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Getting from O-Day to graduation can be a difficult task, and strategic course selection is imperative to completing this goal. In order to help with this process, Trinity Western University has recently upgraded its academic advising method. Associate Professor of Education Gordon Gillion has taken on the newly created position Director of the Advising office.
“Originally,” says Gillion, “I was supposed to be dealing with first years who haven’t picked a major yet.” His job description has grown considerably beyond that, however, to include a variety of tasks that ensure students are given correct and helpful academic advice.
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March 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Politics and religion was the topic of Trinity Western University at “Faith Forward: Exploring Religion, Culture and Conflict,” its second public symposium. Over the course of March 12-14, four guest speakers gave keynote addresses, each discussing different aspects of the faith and politics debate. The lectures had modest attendance.
The event was organized by TWU professors Dr. John Dyck, Dr. Paul Rowe and Dr. Jens Zimmermann and funded by a partnership with CHNU Television, which granted $100,000 to production of the symposium over the next five years.
“The reason we’ve brought these people here is because these people are very clear with their ideas of religion and politics,” said Zimmermann.
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March 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Trinity Western University nursing professor Sonya Grypma recently experienced the thrill of seeing her first book in print, after writing about Canadian nurses who served in China. The book, entitled Healing of Henan, focuses on a hospital where missionary nurses worked from 1888 to 1947.
Grypma did not seek out the inspiration for her book. Instead, she stumbled across some intriguing letters from Canadian nurses seven years ago.
“Before I found the letters I didn’t even know Canadian nurses were in China,” she said. Since then, Grypma has been studying the work of these nurses, leading up to the release of her book in January 2008.
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March 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Voter apathy. It’s a term frequently tossed around in politics. When elections roll around and people don’t vote, that’s voter apathy. Not really a fair term, as apathy translates literally to “lack of interest in anything.” A lack of votes can stem from reasons far beyond voter interest, reasons found in both the voters and the candidates.
This year, voting in the TWU Student Association elections was down nearly 50 per cent from last year. In 2007, over 800 votes were counted, whereas this year, only around 400 votes were cast. This dip is not fully explained by lower enrollment, but has been attributed to both voter and candidate apathy.
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February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment
The honour bar system at Trinity Western University’s three collegiums is not living up to its name. This system is currently running in the red, causing frustration and cutbacks in the amount of food that can be offered.
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Glenn Hansen, assistant director of Community Life, Commuter and Graduate Student Programs, says that although there have been dips in the past the current situation is more troublesome than usual. It appears that while some people are not paying for their food, others are stealing money from the bars.
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February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment
In the medieval Christian tradition, relics of Christ, apostles and saints were cherished. Pilgrims made long journeys to get a glimpse of something so much as touched by a saint. Relics were often believed to have the power to work miracles.
In modern evangelical Christianity, the concept of a powerful relic is foreign. Yet Trinity Western University students will soon have a chance to encounter a replica of possibly the most famous relic of all – the Shroud of Turin.
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February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment
The pressure of planning for life after graduation has not left fourth-year Human Services student Lauren Williams unscathed. For her, the process of figuring out a plan for the summer and the school year post-degree caused her to feel an array of emotions, leaving her “uneasy, stressed and anxious.” As time wore on, she came to the realization that she needed to make some serious decisions.
This resulted in her plan to travel overseas for a couple months and then pack her books for grad school at Fresno State in January.
