Almost a quarter of the way through the NHL season the storylines are beginning to fall into place. A few months ago, everyone believed the NHL’s new buzzword—parity—was going to level the playing field. But what has been learned in the first 20 games is that there is no such a thing as an even slate. Here are some of the biggest surprises, disappointments and performers of the new season.

Best Team:
Ottawa Senators - Big-time talent Dany Heatley, Jason Spezza, Martin Havlat, Daniel Alfredsonn and Dominik Hasek have delivered all that was expected of them.

Congratulations to our men’s soccer team - Canada West Champions and CIS bronze medalists. On Saturday, November 5, the Spartan men’s soccer team battled with the UBC Thunderbirds and came out on top as Canada West Champions with a 2-1 victory. The title is the first for a Trinity men’s team and the second title in the school’s seven-year Canadian Interuniversity Sport history. The other title belongs to our ladies’ soccer team, who won us the Canada West title on their way to being crowned national champs last year.

Every place seems to have a sport. Canada has hockey, the U.S. has baseball, Brazil has soccer, and Alabama has spitting tobacco into tin cans. Thinking about this made me realize that there must be places on Earth that enjoy much different sports than we are accustomed to. After much gruelling research I developed a list of the top ten weird sports. These sports are all real, and, frankly, pretty cool.

10. Bog Snorkelling
England is home to the World Bog Snorkelling Championships. Fearless competitors must swim two laps through a dirty, vile bog in the shortest amount of time. The 60-yard channel is filled with scorpions, moss, sludge, and most likely feces. The tough guys do it without a wetsuit. Unfortunately, they probably catch some disease.

Many of you know Dale Baumgartner of Rec Services. He is the man with the infamous moustache in the Doug-Out, fearlessly leading a team of students in pursuing recreational activities and friendships.

Dale started out as Rec Services Director in 2002. He commuted to Trinity Western University as a brand new Christian in 1985. After graduation in 1989, he was asked to take on the role as the first Commuter Director. A year later he moved to Resident Director where he remained for four years. Dale left the community in 1995 to pursue his Masters in Education at UBC. Allen Kotanen of Student Life contacted him when the position of Rec Services Director opened up. Dale comments on his start at Trinity, “I believe in the product, I am part of the product. Now being employed here I believe in the mission.” This is now his third year as an employee of the University.

Associate Professor of philosophy, Dr. Bob Doede, has a passion. He seeks to awaken the Christian sleepwalker into a deeper self-awareness of the heroic and tragic possibilities of being in the world. God, alienation, death, and authentic and inauthentic modes of living - existentialism calls into question the meaning, nature and predicament of our contingent existence. Discrimination, oppression, silencing of a whole sector of humanity - feminism illuminates the sexual inequality prevalent in our culture. In this interview, Dr. Doede illustrates the value of philosophical inquiry.

Since the advent of the “Turabian” style of document formatting in 1969, there have been myriad questions as to the origin of its style, which is very similar to the Chicago documentation style. In fact, some books and peer-reviewed web pages refer to them as the same. However, there has not been a definitive answer until recently. With the declassification of documents released under the freedom of information clause in the Constitution of the United States, new information has become available.

Whenever we read the Bible, we choose to use a specific method of interpretation; consciously or unconsciously we make a choice as to how we are going to find meaning from the letters on the page.
In scholarly circles, various methods are competing to be seen as the way to interpret scripture, or least one of many legitimate ways. Whatever method we choose, be it passively or critically, that method directly affects how we interpret scripture. All methods of interpretation contain presuppositions about the world and these presuppositions find their way into the result. This is why everyone who reads the Bible needs to be very concerned with what method they choose; no one who believes the Bible contains truth should let this decision go unexamined. As a Biblical Studies major, I’m confronted with this question daily. In an effort to help others think about this question and possibly even make a decision themselves, this is what I’ve found when I tried to answer this question.

It was 4 a.m. I was sleeping, which is traditionally how I like to spend my 4 ay-ems. My roommate Luke was also fast asleep – or possibly slow asleep, I couldn’t tell – and was sprawled out on the lower bunk. If I remember correctly, I was having my usual recurring dream - the one where Bob Saget throws an overhead projector at me as he drives by in my parent’s minivan - when suddenly, I was awakened by somebody yelling, “What the freak took you guys so long?”