Hey,

We have a new song about how Christmas sucks.
Will wrote it all and I sang along with him.
I dare say we like it quite a bit.

Download here: Christmas Sucks.mp3

Having spent the majority of my life in a non-liturgical church, I was delighted as I walked into church last Sunday morning and discovered that the walls had taken on a rich royal blue hue.

…winner of the first annual Mars’ Hill short fiction contest.

RESOLUTION 2000

Chilled by the breeze that stirred the mid - December air, Dirk Jan van den Berg brought his leather-bound hands a little closer to his face and stepped off the bustling sidewalk into the Manhattan street.

After almost eight years of acting as Trinity Western University’s on campus nurse, at the end of this semester Rita Loewen will wave goodbye to a job she has loved.

A new employee benefit program will be put into effect next semester, replacing the current Torch Award Scholarship program for students who are children of Trinity Western University employees.

The change came at the recommendation of a task force chaired by Corwin Koch, Enrolment Management coordinator, who worked with various representatives from TWU’s Faculty and Staff Associations. It was determined by the committee that changes should be made in response to tax revisions and recent interpretations by the Canada Revenue Agency.

Changes were explained to TWU staff last Thursday and Friday, in information sessions held by Executive Assistant to the President, Glen Forrester.

Following a $25,000 cut to its program this year, Trinity Western University Counseling Services is facing the possibility of raising student session fees.

The student fee, at $20 an hour, is already one of the most expensive university counseling fees in North America, according to Counseling Services’ Kurt Lundberg.

“We charge the highest fee amongst like institutions,” said Lundberg, referring to TWU’s position in the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities. Public schools, such as the University of British Columbia, don’t charge any fees for their students.

Long-time instructor Ron Reed has taken on a new role at Trinity Western University this year as the Theatre department’s very first artist-in-residence.

With experience both professionally and artistically, Reed is well-qualified for his new role. In 1984, he founded the Pacific Theatre in Vancouver, where he is currently both the general manager and the artistic director.

Reed is artistic at heart, and always makes room in his schedule to be involved in acting roles, as well as writing plays.

Four students have come together with the goal of producing and publishing [spaces], a literary journal that will hold works of poetry, short stories, non-fiction essays, academic reviews, photography and artwork.

Jillian Snyder and Linnea McNally, President and Vice President of the English Students Society, along with Natasha Wiebe and Betsy Byers, have taken up this project with hopes of publishing [spaces] in late March or early April.

Many universities publish literary journals, such as Simon Fraser University’s Westword and University of British Columbia’s Prism, both of which have been established for many years. [spaces] will be Trinity Western University’s first officially published journal.