The Internet is a familiar thing to many of us, known for being the wondrous technological tool of communication. Over the years it has been shaped and modified for new functions. Through freedom of information transfer and through the clever and witty minds of individual users, there has been growing, over the last decade, a phenomenon that is carving its mark in mass communication history: the Internet meme.

Since the advent of social media in the last decade, it has become easy to be engulfed by its wide web. As young people, social media is sold to us as a tool to have ourselves more connected with others and the world going on around us. For many of us, these tools quickly turn into vices, but for most, they act as devices for keeping in touch with our friends, family, or estranged high school acquaintances we’d just rather forget about all together.

Turn on your computers everyone. TWU Impact, a new fundraising and storytelling website about Trinity Western University and its community, launched on Feb. 10.

The 12th annual Mel Smith lecture and scholarship presentation was held at Trinity Western University on March 4. The event featured a keynote address delivered by Dr. Janet Epp Buckingham entitled “Grain trucks, graven images, and grave consequences: The impact of the charter on religious communities.”

From March 15 to 19, you may see garbage covering the campus. This is an object lesson to show students the garbage they produce and how much of it can be recycled or composted.

This past reading break nine Trinity Western University students went on a missions trip to New Orleans to assist with the massive damage caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Want to learn about healthcare? Trinity Western University’s School of Nursing and Gender Studies Institute will be hosting a “café scientifique” event on March 17 with topics about access to healthcare among Aboriginal peoples, new Canadians, and non-Aboriginal peoples born in Canada.

On February 18th, right before the Olympic reading break, nine students were elected for the TWUSA 2010-11 representative positions.