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Most of us have heard the term “community” used countless times throughout our Trinity Western University education. Overusing the word desensitizes us to the depths of what it actually stands for. Our community offers a sense of belonging and is made up of the daily interactions of the people at TWU and the life-changing relationships that are fostered here. It’s also broader than we might think and more effective in people’s lives we often realize.
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February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment
I stand at a crossroads, two means to an end, the end being dry hands. I can either go right and, in a matter of six seconds, dole out a lengthy piece of paper from the towel dispenser and rub my hands dry. Or for the price of 34 seconds, I can go left and watch the droplets that cover my hands shrink and evaporate under the invisible warm air of the electric hand dryer. Both are means to arrive at the desired end, dry hands, differing only in their approximate lengths of time from execution to completion, by 28 seconds.
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February 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Destination: New Orleans.
Organization: Samaritan’s Purse.
Time frame: Five days.
Task: Gutting water damaged homes.
Upon our arrival in New Orleans my mind was busily figuring out how we could optimize our team’s productivity. In typical male fashion my focus was on the project ahead of us. Our task was to remove everything from the hurricane ravaged home and place it on the street in neat organized piles for pick-up. Once every couple of days, a tractor would come chugging down the street and load all the garbage into a dump truck. I was caught up in the project until the first day of the garbage pickup. Seeing these individual’s belongings loaded into the back of a dump truck was a surreal experience. As I stood there watching, I realized it had been our job to take the home out of the house.
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February 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that there is a collective grumpiness surrounding campus on Valentine’s Day? It’s almost like a physical force where this weird energy changes the way people act.
So what is Valentine’s Day to you? When you hear those two words do you roll your eyes and think: great, here we go again? Or do you jump for joy? Maybe you just love chocolate or maybe you don’t really see a difference between February 14 and 15.
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January 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Being trapped inside an insect-infested mosquito net, praying for five minutes of silence and craving something as simple as an ice cube is enough to make people think that my time in the Dominican Republic was nothing but uncomfortable. I could suppress the fact that much of my experience was indeed uncomfortable and resort to the typical “it was amazing,” but in order to express the impact that 30 days in the Caribbean had on my life, no emotion can be ignored.
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January 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Left: Josh Gregg displays tobacco-related litter found in the Back 40. [Photo: Austin Jean]
Trinity Western University students smoke. Cigarette packs and butts litter the Back 40. Interviewing several smokers, I have learned that security asks students who smoke simply to do it more discreetly than quit altogether in accordance with the Community Standards. “Once I was asked for a light by a security guard,” one student comments, “and then told me that I just need to go further into the Back 40.”
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January 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Trinity Western University Student Association hosts the TWUSA Neighbourhood Exhibit (TNE) to present the student body with the various clubs and programs that are available to them. Through TWUSA, these clubs are able to put on various events and activities that have the potential to enable community building and friendship, but also have the potential to challenge and stretch students in new and exciting ways. According to Kenji Skulstad, TWUSA Vice President of Academics, this is one of the best ways that students are able to hear about and advocate various issues and concerns across our community, student body and world. Here are a few of the featured clubs at the TNE this year:
