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It’s Monday morning. Correction, Monday afternoon. The tips of my fingernails are non-existent, my brain is longing for caffeine, and my stomach is reminding me that I have not eaten since last night. My eyes gloss over as I stare at my computer screen, and curse the blinking cursor. It is the last day of production weekend. The newspaper you are holding in your hands is almost complete—complete except the article that I am currently writing.
One of my writerly friends was often fond of saying that the writing process could be likened to trying to extract water from a stone. I certianly am not Moses.
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February 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment
While researching last issue’s article on subversion at Trinity Western University, I came across an interesting little organization called MOOSA: the Motivated Organization of Opposition to the Student Association. The chief complaint of this student group, which existed during the academic year 1999-2000, was the unusually large number of students running unopposed for TWU Student Association positions.
However, I’m starting to wonder, seven years later, if this situation is really all that unusual. Last year four out of the five Executive candidates ran unopposed; this year, only two positions – President and Vice President of Student Relations – had more than one candidate.
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February 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment
In one of the best high school movies of all time, there’s a famous scene where John Keating, a teacher of English at prestigious Welton Academy, brings his students into the school’s trophy room. As the students look at pictures of former Welton students, Keating has them repeat the words, carpe diem – ‘seize the day.’
Following this scene, the rest of the movie is a process of awakening. For these young boys, ‘seizing the day’ leads them to search for their own identity apart from that which has merely been handed down to them from their elders.
