9.21.2018

Volume 116 Issue 06

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OPINION

Trinitonian Serving Trinity University Since 1902

Trust SGA senators with your money: a senator’s response

9 Students from Kerala reflect PULSE on “the worst flood in 100 years”

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

12 Buddy Buddy brings lots of A&E laughs through longform improv

Fulbrights say “auf Wiedersehen” SI clarifies

Students from Germany reflect on their time in Texas with final presentations

political org. confusion

Memorandum aims to protect Trinity’s nonprofit status KENDRA DERRIG | NEWS EDITOR kderrig@trinity.edu

actually started at forward this game, so it was a nice change of pace. I was able to try some new things and break through their defense and then actually fell down trying to get the ball around their keeper, but was able to get up and finish. It’s always nice to score the first goal of the game and get the team to relax a little.”

Trinity Progressives (T-Prog), the group responsible for bringing Bernie Sanders to campus last March, was almost at it again.

“This summer, we were in negotiations to get a currently-running congressperson here to speak — someone who is currently in congress, running for Senate — to come and speak at an event and host a town hall,” said Emily Bourgeois, junior and president of T-Prog.

T-Prog went to the Event Review Committee (ERC), which consists of representatives from departments such as Risk Management, Student Involvement and TUPD, who are responsible for assessing the risk of proposed events.

The ERC presented T-Prog with a memorandum from the American Council on Education (ACE) which details guidelines for institutions of higher education regarding political, campaign-related activities in order to help preserve the given institution’s nonprofit status. T-Prog was told that their speaker could only come to campus if the event did not contain any campaigning or fundraising.

“We brought the guidelines to our contact with the campaign, and the campaign was basically just like ‘This is not doable for us.’

At that point, it wasn’t even going to be a campaign event, it was just going to be a speaking engagement, and we were 90 days out from the election, and that’s a waste of time. It’s not worth it to bring someone here who is actively campaigning to host a town hall who cannot speak on the behalf of themselves,” Bourgeois said.

Under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, tax-exempt nonprofit — such as Trinity — are prohibited from directly or indirectly participating in any political campaign on behalf of a candidate for elected public office. This includes making direct donations to campaigns or holding partisan events at the nonprofit’s facilities, such as a fundraiser or a rally.

“So, 501(c)(3)’s just have certain requirements, and in this arena basically, 501(c)(3)’s, in terms of retaining it’s exempt status, they’re required to basically be bipartisan, be neutral in the political arena,” said Tessie Skulski, university controller in the business office. “It’s not to say that you can’t have political activities. That’s certainly part of our educational nature. You’re always going to have some political education, but you have to be bipartisan.”

However, while the institution must remain nonpartisan, student organizations are not subject to this regulation. Much of the ACE memorandum encourages creating a clear distinction between the activities of the institution itself and student organizations.

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Students part of the Fulbright program take a photo in front of Miller Fountain. The students were here for four weeks, and spent their time learning about Texas culture. Their excursions included a trip to the Mexican border where they spoke with the border patrol. photo provided by HABIBA NOOR

KAYLIE KING | NEWS REPORTER kking1@trinity.edu After spending four weeks at Trinity, 30 students from Germany gave final presentations about identity, integration and success on Sept. 12 in the CSI Treehouse.

The group was part of the Fulbright Diversity Initiative, and all had migrant backgrounds, meaning that either they or at least one of their parents migrated to Germany. The students returned home on Sept. 15.

During the presentations, several students gave talks about their experiences with identity and their migration backgrounds or shared facts about Germany, including statistics about people who have migrated to Germany.

Habiba Noor, coordinator for the Fulbright program, assigned the presentation to the Fulbright students but did not give them a topic.

“I thought the presentations were amazing,” Noor said. “They were really well done. These are very good students, they are very mature

and they put it all together on their own. The presentations were all them, I just gave them the task.”

Lina Ashour, Fulbright scholar, gave a presentation about identity, which included reading a children’s book that she wrote at the age of 10. The book is called Meine Farbe, which means “My Color,” and it is about a cucumber who learns to accept herself as she is. continued on PAGE 4

Women’s soccer defeats ‘Roos 9–0

Team dominates Austin College, averaging one shot every two minutes EVAN BROWN | SPORTS REPORTER ebrown4@trinity.edu

Trinity women’s soccer team logged 43 shots, including 20 shots on goal in their 9–0 dominating victory over the Austin College Kangaroos.

After a morning and early afternoon filled with heavy rain, many players were skeptical whether the game would happen.

A lighter rain lasted the majority of the game, but the thunderstorms stayed away, allowing the game to be played.

The rain and muddy field actually gave Trinity an advantage over the Kangaroos.

“The wet field helped us in a way because it made us play faster, said Chelsea Cole, Trinity senior midfielder and co-captain.

“The ball skids across the ground faster and over feet a lot more when it is wet.

And when you are playing a team that can’t keep up with the pace, it ends up being a real advantage.”

From the beginning, Trinity outperformed Austin College, who was win-less on the season. Trinity had four

graphic by ALEXANDRA PARRIS

corner kicks within the first five minutes while Austin College didn’t record a corner kick the entire game.

Cole began the scoring for the Tigers when she knocked home a goal in the ninth minute.

“I had missed a few shots in our previous game and was eager to get on the board early in the game,” Cole said. “I usually start playing at center mid[fielder], but I

graphic by ALEXANDRA PARRIS

Previously, on SGA: CAN’T WAIT TO GRADUATE The following covers the meeting on Sept. 19.

CAMPUS CLIMATE CHECK

Sophomore senator Mia Quintanilla relayed negative feedback that she had received from students who had attended the sexual assault speaker last Wednesday. Quintanilla worried that the speaker made light of a serious topic in attempting to be relatable. Adviser David Tuttle, dean of students, voiced that he thought the speaker, who was from an organization that Trinity had not worked with before, was effective, pointing out that 40–60 students signed up for the Coalition for Respect following the speaker.

Chief-of-Staff Cecelia Turkewitz, who attended the event, agreed with Quintanilla. Tuttle disagreed that the speaker made light of sexual assault and suggested that students email him directly to give feedback on the speaker.

GRADUATION CEREMONY CHANGES

President Amulya Deva, senior, on behalf of a committee of administrators who are trying to find an alternative format for the graduation ceremony, solicited feedback from SGA on a proposed plan. Under the proposed plan, graduation would be split in two parts. The first

would have limited seating and speeches. Then, students would split into disciplines to walk and receive their diplomas, which would reduce the length of the ceremony and the limit on the amount of guests students can bring to watch them receive their diploma.

Senior senator Sam Afshari spoke for the sentimental value of walking at Laurie and being amongst all of your peers. Junior senator Ben Gonzalez asked how everyone would shake university President Danny Anderson’s hand.

Junior senator Simone Washington suggested an off-campus venue. Deva encouraged SGA to email her further feedback.

OFFICER REPORTS

Daniel also asked for volunteers to help her benchmark Trinity’s Student Activity Fee (SAF) against other similar universities to see if the fee needs to be raised or reallocated. She expressed a wish to create a task force including administrators and representatives from student organizations to find a sustainable plan for the SAF and determine whether the fee should continue to fund Bell Center operations.

Kara McLean, senior, was introduced as the new legislative relations chair.

Meetings are held every Wednesday at 6 p.m. in the Waxahachie Room.

More coverage of this week’s meeting can be found online at trinitonian.com. coverage by KENDRA DERRIG

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TUPD BRIEFS RUN, FORREST, RUN On Friday, Sept. 19, at 1:05 a.m., an unaffiliated person was charged with an offense against public administration and evasion of arrest. A student called TUPD after witnessing a fight between the unaffiliated person and another student outside of McLean Hall. When TUPD arrived, the unaffiliated person ran from officers, resisting arrest.

SMELL YA LATER On Friday, Sept. 19, at 8:33 p.m., an unaffiliated person was found under the influence of an unknown substance in a hallway in Myrtle Hall. TUPD found the unaffiliated person while responding to a report of the odor of marijuana. The person was sent for detoxification at the Center for Health Care Services downtown.

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TRINITONIAN.COM • SEPTEMBER 21, 2018 •

NEWS

Students receive warning against Lancer house

Administration says SPIn rules aren’t all that can be done to ensure student safety at parties

JOLIE FRANCIS | NEWS REPORTER jfranci1@trinity.edu David Tuttle, dean of students, sent a student-wide email on Wednesday, Sept. 12, regarding unspecified events that happened at an off-campus fraternity house the previous weekend. The off-campus residence belongs to the Bengal Lancer fraternity.

“Already this semester there have been reports that expectations for student safety have not been met at a student residence,” Tuttle wrote in the email. “Please let this serve as notice that students should either avoid events at this location or attend events there with extreme caution.”

Further information regarding the weekend’s events was not released. Both Tuttle and Jeremy Allen, assistant director for fraternity and sorority life, refused to comment on specifics.

Senior Dupri Grimes, president of the Bengal Lancers, spoke to Allen about the event from the weekend. According to Grimes, Allen thinks that the Lancers followed all the Safer Parties Initiative (SPIn) guidelines, but additional steps could be taken to make parties safer.

“I talked to Jeremy Allen about everything that happened. We went over every single rule pretty much and the point that he got to was yes, we may have done everything, like all the rules, but that’s kind of like the basic minimum of what you should do, and you could always do more,” Grimes said.

Trinity University created SPIn for the purpose of creating a safer social environment for students. Organizations must follow the guidelines specified in the initiative for off-campus events involving alcohol.

“Our community remains committed to the Safer Parties Initiative, and I believe the

fraternities and sororities on campus consistently implement many of the recommendations and guidelines to make their events safe places for our students,” Allen wrote in an email interview. “Actions may be taken to address any organization that appears to not adopt the recommendations in a consistent, tangible and meaningful manner.”

SPIn states that Trinity University will send a notice to all students naming any off-campus residence that doesn’t meet safety expectations.

At the Lancer house over the weekend, Tuttle said that the safety concerns involved intoxicated students and serious associated negative outcomes.

“While residents at this address and others have worked to implement these guidelines, hosts always assume risk when sponsoring events,” Tuttle wrote. “It is imperative that every effort is made to avoid all potential negative consequences for dangerous situations.”

Lancers check TigerCards at the door because Greek life parties are intended to be primarily Trinity students. To monitor alcohol intake, Lancers draw an “X” on the hands of students under 21 and have people walk around to check up on and help out the guests, called “sober monitors.” SPIn requires precautions like these, among others, to be taken.

“One thing I want to do is let the general public know about the types of things that we do at parties to keep everyone safe,” Grimes said.

“The thing is, it’s not only just Lancers. Like whenever you’re at a Lancer party it’s not only Lancers that will be able to help you out.”

Grimes urged people to reach out for help if they need it.

“The school is taking precautions to make sure that parties are safer, but if there are any

Are student parking spots disappearing?

TUPD explains spaces are there, but not always convenient KAYLIE KING | NEWS REPORTER kking1@trinity.edu Parking continues to be a struggle for students in several areas of campus, though there are not currently a higher number of cars with student permits than there were last year.

Clara Wells, director of Student Accounts, explained that 1,086 student parking permits have been registered so far this year, but that the number is expected to go up throughout the year as more students register for parking permits.

“Last year was 1,325 for the whole year,” Wells said. “We’re pretty close.”

Wells also explained that there is an ample number of parking spaces for the number of permits issued.

“There’s parking, but there’s not a lot of convenient parking,” said Pete Perez, assistant chief of TUPD. For those who have a hard time parking close to their residence halls, Perez encourages utilizing other areas on campus to park.

“It’s not guaranteed that you’ll have parking by where you live,” Perez said.

“When a lot is full, a lot is full. Please don’t park in fire lanes or block anybody in.”

Students should also not park on the side of Shook Avenue that is across from the sophomore residence halls, except on Sundays.

“That’s the city,” Perez said. “We have no control over that.”

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Members of the Lancer fraternity pose for a photo in 2000. An email was sent to the student body warning students that the Lancer house atmosphere could be unsafe during parties. FILE PHOTO

problems I just want to let everyone know that if they have a problem, you can always go to [Greek members] for help because all of us are trained in this,” Grimes said. “Don’t just stand there and not ask for help, just ask someone for help if you need it or if you see anything going on, and someone will help you.”

According to Allen, the SPIn guidelines will continue to develop with campus needs in mind.

“I, along with Greek council, remain committed to working with groups proactively to identify continual improvements the community can make in hosting future events,” Allen wrote.

Information regarding SPIn can be found on the Trinity University website. No further comments from Allen or Tuttle were given by the time of publication.

Junior Ashley Eads lives in City Vista, and shared her thoughts about parking at Trinity.

“Finding a spot on upper campus is usually fine, it just might not be quite where I want it,” Eads wrote in an email. “The hardest place to find parking is the lot in front of [Dicke Art and Smith Music Building], but Alamo Stadium is an OK alternative when it’s open.

The lots under and behind Laurie usually always have spots open, but they aren’t the most convenient.”

“It’s not guaranteed that you’ll have parking by where you live.”

PETE PEREZ

ASSISTANT POLICE CHIEF OF TUPD

Sophomore Hayley Schlueter lives in Dick and Peggy Prassel Hall and has not experienced any difficulties with parking this year.

“Sometimes I would like to drive to upper campus in the morning to avoid the stairs, but my friends say that there is never any parking, which is understandable,” Schlueter wrote in an email. “Parking is about the same this year.

I haven’t had any difficulties because I usually don’t feel like walking to my car anyways.”

Students who have trouble finding parking near where they are going at night are encouraged to call TUPD and get a ride from the Tiger Tracks safety escort program. Students can request a TUPD escort in evening hours by calling TUPD at their non-emergency number, 210-999-7070.

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MOVIE NIGHT 3

Fulbright students leave Memorandum explained continued from FRONT

“From a young age I started writing, and I remember vividly I just started writing that book in my thoughts,” Ashour said. “My dad saw it and read through it, and he wanted it to be published because the essence of it is so important. Then we re-published it two years ago because it’s now on a basis of donations.”

The book is now being distributed to refugee children in Germany.

“It’s a bilingual book. It’s German and Arabic,” Ashour said. “My idea behind it was if I give it to refugee children, they get an easy book where they can better their Arabic and learn German, and also that the message behind it sticks with them. They are facing a lot of troubles, they have to leave their home, they have to re-identify themselves, and by having this simple reminder that being you is okay, I hope helps them in some way.”

While in Texas, the Fulbright scholars visited places in San Antonio, Austin and Laredo. They learned about culture, art and religion, and they visited the national border.

“Texas is a state that’s on the border, and it has such a huge influence nationally and also locally,” Noor said. “The trip that we had organized was one that was done by border patrol. It had a particular perspective. We’re approaching this with a critical perspective because before they went we read a book about unaccompanied minors coming to the U.S. We didn’t go with this intention of criticizing, just to see, and they’re the ones that are controlling the region, so they gave us an enormous amount of access to things. It was a very interesting experience.”

Arsel Cem Ilhan, Fulbright scholar, was surprised by some of the things that he observed on this trip to the border.

“We got to know all the border patrol agents,” Ilhan said. “I think all of them were Hispanic, so all of them had a migration

background. It was a unique experience. Border patrol agents get vilified a lot, and there are reasons for it because the policies may suck, but you understand their perspective. It’s not black and white, it’s more nuanced than that.”

Ilhan also shared his reflections on his time meeting people in Texas.

“People have been so open, so friendly all the time,” Ilhan said. “If we go into a random burger place, or if we go into a shop, people instantly are so friendly. They ask about us, they want to know about us, it’s that southern hospitality that we really got to experience. I’ll miss that about Texas a lot.”

Ashour found her experiences of meeting people in Texas to be different than her expectations in some ways.

“They’re not what Texas is portrayed as,” Ashour said. “People say that they have a lot of prejudice, that they’re too simple, not open for diversity — they are. I felt very welcomed, and I felt like I could blend into the crowd, and I was part of everything when I was here. I didn’t feel like an outsider because everyone took care of me and wanted me to be part of the entire thing.”

However, Ashour felt that a negative thing about America is the way that race is perceived here.

“It’s always revolving around race, which is kind of weird because on one side you feel so integrated and part of the thing although you might not look American, and on the other side everyone keeps talking about race and how it is still so ingrained into the society, and you have to find your way out of it and out of the system,” Ashour said. “In Germany, you cannot put the word race equal to a human being. For us, all humans are equal and what we differentiate in is more the heritage. It’s not about your race in that sense, no one would ever say that, but they would ask you about your heritage.”

Trinity students who are interested in interning for the Fulbright program next year can contact Noor at hnoor@trinity.edu.

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“Student [organizations] can definitely engage in partisan activities. It would not be of the institution to do so, right, and so that’s why it’s really important as we advise and engage with student [organizations] on these issues, that we make it as clear as possible what is Trinity sponsored and endorsed versus what is student [organization] sponsored and endorsed,” said Jamie Thompson, director of student involvement.

Events involving high-profile candidates, campaigning or fundraising — such as the one T-Prog proposed last summer — are “high risk” for Trinity, as they could be incorrectly construed as institution-sponsored.

“If there’s political fundraising involved, that’s typically not permitted through these guidelines,” Thompson said. “A lot of it has to do with making it clear and distinct that it’s the student organization hosting and not the institution, but depending on the event and the specific things that the organization wants to do, those factors can vary widely,” Thompson said.

“The events that pose the least risk pertaining to political activities are going to be those that are topic or issue specific, that don’t include fundraising, that are about topics and issues and not about ‘Vote for me.’ I think it’s pretty hard to separate those things, but generally those are going to involve the least amount of risk.”

Trinity’s nonprofit status allows the university to be tax-exempt on income from activities related to Trinity’s educational purpose, charitable contributions and investment income. The 501(c)(3) status also allows Trinity students to receive federal financial aid. Diana Heeren, associate vice president for finance, stressed the importance of Trinity retaining it’s 501(c)(3) status. “[Without 501(c)(3) status], probably, we would cease to exist. We could not exist without that exemption,” Heeren said.

According to Thompson, Trinity is still reviewing how best to apply the ACE guidelines.

“It’s a continued work in review for the institution. We’re always trying to provide better guidelines for all campus users,” Thompson said. “We’re always wanting to look at and make sure that the guidance we’re providing to the Trinity community is clear and matches expectations not only from the IRS but also what we value as an institution as well, that those things align.”

Bourgeois noted that the current policies that Trinity is adhering to are restrictive.

“My officers and I would love to bring in people who are running for congress or senate because we have those connections and can bring in those people and that would be a really cool, visible thing for us to do on campus. But, feasibly, we won’t be able to do that until the school figures out what they want to do with the guidelines. So right now we are in this weird limbo state where we have this super restrictive document, and because we have the document we can’t do anything contrary to the document, because we know what we can and cannot do,” Bourgeois said.

Bourgeois also expressed that she feels the student voice is currently limited.

“As an explicitly political student organization, it’s our responsibility to raise political questions on campus and to have conversations about them and to address what’s going on at any given time, and if we aren’t given the opportunity to organize quickly and to organize in a way that is authentic to us as an organization, it really dulls the conversation and it deters us from hosting events if there are a million different hoops that we have to jump through,” Bourgeois said.

The ACE Memorandum and the Student Organization Handbook, which provides more details into the guidelines for student organizations, can be found online on Trinity’s website.

The form is published annually in compliance with United States Postal Service requirements for periodical publications.

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It was just addressed at New Student Orientation. It’s covered in training Resident Assistant training. Throughout our time at Trinity, we hear about the prevalence of sexual assault on college campuses. We are taught the rules of consent, that “yes” means yes and “no” means no. We are shown videos on how to recognize dangerous situations and not to remain bystanders.

Trinity administration tells us that anyone can speak up. But despite all this, the stats remain the same: one in five women are sexually assaulted in college.

Why is this number so prevalent when we are told time and time again how simple consent is? Perhaps we are thinking about it too narrowly.

The Washington Post recently published an opinion piece from a columnist who visited her alma mater only to discover that there is a disconnect between the lessons we are given about sex and what actually happens at parties and in bedrooms on campus.

The piece, called “Yes, get consent. But be human, too,” dives into the idea that it is not enough to get a “yes,” that there should be respect and acknowledgement of the shared relationship.

Instead of viewing your one-night stand as transactional, Christine Emba writes, find it within yourself to see the other person for what they are: a human with similar desires for pleasure and intimacy. She argues it should not matter whether the relationship will last one night or several years; all people deserve the same respect in an intimate situation.

Emba raises a good point: why are we taught about consent in such a clinical, distant manner, when sex clearly involves much more than that?

Through the #MeToo movement, we as a society are becoming more comfortable with calling out abuse, but when it comes to the “gray-area,” it is harder to parse out the difference between miscommunication and malice.

At Trinity, the Coalition for Respect is on hiatus because not enough students have shown interest in its mission to help reduce sexual assault and harassment on campus. The lack of interest raises the question of whether a coalition is the right mechanism for discussing safety and consent. Are students still interested in helping prevent sexual assault? One would think the answer is yes.

Recent news about the sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh prove that we need to keep having this conversation and change the way that we discuss and think about consent. After all, we all still hear the rumors of what happens at parties and behind the closed doors of a bedroom.

To report a sexual assault and learn about the process for filing a complaint, contact the office of the dean of students or Trinity’s Title IX coordinator, Pamela Johnston. Resources for individuals who have been sexually assaulted can be found at the Rape Crisis Center website.

Being self-aware while abroad EVAN CHAMBLESS OPINION COLUMNIST echamble@trinity.edu

Don’t worry, everyone — I’ve finally made it to Budapest. I’d like to take this opportunity to draw on both my past and more recent travels: I have come to notice how being a tourist, both conspicuous and inconspicuous, can influence a traveling experience. I’ve compiled a guide of things I’ve been keeping in mind over here.

Now, to be clear, I’m writing this for how I prefer to take in a new place. I would rather avoid tourist traps and go about my business without being labeled as an oblivious foreigner — a walking target. For example, the U.S. embassy’s tourist advisory on Hungary warns of pickpockets and unethical billing practices at restaurants and clubs that target busy tourist areas.

Yes, you most definitely accidentally touched hands with that stuffy older woman on the handrail during rush hour.

First, make plans before you go out so you don’t have to reconvene in unfamiliar and crowded public spaces to figure out the next step in your adventure. A group of loud, confused tourists is not only a target but also an obstacle, as they never seem to stake out a spot that’s not in the middle of the sidewalk.

Second, use common sense on public transport. Keep track of every stop. Don’t be above doing this and listen to music or take a nap because you will end up missing your stop

Budapest, Hungary, is known for its breath-taking sights, unique food and notorious pickpockets. Tourists are advised to be cautious and self-aware while traveling, especially in cities. photo provided by EVAN CHAMBLESS

and going to the very end of the line — trust me!

Also, make sure you are heading in the correct direction before you get on that bus, tram or subway car. Lastly, be aware of your space. Yes you most definitely accidentally touched hands with that stuffy older woman on the handrail during rush hour. There’s nothing to be done about it except grin, bear and keep your possessions on your person at all times.

Third, dinner is just an expensive lunch.

What I mean by this is that usually a restaurant’s dinner options don’t differ from its lunch ones except for the much higher prices. Save yourself the cost of a mediocre yet spend-heavy meal and go all out during lunch times when it’s cheaper, and then grab some pasta and chicken from the grocery store for a relaxed dinner in the comfort of your Airbnb or hostel of choice.

Fourth, bring a bag everywhere, because most other countries don’t offer free plastic bags with purchase. Jarring, I know. Keep a small canvas bag tucked in your pockets for when you decide to buy ingredients for the aforementioned dinner, and you won’t be completely flustered

at the checkout and then have to juggle three wine bottles, a loaf of bread and three bags of Haribo gummies back to your place in the heat of a Hungarian summer. Not from personal experience or anything.

Fifth, be quiet and don’t wear clothes with words! Yes, there are many, many ways to indicate to people that you are not, in fact, a local. But branding yourself as a non-native speaker of their language is pretty high on the list. Wait until you have to speak before they know whether or not you’re a tourist.

Lastly — but honestly, most importantly — go to a bank ATM, not one of those sleazy forprofit ATMs that charge exorbitant amounts and are conveniently located right around the corner from your hotel. Also, bank ATMs are usually indoors, thus more protected from shady characters who may be hanging around while you type out your PIN. Just make sure to plan ahead when acquiring your money because it may take you a while to spot one. continued on PAGE 7

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Write your wrongs On being brave abroad

Hungary is a popular city for study abroad students. However, Hungarian is not easy to learn for most English-speakers, and can make independent travel difficult. photo provided by EVAN CHAMBLESS continued from PAGE 6

illustration by KAITLYN CURRY

NATALIA SALAS OPINION COLUMNIST nsalas@trinity.edu

Let me start by clarifying something: I’m a worrier. The sky is blue, my name is Natalia and I’m always worried about something.

I spend a lot of mental energy worrying about things that are dumb, really, and because I always thought about this ongoing stress as a personality trait, I never took steps to make it better.

This week, I tried to change that. I challenged myself to try and actually calm down. Shocking, I know. Every night before I went to sleep, I wrote about my day in a journal. There were absolutely no rules; I could write whatever I wanted.

Just like me, my thoughts aren’t ones to sit still for more than a few moments at a time, so allowing them to be dumped on a page was like a brand new start to the next day. It was liberating to be able to go about my daily life knowing that by the end of the day I could just “let it all out,” so to speak.

Everything is not the end of the world, so with this journal, I’m giving my unnecessary stress an expiration date.

Before, all the events that had happened throughout a simple day in my life were still floating around in my head, and I would still wake up day after day, stressed about something, anything. Now, I could make peace with my day, put it down on paper and move on to the next.

It’s important to note that in no way does this mean that I’m any less of a mess now than I was a week ago.

Somehow though, I know that tonight, even after I stay up late doing tons of homework I put off, even after a day of ups and downs, no matter how big or small, I know I can just document them all in my

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little black journal, and tomorrow I can start fresh.

I know journaling isn’t for everyone.

Just because writing helps me organize my muddled thoughts, this isn’t to say that it would be the same for everyone else.

However, I found that there was so much benefit to my mental health in just taking a few moments of reflection in my day. I would recommend every college student to find their way of slowing down. As soon as I started doing this, I realized how much my daily life lacks a set routine, especially one having to do with reflection and time purely to myself.

Journaling every night was one of the most therapeutic things I’ve ever done, and by the end of this week, I’ve realized that journaling helps me see what’s important.

Petty frustrations should only last me a day at most.

When I write it down in my journal, I’m able to set it to rest and forget about it. I don’t mean memories of happy moments or hard moments that actually hurt, I mean all the stuff in between that really doesn’t matter at the end of the day.

I want for those things that don’t matter to be over with and forgotten about after 24 hours. Everything is not the end of the world, so with this journal, I’m giving my unnecessary stress an expiration date.

In all honesty, journaling wasn’t as easy as I thouht it would be. It takes a lot more discipline than I imagined. Throughout my week, I wanted to make it a point for journaling to be the last thing I did, so I wrote every night in my bed, when I was just about ready to go to sleep.

This was hard on the nights that I had already spent hours doing other assignments.

Some nights I would be so tired that I would forget and have to wake myself up a few minutes later to write my entry for that day. It almost felt like an extra assignment on the nights that I was really sleepy, until I finished writing and realized it was worth the extra five minutes of staying awake.

When I open up the journal tonight, I’ll write about writing this column, how I’m worried that it’s not good, or people won’t like it, or think it’s dumb or whatever. When I’m done, those thoughts won’t consume my mind any longer. I’ll send this document to my editor and call it a night.

Ultimately, I want to talk about being brave and learning to like yourself (it’s harder than you’d think.)

One a more personal note, I’d like to express the feelings I’ve had about traveling while here in Budapest. While I’m here on a program with the Council on International Educational Exchange, there are about 20 other American students who take classes with me and live with me. I haven’t had a chance to get very close with any of them yet because I’ve decided to make this adventure about me.

I’ve never really traveled alone. Usually, I’m with my 60-year-old parents, making compromises and being ungrateful when things don’t go my way — which was too often. But having company — especially with people who understand you well — in an unfamiliar place is a comfort that I am starting to miss.

As a result of this, I really have been forced to learn my own traveling likes and dislikes. I do what I want. I can eat whatever food I’m feeling like. Hell, I got gelato three times just yesterday. It was great. I can show up to the train station an hour early to quell my nerves about travelling. I can pop into each and every vintage shop that catches my eye without my dad impatiently huffing on the sidewalk.

I’ve also learned some tough lessons.

Hungarian is a hard language to learn — “fürdőszoba” is the word for bathroom! — especially for a perpetually shy individual such as myself. After about two weeks, I’ve gotten into the habit of reminding myself that I am only limiting my own experiences by being too scared to order a pastry or ask for directions.

The worst that’s happened is that I had to show a bus driver my phone to confirm that I should get on. He didn’t mind. I just have to keep telling myself that no one cares!

Evan Chambless is a senior economics major.

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SGA’s crisis is not the fault of students BEN GONZALEZ OPINION COLUMNIST bgonzale@trinity.edu

In response to Maddie D’Iorio’s column “SGA has an existential problem.”

My fellow senator Maddie D’Iorio wrote an opinion column last week highlighting SGA’s “existential problem,” in which she cites the inexperience of “15 college students,” the apathy of the student body and a broken system that encourages overspending. While senator D’Iorio brings up some very important points, I disagree with some of her opinions on the nature of SGA spending and I think that some of her suggestions are misguided.

First, I wholeheartedly agree that students should take the initiative to let SGA know what their problems are. It is much more difficult to advocate for student interests when students do not tell us what those interests are.

However, that is not to say that SGA is clueless with the Student Activity Fund (SAF). I take issue with the characterization of SGA as “15 college students without formal financial training.” Rachel Daniel, SGA vice president, is an accounting major who handles all of the big-picture budgetary concerns through meticulous recording and budgeting of our past, current and future funds.

She has laid out a month-by-month framework by which the senate plans to keep spending within appropriate amounts — plans which, so far, have been very successful.

Vice president Daniel does not work alone, either. She works extensively with treasurer Hannah Larson and adviser Jamie Thompson, director of Student Involvement, to ensure

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Left to right: Juniors TY TINKER, JUAN LEVANOS, ANGEL RAMIREZ and senior JULIA SHULTS participate in a SGA meeting about budgets. photo by GENEVIEVE HUMPHREYS that we are staying fiscally responsible for the funds entrusted to us by the SAF. Between the application process for student groups, the meticulous budgeting and the cooperation with staff, I would argue that SGA’s management of funds is the most effective it has been since I enrolled at Trinity.

Therefore, to suggest that we need an additional adviser with veto power is absurd to me. These funds have been allocated for students, to be managed by students. For us, as student representatives, to give complete veto power over these funds to a non-student would be an insult to the student body. It would undermine the entire idea behind the SAF and tell the university that students cannot be trusted with any real-world responsibilities. I do not think SGA should require formal financial training, especially when you consider the amazing support we have from advisers like Jamie Thompson. Budgeting is an

important process that is useful to any career, and as students of a liberal arts university, we should be able to expand beyond our majors and help make responsible financial decisions for the benefit of our peers.

Furthermore, Senator D’Iorio’s column makes some inaccurate claims about the nature of increased University-Sponsored Organization (USO) funding and the role that Campus Publications and Recreational Sports play in it. First of all, Campus Publications and Rec Sports are not USOs. The five-year average rule is an extremely important clause that protects them both from unfair budgetary constraints.

Essentially, the Trinitonian and the Mirage must be guaranteed this average so that SGA cannot choose to punish the publications for coverage that they don’t agree with. This may seem like an unlikely scenario, but student publications across the country are currently being defunded

for disputes with their student government or university administration. Without this fiveyear average protection, the independence of student journalism on our campus is essentially nonexistent. Campus Publications should not have to satisfy SGA in order to receive funding.

The amount we give them is essentially a subscription fee on behalf of the entire student body in order to support free and independent journalism on our campus.

While the funding requests from USOs, Campus Publications and Rec Sports have increased in recent years, this is largely due to the increased costs of running student activities on our campus. The membership of club sports nearly doubled just last year, the Trinitonian is facing increased publishing costs, and we just welcomed our largest class ever this fall. With more students and more involvement comes more costs, and this is not the fault of the organizations who ask for more money just to keep their activities running.

Rather than blame USOs, RSOs and every other acronym under the sun, our focus should be on the larger institutions that could easily help us with our funding issues: the university itself.

Tuition over the last eight years at Trinity has increased 34 percent, but none of that money has ever reached the Student Activity Fund. Wouldn’t it make sense for student activities to receive more funding if the university needs more funding to run the campus? Why should the university require more tuition to attend a growing school while the SAF stays at a stagnant $150? Instead of playing the blame game within the student body to try and determine who is the greediest or which system is broken, I believe that it is time for all students and their representatives to argue for interests that would benefit all student organizations.

Ben Gonzalez is a junior anthropology major. He is also a senator on the SGA.

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Dealing with mental health in college

Trinity staff and students offer advice on how to take care of your mental health NOELLE BARRERA | PULSE REPORTER nbarrera@trinity.edu While Trinity provides a variety of opportunities and enriching classes, college can also be stressful. Living independently for the first time and balancing schoolwork can make sleeping enough and socializing difficult. Many students experience mental health issues such as anxiety and depression, especially during their first year of college.

“In 2013, I was diagnosed with major depression, general anxiety and social anxiety, and so my first year here was very rough," said senior Mindy Tran. "It was hard being away from home, and I felt like I didn't really have friends or anything like that, so that made my depression worse.”

Tran went to see another doctor sophomore year and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, which she said was life-changing. Some medications for depression exacerbate bipolar disorder symptoms, so when Tran received the correct medication to treat her disorder, she gradually felt better.

Tran also cited a positive experience with her Resident Assistant (RA) during her second semester as a big turning point that motivated her to seek medical help.

“I was sitting in Coates facing out towards Cardiac Hill and [my RA] came up to me like, 'Hey, I've noticed that you've been down,' and she was the first person to realize that without being really close to me,” Tran said. "I was like, 'Wow, people here do care.' ” Dalys Binder, senior and current RA in Camille Lightner Hall, talked about his experiences counseling students.

“The biggest thing I've learned as an RA ... is that it's okay to not necessarily have an answer, to let the silence talk," Binder said. "As an RA, we're always happy to walk [students] down to walk-in hours at Counseling Services if they want to make an appointment.”

Lori Kinkler, a psychologist who works at Counseling Services, emphasized the importance of sleep in dealing with mental health issues.

“Students get a lot of mixed messages about how they should be spending their nighttime hours, but if we're talking about anxiety and mental health, sleep really needs to be a priority, and there needs to be no exceptions to that,” Kinkler said.

For depression, Kinkler encouraged students to come to Counseling Services and come to find a constructive outlet for their feelings.

Kinkler also said that behavioral activation, the process of exposing oneself to positive activities, can be helpful.

“If a student can force themselves to get out of bed and take a walk, join a friend for lunch or engage in some pleasurable activity, it can jump-start a more positive path,” Kinkler said. “It's often hard to get yourself to do these things when you're feeling down, so I think that's where students need the help of others like friends and family and mental health professionals.”

For students who want to learn more about managing anxiety, Kinkler is leading three series of anxiety management workshops from 4 to 5:15 p.m. on various Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. While the series are geared towards students who have never sought any kind of treatment before, everyone is welcome to join.

“It's a great introductory workshop that teaches what anxiety is, how and why it does its thing and several ways to power through anxiety instead of [avoiding] it so that anxiety eventually decreases overall,” Kinkler said.

Burnout, a phenomenon used to describe stress-induced exhaustion, is something many students experience at some point.

Chiara Pride, junior, gave advice about college burnout.

“I got to a point last year where I was overcommitted because I was doing things because people asked me to as opposed to doing what was right for myself,” Pride said. “This university gives you a lot of opportunities, and you can be grateful for that and thankful for that, but you don't have to do everything that comes your way ... just give yourself space, in whatever form that takes.”

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Tran also experienced burnout during her spring semester of junior year.

“I took on 20 hours, and I was working on a mainstage show, and I was in like 5000 different clubs, and I thought I could do it,” Tran said. “I just had to come to the realization that I couldn't keep doing what I was doing if I wanted my mental health to be stable. So I decided to take a semester off, knowing that it would take me an extra semester to graduate.”

Tran said that an important part of her recovery from mental illness is celebrating the small things.

“As president of TUPS we have cast parties and our last one was huge, but social-anxiety wise I went, I did my job there, I stayed and talked to a few people and that was like a little celebration ... I conquered that moment,” Tran said.

Students interested in joining Kinkler's anxiety management workshop can email lkinkler@trinity.edu. The first workshop series is already underway, but students can sign up for the Wednesday sessions on Oct. 3, 10, and 17, or for the Monday sessions on Oct. 29 and Nov. 5 and 12.

Students from Kerala: "The worst flood in over a century"

Indian flood results in both chaos and a community coming together to survive NOELLE BARRERA | PULSE REPORTER nbarrera@trinity.edu Rachel Poovathoor, a first-year Trinity student from India, realized that her home state of Kerala was flooding around Aug. 15, when her family was driving to the airport that would take her to Trinity (Poovathoor is a student in the Trinitonian internship class.)

“We were in the car, and there was just water up to the midsection of our SUV,” Poovathoor said.

According to Poovathor, it had been raining heavily since July, and people were happy about the rain: rain is good for crops, and monsoons are a part of a normal summer season for India.

However, the rain soon turned destructive.

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Sophomore JOSHUA GEORGE, left, and first-year RACHEL POOVATHOOR, right, are hoping to raise awareness and aid for the victims of a devastating flood in their home state of Kerala, India. photo by MATTHEW CLAYBROOK

One of the areas in Kerala, India, that was damaged by a flood during monsoon season which caused a death toll of 324 people and displacement of 200,000 people. photo provided by JOSHUA GEORGE

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Get to know SGA president Amulya Deva

Senior balances several leadership positions across campus and academics MATHILDE LE TACON | PULSE REPORTER mletacon@trinity.edu Senior Amulya Deva, who transferred to Trinity University from St. Edward’s University her sophomore year and has already made a huge mark on campus, is majoring in both finance and business analytics & technology.

She is also pursing a minor in economics.

Though her academic endeavors take up a lot of her time, Deva also participates in many different extracurriculars at Trinity.

Deva is an 1869 scholar, president of Student Government Association, vice president of Professional Activities for the business fraternity Delta Sigma Pi, Momentum dancer, Sigma Theta Tau member, finance chair for TigerThon and participated in Orientation Team this past summer.

“Some of them kind of fell in my lap.

Tigerthon was started by my roommate [Sarosha Hemani], and she was actually an Orientation Team captain, so she roped me into that,” Deva said. “She also [linked] me into Momentum.

With my business fraternity, I actually joined at St. Edward’s — I wanted to develop my professional network. It was really nice because I automatically had a group of people I could talk to [when I transferred].”

Senior Sarosha Hemani, Deva’s roommate and executive director of TigerThon, has worked closely with Amulya on various projects.

“Amulya makes it easy to work with her.

She’s a very hardworking and efficient leader who brings several new ideas to any organization she is a part of,” Hemani said. “She does a remarkable job managing our operation budget [for Tigerthon] and fundraising money. I have never seen anyone show so much dedication to student organizations that they are a part of like she does.”

One of Deva’s biggest responsibilities is serving as the president for the Student

Government Association. Deva explained that as president, she services the liaison between the administration and the students. She strives to make the student experience better by serving on committees run by administration to add a student perspective. She also runs the meetings, setting priorities to focus on — particularly on transparency and efficiency this year — and developing little things with an aim to improve the student experience.

“I looked at organizations as a way to meet people and make an impact on campus, so that’s why I ran for student government senator [before becoming president],” Deva said.

“Whenever I see something on campus that I think of as a unique opportunity, I just know that [the organization] would add another level to my life that other things can’t.”

Deva explained that balancing all of those extracurriculars with school isn’t easy, and it’s all about setting priorities and sticking to them.

Deva gets her joy from being around her friends in these organizations and getting to work on projects that directly impact her academic environment while simultaneously developing her skillset.

“Overall, the reason I love extracurricular activities is because you actually get to apply a lot of them. All the leadership skills and the management skills I’ve learned, I can actually apply those,” Deva said. “For Tigerthon, I can actually use my upper management classes to forecast how many events we are going to have, and based on that, how many people are gonna get involved, how much money we’re going to get in, and I can use my finance background in that as well.”

Sophomore Logan Muzyka, the assistant director for TigerThon who also choreographed and participated in Momentum, shared some words about Deva.

“Amulya is probably one of the best upperclassmen role models at Trinity. She

Senior AMULYA DEVA juggles several commitments to student organizations and events around campus, including Student Government Association, Delta Sigma Pi, Sigma Theta Tau and TigerThon, while also keeping up with her rigorous classwork. photo provided by AMULYA DEVA

is involved in so much, yet she is able to dedicate her time and heart to everything she’s involved in. I got to know her really well at a Dance Marathon Leadership Conference in Indianapolis (she’s the Finance Chair for Tigerthon), and her ability to manage, plan, crush numbers and come up with innovative ideas is astounding,” Muzyka said.

In addition to being involved on campus, Deva has also co-authored a prep material book for children taking the CogAt test. The book was published in 2014 and is available for sale on Amazon.

The CogAt is a test administered to determine whether kids get into a school’s gifted and talented program, and Deva found it important to have a hand in making sure that the opportunity extended to as many

children as possible. When asked why she worked on the project, Deva said she did it “so kids who are willing to work hard can have access to this special program and get the education they want.”

Deva also strongly advised first-year students to get involved on campus.

“No. 1, it allows you to apply what you’ve learned in the classroom. No. 2, it allows you to meet people on campus; another thing is you can connect with alumni,” Deva said.

Finally, she added that it’s allowed her to meet people she otherwise would’ve never met in her classes. Even a finance major and an international studies major can dance together on stage for a major showcase like Momentum, and to her, that’s an invaluable and beautiful benefit.

Students from Kerala: “The worst flood in over a century” continued from PAGE 9 But in the face of enormous amounts of rainfall, the flooding became much worse.

Poovathoor's family lives in a house on a street with a sharp incline, so they emerged largely unscathed by the flood. However, many others weren't so lucky.

“Our maid had to go back home, and so we dropped her off at a bus station, and she called us as we were leaving and said there were no buses going to her hometown because it was flooded, so she had to make a decision to come back to our house and [stay] there,” Poovathoor said. “A day before I was just talking and laughing with her, and the next day she was going through this life-changing thing and she didn't know where her kids were.”

Joshua George, sophomore, is from the Keralan city of Kochi. George and his immediate family were unharmed by the flood, but the house where George's aunt was staying with her mother and their maid was flooded.

“Me and my uncle ... made a makeshift raft and just like went up to their house and got them [into the raft],” George said.

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George was amazed by how quickly the community came together to organize relief camps for those affected by the flood.

“Everyone wanted to help us, like all of the schools and colleges were turned into relief camps," George says. "I was part of the relief camps to help out. We packaged food to send out to the people in the flood. ... Everyone was buying the entire bakery out of food supplies like cookies, and then packaging them to give to people in need.”

George witnessed a widespread effort to spread awareness and information through social media.

“Everyone was sending WhatsApp messages and Instagram stories so that people would know, 'Oh yeah, this relief camp doesn't have this medicine or food there,' so people could go and help out.”

The flood, which reached its height in midAugust, is now mostly over, leaving Kerala in the position of having to recuperate from what many articles call “the worst flood in over a century.” The death toll is currently at 324, and more than 200,000 people were displaced by the flood.

Poovathoor estimates that it will take time for Kerala to recover.

“The damage is really devastating. ... In Kerala, I feel like there are so many poor people who are not going to be taken care of,”Poovathoor said.

Students who want to help can donate money to the Kerala government's Chief Minister's Distress Relief Fund (CMDRF), created to grant relief to flood victims.

“If you want to help, I think that's a great way to do it because it's official,” Poovathoor said.

However, Poovathoor and her family have reservations about CMDRF due to both a perceived lack of transparency about how funds are allocated and a larger distrust of the government, which Poovathoor says is shared by the general public. Many experts have spoken about how the government's poor dam management contributed to the flood.

Poovathoor spoke about a priest in her area who runs a facility that provides free food and resources for elderly and mentally disabled citizens, and said that he has been instrumental in administering medicine to sick people who

are prevented from going to the hospital because of the flood. Poovathoor strongly encouraged students to donate to his flood relief GoFundMe along with similar grassroots efforts, as well as donating to the CMDRF. Daniela Montúfar Soria, a senior and co-founder of International Humanitarian Crisis Initiative (IHCI), said that IHCI may conduct a fundraiser or a similar event that raises awareness for the Kerala floods this year.

“What we do normally before we do anything is try to find a reputable local organization. Once we find a contact, we organize a fundraiser, and try to find resources,” Soria said. “But it's definitely something we want to look into. ... It’s so sad to see my friends from India who are posting on Facebook and sharing this stuff, but not many people seem to know about it [in the U.S.].”

Students who want to support the flood relief efforts in Kerala can donate to the CMDRF fund or the priest's GoFundMe, or contact Poovathoor or George at rpoovath@trinity.edu or jgeorge2@trinity.edu for more information.

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Say “yes, and…” to new improv group Keep your friends close, but your Buddy Buddies closer with Trinity’s new longform improv group RAFAELA BRENNER | A&E REPORTER rbrenner@trinity.edu

For the average Trinity student, the day can, at moments, feel overly structured by classes, jobs and extracurriculars, to name just a few items that might be on your Google Calendar. But if you’ve been longing for some spontaneity in your life, look no further: Trinity’s most recent longform improvisational comedy group Buddy Buddy is your new best friend.

This past spring, senior Elizabeth Metzger, motivated by an absence of longform improv on campus, teamed up with Dan Grimm and Tina Jackson at Bexar Stage, a San Antonio theater focused on longform improvisation, and Trinity University Players to put out a casting call for a new show on campus.

Having performed in multiple shows together since the start of last semester, both off-campus at Bexar Stage and at Trinity’s Café Theater, Buddy Buddy members attest to how they’ve enjoyed developing their performance skills as a group.

New longform improv group Buddy Buddy practices on stage. photo by MATTHEW CLAYBROOK

“[Improv is] different every single time, but then at the same time when you’re in a troupe, you still get more familiar with how your fellow players play. And so I remind myself of like, ‘Oh, this is their play style, and that’s his play style, and oh right, this is how I play ... my improv style with them,’ ” said Kerry Madden, junior and Buddy Buddy cast member.

Buddy Buddy shows are structured based on the standard La Ronde improv format, in which all the characters exist within the same

world, but only two characters will interact within a given scene. After a certain amount of time, one other cast member will tag someone out of the scene to replace them and start a new interaction.

While this format provides structure for the show, any sort of restriction put on the whims of the cast members stops here.

“The form of improv overall is just so inherently fun that it’s like, it feels good to laugh. People like to laugh. It’s really fun to go to rehearsals and get to play and be

different people and laugh at one another and laugh at yourself. We’re being goofballs really most of the time. But it’s like, ‘How do you be the best goofball?’ ” Madden asked.

While a typical Buddy Buddy show will have the cast create unique characters and stories, group members are fueled by audience suggestions and laughter until the curtain closes.

“My favorite thing about being in Buddy Buddy is the freedom to explore the characters I make in improv as opposed to ending them in shortform [improvisation],” said junior Lamonte Brooks, a member of Buddy Buddy.

Metzger now helps to coach members of Buddy Buddy to develop their improvisational skills in building scenes and characters as preparation for the performances.

“They’re all very unique players ... I think they make very unique, very cool choices and I love that I can help them in any way just to like notice that I’m like, ‘Oh you do this a lot.

You’re very detail oriented,’ ” Metzger said.

Buddy Buddy is back to practicing together this semester with the goal of bringing audiences more shows in the future.

“When you start creating something together, you don’t wanna stop creating because every show is different. Every show is new and every time you do it, you get better,” Metzger said.

Demitasse returns with album “Powercouple” Erik Sanden, ‘93 , to release new album with band member Joe Reyes next week

CALLIOPE IZQUIERDO | A&E REPORTER jizquie1@trinity.edu

Demitasse’s new album “Powercouple,” coming out next Friday, Sept. 28, presents a wide range of soft acoustic rock that settles into a place of comfort and cheerfulness, despite the issues that one faces.

Demitasse is composed of Erik Sanden, Trinity University alum, and Joe Reyes, UTSA alum. Considered as a side project, the band began in 2009 when the drummer of Buttercup — the rock band that Sanden and Reyes run as a main gig — left, resulting in the two musicians adopting a different songwriting approach than they were used to.

Sanden and Reyes described the process of writing sad songs about sick fathers, and at their core, those songs were for Sanden and Reyes alone.

They had sat on those recordings for a while before deciding to revisit them and, upon realizing how good they were, to release them as “Blue Medicine” in 2014.

In a sense, “Powercouple” continues the soft forcefulness of “Blue Medicine” while simultaneously expanding the scope of instrumentation — especially in songs like “There’s Still Beauty at the Base of the Mountain, I Swear” and “Silent Key,” which feature more rock-adjacent rhythms and compositions — and retaining the contemplative and personal nature of the songs.

“So then we began to develop an aesthetic for our writing,” Reyes said. “We were really pleased with how our first album came

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Demitasse members ERIK SANDEN, left, and JOE REYES, right, are releasing their new album “Powercouple” and coming to the Tobin Center this month. photo by GENEVIEVE HUMPHREYS

out, since we did it so quickly and without thinking too much about it, so then the aesthetic became: each time we were going to record, it will just be the two of us singing and playing guitar at first. So we won’t use headphones, we won’t use a click-track at first, we won’t tune anything with autotune later. We were simply gonna document how we feel in that moment, and that’s more like a snapshot of a recording, which is kinda what [musicians in general] did before [they] got to multitrack recording in the ‘60s.”

Sanden and Reyes talked about how well this quick and dirty recording method complements the nature of Demitasse as a band concerned with getting straight to the emotional center through the minimalistic

instrumentation, tender vocals and the brief silence between musical phrases.

While discussing the whimsical unconventionality of Buttercup’s live concerts, Sanden noted how, despite the emphasis on fun rock performances and exciting riffs, Buttercup’s more heartfelt and earnest songs became the seeds of Demitasse’s aesthetic.

While Sanden and Reyes enjoy being able to croon, they still pay close attention to the theatrics of live Demitasse performances.

“Anybody can kind of set up in a room and start to play, and [the audience would be] like, ‘Ah, okay, it sounds good,’” Reyes said. “But what if there were some other elements there? What if there was a phone that someone was gonna use to have a

conversation with someone from their past? That totally amps everything up in this way.”

When asked about how working on “Powercouple” as an album compares with curating live shows, Sanden and Reyes talked about the themes that were emphasized in the album. “[‘Powercouple’] starts and ends in this total optimism,” Sanden said. “The first line of the record is from ‘It’s Good to be Alive (Again),’ and it’s just this moment where someone flicks on the light like, ‘Surprise!

You are alive, and it’s beautiful.’ … And then the album ends with this Tim Duncan-Lou Reed crazy dream [in ‘Timmy Reed’] that has the final word as ‘yes.’ It’s Lou Reed with Tim Duncan’s head just saying over and over again that everything is fine — any questions you have, the answer is yes.”

Sanden and Reyes hope the kind of magic that is present in treading unknown musical ground carries through in the songs themselves.

“In the middle there’re these honest dips that you have in life of, like, worry, but they all seem to [retain] some of this beauty,” Sanden said. “And there’s plenty of longing, but there’s — just musically, it’s gonna be fulfilled.”

“But that’s just our lives,” Reyes said. “Like for the past five years, both of us have been through the death of both of our dads, the ups-and-downs of personal relationships, and we’re both sitting here together as friends still making music, and I think that’s a victory in itself.”

Demitasse has released two singles from the album along with music videos directed

by Alejandro DeHoyos­— “Leave the House” and “Majic.” In addition to their album release on Sept. 28, the band will perform on Saturday Sept. 29 at the Tobin Center as a celebration of an album that the musicians themselves consider to be their best work.

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Roll the dice for Are we Tiger or are we dancer? some TriniD&D Group seeks to become official TU organization

WOLF ROBINSON | A&E REPORTER jrobins7@trinity.edu

Once a week, sophomore Trace Glorioso and his friends meet to kill orcs, minotaurs and mercenaries; they cast spells and go on legendary searches for treasures they will never see.

Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) is a role-playing tabletop game in which players act as characters of their creation, working with each other on storylines written by their ‘Dungeon Master,’ the player charged with maintaining the reality of the game.

Although this group of students have been organizing D&D meetings since December 2017, the club TriniD&D now aims to become an official RSO. This isn’t your parents D&D, unless that’s what you’re looking for. The game has been influential in pop-culture and science fiction since its creation in 1974 and most recently served as a key plot point in the Netflix hit “Stranger Things.”

“I’d heard about Dungeons and Dragons, but when I played for the first time, I absolutely fell in love with it,” Glorioso said. “You have the board game and video game side, and then you have the improv side of D&D, and then you also have the creative writing side of it. It’s just the perfect game, in my opinion.”

Glorioso serves as secretary for the group and envisions that the club will serve as a central hub for students searching for role-playing and actionadventure games.

“The club is basically like having your own comic-book store in the middle of Trinity,” Glorioso said. “It’s a way to communicate with other people who have the same interests as you and who play the same style.”

Seniors Collin Gillespie and Marshall Tickner play D&D together every week with other Trinity students, but they hadn’t heard many details about the new club on campus.

“I’ve been keeping an eye on that club since I work in the Student Involvement office,” Gillespie said.

“But I didn’t understand that they were this thing to connect people who play the game on campus.

That’s really neat.”

Tickner agreed, adding that he, too, had been confused about the purpose of the club and might have benefitted from its organization if he’d known about it a few months ago.

“Our current group just got together just through word of mouth,” Tickner said. “I had run a campaign over the summer for some friends that were here, and when we needed other party members, [Gillespie] jumped in.”

Glorioso believes this misunderstanding of the club’s purpose is common and hopes many students interested in D&D will reach out.

“What I’d like to say to the newcomers is to feel free to email me,” Glorioso said. “That way we’ll be able to add them to the GroupMe.” Despite TriniD&D’s seeming obscurity among students, the group’s membership has already surpassed his expectations with over 50 students involved at the time of publication.

“If you are into creative writing, if you are into acting, if you are into collaborative storytelling, or if you enjoy roleplaying games, this is the club for you,” Glorioso said. “[D&D] is some of the most fun you will have.”

Those interested in joining TriniD&D can contact the group for information on meeting times and how to join at trinitydungeonsanddragons@ gmail.com

Trinity hip-hop dance group LOON-E CREW practices in the Stieren Dance Studio in the Bell Center. The group performs every year at events both on- and off- campus, such as Momentum. photo by ELIZABETH NELSON

Groups on campus choreograph for a successful year RAFAELA BRENNER | A&E REPORTER rbrenner@trinity.edu Whether you’re an experienced dancer or you’ve got two left feet, the student dance organizations on campus provide plenty of opportunities to bust a move or see an energetic performance. You’ve likely heard of Loon-E Crew, Swing Bums, Top Naach and Prowlers Dance Team, but here’s a rundown of each organization so you can learn more about them, get involved and get dancing.

LOON-E CREW Loon-E Crew is a hip-hop dance organization for Trinity students. You can catch them performing at events on- and offcampus — such as at Mabuhay, Momentum and other events around San Antonio. Members meet weekly for rehearsals and choreograph their own dances for performances. For those interested in joining, Loon-E Crew holds auditions for new members at the start of each semester.

“The common thing that we get asked is ‘do we have to have experience’ … and it’s nothing like that,” said junior Chancinique Calliham, cocaptain for Loon-E Crew. “It’s about people who love dance, that’s mostly what we look for.”

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SWING BUMS Swing Bums is a social dance organization on campus for students interested in swing dance. They hold lessons in various styles of swing and blues dance every Friday from 4–5:30 p.m. in the William H. Bell Athletic Center and host social dances each week from 8–9 p.m. in the Fiesta Room.

These activities are open to all students. You can also view them along with a live jazz band at Skyline Swing nights on the first Saturday of each month in the Skyline room.

“Everyone should try it. Even if you think you can’t dance ... I did not dance at all when I came to Trinity University, and I came and I learned, and the teachers were so helpful and I have decided to continue on. And now I teach most of the weekly Friday lessons.

So [I’m] passing it on, hoping everyone comes at some point and learns how to dance,” said junior Alex Bradley, Swing Bums vice president.

TOP NAACH Top Naach is the Bollywood dance team at Trinity. Members choreograph and prepare dances for various campus events throughout the year — such as Diwali, Mabuhay and Momentum — and welcome all students interested in Bollywood dance to join the team. One of the organization’s co-captains, senior Sneh Lalani, shared her excitement about their plans for an upcoming performance at Diwali.

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THE PROWLERS DANCE TEAM Prowlers is a dance team and spirit organization on campus with a focus on promoting wellness. Each semester, the group welcomes new members at various levels of dance experience through an audition process.

The Prowlers incorporate diverse styles of dance — including jazz and ballet — into the routines they prepare for cultural and sports events at Trinity.

“We like to do a variety of genres and participate in a lot of the cultural events on campus.

We have dancers with different backgrounds and styles of dance, so we try to touch on a little bit of everyone’s favorites,” said senior Nathaly Salazar, Prowlers co-captain.

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09 29 18 TriniD&D secretary TRACE GLORIOSO sophomore reads the player’s handbook for D&D, a role-playing tabletop game. photo by ELIZABETH NELSON

“We’re doing a very cool theme of ‘Around the World’.

Bollywood has been in the industry for a very long time. ... and so [it] has evolved to [include] different kinds of styles, so we’ve had songs that are Caribbeanesque, and we’ve had songs that are way more French-sounding, and we’ve had songs that are more trap, more [like] house music, we’ve had rap songs. We’ve had very different styles but [it’s] still Bollywood. And so we all thought as a group that it would be interesting to showcase all the different types of Bollywood songs and how they’ve taken inf luence from different parts of the world,” Lalani said.

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Sports

THE GAMES CONTINUE:

• Volleyball vs. The Univeristy of Chicago, Friday, Sept. 21, 2:30 p.m.

• Men’s Soccer vs. Colorado College, Friday, Sept. 21, 7 p.m.

• Women’s Soccer vs. Johnson & Wales University , Sunday, Sept. 23, 2 p.m.

Trinity Football edged out in 10–7 loss The team battled against brutal rains and mud but couldn’t finish the game against Millsaps College EVAN BROWN | SPORTS REPORTER ebrown4@trinity.edu In a match that would make your grandpa proud, Trinity’s football team lost their second conference game this year on Sept. 15 to Millsaps College (MC) with a score of 10–7.

Due to the torrential downpour and muddy field, the two teams combined for 86 running plays and 11 fumbles in the low-scoring affair that lacked a flashy offensive showing from either team.

Trinity looked to bounce back from their first loss of the season against Hardin-Simmons University the previous week. The Millsaps Majors came into the game undefeated through two games and had allowed only three points on defense.

The rain and slippery conditions limited the ability for teams to throw the ball.

Both teams focused on running the ball and combined for only 445 total yards.

The field’s condition worsened as the rain continued to pour. The mud only became thicker as the game went on. The field turned into a makeshift slip’n’slide. Referees had a tough job determining the correct line of scrimmage because once the defense tackled the ball-carrier, he would slide another five yards in the mud.

The mud gave the quarterbacks poor grip on the ball resulting in multiple bad throws and dropped balls. Gloves didn’t offer much

help. MC quarterback Chance Clowers used gloves throughout the game but still fumbled five times. Trinity had similar struggles throughout the game.

“Sometimes conditions force you to reevaluate a game plan and play more field position with very calculated shots at the end zone,” said Trinity’s offensive coordinator and offensive line coach Wade Lytal. “It became difficult to push the ball down field like you saw the week before due to the field conditions and the rain.”

Some Trinity players enjoyed playing on the muddy field.

“It’s actually pretty rare that a college football team plays on a grass field instead of turf, so a muddy game is something that few college football players get to experience,” said Kievan Boudreaux-Bostic, Trinity junior and linebacker. “Our feet went pretty far into the mud, a couple of inches at the least. Every step that we took the mud sloshed up into the air.”

The Tigers won the toss and decided to receive to begin the game. Junior quarterback Timmy Ware started in place of sophomore quarterback Wyatt Messex, as Messex nursed an injury he suffered against HardinSimmons. Ware led the Tigers down the field in an exceptional drive that ended with a 49–yard touchdown pass to junior wide receiver Tommy Lavine. Lavine had one on one coverage with the cornerback and blew

First-year quaterback LUKE LEBLANC, left, and junior quarterback T.J. RANISZESKI, right, pratice their form and field vision. They pratice together to maintain competition. photo by MATTHEW CLAYBROOK

by him with a great release. Ware floated the ball where Lavine only had to run under the ball to make the catch. He easily outran the cornerback for the touchdown.

Millsaps responded with a long drive that lasted seven minutes and 31 seconds.

However, the Tigers had an advantage that ultimately squandered the Majors’ drive.

The rain began to pour violently from the sky midway through the drive.

On third down and 11 from the Trinity 19 yard line, Clowers threw a pass to senior wide receiver Ty Durham in the middle of the end zone. Trinity’s defense accidentally

left the middle of the field open leaving Durham without anyone around him for a five yard radius.

To avoid overthrowing Durham, Clowers floated the ball. Unfortunately, Durham struggled to find the ball in the downpour, and the ball careened off his shoulder pad for an incomplete pass.

MC decided not to attempt a field goal because of the intense rainstorm. They ended up turning the ball over on downs a play later. continued on PAGE 15

The introduction of money into sports CROSS COUNTRY Men’s and Women’s Cross Country teams head to Arkansas to compete in the Chile Pepper Festival this Friday.

WOMEN’S SOCCER The Tigers defeated Austin College 9–0 on Friday and then defeated Centenary College 5–0. They hold a 4–1–1 record.

MEN’S SOCCER The Tigers defeated Austin College 3–0 on Friday and on Sunday defeated Centernary College 6–0. They hold a 4–0–1 record.

VOLLEYBALL The women defeated Centenary College on Friday 3–0 and then on Saturday defeated Southwestern University 3–0 and Austin College 3–1. They hold a 10–2 record.

FOOTBALL The Tigers lost 10—7 to Millsaps College. They hold a 1—2 record.

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Opinion: reflecting on how the saturation of business can be negative AUSTIN DAVIDSON SPORTS EDITOR adavids1@trinity.edu

I started watching soccer when I started playing in eighth grade. The game was confusing and long, but one thing I noticed beyond the game is just how many ads there were all over the stadium and on the players’ shirts. The mark of business and advertisement was everywhere, and that was just the beginning.

I, myself, have never seen $425,000 but I imagine that it is an insane amount of money.

Now imagine making that once a week for playing a game.

That is the reality of athletes playing in the Chinese Soccer League, specifically Ezequiel Lavezzi. While a good player in his time at Paris Saint-Germain, he was in no way a player I could see making that kind of money.

To put that in perspective, according to Business Insider, the average American makes $51,000 dollars a year. Lavezzi in one week, as a soccer player, makes eight times what others make in a year.

The insanity doesn’t stop there. In the summer of 2017, the aforementioned Paris Saint-German (PSG) soccer team bought Brazilian soccer superstar Neymar for an

appalling $263 million. The spending didn’t stop; that very summer PSG also signed a deal for another superstar – French forward Kylian Mbappe – for $210 million.

PSG is owned by Qatari businessman Nasser Al-Khelaifi, an ex-profesional tennis player who is now the chairman of massive media group beIN Media Group and the Qatar Sports Investment firm, a Qatar-sponsored company created to invest in sports to bolster Qatar’s holdings.

In addition to this resume, Al-Khelaifi is good friends also with the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim. Sheikh Tamim made Al-Khelaifia minister without portfolio, which means he holds the power of an elected official but has no specific task within the government.

To sum this up, a sporting team is owned by an incredibly wealthy, business-owning politician who is close with the Emir of Qatar and is the chairman of a state-funded investment group.

In other words, he has a blank check to create the most dominant and powerful sporting conglomerate in not only France, but also world football.

Why does this matter? Why have I gone on about PSG and the Chinese Soccer League? Because they are representative of a greater problem within sports; that money and business have become the main object of the teams.

The players are just faces of multi-billion dollar franchises that only care about growing their empire and winning trophies.

At first glance this seems like what all sports teams want, funding and trophies. Yet what is left to the wayside is fans. They don’t matter in this capitalistic equation.

It doesn’t matter how much the PSG fans cheer at the games or how much they defend their clubs legitimacy in French sports bars. What matters is if they buy jerseys.

Manchester United, one of the most valuable sports teams on earth at $4.9 billion, cares not of how much the faithful Reds scream on the terraces of Old Trafford (Manchester United’s stadium); they want them to buy season tickets, jerseys for the whole family and continue to do that for seasons to come.

It’s not about the fans anymore, it’s about the money. It’s about getting lucrative business partnerships or getting owners to buy the team who have access to one of the world’s wealthiest wealth funds.

It has become bigger than just a fan’s game and that begs the question of why would one root for a team if that team doesn’t care about them?

I don’t really have an answer to that. I, at times, find it hard to root for my team, Everton, who also has been infected by big money.

They have lost who they used to be and instead are another example of how soccer has become a business to the teams, not a passion or a love.

This problem doesn’t have a visible ending; money and business have entered nearly all aspects of life.

But this doesn’t stop me from loving to watch soccer games with my dad or watching my sister play soccer or hearing about my cousin playing for his team.

While larger sports may have been consumed by money, it has yet to reach my cousin’s youth league games, and I’d like to think that my endless cheering on the sidelines does help him win the game. So, there is some hope.

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Women’s Soccer wins continued from FRONT The team may have relaxed their nerves, but they didn’t relax their attack.

Cole scored the second goal of the game in the 17th minute after a pass from senior midfielder Emily Welp. Cole took one dribble into the box and blasted the ball with her right foot over the head of Kangaroo goalie Maya Erwin into the back side of the net.

After first-year Trinity midfielder Kaity Ward notched her first collegiate goal in the 20th minute, Cole completed her hat trick — a milestone that every soccer player hopes to reach — in the 30th minute off an assist from senior Katie Peth to make the game 4–0.

In the 39th minute, Tiger sophomore Hannah Lane assisted first-year Madison Horner on her first collegiate goal. Horner’s goal began a frenzy of offense as sophomores Abby Blackwood and Tori Schott scored unassisted goals in the 41st and 44th minutes, respectively.

The Tigers led the Kangaroos 7–0 at halftime. Trinity had all but secured the victory, yet they still managed to remain focused on the game.

“We prioritize keeping our energy high throughout the whole game no matter what the circumstance because we know there are always areas we can improve in,” Cole said.

The Tigers received a penalty kick in the 48th minute after a Kangaroo defender committed a foul in the box off sophomore Lindsey Peng’s corner kick. Co-captain Cole took the penalty kick and registered her fourth goal of the game, tying the

single-game record for most goals in a game.

She is the seventh Trinity Women’s Soccer player to score four goals in one game. She was the first to do so since Julia Camp in 2016, also against Austin College.

Trinity head soccer coach Dylan Harrison substituted Cole for Blackwood, ending Cole’s pursuit for a record-setting five goal game.

“Of course I always want to stay in the game, but I also enjoy seeing my other teammates get out on the field and play,” Cole said. “We had a few people score their first collegiate goals which is exciting to watch. Getting everyone in the game really helps the whole team improve.”

Cole noted the differences between high school soccer and collegiate soccer.

“Especially with the majority of our team being freshman and sophomores, it is really important for them to get experience playing in a game setting,” Cole said. “It can be really different from playing in club or high school and takes some adjusting. They also can build their confidence and start to show off their strengths.”

In the 67th minute, Tori Schott beat the keeper after a pass from Peng for her first multi-goal game. The Tigers continued to wreak havoc on the Kangaroos’ goalie, but Kangaroos’ goalie Erwin finally held her ground and allowed no more goals. Erwin finished with 11 saves for a save percentage of 55 percent.

Trinity’s women soccer team will play Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference foe Johnson & Wales University on Sunday, Sept. 23 at 2 p.m. on Paul McGinlay Soccer Field.

Trinity Football game recap continued from PAGE 14 With 12:25 left in the second quarter, Millsaps forced Trinity to punt. This time, the wet ball slipped through junior punter T.J. Raniszeski’s hands.

Raniszeski had no choice but to run back to pick the ball up and attempt to get the first down.

The Majors tackled Raniszeski after his few noble attempts to evade defenders at the Trinity 16 yard line.

After a defensive pass interference penalty on Trinity in the end zone, the Majors scored easily with a two yard run by sophomore running back Fritz Walker III on a sweep to the left side to tie the game at seven.

The Majors could not continue their momentum, however.

On their next drive, Clowers fumbled the ball on a backwards pass towards senior running back Andrew Warren.

The ball slipped out of Clowers’ hands, resulting in a scramble for the ball between Warren and Trinity senior cornerback Vail Miesfeld. Miesfeld eventually won the battle to give Trinity great field position at the MC 31.

Trinity could not capitalize on the scoring opportunity as the Majors sacked Ware twice in a row.

On third down and 11, the center accidentally snapped the ball past Ware.

When Ware went back to recover the fumble, his foot got stuck in the mud.

A Millsaps player then tackled Ware, who landed uncomfortably on his leg. Messex replaced Ware for the rest of the game. It is unclear how serious Ware’s injury is.

The offenses continued to stall until the fourth quarter. Neither team reached the red zone.

The two teams exchanged punts until 3:39 left in the fourth quarter when Miesfeld intercepted a Clowers pass at the Trinity 36-yard line.

Trinity had a chance to take the lead, but instead MC forced a turnover. Evans tackled senior running back Evan McDowell by putting his shoulder on the ball to force it loose. MC returned the fumble to the Trinity 36.

“Playing with a wet/muddy football is a challenge on the quarterbacks and anyone having to carry the football,” Lytal said. “It just requires an extra level of focus from our skill players. You just have to focus harder on holding onto the football and keeping it high and tight when the ball is slick and you are wet or covered in mud.”

MC ran the clock down until 0:04 remained on the clock.

“Playing with a wet and muddy football is a challenge on the quaterbacks. ... It requires an extra level of focus from our skill players.”

WADE LYTAL OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR AND LINE COACH

They brought out junior kicker Hunter Sellen to attempt the 25-yard field goal.

The chip shot sailed through the uprights as time expired to lift the Majors to victory with a score of 10–7.

After a bye week, Trinity’s football team will play Birmingham-Southern College in another Southern Athletic Association home conference game at Trinity University Stadium at 1p.m. on Sept. 29.

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Belay On! A look at the Trinity climb team Climb team plans to rebrand and to include outdoor trips and events GABRIELLA GARRIGA | NEWS REPORTER gbariga@trinity.edu Aidan Denny quickly ascends halfway up his route, latches onto any crevice or crack that he can and relies on his grip and legs to hoist him up the artificial mountain face.

When Denny can’t quite reach a hold in the surface, he falls — without a rope. Unscathed, Denny hops back up, rethinks his strategy and finishes the 20 foot route in record timing.

This is what competition is to Denny.

Denny — sophomore and president of the Rock Climbing team — first learned to rock climb when he was in middle school at a summer camp but became more serious about the sport his senior year of high school.

When he came to Trinity, he met a cofounder of the climb team, junior William Skinner, and immediately connected with the group.

Skinner, former Climbing Team president, had three things in mind when he started the club with his friend, Ty Tinker.

“Involving students with serious academic commitments into a sport that is competitive but not as serious as a varsity sport. Developing a community that shares a love for the outdoors and rock climbing.

Giving students a chance to explore a new and emerging sport,” Skinner wrote in an email interview This year, Denny plans to expand on the team through partnering with Trinity’s Outdoor Recreation group (OREC) on trips and by organizing more competitions.

“Now that the club’s growing, I want to start going to more competitions, maybe three or four a semester,” Denny said.

AIDAN DENNY, left, watches as his friend gets ready to ascend. LOGAN BOWN, right, chalks up his hands and prepares to scale wall. The pair are enjoying the climbs at Reimers Ranch Park. photo by MATTHEW CLAYBROOK

Two weeks ago, the climb team went on their first group trip to Reimers Ranch Park, using OREC’s climbing gear. They’re planning another team trip later in the semester.

“We went to Reimers Ranch. I think it’s a state park; it used to be privately owned that has a whole bunch of rock climbing on limestone like thirty foot faces. That was just our team and we’re trying to recruit new people so there were about 10 new people,” Denny said.

This semester, the climb team has combined efforts with OREC, becoming

an subgroup of it to make gear sharing more efficient. Declan Kiely, junior and treasurer of the climb team, is excited about the opportunities, partnering with OREC will bring to the climbing team and OREC members.

“We technically became a part of OREC for funding purposes and organizational purposes because they kind of organize the same type of trip formats that we do. An interesting example of that is last Saturday there’s a trip to Pace Bend. The water level was not where we thought it was so the climbing’s a little harder and the walls are a

little longer so OREC actually asked me and Aidan to go on the trip to help people climb,” Kiely said.

When the team is not preparing for a group trip, Kiely enjoys the informal nature of the team practices.

“We have a group chat and whenever someone is going climbing we just send it in the group chat and then anyone else who wants to come comes. As well as being a community organization — getting people climbing outside and get people organized — it also serves as a way to find other people to climb with,” Kiely said.

In addition to outdoor trips, competitions and practices, the team hopes to begin community events.

“I envision like movie views and stuff that are climbing related or outdoor related.

I want to have some aspect of it that’s not just climbing. Climbing’s not easy; it’s easy to pick up and it’s easy to get into it as a beginner but it’s still a lot of work. And it’s sometimes nice to have that community event where we’re not sweating, you know have it be a comfortable chill event,” Kiely said.

Kiely enjoys the kind of climbing that his team practices and competes in: bouldering.

He thinks the mental aspect of climbing is the most valuable part.

“We refer to individual routes as projects, so it’s like doing some type of project or problem with your body, so it’s problem solving with your body. So you’re on this wall and you have to figure o ut h ow t o get up this wall in the most efficient wa y possible, as fast as you can so you don’t get too tired and fall off. So I like t hat mental aspect of it,” Kiely said.

The climb team will have a competition off-campus on Oct. 20. There is also an outdoor climbing trip planned for Nov. 1.

Contact Denny to see if scaling rocky walls is the thing for you.

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