Trinitonian SERVING TRINITY UNIVERSITY SINCE 1902 s WWW.TRINITONIAN.COM
VOLUME 109, ISSUE 8 s OCTOBER 7, 2011
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
False Trinity score for credit card story
Occupy San Antonio
What’s Inside
Síclovía adventure Following a South American tradition, San Antonio shut down Broadway to let students and families play in the street. See what they did.
n News story misrepresents Trinity in listing the university as one that sells infomation to credit card companies
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by Kellie Benn Reporter
Hundreds of San Antonians took downtown by storm Thursday in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street, a group demanding an end to corporate corruption in politics and business. (Right) Trinity senior Micaela Wyatt led the group in chanting “Human need, not corporate greed” while bearing a sign reading “I refuse to think corporations are human beings until Texas executes one.”
Greek Council asks ASR for $4,000
Trinity idol Get a sneak preview in this year’s craziest singing competition. Page 13
n Organization cited bad financial records from last year as reason for request by Rachel Puckett
black out cancer All of Trinity’s athletic teams compete to raise money for WINGS, a breast cancer foundation. See the story behind their attempts to black out cancer. Page 24
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The Association of Student Representatives voted Tuesday night to grant Greek Council their proposed sum of $4,175, bringing their overall budget to $12,220. The decision came after months of personnel restructuring, a search for ultimately non-existent financial records, fluctuating account balances from the University Business Office and two weeks of
debate at ASR meetings. Concerns over the previous year’s financial records were first raised two weeks ago by executive members of Greek Council, after an outstanding bill for $ 5,000 was brought to their attention. The bill, which related to the organization’s guest speaker carried over into this fiscal year. Kaela Dickens, women’s cochair of Greek Council cited bad communication and poor attention to detail as two primary reasons for the oversight. “I would never want to badmouth [last year’s Greek Council]; they did their best with the resources that they had and the time that they had. They just were not thorough at all, which is difficult for us
because we weren’t really aware of what our responsibilities would be,” Dickens said. “The biggest issue was that they had zero record of our expenses. We only had our bank account record.” This record is what Dickens and the other members of the executive board used last year when calculating their annual budget for ASR’s review. According to Raphael Moffett, director of Campus and Community Involvement, Greek Council as a charted organization originally submitted a budget of $12,220 in spring of 2011, asking for a total of $5,776 from ASR. This figure was based on the amount of n See Greek Page 7
Health Services feels good about TU nOfficials at Health Services insist that students visit when they are feeling under the weather by Samantha Bos News Editor
As San Antonio suffers one of the worst allergy seasons on record, Health Services stands prepared to offer the services found in a typical private physician’s office. However, Health Services is not equipped for medical emergencies and long term conditions and instead recommends
that students find a local physician for such issues. “Students come to Health Services when they are sick or injured with all kinds of problems. They come with nausea, vomiting, diarrhea; they come with sore throat; they come with cold symptoms, sinus infections, back pain, injuries, twisted knees, twisted ankles, injured wrists – all kinds of health problems. We take care of all of it,” said Jackie Bevilacqua, registered nurse-board certified, coordinator of Health Services. Some students however, have been disappointed with the services that they have received at Health Services. “I’ve had tests done that were
done incorrectly because you don’t take blood to test for strep. I know that, and I’m not a science major. That’s a little disconcerting,” said junior Andi Sei. “Since I have gotten severely ill, multiple times, and lived with another individual who got ill, multiple times, you get kind of sick of being told to just gargle salt water, because salt doesn’t fix everything.” If students are feeling ill and enter Health Services without an appointment, they will be seen by one of the nurses. Nurses are able to make evaluations as to whether a student needs to see n
See Health Page 6
Trinity University was recently named on a list of universities that supposedly sells student and/or alumni information to credit card companies, a claim that university officials say is false.
Alumni like to get [the card] because it’s attractive. It says Trinity University on it – they’re big fans of their alma mater – and a percentage of that money does come to the university. That’s one of their ways of giving back to the university.
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photo by Audrey Nobles
Mary Kay Cooper
Director of Alumni Relations
“No student information is given to anyone, including the Bank of America card company that Alumni Relations has a contract with,” said Sharon Schweitzer, assistant vice president for University Communication in an email. KVUE News in Austin published the list as part of an investigative report which claimed that colleges and universities are making money off the practice of giving out student or alumni information such as names, addresses, email addresses and telephone numbers to credit card companies. n
See Alumni Page 5