Ty Poe ’27
Proud Reverse Sear Loyalist
After the Tripod’s reporting on the volleyball team breaking their “undefeated steak” last week, the two parties are pleased to announce a new series of monthly steak dinners to help bring attention to and raise funds for a true plague: shoddy copyediting.
The dinners will alternate between being served in the Tripod’s office and in the Ray Oosting gymnasium, where the volleyball team plays their home games. Proceeds from the dinners will go to funding an office coffee machine, reimbursing copyeditors for the cost of guac on their Cave slop bowls and the printing of a large sign reading “DID YOU COPY EDIT YOUR TITLE?” Tickets for the monthly event can be purchased starting at midnight outside of the Tripod’s office on the last Tripod Tuesday of the month and will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Students are generally limited to the purchase of one ticket per month, but if a student brings a copy of the Tripod with a copyediting mistake underlined in red ink they’ll receive a complimentary plus one.
A ticket to the dinner grants the purchaser a three-course meal prepared, according to the event flier, by “literally anybody but Chartwells.” Diners can expect a seasonal salad to open the experience, followed by a steak entree cooked to order and accompanied by potatoes au gratin. For dessert, diners can select a newspaper ink-inspired sorbet or a slice of humble pie. The meal will also be accompanied with a selection of H&L’s finest Barefoot wines for diners over the age of 21. Diners under the drinking age will be served what Tripod staff is referring to as “mixer no alc?,” which are lukewarm leftover sodas from the Tripod’s welcome event. Dinners will be black-tie encouraged, with diners given the option to also wear Trinity Volleyball merch in lieu of a tuxedo or evening gown.
“We want to make mistakes as rare as we can, blue rare, even,” said Tripod Editor-in-Chief Talia Cutler ’27. “We think this is a medium commitment to making sure we have a well-done paper, each and every week. The stakes are simply too high to ignore this searing issue.”
