Although Denison Witmer lives and records out of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Are You a Dreamer? seems to put you immediately in Southern California, driving along the coast at the tail end of a reflective summer road trip. I suppose that it could also put you in the Lower Mainland of B.C., curled in front of a fireplace with a blanket and some cocoa because your car doors are frozen shut and a tree has fallen over your driveway. But that’s a bit more of a stretch.

In Children of Men, director Alfonso Cuarón (Y Tu Mamá También, Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban) takes the P.D. James novel of the same name and paints a grim picture of London in the year 2027. Women are infertile and the youngest human on earth is an 18-year-old—there’s not much hope left for a world that will die in 50 years. Most of the population resorts to destruction and anarchy or, as the reluctant protagonist Theo (Clive Owen), a quiet apathy. But then a miracle is found: Klee (Claire-Hope Ashitey) becomes the first woman in nearly twenty years to get pregnant.

Mobster-film master Robert DeNiro is at it again. But in The Good Shepherd, things aren’t exactly what they seem. For starters, DeNiro is in the director’s chair, creating a film that has apparently been in the works for a decade. And this time the mob of choice is the CIA.

For years now, Hollywood has been stuck in a cycle of repetitive remakes and sequels, and 2007 is shaping up to be no exception. Here are a few of the most highly anticipated sequels of the year.

Ocean’s 13: Ocean’s 11 was an instant classic, a
brilliant send up to the rat-pack and heist films of old but Ocean’s 12 – while original and unique in its own right – was not really what the audience was expecting from director Steven Soderberg. Ocean’s 13 seems to be going back to what made 11 such a glitzy masterpiece.

Augustana keeps building momentum. Hard-working and constantly touring, this band was sought out by acclaimed producer Brendan O’Brien, who has also worked with Pearl Jam, Bob Dylan, and Rage Against the Machine. And their major label debut, All the Stars and Boulevards was re-released last September.

Mars’ Hill sat down with Dan Layus (lead vocals) and Chris Sachtleben (lead guitar) to talk about life and times on the road, a few new additions, and crazy fans.

Among students, females outnumber males by a ratio of nearly 2:1. However, the opposite is true of Trinity Western University faculty. Seventy-two per cent of TWU’s full-time professors are male*.

This figure is just slightly greater than the average nationally, which, according to Statistics Canada, is at 71 per cent male. Only thirty-five years ago, men accounted for 87 per cent of full-time faculty.

Bob Burkinshaw, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, believes that this percentage is the result of educational choices.

Spend some time on Trinity Western University’s campus, and it won’t be long before you notice something: there are far more females than males. In fact, women account for 63 per cent of TWU’s undergraduate population.

This discrepancy has long been hailed as the “Trinity Ratio,” but TWU isn’t the only school with this kind of gender mix. Across Canada, 58 per cent of undergrads are female. Roughly twenty years ago, the split was even, but since then the gap has steadily widened.

RESIDENT SOLUTIONS

Dear Editor,
A former student, George Gray, used his TWUSA position as VP of Student Relations to pick up various issues and work to create effective ways to improve upon these areas. One particular area was the fact that the collegiums lay dormant during evenings and weekends, seemingly abandoned whenever its membership left for their own respective homes, apartments and comfortable living rooms. Could the space be utilized more effectively? Simultaneously, the desire to improve resident options for studying space and co-ed space was a relevant issue, and the thought emerged that one space could effectively serve as an antidote to the other problem of resident spaces.