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We are a university in tension.
While 94 per cent of students consider themselves to be a Christian, there is a wide spectrum of beliefs within our shared faith. On this campus, there are students from all different denominations; there are students who read their Bible everyday and students who rarely pick the book up; there are students who follow community standards and students who do not. Within our common faith, there is tension, between the conservatives and the liberals, the creationists and the evolutionists, the traditionalists and the modernists.
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February 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Be German
Drei Jahre am TWU. Das waren sowohl die besten als auch die verwirrendsten Jahre meines Lebens. Ich bin
elebt, wo grossen Wert draufgelegt wird das Leben ernst zu nehmen und hart zu arbeiten um Erfolg zu haben. So schien die nordamerikanische Lebensphilosophie sehr seltsam für mich (zugegeben, dies ist eine krasse Verallgemeinerung).
Allerdings habe ich bald unbewusst angefangen, Aspekte diser optimistischen, sorgenfreien, unbekümmerten, und von Unterhaltung geprägten Kultur zu schätzen, hauptsächlich wohl weil ich mich in mein Leben am TWU verliebte. Dorm-Leben war für mich inzwischen zum Höhepunkt des Semesters geworden. Es machte sogar mir Spass mit meinen Mitbewohnern Snowboarding oder Einkaufen zu gehen, den Campus Wächtern an der Nase rumzuführen, “capture the flag“ zu spielen und viele andere kindische Aktivitäten zu unternehmen.
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February 8, 2007 | 12 Comments
1988
Mars’ Hill is released as an underground newspaper in a response to the ‘boring’ official publication, The Today. After two editions, the paper was forced to shut down, after administration called Mars’ Hill’s advertisers and asked them not to support this “unauthorized” publication.
1993
The Underground begins its three-year stint as a subversive news publication on campus. Its purpose, according to one founder, Alex Hark, was to “give TWU students a venue for expressing free thoughts and opinions.” While many students complained that The Underground was cynical, members say it accomplished its goal to be “a forum to challenge those in authority and a place for honest opinion to be published.”
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February 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment
October 25, 2006 was day of triumph for the students of Simon Fraser University. Dissatisfied with the way their student union handled the investigation and subsequent firing of Hattie Aitken, more than 700 students voted to impeach the seven executive members of the union.
When the impeached executives claimed that the meeting at which the vote was taken was invalid, the dispute went all the way to the B.C. Supreme Court. The matter wasn’t settled until Dec. 4, when judges ruled that the meeting was in fact valid.
The battle was over and the students had won.
