The student news site of Trinity Preparatory School

The Trinity Voice

The student news site of Trinity Preparatory School

The Trinity Voice

The student news site of Trinity Preparatory School

The Trinity Voice

The Curse of Competition

The Curse of Competition

Abby Hernan, Opinions Editor February 28, 2023

   On Nov. 1 every year, hundreds of thousands of students open the Common Application ready to apply to college. Their applications reflect four years of classes, essays, clubs, SAT scores and everything...

CheatGPT

CheatGPT

Abby Hernan, Opinions Editor February 28, 2023

   It is almost midnight and the Canvas calendar still had one assignment left to do—an eight-page research paper. While most students spend hours outlining, writing and editing their research papers,...

Private Prisons, Public Problem

Jack Ververis February 28, 2023

   In 1844, a factory opened. It was called the Louisiana State Penitentiary, though it was operated by a private company.  The product was clothing. The profit was people. The goal, as one prisoner...

Graphic by Lia Garibay

Goodbye Girlboss

Amanda Rose DeStefano, Opinions Writer February 23, 2023

   Girlboss, a term coined in 2014 by Sophia Amoruso, has taken social media by storm in recent years. In her book #Girlboss, Amoruso, the founder of fast-fashion clothing brand, Nasty Gal, defined a...

Graphic courtesy of Kelsey Wang

A Penalty Worse Than Death

Amanda Rose DeStefano, Opinions Writer February 23, 2023

   The families of the victims in the Parkland shooting held their breath on October 13 as they awaited the punishment for the assailant, Nikolas Cruz. When the judge announced that Cruz would live the...

Photo courtesy of David Fickling Books

The Boys Which Never Existed

David Bryskin, Social Media Editor January 27, 2023

   Seventeen years after its publication, John Boyne’s “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas” has proven to be wildly successful; it's a perennial bestseller with 11 million copies sold, has been translated...

CON: Cleaning Up the Competition

CON: Cleaning Up the Competition

Sreekar Nagulapalli, Opinions Writer January 17, 2023

   Sports are synonymous with three things: wins, losses, and drugs. What started with the ancient Greeks drinking what they thought were performance-enhancing potions to gain a step up in the...

Graphic by Lia Garibay

A False Sense of Equality

Marcos Membreno January 4, 2023

On Nov. 1, the Supreme Court signaled that there could be an end to the half-century long practice of affirmative action, race-conscious admissions, after hearing oral arguments on the case Students For...

The Best Course of Action

The Best Course of Action

Reese Taylor, Layout Editor December 9, 2022

   This past month, the Supreme Court began its hearings for the cases Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill....

Making Light of Darkness

Making Light of Darkness

Taylor Riley, Lifestyles Editor December 9, 2022

This article contains potentially sensitive material concerning mental illness and suicide.  Depiction of mental illnesses in media has long been problematic. In older movies and shows, mental illness...

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