Volume 14 Issue 10
Nearly 50 students were invited to eat breakfast with the president on March 22, in order to critique Trinity Western University’s new strategic initiative, “Design the Decade: Envision the Century.”
At the beginning of the school year, Trinity Western University Student Association president Norman Van Eeden Petersman set an ambitious goal: to reach each student on campus seven times through the association.
My time as a student here at Trinity Western University is finally drawing to a close. As I approach this last season of papers and exams, I wonder how I could best use this space to say something important. But, I’m merely a 23-year-old year senior and, to be honest, I’d settle for something slightly interesting. In lieu of either, here are some thoughts, some ideas and a final farewell. And with any luck I’ll manage to keep the platitudes to a minimum.
I’ve always kind of been a pack rat. It began in middle school when I acquired an orange plastic mini-garbage can. Every time I visited a new place or met a new person, I always tried to take something tangible away from the experience that would remind me of it. When I travelled with my family to a swimming competition on Vancouver Island, I saved my ferry ticket and placed it in that can. Faded photo-booth photos of me and best friend Jenny were in there too, squished between an American dollar bill from my band trip to White Salmon, Wash., and an old pack of gum I bought while on a first date.
In an attempt to boost the number of students living on campus next semester, incentives are being offered to both residents and commuters. In previous years, Housing and Conference services haven’t had to go to the extent of offering incentives to students. This year however, only 700 of the 920 beds on campus were filled.
This spring, Political Science professor Mark Charlton is resigning from Trinity Western University, after 15 years here.
Dr. John Klassen is retiring this year after having taught History at Trinity Western University for 31 years.
