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Stephen Colbert is running for President and scientists, perennially on the lookout for party tricks, have discovered the enzyme that can create extra eyes in frogs; they are hoping to be able to grow human eyes “in a dish.” Much as these things – and indeed life itself - bring about a sense of giddy joy in a sensible person, there is one thing capable of doing so at virtually any moment on this campus that is more omni-present than politics and science, more visceral and transitive, and much more transcendent of time, creed, and culture. Faith? No! Rain.
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Perhaps university culture has collapsed into a state of rambunctious tedium, but this cynical ex-agrarianite finds himself disjointedly appalled at the deficiency of learning institutional exclusive jargon.
So this pessimistic deconstructionalist makes his debut on the literary world. Perhaps university lingo has passed me by, or I am the proverbial dying toad steadily boiling, unnoticed, in a pot of water, but honestly, in my first six weeks here I have not run in to that much Tuwoo— (or TWU to the non-phonetic pronouncers among us) exclusive lingo. Granted, a few academy standards have been thrown in my face—RA, caf, prof, grad student, senior, junior, freshmen—but overall nothing jargon-based has hindered my plight into this specific venue of higher education thus far.
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“Anytime something to do with Africa comes up, it tweaks my heart,” says Andrew Dawn, a third-year chemistry major. “Once you’ve been in Africa, you don’t forget it. Africa is a part of who you are,” he says. “It’s hard to get away from.”
Dawn’s parents were missionaries in Africa when he was young, making him a missionary kid, or “MK.” Six years of his life were spent in Kenya where his parents were developing a language program for Africa Inland Mission (AIM) and then later when his dad became principal of a missionary college that trained Africans to minister to other Africans.
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Students and staff filled nearly every seat in Block Hall on Oct. 22 to hear Dr. J. Matthew Sleeth testify that “This Planet Needs Serious Medicine,” setting the stage for environmental discussion at Trinity Western University.
The event was hosted by A Rocha (Portuguese for “The Rock”), a Christian nature conservation organization which began in Peru. Sleeth is the Executive Director of A Rocha USA and a former emergency room physician. He graduated from Washington University School of Medicine with two post-doctoral fellowships.
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Enrollment continued its steady decline at Trinity Western University this fall, with an eight per cent drop in undergraduate students. There has been an overall decrease of six per cent, including graduate studies and Global Learning Connections, according to the recently released Fall Census.
“This is the most severe decline,” said Corwin Koch, Vice President of enrollment management. “It’s significant,” he added, “but it’s not like the bottom’s falling out.”
There are 2,033 undergrads enrolled this year — 178 less than last year. This is significantly less than the 2,507 undergrads attending in 2003, which was TWU’s highest year of enrollment.
