A few days ago I got an e-mail informing me that an essay I wrote is going to appear in an academic journal. The paper is called something like “The Rise of the Computer Game Aesthetic: MUDs, MOOs and Yetis.” Basically, it’s a piece about why computer games are cool, dressed up in fancy philosophical words like “mimesis” and “ludocentric.”

I was pretty happy about this e-mail, although I found the whole idea of getting some essay about video games published in a journal kind of funny. Video games and academic articles don’t seem to have much in common, except for the fact that you could find both in the average college dorm room.

This year’s Fort Douglas Week activities turned gruesome when first year Craig Ketchum was injured during the game Assassins. Assassins is the annual campus-wide survival game in which residents try to spray their target with water, (while avoiding getting wet themselves).

While Ketchum was chasing his target, Austin Jean-Coulson, to Douglas Center, Ketchum slipped on some mud outside the entrance by the TWU Student Association office, and momentum carried his left arm through the TWUSA window, sending glass flying and deeply puncturing his bicep.

As onlookers gathered around the scene, fellow students Francisco Grajales and Chris Anquist helped slow the bleeding until the ambulance arrived 20 minutes later.

For Trinity Western University residents in Fraser Hall, trying to find time to do laundry on the weekends can be difficult. Students report that every weekend, machines are stuffed full with soapsuds and dirty clothes, due to limited number of washers and dryers available.

A lack of change machines adds to the problem. When Lauren Thompson went to the change machine in the Lower Cafeteria, she received forty cents worth of nickels and a Euro instead of the loonies she expected. She wishes the university would put change machines in the laundry rooms.

A unique memorial was finished last Saturday as a tribute to student Hunter Simpson, who passed away this December. Douglas’ Four Lower, Simpson’s former dorm, erected a boat made completely out of bottle caps to honor their dorm-mate.
Simpson had been collecting bottle caps all fall semester in hopes of creating something out of them. When Simpson’s mother suggested to Mark Leavitt, Resident Assistant of Four Lower, that the dorm create something in his memory, they decided that the bottle caps would be perfect.

“It was a project we could finish for him,” Leavitt explained.

In September 2006, Trinity Western University alumni and guest lecturers will sail on a Carnival cruise ship through the Mexican Riviera to renew friendships and have some fun by engaging in the Lifelong Learning series.

“The purpose of this trip is connecting, communicating, and celebrating,” said Inga Warnock, Director of Planned Giving.
A large portion of the alumni that will be attending are those who graduated while Dr. Cal Hanson was TWU’s first president. Warnock said that the cruise will “primarily honour Cal.”

MONTREAL (CUP) — The Concordia University Administration removed copies of the independent student newspaper, The Link, from stands in the main building on Concordia’s campus.

The issue contained several articles that were highly critical of the Concordia Student Union (CSU) for their treatment of the Quebec branch of the Canadian Federation of Students, a worker’s union. The issue also included an editorial exposing the weaknesses of Experience, the slate favoured by the current CSU executive.

KABUL - An Afghan man who had faced the death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity has been released from prison after the case was dropped.

Police arrested Abdul Rahman last month after discovering he was carrying a Bible and placed him on trial last week for converting 16 years ago. Afghanistan’s Islamic laws require the death penalty for conversion to Christianity.

The announcement for his release came after the United Nations said Rahman appealed for asylum outside Afghanistan and that the world body was working to find a country willing to take him.

At the end of September 2006, ten female Trinity Western University students will shave their heads in order to raise awareness and money for three non-profit organizations, said first-year student Monique Lyon-Summerfield, who is heading up the event.

The girls, Holly Mikesh, Erika Jacobson, Merissa Doherty, Kristina Pfiffner, Carmel Gregory, and four others who have yet to volunteer, will spend the summer raising money for the International Justice Mission, non-profit organizations Invisible Children and Watoto Child Care Ministries.

And come Fall semester, everything will come off.