http://www.marshillonline.com The Electronic Edition of Mars' Hill Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:54:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Internet is a familiar thing to many of us, known for being the wondrous technological tool of communication. Over the years it has been shaped and modified for new functions. Through freedom of information transfer and through the clever and witty minds of individual users, there has been growing, ... http://www.marshillonline.com/issues-ideas/welcome-to-the-interwebs-n00b/ Since the advent of social media in the last decade, it has become easy to be engulfed by its wide web. As young people, social media is sold to us as a tool to have ourselves more connected with others and the world going on around us. For many of ... http://www.marshillonline.com/from-the-editor/letter-from-the-editor/ Turn on your computers everyone. TWU Impact, a new fundraising and storytelling website about Trinity Western University and its community, became live on Feb. 10. Jocelyn Durston, TWU Impact coordinator and alumni, decided on to develop the initiative because TWU has no government funding and it gives back to the TWU ... http://www.marshillonline.com/news/twu-impact-more-than-just-a-website/ The 12th annual Mel Smith lecture and scholarship presentation was held at Trinity Western University on March 4. The event featured a keynote address delivered by Dr. Janet Epp Buckingham entitled “Grain trucks, graven images, and grave consequences: The impact of the charter on religious communities.” Prior to the lecture, the ... http://www.marshillonline.com/news/mel-smith-lecture-addresses-religious-freedom/ From March 15 to 19, you may see garbage covering the campus. This is an object lesson to show students the garbage they produce and how much of it can be recycled or composted. The initiative is part of Earth Week, Trinity Western University A Rocha’s biggest event of the year. ... http://www.marshillonline.com/news/earth-week-set-to-begin/ This past reading break nine Trinity Western University students went on a missions trip to New Orleans to assist with the massive damage caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Since Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, TWU students have gone back for the past five years to work with people who ... http://www.marshillonline.com/news/twu-students-continue-to-give-to-katrina-victims/ Want to learn about healthcare? Trinity Western University’s School of Nursing and Gender Studies Institute will be hosting a “café scientifique” event on March 17 with topics about access to healthcare among Aboriginal peoples, new Canadians, and non-Aboriginal peoples born in Canada. “The concern is that access to healthcare ... http://www.marshillonline.com/news/school-of-nursing-and-gender-institute-host-%e2%80%9caccess-to-healthcare%e2%80%9d/ On February 18th, right before the Olympic reading break, nine students were elected for the TWUSA 2010-11 representative positions. The winners are: Senior Representative – Danny Couburn (63 votes) Junior Representative – Asiba Naibkhil (39 votes) Sophomore Representative – Dane Lloyd (28 votes) Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Representative – Brooke Goossen (50 ... http://www.marshillonline.com/news/twusa-2010-11-representative-winners/ It used to be easy to put off adding your name to the BC organ donor registry. Now it’s just as easy not to put it off: the registry has gone online. Inspired by this new development, myself and a small group of Communications students are spearheading a campaign to ... http://www.marshillonline.com/academy/got-heart/ “Are you getting on Facebook while I’m interviewing you?” “Yes.” Cara Libro (not her real name), a TWU grad student, gets on Facebook one or two times per class, but she says that only accounts for about 10 per cent of her non-class related activity. At least not related to the class ... http://www.marshillonline.com/academy/the-view-from-the-back-of-the-classroom/