carlos Martinez, Rachel Mendoza, Irene Minderhoud, Ralph Minderhoud, Matthew Mitts, William Mobley Sarah Murphy, Carrie Myers, Grant Myers, Greeley Myers, Seth Nelson John Nguyen, Katie Ogawa, Erin Patridge, Victoria Perez, Tiffany Pham Don Philbin, Lucas Poliak, Kate Polivka, Adam Press, Ian Remson, Clayton Reuter, Dani Roberts, Dr. Quinn, McKenzie Quinn, Laura Roa, Tito Sandigo Javan Stalls, Ben Surpless, Jessie Taube, Brianna Timourian, David Tuttle, Leah Wesselman, Benjamin Whitehead, Fred Zapata, Christiana Zgourides

The Kayla Mire Food Drive, for the San Antonio Food Bank, is the official charity of the Half Marathon Challenge.

The Trinity runners and community contributed 241 pounds of food and $961.35 (equals 9,613.5 food pound equivalents).

9,854.5 pounds total to the San Antonio Food Bank.

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