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Trinitonian Serving Trinity University Since 1902
Volume 115 Issue 15
page 11 JANUARY 19, 2018
TU celebrates MLK Remembering Robert Annual event series features lecture, march
Campus, family grieve loss of Trinity student
Trinity students, faculty and staff joined thousands in the San Antonio MLK March, the largest in the nation. photo by CHLOE SONNIER, staff photographer
Friends described ROBERT FOYE as friendly, bubbly and competitive. Services for Foye will be held Jan. 18, 19 and 20. photo provided by HEATHER MONTOYA
KENDRA DERRIG | NEWS REPORTER kderrig@trinity.edu Trinity University’s annual week of events commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. kicked off with a lecture from Kathleen Cleaver, activist, former Black Panther and professor of law at Emory University, and continued throughout the weekend, culminating in over 100 students, faculty and staff joining the San Antonio community for the MLK March on the East Side. Cleaver’s lecture on Jan. 11 focused on the importance of continuing the activism that her generation pioneered through the Civil Rights Movement. She encouraged students to use their youth and energy to take over the fight for freedom. In an interview with the Trinitonian, Cleaver spoke of how important universities are in making change. “Universities allow people to have opportunity
— without necessarily being absorbed by family and work and other kind of practical responsibilities — to think and to learn and to formulate what it is they want to be,” Cleaver said. “They’re also a site where people can break up ideas that are controversial, where people can talk about what it is that they want to do and what they can change.” Cleaver also expressed doubts about the current political moment. “This is a post-Obama time. People in my generation didn’t expect to see a black man being elected president, certainly not one with an African name. The fact that a black family was in the White House was extraordinary, and hopefully that signals that there is a cultural shift, that America is becoming more intelligent. But this is America, so who knows. There’s a lot of backwards ideas circulating in this country,” Cleaver said. continued on PAGE 3
PAX shows off SA talent Trinity students and San Antonio studios promote at game expo DANIEL CONRAD | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF dconrad@trinity.edu Thousands of gaming enthusiasts descended upon the Henry B. González Convention Center last weekend to attend PAX South 2018, the festival’s fourth consecutive year in San Antonio. Among the hundreds of exhibitors displaying video games, card games, board games and more were Trinity students and one studio of San Antonian game designers.
A sign reading “Modern Knights” hung above a small table on the show floor all weekend. Behind the table stood James Lovett, junior and CEO of the company, alongside his brother Brock Lovett and junior Marshall Tickner. The trio showed off their forthcoming game, “Crusade of Two Suns.” Some booths blasted loud music or showcased video games on huge TVs, but James and his crew showed off painted miniature figures and a game board. But Modern Knights’ relatively modest booth still attracted fans of miniature wargaming, a genre of turnbased strategy games played with figurines and complex sets of rules. continued on PAGE 24
KATHLEEN CREEDON | NEWS EDITOR kcreedon@trinity.edu Last weekend, sophomore Robert Foye was found dead in his off-campus apartment. The cause of death hasn’t been determined, and an autopsy is scheduled to take place in the future. The 19-year-old was studying business administration and political science. Foye grew up traveling around the world. When he was two months old, Foye’s family moved to Hong Kong. At three, he moved with his family to London. Then Jakarta, Indonesia. Most recently, Shanghai. Robert Foye Sr., Foye’s father, calculates that Foye had close friends in nearly 46 countries. “I think in 19 years of life, he probably lived the equivalent of two lives,” Foye Sr. said. “If you look at his experiences and the people he met, the things he was able to do, most people take two lives to do. He was a joy and the kind of person where you’d always want another minute of his time.” Parker Voit, a senior neuroscience major, met Foye at a party in one of Foye’s first weeks as a Trinity student. Voit and Foye kept in touch since that first meeting and often played video games with one another. “He might’ve been a rowdy type of person, but he was never a mean person. He was so kind,” Voit said. “He just wanted to make everyone around him so happy.” Foye often spoke of his travels with friends, something that bonded him with Paranj Kalyani, a fifth-year finance major and international student. “It’s something we talked about a lot, going from place to place, changing the location of your life,” Kalyani said. “You pick up something everywhere you go, from different cultures you meet, and you could see that in Robbie. You could see he was well-traveled.”
Foye Sr. explained that his son was incredibly interested in different cultures, often delving into research about whatever country his family was to visit next. “He was very curious, so whenever we would travel somewhere, he would study and learn a lot about the history,” Foye Sr. said. “I think he was a global citizen and a global friend. He was totally and utterly comfortable in any culture.” Foye’s friends also note his positive spirit as one of his defining features. “He was not afraid to speak his mind. He was really fun to be around, really hyper, really bubbly,” Kalyani said. “I never saw him in a down state and never low-energy.” Voit agreed. “Beyond having one of the nicest hearts of anyone I’ve ever met, he’d always be laughing and making jokes,” Voit said. Voit, Kalyani and Foye’s father all mentioned Foye’s competitiveness and playfulness as a key part of his personality. They said Foye always wanted to play games, no matter the game and regardless of his skill level. Foye’s father described these characteristics in a Facebook post. “After his high school basketball career in Shanghai, he maintained his competitive mentality in grueling pickup games with [me], friends and members of the Trinity community,” Foye Sr. wrote in the post. “He had great defensive skills, could drive to the basket and had a good three-point shot.” Foye had a deep connection to Trinity. In response, the Foye family has started a scholarship in their son’s name and has asked that anyone who would like to send flowers or condolences donate to the Robert Lawrence Foye Scholarship Foundation instead. continued on PAGE 2
Do not leave students in the dark about grades
My Little Pony: A student’s life-saving obsession
Campus looks forward to finished Bell Center
Updating TLearn often is not hand-holding; rather, it helps students gauge their success.
“Friendship is Magic” and fan fiction helped one Trinity junior cope with depression.
Delayed renovations, incomplete construction leave students frustrated.
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