A&E 17
Campus Pulse 12
Opinion 7
Sports 21
Gate Keepers
Quiet, please
Running in Boston
Meet the administrative assistants behind some of Trinity’s most powerful leaders.
Sydney Wright, president of SDA, explains the meaning behind today’s “Day of Silence.”
Q&A with Trinity alumna gives first-hand account of the Boston Marathon bombings.
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Taco Taco Café to open on-campus location
ARAMARK partners with restaurant said to have “Best Tacos in America” by Tommie Ethington
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Helen Velesiotis, owner of the well-known San Antonio breakfast and lunch hot spot, Taco Taco Café, has long considered Trinity a part of her family, and in fall of 2013, Trinity University aims to make the petite, brighteyed Greek woman part of ours. At the permission of ARAMARK, Velesiotis and her team that manages the awardwinning, nationally recognized restaurant will take over the area now utilized by Grilleworks in the Coates University Center Commons Dining Hall. According to David Tuttle, associate vice president of student affairs and dean of students, renovations are scheduled for this summer and the Trinity community should have access to the Tex-Mex cuisine when school starts in August. All of the original Taco Taco recipes, methods and the delivery will be maintained in serving the trademark dishes to the on-campus community. Miguel Ardid, director of dining services, explained that the addition of Taco Taco is part of a bigger vision that the university has for dining services.
“In 2010, President Ahlburg came along and said he felt that it would be a good idea to do a market view, an analysis of the dining options we have on campus and to look at all of the different areas,” Ardid said. The analysis resulted in a fiveyear dining plan that stipulated the addition of Einstein Bros Bagels and Provisions On Demand, as well as the renovation of Mabee Dining Hall and the Skyline Dining Room. Now in its third year, attention is being paid to a full renovation of the Commons (which will cost approximately $50,000 and should be completed in 2014), as well as the creation of dining options in the Chapman Center and the Center for Sciences and Innovation, and the renovation of Java City in the Coates Library. According to Tuttle and Ardid, Taco Taco was suggested as an alternative to the ARAMARK brand, Tortilla Fresca, which was previously stationed in Mabee prior to the renovation. However, they were unsure if Aramark would allow a brand that was not their own to come to campus. “In our world of ARAMARK, it’s really kind of the exception—what we’re doing, because we do have a pretty good portfolio of [ARAMARK] brands to choose from, but in some cases, like this one, they’ll make an exception,” Ardid said. “We’re definitely the exception, not the norm.”
Tuttle says this exception speaks to ARAMARK’s desire to cater to the unique Trinity community. “Sometimes students are critical of dining services, but they made this happen and they’re really acting in good faith to try and have one of the top dining facilities in the nation,” Tuttle said. “We’re not like other campuses where we have a Pizza Hut and a Chick-fil-A. [ARAMARK] has really tried to tailor our campus a little more, and it shows they understand the nature of the institution.” Once Tuttle and Ardid received the go-ahead from ARAMARK, they collaborated to decide what restaurant to bring to campus. “[Miguel and Cory, the district manager, and myself] looked at a couple of possibilities, including Chipotle and Taco Cabana, but ultimately decided that they were not a good fit, either because their menu was too restrictive or the licensing costs that come with a franchise wouldn’t work with our business model,” Tuttle said.
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• APRIL 19, 2013
“Subliminal Massages”
photo by Sarah Cooper
A student receives a massage from a visiting professional as part of Trinity’s first Mental Health Awareness Week, sponsored by the Trinity Progressives and other campus organizations. The week of activities aimed to raise awareness about mental health on campus and included a showing of the Oscar-nominated film “Silver Linings Playbook,” panels, discussions, depression screenings and a Stress-Free Zone on Thursday, featuring mini-horses, yoga and an ice cream social.
San Antonio and Trinity police find drugs in McLean After three-week investigation of possible narcotic dealer, police confiscate drugs
photo by Matthew Brink, intern
photo courtesy of tacotopia.net Taco Taco Café (above) owned by Helen Velesiotis (top right) will be opening a location on Trinity’s campus this fall in Coates University Center. A favorite of students, Taco Taco has won multple local and national awards, including multiple from the Trinitonian’s anual “Best for Trinity” contest.
by Aynav Leibowitz
NEWS REPORTER
Following three weeks of investigation, at 8:39 p.m. Monday, April 17, the San Antonio Police Department’s Repeat Offenders Program (ROP) and Trinity University Police Department found illegal substances and paraphernalia in junior Scott Stanley’s room in McLean Hall. Suspicion of possession and distribution of narcotics on Trinity’s campus prior to Monday gave SAPD’s Repeat Offenders Program and TUPD reasons to investigate McLean’s first floor. A specific red flag
was the consistently reported smell of marijuana in the hall. “What we, as a university police department, try to do is create an environment where our students can safely make mistakes, but it doesn’t give you a pass,” said Paul Chapa, Trinity chief of police. “Our philosophy as policing in a university setting is to acknowledge these events will occur at some level of experimenting. Once you have scales, baggies and ledgers, that changes the playing field for us.” According to the SAPD police report, the initial investigation began three weeks ago when TUPD’s investigator, Sergeant Charles Lopez, was told that Stanley and Taft Jackson were “using and selling marijuana from the dorm room on campus.”
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