News Briefs
January 23, 2007
Don’t worry, be happy
It was quite the party on Jan. 11, as the Trinity Western University Student Association kicked off the spring semester with a virgin “Happy Hour.”
To coincide with a used book sale, TWUSA presented a keg full of root beer as well as “mocktails,” a cocktail-like concoction, minus the alcohol.
Drinks included the “TWUSA Splash,” “The Spartan Temples,” and “The Norminator,” named after TWUSA president Norman Van Eeden Petersman.
TWUSA Freshman Class Rep Davette Eneboe felt the event was a success.
“It’s a great environment for the beginning of the semester,” she said. “It’s been a great way to see everyone again after the break. We gave out a lot of drinks.”
Assistant Director of Community Life Glenn Hansen thought the themed event was a great idea.
“I love it,” said Hansen. “Everyone looks so happy. It’s good clean fun.”
Despite the event’s references to alcohol, Hansen felt the theme was still appropriate.
“Do I think we are flirting with the Devil? No,” Hansen replied. “It’s very wholesome.”
But Mason Judy, a third year Communications student, expressed a different opinion of the event.
“I think we are flirting with being lame. It’s a good thing to do, but the concept is a little trying-to-be-cool,” he said.
“The big thing is that the atmosphere of a book sale is not really the same as a beer garden,” noted Chett Fitchett, a third year Christianity and Culture student. “Maybe if they put up a disco ball.”
But in the end, Fitchett was pleased with the event: “It’s a great idea, the free drinks are nice and I think the mocktails are funny.”
Armed suspects visit TWU campus
In the early hours of the morning on Saturday, Jan. 13, RCMP officers, a K-9 unit, and a search helicopter invaded Trinity Western University, searching for two armed suspects who had walked onto the university campus.
A few Fraser Hall residents were the first to see the suspects, while getting ready for bed. Hearing loud footsteps in the hallway, second year student, Jana Wilkie, looked out her door and saw two men. When she smelled cigarette smoke she realized that “they didn’t belong here,” she said.
The girls called on-call Resident Director Eric McIntosh, who then contacted the two security guards on duty.
Meanwhile, the two suspects made their way to Douglas Hall. TWU security guard Mark Breitkreuz chased one of the suspects from Douglas to the waiting police in the CanIL parking lot where he was arrested. The other suspect was eventually arrested in the round-about in front of Mattson Centre.
Rink Beeksma, supervisor of Security and Parking Services, said he was thankful everything worked out so smoothly.
“When you’re a security guard, you don’t have a gun…Your best weapon is your mouth,” he said, applauding Breitkreuz for doing a “great job.”
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