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.”

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).

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.