The event entitled “Do It In the Dark: Get Turned Off!” is meant to fight apathy regarding the environment by encouraging students to think about reducing waste and energy use. Dorms and apartment blocks have the month of November to prove they have done the most or been the most creative in reducing their environmental impact.

On the evening of Feb. 10, Trinity Western University women’s volleyball player Kim Klassen was driving home to Abbotsford when she was struck by an impaired driver.

Music can be a healing force in our world.

Just ask Farrango, a team of four people who are hoping to raise awareness and funds for an organization called HEALing Arts through a concert at South Delta Baptist Church.

Trinity Western University alumni Mark Thompson will be opening the concert evening. His debut album Look Both Ways will be released at the show.

The purpose of the benefit concert is two-fold. “[Our aim] is to help rising Christian artists while helping local and global causes,” said Adam Krahn, a member of Farrango.

“There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes is that we will experience hardship and stress at some point,” Dr. James Dobson once said.

Sometimes these hardships and stresses are too overwhelming to deal with on our own. It is then when we need a safe and non-threatening environment in which to work through what’s ailing us.

Mike Dadson hopes that the counselling services at the Wellness Centre will be that place for Trinity Western University students. Dadson is in his ninth year as the director of counselling services at TWU. He has also been a chaplain since 1994.

The Associated Collegiate Press (ACP) has awarded Trinity Western University’s student newspaper a 2008 Pacemaker Award.

The ACP named Mars’ Hill Volume 12 (2007-08 school year) one of ten winners in the four-year non-daily newspapers category.

The ACP posted the judges’ comments Nov. 7. In response to Mars’ Hill the judges wrote, “Artistic, eye-popping design. Combines thoughtful enterprise and solid news coverage. Has a voice but pushes no agenda. Beautiful covers and center spreads. Has a refreshing capacity for surprise.”

The award recognizes excellence in coverage and content, quality of writing and editing, reporting and opinion pieces, and layout, design, photography and graphics.

The Trinity Western University Student Association, with the help of student volunteers, hosted the Halloween alternative for local kids and their parents. These photos showcase the abundant smiles shared by kids, parents and students as they interacted in this fun-filled evening.

Trinity Western University once again received top marks on the University Report Card, though the survey reveals some areas still need some work.

When Trinity Western University won the bid to host women’s soccer Nationals for Canadian Intervarsity Sport this year, changes had to be made. The anticipation of national media presence and elite players and coaches coming to campus brings promise of increased attention to the university, said dean of human kinetics Blair Whitmarsh.

But hosting Nationals also brings the need for sacrifices, mostly notably in field usage. Among others, Dale Baumgartner, director of Recreation Services, has felt the squeeze.

“Three weeks after [dorm football began], we were informed that we couldn’t use the south field. We had to restart on the third field,” he said.