04.06.2018

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Volume 115 Issue 23

13 Students discuss “Being PULSE Right” on a liberal campus

APRIL 06, 2018

16 Opinion: SXSW is way less A&E indie than it pretends to be

18 Baseball ranked No. 1 SPORTS DIII team in nation

Stumberg sees gender disparity Fewer women than men compete in the entrepreneurial competition

BOBBY WATSON | NEWS REPORTER rwatson@trinity.edu After the seed round of the Louis H. Stumberg Venture Plan Competition ended, the finalists stood smiling and laughing, knowing they had qualified to move onto the next round. All the finalist leadership teams — Mona, InterSourcing, Patch, Complete Chess and Quick Sip — posed for a picture holding giant $5,000 checks.

Among the five teams considered finalists, products were diverse, ranging from cold brew coffee to high tech pill bottles. The teams were, however, less diverse in terms of gender.

In the picture of twelve seed round finalists, only one woman, Andrea Acevedo, was presented as the founder of a company, Mona. Three other women — Rachel Lawson with chess education company Complete Chess, Meredith Peckhak with business company InterSourcing and Selena Davila with coffee company Quick Sip — were on the finalist leadership teams.

“We always have one to two teams every year that’s led by a woman and again, we have anywhere between two to four teams where we have women, if not leading, in senior roles,” Luis Martinez, director of the entrepreneurship department, said.

Since 2014, the first year of the competition, 40 to 60 percent of companies that qualified as Stumberg finalists included women creators or women with senior leadership roles. The entrepreneurship department recognizes the disparity of women within the Stumberg Competition.

“We need to do a better job with regards to marketing. We are committed to having more women founders. We’re going to be doing some things to ensure that we have a significant women participation rate,” Martinez said.

Students and alumni offer opinions on the controversial release NOELLE BARRERA | NEWS REPORTER nbarrera@trinity.edu

as male worker bees and drones. Hazen said that eventually one of the daughter bees will become the queen.

“What I believe happened is that our colony has just gotten big, probably too big for the boxes we have. It’s a natural progression,” Hazen said.

A recent alumni spotlight has led to much controversy on the relationship between Trinity’s bottom line as a private university and its ethical line as a liberal arts university. On March 6, Trinity released a YouTube video showcasing the achievements of Brad Parscale, Trinity alum and Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign manager.

The video, part of Trinity’s Alumni Spotlight series, was made last year, when Parscale was speaking to a class about entrepreneurship.

According to Tess Coody-Anders, vice president for communications and marketing, the video was first made spontaneously and held for a more appropriate time.

When Parscale was appointed as Trump’s 2020 campaign manager in February, the university decided it would be a good occasion to release the video.

Several alumni had reservations about the video, partly because of Parscale’s possible ties with Cambridge Analytica, a data company that has been accused of violating election laws by using Facebook data to target users with personalized political advertisements. Some saw the video as undermining Trinity’s values. There was heated online discussion.

Barbara Osborn Mohs, a Trinity alumna who graduated in 1985, asked in the official alumni Facebook group, “What has happened to leaders with integrity?”

Simran Jeet Singh is a Trinity alum who taught in the religion department from 2015 to 2017. He understood the university’s decision to feature Parscale.

“Having been behind the scenes of the administration with people like President Anderson, Vice President Jones, it’s very clear to me that they are trying to represent the university and its values as well as they can,” Singh said.

However, he does not see Parscale as a success story by his or Trinity’s standards.

“Based on what I’ve learned through my time at Trinity — both as a student and as a professor — for me, success is not defined by fame or wealth.”

Singh said. “It’s defined by how one lives in this world. I don’t think Brad Parscale reflects success based on those standards, or that he reflects Trinity values or American ideals.”

Another alumni, Gwynne Ash, has retracted donations and support. Ash is a professor of education at Texas State University.

“It seemed to me that [the administration] had made this decision primarily for financial reasons, and if donations were so important that they were willing to not stick to an ethical reputation, then I was concerned about continuing to associate myself,” Ash said. “I resigned my position on the Office Alumni Board, which I’ve held since 2005, and I made it known that I was disappointed.”

Ash is more concerned with Parscale’s involvement in a scandal than with politics.

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ANDREA ACEVEDO, senior, was one of five groups that won a grant for $5,000 at the annual Stumberg Competition for her virtual reality company called Mona. Acevedo was one of four women who competed this year. photo by CHLOE SONNIER, staff photographer

According to Martinez, these efforts will include requiring students in certain entrepreneurship classes to pitch a company, and having professors create initiatives that reward students for participating in Stumberg. Additionally, the entrepreneurship department wants to do better outreach towards the women-led organizations on campus.

The department is also focusing on promoting Stumberg to students enrolled in social entrepreneurship courses because they have noticed that women gravitate towards the mission-driven aspect of entrepreneurship.

“We find that women tend to congregate in trying to solve problems that are mission focused.

So in our social innovation course, in our social entrepreneurship course, we’re trying to figure out how to best promote the Stumberg prize as a vehicle for students who are in that particular area,” Martinez said.

Elizabeth Metzger, a junior and previous Stumberg participant, took a social entrepreneurship class while she was in high school, which sparked her interest in entrepreneurship. continued on PAGE 14

What’s buzzing? Trinity bees swarm

Colony becomes too large for hive, chooses new queen KATHLEEN CREEDON | NEWS EDITOR kcreedon@trinity.edu Last Thursday, one of Trinity’s bee colonies swarmed outside CSI. The bees had gathered around a new queen bee by a bush on the sidewalk.

Trinity has two hives that are housed on the roof of CSI, but neither hive had structural damage, which suggests the colonies decided to create a new queen.

As soon as the hive was spotted, members of Facilities Services were called in. Les Bleamaster, CSI facilities manager and adjunct professor of geosciences said the main priority was student safety.

“My concern yesterday afternoon was to restrict foot traffic, to inform TUPD, Environmental Health and Safety and Facilities of the issue and to let them know the bees are a part of a Trinity sponsored project, and we did not want them exterminated,” Bleamaster wrote in an email to the Trinitonian. “And to ensure that those with the appropriate expertise were informed and responding.”

Parscale video divides Trinity community

Adviser to the Bee Alliance RICHARD REED, left, and president of the alliance ABBI BOWEN, right, safely contained the swarm outside CSI. The bees have been contained and transported to Reed’s house, where they will be kept until further arrangements are made. photo by KATHLEEN CREEDON, news editor

According to Rebecca Hazen, visiting assistant professor of biology, bees are part of a large order of insects called Hymenoptera, which includes ants and wasps. Hazen explained Hymenopterans hive together and have youth social behavior, which includes a caste system: the queen, who is the only reproductive member of the hive, and her daughters, who forfeit their reproductive rights to care for the colony, as well

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Previously, on SGA: Budget, Twist It, Pull It This issue covers the SGA meeting on April 2.

USOs receive a yearly budget that is funded once for the entire year. Budget proposals will be voted on once all USOs present to SGA on April 23.

Student Programming Board (SPB) requested $216,202.92, which is over $37,500 more than it requested last year. The increase is due to the Welcome Week Concert, for which the performer has not been announced, to a spring concert for Trinity’s 150th anniversary and more collaboration with RSOs. Trinity University Volunteer Action Committee (TUVAC) requested $22,850, which is $1,400 less than it requested last year. TUVAC wants to implement a new training system for volunteers and increase volunteer retention.

CAMPUS CLIMATE CHECK Senator Emeritus Samy Abdallah, senior, noted the construction going on behind the Bell Center and by the football field. Abdallah asked if the bollards that have been raised to prevent cars from passing through would be lowered anytime soon. David Tuttle, dean of students, suggested an SGA member reach out to TUPD and Facilities Services.

Senator Mia Quintanilla, first-year, brought up a concern discussed at last week’s meeting concerning international students and financial aid.

Quintanilla asked Tuttle if SGA should promote students’ GoFundMe OFFICER REPORTS pages, and Tuttle explained that if SGA started to do this, they would have President Amulya Deva, junior, reminded senators that they will be voting on to maintain the precedent. He suggested SGA work with Eric Maloof, vice changes to the bylaws at a future meeting and to read through all of the information president of enrollment management, and see if he can come in to answer prior to voting. questions senators may have.

Deva also told senators that Dining Services will be holding input sessions in Mabee Dining Hall throughout the week, and she asked that senators be there to BUDGET PROPOSALS speak with students.

Each spring, university-sponsored organizations (USOs) present budget Vice president Rachel Daniel, junior, asked senators to review information proposal requests to SGA. Unlike registered student organizations (RSOs), about the next USO budget proposals to prepare for the request presentations at which receive funds from the student activity fee (SAF) on a request basis, next week’s meeting.

Tune in each week for Kathleen Creedon’s SGA summaries. SGA meets at 5:30 p.m. on Mondays in the Waxahachie Room in Coates University Center.

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TUPD BRIEFS

CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOL On Wednesday, March 21, at 4:30 a.m., a student called TUPD to help park another student’s car. The wheel had been broken when one of the students tried to park. There was no evidence of which student parked, but the student who did not call TUPD was intoxicated. No alcohol was found, but the student was charged with public intoxication and consumption of alcohol by a minor.

dorm room. When the officer unlocked the room, a bottle of wine was left in plain sight. The student was underage and was asked to empty the bottle. The student was charged with possession of alcohol by a minor.

BIKE THEFT On Friday, March 30, at 5:47 p.m., a student reported a bike missing from the bike rack in front of the Witt Reception Center. Later, the student reported that the bike may have been seen attached to another rike, suggesting the bike was POSSESSION OF ALCOHOL On Friday, March 30, at 2:22 p.m., misplaced rather than stolen. Further a student called TUPD to unlock their investigations are in the process.

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• In the March 23 issue in “OREC camps, canoes,” on pages 17 and

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Trinity hosts annual Mental Health Week Counseling services, T-Prog and TU Fit join to inform community SKYLR MCCORMICK-ISOM | NEWS REPORTER smccorm1@trinity.edu Planned as a collaboration between Trinity Progressives (T-Prog), TU Fit and Counseling Services, this year’s Mental Health Week included a discussion on mental health, a dropin yoga session, a destress fest and extended walk-in hours in Counseling Services.

The community discussion was held in Waxahachie and led by Claudia Rodriguez Kypuros, mental health counselor, on Tuesday, April 3. According to wellness coordinator Katherine Hewitt, the event was intended to focus on questions students normally are apprehensive about asking and to encourage the accessibility of Counseling Services.

“Students often have questions like ‘How do I know that my mental health symptoms are so bad that I need to seek out treatment of some sort?’” Hewitt said. “We wanted to answer their questions and concerns.”

The discussion started with students sharing their experiences with Counseling Services. Many reported good feedback but echoed concern that students may be unaware of the resources offered or may feel they do not need help.

Students also raised concern about the busy culture of Trinity.

“It’s almost like a rite of passage to be overcommitted and overwhelmed. It’s like if you’re not overwhelmed, you’re not doing enough things, and that’s not healthy,” said sophomore Erica Schoenberg.

Trinity Progressives invited THE community to join them in a discussion with university mental health counselor CLAUDIA RODRIGUEZ KYPUROS, right. photo by CHLOE SONNIER, staff photographer

When asked how a student should measure when they should get help, Kypuros explained that it isn’t as hard as some may think.

“What I tell students is if there’s something, like stress, that’s getting in the way of your ability to function — can’t study, can’t eat, can’t sleep. Or maybe it’s the opposite — eating too much, sleeping too much,” Kypuros said. “When whatever emotional issue you’re experiencing is getting in the way of your ability to function, then it’s time.”

Trinity Progressive’s co-president and senior Maddie Kennedy emphasized the importance of hearing students’ opinions and concerns.

“This [event] will be very interactive and will give students the opportunity to voice their concerns,” Kennedy said. “Something I hear a lot is people who are unsure how to discuss mental health with their professors or with an administrator and we’re going to discuss that.”

An event that has proved to be popular in previous years is the Super Nacho Hour and Resource Fair, which took place on Wednesday on the Coates Esplanade. This event will feature numerous mental health experts and organizations such as the Rape Crisis Center, the Eating Recovery Center, Trinity’s Body Project and the National Alliance on Mental Illness, a non-profit mental health organization.

Along with volunteer opportunities and information about mental health resources, the fair had a table dedicated to trivia about Counseling Services and general information about anxiety and depression, as well as a raffle for a free Fitbit.

The drop-in meditation and yoga session, sponsored by TU Fit, also happened on Wednesday, in the grass by Miller Fountain.

TU Fit’s certified yoga instructor Brandie Regalado conducted the session, and TU Fit’s meditation instructor Malcom Fox, sophomore, held a meditation session.

This is the first year TU Fit has helped cosponsor Mental Health Week at the suggestion of Hewitt. Based on recent studies, physical activity correlates with mental strength, and TU Fit will provide the opportunity for students to try this on their way to class by incorporating fitness into the week.

“We wanted to represent the week because mental health is very important, especially in college,” said TU Fit’s president Sarah Gorban, sophomore. “It’s good for people to know that there are resources available on and off campus.”

Counseling Services offered extended walk-in hours every day this week in the hopes of helping more people feel comfortable with reaching out. Hewitt expressed that often students wonder about knowing when is an appropriate time to visit Counseling Services.

“People often think [their stress level] is not that bad or that their symptoms aren’t as bad as others,” Hewitt said. “However, you shouldn’t feel ashamed or guilty when you are in a crisis or when you are too stressed out to handle it on your own.”

For more information about mental health resources on campus, contact Counseling and Health Services.

President Danny Anderson and Kimberly Anderson welcome everyone to Spring Family Weekend!

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Organizations face challenges with T-Space For small events, new reservation rules lead to problems for groups NOELLE BARRERA | NEWS REPORTER nbarrera@trinity.edu Student organizations, including Vietnamese Student Association (VSA), Trinity University Latino Association (TULA) and Black Student Union (BSU), have had trouble recently with securing spaces to hold events.

Some of the issues stem from the Dinesh D’Souza lecture that occurred last Spring on March 7th. When Tigers For Liberty created the Dinesh D’Souza event in T-Space, it didn’t specify who the speaker was, and since then, Student Involvement has endeavored to screen events more carefully.

An Events Review Committee (ERC) now requires student organizations to fill out a form several months in advance, and any guest speakers have to be screened with ERC. This regulation also applies to small group meetings. The two guest speakers for PRIDE’s February Art and Activism event — Graciela Sanchez and Lisa Scheps from the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center — had to sign a waiver and go through the speaker screening process, even though the event was attended by a small number of students.

In addition, student organizations must book non-repeating events a month in advance, and repeating events — such as club meetings — two weeks in advance.

Alex Motter, president of VSA explained how these regulations work differently for larger events than they do for small events.

“If it’s a big event, obviously we want to make sure that those checks and protocols are in place, but if you’re doing a small thing that’s intentionally low-key, it’s inconvenient to have to go through all the work that a big event has to go through,” Motter said.

According to Motter, reserving spaces months in advance is challenging for student organizations that generally hold small events.

JANET MUÑOZ, a senior and member of TULA, explained that the Trinity University Latino Association has had issues with T-Space in the past, particularly in planning their event De Colores. Other groups, like Vietnamese Student Association and Black Student Union have had similar issues. FILE PHOTO

“You have to have the location for nonrepeating events approved a month in advance.

And that’s great for a big event that has a lot of logistical moving parts because you’re able to talk with risk management, TUPD and anyone who might necessarily be involved,” Motter said. “However, it’s really inconvenient for non-repeating small events.”

Motter and other VSA members plan to hold a video screening in the Fiesta Room for students who performed in this year’s Lunar New Year festival, so students have the

opportunity to view their performance. In accordance with the T-Space rules, this nonrepeating event must be approved by Student Involvement and the ERC a month in advance.

However, because the video is currently in production, it’s hard to set a concrete time and date.

There has been a recent exemption to this rule. While affiliated with Trinity Progressives through Our Revolution, Bernie Sanders, who spoke at Trinity in March, was not screened a month in advance. Motter said that this

Response to Parscale video continued from FRONT

Courses for Fall 2018 include: ARTH 1407: Art History I – Prehistoric to Medieval ARTH 1408: Art History II – Renaissance to Modern ARTH 2430: Art and Patronage at the Court of Burgundy*

ARTH 3441: Early Renaissance Art in Italy* ENGL 2301: British Literature – Old English to 1750 ENGL 3456: The Epic Legacy – Imagining Antiquity in the Middle Ages ENGL 4420: Nasty Women in Medieval and Early Modern British Literature*

HIST 1350: Medieval Islamic History* *Counts towards The Medieval & Renaissance World Interdisciplinary Cluster in the Pathways Curriculum

See the Fall 2018 Class Schedule, p. 92 for further listings For more information on the Minor in Medieval & Renaissance Studies please contact Dr. Douglas Brine (dbrine@trinity.edu) or Dr. Nicole Marafioti (nmarafio@trinity.edu) or see the Program’s website.

exemption may pose a future quandary for the Events Review Committee.

“If you’re going to give exemptions based on how high-profile someone is or how important the event is, are you going to be passing subjective judgments on every single event?”

Motter asked. “If an event seems like it’s going to be more interesting, does that mean it’s going to be bumped up on the priority list?”

Another issue that students can face is being dislocated from a space because of another university-sanctioned group that takes precedence. TULA recently had to find another location to host the De Colores ceremony after being displaced because the Board of Trustees was holding an event at the same time and place.

TULA had undergone the event verification process and reserved the Great Hall over the summer, but because none of the members have access to T-Space, they had to ask an outside party to reserve the space. Consequently, the members were unaware that TULA had been displaced for several months.

Janett Muñoz, a member of TULA, explained the organization’s struggle to find a new location to host De Colores.

“We thought about the Skyline Room, but we needed a bigger space, so we thought, ‘Okay, we’ll do it in Stieren,’ but then the Board of Trustees was going to be outside, and then we tried Ruth Taylor but that also didn’t work because the Board of Trustees was going to be there,” Muñoz said. “We were left with the Fiesta Room, but now we’re going to have to cap the guests because this is what we have.”

Working together with university-sponsored organizations can help registered student organizations (RSOs) book events successfully.

Kezia Nyarko, president of Trinity Diversity Connection (TDC), said that April’s Diversity Week will be an opportunity for RSOs to plan events without having to worry about reservations.

“Diversity Week is a chance for TDC to help student cultural organizations plan their events easily and sort of bypass the reservation process by working together with us,” Nyarko said.

Students who have questions about the ERC or the T-Space room reservation process can email Shannon Edmond at sedmond@trinity.edu.

“He is under investigation for perhaps doing things that are illegal or unethical, and this can have negative repercussions for Trinity,” Ash said. “I probably wouldn’t have blinked if he had been invited to speak on campus, but it is different to have someone as a guest speaker than to have them endorsed by the university as an example of what Trinity’s education could help you be.”

Students also reacted to the video.

Kezia Nyarko, community chair of Black Student Union and president of Trinity Diversity Connection, perceived double standards.

“The Activism Fair happened this semester after black students specifically were disappointed in the lack of response to police brutality, and a lot of the response we’ve gotten is ‘We don’t want to pick a side and alienate people,’ and now seeing [the administration] represent someone like this is interesting,” Nyarko said.

Nyarko felt that Trinity takes controversial opinions of figures like Milo Yiannopoulos too lightly.

“They’re like, ‘We want to have diverse thoughts on campus,’ but if those thoughts are hurting people’s lives, then that’s not what I want to see on my campus,” Nyarko said.

Junior Luke Ayers appreciated the release of the video.

“I thought that it was really cool how Trinity prepares students to be very influential at a higher rate than other schools because of our values as a liberal arts university,” Ayers said.

“Trinity prepares you to be creative, to think

out-of-the-box and to be successful no matter who you are or who you work for.”

Ayers sees the conflict as beneficial.

“Whenever someone is put up like this as an example of what Trinity can prepare you to do — because it’s in the realm of politics — it’s going to make someone mad,” Ayers said.

“We’re a diverse student body, and we can use that to improve all of our perspectives, and Trinity does that spectacularly.”

Coody-Anders said that Trinity releasing the video wasn’t intended to endorse a political belief, only to spotlight an alumni receiving attention, good or bad.

“I have personal opinions about Brad’s work and the campaign he’s running, but I have the responsibility at the university to assure that critical discourse is allowed to take place, and that alumni, students, faculty or administrations who have something newsworthy or worthwhile to talk about are given their fair opportunity to do so,” CoodyAnders said.

Despite staying neutral in her professional role, Coody-Anders is glad to see Trinity’s community engage in debate.

“It’s not my role to shut down or prevent discourse from taking place, but I’m proud to see students, alumni and faculty say after the fact , ‘We should absolutely talk about this,’ and talk about the who, the how, the why, and that should be an open discussion.”

In the future, Coody-Anders said that Trinity will attach a disclaimer before videos clarifying that there is no intention of promoting the speakers or the beliefs of the speakers though the video.

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How TUPD distinguishes law from school policy A brief explanation of criminal procedure on Trinity’s campus BOBBY WATSON | NEWS REPORTER rwatson@trinity.edu Due to Trinity’s status as a private university, students are subject to a code of conduct that dictates their behavior on campus and the consequences they face for breaking this code.

Through this code, TUPD’s main focus is enforcing the law, but they also collaborate with Residential Life to enact school policy.

“TUPD enforces the law, and the university staff will enforce things that are policy violations.

But there is sometimes overlap. So [a resident assistant] stumbles upon underaged drinking, or somebody using marijuana — that could have legal consequences, but we usually handle that through the student conduct process,” said David Tuttle, dean of students. “Likewise, TUPD can come upon things that may be violations of policy that they may write up and ends up going through student conduct.”

TUPD is a fully licensed police department and holds all the powers and abilities of the San Antonio Police Department, though their jurisdiction is Trinity’s campus and the surrounding streets.

“We are a bonafide police department, it’s just we [work] for a small university. We have full arrest powers like any other police department in the state of Texas,” said John Santellan, lieutenant-investigator of TUPD. “We have to go through policy academy just like every other police officer in the state of Texas. Our powers are equal to any other police officer in the state of Texas.”

graphic by ANDREA NEBHUT , staff illustrator

This means students have the same rights with TUPD as they would with any city officer.

TUPD cannot search a student’s person unless arrested. This usually only occurs if an officer has reason to believe an individual is carrying a knife or firearm. TUPD also cannot search a student’s private property without a warrant.

“I place you under arrest, and I can search you. They call that search incident to arrest. Now to search your vehicle, you call that an inventory search because anything that’s left in your car that’s of value, you want to be able to place that in the property room or to give it back to the [arrested individual]. There are certain places that you’re not allowed to search for without a

Trinity bees swarm by CSI continued from FRONT “So the queen controls the hive with pheromones, and sends out pheromonal signals to the workers that say, you know, ‘We’re getting too big for this colony, and we need to make new queens,’ ” Hazen said.

Hazen explained that this process normally occurs in the springtime and after rain.

Abbi Bowen, sophomore and president of the Trinity Bee Alliance, agreed with this theory.

“Sometimes even before [the bees] make a new queen, the old queen will leave to find a new place for a hive, taking some of the bees with her — about half to less than half of the bees,” Bowen wrote in an email interview.

According to Richard Reed, professor of sociology and anthropology and an adviser to the Trinity Bee Alliance, this split doesn’t negatively affect the old queen.

“The old queen will have enough worker bees to continue,” Reed said. “She’s decreasing her reproductive capacity to make new queens and then the new queen will take her place.”

When Bowen first found out about the swarm, she thought the cause could be one of three things: hive beetles, structural damage to the hives or, as Hazen mentioned, the colony’s decision to pick a new queen.

The day after the bees swarmed, Bowen checked on the hives and found no beetles.

“When I looked at the hives Friday morning, I found that the Flow hive was

not too crowded and seemed normal like usual,” Bowen wrote. “When I looked in the Langstroth hive, the honey super we added to the hive last semester is completely full, meaning that the bees likely swarmed because the hive was too crowded.”

Though the swarm seemed to worry students who passed it, Bowen insists the bees are of no harm.

“When they swarm, they’re usually at their calmest because they don’t have anything to protect,” Bowen said. “There’s no honey or anything that they’re protecting. They just want to go to the queen.”

Bowen worked with Reed to safely contain and transport the swarm.

“Dr. Reed placed the bees we caught in a brood box hive, closed off the entrance so the queen wouldn’t escape and gave the bees sugar water to feed on. After a few days he will open up the entrance to let the bees continue as normal,” Bowen wrote.

Reed, who keeps bees at his home, suggested housing this colony at his house for the next few weeks so the hive can regain normalcy.

“I need to do some research to see if a third hive could actually fit on the roof — there might be complications with the close distance of the hives with each other and the small space of the roof,” Bowen said. “In the meantime, I’m going to order supplies for Bee Alliance so we can be prepared for another swarm in case it happens again — hive boxes, frames, and wax sheets.”

warrant. ... If it so happens that I’m inventorying your car and I find drugs [in your vehicle] then you will be booked or charged for possession,” said Alex Conejo, a retired patrol officer of SAPD. Conviction of a misdemeanor can result in up to a year in jail time, a fine no larger than $1000 or both.

The same procedure will occur if a student is caught by TUPD with illegal substances.

However, if a student is caught by Trinity administration with drugs or alcohol, then different policies apply.

TUPD cannot search a student’s living space without a warrant or consent unless they have written permission by Sheryl Tynes, associate vice

president for student life, Tuttle or a designee.

The permission needs to explicitly state the reasons for the search and the information being sought. TUPD will be brought to proceed with this search, but the consequences will most likely be administrative, rather than legal.

“At the point of enforcement is when we call TUPD on a drug violation because we don’t want our [residential assistant] staff handling drugs. But the conduct process usually goes through the Student Conduct Panel, and then a sanction that the panel may give would be parental notification, which would be executed by [Residential Life],” Tuttle said.

Cases that involve minor drug offenses usually end with a fine and notification of the student’s parents. Students can do little to prevent a school sanctioned search of their room but can refuse a TUPD search if they do not have a search warrant or are not working under direction from Trinity’s administration.

While substance abuse usually has harsher consequences through legal procedures, the administration has much more power over situations dealing with sexual harassment.

Sexual harassment has very vague legal terms, while sexual assault has very specific terms, which leaves TUPD unable to pursue legal consequences for less aggressive situations.

“When you go by sexual assault, sexual harassment, the school has a different definition than [TUPD] as a law enforcement. When we can’t prove on our part that [a situation] didn’t fulfill what the law requires for it to be considered sexual harassment, that doesn’t mean the school can’t take action,” Santellan said.

Student’s rights and potential consequences are usually decided by the situation and who apprehends them, but can at times be a combination of both legal and administrative regulations.

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Don’t stop donating over Parscale One month ago, Trinity University uploaded a video to Facebook spotlighting Brad Parscale, who graduated in 1999.

Parscale was the digital adviser for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and was recently appointed campaign manager for Trump’s 2020 campaign.

“By having a liberal arts education and being able to understand the left and the right, the top and the bottom — all parts of history, all parts of business — I was able to make a decision, because I wasn’t pushed to one edge,” said Parscale in the video. “I was well-rounded.”

The alumni pushback was immediate: 103 “angry” reactions and 127 comments, most critical of either Parscale himself or of the university for promoting the man commonly credited for Trump’s unexpected electoral victory.

Two weeks after the video was posted, a whistleblower revealed that Cambridge Analytica, the data-mining consulting

company that fumbled with millions of Trump’s campaign cash, had obtained data on 87 million Facebook profiles in violation of the social media giant’s privacy policies.

The proximity of Cambridge Analytica to Parscale’s operations makes Trinity’s marketing move seem particularly ill-timed.

Dunking on Parscale is fun, and booing Trinity for celebrating the achievements of its measurably most harmful alumnus is absolutely justified. But we’ll hold off on that for the annual “fake news” issue, the Trinibonian. Just two more weeks, y’all.

In the meantime, we want to caution alumni against one particularly dangerous threat some were contemplating online: withholding future donations to the university in protest of the Parscale video.

Clearly the outrage is genuine. But chipping away at the school’s bottom line isn’t the answer.

Trinity’s an expensive school. The students who pay full-price tuition still aren’t covering

CIVIC STUDENTS I am writing this second addition of “Talking Politics” during Easter break at my grandmother’s house on the northeast side of San Antonio. In this edition, I want to address civic engagement from a personal perspective.

From where I am sitting in my grandmother’s computer room I can see her cork board of reminders and sketchy internet passwords. Many of these notes are from a prominently pinned stationary labeled “Pre-K 4 SA: Early Inspiration, Future Success.”

This is because my cousin attends the Pre-K 4 SA program, a municipal initiative championed by former mayor Julián Castro that, according to the vision and goals on the City of San Antonio webpage, strives to establish “a positive trajectory for educational attainment by providing four-year-olds with a complete experience that ensures academic excellence in school inspiring students to develop ganas for learning and to become contributing members of society.”

As stipulated by the Texas Education Agency, and as listed on the Pre-K 4 SA enrollment webpage, children within participating districts are eligible for free tuition if the child is: • Eligible for the National Free and Reduced Lunch Program or receives SNAP or TANF benefits, • Unable to speak and comprehend the English language (as determined by assessment), • Homeless, as defined by the McKinneyVento Homeless Assistance Act (as determined by district), • The child of an active duty member of the armed forces of the United States, including the state military forces or

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the entire real cost of their education, and those students are a minority; in the 201516 academic year, 93 percent of students received some form of financial support.

Plenty of that assistance is coming not from the federal government or thirdparty sources, but from the university itself.

Part of the annual earnings on Trinity’s $38.4 million endowment are put toward scholarships and other forms of financial aid, but the school depends on annual giving to provide for students who have earned aid and those who need it.

Alumni donations make the Trinity education a reality for ourselves and our peers. It would be utterly selfish to benefit from your degree and refuse to help afford others the same opportunity.

Instead of directing outrage in a manner that will certainly hurt students, find a productive alternative. The administration is fairly receptive to criticism, and we’re always willing to hear your opinions and story ideas.

CHIARA PRIDE on political engagement

a reserve component of the armed forces, who is ordered to active duty by proper authority • The child of a member of the armed forces of the United States, including the state military forces or a reserve component of the armed forces, who was injured or killed while serving on active duty, • Is or has been in the conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services following an adversary hearing, or • Is the child of a person eligible for the Star of Texas Award.

Pre-K 4 SA expands access to prekindergarten education for children in San Antonio who might be missed by our traditional systems and for families who would might not be able to afford tuition. Moreover, in relation to their recent independent annual report, Pre-K 4 SA attempts to set a high standard for facilities, child engagement and educational attainment.

At this point, you might be asking, “What does your cousin’s special pre-school program have to do with me or civic engagement?”

Well, a lot. The program is partially funded by a 1/8th-cent-per-dollar sales tax increase.

The tax increase is set to expire in 2020, and will be up for review by our city council.

Without attempting to evaluate the effectiveness of this program, I want Trinity students to understand that we are the future of civic engagement and ultimately will contribute to the community dialogue — or lack of it — on crucial issues like childhood access to pre-kindergarten, for children like my cousin, and for all kids across San Antonio.

According to the Texas Civic Health Index voter registration for those aged 18– 24 was 48 percent, compared to 78 percent in the 65+ age group. Ultimately, the same report ranks Texas 47th in voter turnout and 44th for voter registration for the 2016 presidential election.

Finally, it was reported that 20 percent people between 18–24 years old are members of groups, while 48 percent of those 65 and above are members of groups. Young people are being out-voted and out-engaged.

There are structural reasons for this, from a lack of civic education in schools to the barring of things like school IDs at the polls.

Still, we as college students and young people must fight those barriers because the only reasons I am aware of Pre-K 4 SA and the city council are: • I vote regularly in local elections.

• I participate in organizations that teach me the importance of local involvement like the Texas Civic Ambassadors Program and MOVE San Antonio in the city, and Trinity Progressives on campus.

Now, when it comes time in 2020 for Pre-K 4 SA’s funding to be renewed, I will know how to do my research and what to say to my city council to ensure that kids like my cousin and others have access to an affordable and quality education regardless of their socioeconomic background.

I have learned to take the long view when it comes to civic engagement. Future Trinity Tigers should come from all sectors of society; and that starts with my cousin, pre-K 4 SA and you.

Chiara Pride is a sophomore anthropology and political science major.

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Embrace Why I attended March for Our Lives difficult dialogue EMILY BOURGEOIS GUEST COLUMNIST ebourgeo@trinity.edu

DANNY ANDERSON GUEST COLUMNIST danderson@trinity.edu

The free expression of ideas is the cornerstone of higher education and especially of a liberal arts education. Free and open expression is necessary for the intellectual and personal growth of our students. When a university promotes the practice of free expression, it does not promote or embrace a specific political or ideological allegiance. Nor does it legitimize all of the positions in the marketplace of ideas.

All around our country, the partisan divide has created an atmosphere in which groups speak past each other. Groups strive to increase their volume in order to drown out the other side.

This polarized national context creates challenges for us all. But I am optimistic about Trinity because our traditions have given us a bit of “muscle memory” to rely on and resist this impoverishment of thought in an era of partisan censorship.

We have had conservative students and alumni complain that campus speakers today seem too liberal. We have had liberal students and alumni express their discomfort with the campus activism of conservative students who brought Milo Yiannopoulos and Dinesh D’Souza to campus. Groups seek the silence of positions they oppose.

Yet, so far we have not had a single incident of disruption or shouting down of a speaker.

But “muscle memory” can go away if we don’t exercise it, if we don’t practice it.

This polarized national context creates challenges for us all.

When there is pressure from conservative groups not to allow the presence of liberal speakers or when there is pressure from liberal groups not to allow the presence of conservative ideas, the university runs the risk of this impoverishment of thought.

Our students need to be exposed to and see the choices they face, that they must reason through, in order to stake out their own moral positions. In this process, they benefit from an education that empowers them to make choices, to decide what is legitimate, and to participate actively in society.

One important role of a liberal arts education is to preserve and advance democracy through free speech, the free exchange of ideas, open to the often uncomfortable task of listening to people we disagree with. Our goal is to foster an environment that encourages participation in challenging conversations.

Universities like Trinity can be models for how diverse communities work through difficult, divisive ideas and yet remain united. Trinity’s tradition of open dialogue allows us to be a strong model for the world we seek. But it is a strength we must practice and exercise, or it will go away. To be strong, we must welcome the conversation.

Danny Anderson is the university president.

It began like a normal day. I was in seventh grade at the time — 12 years old — and had stayed up the night before studying for a geography exam. The periods came: first, second, third and fourth. At the end of fourth period, choir, my principal came over the loudspeaker, calmly announcing that the school was going into a code red.

Drills like these were commonplace.

Sometimes, code reds were announced if the drug dog was coming to sniff out some rogue eighth grader’s weed stash in his locker.

Nothing was really out of the ordinary. My teacher calmly got up, locked the door with the tool she kept in the box nearby, turned off the lights, and we crowded together in the corner of the room in silence.

These were the provisions of the code red drill. Nobody could come in or out of the classroom. A half-hour into the lock-down, students got antsy. We began messing with markers, making swords or drawing pictures on discarded papers.

Miss Kemp, our teacher, remained silent, scrolling on her laptop, her face illuminated by the blue light. I now know that she was reading the news. She knew exactly what was happening. An hour into the lockdown, students began receiving text messages from their parents about what happened.

On Jan. 5, 2011 at 12:45 p.m., Robert Butler Jr. walked into the Millard South High School, two miles away from where my classmates and I were, and opened fire. He was deliberate, set on taking the life of Assistant Principal Vickie Kasper, who had suspended him earlier that day for a behavioral offense. He then got into his car, drove to a park down the road, and turned the gun on himself.

In total, all 20,000 students in the Millard Public School District were placed under lockdown. We were locked in that choir classroom for an hour and a half, not knowing what was happening a short distance away.

Some students’ siblings were in the school when the shooting happened. They sat in fear for the rest of the day, shrouded in mystery as the police continued investigating, not knowing if their family members were safe.

In the aftermath, the district tried to figure out the best way to keep us safe. Clear backpacks, uniforms, metal detectors at football

Demonstrators in downtown San Antonio march to demand legislative action for gun control on March 24, joining a national movement. photo by STEPHEN SUMRALL-ORSAK, staff photographer

games were all debated. We came together as a community to help Millard South heal. Then, after a while, we simply moved on.

I was too young to understand the structural changes that happened in my district. We would talk about the South Shooting, as it came to be known, after other big shootings. We would talk about the experience of sitting and waiting for any information in silence for hours.

My freshman year, news of the Sandy Hook shooting spread while I was at school. We talked about it then. Again, we debated for a while and nothing tangible happened.

I still think about my community’s experience with school shootings each time I hear about another terrible tragedy. I think back to being crouched in silence with my classmates; I think about my quiet, Nebraskan community mourning; I think about those students who witnessed the shooting directly.

My community’s experience does not exist in a vacuum. So many students my age have witnessed unthinkable horrors — the fear that your school will be next. This is why I felt the need to tell my community’s story. This very personal encounter with gun violence is why

I marched in the March for Our Lives this past weekend.

I never want another community to experience what mine did — what the Stoneman Douglas community did, what the Sandy Hook community did, what the Columbine community did, what the Virginia Tech community did — and so many hundreds of others, including the black and brown communities whose names are never uttered in this debate.

These are the communities most at risk.

We’re saying that enough is enough. Your loudest voice is your vote. The generation born after Columbine is starting to come to voting age, and we can now take tangible steps to make our voices heard.

Contact Trinity Progressives for more information on how you can get registered to vote or to get connected with the students organizing for gun reform in the larger San Antonio community. The best way to make change is to make change together.

Emily Bourgeois is an English and political science double major.

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Why siesta when you can Fiesta?

Trinity community members become involved in city-wide traditions NOELLE BARRERA NEW REPORTER nbarrera@trinity.edu

Trinity University was founded in 1869, and Fiesta began in San Antonio not long after in 1891. Fiesta originated as Fiesta San Jacinto, a salute to the heroes of the Alamo and San Jacinto battles. Since then it has morphed into something entirely its own — a 10-day extravaganza when San Antonio residents have the opportunity to come together and celebrate the city’s vibrant culture. Over the years, the way that the Trinity community has interacted with the Fiesta celebrations has grown and evolved.

Historical documents show that Trinity has been involved in Fiesta since the 1900s.

President James W. Laurie was named Grand Marshal of the Battle of Flowers Parade in 1970. For many years, Trinity selected students to participate in the Miss Fiesta San Antonio pageant, a tradition that only stopped when a court member missed two weeks of classes due to Miss Fiesta-related obligations.

Trinity also has a float in the Texas River

Cavaliers Parade, and the Alumni Association sponsors a gathering of alums for the parade. TULA also hosts an annual Fiesta event that will feature mariachi and dance performances this year.

Amy Stone, associate professor of sociology and anthropology, wrote a book about Cornyation, a satirical Fiesta show that has always added levity to the city’s Fiesta celebrations.

Stone spoke about how her experience with Fiesta has changed over time.

“I first just went as a spectator. I went down to Cornyation, which is an event that a co-worker had told me about, and I saw the show and thought, ‘This will be very interesting to study someday,’ ” Stone said.

Stone’s interest in Cornyation prompted her to get hands-on experience in the production of the show.

“I started getting involved in the show as a way of studying it — spending time backstage, I was on the stage crew for two years, and then I was busy with writing the book,” Stone said.

Cornyation’s origins as a mock debutante pageant parodying of the coronation of the Queen of the Order of the Alamo interested Stone, as well as the event’s historical roots in the San Antonio LGBT community.

“The history of [the event] was super fascinating to me, that it used to be linked to this sort of debutante event, and also that there’s a lot of gay artistry in Cornyation,” Stone said.

In the 1990s Cornyation became a registered nonprofit organization, and proceeds from its shows go to AIDS-related charities.

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Fi e s t a medals are also part of Trinity tradition. Vee Dubose, university designer, creates a new medal every year. Dubose also helps make Cat Alliance Fiesta medals, decorated with the faces of cats from Trinity’s campus. Cat Alliance Fiesta medals are a 10-year tradition. The medals were originally made of bottle caps, but now will look more like traditional medals.

Mindy Morales, computer-aided design technician and founder of the Cat Alliance, discussed the Cat Alliance Fiesta medals.

“We were looking for a fundraiser and did T-shirts in the fall, and then we thought for the spring, ‘Everyone’s doing Fiesta medals, let’s do something that’s cute,’ and created some bottle cap medals. And they were very successful,” Morales said.

This year’s Cat Alliance Fiesta medals will feature Beau, the cat who resides with the sculptors in Dicke Smith Art Building.

The Cat Alliance Fiesta medals are usually sold for between five and 10 dollars.

Whether it be pageants, parades, books or medals, the Trinity community has always been a part of Fiesta traditions. Students with questions about Stone’s book or the Cat Alliance Fiesta medals can email astone@ trinity.edu or mbrent@trinity.edu, respectively.

¡Viva Hemisfair! recalls World’s Fair Upcoming celebration plans to celebrate diversity in San Antonio BOBBY WATSON NEWS REPORTER rwatson@trinity.edu

In view of its upcoming 50th anniversary, Hemisfair is throwing an extravagant event called ¡Viva Hemisfair! from April 6–8. The event is supposed to emulate the 1968 World’s Fair and celebrate the food, music and culture of San Antonio’s diverse population.

“What we wanted to do was take this 50-year anniversary as an opportunity to show the world the diversity of San Antonio, and really show our culture. To do that we have divided it up into a series of cultural zones that each feature music and performance — and of course food, because this is San Antonio,” said Drew Hicks, Hemisfair communications manager.

Visitors can expect to find zones with local San Antonio residents representing a wide variety of foreign cultures from far-off locations, like Pasha Mediterranean Grill serving food from the Middle East and Mediterranean conglomerate, and groups with older history in San Antonio, like the American Indians in Texas at the Spanish Colonial Missions (AITSCM).

AITSCM actually has a history with the Hemisfair Park. The park has worked with them since the park’s recent renovations in 2015 and gave Hemisfair’s Yanaguana Garden its name.

AITSCM will be performing traditional dances of their culture and sharing stories of their ancient myths.

Trinity’s own Vietnamese Student Organization (VSO) will also be representing Vietnamese culture at the fair.

“We are going to be hosting a booth throughout the festival, and our booth is going to be selling Vietnamese banh mi, cakes and cha gio egg rolls that we will be cooking and preparing at the station,” said Alexander Motter, president of the Vietnamese Student Association.

The club will also be performing a dragon dance around the fair that they had prepared for the Lunar New Year Festival. Several students from VSO are also bringing games from their childhoods.

Due to the club’s student status they were given a stipend by Hemisfair in order to prepare for the festival. The club felt that since they were being aided in contributing to this experience, they should donate all the proceeds to a Vietnamese charity.

“We figured that since we’re being given the proceeds to help put this on, it would just be unfair for us to keep all the profits, so we’re donating it to this really poor organization called Blue Dragon.

What they do is they help at risk Vietnamese

youth who are victims of either sex trafficking or homelessness, which are really big problems in Vietnam,” Motter said. ¡Viva Hemisfair!’s main goal to demonstrate the cultural diversity of San Antonio.

“The core concept is not representing these cultures as the others, or as something foreign, but to really take this opportunity to say these are our neighbors,” Hicks said.

Though Hemisfair is not directly responding to any political climate, it does claim to be tapping into a growing motion of comradery and celebration of diversity that is in San Antonio, and that parallels the 1968 World’s Fair.

Hemisfair’s team has been researching the 1968 World’s Fair for over a year now, collaborating with neighbors such as Instituto Cultural de Mexico and The Texas Institute of Cultures. In an attempt to recall 1968, ¡Viva Hemisfair! will be displaying photos and video from Hemisfair ‘68 and holding a tour of houses in San Antonio since the 1960s. ¡Viva Hemisfair! is hoping to use the celebration to demonstrate their success to the city and to rally support for future renovations.

Through lots of time spent preparing and the collaboration of hundreds of San Antonio citizens, ¡Viva Hemisfair! is looking to bring a truly unique celebration of both international unity and local diversity. The synthesis of music, art and history will not be something to miss.

What is Fiesta?

Fiesta San Antonio, or just Fiesta, may sound foreign to any student from out of town, but it’s just what it sounds like: a party. For nearly two weeks in April, this year from April 19 through April 30, the city is abuzz with activity celebrating San Antonio’s unique history and culture.

Fiesta originated in the late 1800s with the Battle of the Flowers parade, an event that was — and still is — organized entirely by women. The parade was meant to commemorate the battles of the Alamo and San Jacinto. A couple years later, the Order of the Alamo was established to coronate local Fiesta royalty. Now, Fiesta has expanded to include over 100 events across San Antonio, including three more parades, a four-day block party at La Villita, a fun run and a carnival.

So, break out your Fiesta medals and flower crowns. If you haven’t already broken out of the Trinity bubble and immersed yourself in San Antonio, now’s the time.

MUST-DOS Crack some cascarones. Although it’s fun to make your own, it takes time, and they’re a cheap and easy find at your closest HEB. Buy a flower crown. They’re cheap, they’re cute, they’re cooler than the ones people buy from overpriced stores.

Eat festival food. Elote. Fruit cups. Turkey legs.

Check out a parade or two. It’s all about the parades. They’re free if you’re just passing through, or you can buy a seat if you want to stay for the entire thing.

Collect and trades medals.

Everyone does it. You should, too.

Maybe even buy a sash to store your new collection.

TIPS Bring your own water bottle. There are fountains all along the riverwalk.

Wear sunscreen or bring a hat.

Most events are outdoors, and it can get hot. Hats and fans are good ways to stay cool while you’re having fun.

Get to daytime events early, before families with children show up.

Walk or use the VIA bus system.

Both save money, and you won’t have to worry about trying to find parking downtown (which probably won’t be free.)

Look for free events. There are a lot of events close to campus (Alamo Heights Night, the Flower Show), and more events can be found on the official Fiesta website.

written by KATHLEEN KREEDON, news editor, and KENDRA DERRIG, sports editor

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SIDEWALK SYMPOSIUM What do you recommend doing to celebrate Fiesta?

“Last year I went to NIOSA, and it was really fun and was really expressive of the San Antonio culture. I got to eat traditional food. That was definitely my favorite part.”

— Taylor Moser senior business and communication major

“I’m really looking forward to NIOSA; I’ve heard a lot of good things about it. I think [I’m most looking forward to] experiencing the culture and being with people celebrating together.”

— Addison Keller junior political science major

“The princesses wear cowboy boots underneath their extravagant dresses. So everyone is always like, ‘Show me your boots,’ so they’ll lift their boots. That’s a definite have to see — the boots.”

— Priscilla Tovar-Perez junior psychology major

“The only thing I remember is the floats. I remember that was a really big part of it for me as a kid and I think that’s a really cool tradition.

I think it’s always just really fun to immerse yourself in another culture.”

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San Antonio: The good, the bad, the ugly A comprehensive guide to the city’s top recommended and most underrated spots EVAN CHAMBLESS | SPECIAL SECTIONS EDITOR

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HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL GOOD: McNay Art Museum This 24-room Spanish colonial-revival house turned art museum is really an artwork in itself. Wander around the maze of paintings, drawings, sculptures and more to escape the Texas heat on any given day.

Then, explore the beautiful grounds and take pics of the extravagantly tiled courtyard when the frigid Texas air conditioning gets to be too much.

BAD: Southtown On a normal day, the King Williams Historic District, just south of downtown, is a truly breathtaking array of large and colorful historic homes and buildings. On First Fridays, or actually almost any weekend, this neighborhood becomes filled to the brim with people seeking out the sights, sounds and flavors of the district. While it’s fun for awhile, it quickly becomes a exercise in dodging elderly couples and large families who walk extremely slow on packed sidewalks in order to look at overpriced and possibly handmade goods. If you avoid the food, drink and retail mess of South Alamo, you can stick to the residential area right near the river and bask in the radiance of the beautifully restored homes that most people could never dream of affording.

BAD: St. Mary’s Strip Near and dear to the hearts of many Trinity students, both figuratively and literally in distance, this strip of bars, clubs and latenight food is the true chaotic good of the San Antonio experience. Go on the right night — Thursgays anyone? — and the drinks are cheap, the music is great and the tacos from El Regio are well worth the wait.

However, come Friday morning, don’t be surprised to go to class with a headache, cilantro breath and “New Rules” by Dua Lipa stuck in your head.

UGLY: Bird “Armie Hammer” Bakery Mediocre cobblers and overpriced twee cupcakes aren’t the real reason Bird Bakery fit into this category. Really, this is just a ploy to get Armie Hammer, the husband of Bird Bakery’s owner Elizabeth Chambers and Oscar-nominated “Call Me By Your Name” star, to notice us. Yeah, we think the frosting to cupcake ratio could be improved, but we mostly want more appearances of Armie, preferably in one of his distinctive tracksuits.

RETAIL AND ENTERTAINMENT GOOD: Antiquing on Hildebrand and Blanco If you like nosing through a bunch of interesting old crap to find absolute treasures — plenty of rare pyrex and costume jewelry galore

— then San Antonio has plenty in store for you. Our favorites stops are Karolina’s and the Junction on Blanco for clothes, homeware and miscellaneous trinkets, but there’s a quite an assortment of antique furniture and home decor spots on Hildebrand west of San Pedro.

BAD: The Pearl On first glance, this redone historic brewery is charming in its own right. But, upon closer inspection, this overly gentrified multipurpose public space is almost too perfect. Wandering around, you’ll most likely walk through multiple engagement photoshoots and unintentionally spend $50 on artisan soap. You’ll empty your bank accounts trying to eat a meal at any of the fine dining options available, and though the Bottling Department, a communal food hall, offers cheaper — emphasis on the ‘er’ — fare, it’s almost always too crowded to be able to find a table or enjoy conversation.

UGLY: The Shops at La Cantera Who thought that an outdoor shopping mall 30 minutes away from the city center was a good idea? This is a glorified outdoor mall in the middle of Texas, where the heat is unbearable 90 percent of the time. Aren’t malls supposed to be an indoor haven where you don’t have to consider the outdoors? Now pair that image with that of a jam-packed Forever 21 on a Saturday afternoon. Nowhere is safe.

UGLY: Downtown (i.e. the Alamo and the Riverwalk) Controversial, we know. There are a lot of obvious historical reasons to visit downtown, and there are numerous highlights like La Villita and the Historic Market Square. However, the actual experience of visiting the Alamo and the immediate stretch of the Riverwalk is never anything but disappointing. Unlike Southtown, which seems to have some off times in terms of traffic, the area around the Alamo is in perennial tourist season.

FOOD AND DRINK GOOD: La Panaderia La Panaderia is a dream. Pick up a tray and select your favorite doughy treats for later, but make sure you have time to sit down and inhale a breakfast sandwich on a croissant filled with perfectly cooked eggs, cheese and refried black beans — adding avocado is extra, but worth it. A lot of their business is takeout, so there’s plenty of seating in this staple San Antonio restaurant. Also, their playlists are always eclectic in the best ways, like when they play 2010-era Taylor Swift midday on a Saturday.

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Students discuss ‛Being Right’ at TU Conservatives talk about having minority views at a majority-liberal campus

“I think immediately after the event, I viewed them as people — as human, caring people. Not as the ‘conservatives on campus,’ not as Tigers for Liberty, but as genuine, empathetic people,” Brody said.

Sophomore Logan Felton also gained a new perspective.

“It makes me really sad to hear that there are people on campus who don’t feel comfortable here because of their political beliefs,” Felton said.

Discussions like these can humanize the conservative ideological minority on campus while also bringing a greater understanding to their views. For instance, one thing that all of the attendants of the session had in common was a disapproval for our current president.

“I don’t even really have to explain why. Just, no. A flat no,” Mitchell said when asked if he approved of Trump. The other conservative in attendance, Manfred Wendt, agreed. (Wendt is an opinion columnist for the Trinitonian.)

Despite some similar views, there was some tension during the meeting due to opposing viewpoints. Liberals in attendance questioned numerous conservative viewpoints, such as positions on free speech and its relation to religious beliefs.

Yet there was not a single person, liberal or conservative, who did not remain polite and peaceful during the discussion, even during disagreements.

“Political belief and personality don’t have to be the same thing,” Brody said. “I want to encourage people to talk to [conservatives].

If, like me, in the past, you’ve heard something bad, before definitively passing a judgement, give them a chance to explain themselves. Go in open-minded, be willing to hear them out. ... Assumptions are going to be the death of us if we don’t figure out how to communicate.”

D’Iorio emphasized that she does not need people to agree with her; she simply wants peers to respect her views.

“Get to know people who have different political views than your own. I think we can be friends with people who we don't agree with on certain issues,” D’Iorio said.

In the end, that’s what every end of the political spectrum wants on campus — to be heard and understood, not dismissed because of their beliefs.

“My goal is for conservative thought to be less shocking and unexpected,” Mitchell said.

“The more that my peers have learned about my beliefs, the more such explicit loathing has been replaced by a tense politeness.”

The conservative and liberal students agreed on the goal of creating as diverse and accommodating a campus community as possible.

“We’re all 19, 20-year-olds who deserve to feel at home at a place we’re paying thousands of dollars a year to be at,” Felton said.

history and the civil rights movement in San Antonio. Hoelscher explained that she is learning more about each topic through the process of assisting students — a side effect she appreciates.

“Every day I’m helping someone with different kinds of research, so I learn about all different things,” Hoelscher said.

For example, one of her favorite pieces from the collection is a picture of Trinity’s 1912 basketball team. Why does she like it so much? Is it for the historical aspect? The school pride? Nope.

“They are ridiculously good looking. I swear one of the guys looks like Zac Efron, like they are so, so handsome,” Hoelscher said.

Meredith Elsik, senior reference assistant, is tempted to agree with Hoelscher about her favorite item.

“They are handsome, but there are also other photographs that are really fun to see,” Elsik said.

She especially enjoys looking at old photos that depict what life was like at Trinity decades and even centuries ago.

“There are photos of other sports teams as well as of students on campus that give more of an idea of what life on the campus was like back in Waxahachie or during early years on this campus,” Elsik wrote in an email interview.

Elsik works at the circulation desk when she gets to the library at 8 a.m., and then goes downstairs to Special Collections once it opens

at 1:15 p.m. She sits behind the desk in the Rare Books room, ready to help answer any questions students may have, whether about Special Collections research or the library in general.

“My favorite aspect [of the job] is having the opportunity to work with students and help students,” Elsik said.

Elsik also enjoys learning random tidbits of information that she wouldn’t find otherwise.

For example, she once worked on an exhibit for special collections that was focused on Trinity’s commencement. In doing research for the exhibit, she found out that in 1946, commencement was cancelled due to a polio outbreak in San Antonio. The city had advised the university not to have the ceremony because it was trying to discourage large gatherings of people. The students had to get their diplomas by mail that year.

“It’s amazing the different things you find out — these little facts that nobody knows,” Elsik said.

Elsik and Hoelscher aren’t the only ones down in Special Collections, though. They have a student worker, sophomore Jamiless Lopez, who has been working there for two years.

Lopez usually only works four days a week for about two hours a day, and she doesn’t help students with research. continued on PAGE 14

BRIANNA DUNCAN | PULSE REPORTER bduncan1@trinity.edu It’s commonly believed that most Trinity students lean liberal. But at dean of students David Tuttle’s March 28 discussion “Being Right: Living — and Living with — the Conservative Viewpoint on the Trinity Campus,” only two of the 16 students attending identified as conservative.

“I really expected there’d be more of you,” Tuttle joked at the beginning of the discussion.

The low number of the conservative students spoke to the likewise low number of right-wing students willing to share and discuss their views on campus, even in what should have been a peaceful environment.

The “Being Right” discussion revolved around what the conservative viewpoint at Trinity actually is and what conservative students face as a result of being the minority political group on campus.

The idea for the meeting came after Dean Tuttle noticed that conservative students were often forced to defend their viewpoints when in discussions where a liberal viewpoint was assumed, like at the previous “Speaking Of ” discussion titled "Colin Kaepernick, Race, Sports, and the National Anthem."

Sophomore Isaiah Mitchell, upcoming president of the conservative student group, Tigers for Liberty (TFL), spoke to the response that TFL has received on campus.

“There’s sort of an underlying assumption that we’re the bad guys,” Mitchell said. “And by that, I don’t just mean that what we believe is bad; I mean that there’s sort of an underlying assumption that anything which is bad can fit

DAVID TUTTLE leads discussion allowing conservatives like MANFRED WENDT and ISAIAH MITCHELL to share their experiences. photo by STEPHEN SUMRALL-ORSAK, staff photographer

under the label of conservatism ... regardless of, you know, any ideological friction that it might have.”

First-year TFL officer Maddie D’Iorio feels that fellow students see her differently because she has publicly expressed certain views.

“There have been a lot of things said behind my back,” D’Iorio said. “There are people I’ve met who already have preconceived notions of me just because of an article I've written for the Trinitionian, or certain things I've said in SGA [meetings].”

One Democrat who attended the event, Ben Brody, acknowledged this viewpoint.

“I’ve always had that assumption that if you’re incredibly conservative, you’re probably mean,” Brody said.

However, even during the event it was apparent that many of the attendant’s views on conservatism had changed.

Special Collections staff organizes books and photos, assists students with research MAGGIE LUPO | PULSE REPORTER mlupo@trinity.edu An atmosphere of quiet reverence perfuses the Rare Books room in Coates Library. The carpeted floor and weathered furniture lend a close, cozy ambiance, and each of the hundreds of books lining the walls almost breathes with character, history and knowledge.

It is this knowledge that students seek when they come to the Special Collections section of the library, a valuable resource for many research topics. However, students might easily be overwhelmed by such a vast array of materials without any guidance. That’s where the Special Collections staff come in.

According to Colleen Hoelscher, a Special Collections librarian, her job is all about helping patrons. From the time she gets to work at 8:30 a.m. to when she leaves at 5 p.m., Hoelscher answers phone and email queries about research, teaches classes or gives tours of the special collections area, processes digitized material and, of course, spends her afternoons — when the Rare Books room is open — available to people who come into Special Collections seeking help.

COLLEEN HOELSCHER looks through files in the Rare Books room. photo by STEPHEN SUMRALL-ORSAK, staff photographer

“A lot of the time that I spend is working with students or faculty members on their research,” Hoelscher said.

For example, two classes that she’s working with right now are researching Trinity sports

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Women in Stumberg Students create their

own video games Computer science courses combine coding, storytelling Video games have come a long way from the Pac-Man and Tetris days. According to Pew Research Center, about half of American adults played video games on a computer, TV, game console or portable device in 2015.

Though games are, for some, a fun and harmless way to spend a few hours with friends, games can also be a rich, effective medium of visual art and interactive storytelling.

With the rise in the game industry came Trinity’s introduction of courses in game development. Students in upper-division computer science elective courses have the opportunity to design their own video games, build a portfolio and tell stories through games.f Matthew Hibbs, associate professor of computer science, teaches these courses. He explained that learning to make games may give students an advantage when they venture into the job market.

“Having that little bit of game development experience lets [students] build up a portfolio that they can show to potential employers,” Hibbs said. “That’s part of why we do it.”

Hibbs also wants students to recognize that computer science and game development are creative endeavors.

“Video games are an interesting way to express that creativity through software,” Hibbs said.

Students begin their journey into game development by taking the Intro to Game Development course in the fall semester, which exposes them to computer science principles and techniques. Each student individually creates their own video game in this course.

The following spring, students can enroll in Advanced Game Development, where they put their skills to work to collectively create a more complex video game as a group.

Craig Burton, a senior enrolled in Advanced Game Development, is working on a game he pitched himself.

“It’s a game where you play as these pirates on an island, and you’re trying to chop down trees before other people can,” Burton said.

Burton explained that students choose games they would like to create, divide into teams and work on transforming their ideas into video games. His group split into one

team that worked on a map of the island in the game, and an engine team that worked on game mechanics.

While Burton did not initially chose to pursue computer science, he is intrigued by the problem-solving aspect.

“I changed my second year into computer science. I would say if you’re interested in it at all, just give it a shot if you like problem solving,” Burton said. “It was probably the best decision I’ve ever made.”

Blair Walker, a junior enrolled in Advanced Game Development, is working alongside Burton on the pirate video game.

“I’m working on the map-making team. To make the game more interesting, we’re randomly spotting a bunch of things on the island so it’s not the exact same experience every time,” Walker said.

Samantha Ortiz, a junior enrolled in Advanced Game Development, is working on a virtual reality (VR) game. “[It’s] kind of like a space exploration VR game, where you collect different items and it’s networked, so you can play with other people,” Ortiz said.

Ortiz wants to continue to pursue game development in her future.

“I’m a creative writing minor, so I really like storytelling, and I like computer science because logically, it’s just very fun,” Ortiz said. “I think that when I got into game design, it was a nice happy medium for me. It was a combination of creating a story and creating playable content. That’s kind of why I fell in love with computer science.”

Ortiz encourages students who are interested in computer science to push through the introduction courses.

“I feel like a lot of people were turned away in the beginner classes, because they didn’t find their passion in computer science. If you just keep going past that barrier, that’s when you get to choose classes that you want,” Ortiz said. “For me, that’s when I found out that I love computer science. I was able to take game development and found out I can combine two things that I love.”

Hibbs explained that there are two public game nights when Trinity students are given the opportunity to test the video games and provide feedback. The first public game night was on Thursday, March 22.

“People will try to do things that often the programmers haven’t tried to do, so they’ll find bugs and break things in ways that are new for us, and then we try to fix all those things,” Hibbs said.

The next public game night will be around finals week. The date will be announced as the event draws near.

continued from page 13 Instead, she usually scans documents for preservation and organization purposes.

Right now, Lopez is working on scanning old books that are related to San Antonio for the city’s upcoming Tricentennial in May. Special Collections anticipates a rise in popular interest about local history, so they’re preparing by making the books available online since they’re too fragile to check out.

“I enjoy looking through the books and seeing that information we can look up on Google today was only available through books in the early 1900s,” Lopez said in an email interview.

Lopez has also worked on other projects relating to anniversaries, such as scanning a set of postcards from World War I for an exhibit of Trinity artifacts commemorating the 100 year anniversary of the U.S. entering the war.

Lopez also had to write metadata, which is the information that’s next to the picture of the postcard when it’s put online.

To do that accurately, she had to decipher the writing on the postcards, which was challenging.

“It’s not always very fun, but it’s interesting to see how writing has changed,” Lopez said.

Lopez enjoys her job, though; it has even had an impact on her future career. When she first came to Trinity, she was a bio major, and taking pre-physician’s assistant classes.

Now she’s a history major, and she attributes at least part of that change to her work in the library.

“I think it exposed me to different careers that humanities majors can have,” Lopez said.

Lopez also speaks highly of the work environment. She wouldn’t have stayed after her first year if it weren’t for the strong relationships she enjoys with Holscher and Elsik.

“They’re very easygoing people; we talk about books a lot, which is expected,” Lopez said.

“We bond over books, we kind of have similar personalities, we gather around and have very good conversations, and then just kind of go off and work, so it’s a very relaxed environment.”

Special Collections and the Rare Books room are on the second floor of Coates Library, and are open from 1:15 p.m. to 5 p.m. every weekday.

AMBER ADICKES | PULSE INTERN aadickes@trinity.edu

SABRINA WHITNEY and MADDIE COX pitch their company. They were not selected to move on to the next round of the competition. photo

by CHLOE SONNIER, staff photographer

continued from FRONT In 2015, Metzger pitched her company, GLO, at the Stumberg Competition and became a finalist.

She remembers being on a completely female team. Although she recognized its presence, Metzger did not feel inhibited by the gender imbalance within the competition.

“It was interesting because all of us had strong female role models in our lives. All of our moms are working moms, hardworking moms, which I think may have been the reason we all gravitated together. I think that when you have role models from your own personal life, and also professional, you’re able to imagine that you can be things,” Metzger said.

Andrea Acevedo, who created her own virtual reality company, Mona, became a finalist in this year’s Stumberg Competition.

ANDREA ACEVEDO, a winner, pitches her company Mona, which develops an augmented reality fashion application. photo by CHLOE SONNIER, staff photographer

Acevedo noticed the lack of diversity of the competition but said it did not inhibit her ability to compete.

“I think that the entrepreneurship department actually does a good job of encouraging all of us. I think that obviously, it feels more intimidating [to compete as a woman]. When I went to go pitch something, I was one of two girls in the room, and it definitely felt a little bit intimidating,” Acevedo said.

Acevedo also observed the efforts that the department makes during the competition to create a more diverse environment.

“I just think the entrepreneurship department is doing a really good job considering diversity and implementing it,” Acevedo said.

Stumberg will end in Fall of 2018, when one team will win $25,000 to develop their company.

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Nyamarembo works with TUVAC to give back

AmeriCorp public ally shares plans, passion for volunteer work GABBY GARRIGA | PULSE REPORTER ggarriga@trinity.edu

Spring family weekend is going to look a little different this year. Instead of encouraging families and students to get off campus for a volunteer project, Jolie Nyamarembo, AmeriCorps public ally for Trinity University Volunteer Action Committee (TUVAC), is bringing the volunteering to Trinity. All semester long, Nyamarembo has coordinated with Meals on Wheels to create a service project on campus, making it more accessible to students and their families.

Nyamarembo envisions students and families gathered together, creating hygiene packs — filling bags with essentials such as shaving cream, toothpaste and granola bars.

Meanwhile, other families will create colorful and friendly cards of encouragement for the clients of Meals on Wheels.

This is just one service project and responsibility that Nyamarembo, as a public ally, oversees. Nyamarembo applied to be part of the Public Allies program because she values public service. Her concern for local government and nonprofits began when she moved to America from Rwanda.

“I think being a refugee, growing up in America, seeing what my parents had to struggle through as immigrants, I care about policies and politics. Seeing my parents and seeing the gaps we have in our society, how can you not care about what’s happening to underrepresented groups?” Nyamarembo said.

In San Antonio, the Public Allies program places around 20 participants at nonprofits for 10 months at a time. This allows participants to learn about the inner workings of nonprofits

and build relationships with their community.

To become an AmeriCorps Public Ally, Jolie had to go through extensive interviewing that lasted about two months. Then, she went through a matching process to choose which nonprofit she would work with.

“The people who have been selected, the AmeriCorps members and nonprofits, meet up and have individual interviews. It’s like speed dating but looking for a job,” Nyamarembo said.

As a nonprofit, Trinity qualifies to be part of the Public Allies program. Scott Brown, assistant director of experiential learning, coordinates with the Public Allies program leaders to help existing nonprofits within the community.

“Public Allies’ whole focus is on leveraging and building upon a community’s existing assets and their decisions that are committed to public service,” Brown said. “Given Trinity’s commitment to community engagement, being in the San Antonio community, whether that’s through service learning or community-based research.”

Working with TUVAC, Nyamarembo focuses on the business side of nonprofits. Her duties include coordinating Tiger Breaks, the spring break trips that TUVAC carries out. She also oversees GivePulse, an online program that allows Trinity to keep track of the volunteer hours students complete and give the university a more complete understanding of volunteering on campus to lead to improvements.

Nyamarembo’s main focus is co-advising TUVAC and planning large-scale events, like her hygiene pack project, to promote volunteering within the Trinity community.

Scott Brown hired Nyamarembo, and oversees the work she does as a public ally.

“What we want our public ally to do is to identify: What is going on in the community? ... What are the ways that Trinity can enhance whatever is going on in the San Antonio community to take a good program and make it a great program,” Brown said.

JOLIE NYAMAREMBO works to plan volunteering events so that Trinity students can help the surrounding San Antonio community. photo by STEPHEN SUMRALL-ORSAK, staff photographer

To do this, the public ally is expected to communicate with nonprofits in San Antonio, organizing events where Trinity students can volunteer.

Joshua Lee, sophomore and Executive Coordinator President of TUVAC, believes Nyamarembo has been an essential part of the TUVAC team.

“As a very experienced coordinator herself, she’s able to give all of us great advice and assurance that we’re able to coordinate as many volunteer events as we should. I think Jolie definitely brings a really bright energy to our organization, something that we can definitely use, especially during staff

meetings. With her hard work and dedication towards service she definitely adds a great component to our TUVAC exec team,” Lee said.

Nyamarembo is unsure of her next steps when her term ends this August. She is considering doing another term with AmeriCorps, but is unsure of where she would work. Ultimately, Nyamarembo intends to be the executive director of her own nonprofit.

“I want to live and breathe the nonprofit world ... I just don’t know what cause I care about because I care about everything— I care about animals and homeless people and housing,” Nyamarembo said.

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SXSW: Way less indie than it pretends be The Austin based festival used to be a stepping stone to the spotlight for indie music but it’s now a corporate satellite state DANIEL ROTHSCHILD A&E REPORTER drothsch@trinity.edu

A friend and I had talked about trying to go to Austin for a day trip earlier in the week, but as the weekend on the far end of spring break approached, the idea had stopped coming up. I was relatively surprised to wake up to the “South-by today?” text, but not wholly unprepared. I drowsily packed a bag together for the day out, phone charger, slim jim, and seven or so Frio Lites, left over from a chilly Thursday on the rocky shore of Canyon Lake.

The two-week-long music festival hosted fewer A-list acts this year, and it experienced less corporate investment than in years past.

In accordance with the scare over the Austin bomber during the second week of South by Southwest, acts like Ludacris and the Roots cancelled shows.

The numbers for attendance have yet to be calculated for this year, but in the past the music festival has seen as many as 167,800 visitors, hailing from all across America. In 2017, the festival was estimated to garner a whopping $325 million for the Austin economy.

“Independent music is the skin of the festival.”

Outside of the gates, one of our party ran up to a man on the street leaving the show.

“Germ, hold up! I love your music!”

The rapper, whose performance we had just missed, was friendly. After talking for a minute, he gave all of us handshakes and stepped into a white Jeep Grand Cherokee. I had only heard his songs in passing, but I pretended to be a fan in the moment.

After we were gifted our paper bracelets by a sunburnt man in a blue polo shirt and fishing hat, we followed the labyrinth of linedividers, which spat us out into the middle of a scene straight from the Vans Warped Tour.

The free, Thrasher-sponsored event, which the online poster referred to as Death Match, hosted rappers SahBabii, Kamaiyah, and YBN Nahmir, awmong others.

The fairgrounds were flooded with stylish youths and pop up food-cart bars. Teens were

smoking pot under the shade of the yellow tent over the main stage, and there was a quickly assembled halfpipe in the corner of the yard.

The concert had also hosted skaters signed to the Thrasher team.

When Sahbabii played his encore, “Pull Up Wit Ah Stick,” the crowd of 100 or so went wild. There was a small mosh pit confined to a 20-foot space in front of the stage and concert goers kicked up an incredible amount of dust in the process.

To play in SXSW has become a kind of legendary status, the dream of independent musicians since the festival began growing momentum in the 90s. The festival prides itself on spotlighting independent artists.

A great deal of the music at the festival stylistically falls into the indie genre, but the horde of local or traveling small-time bands that play less-advertised shows along the bars on 6th Street are rarely getting paid. Playing for exposure at one of the most highly attended music festival in America doesn’t seem like such a bad deal, but in reality, the exposure is an exaggeration.

Independent musicians might get a few good photos of themselves drenched in sweat, face frozen in concentration mid-guitar solo, and they might sell some shirts. Other than that, there are rarely talent scouts sitting in for 2 a.m. unofficial bar concerts. Even if they were, 2017’s festival hosted some 2,000-plus musical acts.

That night, we drove back to San Antonio in relative silence. We were all wiped from a

day of walking around in the sun, our bellies full of grease and cheese thanks to a restaurant whose menu named its pizzas things like “The Editor in Chief.”

We had eaten out on the restaurant’s back patio of the restaurant, where we saw the only genuinely independent musician of the day. A woman in her early twenties played the acoustic guitar and sang. Her friends sat in the back of the audience and clapped the most enthusiastically, but everyone was applauding her.

The only non-original song from the singer’s set was a tastefully enacted cover of Good House by the Smiths. It felt good to enjoy the music from the Smiths again, as I finally could experience the music it in its ideal form, wholly removed from Morrissey.

Independent music is played up to be the backbone of the Live Music Capitol’s yearly mega-festival, but it isn’t. Different companies fork up money to sponsor huge events with famous signed artists.

In the best case scenario, like in the Thrasher show, the company knows what its customer’s want, the musician gets paid, and you can have a pretty good time. In reality, independent music is the skin of the festival, the part that is made most visible to prospective attendees, holding the larger body of the event together.

In my bag I had forgotten to pack sunscreen, letting my own skin pinken in the Austin sun. It was nearly 1 a.m. when we got back. The night air was cool compared to the day’s sweltering heat, but my face felt hot.

Frazzled Feline Funk: The new kid on the block St. Mary’s newest music destination has big plans for revamping its own style and ideal future DAVID MENCHACA A&E REPORTER dmenchac@trinity.edu

Krazy Kat Music was a staple of the St. Mary’s music scene before its closing in 2014, but a new owner is breathing life back into the property.

Founded by Eugene Ng in March 1990, Krazy Kat Music was one of San Antonio’s only independent music stores. Not only a local Guitar Center alternative, the shop at 3020 N. St. Mary’s Street served as a forum and stage for musicians of all levels of skill and notoriety throughout San Antonio.

Krazy Kat Music also bolstered San Antonio’s music education programs, bringing the shop’s eclectic instruments to give demonstrations to young music students and summer campers. Ng owned and operated the business until encountering health issues in 2014.

The store was shut down and later sold while employees and customers migrated across the street to found Robot Monster Guitars. After purchasing the store in December 2015, new owner Elizabeth “Elis” Lessard quietly reopened the store as St. Mary’s Street Music.

As I opened the door to the shop, I was greeted by a shaggy dog followed by Lessard and manager Chris Brady. An array of used

electric and acoustic guitars and basses lined the racks on the shop’s walls and floor.

At the front of the store was the cash register, situated behind a glass cabinet with an assortment of looping, wah-wah and other sound effect pedals as well as miscellaneous elements like guitar picks, strings and capos. Towards the back of the shop were drum sets and equipment.

Other eclectic wares such as accordions, violins, banjos and bongos were also hidden throughout the shop. On the other side of the shop’s northern wall, a fiery cumbia band rehearsed their music.

Following some initial discussion, Lessard ushered me to the store’s backyard, a sandy courtyard outfitted with tables, chairs and lighting dubbed “Kat’s Alley.”

Already a budding musical venue, Lessard hopes to bring more performances as well as community-oriented open-mike nights here.

Rather than trying to perfectly follow in the footsteps of Krazy Kat, Lessard is finding her own way to stake her claim in San Antonio’s music scene.

“For 20 years, these guys supported the musical community. Times have changed, so I’m trying to support the music community in my own way,” Lessard said. “It’s been very difficult because there’s a big music community here and, to them, Krazy Kat was Krazy Kat. To see me coming in and changing things up was very distressful.”

But Lessard is determined to do justice to Krazy Kat’s legacy.

“I wanted to honor the Krazy Kat name as well as Eugene, the guy who owned it.

Krazy Kat was the name I knew it by and I fell in love with it,” Lessard said. “I just want to continue to support the music community by giving them places to shop, practice, and play.”

The shops array of instruments hopes to attract all musicians. photo by STEPHEN SUMRALL-ORSAK

Although the music store section of the building looks as though it’s been running smoothly for ages, Lessard still sees room for improvement.

“When I got here, Krazy Kat was pretty much dead and gone. I just started cleaning and fixing and making things look better,” Lessard said. “There are three separate spaces: there’s St. Mary’s Street Music, there’s the rehearsal space on the other side and there’s Kat’s Alley in the back. In the back will be private parties, and I’d like to put a small pub with beer and wine there, but that’s way down the line.”

After our brief interview, Lessard chatted with the other customers who had started to trickle in and got to work repairing some guitars behind the counter.

Along with assuring the San Antonio music scene that the spirit of Krazy Kat lives on, Lessard hopes to create a close-knit space for musicians and music lovers of all walks of life — from experienced bands to college students — to enjoy.

“I find that the military base up here has a lot of people just passing through, and they

need to know that they can rent a guitar for the two months they’re going to be here or buy something inexpensively,” Lessard said. “The same goes for the students up at Trinity. I’ve had a few students come in and buy instruments as well.”

Lessard then leaned back and recounted a story from the Kat’s Alley.

“There was a band playing, and there was a kid there at one of the tables just doing his homework.” Lessard laughed as she looked across her backyard. “The whole St. Mary’s Strip has just exploded in the last three years with live music, and the neighborhood’s just picking up a lot. There’s not really a store like this in San Antonio; the other two resale guitar stores are either really highend or vintage.”

A guy in basketball shorts, a colorful serape-print scarf and a black tank top reading “I like doing hoodrat things with my friends” put it quite nicely when conversing with Lessard about the shop.

“I love what you’ve done with the place.

Takes me back to the good old days.”

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ThursBays vs ThurzGayz: The war for supremacy over student’s nightlife GEORGIE RIGGS A&E CONTRIBUTOR griggs@trinity.edu

Bombay Bicycle Club, the small, pub-style restaurant close to Pizza Classics

by Brackenridge Park, used to be the buzziest way to spend your Thursday night. ThursBays, or Thirsty Thursdays, may no longer be the reigning champ of pre-weekend festivities for Trinity students.

While I have fond memories from my first year at Trinity of passing ‘Bays on a Thursday night with a line stretching almost to the St. Mary’s and Mulberry intersection, this is no longer the case. The highlight of Thursdays at ‘Bays may be the trivia night, which usually happens at 8 p.m., but I can’t say since I showed up right after it ended.

The waning crowd of people from trivia night slowly subsided into a small group of thirty-somethings, as most of the Trinikids had filtered out by 11 p.m.

Though Bays features some drink specials, none of them were anything to write home about. The Thursday special is $3.50 shots of Jack Daniels, which, while fair enough for a one-drink type of night, is not going to get you through to the week’s finish line.

If you really want to celebrate, you’ll find yourself reaching for one of their cocktails, which will probably hike your ticket to well over $10. The drinks were appropriately creative and delicious, but much too

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The once-great spot for getting late night drinks and trying to forget that it’s a school night, the mural of burgers and tucans at Bombay Bicycle Club remains an iconic symbol in the San Antonio and Trinity community. photo by ELISE HESTER, video producer

expensive to order more than one. On top of that, while their menu boasts late night snacks like Frito pies, I was told their kitchen was closed when I tried to order. Sure, the walk to Pizza Classics might be short, but once your heart is set on Frito pie, can a normal old pizza pie suffice? I think not.

As ThursBays declines in popularity, ThurzGayz at the Brass Monkey on N. St. Mary’s has steadily increased in popularity amongst Trinikids. Last week, the line for entry at around 11 p.m. was already stretched around the small building’s facade to the side street. This is due in no small part to the bar’s impressive Thursday night special of 75¢ well drinks, which gets you almost five shots of bottom-shelf liquor for the cost one Jack Daniel’s shot at ThursBays.

Compared to the cramped, albeit quirky, restaurant-style seating of ‘Bay’s, Brass Monkey contains a surprising amount of

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variety for such a small space. The outdoor bar provides a good space for general socializing, as long as you are okay with the noise level and picnic bench seating. Inside, the club packs more of a dance party punch.

Their Facebook emphasizes that the music for Friday is Indie and Electro, but I heard mainly general pop bangers. Granted, they were all bops, especially when compared to more generic club music fare, and the inside dance space featured a heavy amount of blue fog to make it seem more spacious than it actually was.

It’s important to note that while ThurzGayz touts great drink specials, it is primarily a dance party that celebrates LGBTQ identity, hence the name.

It was interesting, then, that the vibe felt more like a Trinity frat party than a gay club. The topic of straight people going to gay clubs and events has been discussed

at length before by people more qualified than me, but my take is that those looking for a fun night out should not disregard the theme of the night and should be sure to be respectful.

Maybe your Thursday night starts as a quest for the best drinks and dancing around, but unquestionably it will end with a quest for the best food.

While ‘Bays denied me the occasion to ring in the weekend with a Frito Pie, Brass Monkey is conveniently located just down the street from the beloved taco truck, Tacos El Regio.

And as most Trinikids probably already know, there’s no better feeling than that early morning return to campus, stumbling through the residential area between St. Mary’s and Mulberry St. with a styrofoam plate of tacos, kept lukewarm by a thin strip of foil, in your hands.

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Sports

LET THE GAMES BEGIN:

• Baseball @ Southwestern, Friday, April 6, 6 p.m.

• Softball vs. Southwestern, Saturday, April 7, 1 p.m.

• Women’s Tennis vs. UT-Dallas, Sunday, April 8, 1 p.m.

Tigers win big at Trinity Invitational TU baseball

ranked No. 1

Track & field athletes break personal and school records

Team takes top spot in national rankings

HAILEY WILSON | SPORTS REPORTER hwilson@trinity.edu Trinity University hosted the annual Trinity Invitational this past weekend, where the Tigers put on quite the show. Several athletes leapt, threw and ran their ways to their best performances of the year while breaking multiple school records.

The meet started off with throwing events, then moved to triple jump, long jump, high jump and pole vault. Junior Stella Affognon shattered a decade-old record in the discus with a mark of 39.89 meters, placing fifth in the competition. The previous record was set by Jocelyn Stokes with a mark of 38.98.

“It was a pretty big meet. We have three weeks until conference, but I feel like everyone was relaxed, putting up good times and good marks, and I think we’re at a really good place going into conference,” Affognon said.

Junior Mia Loseff placed third in the pole vault with a mark of 3.25 meters, and sophomore Androniki Defteraios placed sixth in the long jump with a mark of 5.27 meters.

Senior Britney Sullivan won the triple jump with a mark of 11.71 meters and placed third in the long jump with a mark of 5.47 meters. Sullivan was pleased with the meet and impressed with all of the record-breaking performances.

“This week, the team is focusing on recovery as many athletes competed in two different meets this past weekend. Hopefully we will continue the streak of successful performances this weekend,” Sullivan said.

The women’s 4x400 meter relay team won with a season-best time of 4:05.36, while the men’s 4x400 meter relay took second with a season-best time of 3:23.70.

The men’s team was dominated by a recordbreaking performance by senior Cody Hall.

Hall topped a nine-year-old record for the long jump by posting a mark of 7.24 meters to finish in second place overall.

BRITNEY SULLIVAN competes in the long jump. photo by ALLISON WOLFF, staff photographer

“The team put up a lot of good marks that will put us in the top half of the SCAC rankings.

On the men’s side, we just all around competed very well and I’m very excited to see what we can do at conference,” Hall said.

Hall also competed in the 110 hurdles and won with a time of 14.52 seconds. His winning streak didn’t end there; he won the high jump with a mark of 2.00 meters, a career best.

Senior Matt Love took second place in the discus on the men’s side with a mark of 49.57

meters. Harry Bellow placed second in the 800-meter run and Naim Barnett placed first in the triple jump with a mark of 13.61 meters.

David Buss won the 3000-meter steeplechase and finished ninth in the javelin.

“Next week, we have a big meet at Pomona.

It’s going to be very competitive and we’re hoping to put up good marks,” Hall said.

The Tigers will compete this weekend at the Pomona-Pitzer Invitational in Claremont, California.

Students run social media for Final Four Tigers selected to create content for biggest event in college sports HAILEY WILSON | SPORTS REPORTER hwilson@trinity.edu Trinity students leapt at the opportunity to experience the Final Four over the weekend as San Antonio hosted the culmination of the NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament. The weekend was filled with soldout games, a three-day music festival featuring Maroon 5 and Imagine Dragons, a fan festival, autograph sessions and more.

In addition to fun and games, some students were given the special opportunity to work the events. A group of ten was selected to work the at the Final Four social media hub. The students had to submit resumes and cover letters, as well as be interviewed by Jacob Tingle, director of experiential learning, and Jennifer Henderson, communications professor. After being selected, students attended an orientation meeting led

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HAILEY WILSON, front center, stands with participants in Trinity’s partnership with the Final Four.

Students helped run the NCAA Instagram last weekend. photo provided by HAILEY WILSON

SAUL MALEK | SPORTS REPORTER smalek@trinity.edu Tiger baseball has risen to No. 1 in the nation as they approach the middle of the 2018 season. The team now boasts a 19-2 overall record while averaging an astounding 9.5 runs per game.

When we first covered the Trinity baseball program at the start the season, the team was already an impressive 6-0 and showed no signs of slowing down, averaging nearly 10 runs per game and outscoring opponents 53-24.

The momentum has not stopped in any way for the Tigers. The most recent game was the 5-3 win against Texas Lutheran University on March 30. Recently, the team has enjoyed a number of blowout victories, including a 11-1 win against Southwestern University on March 16, a 13-0 win also against Southwestern on the 17 and a staggering 26-4 defeat of Austin College on the 24.

First-year outfielder Jack Vonderhaar commented on the victory over Austin College.

“The Austin College game was a great example of just how good [our] team is,” Vonderhaar said.

“Everyone on the team contributed. The starters gave us a great lead and guys off the bench helped score more runs and put it away. When everyone sticks to their approach at the plate and doesn’t try to do too much, there aren’t many teams that can slow our offense down.”

As you’d expect, the clubhouse of the 19-2 Tigers is as close knit as could be. First-year pitcher Corey Cater spoke on how the team’s bonding has been an integral part of the team’s success.

“I think we all play really well together as a team because we are all fighting to make plays for each other. I don’t think the success we have had could be possible without that attitude,” Cater said.

Cater is just coming onto the scene as a firstyear player, but he hasn’t felt excluded.

“As a first-year I am thankful that I have the opportunity to contribute right away. It’s been exciting to be a part of this winning ball club.

I am also very thankful to be on a team that has been as supportive and welcoming as this team has been,” Cater said.

The team chemistry is quite important to the success of the Tiger baseball program, but there is a limit to how much chemistry can accomplish.

All great teams have great talent. Junior pitcher Ian Hussain delivered five scoreless innings in relief of starter Kevin Flores against Texas Lutheran on March 30.

“In terms of pitchers we have a fantastic starting rotation and those guys are just as confident in whoever comes out of the bullpen,” Hussain said.

On his own performance, Hussein was quick to deflect his success.

“In terms of my outing, gotta give credit to Kevin Flores. He battled through those first four innings and showed us again how tough he is,” Hussein said.

It’s been all fun for the Tigers up to this point in the season, but the team is aware that there is still work to be done.

“I think in the second half of [SCAC play] we can just focus on having consistent energy and not getting bogged down,” said junior pitcher Holden Nix. The team’s next game is on Friday, April 6 at Hardin-Simmons University.

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Wilson Lambeth explains his new success Junior tennis player attributes his win streak to Fortnite, Thursday nights out with the boys ANTONIO PEDRAZA | SPORTS REPORTER apedraza@trinity.edu

One might see the 6’5” Wilson Lambeth in passing and think he must be a basketball player or a wide receiver. However, Lambeth is a member of the No. 16 Trinity men’s tennis team, has been named SCAC player of the week for three consecutive weeks, and is currently on a 6 win streak.

While Lambeth is currently excelling on the court, this was not always the case. Lambeth started the season with 10 straight losses.

“My tennis season had a bumpy and unexpected start. My expectation was to be the number one and kill it, but I suffered a prolonged period of losing, so my coach moved me down in the lineup. This ignited a fire in me and motivated me to do better,” Lambeth said.

Since being bumped down in the lineup, Lambeth has been on fire. He’s won 9 of 11 singles matches and all 11 of his doubles matches with partner Jordan Pitts since March 12.

“The loses really made me get my act together and fired me up to play well,” Lambeth said.

Lambeth credits his new success to being able to loosen up.

“Honestly, I feel like I was taking tennis way too seriously. It made me stress and get tight,” Lambeth said. “I feel that I play best when I am relaxed and just focusing on having fun.

Essentially, I reverted back to the mentality that made me fall in love with the sport, and that was to just go out there have fun and enjoy myself.”

Lambeth spends plenty of time on the tennis courts — and the basketball courts, too.

“Honestly, I play a lot of pick-up hoops.

My coach doesn’t like this, but it’s something I love to do,” Lambeth said.

On the weekends, Lambeth enjoys hanging out with his friends. He says that most mornings, he gets up, eats breakfast

Junior WILSON LAMBETH is on a six-win streak after a rough start to the 2018 season. photo by ALLISON WOLFF, staff photographer and then plays a few hours of Fortnite, a popular videogame.

“What I like to do is play Fortnite and kick it with the boys. One of my favorite slogans is ‘FTB’ or ‘For the Boys,’ ” Lambeth said. “I think it’s good for my mental health, and improves my tennis by allowing me to decompress.”

Lambeth also enjoys his routine Thursday night outings with the boys. Lambeth sees Thursday nights as essential to the college experience.

“You know, you only get to go to college once, so you got to make the most out of it,” Lambeth said.

Like all college athletes, Lambeth must also juggle academics with athletics and a social life.

“In order to play tennis you gotta make the grades. Also, it’s an expectation from myself and my parents,” Lambeth said. “Trinity is a freaking hard place, much harder than what my friends at other schools have to deal with.

Yeah, it sucks, not only for me but for all the

people that go here, but it’ll be worth it at the end of the day, hopefully.”

Lambeth also reflected on his post-grad goals, when competitive tennis may not be feasible.

“Tennis is not everything, eventually you have to stop because it is basically impossible to go pro.

Post-college, I want to pursue a career in finance and hopefully start a family,” Lambeth said.

While Lambeth has been dominating in the last couple weeks, his aspirations don’t stop there.

“I do wish I was a little bigger,” Lambeth said.

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93,000 followers, so it was a great experience for me,” Carlin said.

Students were allowed to bring their own cameras or use their phones to capture media.

Bret Smith, a junior communication major, enjoyed interacting with fans and listening to music at the music festival.

“My favorite part of the experience was getting to interact with so many different people. Almost everyone that I asked said they were fine with having their picture taken, and they all seemed pretty excited with the idea of being on the NCAA Final Four social media,” Smith said.

McCarty plans to utilize this experience as a stepping stone for her future career.

“I also manage the social media accounts for the Alamo Bowl, so it was exciting to be able to exercise those same skills on a different platform,” McCarty said.

Going forward, Carlin plans on using this experience to guide what career he chooses to pursue.

“I’ve had the time of my life interacting with fans this weekend,” Carlin said. “I will look for a career that has these traits in the future.”

NCAA March Madness Sara McCarty, a senior communication and human communication double major, further explained the role of the social media hub as an extension of the fan experience.

“Our job was to take photos and videos of fans at all of the events — the fan festival, the music festival, you name it. We were working hard to promote aspects of the Final Four outside of the basketball games,” McCarty said.

Students had a list of do’s and don’ts for the event. They aimed to snap pictures and videos of fans having fun and complete a shot list, as well as attend daily production meetings in which they brainstormed ideas for the day. The students were instructed to stay away from intoxicated fans and to not capture photos of brands outside of the NCAA’s partners.

Sophomore communication major Cameron Carlin took advantage of the exposure provided by the experience.

“I was able to craft an Instagram post for the Final Four account. This account has over

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