On April 6, the School of the Arts, Media and Culture (SAMC) marked its official launch at Trinity Western University.
“These are exciting days to be launching a new school, a new way of seeing, thinking [and] working,” said David Squires, dean of SAMC. Squires also said that the launch of SAMC will be exciting for professors and students.

Currently pending approval by the B.C. Ministry of Advanced Education and Labour Market Development, a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting is a potential new program that the School of the Arts, Media and Culture (SAMC) hopes to launch in fall 2010.

Hands-On Development Initiatives International (HODI) is excited to announce their launch party and fundraiser, happening on Friday, April 16th at 7 p.m. at Murrayville Hall in Langley.

The Dalit people of India have been the most widely oppressed caste for more than three thousand years. Indian Dalits comprise nearly a quarter of the total population of 250 million people. Dalit are considered the “outcasts” of Indian society or “the untouchables;” they are those that the Hindu scriptures call the “unborn.” By providing them with education, it will provide the opportunity to change the future.
“After a recent trip to India to visit those people, I came back changed, knowing that I could not sit around and…ignore their circumstances,” said Dallas Froese, Trinity Western University alumni and Dalit awareness coordinator.

School is coming to an end, and Trinity Western University Student Association provided students with various events, advocacy, services and initiatives.

The success of collegiums at Trinity Western University has grown over the past few years. It is the hope of Glenn Hansen, assistant director of community life for graduate and commuter programs, that it continues—especially for upperclassmen collegium membership.
In order to encourage membership growth, students can enter a contest to win one of five free collegium memberships and a free parking pass by attending the Collegium View Week from April 12th to 16th, taking place in the Marlie Snider collegium.

Film Studies’ Cinergy and Student Life’s Big Break student film competition have merged this year and will act as grand finale to the new School of the Arts, Media and Culture arts festival.

For a short time this April, we are offered a rare and unique opportunity: to see the inside of a Mormon temple. The first in B.C. and the seventh in Canada, the Vancouver British Columbia Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will be open for public tours before its dedication at the beginning of May.