From the Editor: Matthew Jenkins

Last Thursday evening the Board of Governors of Trinity Western University voted to appoint Dr. Jonathan S. Raymond as the next President of TWU, effective July 1, 2006.

From March 13-18, Trinity Western University students had the chance to become more environmentally aware. The Trinity Environmental Advocates (TEA) club planned a variety of events to celebrate Earth Week, including a story telling session, nature walks, and a creation care lecture.

The vending machines will face some competition now that students can buy chocolate bars with their food cards. The Lower Caf has yielded to students’ suggestions that it serve ice cream and chocolate to curb those late-night munchies. A freezer stocked with Cyclones, Raspberry fruit bars, Fudgcicles, and the infamous Ben and Jerry’s is squeezed behind the register.

ST. CATHARINES, ON. (CUP)– Talks between the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) and the College Compensation and Appointments Council (CCAC) broke down late Monday night, prompting some 9,000 faculty and staff at Ontario’s colleges to walk off the job.

MONTREAL (CUP)–For the tenth year in a row, Montreal was the scene of a heated anti-police-brutality demonstration. Established in 1997 as an initiative of Switzerland’s Black Flag organization and the Montreal-based Collective Opposé à la Brutalité Policière, the demonstration is meant to highlight the excessive use of power regularly attributed to the Montreal PD.

As of March 1, Trinity Western University’s Laurentian Leadership Centre in Ottawa is without an Executive Director. Paul Wilson has resigned from the position to become the Senior Policy Advisor to Canada’s new Minister of Justice, the Honorable Vic Toews.

Cafeteria food: we love it or we hate it, but the reality for many residents at Trinity Western University is that we can’t live without it.