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Campus prevails after Harvey hits Students find support network through Trinity staff, faculty, friends KENDRA DERRIG

NEWS REPORTER Hurricane Harvey’s impact on campus is undeniable. The storm devastated the Houston area the weekend of Aug. 26 as the wettest tropical storm in US history.

With winds up to 130 miles per hour, it damaged over 185,000 Texas homes and dumped over 30 inches of rain, leaving an estimated 30 percent of Harris County underwater. More than 25 percent of students and about 15 percent of alumni have family in Houston or along the Texan coastline, and the families of faculty and staff are affected as well.

Kenneth Loiselle, associate professor of history, was in Houston when the storm hit.

“I did not sleep at all on Saturday night or Sunday morning but sat outside my front porch and watched the water slowly rising from the street, to my lawn and eventually to my doorstep. My wife immediately woke up our two small children, and they went to a neighbor’s [elevated] house,” Loiselle wrote in an email interview.

Loiselle remarked that his street had become riverlike due to the amount of water that had flooded the area.

“I remained at home raising all the furniture on bricks — most of which was saved — and by 8 a.m., I went back outside and saw water just everywhere,” Loiselle wrote.“It looked like a river. People’s cars were turned over, people were in canoes, rafts and even an airboat — the type you find in the Everglades with a big fan in the back — rescuing elderly people.”

Loiselle described deaths and looting in his neighborhood, but he also reports acts of humanity and generosity.

On Aug. 28, the Washington Post shared a video on Facebook depicting Loiselle rescuing neighbors from flooded homes.

“Neighbors who had little to no contact with each other previously bonded together to help rescue folks. Two other neighbors and myself rescued an elderly couple,” Loiselle wrote. “We even had, on Sunday night in the darkness of no electricity, a piano concert at my neighbor’s house, where I stayed for an entire week. While our house is being repaired, we are staying at a complete stranger’s house who offered his garage apartment free of charge to us for two months.”

On campus, Gary Neal, director of counseling services, and university chaplain Stephen Nickle organized a

Alum lectures on sports analytics Dwight Lutz, class of 2009, visited campus to give insight to students interested in the career JULIA WEIS

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Seniors COLE MURRAY, CONSTANTINE KOULDUKIS and GABRIEL LEVINE remove a large branch from the yard of their house on Princess Pass, adjacent to campus, an example of some of the lesser damage caused by the hurricane. photo by DANIEL CONRAD

support group for students affected by the storm. The group met on Aug. 30.

“At this point, it’s kind of making contact, monitoring, offering support — making sure people know about the help that’s available,” Neal said. “Even students whose homes didn’t flood are affected by this, whether it is just a reminder of their vulnerability and the vulnerability of their families.”

Five students attended the support group, which Neal and Nickle will continue to hold weekly for as long as there is need.

“The primary benefit is the opportunity to share similar experiences, similar feelings with other individuals who have closely related experience. Everybody’s experience is going to be unique in its own ways, but it’s a chance to talk to others who have experienced something similar,” Neal said.

Nickle pointed out more benefits of attending a support group.

“Sometimes venting can be a helpful thing. It’s not that [venting] is productive, but it lets off some of the stuff,” Nickle said. “All this chaos is going on, and at the same time, class is still in, and you’ve got assignments, and there’s this weird disjuncture between life as normal, which is going on all around us, and this alternate reality back home. If you’re

not there, your imagination can go 18 different ways.”

Even if a support group is not the right coping mechanism for some students, Nickle recommends that they still seek support from the Trinity community.

“Don’t isolate. There are people who care about the fact that you are struggling.

Ask for help,” Nickle said.

Neal notes that while counseling services has not seen an uptick in new clients due to hurricane-related stresses, that doesn’t mean that Trinity students are not looking for support or finding other therapeutic outlets, for instance volunteering.

“At least one of the students who attended the group talked about volunteering. He went home to Houston and he already signed up to volunteer at the convention center, which is a large shelter now. It didn’t surprise me, in a way. That’s the spirit of Trinity students in general: a proactive response to a situation, a natural disaster that could easily be overwhelming,” Neal said. “That is the kind of proactive response that we all feel we need to do, because we are reminded of our powerlessness, so being able to do anything is an adaptive and resilient response.” continued on PAGE 4

What do you get when you combine a love for sports, math and economics?

Potentially, a career in sports analytics.

That’s what Dwight Lutz, class of 2009, did. While at Trinity, Lutz played for the men’s basketball team and earned a double major in mathematics and economics. After going on to get his master’s in statistics, Lutz submitted some of his work to the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference and was picked up by the NBA. He recently relocated to Minnesota and works as one of the basketball operations analysts for the Minnesota Timberwolves.

This Tuesday, Sept. 5, Lutz met with several students interested in sports analysis and gave a math seminar lecture on the ‘big data’ revolution happening in basketball. He talked to students about everything ranging from his daily tasks at work to his opinions on NBA to life as a student athlete at Trinity a few years back.

“About 80 percent of the job is behind the desk, but it’s also going to practices and talking with coaches and players. We’re constantly collecting data on everything.

There’s a saying in the industry that goes, ‘You work for everyone,’ because everyone at the NBA wants something from you, whether it’s doctors or the business people,” Lutz said.

Lutz mentioned that having a love for the sport makes the job a lot easier on days when it’s hard.

“Sometimes it does take some of the fun out basketball, but overall I feel like the experience of being a part of it is worth it. Knowing that the end result is that I’m doing something I love makes it much easier.

And my office is just down the hall from the court, so I can go and shoot there in my spare time,” Lutz said.

This event was put on by the department of mathematics. Eduardo Cabral Balreira, assistant professor of mathematics, brought Lutz, who incidentally was a student of Balreira during his time at Trinity. He thought the experience could be helpful for students. continued on PAGE 22

Teach-in raises more questions

Colorblind student sees color for the first time

Kelly Grey Carlisle releases book

Manfred Wendt weighs in on Friday’s teach-in about Senate Bill 4.

Sophomore tests a pair of Enchroma sunglasses that allow her to see color.

The professor was interviewed about her new book, “We Are All Shipwrecks.”

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Trinity drafts blueprints for new architecture major Students and faculty work together to design plans for the potential program KAYLIE KING

NEWS REPORTER As interest in an architecture program increases, several Trinity students and faculty are in the early stages of planning a potential major for the discipline. The idea for this new program stemmed from the interest that was given to architecture-related courses in the art and art history department.

Cole Murray, a senior urban studies and political science double major, is one of the students who has been involved heavily in this initiative.

“I’ve been talking to Dr. [Kathryn] O’Rourke, who is the architectural historian in the art history department,” Murray said. “We talked about this a little bit more a couple years ago — it’s so busy starting a new major, especially like architecture.”

Although students and faculty have been discussing the project for a while, the process has been obstructed by concerns of space and money. A renewed interest in the history of Trinity’s architecture has sparked the push to create this new major.

“There’s a lot of infrastructure needed, like studios and a lot of space and money. We hadn’t really pursued it, but given the new interest in the campus’ architecture, especially with the this national historic designation, some of the shifts in the curriculum and the school’s desire to expand, we thought

it’s a good idea at this point. There’s nothing concrete yet and we need to find the people to do the major,” Murray said.

A survey of the student body was conducted to see how many students might be interested in the potential major.

“We sent out this survey just to gauge the interest, and so far, the response has been fantastic — better than we anticipated,” Murray said. “Fifteen people said that they would be very interested in majoring in architecture if they had the opportunity. A lot of majors don’t have many people to start with, so I think seeing that response is kind of encouraging, along with this new interest in the campus’ architecture.

There’s been a long-term interest in it, but the historic designation and master plan has revitalized some of the interest.”

Trinity currently offers architectural history classes, but many students aren’t aware of these opportunities.

Murray hopes that a new major will shine light on the other courses related to architecture Trinity offers.

“A lot of this is exposure,” Murray said.

“One of the other things we found out is that very few people know that there’s any sort of architecture presence at all.

Getting exposure and getting more people interested, especially in these architectural history classes, may allow for the art history department to take it on as a major. This would be a [Bachelor of Arts] in architecture as opposed to a [Bachelor of Architecture], which is a technical degree that allows you to practice and also go to graduate school for a shorter period of time. A BA in architecture would be more of an art-historical perspective, also with studio classes.”

Elizabeth Ward, chair of the art

COLE MURRAY, a senior urban studies and political science double major, discusses the potential architecture program with reporter KAYLIE KING. photo by CHLOE SONNIER

and art history department at Trinity, has played a fundamental role in the conversation around an architecture program at Trinity. She explained that this idea is still in its beginning stages.

“Architectural history has been a focus and strength of the art history program for many years,” Ward wrote in an email interview. “The more recent discussions about creating a major emerged several years ago and are still in the discussion stage.”

Kathryn O’Rourke, associate professor of art and art history, has also been involved in developing ideas for a potential architecture major.

“Some of the courses I teach focus on architectural history,” O’Rourke wrote in an email interview. “These might be included in the major. I’ve advised students interested in pursuing graduate

work in architecture and related fields and would likely continue to do so.”

O’Rourke believes that an architecture major at Trinity would benefit students for a multitude of reasons.

“The study of architecture is inherently interdisciplinary,” O’Rourke wrote. “It develops capacities for critical thinking and analysis, effective communication — written, visual and oral — and historical understanding that are at the core of a liberal arts education. There seems to be some interest in architecture among Trinity students and a major could provide a useful path toward graduate work in architecture and related fields.”

Students who are interested in pursuing architecture at Trinity and making this program possible can express their interest to Elizabeth Ward, chair of Trinity’s art and art history department.

Students rally against SB4 with teach-in Group gathers to discuss and explain consequences of Senate Bill 4 CATHY TERRACE

NEWS REPORTER Trinity students staged a teach-in to oppose Senate Bill 4, more commonly known as SB4 and the ‘Show Me Your Papers’ bill. The students held the event on Friday, Sep. 1, the same day the bill was supposed to go into effect statewide.

Emily Bourgeois, sophomore English major, organized the event alongside Judith Norman, assistant professor of philosophy, to show that Trinity students stand against discrimination.

“A lot of students are using it as a national day of action, so there are protests, walkouts, being planned for that day,” Bourgeois said in an interview prior to the event. “I had been following SB4 because of my summer internship [at the Esperanza Center], so I thought it was really important for Trinity students to get involved somehow, but I also thought that as a campus, it’s more important for us to be knowledgeable about what the policy is and how it’s going to directly impact us.”

The event took place in the Coates University Center common area at 3 p.m. and attracted a crowd of about 40 people who stayed for the entire event.

Bourgeois chose this location so passersby would see the teach-in happening and stop to listen. She noted that, even if

people just listened for a small period of time, it could still make a big difference in their understanding of the subject.

“What we’re doing is called a teach-in,” Bourgeois said. “It’s a form of protest where you take over a space, usually transient, so we’re taking over Coates and bringing in a couple guest speakers and student speakers, and we’re just going to learn about what SB4 is, how specifically it’s going to affect students, and how students can be good allies to Latinx students.”

Some larger schools, such as the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Texas at San Antonio, also held protests, according to Bourgeois.

While useful in their own ways, organizers of this event wished to do something a little different. Instead of protesting, five guest speakers were brought in to discuss how SB4 will directly impact Trinity’s campus. “‘Show Me Your Papers’ bill [originally didn’t] allow for officials to speak out against this bill; if a police officer doesn’t want to comply with it, they could be fired, fined or in jail,” said Tessi Aguirre, a volunteer coordinator at the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES). “College campuses are not protected under this law. At any time, they could ask for your papers.”

The original piece of legislation went through many changes on the Senate floor through the traditional amendment process. One of these changes is the ability to decline to answer if questioned by police. “[Allies should] empathize. Don’t provide your fingerprints even if you are documented. If you do, then that singles undocumented people out, but if you don’t,

that’s a form of solidarity,” Aguirre said.

“We’re doing training workshops for how to give ‘know your rights’ presentations … We want to spread facts, not fear.”

Much of the event emphasized the role of allies in providing support to those who will be directly affected by the legislation.

“We want to educate the people about why SB4 is important to students, and why it’s a community effort. We don’t want marginalized people to be hurt because of a racist law,” said Andrea Fernandez, a fellow at MOVE San Antonio, an organization that makes politics more accessible for young people. “We want people to voice their concerns; social media works and pushback can be helpful, like the responses from Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and the Castro brothers.”

In addition to speaking out against the legislation, advocates — such as Chiara Pride, fellow at MOVE and activist chair of PRIDE, and Daniela Montúfar Soria, president of the International Humanitarian Crisis Initiative (IHCI) — ask allies to listen to people’s stories and concerns. This bill affects many students, their families and friends. Being open and just listening can go a long way in providing support.

“As an ally, my job is to listen to [people], and from that knowledge, do my best to share that and help,” Pride said.

The teach-in lasted approximately an hour, ending with a testimony from Cristian Vargas, a senior biology major. In addition to offering up words of encouragement for members of the Latinx community, he reiterated the necessity for action.

“Arizona tried the same thing with Senate Bill 70, and essentially had a ‘Show Me Your

Papers’, and that was upheld by the Supreme Court. Obviously, discrimination like this is legal, and institutionalized,” Vargas said.

“Don’t just stay in your ivory tower — get out and engage the state around you.”

Though the progress of the bill was halted, it is still necessary to spread awareness and support of the bill’s opposition. For those interested in supporting these efforts, RAICES offers ‘know your rights’ training events and welcomes volunteers to reach out.

EMILY BOURGEOIS speaks at the teach-in, an event created to help students better understand how Senate Bill 4 will affect Trinity. photo by CHLOE SONNIER

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Campus unites, supports Harvey relief continued from PAGE 1

Members of Greek Council joined the Student Government Association in promoting the donation drive that was held after the hurricane hit Houston. Junior Gamma ALEX GORDON, left, and senior Sigma YVETTE PEÑA, right, sit beside TRAVIS FULKERSON, a junior SGA senator. Photo courtesy of SGA

Multiple Trinity organizations have organized fundraisers for Harvey relief, such as donation drives formed by the Student Government Association and Trinity University Volunteer Action Community, as well as a benefit concert hosted by Iota Chi Rho and Sigma Theta Tau at Big Bob’s Burgers on Wednesday, Sept. 6.

Trinity senior Mackenzie Hill was one of many Trinity students whose home and family were directly impacted by Hurricane Harvey.

“My mother’s home got anywhere from 12 to 18 inches of water. My mother was forced to leave our house the day after Harvey hit and find shelter in a neighbor’s second story. My neighborhood lost power for several days, and my mother was trapped until early the week following the worst part of the storm. Now, my mother has managed to find a new home, but much of our furniture and belongings were destroyed,” Hill said.

The hardest part for Hill has been the feeling of helplessness as she waits for news from Houston, 200 miles away.

“My mom is an incredibly strong woman, but the idea of her cold, wet and alone without power for several days was terrible.

It made going to class feel meaningless, as there were so many other important things going on that seemed more worthy of my attention and emotion,” Hill said.

Hill was able to find support from the Trinity community, and advises that students watch out for each other when such traumatic events occur.

“I am really appreciative to Trinity for having created an event like that for students. I know a lot of students and

faculty have also taken it upon themselves to offer help to people in Houston, whether through fundraisers or volunteering,” Hill said. “Honestly, just reaching out and checking in with those you know are from Houston and may or may not have been affected. Kindness is so appreciated at this point in time. Additionally, if you can make it down to Houston and help the families of people you know clean out their homes and assist in starting over, a lot of people just need extra hands.”

Loiselle also had words of advice for Trinity students.

“I think the best thing Trinity students can do right now is to try to get back to normal and proceed with the incredible intellectual journey that is this university.

I was in Connecticut after September 11, 2001, and people were literally dazed and confused for weeks after this tragedy,” Loiselle wrote. “Harvey is a similar circumstance in terms of the psychological impact it has on people.”

Loiselle suggested that the smartest way to grow beyond events of tragedy is to think about the importance of fields of study that help in such situations.

“I would also recommend that students seriously consider entering fields — like civil engineering, among others — that can help cities like Houston build in a more responsible manner in order to avoid or at least mitigate such devastation in the future,” Loiselle wrote.

Those interested in supporting victims of Hurricane Harvey can visit Trinity’s Emergency Notifications webpage at new.trinity.edu/emergency.

BSU welcomes all at first meeting of the year Black Student Union started the semester with ice cream social, Black Lives Matter speaker KAYLIE KING

NEWS REPORTER Trinity’s Black Student Union (BSU) started the semester off with both a social event and a speaker.

Tahlar Rowe, president of BSU and senior political science major, explained the purpose of the organization.

“Essentially, we’re a group that serves and represents students of color on campus,” Rowe said. “We’re not exclusive, so all ethnicities and nationalities are welcome.

Our primary purpose on campus is to support and defend the African-American community and also to educate our Trinity community on our culture and introduce them to our culture.”

BSU’s first official event of the year was an ice cream social.

“The ice cream social was primarily just to have anyone who is interested from any visibility we’ve had on campus thus far, any questions after the tabling, have an opportunity to get their questions heard and have them be the first to know about things we plan and have coming up on campus this semester,” said Khaniya Russel, vice president of BSU and sophomore history major.

BSU meetings are bi-weekly and have certain topics of discussion. Their kickoff meeting was held on Wednesday, Sept. 6, and featured guest speaker Jonathan David Jones.

“He’s an activist with the local San Antonio Black Lives Matter,” Russel said.

“The group that he’s speaking on behalf of is actually PRIDE. This is a speaker we’re co-sponsoring. They have a speaker series with the intent to expose the PRIDE organization to local forms of activism and how they can be active in the community.

We’re happy to co-sponsor him. He’s basically going to be talking about the type of activism that he does within the San Antonio community and he will be answering any questions that people might have.”

Jones, along with being an activist in the San Antonio area, is also the policy advisor for Mayor Ron Nirenberg.

“My main goal is to get across to you guys activism as it relates to the campus, activism as it relates to the city. There’s kind of this general notion that protesting doesn’t do anything. I am a product of protesting doing something,” Jones said.

Jones has been actively protesting since he was in school at the University of Texas

JOHNATHON DAVID JONES speaks to members of BSU and PRIDE about activism on college campuses and how to defeat injustice. photo by AMANI CANADA

at San Antonio, where he was a member of their NAACP chapter. He, with other Black Lives Matter activists, led the protest of the Confederate statue in Travis Park downtown.

There are two ways that students usually get involved with BSU. “I feel like San Antonio is a place where people generally do not become engaged, but over the past three years, we’ve seen protests go from five, to fifty, to five hundred,” Jones said.

Jones discussed more of his experiences with discrimination in San Antonio.

Above everything, Jones emphasized the importance of fighting against hatred, not only in the country, but locally, and of trying to remain focused on justice.

Jones’ talk is just one example of how BSU connects the community.

“The easiest way to get involved with BSU is to meet someone that’s in BSU,” Rowe said. “I always think just befriending someone in the organization is the best way to get involved because that is where you gain momentum and you gain energy and excitement from one another and that just sparks more people’s involvement and support. We do have an email list where we’re continually updating people on any changes or any announcements.”

Any students who are interested in joining the email list can email trinitybsu1@trinity.edu.

“We encourage people to come to our meetings,” Rowe said. “We really think about our topics of discussion. We always try to make them relevant to what’s going on and we put a lot of thought and effort into our events. When people do come out, they tend to enjoy themselves, so, even those who are hesitant at first, we encourage them to get involved. It’s really fun and it’s very educational too.”

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SGA discusses new policies at meeting The group plans to introduce feminine product dispensers, among other things ISAIAH MITCHELL

NEWS REPORTER At the first Student Government Association (SGA) meeting on Monday, Aug. 28, the group discussed many changes they hope to make this year. Proposals included a new project that would provide free menstrual products to students on campus and the unveiling of ongoing constitutional review efforts that intend to streamline a constitution that some senators worry needs repair.

SGA responded enthusiastically to a plan proposed by sophomore senator Simone Washington that would fund free feminine hygiene products for students in case of emergency situations. The project, which Washington called a joint effort between Facilities Services and SGA, would place three dispensers of tampons and pads around campus for the year for students to use.

No senator opposed the plan, though there was debate about certain details.

Junior senator Travis Fulkerson wondered whether to fund the project for one semester or for one year, offering that a semester-long trial run could better maximize efficiency in case the project encounters any budget problems in its first semester. Director of student involvement Jamie Thompson inquired about potential hidden costs

related to the installation of the receptacles and adjustments that may need to be made to the bathrooms containing receptacles.

Junior senator Manfred Wendt proposed that SGA should survey students to find where users would prefer to place the dispensers.

The original idea, which still stands, is to place two in the Center for Sciences and Innovation — one in the first floor’s genderneutral bathroom and another in a women’s bathroom on the main floor — and one in the library. No specific resolutions to these questions were reached at the meeting, but the overall consensus was one of agreement and eagerness to move forward.

Rather than having a member of SGA present a funding proposal to the rest of the senate, and thereby using funds collected from every student’s $150 student activity fee, SGA carried a motion to fund the project from its own internal budget.

Senior and former senator Lavanya Hospeti had introduced the idea to the senate, but president Nick Santulli inherited the project since Hospeti’s departure.

According to Santulli, the response from students and other SGA members has been full of positivity.

Keeping in touch with the general student body is shaping up to be a primary focus for the SGA. Santulli is also working with senators Callie Struby, Amulya Deva and Juan Luevanos to revise the constitution.

“We didn’t think the way SGA was before reflected how SGA wanted to operate,” Deva said.

The stated goal of SGA’s Constitutional Review Committee is to clarify, close loopholes, streamline processes and otherwise bring the constitution up to the level deserved by the Trinity community.

“I think people can see huge in improvements in transparency,” Struby said of the new constitutional addenda.

The committee itself was a response to a time of student backlash after a controversial SGA decision last semester.

“The committee was borne out of the situation in April with Greek Life,” Struby said.

Last year, SGA made the choice to reject Greek Council’s annual budget, a decision that was met with tempestuous student backlash and even petitions to reverse the decision and impeach certain senators. Struby said the unexpected burst of formerly unknown student opinion acted as a wakeup call to the SGA, spurring them to examine their own mechanisms and try to be more responsive, accountable and transparent.

The committee has proposed a preamble, protections for University Sponsored Organizations to better guarantee the fiscal ability to carry out their missions and an extra judicial body whose job is to ensure SGA accountability. Luevanos and Santulli stressed that the current project is not in the final draft stage.

“The revisions are not perfect, but they will hopefully lay a foundation that future SGA members can build upon,” Luevanos said.

The Trinitonian will follow up on the proposed constitutional amendments and continue reporting on changes to SGA’s structure. Those with questions about SGA and their future plans for campus are welcome to email sga@trinity.edu or attend the weekly meetings at 5:30 p.m. in the Waxahachie Room in Coates University Center.

Two of the three feminine product dispensers will be in the Center for Sciences and Innovation.

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From the editor’s desk: Teach-in raises first tragedy, then farce more questions There was once a time when students’ access to campus was controlled by two simple variables: whether you had a key to your dorm, and whether the building’s doors were unlocked.

In 2001, the Association of Student Representatives — renamed Student Government Association in 2013 — successfully lobbied Trinity to ditch the keys in favor of proximity card readers and ID cards outfitted with microchips, much like the ones we use to swipe into buildings today.

Access changed: students living on campus could now use their Trinity IDs to access into their own residence halls. But only the students living on campus could swipe into the dorms, and students living away from campus had no access to the residence halls.

That isn’t the experience that the senior staffers of today’s Trinitonian have known.

We’re used to our off-campus pals buzzing themselves into our residence halls to hang out, or to meet with student organizations in the Lightner Tea Room, or to study in the lounge between North, South and Susanna. What gives?

It was only in 2006 that offcampus students were granted access to the residence halls, and that’s all thanks to an ASR senator named Katrina Bayer.

That fall, Bayer reached out to more than 20 universities in an effort to convince Tuttle to provide all-campus access to non-residential students.

She was successful. The ASR senate brought about change to campus policy. An article in the Oct. 20, 2006 issue of the Trinitonian summarizes the senate’s stance: “ASR argued that Trinity was different from other schools and students should be allowed access to each other’s residence halls to promote the concept of campus unity.”

Bayer also defended her position on the basis of important security concerns. She was in contact with a member of Rhodes College’s residential life staff, who explained how granting residence hall access to off-campus students had solved a security problem at Rhodes.

Seniors and off-campus students were becoming ‘tailgaters’ who would stand outside the residence halls, waiting on someone with dorm access to let them in.

The loitering was embarrassing for students and unsightly for others. It was never quite certain

whether the purported senior really was a student or someone with less benign motives — and what underclassman is going to ask to see an ID before opening the door for them?

Though proximity card readers keep records of who enters which buildings and when they do so, the readers can’t keep track of people who simply saunter in through a door held open for them. This makes make it more difficult to monitor building entrances and catch culprits in just the cases that these logs are used: in the course of investigating oncampus crimes and other policy violations.

Monitoring, security — where’ve we heard this recently?

“As many of our off-campus students have learned, effective this fall, only on-campus students have access to the residence halls. This decision was made to enhance security and improve monitoring,” Tuttle wrote in an email to all students on Aug. 24 of this year. “With this decision we have prioritized security over convenience.”

“SGA is supposed to be a voice for the student body, and the administration ought to treat it as such.”

We’ve returned to the pre-2006 era of aggravated, tailgating seniors. You know what they say. History repeats itself: First as tragedy, then as farce. Well-intentioned it may be, the policy is confused and contradictory in new ways; an inconvenient solution to a problem that would be better solved through other means.

Anyone living on campus can still enter any other residence hall, even the ones they don’t reside in. In fact, the only students shut off from any residence halls are the students who aren’t living under ResLife’s watch.

According to David Tuttle, students in City Vista can enter McLean with no problem, while students living on Mulberry Avenue or on the side streets across from Thomas, Lightner, South and North receive only

Murchison Lounge access. So the policy doesn’t limit all that many students from accessing the dorms, for whatever safety benefit that may grant us. Are non-residential students who aren’t living in City Vista a uniquely dangerous population?

No, and we know this because Tuttle kindly answered some questions posed to him by the Trinitonian earlier this week.

He explained that the decision was not reached after a survey of campus crime and policyviolation reports by TUPD, but rather after a situation involving a former student whose access hadn’t been properly shut off.

He noted that many other former students still had access.

Is this a reason to cut off offcampus students’ dorm access, or to tighten the procedures for managing campus card access?

Did Tuttle’s office survey students or contact student representatives in SGA before changing their constituents’ card access? No, and he says it wouldn’t have affected the decision anyway. You might think the university would consult the students who were elected by their peers for the express purpose of developing and advancing students’ interests. But you’d be wrong.

SGA has been reduced to a funds-apportioning body.

It’s supposed to be the voice of the student body, and the administration ought to treat it as such. That would involve having senators solicit students’ opinions, then having the senate act in students’ interests, not the administration doing so. Read John Croxton’s guest column on exactly this point, published in this issue of the Trinitonian. We’re with him.

Look, students can’t do much about campus going tobaccofree at this point. We may be able to change this card access policy.

More valuable than changing a specific policy would be letting the administration know how you feel about their approach to policies that affect student life.

As history would show us, when students use their collective voice they can make and actual difference on campus.

By the way, there’s still a chance to do so. Tuttle will explain the rationale behind the decision and answer students’ questions at next week’s SGA meeting.

Meetings are held on Mondays at 5:30 p.m. in the Waxahachie room, on Coates University Center’s second floor.

We’ll see you there.

MANFRED WENDT OPINION COLUMNIST

This past Friday, I attended the Senate Bill 4 teach-in that was put on by the philosophy department and a number of far-left organizations that have operations in San Antonio. I am not going to lie; I came in with strong opinions. I believe in legal immigration, that a nation should be able to control its borders, decide who gets to come into the country and that people who break the law should be punished as prescribed by the law.

“In all honesty, I shouldn’t have expected to hear the other side’s arguments.”

The teach-in itself was quite simple: Different people from different organizations went up and lectured on certain issues. The issues ranged from Senate Bill 4, to refusing fingerprinting in an attempt to protect illegal immigrants, to an international student complaining that foreign students don’t have access to federal money. Overall, I would describe the performance of the speakers to be disappointing. They were all giving canned speeches that they had probably given tens of times by now. However, in spite of giving these canned speeches, they appeared very skittish for being in a room that was probably 90 percent on their side. The speakers never bothered to discuss why illegal immigrants should not be punished for breaking the law. They simply assumed that you agreed with their notion that they should not be punished. This left me disappointed because I was looking forward to hearing the other side’s arguments on this contentious issue. In all honesty, I shouldn’t have expected to, because if you are going to a teach-in on something of this nature, led by groups of the same nature, that were hosting it they assume everyone who is attending the event is on their side. This is a fair assumption to make.

Senate Bill 4, also known as SB4, passed into law by the Texas government with a focus on banning sanctuary cities. A February article in the New York Times describes a sanctuary city as “a term that has been used to generally describe places that limit how local law enforcement can cooperate with federal immigration agents.”

Sanctuary cities have always been a thorn in the side of people who want only legal immigration. Sanctuary cities themselves are a sticky legal situation where the concept of federalism interacts with federal, state and local governments along with court cases. Sanctuary cities have never been a salient issue until the recent murder of Kate Steinle, a woman from San Francisco who was killed by an illegal immigrant who, according to Fox News, had been deported five times and had seven felony convictions. Her murder helped jumpstart President Trump’s primary campaign. The murder brought to light how American citizens have been killed by illegal immigrants who had been deported numerous times and have been convicted of a number of felonies, but were still walking free in the streets.

According to the Texas Tribune, SB4 attempts to address the issue of sanctuary cities “by requiring local police to cooperate with federal immigration authorities and allowing police to inquire about the immigration status of people they lawfully detain.” Previously, police officers were not required to to ask about the immigration status of anyone lawfully in their custody.

However, it is now legal for them to do so. Local police and governments will also no longer be allowed to refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities as those in sanctuary cities have in the past. Opponents to the law claim that this law will lead to racial profiling.

As of right now, SB4 is currently tied up in the court system. The law was supposed to go into effect on Sept. 1, along with a slew of other laws, but a US judge placed a temporary hold on SB4. Governor Greg Abbott has threatened to appeal this decision. This is bad news for the people who want the law to be struck down, as the law will likely go to the First Circuit Court of Appeals which is among the most conservative in the nation. There, the bill will likely be restored and allowed to go into law.

Overall, I found the teach-in to be underwhelming and lacking in information. I did not feel that the speakers were completely informed on the issues. This showed in their lack of composure and that they struggled to answer softball questions.

I found this disappointing, because while I came with strong opinions, I did attend with open ears to hear the other side of the issue. I wish that they would have taken the time to lay out the reasoning behind the beliefs they held. The future will be interesting as the court system will likely have the final say in the United States’ changing immigration laws.

Manfred Wendt is a junior political science major.

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Happy illusions guiding us home DAVID RANDO FACULTY COLUMNIST Isn’t there is a certain enchantment that sometimes comes over us when we pass a lovely house? The sunny windows, the neat lawn, those tidy bricks and that happy bench by the front door: we drink them in with a glance. The people who live in such a place, we find ourselves (almost involuntarily) thinking, must be as happy as the smiling face of the house.

Before we know it, we find ourselves (almost unconsciously) bemoaning our own incomplete happiness in contrast to the perfect happiness that must dwell right behind those walls. Those lucky residents, whose happiness seems to have settled so easily and gracefully upon them, are free to come and go from their haven whenever they please, while our own happiness remains as inaccessible to us as a stranger’s house that we can never enter.

This remains the case even though the briefest reflection tells us that no lives are as peaceful and happy as the image that the façade presents. We know, rationally, that everybody has his or her share of hardship and unhappiness and that a lovely house has never protected anybody from the classic power trio of Aging, Sickness, and Death. So why are we seduced, at least for a second, over and over again by the illusion? Are we simply credulous gulls, another born every minute, who live by illusion rather than reason?

“Is illusion ever more illuminating than reason?”

What about the appearances that people present to the world? We usually try to project a cheerful image of ourselves to others. We spend a lot of time in front of mirrors, scrutinizing ourselves, touching up vulnerable spots. We dress for success and smile winningly at passersby. We post pictures showing just how cheerful our lives are. When people ask how we are doing, we say “well” or “good,” without thinking. And people more or less play along with our illusion, looking as cheerful as we all generally do.

What about our response to images in advertisements? These lovely appearances, of course, offer us a share of the happy picture for the low retail price of $29.99.

And we find ourselves seduced by them again and again, at least for a moment, even though we know, after a bit of reflection, that the weary cycle of getting and spending has never yet brought lasting happiness. We’ll get a little thrill when that Amazon package arrives, but soon enough, we know, it will be added, like a shiny link, to the long chain of tinsel products that have failed to satisfy.

We’ll probably blame it on the product whose fascination for us has washed off, but why do we hate the dull player when we know that the game itself is so boring?

Jacques Lacan thought that we play an unhappy game with our own images.

He says that although we recognize in the mirror a whole and self-contained person, we never feel as whole and self-contained as the reflection appears. This strange

disjunction, he thought, is the beginning of alienation and the start of a lifelong search for that elusive thing that will finally make us feel as complete as the mirror image that confronts and reproaches us.

Money, sex, the precious object, the final goal achieved, or the words that we’ve been longing to hear: Which of these will give back to us the wholeness that the image promised but never delivered?

Others appear so effortlessly self-identical with their images, so why does it elude us still?

If our credulity in the happy image causes us so much unhappiness, let’s ask another question: Is there any good that can come from our ready, if momentary, susceptibility to the happy illusion? Is illusion ever more illuminating than reason?

Ernst Bloch thought that our tendency to believe in the false idyll was not entirely negative. In fact, this philosopher found a streak of hope in it, valuing in it our very capacity to hope and our tendency and readiness to see what he called the “tout va bien,” French for “everything goes well,” in things. It is not simply that we succumb easily to illusion, but also that our instinct is often toward with the sunny view, toward a hope for the best — a significant impulse.

I propose that we look at images of the false idyll this way: If there is a disappointing difference between our happy images and the reality they obscure, then let’s think about what it would take, not to destroy all of our illusions under the reason’s cold eye, but rather to remake the world in the image that is (only as yet) mere appearance.

Perhaps even better than losing our illusions is, as Guns N’ Roses once proposed, to use your illusion. In other words, there is much truth to be found in false advertising.

“We know, after a bit of reflection, that the weary cycle of getting and spending has never yet brought lasting happiness.”

When we discover that the happy image deceives, rather than to reproach ourselves for succumbing to it again, we might ask ourselves these practical questions: What changes would be required for the world to be as cheerful as the façade presented to the street by the lovely house? How would the world have to change for people to be as happy as the image that they project to the social world? How could our oneclick checkout world be reorganized so that images of the idyll would be as true as advertised? And what would it take for us to feel as whole as the image that the mirror gives back to us? Looked at this way, in the very symptoms of our unhappiness, those presently false images of happiness with which we are so well stocked, there are guiding visions for a vastly different and better world. We are lucky to have reason, surely, but even luckier to have so many illusions.

David Rando is an associate professor of English. He contributes monthly to the Trinitonian.

Why parent Trinity’s adults?

JOHN CROXTON GUEST COLUMNIST Judging by the editorial pages of some newspapers, many colleges have become bastions of intolerance against the very idea of free expression. They coddle their prickly, self-righteous student bodies to avoid accusations of sexism, racism and homophobia.

Luckily for us, Trinity University has escaped this scourge (to the extent that it exists).

But we have suffered from a different kind of creeping paternalism, one example of which I encountered last week when I tried to enter Thomas Hall to socialize with friends. I swiped my card and the reader beeped, but the door stayed locked. Confused, I was stuck outside until someone with a functioning card came by. I solved the mystery later — David Tuttle had sent out an email on the subject a few days before. Off-campus students (including those in City Vista, like myself ) had their access to the dorms revoked.

“Security over convenience. So I’d been locked out on purpose.”

“As many of our off-campus students have learned ... only on-campus students have access to the residence halls … With this decision we have chosen to prioritize security over convenience,” Tuttle wrote.

Security over convenience. So I’d been locked out on purpose. I was also locked out of Prassel later that week, when my friend inside left his phone on silent and missed my frustrated calls. It was a minor inconvenience — nothing worth rioting over. But what security argument is the administration really making here? Each and every student lives behind yet another locked door — the one to their room. And everyone living on-campus has access to every other residence hall. There’s nothing stopping our juniors in South from raiding and pillaging through the halls of Witt-Winn, if they so please. Our administrators seem to believe that offcampus students pose a unique threat to their on-campus friends.

Except I don’t think that is what they believe. Seniors living off-campus are plainly no more dangerous than juniors living on it. Instead, I think this is part of a pattern: the well-intentioned but overprotective administration increasingly treating adult students as children. In 2002, Trinity University instituted a hard-liquor ban, with the oft-stated goal of protecting first-years from unsafe drinking. That this ban also punishes sophomores, juniors and seniors, many of legal age, seems of no consequence. And as of this year, we’ve become a ‘tobacco-free campus’ — banning smoking, chewing and vaping any product containing tobacco anywhere on campus. Students who’ve smoked for years — including many of our foreign students from countries

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with prevalent smoking cultures — be damned. Underneath it all is the assumption that the administration knows best — that these adults need its constant protection to keep from hurting themselves. Students living off campus don’t have to be given oncampus access. So they aren’t. It’s safer that way — who knows what could happen when one student wanders into another student’s residence hall?

“When it comes to policies that control our actions, that limit the perfectly legal freedoms we would otherwise enjoy, we deserve the power to decide.”

The administration professes to place great trust in students, and indeed sponsors a number of programs, like the Optimal Buzz, that treat them as adults and talk reasonably about how to be safe. But these bans betray their true intentions. Students can no longer smoke or vape or drink whiskey. In the case of the smoking ban, the administration did solicit some student’s opinions with a poll.

But when push comes to shove, they prohibit entire categories of behavior without holding a vote.

Trinity’s students are (almost) all legal adults. We can handle ourselves. And when it comes to policies that control our actions, that limit the perfectly legal freedoms we would otherwise enjoy, we deserve the power to decide.

How would the administration give it to us?

First, they should work with our class senators on these policies. Student Government Association (SGA) would vote on the existing prohibitions of hard liquor, smoking and other forms of tobacco use. Absent a large majority (say, two-thirds) of Senate approval, they would be revoked. Second, SGA and the administration should continue to keep students safe without infringing on their freedoms. Instead of a blanket ban, SGA could consider banning hard liquor for first-years. They should examine our current alcohol guidelines, and revise them to be gentler on safe drinking or harsher on the unsafe kind.

Instead of a smoking ban, SGA could confine smoking to certain designated areas. And if they did pass such a ban, they should consider allowing vaping and chewing tobacco, which are much less bothersome to other students.

By taking these steps, the administration could demonstrate its commitment to respecting students as reasonable adults and equal partners at Trinity. Anything less smacks of a moralizing paternalism unfit for a modern university.

John Croxton is a senior computer science major with a minor in French.

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OPINION

DACA recipient shares his fears for future MICAELA HOFFMAN OPINION COLUMNIST

September 5 was the already-delayed date for Trump to announce his plans for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The DACA program allows ‘Dreamers’ to apply for work permits, study in school and be protected from deportation. I couldn’t imagine what it must be like to watch DACA end for the 800,000 undocumented immigrants and their families ... so I sought out someone who would explain it to me. My source asked to remain anonymous out of concern for potential repercussions.

Born in San Luis Potosí, his parents carried him across the border when he was two years old. He drives a modest car an hour each way on his commute to work, where he manages a retail store. Growing up alongside American-born children, he watched cartoons like “Spongebob,” “Hey Arnold.” His favorite? “The Wild Thornberries … because I always wanted to travel, but I never could.” Because of his status, driving down the road was a risk, much less a trip abroad. My source has no recollection of ever being in Mexico, yet now faces the prospect of going ‘home.’

“Getting thrown into to a country where I really have never been … where am I gonna go? I have no idea,” he said.

His earliest memory was of Wisconsin, where his parents worked on a

illustration by MICAELA HOFFMAN

potato farm. “They pay you nothing. You are forced to be there for 12 hours a day.

You don’t get overtime. There’s no benefits, no nothing. And then you still have to find time to take your child and get him registered for school,” he said. “My sister, at nine years old, was cooking and cleaning, taking care of us.” But better to struggle in this country was than remaining in Mexico.

“I don’t know where people get these insane ideas, that ‘they want to come here and get free things’ — no, we don’t,” my source said. “Even [with] Obamacare, we have to pay the fee for it, knowing that we don’t qualify for those insurance programs.

Luckily, we didn’t get sick much.” It begs the question, what do immigrants actually get from being in America with DACA? “We don’t get the benefit of federal student aid,” he said. “I worked my ass off my entire life to be successful … I graduated with zero college debt, working and going to school.” College for him was a lot of work and very little sleep. So little that during an exam, he couldn’t stay awake while sitting at his desk; rather than give up, he asked the professor if he could take the test standing up. If there is any stereotype that fits this Mexican, it’s that he’s a hard worker. “Every single thing that

The capacities are effective, but they might need to be tweaked. For example, the OVC requirement was included in Pathways because Trinity students need to know how to deliver an effective presentation using tools that will be used in the workplace beyond Trinity. Many professors who agree with the goal of the OVC believe that the current requirements take up far too much class time by requiring iterative rounds of presentations.

Many also think that the digital literacy (DL) requirement needs to be modified to encompass a wider range of courses.

Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) conducts an in-depth evaluation of our curriculum to make sure that we are actually doing what we said we are going to do. And it is essential that we keep our accreditation if you want to keep federal financial aid and if your degree is to have value in the coming years.

In order to promote rigor and academic freedom, SACS rules require that faculty guide and control the curriculum. The people who serve on the UCC do this as service to the university on top of teaching and research responsibilities. Approximately once a month, the UCC meets for between 90 minutes and three hours to review every single form. This is why it takes so long for things to change.

This is why we can’t just say “OK. Let’s fix the OVC next Friday.” A faculty subcommittee must study what’s working, they must identify possible changes to the language, and they must propose changes to the UCC. These changes then have to be voted on by the entire faculty. Relatively minor changes can take anywhere between one or two years to implement.

I own I got from my own blood, sweat and tears,” he said.

Yet, there are those who believe that the best thing for this country would be to deport people like him.

“We provide jobs … we don’t mooch off of anybody … and we have to pay for [DACA]; it’s basically a self-funded program,” he said. “Every day I have to listen to them tell me all the reasons why I need to get out of here, and I bite my tongue every time,” he said. “But at the same time, the people who are against this program …

Where do they live? Do they associate with people like us? … Most of the time, it’s people who haven’t been exposed to people who have DACA … I don’t hold anything personally against them.”

Now, he is scared that becoming a part of the program will come back to haunt him. “They have all my information that I gave them; my address, my work … that’s where my parents live,” he said. Why does he believe he should be here? A long pause.

Then, he says “I was ready to give my life for this place … this place is my life. People who line up to serve in your military … they’re dying to serve other Americans,” he said. As we moved to leave, I asked him if I could take a photo of the ID that may soon mean nothing. I wanted you, my readers, to know what it looked like. He paused and said, “How about you just tell them what it says? ‘Not valid for re-entry to the US.’”

Micaela Hoffman is a senior business analytics and technology and urban studies double major.

Navigating “Pathways” and treading water AARON DELWICHE GUEST COLUMNIST

In last week’s Trinitonian, Evan Chambless described the Pathways curriculum as “an obstacle course ... that has to be navigated while treading water with a blindfold on.” I understand how she feels.

As acting chair of the University Curriculum Council (UCC), I often find myself in the position of explaining and justifying Pathways requirements to students and faculty colleagues. This is ironic since I was not initially one of the strongest supporters of the new curriculum.

Despite my initial misgivings, Pathways has many strengths. The First Year Experience has done a terrific job of connecting faculty and students across departments, and it provides a solid foundation in university-level reading, writing and analysis. Students’ writing and presentation skills continue to improve each semester, and I suspect that this is partly because of the curriculum’s writing capacity (WC) and oral and visual communication (OVC) requirements.

However, any new curriculum has growing pains.

As Evan mentioned, it has been difficult for Pathways students to find courses. This is something that the UCC and Academic Affairs are attempting to remedy as quickly as possible. The problem of sporadically offered prerequisites is also troubling, and it is important for students to speak up when they cannot find the courses that they need.

Because the First Year Experience is concentrated in the fall semester, fewer upper-division courses are offered at that time, making it extra difficult for sophomores and rising juniors to find the classes they need.

“Evan mentioned feelings of powerlessness, and I urge you to claim your power as students.”

As for study abroad, you can count overseas courses as capacities, requirements of your major (if approved ahead of time by the department chair) and overall credits toward graduation. The tricky parts are the approaches and interdisciplinary cluster. These eight courses must be taken at Trinity because the university has to be able to prove to accreditors that a Trinity degree guarantees exposure to certain types of topics. We cannot really do that with courses taken at other institutions.

So, if most people agree that some things need to be fixed, why does it take so long to do so? Why do we have this “lengthy, paperwork-heavy process”? The answer is linked to accreditation.

Every 10 years, a group called Southern

“Not content to rest on our laurels, we need to fix the things that aren’t working.”

Evan mentioned feelings of powerlessness, and I urge you to claim your power as students. We are always going to be constrained by federal law, accreditation guidelines and the language in the Courses of Study Bulletin, but students can put more explicit pressure on the university to acknowledge these concerns. If you don’t

speak up, your voices will not be heard. You have a new, SGA-appointed representative on the UCC. Emily Herbert is a voting member of the UCC, and her role is to represent the student perspective. Please let her know how you feel.

There is one thing that every Trinity student should know when attempting to navigate curricular requirements: those who work in Academic Affairs and the Registrar’s Office genuinely care about your situation.

During six years of service on the UCC, there are three people that I have seen at almost every single curriculum meeting, no matter how small: Fred Rodriguez, registrar, Jennifer Reese academic records analyst and Duane Coltharp, associate vice president for curriculum and faculty development. Unsung heroes of the curriculum that was and the curriculum that is being born, they are constantly trying to figure out how to implement the rules in a way that is fair, legal and consistent with the will of the faculty.

Often, it’s people in the Registrar’s Office who deliver bad news to students about courses that did not transfer or requirements that have not yet been satisfied. If this ever happens to you, please don’t shoot the messenger. Take a deep breath. Exhale. Ask them if they have any suggestions about what might be done to fix your situation. They probably will.

Pathways is not perfect, but we still have a curriculum that is the envy of many institutions. Just last week, Trinity was ranked one of the top ten universities in the country — along with Harvard, Stanford and MIT — by College Rankings Consensus.

Not content to rest on our laurels, we need to fix the things that aren’t working. If you keep speaking up and letting us know how you feel, we can make it even better.

Aaron Delwiche is a professor in the communication department.

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Pulse

RYAN ESKRIDGE sees pink and purple flowers for the first time while surrounded by fellow O-Team Members and her mom wearing Alex Bradley’s Enchroma glasses for the colorblind at the start of NSO. Photos by ALLISON WOLFF

Colorblind student sees color for the first time O-Team member Ryan Eskridge uses fellow sophomore Alex Bradley’s Enchroma sunglasses to view colors outside.

CLAIRE NAKAYAMA PULSE REPORTER Before Orientation Team (O-Team) training for New Student Orientation, students selected for the O-Team had a meet and greet to get to know each other. Each one told an interesting fact about themselves.

When it came to Ryan Eskridge, a sophomore majoring in Chinese and economics, her fact was simple, but surprising: She is colorblind.

Her world began to change when Alex Bradley, a sophomore chemistry major who is also colorblind, received a life-changing gift from his friends this past summer. The gift was a pair of Enchroma sunglasses, which alleviate red-green colorblindness using ‘multinotch’ filtering, which enhances specific colors by eliminating certain wavelengths of light.

“I had a birthday over the summer, and a lot of my friends in the theatre department decided to get together and pool some money and get these glasses, because I complained just about every day about being colorblind and they got annoyed,” Bradley said. “I am so grateful to them.”

Bradley’s glasses are for outdoor use only, but Enchroma makes pairs for indoor use, as well as for seeing color on monitor screens and phones.

Eskridge has known she was color blind since she was a little girl when her teacher would name colors and she would guess, but most of the time, she was wrong. She would say, “I’m pretty sure I’m right.” When she was in early to mid elementary school, she was finally tested to confirm the doubts she and her teachers had concerning her vision. Bradley, however, didn’t know he was colorblind until his freshman year of high school.

“My teacher put up an Ishihara colorblind test, and he asked us what the number was.

Everyone said nine, and I was like, ‘… Nine?’

Everyone noticed me saying it late,” Bradley said. “Before that, I just thought that people were dumb for calling red a bright color.”

Bradley and Eskridge know each other through the Swing Bums dance club on campus, and Bradley lent the glasses to Eskridge one day during New Student Orientation. Many O-Teamers attended, and Eskridge’s mother came as well, to see her daughter look at colors in a new light.

“About 20 people were there, my mom and all of my friends came,” Eskridge said. “We met up at CSI, and he (Bradley) had me look at the building at first, and then I turned around and got to see all of the colors. I saw purple for the first time in my life, and multiple shades of green, so it was ridiculous. It’s not something I’d really thought about before.” The event was an emotional affair, including many firsts.

Eskridge remarked, “I saw purple for the first time of my life and multiple shades of green, so it was ridiculous. It’s not something I’d really thought about before.”

It is extremely rare for women to be color blind. One in ten males are colorblind; however, one in 200 women are. Bradly and Eskridge noted the difference in their vision.

When discussing it Eskridge stated, “I have a lot of problems with orange to green, whereas Alex has a lot of problems with reds and greens. I can occasionally see bright reds, but

“I saw purple for the first time in my life and multiple shades of green, so it was ridiculous.”

RYAN ESKRIDGE SOPHOMORE

have a lot of problems with blues and purples.”

“As a girl, it sucks,” Eskridge said while talking about daily struggles being colorblind, “I can’t go shopping without someone. I cant leave my house or my room without seeing someone just to make sure I matched. I came home from middle school one day, and my mom would look at me and say, ‘you wore that all day?’ Poor little Ry was so concerned.”

Danielle Trevino, a junior communication major, was one of the O-Teamers who was present for the life-changing moment. She spoke of how emotional it was for everyone.

“It’s really emotional, because hearing someone ask, ‘Is that what the color pink looks like?” makes you realize you kind of take for granted your ableism in regards to sight and color,” Trevino said.

Bradley’s glasses are bright blue, though glasses are made that are more rose tinted inside, and can only be worn outside, and he wears them almost every time he goes outdoors.

Bradley has had many moments of awe at taking in the colors he has been able to see.

“The day after I got the glasses, I was walking to upper campus from Prassel, and there’s a crepe myrtle tree right in front of Storch that has pink flowers,” Bradley said. “I just stood and stared at that tree for about 15 minutes, and was late to my meeting.” As for the future, Eskridge would like a pair of the Echroma glasses herself.

The more you wear the glasses, the more colors your brain connects.“Personally, I want them as a gift. I’ve told my friends and family that that’s what I want for my 20th birthday so that they know and can plan ahead,” Eskridge said.

Like the other O-Teamers and friends of Eskridge, Trevino noted, were simply excited for her and happy that they was able to be there for a moment that she will never forget. O-Team gifted Eskridge bright and colorful flowers to experience in full color in celebration of the special event.

“O-Team is a lot of bonding from training through NSO, so you grow really close to them in a very short amount of time. Being able to share that with her was just really special,” Trevino said.

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PULSE

Trinity student groups aid in Harvey Relief TUVAc, SGA, and Greek Council facilitate donation projects gathering supplies to benefit Houston and surrounding areas

CLAIRE NAKAYAMA PULSE REPORTER With half of the student body coming from Texas homes along the coastline, many Trinity students’ homes and families were impacted by Hurricane Harvey. While San Antonio may seem far from these areas, the Trinity community has still found multiple ways to contribute to the ongoing disaster relief efforts.

One organization, the Trinity University Volunteer Action Committee (TUVAC), has partnered with both the Student Government Association, SGA, and Greek Council.

TUVAC is dedicated to helping students find volunteer opportunities based on what they’re passionate about and what best fits their interests.

Scott Brown, the assistant director for experiential learning, works primarily with TUVAC and reached out to multiple advisors on Monday, Aug. 28 to create a game plan for the weeks to come.

“We knew a lot of students wanted to help, and we wanted to make sure we weren’t duplicating efforts and finding the best strategy to move forward. We needed to send out a cohesive message of what our students and the Trinity community were going to do,” Brown said.

TUVAC worked with SGA and Greek Council to lead many of the main efforts this past week. SGA came up with the idea to have a service event for everyone at the San Antonio Food Bank on Tuesday, Aug. 29. Since going off-campus might have been inconvenient for some students, a food and donation drive was held as well — the supplies gathered will be taken back to Houston by a student. A

donation table in Mabee Dining Hall, run by Greek council, was also available for students buying goods from the POD to donate.

Student organizations like TUVAC and SGA planned these events far in advance, coming up with ideas even the Thursday before the storm hit. Camila Londono, a senior business major, has been the logistics coordinator for TUVAC since last spring semester. She spoke of the degree to which planning efforts for disasters like Hurricane Harvey differ from any regular service events.

Before the hurricane even hit, Nick Santulli, president of SGA, reached out to TUVAC about being prepared for what would happen.

“It was really hard to plan out. Campus gives us a bunch of resources but we have to schedule things way in advance. Most of our efforts were about what we could do right now. When it comes to immediate calls like this, we thought more about what we could do internally,” Londono said.

Many of the efforts were also student led.

One junior communication major, Emme Bettes, is from Rockport, Texas, which is one of the many areas that has been severely damaged by Harvey. When Bettes watched the live feed of the storm hitting Rockport, she couldn’t believe what was happening.

“Our downtown strip is gone, our way that our community functions to provide for tourists and make it an engaging town has been significantly damaged. It’s going to take months for repair,” Bettes said.

A mandatory evacuation was called for Rockport on Thursday, Aug. 24, and many of Bettes’ friends have not returned to

Items such as water, dog food, and diapers collected by students to be brought to Houston area.

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Rockport yet to see the extent of the damage.

Bettes collected supplies this past week from alumni, staff and students, and will return to Rockport to distribute them to first responders and anyone in need.

I’m primarily taking baby wipes, socks, underwear, t-shirts, and power bars for first responders to eat. Tomorrow or early Friday, I will be meeting with a DPS officer and we will be handing out these items at either the chamber of commerce or our emergency response center,” Bettes said.

Bette stressed that while major cities such as Houston deserve the attention and aid that they’re receiving, it is also important that small towns such as Rockport are not left behind.

“I want to urge people to keep even the small towns in your prayers. Everyone needs help, and no one deserves to be excluded during this time,” Bettes said.

Support and aid in this time has been coming from every direction at Trinity. All three interviewees agreed that the damage will be long term — recovery is far from over.

“One of my friends said that they feel so helpless being here and not with their parents, so if they want to help they should come to us and we’ll come up with an event, even if it’s later in the semester to keep helping,” Londono said.

“We’re trying to find ways to get students plugged into service events depending on their interests and how they can make the biggest impact. Trinity’s core values of impact and community, I feel like they’ve really embodied those values especially this week,” Brown said.

A support group for those affected by Hurricane Harvey will be held at 5p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 7, in the Chapel Reception Room.

In and Out: German Fulbright students reflect on time at Trinity Recent German high school graduates live in Trinity dorms for three weeks through San Antonio’s Discover America Program MEREDITH GOSHELL PULSE REPORTER In 2015, San Antonio launched Discover America via San Antonio (DASA), a student exchange program created jointly by Trinity University and the German-American Fulbright Commission in Berlin. The 13 German students who participated in the 2017 DASA program were living in Trinity residence halls and attending classes from Aug. 14 until Sept. 2.

Peter O’Brien, professor of political science, is a major organizer for the program. He explains the value of studying in San Antonio for the Fulbright students, each of whom come from a family of immigrants to Germany.

“The Fulbright Commission is interested in promoting students of a migration program, which means they have at least one parent born outside of Germany,” O’Brien said. “They’re very interested in promoting their study in the

United States, so this program was designed to give them a taste of university life in the hopes that they will apply in subsequent years for an entire semester or an entire year.”

The program lasts for three weeks and is designed to immerse the students as fully as possible in American life and culture.

Trinity decided to put them through the full International Student Orientation and the First-Year Orientation program in addition to sitting in on a few classes during the first week of classes.

“These students are, with only one exception, recent high school graduates who are starting their university education this fall in October,” O’Brien said. “I think what distinguishes our program from other Fulbright programs is that we were able to organize Trinity roommates. They have an English-speaking roommate, which is very helpful in improving their English.”

While at Trinity, they also have had the

opportunity to immerse themselves in the Trinity culture. The program has organized both academic and social activities for the students.

“‘All in all, it was a completely unreal journey.”

ROYA BANAEIAN JAHROMI FULBRIGHT STUDENT

“I really liked our program so far, not only because of excellent guest lectures, but also due to the fact that we have been in direct contact with Trinity University interns from the very beginning,” said Jonas Vujcic, a 2017 DASA

student who calls the German state of Bavaria home. “I had the most fun while tubing down the river because sometimes I still feel like a 5-year-old child.”

Roya Banaeian Jahromi, a Fulbright student of Iranian descent, hails from North RhineWestphalia, Germany’s most populous state.

Jahromi was enthralled by the experience.

“All in all, it was a completely unreal journey and it kind of made me feel like Trinity University and studying in the US is another world that is very different to the one I live in, but to be able to live here for three weeks and be part of this world is an unforgettable experience,” Jahromi said. “Things here are so different to what they’re like at home, but it was so unique and amazing to see this.”

Though Banaeian and Jahromi have just left Trinity, the Fulbright program continues.

Another 13 students from Germany just arrived on Sept. 4 and will be living among Tigers until Sept. 24.

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Health, wellness and you

HEALTH AND WELLNESS

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A letter from the (Managing) Editor Hello wonderful Trinitonian readers, and welcome to our first special section: the Health and Wellness issue.

Throughout the year we are going to be running a series of these sections with specified topics ranging from fashion, technology, love and sex, mental health, housing and so much more. A calendar of these issues can be found on Page 16. These sections not only provide a fantastic opportunity for our writers to gain experience writing outside of their sections but they allow the Trinity community to gain deeper insight to a wide array of topics that affect campus, San Antonio and the greater world around us.

This special section is incredibly special to me. Maintaining your health while in college is one of the most important things a student can do. As Augusten Burroughs once said, “When you have your health, you have everything. When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all.” Without your health you can’t go to class, be with friends or do anything other than nurse yourself back to health.

For a good part of my time in college, I struggled with digestive issues. I would wake up most mornings feeling nauseous, I would have horrible acid reflux and, not to get too graphic, I had one too many horrific run-ins with toilets. It got to the point that I would miss classes and other extracurricular activities because of my body.

It wasn’t until I wrote a piece on being lactose intolerant that I really decided to take control of my health. After reading the article, one of my friends called me out for continuously eating cheese despite my food allergy. I finally decided to listen to my body and made an actual effort to cut dairy out of my diet. While the response wasn’t immediate, slowly my body responded to me paying attention to its cries for help.

Hopefully this special section provides you with useful and practical information about how to maintain your health while in college and potentially improve your life. In this section you will be able to find information about the health benefits of sleep, stories of students with both a meal plan and significant dietary restrictions and tips on eating and exercise from and alumna and current students.

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How to sleep for your health

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KAYLIE KING

Sleep can often be one of the last things on college students’ minds, even though most students know that they should be getting enough sleep if they want to succeed.

Jackie Bevilacqua, coordinator of health services, described the importance of getting enough sleep in college.

“Ideally, college students will get between seven and eight hours a night,” Bevilacqua said. “[One] of the reasons it’s really important for college students is sleep allows you to take the information you’ve been studying and file it away in a way that you can recall it later.

Conversely, if you’re not getting enough sleep, you have more difficulty solving problems.

Taking exams is going to be more difficult.

You have difficulty recalling information.

Adequate sleep helps reduce your stress. Sleep, along with many other things, helps your brain to work properly.”

Bevilacqua suggested reading a book rather than spending time with screens in the hour before bedtime.

“In this current age, where we all have a portable electronic device that’s permanently attached to us, me included, the light from those devices actually stimulates a part of your brain that causes you to be wakeful,” Bevilacqua said. “So, if you are using a computer or a tablet on normal mode where you get the bright light, it stimulates your brain and it’s going to make it harder for you to go to sleep. We recommend that you stop using that at least an hour before it’s time to be asleep.”

There are also certain things students can do to achieve better sleep at night.

“People sleep best under particular conditions: a cool room, a quiet room, a dark

room — I realize you’re living in a residence hall and all those things depend on the people you’re living with, but there are things that you can do,” Bevilacqua said. “You can use earplugs, you can use a sleep mask. Try to enlist the help of a roommate or whoever you’re living with to comply with that. Just because your roommate won’t cooperate doesn’t mean you can’t wear a sleep mask or use earplugs for quiet.”

Setting a regular time to go to sleep and wake up is important to restful sleep, and Bevilacqua emphasized that trying to stick to this schedule is important, even on the weekend.

“Generally, the most successful students are the ones that plan for a regular bedtime,” Bevilacqua said. “Try to keep that regular schedule. Your body gets used to that and your biorhythms will start working with that. You’ll find you’ll maybe be able to wake without an alarm. Taking a nap during the day is an okay thing to do as long as you keep it pretty short — 20 or 30 minutes at the most.”

Trinity students also weighed in on the effects that they notice when they do or don’t get enough sleep.

“If I don’t get enough sleep, I usually won’t pay as much attention in class,” said Connie Laing, sophomore communication major.

“After seven hours [of sleep], I usually feel like I can make it until 5 the next day, and then I want to take a nap. But I also avoid naps.”

Sarah Gorban, sophomore neuroscience and psychology major, has been getting more sleep this year than she did as a first-year.

“This year I have been getting an average of seven hours of sleep, give or take an hour

A common sight on campus: Students taking a nap while on break from school work.

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or so,” Gorban said. “However, last year, while I never did and do not intend to do an allnighter, I know I did not get enough sleep.

This was mainly due to my academic workload and study habits. If I did not finish studying as I wanted I would just get a couple hours of sleep [and] then wake up.”

“Sleep is very important in general, not only for mental, physical and emotional health, but also for normal biological processes,” Gorban

said. “Sleep is of course important also in college, though it is often more difficult to get the recommended hours due to everyday stress, academics and general commitments. Adequate sleep often makes me feel more energized in and out of classes. I would say I am more attentive and focused with more sleep.”

Students with concerns about sleep should try to change their sleep conditions and avoid screens before going to bed.

Eating on restricted mode Trinity students discuss being on a meal plan when you can’t eat certain foods JULIA POAGE It’s an unofficial Trinity tradition to complain about Aramark. The students who protest the cold pork sausages and lack of flour tortillas seem to forget about those who can’t eat these common Mabee staples, though.

While eating on campus can be difficult, students with medical and religious restrictions find ways to stay healthy and satisfied.

Robin Bissett is a sophomore English major with Hashimoto’s disease, an autoimmune disease affecting the thyroid. She’s not on any medication for her Hashimoto’s, but there are other ways of keeping her disease in check.

“A lot of people have different dietary suggestions — some people say if you’re vegetarian [your thyroid will] work better, or if you’re gluten free it’ll work better, and I’m not on any medication, so I was trying to help it work its best by avoiding gluten, which is what one doctor suggested,” Bissett said.

She was gluten-free for her first year at Trinity, and while she had to avoid gluten-heavy meals at Coates University Center favorites like Einstein Bros. Bagels and Taco Taco, she enjoyed eating at Mabee Dining Hall.

Her go-to meals when she was eating gluten-free were fruit, coffee and peanut butter for breakfast, and plates from the salad bar and stir fry line for lunch and dinner.

Freshii is a solid choice for gluten-free eating, as well.

Overall, Bissett was impressed with the variety of options available to gluten-free people at Trinity, from the gluten-free bread at Mabee to the salad bowls at Freshii.

“I think [Trinity] did a great job,” Bissett said about dining services accommodating her dietary restrictions.

Lutfi Sun, a sophomore economics major originally from Turkey, has religious dietary

indulge in halal foods that are less common in Turkey, like Mexican vegetarian food, shrimp, pineapples, bananas and tuna sandwiches.

He’s found out that he can broaden his palate while sticking to his diet.

Enrique Garcia, a junior chemistry major, is Catholic and sticks to a traditional, meatless diet during the period of Lent, the six weeks before Easter Sunday.

“Growing up, we learned that on Fridays, Thursdays and particular days of the week where we were supposed to be in prayer or just observe, we were not supposed to eat meat. I never really studied the whole fact behind it, it was just something that you have to do, but I thought along the way, Christ gave up his flesh so we, in a way, have to give up some sort of flesh at the same time,” Garcia said.

Though he only abstains from meat for an amount of time out of the year, he has struggled with finding food to eat on campus during that period.

“It is hard, especially when you go down to Mabee and all you see is pork, beef or chicken, and it’s a little hard, because what else can you actually eat to sustain yourself when you’re not a vegetarian or vegan?” Garcia said.

His go-to meals during Lent are macaroni and cheese and fried catfish.

One of the vegetarian options at Freshii is the Buddah’s Sattay with tofu. It is a great option for students who Garcia also shared his personal thoughts have restricted diets. on the importance of following a certain diet based on religious reasons.

Photo by AMANI CANADA “Observing specific diets for a religious “[Adhering to this diet is] not super easy matter is important, and it’s better to educate restrictions similar to halal guidelines in Islam.

“The halal/haram thing is a little bit and it’s not the same as it was [in Turkey], but I yourself instead of being just like me and go different, but it has a big impact on my eating like it because it makes me try different things with the flow the entire way. You have to know — it sounds weird, how can a restriction make why you’re doing it, so you have a passion habits,” Sun said.

Since he can’t be sure if the meat served on you try different things? I like it, personally, for it, so you don’t become distracted or you actually follow through with it for a certain campus was slaughtered in a halal manner, he even though it’s not super easy,” Sun said.

Living in San Antonio, Sun has been able to event or throughout your life,” Garcia said. avoids eating meat at Mabee and Coates.

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The Tomorrow Diet MICAELA HOFFMAN

The bombardment of messaging from the weight gain and loss industry is unyielding.

There is the paleo diet, South Beach diet, low-carb diet, high-protein diet, juice fasts and even a cookie diet. Superfoods like kale, quinoa and chia before that; bulk-up powders and sugary protein shakes … so what should we choose? My vote is: none of the above.

Fad diets are just about one of the worst things you can do to sabotage your wellness.

I truly believe that diets can lead to eating disorders. Katherine Hewitt, Trinity’s oncampus health and wellness expert, agrees.

“Frequent dieting, fasting and extreme calorie counting are several examples of disordered eating,” Hewitt said.

Based on a study by the Philadelphia Eating Disorder Examiner, as many as 25 percent of occasional dieters advance to fullblown eating disorders.

“Remember, there are other eating disorders besides anorexia, such as bingeeating disorder, bulimia and more recent terms include avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder [ARFID] and other specified feeding and eating disorders [OSFED],” Hewitt said.

Eating disorders such as these affect over 10 million people in the United States according to the Center for Eating Disorders, and that number is growing every year. When we overanalyze how we eat, it can become an unhealthy obsession.

“I think health recommendations change so frequently, that it is hard to just pick one weight-loss option or solution,” Hewitt said.

To prove my point, it seems like every week we are told to eat a new item or substitute. Almond milk anyone?

Nina Teicholz, an investigative journalist, wrote a book called “The Big Fat Surprise” which argues for the inclusion of saturated fats in a healthy diet. What?! I thought

avoiding fats was the one thing I could count on. But it doesn’t end there: avoid salt — no, actually, that’s not so bad for you. Don’t eat fast food — but some woman in Florida lost 54 pounds eating nothing but Taco Bell for a month. What are we supposed to make of all of these conflicting messages?

Hewitt recommends getting back to basics.

“Fresh is best,” Hewitt said. “Eat breakfast, evenly space your meals, limit or avoid salt, sugar, fat when possible and stick with lean protein and tons of veggies.”

I like this middle-of-the-road approach much better than the crazy elimination diets that I’ve tried in the past. Hewitt takes a holistic approach using eight different dimensions of wellness, not limited to just diet and exercise; it includes a spiritual dimension, getting enough sleep and managing stress. I encourage students to find her in her office hours in Halsell on North Campus if they’re interested in learning more.

Why are we so obsessed with attaining a body image that is fundamentally so unrealistic? Carolyn Becker, professor of psychology, was a leader in a collaborative effort to create a program to combat the pressures of society called the Body Project.

Now used in over 140 universities, this program runs every year at Trinity to help students cope with the appearance ideal.

“Barbie and Ken set us up to fail!”

Hewitt said.

She’s worried about social media platforms as well, as it is easy to consume the messages of the appearance ideal. Instead, she recommends using social media to connect with others and find out about local activities, like FitCitySA. I, personally, will continue to partake in the Tomorrow Diet and forget about the fads.

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Counseling Services - Located on Halsell 2nd floor.

Katherine Hewitt holds office hours, where you can learn about the body project, and meet with her to learn more about ways you can get healthy and well.

Email her at khewitt@trinity.edu.

HEALTH AND WELLNESS

Eating smart on campus

Trinity graduate Samantha Rodriguez talks Mabee, meal prep and healthy living on a budget KENDRA DERRIG College is hard enough balancing schoolwork, a social life and sleep, and proper nutrition is sometimes one of the things that slips through the cracks for an on-the-go student.

Samantha Rodriguez, a Trinity alumna based in Houston, knows the struggle. Now, Rodriguez runs health food social media accounts, as well as a blog, where she provides recipes and inspiration for proper nutrition.

Rodriguez graduated from Trinity in 2014, majoring in communication with a minor in communications management. During the summer before her senior year, Rodriguez interned with the Southtown Farmers and Ranchers Market, where she was responsible for their digital presence.

“Each Saturday I had the opportunity to talk to the vendors and learn about the wide variety of produce that you don’t typically see in a grocery store — pattypan squash, for example. Since I was responsible for coming up with compelling photos to help showcase the market online, I ended up following food bloggers and Instagram ‘foodies’ to learn how other people presented something as simple as corn in a way that made the produce look exciting and vibrant,” Rodriguez said.

This internship led Rodriguez to her current position at Whole Foods, and also inspired her to get involved personally in the online health food scene.

“This experience led me to focus my senior capstone on building a nutritionbased education campaign for a nonprofit in San Antonio — which led me to get a job in Houston post-graduation at a local health food startup, which then led me to Whole Foods Market,” Rodriguez said. “All the while I have maintained my health food focused social media accounts, which hopefully inspire others to adopt healthier diets.”

Anyone who has eaten at Mabee Dining Hall recently can relate to the struggle of balancing healthy eating and taste, but, according to Rodriguez, Mabee has improved immensely as a place where the healthconscious can eat without guilt.

“Back in 2010, when Mabee didn’t even have a salad bar, when I returned for my sophomore year the dining hall had been adapted to include a salad bar. I remember being so excited about the idea of unlimited produce,” Rodriguez said. “However, I could see how the buffet could be a challenge for

those who struggle with portion control.”

For students with access to a kitchen, Rodriguez gave some advice for eating healthy.

“Meal prep, meal prep, meal prep! When I lived off campus during the summers, and for my senior year, I learned that the easiest way to save money was to purchase my groceries twice a week and cook my meals ahead of time.”

Rodriguez especially encourages students not to be afraid of frozen produce.

“Some staples in my kitchen during my senior year included white rice, frozen vegetables like broccoli and stir-fry mixes from Trader Joe’s, along with frozen fish fillets and chicken breasts. My roommate and I would make large batches of rice in our rice cooker, and then pack containers filled with veggies and pan-seared fish or chicken to take to campus,” Rodriguez said. “Purchase predominantly frozen produce, and then once you realize how frequently you are eating your vegetables, switch to fresh. Fresh produce spoils quickly, and if you wait too long to eat it you are basically wasting your money.”

Rodriguez also suggests shopping the store brand for kitchen staples, and limiting the number of times you go out to eat.

“Instead of going out to eat to socialize, invite friends over and have a pot-luck. This is a fun way to experiment in the kitchen and avoid overspending,” Rodriguez said.

For those trying to change their diet, Rodriguez warns against obsessing over eating “clean.”

“Don’t count calories. Just don’t. Life is about balance, and that is something that I have come to learn after going through phases of very strict dieting or ‘clean eating.’ Wanting to eat healthy is amazing, but in a society that is constantly trying to redefine what a ‘clean diet’ is, the thought of eating clean and healthy can be a little overwhelming. Try to look at food with a positive mindset, and focus on incorporating whole foods that are minimally processed into your diet. I suggest avoiding looking at nutrition labels, and instead focus on the product’s ingredient list.

If you recognize all of the ingredients and can envision them in your mind, then you know you are eating real food,” Rodriguez said.

If you are interested in following Rodriguez on social media, her handles on Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest are all @bunbeetsworld, or you can check out her blog at bunbeetsworld.com.

You can follow SAMANTHA RODRIGUEZ on Instagram @bunbeetsworld. She regularly posts about healthy eating. photo by AMANI CANADA

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The importance of barbell training LIAM KNIPPENBERG I recognize this isn’t the most gripping topic in collegiate life today, but in terms of actual dayto-day impact and the potential for measurable change, college students like ourselves are going to be hard pressed to find a more measurable and beneficial tool for personal improvement than barbell training.

Its importance was popularized early on in the 1970s by such greats as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lou Ferrigno, Franco Columbu and Doug Young. Over my last three years at Trinity, it has been encouraging to see an increase in the number of students who use barbell implements to seek better health. Before the dissolution of the old barbell training room last year, it seemed to me that many more young men and women of all sizes, ages and strengths were becoming more and more comfortable with barbell training alongside each other.

To those who have never attempted to squat with a barbell, this article might seem ridiculous; I assure you it is not. It is never easy for a self-conscious student to attempt a complex multi-joint exercise with a weight far less than the student on the next platform over. Barbell movements can be intimidating, and can deter those unfamiliar with their execution. Not only that, but I have heard several female friends and classmates tell me they feel uncomfortable in the barbell room because they feel that they are being judged or objectified. This must stop.

Regardless of the unfortunate (and often times self-imposed) psychological barriers to barbell training, it should be practiced by everyone at Trinity to some degree or another. If you enjoy the machine room, or swimming, running, yoga, or if you hate exercise altogether, barbells are for you. The Bell Center provides students with barbells for limited hours on weekdays. There are many local gyms that provide barbells, and the local YMCA offers discounted rates for Trinity students. There are also many great barbell programs that are easy to find online, including the 5/3/1 method, the Texas Method, and even the Stronglifts app for smartphones.

Those wanting to learn more about these programs can find a tremendous amount of information in such books as “Starting Strength,” “Supple Leopard,” “Get Buffed” and thousands of online articles.

There is a continuum in strength physiology between intensity (the amount of mass on a bar) and stability (the motor unit recruitment required to keep a weight moving in an intended path). Machine implements (like a leg press) offer the trainee the most weight for the least amount of necessary stability.

This is because the path of the movement is set in a certain groove by the machine. It is not uncommon to see an adult male who weighs less than 200 pounds leg press over 1,000 pounds. On the other end of

the spectrum are dumbbells, which allow travel along the x, y and z axes.

Because dumbbells can be moved in all three dimensions, much lighter weights must be used. Essentially, a trainee can lift more weight with a machine than a dumbbell. In short, machines allow for the most weight (albeit usually through a pulley) with the least amount of required stability, and dumbbells offer the most required stability at the cost of heavier weight.

Barbells offer a happy medium.

Unlike dumbbells, which can be moved in all three dimensions when held in the hand, a barbell can only travel along two axes (unless the trainee is strong enough to rip the barbell apart). On the other hand barbell movements inherently recruit more muscle mass than dumbbell movements because an athlete can flex against a barbell. The two dimensional nature of a barbell allows for more muscle to be recruited. A weight must be used that is less heavy than a machine, but the required stability of a barbell drastically increases the difficulty of the movement compared to a machine. There are less than 20 adult males who can squat over 1,000 pounds, while there are many who can leg press the same amount.

What does this have to do with a college student who only works out for health and couldn’t care less what the world record raw squat is? It means that barbell movements offer far more bang-for-your-buck than

LIAM KNIPPENBERG gets ready to lift in the Bell Center.

Photo by AMANI CANADA

anything else you can do. If you have neck or shoulder pain, strengthening the upper back and spinal erectors will relieve that stress because your body has more support. What about stress headaches? Same thing. If you want to improve your cardio capabilities, strength will allow your cardio

sessions to improve because your rate of force production has increased, making your cycling, running or swimming less demanding per stride.

If you want to be able to pick up your grandkids one day, try this: squat heavy with a barbell once a week for 10 years, and see how you end up.

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Getting swole in your room Junior provides tips on how to stay fit without stepping foot in the Bell Center JULIA WEIS

It’s only the beginning of September, but that doesn’t mean some of us haven’t already picked up the infamous ‘freshman 15.’ Don’t despair, first-years. It’s not always 15 pounds that you gain. It might only be around 5 pounds. In my case, it was the ‘freshman 35’!

That endless Mabee food, the freedom not to be chastised by your parents for what you eat, weekends spent lying around by the poolside — they aren’t doing much for your body. I get it. With our crazy, over-committed schedules, it can be really hard to find time to take care of your health and fitness if you’re not involved in sports or other activities at Trinity.

Maybe you’re like what I was in 2015 — a nervous first-year, confused and intimidated by the Bell Center, but starting to feel like something must be done to balance out the amount of Mabee cookies consumed in the past few weeks.

Now, I’m no fitness expert, but I do enjoy working out and staying healthy. So if you want to get a short, efficient workout out without going to the gym, here are some tips that I’ve tested out for you.

We’ll break this up into three sections: upper body, core and lower body.

Upper Body

Here are a few upper-body moves to work on those biceps, triceps and chest muscles. A fun move that I found on Pinterest was a bicep curl, using an usual object to lift — your desk chair! That’s right, lift up the back of your desk chair and pull it towards your chest, then put it back down. If you do that enough times to make you tired (which depends on the person, but could be from 10 to 30 repetitions), you’ve successfully completed this move.

Another arm exercise you can do is the tricep dip, off a surface like your bed. You position yourself with your arms at the edge of your bed and your body leaning out away from the bed. Then slowly push down and lift yourself up. It’s basically like a reverse pushup.

You can also do pushups in your room to work on those arm and chest muscles.

Core

For working on that core, a.k.a. the area of your body where the cookies pile up, there are many exercises you can do that don’t require

equipment. For example, the classic plank is a move that requires you to put your forearms on the ground and hold up your body. It works the whole core, and is pretty hard, so if you can do it anywhere from 30 seconds to a minute, then good for you.

Another move that I like to do at the gym is the Russian twist. I usually use weights, but in my room, I can use my heavy bottle of Tide detergent and that does the trick too.

Sit down and hold the bottle or weight. Twist your upper body back and forth and do that for several repetitions, however many you feel is necessary.

Other core exercises you can try are any moves that involve lying on the ground and lifting your lower body up into the air, like a leg lift or scissor kicks. These are great for your lower abs, and there’s just enough space on the ground of your dorm room for you to do these.

Lower Body

Lastly, try some of these lower body exercises to get thicc thighs and a nice booty.

All jokes aside, there are lots of benefits from having strong legs, hips and glutes, or at least that’s what the personal trainers I follow on Instagram tell me.

Squats are a great exercise that you can do anywhere. For more of a cardio twist on the traditional squat, try a jump squat, where you jump into the air when raising your body back up.

Another move that’s easy to do in your room, or anywhere you have a wall really, is a wall sit. In my dorm in South, I have an enormous pillar in the center of my room. At first it seemed like a bit of a nuisance, but now I see how it can be used for exercises like wall sits.

Other exercises that train your legs and hips and don’t require equipment are moves like donkey kicks and fire hydrants. These require you to get on your hands and knees and kick out your legs either to the back or the side and are great for your hip flexors.

Hopefully you enjoyed this brief guide on working out in your dorm. And remember to always stretch before and after you workout to prevent strained muscles.

JULIA WEIS does a chair curl in her dorm room to work out her upper body. photo provided by JULIA WEIS

“American Horror Story” Strikes Again

Marvel’s “Inhumans” alienates audiences

Fans of spookiness, rejoice! Though the series has had its ups and downs, this year’s tale of a cult in suburban Michigan looks promising.

The latest in a long string of Marvel-produced television shows, here’s hoping that this disapointing opening week convinces the Disney overlords to ease up on the cinematic universe concept.

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An interview with writer Kelly Grey Carlisle A small conversation with the author of the autobiographical memoir “We Are All Shipwrecks” AUSTIN DAVIDSON A&E CONTRIBUTOR

When I was given the opportunity to interview Kelly Carlisle, associate professor of English at Trinity, I had no idea how widely known she was.

Even when I interviewed her she never mentioned the fact that her nonfiction essays have been listed in many prominent literary magazines like the New England Review, The Sun, Cherry Tree and The Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction. On top of that, she was also listed three times in “Best American Essays,” accolades I am well aware I won’t be receiving. But I wasn’t there to ask her about her already-solid career. I was there to interview her about her new book, “We Are All Shipwrecks.”

From watching the brief little movie about her book before talking to her, I guessed the book was about a journey of self-discovery, loneliness and love. But when I began to ask her about her book, I was soon fascinated by the interesting and often tough life Carlisle has faced.

When she spoke about it, it was with an air of certain acceptance that she told me her stories, not with anger or pain, but with a reassured confidence I hope to one day achieve. Here is the short symposium I was so lucky to have with Carlisle.

AD: So, what went into the creation of the title?

KGC: Well, the title “We Are All Shipwrecks” could refer to the fact that most of my childhood I grew up on a boat in the harbors of Los Angeles. It was very run-down, and after I left the boat and went to college, the boat actually shipwrecked. But, beyond that, the title and the book are really referring to the fact that we all lead imperfect lives and that, to an extent, we all end up as shipwrecks.

We have these tragedies that have formed us and we screw up our lives and that’s what makes us shipwrecks. As it relates to me in the book, my mom was murdered when I was very young. I found out all of this much later in my life, since it’s not an easy subject to bring up to a kid.

I found it out when I reinvestigated the case. From the case I discovered she was

“The title and the book are really referring to the fact that we all lead imperfect lives and that, to an extent, we all end up as shipwrecks. ”

working as a prostitute and was making money for her and I to survive. One night she went out to turn a trick and was strangled. As I kept investigating my mother and the case, I found that she had a very rough childhood. Her father barely knew her and she mainly lived with her grandfather. They both really didn’t take care of her well and I think due to their imperfections she was led to the situation she was in. But I also think her father redeemed himself by doing a good job raising me, so I think in a way the title refers to us all and the imperfections we have and how those affect us.

AD: Could you also say that, because of your incredibly interesting life and the many people in it, that the book was written as maybe an ode to them and to your mom?

KGC: For reals. Many people helped raise me. My grandfather and his wife, who wasn’t really related to me — but was really like a second mom to me — and when we lived on the boat, there were all these down-on-their-luck people who also taught me many things and really shaped my childhood really positively.

They taught me how to garden and sow and really were amazing people. Also all the teachers I had really did have a big impact on me and it’s, as they say, the ‘village of people’ that raise you really helped me become the person I am today.

AD: That’s a really good point. So besides those people, would you say there is a specific demographic for this book? Maybe a certain audience you are trying to tap into, like people who have had difficult lives or hardships they are having a difficult time with?

KGC: I don’t know. Maybe that. My publisher hopes that everyone will read it. Hopefully people who don’t have a difficult life but want to read about love and resilience and family. The book also speaks about what family even means and I hope everyone would be interested in that. I didn’t really have a specific demographic in mind when I wrote the book but I hope people who do have difficult lives, or had a strange childhood, know that you can grow and become an amazing person regardless of those things.

You aren’t stuck in that disfunction.

And regardless of the strangeness of my childhood, my friends and family loved me dearly and I will always be thankful for that. The book also talks about what a ‘normal’ family is and what that means.

Maybe a little bit of strangeness in a family can be a good thing.

AD: So what drove you to write this book? I mean, besides the fact you are an English professor.

KGC: Well that is a factor. I wrote a lot of essays during grad school, and being in grad school, you tend to go to bars a lot, and there I would tell stories about my life. Afterwards people would always say that I should do a book about my life and initially I just did stories, but then I decided why not make a big collection of stories into one big one? And while

Book cover provided by KELLY GREY CARLISLE

my life was weird, I never thought it was weird enough to write about, but I guess it is.

AD: Sounds like an interesting life to me! So what was the creative process like?

KGC: Well, the book took about 10 years for me to think it was good enough to publish. So yeah, it was a tad difficult! I was working full time as well, getting a Ph.D. and having a kid and raising the other one, so I was doing a lot.

AD: A tad busy, one could say.

KGC: Yeah, but I’m happy with where the book is now.

AD: Well that’s good. Lastly, would you say there is an overall message you want people to take away from this book?

KGC: You know, there is this really amazing quote from Flannery O’Connor that I couldn’t quote to you verbatim but it’s really cool and it’s something like, ‘When an author writes a story, people are always asking if there is a message or a point to the work, but for the writer the message is the story itself.’ So I do hope that people enjoy the book, but I don’t have a specific message because for me the story is my life and that is the message I think is in the book.

“I do hope that people enjoy the book, but I don’t have a specific message because for me the story is my life and that is the message I think is in the book.”

I can’t express how enjoyable it was talking to Carlisle. She was kind, interesting and honest, and while I haven’t yet read her book (which might be due to that it hasn’t officially come out yet), I know it will be a superb work of nonfiction. Attend one of her book launches, and hopefully you’ll get to experience what I did — meeting someone who has overcome and grown out of a life I believed would only to be possible in movies and TV shows and become a truly lovely person.

This interview was edited for clarity.

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Creativity fosters within you important health benefits ABIGAIL WHARTON A&E CONTRIBUTOR

With today’s advances in technology and neurological research, we can say with a great deal of confidence that the structure of your brain changes with the influences of the surrounding environment. The brain recovers and ‘rewires’ in response to mental and physical stress.

This is exactly why you should make art today.

The process of making art allows one to reorganize their thoughts. The doodles in the margins of your notes and the charcoal drawings you struggled over for your Drawing I class are all effectively reframing and reworking a previously held thought or experience. Making art is active and physically engaging. Who wouldn’t want to decrease stress, anxiety or mood disturbances?

Expressive therapy is a relatively new and rapidly developing field in psychology.

Clinical mental health therapists the world over are getting specializations in art, theater and music therapy to help patients that don’t get what they need out of traditional talk or physical therapy alone. The ‘adult’ coloring book trend brought a simplified version of expressive therapy into the mainstream and Target stores everywhere still sell intricate designs for people to complete in the medium of their choice.

Music is probably one of the easiest and most obvious ways to bring a dose of expressive therapy into your own life.

Auditory stimulation is a potent factor in balancing emotions, reducing anxiety and even relieving pain. Some studies have shown that music actually calms neural activity in

illustration by ANDREA NEBHUT

the brain. Messing around with a guitar or a $20 ukulele you bought on Amazon, or building the right wind-down playlist, can make all the difference.

In terms of reducing anxiety, songs with a tempo of 80 beats per minute or less, like Beyoncé’s “Halo,” are usually advised over something that is 120 beats per minute or higher, like Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance.”

A simple Google or Spotify search can provide entire playlists of songs with reduced tempos.

When you’re angry or sad, sometimes it’s easier to make pictures than it is to speak words. Art is a tool often used in therapeutic settings for combat veterans and abuse survivors, but it is equally therapeutic for the average college student.

Like keeping a journal, the process of rearticulating thoughts and ideas is cathartic and helpful when it comes to taking a step back and reevaluating a problem or a series of events. Whether you’re struggling to study for exams, stuck on a paper or having a falling out with a friend, there needs to be some sort of outlet for stress. Selfexploration is insight, and insight reduces copious personal stress.

Buy a $10 canvas at Michael’s. Mess it up and call it abstract art. Hang it over your bed as wall art. Buy a cheap sketchbook.

Scribble lopsided faces and caricatures of your professors. Print out your favorite selfies and most-liked Instagram pictures.

Collage them on a cork board or wallpaper your closet door with them. Join a knitting club. Write poetry that doesn’t rhyme. It’s all art.

It’s worth noting that making art can’t actually cure depression, anxiety, guilt, anger or other undesirable shifts in attitude, but it can serve as a tool to explore why the feelings exist while providing a healthier way to cope. Coping does not involve quiet suffering, bottling up feelings, drinking, binge eating, skipping important school work or participating in self-destructive behaviors.

Seeking professional help is always encouraged when mental and physical illness or copious stress and anxiety are preventing you from leading a full life.

College life requires an immense amount of social and physical engagement.

We navigate hundreds of pages of reading and writing almost weekly while juggling extracurricular activities, Greek life, exams, friends and family, work and sometimes career decisions with nothing more than a few hours of sleep and a large amount of coffee. Art and music are therapeutic tools put to work by practicing therapists every day that can just as easily be put to work for you.

Ditch the phone: Ways to achieve a healthy night’s sleep ARIANA RAZAVI A&E CONTRIBUTOR

We millennials have the habit of having our phones or laptops to our faces all the time.

This isn’t a great generation-wide habit, as you may have heard your parents tell you a million times. Technological devices can be helpful when searching “How to spell Mississippi”, which I still do not know how to spell. [Editors note: We got you.]

They can also work as a distraction, a big time consumer and, most importantly, they can disturb your sleep, which is a hot commodity for college students. I have recently been struggling to break the habit of staring at my phone like a zombie and checking my social media apps before I go to bed. But after doing some research on Google, I learned that the key to getting a great night sleep is to be completely relaxed, and ending your night on technological devices does the exact opposite.

Business Insider magazine has some research regarding this: “Studies have shown that being exposed to the blue-and-white light given off by phones, laptops, and other electronic gadgets at night prevents our brains from releasing melatonin, a hormone that tells our bodies it’s nighttime.”

So, I found a few relaxing activities that can help distract from using your phone and other electronic gadgets before going to bed.

Why read the latest ridiculous DailyMail story about the Kardashians when you can be a well-rounded individual and pick up

a classic novel before you sleep? Reading relaxes the mind — well, reading for fun does.

When it comes to reading something as big as my Business Law textbook, my mind is not able to relax at all. Let me get nostalgic and put it in perspective: Remember when your parents would read you bedtime stories just so you could get sleepy? Unfortunately, you no longer have the luxury of having parents read Dr. Seuss to you at your bedside, but reading to yourself accomplishes the same goal. If you aren’t a reader, then consider putting on a relaxing playlist and drawing. It doesn’t matter if you are good or not. It just helps you focus and empty your mind For those more physically inclined, stretching and meditating before you sleep has been proven beneficial for a great night’s sleep. It helps you not only to clear your mind, but slow down your heart rate, and it can be fun if you have a partner too! So get your roomie and start a nightly yoga ritual.

Drink some tea afterwards, too! This might sound posh, but it helps the body to rest.

There are several teas that are great to drink before you hit the hay. One of my favorites is chamomile with honey, which helps you fall asleep faster. If you suffer from insomnia, banana tea might be your go-to since it helps your blood vessels and muscles relax.

It sounds odd, but sometimes the weirdest things work.

Another tool that many girls are partial to is a facemask; but this isn’t a tip exclusive to ladies!

As strange as it may sound, having healthy skin does not discriminate based on gender. Don’t worry boys, facemasks hold plenty of benefit for men too. Here are a few of my favorites: 1. The classic cucumber mask: This mask should be familiar to you. Just thinly slice some

graphic by TYLER HERRON

cucumbers and put them on your face for 15– 20 minutes, then rinse with room temperature water. This helps with redness and freshens the skin, which will help your skin glow.

2. The sugar lemon honey mask: This is a go-to of mine because not only is it a mask, it’s also an amazing exfoliating scrub. All you need is half a cup of sugar, a teaspoon of honey and half a lemon. Mix it all together and scrub it all over your damp face. Leave it on for 15–20

minutes and rinse with warm water. The sugar works as an exfoliant, the lemon brightens the skin and the honey prevents acne from popping up.

These suggestions might seem extra or difficult to fit in your nightly routines, but if you give it a try and stick with it, it will help!

You will get better sleep at night and have more productive days.

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Navigating pathways? Get creative with your schedule ABIGAIL WHARTON A&E CONTRIBUTOR

A large portion of Trinity’s educational system is devoted to something we call approaches to creation and analysis. This section is thoroughly defined on our school’s website: “In order to master the skills of analysis, research, and creation, students should demonstrate the ability to use the disciplinary approaches characteristic of the humanities, arts and creative disciplines, social and behavioral sciences, natural sciences, and quantitative disciplines.”

I remember exactly how intimidating Pathways felt as a first-year, but, as an art major, one of the easiest things for me to check off was the creative expression requirement. It’s just one class, or three credit hours at Trinity, in the arts and creative disciplines. When I walked into my Drawing I class I was surprised to find it populated with upperclassmen. With a little over twenty students in the studio, I only found two other art majors and heaps of bad attitudes from students of different majors who obviously did not want to be taking a traditional art class.

Luckily for all of us, Pathways expands our options. You shouldn’t suffer in a curriculum requirement you don’t enjoy, especially when there are so many options. Stretching your boundaries is a creed at the heart of Trinity University, but that can and should be balanced with your personal interests and professional endeavors. Pathways states that the art requirement should deal with what sounds like fairly traditional and run of the mill art and music classes: “Courses that enable students to create aesthetic artifacts or performances.”

Despite this equally intimidating definition of creative expression, art and music are

only two of the eight disciplines offered by Pathways. Let’s cover all of the options.

Art: As a staple of the requirement, there are nearly a dozen intro-level art studio classes to choose from. If learning to draw, paint or sculpt isn’t on your collegiate bucket list, there are some lesser-known options. Bookbinding teaches you how to make your own sketchbooks and notepads by hand, from the paper inside to the binding on the spine. Photography I takes you inside the department’s fully outfitted dark room and teaches you priceless skills in film. The art department also offers an array of print classes ranging from traditional Lithography and Monotype to Screen Printing on posters and tee shirts.

Classics: If you’re a sophomore looking to accumulate some upper-division hours, then Greek and Roman drama may be for you.

The class covers tragedy and comedy, and examines the social, theatrical and political values surrounding the plays. Students also get to try their own hand at adapting, directing, producing or acting in a performance of a classic drama.

Communication: Interactive Multimedia Communication also offers upper division hours. This class deals with the conceptualizing and production of internet content. From web and game design to virtual promotions you can learn about the writing and editing that goes into this field and pick up some resumeboosting skills while you’re at it.

English: If you prefer to sharpen your writing abilities, the English department has you covered. Introduction to Non-Fiction Writing will drill theory and test your technique. Fiction Writing and Poetry Writing can fill our your personal portfolio with rhymes and short stories.

Engineering: Busy engineering science majors need not worry about losing time.

Engineering Design VII fulfills the creative expressions requirement while helping fill out the upper division hours required for the major. This is a capstone class that involves close advising and collaboration as well realistic design establishment, synthesis and constraint.

The creative demands of Pathways provides the rare opportunity to develop a productive skill or hobby photo by CHLOE SONNIER

Human Communication: Public Speaking is an intro-level class that teaches an important life skill. Here, students can learn to adapt and prepare effective messages. If critical thinking and listening are up your alley, this is a good place to explore.

Music: If you’d rather spend your time singing or strumming on an instrument, there are several combinations of music classes available to fill your needs. Each class is only one hour, so be sure to keep tally for the three hours required to complete creative expressions. The Trinity Choir, Chamber Singers, Symphony Orchestra, and Ensembles all produce incredible musical performances each year. Who else can say they were in a Handbell Ensemble in college?

Theater: Theater is another staple of the creative expressions requirement, but they actually offer several options aside from acting and improv. Principles of Costume Construction is an introductory course where students learn how to pattern and drape actual costumes, as well as how to dye and paint fabric. If you’ve ever been interested in making scenery, designing lights or rolling up your sleeves to construct an effective stage set up, then Introduction to Production Techniques, Principles of Design or Scene Design may be for you.

Don’t let the Creative Expressions requirement fool you. There are plenty of ways to flex your right-brain creativity inside and outside of the art studios at Trinity.

Trinity program puts student in Blue Star internship customers. Blue Star has been aiming to attract military families as well as college students, since San Antonio is a hub for both military bases and universities.

“Their goal is educate the general public about what contemporary art really is,” Zacarias said.

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San Antonio’s contemporary art community is growing thanks to art galleries like Blue Star Contemporary Arts, an arts complex which is located in the heart of Southtown.

“It [used] to be a place where they made ice,” said Deliasofia Zacarias, a senior at Trinity who interned at Blue Star this past summer.

For almost 30 years, this gallery has been showcasing not only local contemporary art, but also regional and international art as well. Over the past summer, Blue Star, along with Artpace, has been giving Trinity students the opportunity to intern with them through their partnership with Trinity’s Arts, Letters, and Enterprise program.

Zacarias found out about the internship last spring through Patricia Simonite, professor of art and art history at Trinity, and immediately applied.

“I have been very interested in interning in the art industry” Zacarias said. The studio art and business administration double major knew this internship would give her the experience she needs

“I have been very interested in interning in the art industry. It aligned with everything I wanted to do.”

ZACARIAS, A recipient of Trinity’s Arts, Letters and Enterprise program, in her work environment photo provided by DELIASOPHIA ZACARIAS

to pursue her career in the art world. “It aligned with everything I wanted to do,” Zacarias said.

She worked with Blue Star Contemporary’s public relations director Vanessa Cusab on graphic design for the gallery, updated their website, managed their social media and created content for their accounts, which allowed her to

combine and advance her passion for art and her technical business skills. She also got to meet different artists throughout the summer, such as a photographer from England.

Other than learning how public relations for Blue Star Art Contemporary works, she learned about the importance of proper marketing for the gallery’s target

Zacarias’ 10-week summer internship is now turning into a parttime job for her as she is renewing her contract with Blue Star. This internship program is just another example why students should take advantage of the resources like Career Services provided at Trinity and to spend their summer gaining meaningful work experiences. Even though the school year just started, we recommend that you start job searching for next summer to avoid the risk of applying too late.

Sports

Fall sports set fire to the competition

Four Trinity teams excelled on the home turf as they started their regular seasons JULIA WEIS

SPORTS EDITOR Last Friday marked an exciting day for athletes and fans of Trinity sports. This past weekend, we saw fall sports officially kick off their regular seasons, with four teams performing at home debuts. Let’s take a look at how men’s soccer, volleyball, cross-country and women’s soccer did.

Men’s Soccer The men’s soccer team saw two huge successes in their season opening weekend. On Friday, Sept. 1, they kicked off the season with a 2-0 win against Mary Hardin-Baylor University.

This win marked their 45th consecutive win at home, breaking the previous Division III record. The Tigers continued on their success on Sunday, Sept. 3, when they defeated the No. 7 ranked University of Redlands 4 to 2. The men, while excited about their initial wins, are keeping their eyes on the prize: a Division III National Championship.

“It was a rush — a lot of fun. I feel like we’re all still getting acclimated to the team, but we got some wins with great passes from the team. To come out and score two goals in the second game? Hopefully I can keep it up. As the games go on, we develop with the team. Hopefully we’ll get a shot at a national championship: That’s the goal, that’s the plan,” said Jacob Hallenberger, first-year midfielder.

You can catch the men’s team at home head to head with Schreiner University next Tuesday, Sept. 12, at 8 p.m.

Volleyball The volleyball team faced high-ranking schools like Calvin College, California Lutheran University, Whitman College and University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh at the Trinity National Invitational Tournament.

While the Tigers fell to the previous national champions at Calvin, they defeated the three other schools in the tournament. This successful weekend sets the scene for an exciting season, also moving the team up to

Sophomore COLTON HAWKINS and first-year KEATON HOLT scored fifth and sixth place this week. photo by ALLISON WOLFF

No. 14 in the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) ranking.

“I think this weekend we not only proved that we can beat highly-ranked teams, but also showed how deep we are and how everyone on our team is capable of contributing in a big way. We also won our first five-set match of the season, which was exciting! I’m looking forward to playing more ranked teams and getting more opportunities to prove how awesome we are,” said Kirby Smith, senior All-American outside hitter.

The Tiger volleyball team will play at home again next weekend in the Trinity Fall Classic tournament, facing Hardin-Simmons University, University of WisconsinWhitewater, East Texas Baptist University and Pomona-Pitzer College.

Cross Country The distance squad blazed through the competition early on Friday morning. Both the men’s and women’s teams placed first through sixth in their events, earning them perfect scores on both sides and leaving runners from Texas Lutheran University and Our Lady of the Lake University behind in the dust.

Junior Elliot Blake won the men’s 5K race with an impressive time of 15 minutes and 52 seconds, shaving a minute from his previous personal record. He’s looking forward to seeing how the team will succeed this season.

“I was really proud of all of the team’s efforts and how strong of a start they all showed coming right out of the gates. It’s hard to tell at this point what this means for the season

because it’s so early, but I’m very excited with how hard everyone’s been working at practices and especially how they performed in this past meet. I think we’re going to make a lot of noise this season,” Blake said.

The women saw a lot of success as well.

Laura Taylor came in first with a personal best of 18 minutes and 25 seconds, with Haley McFadden close behind her at 18 minutes and 29 seconds.

The Tiger cross-country team will compete again this Saturday, Sept. 9, at 8 a.m. at the Our Lady of the Lake Collegiate Invitational.

Women’s Soccer The women’s soccer team saw a few wins and a loss this past weekend. They flew out to Virginia Beach to take on Christopher Newport University, but fell to the Captains in double overtime, ending a record of season-opening wins that has stood the past nine years. The Tiger women fought for a few victories later in the weekend, winning 2-1 against Virginia Wesleyan University on Sunday and 2-0 against Sul Ross State University on Monday. This puts the Tigers at 2-1-0 this season.

“We went into this weekend with the mentality of pulling out wins. We knew that the teams we were going to face were going to be both competitive and challenging opponents. Overall, this weekend was a good starting point to the season. We were able to see how we could gel together as a collective unit. [On Monday] we worked to receive another win under belt, but there is still room for improvement. I can’t wait for the season to pick up and continuing to do what I love. We have a very promising season ahead of us and the team is definitely up for the challenge,” said Halle Dure, the junior forward who shot the game-winning goal on Monday against Sul Ross.

The women’s soccer team will play their next home game against Aurora University this Friday, Sept. 8, at 5 p.m.

Football drops season opener to No. 25 Redlands

Tigers look to bounce back and adjust to new conference schedule next weekend against Millsaps College HAILEY WILSON

SPORTS REPORTER The Tiger football team started their 2017 campaign with a tough loss to 25th-ranked University of Redlands on Saturday, Sept. 1.

Around 60 members of the team geared up and traveled to Redlands, California for the opening game. The Tigers had a long trip to The Golden State; they had a three hour flight into Los Angeles and a three hour bus ride into Redlands.

“The traveling was a blast,” said Joel Holmes, junior offensive lineman. “Being together with the 50 - 60 guys that travel for each flight, bus ride, meeting and team meal helps us bond and grow closer, which improves team chemistry and will lead to more success down the road.”

Redlands struck first on a turnover that lead to a touchdown pass a few plays later, snagging the early 6-0 lead. A long field goal gave Redlands the 9-0 lead after the first quarter.

Redlands heated up during the second quarter and headed into halftime with a 22-0 lead.

“We got unlucky and couldn’t get things to click at the beginning of the game, but we saw improvement and things started to click a bit more as the game went on,” said Alejandro

Anzaldua, senior defensive lineman. “Once we finally click, I think it’ll be hard to stop our offense.”

The Tigers held Redlands to a single field goal in the third quarter, but Redlands responded quickly with a 30-yard touchdown run in the beginning of the fourth quarter.

“The biggest problem we faced during this game was execution,” Holmes said. “Mental mistakes, penalties and lack of focus caused our failed executions and that will cost you against a team as talented as Redlands.”

With a few minutes left on the clock in the fourth quarter, first-year quarterback Wyatt Messex ran the ball in to score a 39-yard touchdown and avoid the shutout.

“I think the guys did a great job of remaining resilient. A series of unfortunate events led us to facing a steep deficit, however, there was never a moment during the game when we didn’t feel we could rally back into it,” Holmes said.

Messex led the team in rushing and went 3-4 for 19 yards passing. Senior Jayden Holden finished with 33 yards on two receptions, leading the team with 33 receiving yards.

Defensively, the Tigers were led by senior

Mitch Globe and junior Robert Kuhne. Globe led the Tigers with 12 tackles, while Kuhne racked up 10 tackles. Offensively, Trinity was plagued by four turnovers and managed less than 200 yards of offense during the game.

“The biggest problem we faced during this game was execution.”

JOEL HOLMES JUNIOR OFFENSIVE LINEMAN

The Tigers switched from the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) to the Southern Athletic Association (SAA) this year, so this is the Tigers’ first season in the new conference. The SAA is loaded with teams from a multitude of states in the south, including Berry College, Birmingham-Southern College, Hendrix College, and Sewanee: University of the South. The Tigers will have to travel out of

the state four more times this season — they’ll be visiting Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and Georgia. While some teams might view the traveling as difficult, the Tigers see it as a way to prepare for the post season.

“The more you do it, the easier it gets.

We know that in order to win a conference championship, we’ll have to win on the road,” Holmes said.

“I think we have a great coaching staff that will help us [manage time] throughout the week so we can focus on the game and decrease the stress of traveling,” Anzaldua said.

This loss is not going to slow down the Tigers. If anything, this game was an eyeopener, and will help the team pinpoint exactly what they need to work on over the next few weeks of practice.

“The guys on this team are great at responding to adversity, and how we attack this season going forward will show who the Trinity Tigers truly are,” Holmes said.

The Tigers will travel to Jackson, Mississippi to square off against Millsaps College on Saturday, Sept. 16. Kickoff is at 1 p.m. You can watch the game online on the Millsaps College website.

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Intramural sports begin fall 2017 season

Registration for flag football and sand volleyball begins this week, others kick off the week after HAILEY WILSON

SPORTS REPORTER Sixty-five percent of Trinity students are involved in athletics on campus. Some students play intercollegiate sports, and some others play club sports, but some of the most enthusiastic and intense athletes can be found on the intramural sports teams.

Each fall and spring, Trinity University offers a multitude of Intramural (IM) sports that all students and faculty are invited to participate in. Whether it’s 3-on-3 basketball, Co-Recreational basketball, flag football or sand volleyball, intramural sports get pretty serious. Tigers are known to get competitive during IM season. Participants will gather up the best of the best athletes for their team all in hopes of winning the championship prize — a coveted Bombay Bicycle Club gift card and, of course, bragging rights.

“It can get competitive, but most of the time students are just doing it to have fun,” said Shelby Devore, a program assistant for the intramural staff.

Some sports are more popular than others, so the set amount of IM athletes fluctuates on any given night.

“It varies from sport to sport because some sports, like dodgeball, are super popular,” said Nkolika Nweke, senior IM supervisor. Nweke’s responsibilities as a supervisor include making sure the referees know the rules of the game, making sure each team has adequate supplies for the games and helping referees make tough calls during games.

Kristen Harrison, director of intramural and recreational actvities, sees many benefits for students joining recreational teams.

“Intramurals are a great way for students to interact with others who have similar interests as well as be able to escape from the stress of class and homework and getting an opportunity to have a leadership role, whether you’re the captain of a team or playing on the team,” Harrison said.

“I think IMs give students the opportunity to not only meet new people but it also allows them to play a sport that they wouldn’t necessarily get to play,” Devore said.

To play an IM sport, all you need is your Tiger Card and a good attitude. There are no registration fees and no previous athletic experience is required.

This year is a huge year for IM sports as the intramural field was just renamed after longtime IM director Jim Potter.

illustration by YESSENIA LOPEZ

During his time at Trinity, Potter built the intramural program from the ground up. He established the group of student staff members that allows students like Devore to work for the intramural program.

“I love that everyone who is involved has come together because they simply love sports, whether it is running them or playing them,” Devore said.

The field serves as a playing field for many different sports; IM flag football uses it, several club teams use it, and varsity sports teams will often practice there throughout the year. A brand new digital scoreboard was also installed on the IM field.

This scoreboard will be used throughout the year.

Several divisions are open for registration: flag football and sand volleyball are open for registration until Sept. 7.

Both are offering men’s and women’s divisions, along with a

co-recreational division. The slow-pitch softball league begins registration on Sept. 13, and indoor soccer and dodgeball begin registration on Sept. 18. To sign up, students and faculty can log onto imleagues.com/trinity and register their team. Before starting as a team, one player from each team must attend an IM captains meeting. You can also register for a league as a free agent, or a solo athlete, and the IMs department will pair you up with a team in need of a player.

To get more information and push updates on Intramurals, follow them on Facebook @TURecreation or Instagram @ TU_Recreation. You can also contact Kristen Harrison with any questions about leagues, becoming an IM referee, an IM supervisor and more. The Recreational Sports office is also open Monday through Friday from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the William H. Bell Center, room 210.

Hester says: Beat the heat, athlete

Column: Advice for avoiding heatstroke from the self-proclaimed “most dominant athlete alive” ELISE HESTER

SPORTS REPORTER In a world of contention and a climate of unrest, there are still some things we can all agree on: the sky is blue, skunks smell bad and Elise Hester is the most dominant athlete that has ever lived. While I could list stats and share examples, there is no need. This fact is agreed upon by all in the same way that we all can agree that summer in Texas is hot.

It’s very hot. The heat was something I had to deal with this summer, working as the camp videographer at Camp Olympia in Trinity, Texas (not to be confused with Trinity University).

Trinity, Texas has a population of about 2,600 and is home to Camp Olympia, which was recently named the best sleepaway camp in the nation. I am responsible for creating a video of each of the four terms, each of which last two to three weeks.

In addition to tribal competition between the Spartans and the Athenians and nightly programs such as dances, cookouts and carnivals, the kids participate in 10 activities they chose from over 45 different activities offered, ranging from weightlifting to wakeboarding, sailing to softball, golf to gymnastics and ping pong to puppies.

Being the videographer at a sports and activity camp is a very physical job, and I dealt with heat. Sure, I spent most of my time editing on the computer inside where I almost froze solid thanks to the over-aggressive air conditioner, and sure, the time I spent outside I did have a golf cart, but I would do anything — anything! — for the shot. Whether it be treading water for several minutes in the middle of the lake or sprinting from event to event during relay day or rollerblading alongside sprinting children in a race, it was very physical.

Like I said, I am the most dominant athlete alive, with no competition. For that reason, I have very good tips for dealing with the heat.

My first tip for dealing with the hot weather is to dress accordingly. This does not mean just wear a sports bra or a tank top, or for those of you who are men, no shirt. Sure, it may feel better to not wear a t-shirt, but then your skin is unprotected. As great as they may look, tans are really just the visible indicator of permanent damage done to the DNA in

illustration by YESSENIA LOPEZ

your skin cells. That being said, ask me about my watch tan.

It’s pretty rad.

Another way you can beat the heat is to drink water. Drink lots of water. Anytime you are thirsty, drink water. Notice I said water. Not Powerade or Gatorade or Tigerade, but water. A little bit of sports drink, such as the tiny bit given in a Dixie cup — by a TU athletic trainer or a Camp Olympia nurse — is ok after you’ve been doing serious exercise and need to replenish your electrolytes, but it’s still terrible for your teeth because it is loaded with sugar.

There’s also nothing that beats water. Water is the best thing for you in every situation. If you only drink water for the rest of your life, you would be fine.

Another tip is to find shade. Sit in that shade. There’s not much else to explain, so my next tip is to pace yourself.

Take a break every once in a while to sit in the shade or stand in the shade.

My last bit of advice is to complain. Complaining about the heat will always make it better. Not really, complaining will make it worse. Just be happy and embrace the sweat.

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Get to know the men’s assistant soccer coach Coach Edward Cartee was honored by the United Soccer Coaches this past summer Cartee was recently selected by the United Soccer Coaches (USC) for the 30 Under 30 Program. Of the coaches in the United States under age 30, Cartee was one of the 3 individuals who was selected for a prestigious mentorship program.

“I was very fortunate to be a recipient this year. As part of that I get a scholarship for an additional coaching license and I get a trip to the national coaches convention in Philadelphia in January and I get a mentorship with an experienced coach in their organization,” Cartee said. “I’m just really honored to have another opportunity to represent Trinity on a national stage and for me, personally, I’m just really excited about the professional growth and development I’m hoping to get out the experience.”

“I love the fact that it’s so creative and free-flowing.”

EDWARD CARTEE ASSISTANT COACH TO MEN’S SOCCER

EDWARD CARTEE was also a Trinity student on the soccer team.

Photo by ALLISON WOLFF

ELISE HESTER

SPORTS REPORTER During his time as a student athlete at Trinity, assistant men’s soccer coach Edward Cartee enjoyed the opportunities he was given to explore so many different things. Cartee explained how he was given amazing chances to meet interesting people, study diverse topics, study abroad and play soccer. Cartee, who studied history, Spanish and Chinese, graduated in 2009.

In addition to serving as the head soccer coach at San Antonio’s Central Catholic High School, Cartee has served as the assistant men’s soccer coach at his alma mater for the past six years.

“I think it’s really impactful and meaningful that I am a Trinity alum. So not only do I know in general what the challenges are being a student athlete at college, but I [also] know specifically what it’s like to live at Trinity and go through that experience here,” Cartee said.

If you weren’t a coach, what job do you think would do?

“Novelist.”

What’s your second favorite sport after soccer?

“It’s hard to pick ‘cause I love so many sports, but hockey.”

What was your favorite soccer memory as player?

“Two things. Here at Trinity, my senior year, we were ranked in the top 10 and Wheaton Illinois were ranked in the top 10 and they came in and played us. They had a different formation than any team we had played. So I had a different and very specific role in our defensive scheme in order to counteract that and I felt like I had a really great game and we, as a team, beat them 4-1.

“Second, the team that I played with in Taipei, when I was studying abroad, won the city league championship there and I actually scored the game-winning goal in that game.”

Do you have a favorite soccer team?

“Historically it was Arsenal. Right now [it’s] Bayern Munich.”

Who’s the coolest person you’ve met in person through soccer?

“Oh wow … The biggest name that I’ve met would probably be Jozy Altidore who’s a men’s national team forward, if we’re limiting that to soccer athletes who I’ve met.”

Who’s the most famous person you’ve met overall?

“I would have to say Eli Manning. I met him when I was at IMG [Academy] and he was training there. [He’s a] really nice man with incredibly giant hands.”

Who is your favorite soccer player?

“Zinedine Zidane.”

What is your favorite sports movie?

“The story of Moneyball is my favorite and the movie is good, but it’s not about the movie. It’s the story.”

What’s your greatest lesson learned at Trinity?

“Wow. [There are] so many, but I guess I would say Trinity was a place where I learned that you have to be both idealistic and realistic and that those are not opposites. Those can coexist.”

What’s your favorite place at Trinity that’s not the soccer field?

“The meditation garden by Parker Chapel.”

What would say is your greatest memory as a coach?

“So far, it would be the two state championships I’ve won as the head coach of Central Catholic High School, but I’m hoping to add to that list many more, including hopefully another national championship at Trinity.”

If you could switch lives for a day with anyone at Trinity, who would you chose?

“Jacob Tingle. There’s a lot of people here that I admire and would love to learn more from but his talent, his versatility, the way that he balances his commitment to so many involved, significant time consuming endeavors … I have nothing but admiration for him and he is also a wonderful husband and father.”

What is one thing most people probably don’t know about Coach McGinlay?

“I don’t think people know how well-read he is. He was an English literature major. ‘The Great Gatsby’ is his favorite book. I think there is a side to him that, when you get to know him, it makes perfect sense, but on the surface a lot of people don’t really see him as anything other than the coach.”

What do you love about soccer?

“I think it’s an incredible sport. It’s hard to point to just one thing or another, but I love the fact that it’s a team sport. I love the fact that it’s so creative and free-flowing. There’s so much strategy and I find that enjoyable.”

“I love the fact that it’s a little bit of [a] unique sport in terms of eye-foot coordination as opposed to eye-hand coordination.

Being both aerobic and anaerobic as far as the endurance demands of the sport and just the passion that it engenders globally, not just in America, makes it a very unique sport to follow because there’s such history and tradition and there’s no right or wrong way to play it. Every nation and culture has its own style.”

“There’s constantly innovation going on within it. I mean, I guess some of those things are things I intuitively picked up on right away and liked about it and some of those are things you grow to appreciate more as you’ve been in the game for a while, but, when you first start playing, more than anything it’s just about enjoyment and so soccer for me was fun and something I became passionate about and it’s hard to really tell you exactly when or how that happened, but it just got in my blood and it’s a part of me.”

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“Students can see how abstract ideas from the classroom actually develop in real life. It is a valuable lesson to see how their education will prepare them for any jobs. It is important to show our students that their education, even if it appears unrelated to their current goals, will let them adapt and learn new skills to be successful in anything they want to do,” Balreira said.

Students enjoyed speaking to Lutz because they could learn about a potential career option.

“Mainly I’m interested in sports analytics because I’m a soccer player so it’s been part of my life, and I’ve grown up watching sports.” said Jordan Bethea, senior business analytics and technology major and defender on the Trinity women’s soccer team. “I’m a business analytics major, so combining the two just seemed like a no-brainer. Meeting Dwight was super cool just because he was a student athlete at Trinity and just learning about how he got from Trinity to where he is now is good knowledge to know.”

Lutz also spoke about the lack of school spirit related to Division III sports that’s often seen at academics-focused schools like Trinity.

“Why do people play DIII sports? It’s the love of the game. You know, there’s actually ton of NBA execs that played at the DIII level, like I did. It’s kind of a joke in the industry that DIII is taking over the NBA, but really

DWIGHT LUTZ flew in from his job at the NBA in Minneapolis in order to speak to Trinity students.

Photo by ALLISON WOLFF

you see a lot of people that maybe don’t have the skill to play, but still do what it takes to get involved in the sport. You see a lot of school spirit with schools in small towns. Trinity’s involvement in the city of San Antonio is

great, but it means people don’t care as much about sports when there are other things to do,” Lutz said.

This event was sponsored by the Lecturers and Visiting Scholars Committee.

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Athlete Spotlight: Meet Meredith Licata This women’s soccer captain reflects on her time at Trinity, looking forward to senior year

MEREDITH LICATA has played on the women’s soccer team all throughout her four years at Trinity. Catch the senior at her next home game this Friday, Sept. 8, at 8 p.m., taking on Aurora University.

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ELISE HESTER

SPORTS REPORTER I sat down with Trinity University women’s soccer captain Meredith Licata for a nice conversation about the life, career and personality of the senior forward from Buffalo, New York.

EH: Favorite soccer team?

ML: “Liverpool.”

EH: Favorite soccer player?

ML: “Abby Wambach. She’s from upstate New York as well. She’s an inspiration … she’s a badass.”

EH: Favorite soccer memory?

ML: “My sophomore year. We were playing a top 10 team, UT Tyler and it was back and forth all game and we went to penalty kicks.

I didn’t play all game, which was fine, but I just really felt pretty confident that I could contribute with the PKs so I raised my hand when they asked for people to shoot and it ended up being that, if I made my kick, we would advance to the next round. I honestly don’t even remember what was going on in my head, but I was like, ‘I have to make this.’

I ended up making the kick and the fans stormed and I was just really happy that I could do that for the team and haven’t had a personal experience like that in soccer before so it was pretty special.”

EH: And then you get that clip played over and over?

ML: “Yeah that clip was pretty … My celebration’s a little bit unorthodox.”

EH: A little Mario jump?

ML: “A little bit of a Mario jump, yeah, but [I’m] just glad I was able to contribute to that.”

EH: You’re the captain of the soccer team

this year, but if you had to be any other type of captain what would you be?

ML: “Captain of a ship.”

“I honestly don’t even remember what was going on in my head, but I was like, ‘I have to make this.’”

MEREDITH LICATA SENIOR WOMEN’S SOCCER CAPTAIN

EH: Where is somewhere you want to travel?

ML: “South America. I’ve never been there at all.”

EH: Where’s the coolest place that you’ve ever been?

ML: “I was in Shanghai this past summer.”

EH: Which faculty member would you switch with for a day?

ML: “Dr. Field. He was with us in Shanghai.

He is probably one of the wisest, most knowledgeable people I have ever met and I feel like he lives his life in an amazing way.”

EH: What’s a fun fact about yourself?

ML: “There’s a sandwhich in New York named after me. It’s called the Licata.”

EH: What have you always wanted to be good at?

ML: “Singing. I’m terrible at singing.”

EH: So you’d want to be a choir person?

ML: “Yeah. I don’t know anybody in the choir personally. Maybe I would trade with Joel [Holmes].”

EH: If you didn’t play soccer, what sport would you play?

ML: “Volleyball. Volleyball’s a lot of fun.

I’m pretty short for it, but probably volleyball.”

EH: Beach or mountains?

“I like both. I have to say mountains.”

EH: Favorite sport to watch that isn’t soccer?

ML: “Hockey.”

EH: Favorite spot on campus?

“It’s probably cliche, but the soccer field.”

EH: What advice would you give to younger students?

ML: “Treat every year like it’s either your freshman or senior year ‘cause senior year you have a lot of lasts and you’re just like, ‘[I] gotta do this, last time for it, last time for it’ and freshman year you’re really excited to go out and meet people and just experience a new city, a new school, new people so if you can try to treat every year like that ‘cause it’s a really short four years.”

EH: What do you think of Texas?

ML: “I love Texas. I love the heat. Well, I prefer the heat to the eight-month winter we have back home. I love being outside. The people are great.”

EH: What most surprised you about Texas?

ML: “The extent of southern hospitality.

When I was a freshman I didn’t really know many people, but probably like seven different people were like, ‘Oh absolutely. Come have Thanksgiving with my family’ and genuine people, this was a genuine offer and I was like, ‘Are you serious? We barely know each other.’

But they were just totally opening up their homes and Thanksgiving to me.

EH: OK, so I’m gonna go through the women’s soccer roster and you’re gonna give me one word to describe each senior.

Kalli Douma.

ML: Kalli is ... *Kalli Douma walks up to us.* EH: Right there? Is that her?

ML: “Yeah that’s her.”

EH: We were just talking about you.

ML: “We’re talking about you.”

KD: “What?”

EH: We’re going through a list.

She has to say one word about each of the seniors.

KD: “What was mine?”

ML: “I haven’t said it yet.”

EH: She was like “Kalli is ...” and I was like “right there.”

ML: “Um ... you wanna hear your word?”

KD: “Yeah.”

ML: “I wanna say contagious energy, but that’s two words.”

EH:That’s fine.

KD: “That is just ... too sweet, unless that means contagious bad energy and then …”

ML: “It’s not what it means.”

KD: “I’ll work on it.”

ML: “It’s not what it means!”

EH: Ok, one word for each person: Jordan Bethea.

ML: “Tenacious.”

EH: Hannah Booher?

ML: “Workhorse.”

EH: Julia Camp?

ML: “Wonderful.”

EH: Coleen Markey?

ML: “Crafty.”

EH: Tierney Thomison?

ML: “Joyful.”

EH: Abby Tisdale?

ML: “Bubbly.”

EH: Julia Kelly?

ML: Go-getter.

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