Yearbook design honored

The 2006-2007 edition of Pillar, Trinity Western University’s yearbook, received two awards from The College Media Advisers’ Best of Collegiate Design competition.

Pillar won second place for Student Life Spread and fourth place for Cover Design.

The contest saw 87 entrants, most schools being from the U.S. TWU competed against schools including Washington State University, University of Oregon, Biola University, and Vanderbilt University. Out of the 25 categories for newspaper, magazine, yearbook and online design, seven categories focused on yearbooks.

Ideal conceptions of love, romance and sex are shaped by popular cultural forms of media and their content: movies, books, newspaper, television and others. Think of a movie such as The Notebook and the way it influences our image of the ideal romance: an assortment of passion and intense but playful love in an idyllic setting punctuated by a tasteful scene of love-making.

When many students returned to their homes in Fraser apartments after Christmas break, they discovered things were amiss. For Keharn Yawnghwe, it was as small as noticing a bag of rice was not where he left it. For others, it was finding the contents of their closet thrown on their beds or gaping holes in their wall.
Due to lack of proper ventilation – a culprit behind Fraser’s many false fire alarms – the ventilation pipes were replaced throughout Fraser’s walls. In the wake of this construction, some Fraser residents were met with messes they did not make.

Comic books. Film. Comic books into films. This notion of melding these two media forms has been around since the grand inception of the hallowed art of comic book writing. Ever since Batman, Superman, X-men, Ant-man, Iron Man, and Wonder Woman made their triumphant debuts, there has been a stream of comic book to film adaptations; some have succeeded while others are some of the worst cinema to hit since Ed Wood films. Alas, for every single good film (i.e. X-Men 2, Batman Begins, Superman Returns), there are at least two bad or very bad ones (Ghost Rider, Fantastic Four, Elektra, Catwoman, Batman & Robin, etc.

Trinity Western University Student Association hosts the TWUSA Neighbourhood Exhibit (TNE) to present the student body with the various clubs and programs that are available to them. Through TWUSA, these clubs are able to put on various events and activities that have the potential to enable community building and friendship, but also have the potential to challenge and stretch students in new and exciting ways. According to Kenji Skulstad, TWUSA Vice President of Academics, this is one of the best ways that students are able to hear about and advocate various issues and concerns across our community, student body and world. Here are a few of the featured clubs at the TNE this year:

Justifying the concept of missions is a crucial question for Christians hoping to fulfill the call of evangelism. Addressing what missions really does forces us to examine the confusing relationship between salvation and the Western church. The commission that Christians are charged with holds us accountable to sharing the message of Christ, but how has the tradition of Western Christianity impacted our encounters with people from different traditions? And what exactly is the message of salvation that we are imposing?

FACT: There is no chin behind Chuck Norris’ beard. There is only another fist.

FACT: There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of creatures Chuck Norris has allowed to live.

FACT: When Chuck Norris asks you a question on Mars’ Hill Online, you answer it!

Answer in the comments section! Don’t worry, your e-mail is not visible to the public, but Chuck Norris can see it and we might contact you to learn more about your answer.

Jillian Snyder explores two different perspectives on Christian missions in today’s world.

Amalia Nickel

The missionary kid: Amalia Nickel is a young woman entrenched in the tradition of the Western missionary movement. The daughter and granddaughter of missionaries, Nickel’s family has lived throughout Asia for the past century. Her family relocated to the country of Pakistan in the late 1980s. Living in Karachi, the nation’s largest city, Nickel’s family worked with the Baloch people group in southern Pakistan.