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Alison Madden, Staff Reporter
Come Fall 2006, the collegiums will not be used solely by TWU’s large commuter population. The launch of a pilot program by Community Life will give residents special access to the West Coast Collegium.
This program is the outcome of interest produced by resident students over the years who wanted to see the collegia space better employed.
“The collegiums are a really nice space on campus that is not being utilized to the extent that they could be,” said Kelvin Gartly, Assistant Director of Community Life, Resident Programs.
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It’s Sunday morning, you’ve had an exhausting weekend, and your alarm goes off. What do you do? The decision of whether or not to go to church is one that many Trinity Western University students face. While most students do roll out of bed and head to church, a Mars’ Hill survey shows that 15% of students do not.
The survey also reveals that the majority of students feel that being a part of a local church is an essential part of the Christian life. Many quote the benefits of fellowship, corporate worship, teaching, and community.
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Matt Laine
I know you’ve heard it all before. You’ve read the pamphlets, heard the warnings, and seen the pictures. They tell you that the world is in trouble and you are to blame. Stop it immediately or suffer the consequences. A shrug of the shoulders, a blink of the eye and it’s water under the bridge. Just one person. Only one man. What can I do anyway?
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Growing up with an alcoholic mother, I have witnessed and experienced many aspects of depression and its multiple faces. My family has masked and hid secrets and issues that no one wants to deal with. However, as I have gotten older it has shaped the way I view society and people.
Something I have learned from my mother is that drinking away a problem will never make it disappear. It is like placing a band-aid on a broken leg. The “solution” that alcoholics find in drinking is very similar to the answer many individuals find in anti-depressants.
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Jay Dorey is to be applauded for providing a reasonable cornerstone for upcoming policy revisions within the university and its governance structures. I would urge for an in-depth study of these propositions and a clarification of the primary goals in regards to student interactions with the authorities of our university.
As a member of TWUSA both this year and into the next, I will be striving to bring the issues addressed in this report and the consensual recommendations within it to the Board, the University and to anyone who is interested in listening. As students, we must make our voices heard in a beautiful speech of openness, personal commitment and positive engagement.
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A note from Nurse Rita:
It is with some hesitation that I begin this health column. Not that I don’t think there isn’t a need for it, but I know how brutally honest some of your life-issues and questions can be and how difficult it is to answer some of them. You are at a chapter in your life where you are wrestling with some pretty tough stuff and there are a lot of influences out there to tell you how to solve them. My fear is that without my animated body language during a conversation, I may be misunderstood. However, I’m excited that Mars’ Hill and other students have requested a “health issues column” so . . . let’s give this a go and PLEASE write in with your questions!
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Dear Editor,
While enjoying the first signs of spring on our morning walk earlier this week, my friend and I stumbled upon the Issue Awareness Contest posters in the Cafeteria. Unfortunately, we weren’t entirely pleased with our discovery.
In the past, I’ve put up with the unnecessarily brazen photographs of aborted babies, but this year, it’s suicide that takes the cake: the poster boards for this issue, adorned in dead leaves, feature distastefully hung photographs of suicide victims. And I mean ‘hung’ quite literally.
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Dear Editor,
A new Alumni Association has been legally constituted after several meetings with administration, board members, and the full Board in November. It has been designated The Pillar Alumni Association—the name taken from the initial convocation address of founding president of this great university, Dr. Calvin B. Hanson: “May the pillar of cloud and of fire never cease to be in evidence here. And when it moves may we be quick to follow!”
