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Community standards have always been a hot issue of discussion at Trinity Western University. What are students allowed to do? What are the restrictions? What of the grey areas that cause confusion? These questions are now being officially addressed by a TWU Student Association council.
A survey is being compiled by TWUSA members Alison Fraser, VP of Student Relations, Executive Vice President Kerala Levitt and Business Representative Jason Brandl; all are members of the larger TWUSA Community Standards Committee headed up by Provost Dennis Jameson.
The survey will focus on student opinions towards community standards and their compliance with the existing rules.
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November 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment
“Trinity Western University is in its adolescence!”
So opens President Jonathan Raymond’s most recent report to the Board of Governors (BOG), who held their fall meeting on November 1.
Despite some growing pains, such as low enrolment and budget concerns, the administration is formulating some big plans to ease the university through its teenage years.
One improvement in the works is the discussion of building a live-learn centre on campus, which would house residences, classrooms, and offices. “The new facility would provide significant momentum for our campus, offering new residential options and providing academic space,” said the report.
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What does it mean to be chaste?
TRISH BUHLER, FOURTH YEAR
“To be sexually pure, and to be sexually pure means to not have sex before marriage - but I think God wants more than that from us. He wants us to be pure in every part of our lives. He wants our tongues to be chaste. He wants our eyes to be chaste, so to not let any impurity come into our lives. As Christians, we are made new and pure in Christ, so it is no longer part of our nature.”
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Photos: Austin Jean
The homeless have moved in.
Last Wednesday through Friday, the Helping Hands Club lived on the “streets” of Trinity Western University in order to raise money for a new homeless shelter being built in Langley. The shelter is being backed by the Salvation Army, and is set to break ground in May.
The students collected food and “begged” for money, complete with cardboard signs and a makeshift shelter – a ragged tarp strung across the fountain – only leaving their posts if they “had something to do,” such as class or meetings, explained participant Wesley Armstrong.
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On November 6, a group of developmental workers addressed Trinity Western University students, staff, and faculty on the changes and reconstruction currently in progress in Afghanistan.
Speakers included David Fairchild, working with the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade; Adrian Walraven, a senior development officer for Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA); and Waheed Samin, a native of Kandahar and now CIDA’s expert on humanitarian assistance and education in Kandahar’s province. The three teamed up to explore their role in Afghanistan and the benefits that the country is receiving from Canada.
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What do worms have to do with the health of humanity? This is the question Trinity Western University professor Eve Stringham answered in her inaugural lecture as the Canadian Research Chair (CRC) in Developmental Genetics and Disease.
Members of the administration, staff, faculty, student body and community packed Block Hall on Nov. 8 to attend the lecture entitled, “Of worms and men: what model organisms tell us about human disease.”
Stringham is the third TWU professor to be granted a CRC, following Dr. Jens Zimmerman’s appointment in religion, interpretation and culture and Dr. Peter Flint’s selection for Dead Sea Scrolls research.
