By Angela Wiebe

Whether it’s designer duds or thrift store threads, these 10 movies feature style as a leading character, including two films nominated for Best Costume Design at this year’s Academy Awards – The Devil Wears Prada and Marie Antoinette.

St. Elmo’s Fire (1985)
As a quintessential coming-of-age film, St. Elmo’s Fire offers the world of 80s fashion at your feet. Featuring the typical variety of characters, the film highlights the range of the decade’s archetypal styles – shoulder pads and all.

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By Yolanda Kornelsen

I walked into the SHOUT (Students Helping Others Use Technology) office and looked about with only a little bit of nostalgia. I frequented this place very often my first year at Trinity Western University and not at all in the last two years. Why is that? My first year I had a PC. During that time, I ended up coming up with about 27 different ways to destroy the PC including, but not limited to, throwing it in the lake, drilling it full of nails, and dashing it repeatedly against my head. For the sake of my cranium, I ended up choosing a better option. I joined the Apple cult.

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By Chami Nagai

How one sees the world, understands the world, and sees God is very much affected by culture. Back home at my church in Japan, there is a sense of reserved atmosphere during the service. Respectful language is used to address God. Because of this, I grew up with an understanding of God as sovereign and utterly holy; however, my view of God is not limited to that. Through my friend who grew up in Tanzania, I learned the joy and celebration that is seen in how different people worship. Through my friend who grew up in Panama, I saw glimpses of the effort to see God amidst poverty and injustice. Through listening to my dorm mate pray in Korean early in the morning, I learned to appreciate the passionate outpouring of heart to God.

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By Jonah Love

What exactly is language? After twenty-something years of speaking, writing, and generally butchering the English language, there are certain aspects that I’ve come to love and aspects that absolutely confound my understanding. I don’t know how anyone can make sense of English’s melting pot of idioms, oxymorons, abbreviations, and slang.

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By Thomas Cairns, http://www.xanga.com/littlebluetankengine

Valentine’s Day, Key Arena, Seattle, Washington.

The attendees include my fiancée Ruth and I. She, in her brilliance, purchased two tickets for my birthday this past September, allowing me to attend my first NBA game, which has been a dream of mine since childhood. However, the childhood versions usually included me being on the floor, throwing down a massive windmill slam on the break, or delivering a precise no look pass in heavy traffic.

So why Valentine’s Day? It is, perhaps, an unusual day to attend a sporting match.

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By Iain Cook

I do not cry easily, or often. If I recall correctly, I’ve only cried once a year during the last five. As such, it is acutely embarrassing to admit that the one time I cried in 2004 was over the issue of finding a roommate for my next year at school.

I’ve been told by a very unreliable source that when you cry it is the result of feeling overwhelmed. And so it was when I found myself sitting in my 8/9 Upper dorm room in Douglas hall, sobbing because I didn’t think any of my friends wanted to room with me the next year. The fact that I had to suddenly pair off in a pseudo-marriage relationship, coupled with my fear that none of my suitors would accept me, was evidently too much to bear.

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By Lauren Williams

The dictionary definition of sojourn is “to stay for a time in a place; to live temporarily; a brief period of residence.” In many ways, university students are all sojourners, travelers who have decided to stop and stay in this place for a while before moving on to life’s next destination. As I move towards finishing my third year at Trinity Western University, I am understanding more and more the brevity of this stage of life, and, really, of every stage of life.

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By David Edmondson

Whenever I saw someone buying a bottle of water, I asked, “Why do you drink bottled water? The tap water is fine!” The inevitable response, as they sucked down their repackaged and imported municipal liquids, was a quizzical look and some statement about how Trinity’s water tastes like pool water and, therefore, must be horrid for one’s health. Apparently, one’s sense of taste is a far more accurate measure of what is and isn’t potable than Health Canada’s water safety guidelines. Although nobody believed me, this was what I told all my friends as I went happily about drinking my safe, slightly-odd tasting water.

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