While the decision to resign from TWUSA was a difficult one to make, I stand by it. Although this semester with TWUSA has been enjoyable, I have been discouraged by the way that Executive has been managed.

To the Editor,

Recently, the TWUSA sponsored event “Party like a Virgin” was canceled. Labeled TWU’s “first lounge experience,” the “Virgin” party was promoted with slogans like “social lube” and “you never forget your first time.” Evidently, the Humanities and Social Sciences Rep as well as the Arts Rep assumed TWU students would be dazzled by such an audacious display of sexual innuendo. This does not, however, seem to be the case as several students responded with concern regarding the distasteful use of sexuality to “sell” this event.

Reading Nicole Douglas’s article “Love is colour-blind” caused me to want to respond to her article about interracial marriages. It addressed what probably bothers many Canadians who live in our multicultural society. However, I think Douglas explored this subject’s iceberg from the tip, and not from its deeper roots. I am not disagreeing with her observations of negative views about interracial relationships but rather adding to it from a much wider angle.

Dear Editor,

I wanted to alert you to a continuing travesty that reoccurred on last edition’s centrepage. It has been my experience at Trinity that whenever student statistics are reported, they are done so according to major. While I understand the practicality here, there are programs at Trinity which do not classify as majors but have great numbers of students enrolled in them – such as Education, which I believe enrols over 200 students, placing it as TWU’s second most popular discipline. Though not technically a major, it is indeed what these students identify as, and as a result, they get left out. And for the record, despite its non-major status, it is one of Canada’s best programs and a great, though underrepresented, community.

Dear Editor,

Democracy is dying in Canada. This is disturbing, but perhaps not surprising. What should be surprising (and even more disturbing!)  is when the (free) media empower the agents of this process by failing to adequately inform the public of alternatives. This has been happening in mainstream Canadian media for years.

Dear Editor,

I was one of those students who put up the crosses at TWU.

The graveyard was set up as a memorial to mourn the deaths of the 266 babies killed each day in Canada from abortion.  It was a way to honour the innocent lives of those children and increase awareness of this sad fact.  Furthermore, we hoped that this memorial would move students to action to promote the sanctity and dignity of human life.  The unborn are the most vulnerable and the weakest; we must be a voice for the voiceless.  Abortion is a moral issue and, therefore, we have a responsibility to speak up in defence of the unborn who cannot speak for themselves.

I was appalled and embarrassed at my school as the sight of a makeshift graveyard caught my attention. This crude representation was apparently planted in the ground to alert me to the number of fetuses that were murdered each day in Canada.

I am confused by the intention behind this display. Was it meant to make the majority “pro-life” population of Trinity Western University more aware of an issue they generally do not contribute to? Was it meant to make the women who have been faced with the option and who made the “right choice” pat themselves on the back? Was it meant to make the women who have made the choice to abort feel humiliated and judged? Whatever the intention may be, I am angered by this seemingly calculated attempt to instill shame. Where is the compassion that Christians have been charged to extend?

Today I walked through a strategic graveyard of pristine white crosses jutting out of the soft ground. I saw young budding university students giggling and posing for pictures as they happily hammered them into the earth. I was forced to see judgment masquerading itself as a cause and I saw people feeling gratified by the pain of others. Shaking with anger and sadness I turned to my friend and saw that her mouth hung open in surprise. I wanted to run up to those students and ask them, “Why? Why are you doing this? What satisfaction can you gain from this gesture? How can you so blatantly permeate this message of hatred and ignorance?”