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FROM THE EDITORS. MARS’ HILL

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Mars’ Hill is a student publication of

CHRIS MONTGOMERY

visual editor

Mars’ Hill seeks to be a professional and

MISSION TO MARS

JUSTIN POULSEN

managing editor

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BETHANY ROY

EDITORIAL POLICY

chief copy editor

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LAURA JENSEN

photo editor

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LAURA JENSEN

Strange bedfellows

JUSTIN SMITH

A farewell from the three musketeers: Justin, Scott, and Chris.

layout editor

Opinions expressed in Mars’ Hill torial board, Trinity Western University,

SENIOR EDITORS Editor-in-Chief

BROOKE HIGGINBOTHAM

illustration editor

We can’t stop laughing about how we’re here now. As of September, Chris hadn’t opened InDesign in three years; Scott had zero writing experience; and Justin loathed delegating. We were all new—all interactions between the three of us was a total of one Skype date. But 12 issues later we managed to have produced 12 decent issues.

CHRISTINE RMAH

web presence

in September, we had one week to

ALEX PLENITS

advertising manager

DALLAS FONTAINE

Office Bands Jimmy Eat World Tegan and Sara Athlete Washed Out Keane Cults Stars Yeasayer

This was the ultimate source for our ship. We’d like to call it “iron sharpening iron,” but it was probably more camo. We each cared about very different things, but that forced us all to function at a higher standard and sometimes come down to meet in the middle.

That seems to be how God likes to orchestrate things; He can’t do much with you while you’re comfortable. It’s that pit in your stomach, the edge-of-your-seat bouncing that preps you for total transformation.

As all of us students search for jobs this summer, some for four months and some forever, we start hesitantly updating our meagre resumes and doubtfully hypothesizing about holiday plans. It’s easy to wonder if God’s plan for your life becomes less powerful when you leave this place, but He’s only just getting started with you. Get excited about uncertainty!

Justin

Father John Misty Bruce Cockburn ...and all the reviews

high school friends instead of on campus.

COVER STATEMENT.

campus... playing videogames... instead of with university friends.

We are a little late to the 3D fad. But

university friends instead of getting

to know my profs. to know profs instead of getting work experience. work experience instead of working on academics. ing on academics...oh wait...nope, too late.

The best thing that happened to me was that “C,” because it reminded me that even grades are messy, and a clean life is either impossible or miserable or worse, dull.

I knew I would attend TWU before kindergarten, and yet it looked nothing like I imagined. When you control your life, it can only ever be what you can fathom; the moment I stopped, it became so much more. I hold only ancient friend and stay behind for a brand new one.

Scott At the beginning of the year, I confessed that I had zero newspaper experience. I was a breakdancing 20year-old; how was I supposed to lead a team of 15 writers and editors to produce a university publication? Yet through this experience, I’ve come to

grow into more of who He desires us to be.

As Editor-in-Chief of a newspaper, I found myself caring less and less about the paper, and more and more about the relationships and people within the paper. During this summer, the articles, editing, design etc. will slowly start to fade, but the relationships here will last a lifetime.

Justin Poulsen Managing Editor Visual Editor

SECTION EDITORS Larissa Kroeker News Academy Arts & Culture Sports

Chris As a wise man once said, leaving undergrad after 4 years is like leaving a party at 11. Well, boys and girls, it ished and the Skytrain is on its last run. I believe if I stay any longer the geese will chase me off the premise.

I came here sort of out of instinct.

I never really gave it any thought other than, “Well, I live in Langley; Trinity is in Langley; I’m a Christian; Trinity is a Christian; I think this relationship will work out—a match made in heaven.”

It seems many people reach this stage in life and know less about themselves than when they start. The more we learn about other things, the less we seem to be able to understand about ourselves. I’ll admit, I don’t

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CONTRIBUTORS

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Jaron Neufeld

Moses was a murderer, Thomas doubted, Jonah ran from God, David was a shepherd, Elijah was moody, Abraham was old, and Lazarus was dead. When we are forced to accept will not confuse God’s glory with our own; it wasn’t my doing, but His. Contrary to what our ego tells us, God doesn’t need us; there is absolutely nothing we can give Him as a gift or to barter with. God didn’t create us because He needs us to accomplish His work, He created us because He wanted to. God calls the us to a deeper trust and reliance upon our relationship with Him, to help us

piece of paper to stick on the wall, but barely a wall to stick it on.

I could panic, but instead I’ve decided to just treat the rest of my life as one big undergrad experience.

If the world continues on the same trajectory, the work I will be doing in 10 years will involve skills and tasks not even invented yet. So, I think its a little premature to expect to stop learning now. By this point I’ve gotten pretty good at the idea of learning (whether it shows in numbers is another question), but if there’s one thing I can rely on in the coming years, its that I’ll always have my passion to know more. And that’s more than enough to give me peace.

Thank for the memories T-dub.

Bryce Perry

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What’s the first thing you’ll do after finals? “Have an existential crisis…and maybe a bonfire” – Katrina Murphey

April 10, 2013

NEWS.

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LARISSA KROEKER larissa.kroeker@gmail.com

No union Faculty votes against unionization.

On March 26, the Vice Chair of the Labour LARISSA Relations Board KROEKER Richard Longpre ruled that the bargaining unit proposed by the Christian Labour Association of Canada (CLAC) was appropriate, and ordered the faculty ballots to be counted. Two days later, the votes were read. In a close decision, the faculty decided against CLAC becoming the exclusive bargaining agent at this point. There were 189 ballots cast, with 46% in support of a union and 54% opposed (86 voted yes, 103 voted no). The outcome was determined by a difference of a mere nine votes.

Dr. Myron Penner, Trinity Western University Associate professor of philosophy, states that “this was a huge victory for all faculty who cast a ballot—regardless of whether they voted in favour or against unionization— because it meant that it would truly

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be faculty who determine whether or not we’d form a union.” In reference to faculty encouraging the formation of the union, Dr. Penner says, “That was the opportunity that all of us on the organizing group and all those who showed support for this initiative faculty to have the power to determine their own future in this key respect.”

TWU professor of chemistry Dr. Chad Friesen comments, “The only concern I have for this university is whether it will recognize it’s time to be humble and ask for help when it is required. How many of us when

or not the outcome of the vote was what individual faculty members were hoping for, we will now need to set aside our differences on the pros and cons of unionization and focus on working together to address issues of plan is to engage a process to assess current concerns and develop strategies to address those concerns over time.”

President, Dr. Jonathan Raymond acknowledges, “This has been a challenging period for our community, yet I am appreciative that it has brought issues to the fore that might not have on our own versus seeking profes- surfaced otherwise.” Looking forsional medical help? The former can ward, Dr. Raymond says, “The univerbe done, but if you don’t diagnose sity is committed to addressing these and solve the problem correctly, it will cost you in the end. Some illnesses are our faculty and administration shares time-sensitive and fear of change is a common goal of continuing to pronot an option.” vide the high quality Christ-centred Regarding the result, Dr. Robert education for which TWU is known.”

Wood, TWU Provost says, “Whether

CHRIS MONTGOMERY

Mumbai Building Collapses

Rescue workers stopped searching for survivors in a residential building collapse in a suburb of toll has reached 74 people, including 18 children.

Over 35 people have been hospitalised. Local people in search of jobs and low-cost housing.

Film Critic Roger Ebert Dies At the age of 70, legendary Chicago Sun-Times

New Strain of Bird Flu Kim Jong-un Defies Warnings

In spite of stiffer sanctions from the UN, Kim Jong-un announced his plans on April 1st to increase North Korea’s nuclear weapons and strengthen the country’s economy.

His plans disregard warnings from the United States that North Korea needs to dispose of its nuclear weapons arsenal.

Lethal Flash Floods Strike killed at least 25 people in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This

critic to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of thyroid cancer in 2002 and lost portions of his jaw and his ability to eat, speak, and drink after 2006

stretches of the provincial capital are under water, which has been causing people to take refuge in their cars and deaths are from people who decided to take shelter in their cars.

On April 1st, two men from Xinhua, China died after becoming infected with a type of lesser-known H7N9 strain humans. Since then, four more people have died and six new people have contracted the virus. Chinese authorities poultry trading and killing birds in infected areas.

Cyprus Bailout Sparks Outrage

On March 24th, The European Union (EU) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) offered a $13 billion bailout to Cyprus, a small island country in the East Mediterranean Sea. The EU and IMF request that Cyprus raise $7.5 billion by taxing all bank deposits, which sparks protests in Cyprus. Many wealthy Russians are outraged, as they put their money in Cyprus banks which are not heavily regulated.

The parliament rejects the bail-out and the threat of Cyprus being ejected from the Euro-zone increases.

and returned to television.

What’s the first thing you’ll do once you’re done finals? “Make haste to the nearest watering hole” - Ted Lewis

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RNT upgrade Plans to rennovate the largest classroom facility on campus.

A four million dollar upgrade will take place LARISSA at one of the KROEKER busiest places on campus over the next two summers. The Robert N. Thompson Building and Stanley Nelson Centre has been serving Trinity Western University students since 1980.

Originally housing the Aviation and Business faculties, the 23,800 square foot structure had an East Wing built in 2003, adding 18,330 square feet of

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space. Besides minor renovations, the RNT/SNC’s building envelope has remained unchanged.

According to Associate Provost Sheldon Loeppky, the renovation process will take place in two phases.

Construction in Phase One includes a complete electrical Site Service upgrade, demolition of the atrium slab the Stanley Nelson Centre for a new stairs and an elevator pit. Phase Two consists of building a ramp and new

WHAT THE HILL

complete seismic upgrade, constructing new roof overhangs and skylights, insulating the facility, installing new washrooms, and completing the exterior. cations unify the architecture of the two buildings, but they will also stop further water penetration, repair external deterioration, make seismic and electrical upgrades, and improve accessibility.

In a questionably good natured April Fool’s joke, Susan Hudson of Tennessee informed her sister via phone that she had murdered her husband and needed help getting rid of the mess. The sister’s true opinion of Susan became evident when she called the police believing her sister to be a totally likely candidate for spousal slaughter. The mix up over this killer joke was sorted out and Susan stayed on the right homi-side of the law.

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Apparently fish are now an even holier symbol for one Florida woman. While snacking on Goldfish Crackers she discovered a ‘cross’ on the side of one fish and took it as a sign from God. Apparently the sign said to eat more crackers; she reportedly eats between two and three pounds of these snacks per week.

The last time we saw that much consumption of fish was approximately 2000 years ago and was accompanied by some loaves. We’ll leave it up to you to guess which one was holier.

When Tyshekka Collier was called to the school for her son’s misbehaviour, she promptly walked into the office and slapped the wrong boy. Her son’s unfortunate doppelganger was sick and waiting to get picked up by his actual mother when he was given an impromptu hand for his patience. When Collier realized her mistake she righted her wrong by then slapping her own son. She is now facing charges for hitting on young boys.

Election selection

Minister of Transportation Mary Polak visits campus to talk about upcoming provincial election.

On March 25, Mary Polak, the Minister of CLAYTON Transportation ANDRES and Infrastructure for British Columbia, visited Trinity Western University to talk about the upcoming provincial election. The election, happening on May 14, will gauge whether Polak and the BC Liberal Party will continue as the party in power, or if the New Democratic Party will take the reins of government for

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While still on the campaign trail, Polak came to TWU for a non-partisan talk, answering questions from students and encouraging them to get involved, keep informed, and most importantly vote.

Polack, who represents the districts of Willoughby, Brookswood, Murrayville, Langley City, Langely Meadows, and South Langley, has been serving as the Minister of Transportation since September of last year.

While she believes her previous roles in government were “more social,” Polak said that working with hard in-

frastructure is “a lot of fun,” particularly “opening bridges and roads.”

She still sometimes misses working as the Minister of Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation, a job that was “very meaningful” to her.

Polak has already overseen many important changes in Transportation while serving in her new position, including the completion of the new Port Mann Bridge, which introduced in over 25 years, and the introduction of the Express Bus system. “The Express Bus is a huge improvement.

It’s life-changing for Langley, or so people keep telling me.” Polak is still hard at work continuing the Mufford overpass and further expanding the Port Mann Bridge.

In terms of economics, Polak emphasized the growing importance of trade with China. Polak believes that BC was “able to survive the economic downturn” because of its strong private sector and its increased trade with Asia. “We have to have a diversiwith the US and we will end up with

big problems.” China has already begun aggressive plans to switch over to Natural Gas, and Polak believes BC can help them end their coal dependency. To do this would require stronger support for the Northern Gateway Pipeline. While many individuals are still opposed to the pipeline, Polak emphasized that the pipeline will be held up to the highest possible standards. “Enbridge has done a terrible job building the case for their pipeline, but Canada is an open, resourcebased economy and we need to trade those resources to support that economy. That’s how we pay for everything that we do here. Unless we are willing to give up our current lifestyle, we are going to be transporting petroleum.”

Speaking on education, Polak stated that the most important aspect of education is choice, and that in choosing to go to TWU, students should still have the “same opportunities as public institutions.” However, there is currently no postsecond-

ognition” will allow the University access to privileges like U-passes for the bus system and increased public grants for academics. A “proper designation” for the University and other private liberal arts colleges will also be good for the province as a whole. She emphasized, “We need more ‘Trinity’s’, not less.”

Throughout her talk, Polak emphasized her belief that “anyone can get involved at any level” and the ease with which residents and students can impact provincial politics. She believes that literally anyone can get involved, since the opportunities are all accessible to anyone interested in making a difference. “If everybody got involved at a local level,” she stated, “it would radically change politics and government.”

The provincial election is May 14. Find out more about the candidates, the issues, and ways you can get involved at elections. bc.ca. Don’t forget to register and vote to make your voice heard.

unique character. She believes that bringing TWU into a “place of rec-

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Give them a summer that lasts forever!

Tuition response The university Financial Board promises to listen.

Trinity Western University’s FiCLAYTON nancial Board ANDRES announced that it will be endorsing the recommendations put forward by TWUSA for greater transparency and communication for tuition adjustments.

The TWUSA executive council drafted their recommendations in response to the University’s tuition hike

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provoked outcries of dissatisfaction from students, especially due to the lack of warning or clarity provided by the University. Council quickly responded, calling out the University for not giving forewarning to students about proposed tuition increases before most students began planning

for summer and fall.

The University has apologized for announcing the tuition changes in the spring and has decided to announce tuition rates for the future as early as the end of October. In the event of exceptional circumstances, the University has also agreed to keep students updated on unforeseen delays. pleted yet, however. The University stated that primary investments are being channelled to areas believed to be essential for upholding TWU’s academic quality.

In the past, the University has implemented payments plan options, one-time grants, and additional loans The University urged students with questions or concerns to go to the

dividual payment plans or to contact Tim Shulba for more information.

The University has also expressed interest in regular bi-semester meetings with TWUSA to discuss ideas and recommendations for TWU’s task force has been commissioned to review and recommend strategies for have requested to TWUSA representatives to join them at the next meeting in late April.

TWUSA is encouraged to have received the letter from the University and will remain committed to ensuring students are well prepared for sity.

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My year as president Outgoing TWUSA President gives her thoughts on the past year.

When I look back to the beginning of KELLY the year—elecLAMB tions, building a team, and developing and implementing our vision for the year including the ideas and events that accompanied it—the experience of being TWUSA president was more than I could have dreamed of! I believe that the things we do in life have purpose, or even gain purpose as we seek

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ourselves in peculiar places, not sure why or how we got there, I can say TWUSA council was in place “for such a time as this.”

Though fearful of sounding elitist or even pompous, I will continue; the university went through some strange things this year. Across campus, we heard murmurs of the potential faculty unionization; TWU was defamed in the media as a result of accusations of discrimination concerning the proposed law school. All of this was coupled with the pervasive knowledge

of debt, the resignation of our much loved President, and a surprising tuition hike—it was quite the year!

The bonus of being a student at TWU is there are incredible people put in place to look after the institution. As representatives of the Student Association, we wanted to enhance the student experience and I believe that this year, we have done just that.

The thing that constantly amazes me about TWU is the phenomenal amount of dedicated students that want to get involved, and then the excellence that is shown in everything that they do. Sometimes I wonder if TWU is going through an identity crisis. In the scope of Canadian higher education, maybe we are caught between the idea of being a Bible college and a large secular university and we legitimacy.

Maybe we have to prove ourselves.

Mars’ Hill and Pillar consistently win prizes for their brilliance in artistic design, students strive for good grades, and succeed, and our athletic teams dominate. You have to stop and

think, when Dr. Raymond says that TWU is a “remarkable university,” perhaps we really are. TWUSA has facilitated an environment to advocate, to host events, and to build community. Though I am the one writing this article, and the one with the fancy title ple that deserve so much recognition!

Each member on TWUSA has played an integral role, and I hope and pray that they realize the gift that they have been, not only to me, but to the university.

It is a team of people, working together that creates a community, not a single person. It is the relationships that form while working together that creates the memories. Thank you diligence in serving the student body.

Thank you to the departments in the university that have partnered with us this year, thank you to staff and faculty that have supported us—and most of all—thank you to the student body for participating in what TWUSA has to offer.

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Nancy Timmermans Untitled Man I What’s the first thing you’ll do after finals? “Throw my hands in the air, like I just don’t care” - Megan Ducette

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The art of summer reading

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Some recommendations, traditions, and best reads.

Summer is a time for reading. It’s CLAYTON more literally ANDRESKI a time when the Earth’s axis is tilted so that the northern hemisphere receives more sunlight, creating longer, sunnier days. But it’s mostly a time for reading.

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around to starting that classic everyone is talking about, you’re looking for clever quotes to quip in conversation, or maybe you just want to read something worthwhile, we’ve got you covered. Here is a list of some of the best summer reads around.

Southern Gothic: The American South has a lot to offer, aside from logue can be a bit foreign to those

Postcolonial: With the fall of imperialism and Europe’s colonial system, a plethora of peoples and cultures began struggling to identify themselves. These books, while often frustrated and tragic, display the lies and truths that both separate and unite us.

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Márquez Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey War: Is War hell? Does it rip men from their homes and shatter their very souls, or does it offer boys a chance to show true courage and become men? These books, showwrestle with these questions as they

prose captures the reader’s attention so that the story and the characters will seem all too familiar. The Southern novel is full of depravity, wit, and the deepest pathos.

The Complete Short Stories by Flannery O’Connor To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee East of Eden by John Steinbeck All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

war and personhood.

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Marche For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemmingway Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Russian: Oh, those Russians.

From existential crises to peasant fatalism, the Russians could make compelling narratives out of just about anything. While Russian books can seem excessively lengthy learnt in O-week, there is no better time than summer to sort through ling portraits of human compassion.

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Doestoevsky The Winter Queen by Boris Akuinin The Overcoat and Other Short Stories

by Nikolai Gogol Sometimes you just gotta read a book that makes your head hurt. These books are puzzles wrapped in enigmas that when solved, reveal that sometimes life is frighteningly bizarre and beautifully confusing.

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne James Joyce - Ulysses If on a winter’s night a traveller by Italo Calvion Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Have a great summer and happy reading!

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In the summer I’m allowed to One interesting summer reading have as many books going at once as I tradition I have is to soak up the sun very dark and gloomy books in typiwonderful books that I plan to read cally winterous settings, while sunand then a whole heap of fantasy, sci- tanning.

Diverging in part from my aboveI’m a sucker for covers, and in the mentioned summer-reading habit, I summer I allow myself to be. will be re-reading, The Hobbit, The Lord This summer, I tentatively plan of the Rings Trilogy, and The SimarilOur Mutual Friend by lion. Middle Earth, in many ways, Charles Dickens A Memory of Light by derives from the Arthurian Kingdom Robert Jordan and Brandon Sand- of Summer (To this end, I could also erson (because I read the other thir- recommend Malory’s Morte D’Arthur, teen), Everything That Rises Must Con- or Tennyson’s Idylls of the King, or verge by Flannery O’Connor, Heart of even Stephen Lawhead’s Pendragon Darkness by Joseph Conrad, A Heart- Cycle). breaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers, and poetry, poetry, and JESSICA LAMB I usually read lying on a tatmore poetry!

For your summer reading, I rec- tered picnic blanket on a lawn, awkommend Moby-Dick by Herman wardly jostling a book from hand to Melville. No, really. It’s a classic for hand trying to block the sun. This a reason, and it’s beautiful. Read it, summer I hope to read Richard and then come talk to me about it Niebuhr’s book Christ and Culture, because no one understands! Also, which has been alluded to in several Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card be- of my classes. I also hope to read Five Red Herrings by Dorothy Sayers. After The Innocence of Father Brown by G.K. reading Strong Poison over Christmas break, I became enchanted with the Chesterton. character Lord Peter Wimsey, and eral other books in Sayers’ series.

What’s the first thing you’ll do after finals? “Watch at least three seasons of Trailer Park Boys” – Jaron Neufeld

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I spent a large portion of my childhood JUSTIN dreading HeavPOULSEN en, because I ing about in some ethereal trance.

I wanted to play Lego, and I had a sneaking suspicion that I had a bet-

while here.

Remember that conversation you had on the beach during that sunny

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the shore, its waves formed a mathematical pattern that matched the intonation in your voice. Your green the sapphire colour in your grandma’s wedding band and the blonde shades in your mother’s hair. The world strains to make its beautiful whispers heard beyond the chaos of our daily life. Indeed sin has not tainted the perfection of this world; it has simply tainted our ability to perceive the perfection.

With this handicap comes a choice, to participate as a conscious

as I approach the end of the semester

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life after graduation, but even further to life after death. They say the better your education, the more you realize how little you know. I now like to tion, including us learning about all the beauty on earth that we missed

perpetuator of this unity or to break against it. When we make a choice for the former, we draw a little closer to mirroring God’s best-case-scenario for our lives. When we choose the latter, others’ options to live their bestcase-scenario are preserved, but our existence diverts onto an unintended path—an alternate reality. The further and more frequently we defy God’s patterned will for our lives, the more tinue to function in harmony. As it struggles to draw us back in line, it begins to “crack” and energy escapes.

Perhaps the light becomes dimmer; the food, a little drier; relationships, more fragile; the world succumbs to the dullness of evil.

Satan’s goal is not atheism; it’s not even apathy; it’s the fragmentation of the time-space continuum. But we must take comfort in this! Remember, Satan’s goal was also to crucify Christ; but God used this evil intention as a way to bring us back into relationship with Him. When Satan killed Christ, he unwittingly killed our sins with Him. So too when he destroys this world, he will destroy each crack that separates us from each other, and God. We call this day “The Rapture.”

So weep and repent for your diverting cracks, and then dry your eyes. It was God’s will that the devil—pure evil— play an instrumental role in the salvation—pure good. Think of the wonders he can do with your fractures.

The light of darkness An interview with one of TWU’s newest professors.

Jamie Hall walks to the front of the LARISSA TENORIO D.S. classroom, sits on her desk, and allows her legs to swing back and forth. She squints and tilts her head as she ponders a student’s input into the class discussion — a discussion on the theme of death.

“Throughout the semester you’ll notice that there is a dark side to me,”

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like dark things.”

Where does this enjoyment of the gothic and grotesque come from, and how has this darkness affected her life Interestingly, her love for teaching English literature stems from a deep admiration for her own English professor, Vic Cavalli, back when the roles were reversed and Hall was in a student desk of her own during her

second year of undergrad studies at Trinity Western University.

During our informal interview

think I am fascinated with how humans express our fears,” she says.

“How we contextualize them and express them and deal with them. And then another part of it is just we have these cultural norms and what do we

campus where she now teaches, Hall reminisces. “Cavalli rekindled my love for English literature and reading, and inspired me to take some more courses.” Eventually, this rekindling of passion led Hall to switch her major from psychology to English literature. She graduated with her BA in 2006.

Her love for the darker aspects of lence in the work of her favorite author, Flannery O’Connor, developed later on while acquiring her Master of Arts in Humanities degree at TWU in 2009. “O’Connor’s work was so different,” Hall says. “I was never quite able to forget it or move away from it.

It has this indelible stamp on me.”

But Hall’s exploration of the darkness of English literature is really a fascination with human nature. “I

for me it comes down to human nature.”

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Cavalli rekindled my love for English literature...

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Her love for darkness expresses itself throughout the course material—Lovecraft, Poe, O’Connor, and Shelley. Through studying Frankenstein, Hall explores the idea of char-

she says. “Well, there’s the side that responds with bullying and cultural pressure, and then there’s the side and just embraces it.”

Throughout all this darkness, however, Hall has found a light. By exploring the grotesque in Flannery O’Connor’s work throughout the course, Hall seeks to point out the strength of the faith of a woman “O’Connor is a shining example of the kind of faith that I want to have and I struggle to have,” Hall says. believes to be true about the Christian walk.

“The relationship we have with God is not limited to these things that we put limits on,” she says. “Hazel Motes in Wise Blood, for example, the guy is nuts! He kills somebody, he walks with rocks in shoes — his reac-

are so ridiculous, and yet he commits to it. That’s not to say we can do whatever we want, but our relationship with God is what matters, not necessarily the human conditions and restrictions that we put on it.”

As Christians we don’t need to be sheltered from the darkness; rather we can glean from the darkness the emotional truths of human nature, the empathy we can use to help ourselves and others achieve wholeness despite our wounded, fallen state. By doing so we will learn to discern between the light and the dark. Instead of hiding from the darkness, let us strive to become lights in it.

Hall was able to glean the good from O’Connor’s work. “Every time I had a crisis of faith as a grad student,” she says, “O’Connor was there in the give up, because God’s not going to give up on you.’”

Let life teach you how to say goodbye and say it well.

It’s springtime at Trinity WestUniverMEREDITH ern sity. Islands of OVERMYER blankets crop up on the Douglas lawn, freshman boys rehearse their illustrious mating calls, and library honeys migrate outdoors in clusters where the BC sunshine graces their snow-white Alberta -

hours ebb into the evening and we give way to a blurred distinction of day vs. night. A bizarre late-night culture emerges on-campus; it becomes all too normal to run into fellow nocturnal students at 5 am. There is urgency in the air, as thick as the fragrance of fresh-cut grass. The urgency of both

commemorate the vernal newness of the season. Winsome blossoms appear everywhere overnight- like tiny

year round, when soggy palettes cause riod, the spring ushers in a new wave

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and goodbyes.

This is also the season for bon-

The beauty in those blossoms makes the parting bittersweet. Surely summer holds adventure for somebut it inevitably means change. And so, we will part ways, leaf through our copy of the Pillar, take one last instagram of the cherry trees, and hit the road.

The goodbyes get more painful each year. Like losing the best soldiers in battle - each year more of my closest Trinity friends have moved on, “real world.”

April is this weird and wonderful month where time seems to stand still like madmen, pack up our closets, and Time multiplies as our waking

It’s true, you may never see some of these people again and that’s okay. It doesn’t make them any less special; it just means they were a friend for this season and not the next. College is a season, and seasons change. Trinity is by nature a temporary situation, and we must learn from the moving-on.

Though it would be a mistake not to let go, it would also be a mistake not to commemorate this time. Let life teach you how to say goodbye, and say it well. It’s the month of carpé end. Or perhaps Carpé University Experience. Go out with a bang, not a whimper.

of April.

I can remember last year’s so vividly. We hiked down to our favorite spot, which remains a word-of-mouth secret, passed on by generations of past TWU students. As we made music, exchanged poetry, and watched ity of everything in the smoke.” We stared into that mesmerizing orb of heat, recalling everything and everyone that had mattered to us in our years at Trinity.

Goodbyes are freaking sad. And that’s okay! We can mourn the passing of seasons in our lives. But it would be a mistake to try to hold onto something that is clearly ending.

LAURA JENSEN

What’s the first thing you’ll do after finals? ” Take three naps in a row” – Peter Horton

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ACADEMY.

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A pilgrim’s journey home Discovering the good, the true, and the beautiful in the Catholic church.

As our school year comes to a close (and JOSIAH for many of us MARTINOSKI its the closure to our undergrad student careers), we are given an opportunity to come to terms with how our educational experience has shaped us. Education can be a catalyst and space that fundamentally transforms our spiritual convictions. My experience has been no exception. I was raised in loving Protestant/Charismatic household, but now am in the process of converting to Catholicism. I did not come to this rashly; it has been subtle and gradual process of years that has culminated in the last four months. You (like others) may be wondering why.

I am going to attempt to answer that

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am writing this humbly as I am only beginning to learn about and practice Catholicism. There are a lot of more interested. This is to be brief description of what I have come to believe to be the Church’s innate qualities of the truth, goodness, and beauty.

The True. The heart of spiritual

pursuit is the desire for truth. That is lic theology. Everything from the Sacraments to the Church’s stance against abortion and contraception are grounded not only in the Tradition and Scripture but also Metaphysics.

In Catholicism there is a harmony between truth that is discovered with human reason and given by revelation.

There is also strength in the historical continuity of the Church’s theology.

The ministration of the Sacraments and Liturgical Tradition go all the way back to the early Apostles. Our Protestant doctrines are relatively new in the two thousand yearlong history. I am not comfortable with being disconof Christianity prior to Luther nailing The Good. It became clear to me that learning about Catholicism was not enough. For if the Church’s bold claims were true, it would have to mean a change in the way I do things.

As St. James says, “Faith without works is dead,” therefore learning and acting cannot be disconnected.

Peter Kreeft in his Catholic Christianity warns against “cafeteria ca-

tholicism,” meaning one cannot pick and choose what they like about the comfortable or undesirable. This it’s a process rather than an emotional delic Church, as it takes time to appropriate the Catholic way.

” ” The heart of spiritual pursuit is the desire for truth.

The focal point for the certainty in this process for me is a growing conviction of my own sin. There is a lot of things that I have done and continue to do that I know are not congruent with God’s will (Mortal and Venial Sin). While I know that I have a “relationship” with God, I am not certain that the one prayer I said when I was four settled the state of my soul. I have become convicted that the sacraments of Confession and Eucharist play a tangible role rather than symbolic role in receiving God’s grace. Jesus stated to His disciples in the last supper that this was His Body and Blood.

The Sacrament of Communion is both physical and full union with God. The authority of the Sacraments stem from the authority of Christ, “Faithful to the Lord’s command the Church continues to what He did” according to the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

And in the Gospel of St. Luke, “He who hears you hears me” (Lk 10:16).

While I have not yet received communion or confession, I have a deep sense of reverence and presence in the Church as I gaze at Him. The Beautiful. I do not want to sound trite or cheesy, but I have become quite enamored with Church.

It’s not just her buildings, saints, liturgy, practices etc. It’s in Her very essence, that being of truth, beauty, and holiness. When I walk into the Church and I am taken into a space that is connected with Church in Heaven. I realize that I will not always have these “feelings.” It’s not always fun to be Catholic, but the reasons to love the Church are very clear and rooted in Christ. He is present with His Bride. He loves Her immensely, and that should be reason enough for any of us to do so as well. It the movement from desire to love that pulls me

“home to Rome”. Christian love is not rooted in feelings, but in motivation and action.

In conclusion, do not let concepts such as tension or paradox stop you in Christian Orthodoxy. It’s not an end to the encounter and pursuit of truth. Christ illuminates things for us allowing us to see more clearly the reality of the world that we are in. I do not see this as an end for much of my Protestant/Charismatic spirituality, but rather the proper ordering of it and actually in many ways a more authentic way of practicing the Christian life.

“The sages have a hundred maps to give That trace their crawling cosmos like a tree, They rattle reason out through many a sieve That stores the sand and lets the gold go free: And all these things are less than dust to me Because my name is Lazarus and I live” -From The Convert, G.K. Chesterton

LAURA JENSEN

What’s the first thing you’ll do after finals? “Play a game of speedminton” – Derek Scott

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ACADEMY.

Balanced Worship Avoiding the pitfalls of corporate worship.

LAURA JENSEN

Perhaps this could be considered an JARON introspecNEUFELD tive look into Emma Spanjer’s article on corporate worship music from the previous Mars’ Hill issue. I speak as a former chapel team member. TWU chapel is essentially equivalent to a modern day church service (even though it technically isn’t), so this is one way of being “checked.” First, my intentions

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up of TWU and its members. Secondly, I’ve written this critique only because I would like to improve our campus life, particularly chapel music in this case. If anything I say is true, then I’ve hit my mark. Chapel is a force for good, and may it continue! But there are several potential problems that need to be confronted in order deepen and strengthen this vital part of our university life. the lyrical content of much modern worship music. Some worship song lyrics are either so abstract (i.e., metaphorical, romantic, and so on) or so ambiguous that you cannot understand what the song is actually conveying (e.g. “I will climb this mountain with my hands wide open” lyrics that are clearly contrary to what would be considered orthodox Christianity or downright untrue; but, considering the way contemporary worship music is being produced, I’m Another important aspect of worship is participation rather passive consumption of an entertainment experience. Active participation is essential in worshipping as a body.

And that is exactly what more timetested forms of liturgy are designed to ensure. Where there are higher degrees of passivity, the less authentic corporate worship becomes. Too often, it seems that chapel music exists solely for purpose of entertainment.

Lastly, chapel leaders are not always adequately equipped to properly lead the minds as well as hearts of our campus with proper content.

Playing music ought not to be the only requisite to qualify for a chapel team leader (although candidates

are scarce). Shouldn’t there be some responsibility in leading hundreds of student’s minds on campus daily?

Reading a few selected verses without context from the Bible between songs every now and then doesn’t balance the equation, either. The lyrics of songs, even if considered thoughtfully, often appear to be chosen primarily according to the topic of the chapel speaker or the theme of the week. Now that that’s necessarily a bad thing, but we can’t just assume these songs are worthy of being used for worship just because they’re found in the worship binder of sheet music!

Overall, it is the content of our worship—the lyrics—that must be primary. I would argue that repeatedly chanting a line or two from a worship song seems to be more an appeal to your emotional convictions about how much you love God rather cant theological content. I have no problem with some chapel leaders swaying around in ecstasy while playing music. But we must level out the intellectual component of music!

I usually feel alienated by contemporary worship music lyrics, because the content makes me feel confused and patronized. I know everyone else has more issues with worship music then I’ve mentioned. Perhaps this is one reason why evangelicals are charged with being anti-intellectual—because they don’t even know what they’re worshipping during “worship” at times.

I think this diagram to the upperright will show the issue and solution in itself: a healthy balance. The purpose of this diagram is to emphasize that chapel music focuses primarily on the lower aspects to the neglect of the top. (I purposefully excluded the third category). The “golden mean” can be attained, but through our current style of worship? Perhaps. Simply put, while there are many styles and forms of worship, it is certain that some are better than others (depending on what you’re aiming for).

BALANCING THE MIX

—Jesus — — —

—Reason — — —

—Analytic — — —

—Concrete — — —

—Lyrics — — —

— — — —Spirit

— — — —Emotion

— — — —Romantic

— — — —Abstract

— — — —Music

GOD

MAN

STYLES

MODE

SONGS

FIGURE he r oe s e g n u s n U THE OF y lif a d y r e v e for FORTNIGHT NELSON BERGEN

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Woodrow Cerro explibero “Woody” comnien Wilsontintur Guth-alit ing for the rights of migrant workers rievent, (1912-1967) suntio ommoluptate was born in the conesci dusty,de- in California’s agricultural commuoil-boom town of Okemah, Oklaho- nities, Woody proved himself a hardma. Woody Guthrie became an icon hitting advocate for truth, fairness, of Americana, an archetype of folk and justice,” according to the Woody music, who sang and celebrated the Guthrie Foundation. travails of a suffering nation, wracked In “The Blood of the Lamb,” for by dust bowl and depression but also instance, Woody sings, “have you by the cruelty of exploitation, racism, learned to love your neighbours of all and greed. colours, creeds, and kinds, are you The Dust Bowl of the late 1920s washed in the blood of the lamb?” left the agricultural heartland of As John Steinbeck writes, “Woody America destitute and drought-strick- is just Woody. Thousands of people do en, and Woody joined the throngs of not know he has any other name. He is grim faced, down-and-out men, rid- just a voice and a guitar. He sings the ing the rails, hitchhiking, or packing songs of a people and I suspect that he their families and entire lives into old is, in a way, that people. Harsh voiced jalopies to head West—to Califor- and nasal, his guitar hanging like a nia, the Garden of Eden—in hope of tire iron on a rusty rim, there is nothsomething better. ing sweet about Woody, and there is Woody traveled along, singing in nothing sweet about the songs he the labor camps and on the road, cele- sings. But there is something more

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What’s the first thing you’ll do after finals? “PTL” – Mackenzie Dunn

important for those who still listen.

There is the will of a people to endure we call this the American spirit.”

His autobiography, Bound for Glory, is one of my all-time favourite books.

His simple but biting wit, his frankness with both joy and pain, draws you in and the story itself, rambling, real, often hilarious and always entertaining, keeps you there.

One of my favorite scenes is the immense brawl that breaks out in a boxcar full of dirty, diseased, surly and miserable men. Woody manages to survive with most of his teeth and his guitar intact, but the description is at once, comic, pitiful, and beautiful.

Indeed, that is what Woody exsprawling mass of humanity, the good, the miserable, and the ability all. Angels don’t sing folk music, of course. That’s our job. And perhaps there is something redemptive about that embrace. Woody teaches us to love even the dingiest “sinners” and scoundrels, to love because we are one of them, to “take it easy, but take it!”

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MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

LATIN 211 RP with C. Morrissey Medieval Ecclesiastical Latin

ENGL 103 RP with V. Cavalli Intro to Lit: Short Fiction and Poetry

LATIN 211 RP with C. Morrissey Medieval Ecclesiastical Latin

ENGL 103 RP with V. Cavalli Intro to Lit: Short Fiction and Poetry

RELS 101 RP with Sr. Gabriella Yi Intro to the Old Testament

RELS 160 RP with C. Morrissey Introduction to Theology

RELS 101 RP with Sr. Gabriella Yi Intro to the Old Testament

RELS 160 RP with C. Morrissey Introduction to Theology

RELS 465 RP with Sr. Gabriella Yi

RELS 465 RP with Sr. Gabriella Yi

Western Christian Tradition

Christian Moral Theology

Western Christian Tradition

Christian Moral Theology

RELS 366 RP with B. Herbert Theology of the Body

COMM 120 RP Intro to Interpersonal Communications

RELS 366 RP with B. Herbert Theology of the Body

COMM 120 RP Intro to Interpersonal Communications

ART 215 RP with B. Herbert Beauty and the Sacred Arts

RELS 224 RP New Testament Theology

ART 215 RP with B. Herbert Beauty and the Sacred Arts

RELS 224 RP New Testament Theology

6 pm to 9 pm

4 pm to 5:15 pm

2:35 pm to 3:50 pm

1:10 pm to 2:25 pm

11:40 am to 1 pm

9:25 am to 10:40 am

FALL 2013 COURSES AT THE COTTAGE

PHIL 305 RP with C. Morrissey Philosophy of the Human Person

PHIL 111 RP with C. Morrissey History of Philosophy: Ancient & Medieval

full details at What’s the first thing you’ll do after finals? “Buy a plane ticket to Vegas” – Fernanda Ubidia

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INTRO PERSPECTIVE

It’s easy in school; most of us can state JUSTIN with hesitant POULSEN conf idence that God wants us right within the major we chose. And if we’re wrong, there are only 41 other options to choose from. But what happens off campus, when our choices expand exponentially?

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success by health and wealth,

Trinity Western University teaches us to pursue success by heeding the will of God. We even dare to admit that God’s will does not necessarily guarantee our health, wealth, or even happiness.

But here we stop, making the rather generous assumption that His will at least takes into account the nature of His creation. If God has given you a gift and passion for the arts, surely He will incorporate this into your calling. With this principle

comes the weighty challenge to discern God’s will and maximize these gifts—to use your degree to the fullest extent.

But the reality is, we serve a God who called a prophet to marry a prostitute; who sent an Egyptian manager to prison for a false crime; who called a rich farmer to work for years as a servant to his future father-in-law. We serve a God who very well may call a Biology major to work at Starbucks after graduation.

What’s the first thing you’ll do after finals? “Start referring to myself in the third person again” – Gatlin Saip

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hout even our own divinelyen nature to point us in the right

a series of stories. It is through this through prayer.

Prayer essentially involves taking

life.

Rather than praying to God solely in petition or thanksgiving, we should not forget to also prayerfully result of this understanding. Who lives—to pray our stories to God. In

Confessions, where he pours out the story of his life, all his youthful wanderings, sin Narrative is uniquely suited divine author of life at work in our

What’s the first thing you’ll do after finals? “Last exam on the 23rd, first painting job on the 24th” – Ryan Penner

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ARTS & CULTURE.

EMMA SPANJER emma.spanjer@mytwu.ca

Putting the hop in hope Tracing hip-hop’s return to its roots.

Hip-hop is known for a few things; there’s SCOTT the beef—BigFORSYTH gie vs. Tupac, Nas vs. Jay-Z; there’s the seemingly annual name reinventions—is it Diddy Lion or Puff Snoop? And of course there’s the boundary pushing lyrics— I’ll just let you Google for those. But what hip-hop isn’t known for lately is being a beautiful example of artistic creativity. At one point it was, but now it’s a piece of gum stuck to the bottom of society’s shoe.

This may come as a shock to you, but hip-hop is not a style of music; it’s a culture. This artistic movement is made up of four distinct elements:

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as a street subculture within African American communities in the 1970’s, hip-hop is now a form of self-expression in communities all over the world. DJ Kool Herc, Grand Master Flash, and Sugar Hill Gang are considered fathers of hip-hop, providing foundations for what could have been the greatest movement in history.

“Now what you hear is not a test, I’m rapping to the beat. And me, the groove, and my friends gonna try to move your feet.” –Rappers Delight by Sugar Hill Gang.

But sadly hip-hop took a turn for

the worse when artists like NWA burst on the scene, advertising a hardcore lifestyle consisting of violence, sex, and drugs, that set the stage for the next 20 years. The 2000’s are a blemish on hip-hop’s Facebook timeline, similar to what the Crusades were for Christians—a time that we all wish never had happened. Songs about moneymakers, grillz, and laffy taffy were all over the radio. Hip-hop wasn’t poetry anymore, it became a popularity contest. Success was not based on lyrical content or artistic growth, but rather who had the most bling, guns, and “ho’s.”

“Here’s a murder rap to keep you dancing, with a crime record like Charles Manson. AK-47 is the tool, don’t make me act the ************* fool.” –Straight Outta Compton by NWA. However I believe that in recent years, hip-hop is being brought back from the grave. With the introduction of new, innovative, underground artists, hip-hop is slowly being taken back to its roots; a consciously aware movement of self-expression. Kendrick Lamar, A$AP Rocky, Childish Gambino, Macklemore, and J. Cole are some of these artists that are changing the game. These guys colour outside the lines and try to bring hip-hop back to its glory. Rarely will you hear gangbanging-ignorant lyrics from these artists, but instead a vast amount of metaphorical content, wit-

ty lines, narrative auto-biographies, and friendly jabs at one another. left is your ego.” –Freaks & Geeks by Childish Gambino Raw emotion and passion are poured into their rhymes; creative and intellectual lyrics are valued. It actually sounds like these rappers graduated English 11. These artists are using alliteration, assonance, and onomatopoeia in their rhymes; they actually understand these poetic devices. They are peeling back the layers of lies that previous generations have instilled in the minds of young adults today. Not only this, but artists are even breaking into new territory; Kanye sampling Bon Iver’s “Woods” and A$AP Rocky recently teaming up with dubstep king, Skrillex. Hip-hop is evolving

into something greater than itself, breaking down old misconceptions and crossing various barriers.

Now as with any movement, there is always bound to be a few bad apples. As great as this new direction is, there are still the remnants of ignorant rap that are left over on the airwaves. Tyga, Lil Wayne, Rick Ross and 2 Chainz all still hold onto this ignorant style of rapping, degrading women, idolizing materialism and succumbing to drugs. While these so called “artists” hold #1 spots on the charts, I believe it’s only a matter of time before the guillotine of common sense decapitates their fame.

I don’t believe hip-hop died, it just was on a very long hiatus.

A truth universally awknowledged From Austen to Youtube to Austen.

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SARAH RAY

Every re-telling of Pride and Prejudice automatiHANNA cally triggers WASWA alarms. I remember my sadness when I read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and realized that it had excised everything I loved in Jane Austen’s masterpiece and replaced it with zombie-murdering titillation. The latest incarnation in a long line of adaptations, the Youtube series

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a demonstration of the power of the internet to tell a story. This particular story had quite a lot to live up to, and to overcome.

In the simplest terms, it delivered.

In fact, it surpassed expectations in every way. Changes were made in order to modernize the story, setting, and characters, but every change was made with respect for the feel, purpose, and story of the original.

Lizzie becomes a mass communications grad student, and her vlog diaries start as a course project on Youtube. The viewer ends up loving

Lydia and Mary Bennett—both havMinor characters are cut, but their departures are handled with a nod to the original; Kitty Bennett becomes an actual cat who follows Lydia everywhere, and Anne de Bourgh becomes a small dog adored by her “mother.”

The sensitivity in handling these necessary changes is why this adaptation works. They are always undertaken with respect for the overall feel of the original, while staying true to the creation of a new kind of story. Everything is interconnected. No facet of Lizzie Bennett’s world is ignored, but neither is any facet of Jane Austen’s work.

The Lizzie Bennett Diaries succeed because the creators honoured Austen’s story while truly connecting the audience to the characters, creating closeness through the power of Youtube and social media. It’s storytelling in the 21st century, and, while I will always love books over adaptations, it is my earnest hope that Sense and Sensibility soon makes its Youtube debut.

The beautiful thing about the Lizzie Bennett

is connection.

Over a year of weekly updates, I have tor of the Bennet sisters. I am trusted with the innermost workings of their lives, ranging from the eccentric musings of Lizzie’s mother to the most vulnerable moments of my favorite character, Lydia. The web series platform allows me to be actively involved in the story, and, because I have not read Pride and Prejudice or seen the to preconceptions about what should be happening. I am able to live each vlog with the characters, participating in the intimate moments of their lives.

Youtube is a perfect medium for the Lizzie Bennett Diaries because the site is designed to foster its own communities unique to each channel. I am encouraged to be personally invested in lives of the characters. This is the

desire of most avid readers, who secretly long to be their favourite character’s best friend.

The well-known Youtuber Hank Green of VlogBrothers, who produced LBD, has an immense audience eager for all things nerdy and literary.

Many of the viewers are, as I am, thoroughly immersed in the world of web videos. Through the web series adaptation, a young viewer struggling with classical literature can experience a non-threatening re-telling of the story of Pride and Prejudice.

A young reader must wrestle with in uncovering prose. But there is be something to be said about falling in love with characters that become as real to you as any other vlogger on Youtube led me to Jane Austen. It is only after experiencing the Lizzie Bennett Diaries that I can open Jane Austen’s novel and revisit the characters that I have come to know as dear friends.

What’s the first thing you’ll do after finals?” Collapse from exhaustion, have a good cry, and sleep for a week” – Nathan Broyles

April 10, 2013

A&C.

Sound City will change your perspective of ANDREW making music PARKER forever. I was not at all excited to watch a documentary narrated, directed, and produced by Dave Grohl because, plain and simple, I don’t like Dave Grohl.

the world of recording equipment.

mentary to feel dangerously close to isolating those unconnected to the realm of music. Sound City, at times, feels much like the 2008 documentary It Might Get Loud, which is, basically, a conversation about electric guitar with artists Jack White, the Edge (U2), and Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin). In Sound City is both cases, there is a lot of technical, the kind of documentary that can and will ensnare the unsuspecting viewer, to understand for those new to the dragging them into a wonderful and world of music playing and recording. strange world of the recording studio. Sound City does, however, redeem itself based on the human element. and yet virtually unknown Sound City It is a deep, emotional connection Studios, located in the San Fernando to the development of the recording Valley. This studio, founded by two industry over the years that set it apart inexperienced business owners, from a documentary like It Might Get became the place to record for many Loud. The workers, owners, and artfamous acts including Fleetwood ists who were a regular part of Sound City Studios became a tight knit famQueens of the Stone Age, Slipknot, ily, and the documentary plays on this and Grohl’s own band, Nirvana. highly human element of the studio’s Dave Grohl and the makers of Sound history.

City have obviously attempted to make The magic of Sound City Studios the world of the recording studio famous recordings was based upon accessible to the masses. Unfortu- their equipment—most of which - remained the same since the 70’s ject is hard to make understandable when it was purchased—and an without losing some audience mem- extremely emotionally connected bers and Sound City - recording environment. Sound City ger especially at the beginning. After a documents how this style of recordbrief introduction, narrated by Grohl, ing—not going digital like everyone the documentary throws the view into else—slowly killed the studio. When

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r a e d er p p e p Dear Pepper, We make decisions every day, but lately I’ve been confronted with some big ones - decisions that scare me to a point of inaction. I have the opportunity to move to the other side of the country to further my education career I’ve always envisioned myself me. I keep telling myself I’ve done it before, so I can do it again, but I’m not sure if that logic is sound a second time around. My dilemma is twofold. First, I’ve been accepted to two schools (I’m not complaining about that part); I am so undecided that I’m sifting through every moment of every day, looking for a sign to tell me what to do. Secondly, regardless of which school I choose, it means leaving the place where I have spent the majority of my life and entering distant and unfamiliar territory.

I know what you probably want to tell me: that there’s no right or wrong decision. And I would agree with you, but it’s so much more deeply rooted than wanting to make the “right” choice. It actually is a lot about roots.

I feel like things are getting serious. I

feel like life is coming at me with all of its tough realities and responsibilities. And some mornings I wake up

is home and family and friends and familiarity. But other mornings I am of adventure and something new. It is this struggle to reconcile old and new, safe and unexplored, that keeps me on the fence.

So how do I do it? How do I do what I know I need to do but am scared to do? How do I leap?

Sincerely, Seeking Encouragement Dear Seeking Encouragement, I am at this very moment in a coffee shop staring out watching the sun cascade over glimpses of a small quaint town. And I almost laughed that I would receive your letter at this very moment in life. As I looked outside after reading your beautiful words, I remembered a passage from Donald Miller’s book Through Painted Deserts. He opens his book from the standpoint he is in now, after the journey that the book is based on. He

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the studio shut down in 2011, Grohl went back to purchase some of the equipment for his own studio, sparking the idea to document the studio.

Grohl does an exceptional job of looking at a curious place in the middle of nowhere—in terms of the music industry—and capturing the feeling that emanated from it. Sound City is able to capture the boom and bust of a studio and make the viewer feel the joys and pains of those who poured their lives into that place. An ode documents the creation of new music using the Sound City Studio’s equipment bought by Grohl. He assembles a team of A-list musicians including Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails), SteMcCartney to write and record an album—Sound City: Real to Reel— alongside some of the Sound City Studios engineers.

All in all, Sound City is a must watch documentary not only for the musician or music lover, but for those who feel no real connection to the music world. This documentary is your ticket to the contemporary history of recording, and the human element of making music, watch it.

too is in a coffee shop looking out at Portland expressing his love for the city that he ended up in.

I like to say that books come to me when I need them most. And Miller’s book came to me as I stood at a crossroad. I was like you. I was torn between living in the city that I grew up in and venturing forth, seeing what else was out there. I took a trip to San Francisco during this time. On my way back, my parents and I stopped at one of the schools I

over Christmas break. So you are asking about roots, but I am asking, what is going to make your life large?

Because in a world full of so much sadness, that is what matters.

I want so badly to be able to tell you to go or to tell you to stay. But you are right, it doesn’t really matter,

home. We walked around the campus, the promise of spring heavy in the air, and I knew it was not the place for me. It was that bone-deep knowledge that so often there are no words to express how you know.

I remember standing at an intersection with my mom and she knew that I knew, which only meant one thing.

As the cars sped past she said “Pepper, it’s going to be really hard.” She said “I promise you, you will hate it, but you can always come home.”

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trip. I tried. I tried really hard. I wanted Miller to give me something that I already knew. I always knew that I would leave, I just didn’t know where or how or necessarily when. book, Seeking Encouragement ished it in another land a year later.

But this time with harder questions.

This time I was not asking if I should go, I was asking if I should go back.

And I think that is exactly where you are. You are asking: Should I leave again?

Life is in its very nature complicated. You really cannot possibly foresee what is going to manifest in your life. You cannot know that you will meet one of your best friends on a trip to a foreign country. You cannot foresee that your sister’s baby is going to have seizures. You cannot foresee that someone you dated for four months will die in a car accident

you. I want to sit here underneath the warmth of sunshine at the end of four hard-earned years and I want to tell you to risk again. Yet, I just received an email from my mom expressing how frustrated she was at me for not making appropriate time for her. So I

So you are asking about roots, but I am asking, what is going to make your life large?

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understand the tension. I understand the weight of importance. I understand that it seems like leaving can be an escape, but also a complicated disquiet of leaving a familiar, comfortable place. But neither answer is any more right or easier, they both have consequences, and both have rewards.

I keep thinking about roots. I keep saying that word over and over again in my mouth. I pride myself in not having roots. There is something so safe about not having anything right now. I am a nomad. And when I think about what I want to do after this, I see a vision of myself in the and then maybe London for a time.

That is my dream life, to wander, to never own anything, to never be anywhere long enough for anything dream is, essentially, to never grow roots. And yet, at this very moment,

What’s the first thing you’ll do after finals? “Eat an entire cake” – Sara Freeman

I’m surrounded by two people I love so much. I am in a relationship with someone I care immensely for. I actually do not want my dream life, it just seems ideal because if I pick to grow roots somewhere, that means it matters. It means that it can hurt me.

I read the end of Through Painted Deserts in Cambodia. It was odd that the importance of the story did not really pertain to me until I actually did leave home. Miller writes of a beautiful unfolding, full of love and friendship and ends with a lot of unknowns. I often think back to I think it must be because I needed to read the end at another place in life. I think about why I love it, why I would say it is my favourite of his books. And I think it’s because of the God underneath all of it. How God is actually in Miller’s interactions with people. In all the times his car breaks down, in the sunrise, in the pulse of the road as they drive across the states and at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. That’s how God manifests Himself in my life also.

I think what my mom was saying all those years ago was that my roots will always be her, no matter what.

Even if the place she resides does not feel like my home anymore, she can be my north star. And honestly, that is all that mattered at that time in my life. I held so tightly to that knowledge these past few years, even if I didn’t necessarily need her. Nothing else mattered because the overarching love is what gave it all meaning.

So here I am in a coffee shop in a town that I fell in love with slowly. In a town I am not yet committed to. But in a town I am still happy I journeyed to. Here I am, telling you that there really are no right answers, only the story you want to write for yourself, only the love that manifests itself out of the ordinary miraculous.

Love, Pepper

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ELLEN GRAHAM

A&C.

Dostoevsk y said, “I say let the world go to hell, but I should always

have my tea.”

My love for tea started with a sion and soon I was draining my food card to support a full-on addiction. been forced to choose between specialty drinks and food, I resorted always seen eye to eye with tea. Previous excursions into its world have involved a lot of sugar. And when I say a lot, I mean at least six spoonfuls.

tural icon; tea has been the subject of historical events, like the Boston self, this event sounded like a pleasant afternoon of refreshment, but it was in reality an act of revolt by the American people against the high tax placed on the drink. for it, tea can play a very large role in wild, unfettered by the reproaches of the rational while their mothers chat distractedly over tea. A warm mug calms you when exams are approachof adulthood over sugar-loaded passion tea served in miniature cups,

outweighed the sugary result, and I generally stayed away from the stuff. in dorms, with limited amounts of stolen caf sugar packets, it was a bit of a harrowing experience. However, gradually my taste for the drink grew and, with it, an appreciation for its force in our society; its social and historical contexts are undeniable and it

power iced tea can have on a midAugust afternoon.

Recently, some friends and I

Not everyone’s cup of tea The evolution of a beverage.

able sandwiches, croissants, and deserts served on stacked platters. cake stuffed, picture-snapping faces.

life. ignated spot on which to place the walking outside one day, when a tealeaf fell in his hot water. Enticed by its aroma, the emperor tried some spread the fad. Dutch and Portuguese sailors brought the drink to Britain in the 17th century and by the 1800s,

returned home to face the realities of schoolwork, we were left with a details such as the porcelain elephant feeling of contentment that only the teapots and the gold-painted wooden comfort of tea can bring. how much we wanted to stow away stewed in boiling water does not and live there secretly for the rest sound entirely enticing. However, those of us who have grown to love its

warmth and reassurance have a special place for it in our hearts. I would encourage those who have never Start off with Earl Grey, like I did and go from there. Or, grab some friends, dress fancy, speak in fake British

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8.5 JAMES BLAKE Overgrown what we thought electronica could be. Straightaway, Overgrown’s title track sets you back to the same mystiof synthesized organs swoop in and out. Autoned whines compliment and then contrast in melodramatic, yet wondering how something so deconstructed could cause such warmth. sically makes his way through each track, with no particular indication that he has any intention of rushing to the end. Hip-hop legend RZA helps Blake meld his inventive soundscapes

out on just their second album and take such a rewarding risk.

4 TYLER THE CREATOR Wolf interupts the echoing piano ballad of the opening track, to the casual death Wolf is unnecessary. Granted, some of the lyrics are absolutely brilliant—in meaning and even just pure aesthetic manipu-

coupled with acoustic power chords, not exactly making this an easy sell.

But linger for a minute into the track

Bradley was you would swear you but “the screaming edge of soul” has just released his second studio album. this is not at all a hindrance to the album. His voice exudes passion, sending the blues into your bloodstream and would assuredly bring us down if

Despite this danger, electronic sultriness still glistens from the album

zigzags in and out of different sum-

synths, a harp, and voice track dancing atop captivating beats mark the

Bug Blues” swells deep amongst the

only problem is that this occurs nearly half-way through the album.

singers bounce and glide beautifully off of Bradley. An echoing guitar falls

album is a twilight tropical paradise

tinue to provide the drive to accompany the cries of Bradley.

After spending the majority of his musical career as a James Brown tribute artist, it was not until the sweet

sends you to the hot sands of a mid July beach. A genuine acoustic guitar in “Symphony” puts you under the implanting what will assuredly foster severe nostalgia. And of course no summer is complete without those

the gimmicky distorted voice of a fa-

sacred duty of summer driving music can be entrusted in the gritty, high octane distortion of “Empathetic PeoDormarion

kids after school, and give them drugs

CHARLES BRADLEY Victim of Love

electric fueled, synth lined potential

much of the lyrics are unrelated explatives that achieve the same jarring impact on the listener as pure silence.

hear someone having with themselves at night on the skytrain: “...you can drink piss and eat a dick in a few. /

BONOBO Northern Borders On the sixth day God created man and woman and it was very good. On Northern Boarders the returning British DJ presents familiar ethereal tones, they are in dan-

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musical tone, but the varied moods triumph over skepticism. But honestly would you expect any less from the

dancing in your car, though not someor lie down.

Northern Boarders holds promise of

work on his own material.

It stubbornly remains idle in the preliminary half of its anthology, acting as a very soft opening to the main event of the latter half. But this is why God created the skip button.

James Brown but in the world of soul Bradley continues to establish himself. Victim of Love is just what the music scene needs today because honestly you can never have enough soul.

What’s the first thing you’ll do after finals? “Praise God I got through it, have a mini dance party, and have a drink” – Chelsea Hoey

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To the mountains!

A toxic journey outside of the wilderness.

Today we live in a world caught up in itself. We EMMA have medicaSPANJER tion for this, treatment for that, entertainment of various kinds, and noise to keep us emotionally and spiritually stimulated. But when all of this is stripped away, life seems spiritually fuller than before and that old life fades away into memory of a darker world.

Coming back from the wild is how I imagine a meth addict feels after a day without shooting up.

The withdrawal is too painful to ates any other thoughts, and if you are able to think about anything else, it’s only to be reminded of the obstacles that stand in the way. For me, those obstacles are the burdens and distractions, however minute, of a suburban/urban life fraught with technologies of all kinds. What may seem like a ridiculous example of how these burdens play out in my life happened earlier this month. After a weekend primarily spent hiking in the mountains, I sustained a few scratches. I hadn’t paid attention to them, but when I returned back to school it made more sense to treat them with medical supplies—which my cabinet has in abundance—than to leave them untreated. I slathered the scratches with Neosporin, and then proceeded to put in my contact lenses. Unthinkingly, I put one in my eye, hands covered in Neosporin, and my eye burned with a searing pain. After furiously rinsing out my eye with water, I grabbed the contact solution to help moisten my eye. The burning began again, I screamed for help and my roommate held my hair as I simultaneously cursed and rinsed. The Neosporin had little to do with the burning—the contact gen Peroxide base; I had dumped an undiluted chemical straight into my eye: twice!

This may seem like an irrelevant story, but it reminded me of the stark contrast between society and the wild. In society, there is an abundance of things which demand that I improve myself, which tell me I need to alter a way that I am, which sells me things so I can improve and alter.

I chose to treat my scratches because

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in society it would be illogical not to, not because they were painful or dangerous. And I did, after all, have a cabinet full of disinfectant. But the norms in the wild aren’t the same.

My scratches remained untreated and largely not thought of, partially because they were minor and insigral to have a few scrapes and bruises after a day of climbing up a brook that runs down a mountainside.

And getting a bit banged up is worth it for the experience. On a trail in the middle of an unknown wood with a dog as my guide, I relished in the wonder of God. This experience no discipleship group has. Such a thing so wild and beautiful, so severe and compelling could only be created by a being whose essence is greatness. One afternoon, I read on a rock situated above a small cascade; the stream of swiftly moving water blotted out all noise of my companions and of the forest until I sensed that I was alone. As the sun began to set, I recognized my own mortality. I was a small part of the creation that exists on that mountain. Bigger things live there, I had heard the coyotes the night before, signs at the entrance of the trails warned hikers they were entering bear and cougar territory, and the trees in their old age are tall and plentiful. I was surrounded by things, yet for all of its mystery, I felt more spiritually full and alive than I had all semester on a Christian campus.

Away from the bounds of society endures a different kind of human fellowship where hair in disheveled, unwashed braids are beautiful, where one dresses practically, where the woodstove is the centerpiece of community. There is little expectation to put on a performance and we are all who we are, not who we want to be. This is not to say there is no value in life outside of the wild. There is, I’ve experienced fullness there, too. But returning to a world where hydrogen peroxide is put into contact solution and where we’re overstocked with medicine was almost a comical experience. The place I speak of, the wild, is vulnerable but it’s real and it’s here that the soul is renewed by true rest.

BROOKE HIGGINBOTHAM

What’s the first thing you’ll do after finals? “I’d say start slacking off, but that’s what I’ve been doing all year long” - Ben Birkenstock

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MARS’ HILL: Kye Kye is a family…

So EMMA who is related SPANJER to whom?

KYE KYE: Hey everyone. We are Kye Kye and we consist of Olga (vox/guitar), Timothy (programming/guitar), Alex (piano), & Thomas (drums). Olga is sister to Tim and Alex, and married to Thomas. Being family in a band is actually really amazing. Since we are all such close friends anyway, being in a band really has been a hidden blessing for all of us.

MH: You identify as being Eastern European. Can you explain your

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the band?

KK: Our parents came to America from Estonia when we were babies, so we pretty much grew up speaking a different language around the house, immersed in that culture.

Everything from what we ate to how we spent our time was different.

We stayed up late while our dad and mom sang songs they had written or hymns they brought with them from Estonia that we really knew very little about, but that we got a very strong feeling for in our home. It was normal for the accordion or piano or guitar to be played into the early hours of the morning. Now later in our lives we really reach down to those roots. We turn to music for comfort, to get us through things, to express our feelings, to feel a connection.

That upbringing was huge for us in our musical lives and it obviously left some lasting impressions on us.

MH: Your music is featured on the soundtrack for the upcoming Love On Her Arms. How were you connected with being a part of the

A&C.

KK: We were actually asked out of the blue by a guy named Josh from Florida. He worked for a licensing company that was doing the music and he heard about us through Relevant magazine. We built a relationship with him and learned about what the movie was about and actually got to screen it while we were down in Florida on tour. It is one of the weirdest/coolest things to hear your music in a motion picture, really humbling actually. After a couple years, we ended up building a great relationship with Josh and now he manages us.

MH: Kye Kye has come up in an interesting time in the music industry, with more and more bands remaining unsigned and opting to navigate the music world themselves.

You’ve also chosen this path, so enlighten us; what are its advantages and disadvantages?

KK: I guess we will start out by saying that it is a crazy time in the music industry and also a really exciting time as well. Our business model and mentality has always been to go in the direction that we feel our music needs, not where someone else wants to take it. We aren’t the type of people that are opposed to labels and won’t get near the smell of a corporation in music, but we also aren’t one of those bands that think our only option at getting our music out to fans on a greater scale is by signing our life away to a label. We really think that it’s possible for you to do what YOU want to do the way YOU want to, especially with how accessible music is these days. Whether that’s with a label or not.

MH: Kye Kye’s lyrics have obvious roots in scripture, which would traditionally put you under the label of “Christian Music.” It’s a big question, but what’s your reaction to that?

KK: It is a loaded question and we run into it a lot, and there is no way to answer that in a simple way. But, here is our reaction.

Honestly we think that this will be a question asked less frequently as we move forward. We believe the reason for that is: making money as its main priority, a lot of the “Christian music industry” has become somewhat irrelevant to everyone except maybe some church members. When we say “Christian music industry” we don’t mean all of it. There are artists that are doing great things but all in all it’s rare for music that’s produced by the “Christian music industry” church members, which we think is unfortunate. Not necessarily because we think that Christian musicians are missing an opportunity to evangelize or anything like that, but because sadly most of it just can’t compete artistically. More disturbing is that somehow there is at best a limited connection being made with people who are going through the same things we Christians are going through: love, hate, pain, hope, searching for meaning and purpose and God and all the other realities of life that are usually expressed and

connected to through music. Somehow a lot of the time those genuine expressions are not there. So unless something changes in the near future I believe that “Christian music” will eventually phase out completely. And hopefully it will rebuild into something where artistic expression can be made not for money or the acceptance from others but rather out of the acceptance that we have in Christ.

Hopefully more music with genuine heartfelt experiences is made and supported by this new music industry of the future.

At the core of what we do, of what we sing about, and the driving force behind our passion for music is our faith; our honest exprwession of it, and that will never change. However, we don’t tend to sound like what’s somewhere closer to and along the lines of the general market, so we MH: You guys just got back from Nashville where you recorded your sophomore album. How was this recording process different from that of Young Love?

KK: We spent the whole month of January in Nashville recording this upcoming album and it was just a

great experience. This record had 3 years of maturity pushing it forward, way into the music. Not only does this album reach a new depth and understanding musically, but we all have gone through a lot personally and as a band over the past 3 years that, content wise, this album really hits home for us and speaks to our hearts. We feel it will really hit home with listeners out there as well. Young Love was ence, so just the process in itself was We can’t wait for y’all to hear it!

MH: When can we expect the new album? Any tour plans?

KK: We are still working on an exact release date, but we are aiming for Summer/Fall 2013! As many of our live fans probably know, we are huge on making a Kye Kye concert more than just the music, but creating an experience. We feel like this album has even more to offer musically production and visuals.

Check out the band at kyekyemusic. com and read an extended interview with the band on marshillonline.com

What’s the first thing you’ll do after finals? “Go tell penguins about Jesus. I think they’ll understand me” – Noelle Davies

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CAMERON STUERLE cameron.stuerle@mytwu.ca

This isn’t our year Don’t let The Blue Jays convince you they’re a contender.

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CAMERON STUERLE

Don’t get your hopes up Don’t let The Blue Jays convince you

they’re a contender If you ever watch Rogers Sportsnet you may have noticed there is a new vibe surrounding Canada’s baseball team. The Blue Jays pulled

wrought with its own problems. right around the age where most power hitters begin a steady decline.

pitcher in the national league last year but he may not be a sure thing.

only hit more than 20 home runs twice in seven previous seasons. He

ball as evidenced by the three passed

less evidence for players having one

middling to disastrous before last easily be a one year wonder.

Josh Johnson has been dominant

Cabrera and traded for reigning Cy Then there’s Langley’s own Brett Lawrie. Hailed as a top prospect des tined to be one of the game’s best The reinforcements join a roster already highlighted by former home

as a major leaguer thus far. He’s had two reasonably productive years in

others. I have seen a lot of Blue Jays stuff around campus and hearing

season and Lawrie is already on the disabled list with a rib injury.

Colby Rasmus has limitless tal

tiple arm surgeries and always one throw away from the disabled list.

nearly six and he almost tallied more down to the minors late last year and it’s telling that the Jays still haven’t recalled him.

Jays could win a championship this ter than .260 just once in his career experiment in Toronto is not going The truth is that the Blue Jays are relying on far too many things to for things to go horribly wrong.

Start with the face of the fran been one of the best power hitters in the majors for three years now.

ter with the Blue Jays. Cabrera was about to win the batting title last year until he tested positive for steroids.

He might still be successful while off

too little room for error and things

the depleted Red Sox. Don’t expect things to get much better as the sea son goes along.

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straight chances and they all blew it.

They don’t deserve it.

f a n .

That’s get 45. But it’s 46 years since they

the cop cars can handle an actual win yet.

stand out among the rest and be when the cup never left its perch to cheer for the Leafs.

And what better time than now wasn’t observed before. Numbers never lie. to win Lord Stanley’s Cup. All those it to you another way. There are seven

North to shine fondly upon: the

of blue and white fans will swarm may stand by your overrated Chicago ing facts will become apparent: don’t come complaining to me when the last Canadian team to win the from the relentless nagging of your but they’ve had their chance of any of the other 29 teams). How

the first thingfor you’ll after “Events finals? “I’m go fly a kite!”

– Jodi Bagge What areWhat’s you most excited thisdoyear? likegonna the Banana Challenge” - Jen Newman

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SPORTS.

Playoff predictions A look ahead to as the basketball season heats up.

18 days from now, the NBA playoffs will CAM begin.

With STUERLE professional basketball’s second season fast approaching, it is important to take stock of who is going to make the playoffs and what is going to happen when it all gets under way in two and a half weeks. With that in mind, here are six bold predictions for the 2013 NBA Playoffs.

1. The Lakers will miss the playoffs: The Lakers play in Portland tonight (where they practically never win) followed by home games against playoff-bound foes Golden State, San Antonio, and Houston.

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two wins for the Lakers in these last four games. It all adds up to the Utah Jazz taking the last playoff spot.

2. Derrick Rose will not play this season: Ever since Rose tore the ACL in his left knee during last year’s playoffs, the constant watch for his return has been on. The fear was that the Chicago Bulls would force Rose to come back too early and do potentially career-threatening damage to his knee. Luckily though, it seems as if it’s Rose’s decision when to return and not the team’s. Rose seems to understand that taking four extra months off and coming back 100% in October is the best for everyone involved. Chicago’s season was

27 game win streak, the Bulls won’t make it out of the 1st round.

3. The Thunder will regret trading James Harden: The Thunder had a decision to either trade Harden this past offseason, re-sign him long term, or play out this year and let him walk this July. The Thunder decided to trade him to Houston for Kevin can’t create his own shot or set up team mates while Lamb has been generally useless. With Harden, OKC couldn’t have beaten anyone. With him gone, the offense looks slower and more stagnant and Russell Westbrook has been even more prone to taking over games the bad way with forced shots that freeze out Kevin Durant. The Thunder will implode in the Western Final or perhaps sooner. than three games before making that will be a sweep. The winner of the Brooklyn, Atlanta, and Chicago unholy triumvirate will be lucky to win one game. As for the New York and Indiana (and perhaps Boston?) winner, they could challenge the Heat, but none of those teams have enough to force a game seven.

5. The Spurs will win the West: Last week I was so tempted to take Denver, the most fun team to watch in the league this season by far, but after Danillo Gallinari’s torn ACL, the Nuggets don’t have a chance. The

Clippers can’t score in the half court, ship pedigree, and the Thunder are going to fall apart for reasons outlined above. That leaves the Spurs, the most consistent and fundamentally sound team in the association to win the West.

6. The Heat will roll to a second consecutive championship: All due bili, Tony Parker, and Greg Popovich, but they are no match for the Heat.

LeBron James is so far ahead of everyone else right now that no one can He has been dominating in the paint, hitting jumpers consistently, and setting up his teammates with open shots while locking down the opposing teams best player on defense. He Heat will beat the Spurs in six games to clinch another championship.

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HAPPY TIMES Happy 28th Birthday Dion Phaneuf! The captain of the Toronto had an orgasm on air while describing his play. NHL Central scouting even had him ranked ahead of Sidney Crosby at one point, but that didn’t really pan out in the NHL. He has had a decent career, but certainly has not lived up to the insane hype year.

Happy Trails Mike Rice! The now former head basketball coach physically abusing players surfaced on the internet. Rice was suspended for three games earlier this season after Rutgers ofthe public saw his actions. The three-game suspension has calling for the school’s President to resign as well. Rice’s antics were parodied on Saturday Night Live this past weekend, a piece of video I highly recommend.

Happy Anniversary Jackie Robinson! On this day in 1947, Robbarrier. Robinson would have made the Hall of Fame even if he wasn’t black, but the social impact that his career had made him a transcendent superstar. Robinson is one of only two athletes to have his number retired by every time in an entire league (Wayne Gretzky being the other). There is a movie about his life titled 42 set to release on Friday.

What’s the first thing you’ll do after finals? “Get my favourite drink from Starbucks and enjoy not being stressed!” – Katie Ney

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What’s the first thing you’ll do after finals? “Finish watching the second season of Smallville” - Melissa Johnston

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The Goodbye Girl Some of the many things I will miss about the ol’ TWU!

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Walking around residence in my nightgown in mid-afternoon without a care in the world

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Joking around about Tyson Lamar

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Pretending to be inebriated when I go through the front gate just to see if they will pull me over

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Walking in a zigzag to avoid puddles on the incredibly uneven walkways

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Tagging along with a dorm during O-week just for chance to play tree tag

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Knocking on people’s doors and running away

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Convincing myself I can run more than one lap around the campus without collapsing

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Stealing toilet paper from Northwest because I’m too lazy to buy it

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Getting hissed at by Satan’s spawn (also known as geese)

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Being in total fear every time I clean my clothes that some kid has an obsession: stealing my laundry

Writing a cute and thoughtful quote on my whiteboard, only to have a penis drawn over it

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Plugging my noise every time I walk through Tyler Snow’s dorm (beware of Fraser 1G)

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Turning off all the lights and hiding in the apartment while my roommate is in the bathroom

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Walking past the TWUSA windows just to check out my wardrobe MIKAELA FUQUA

What’s the first thing you’ll do after finals? “That’s easy: sleep!� - Blair Dickie

HUMOUR.

YEAR IN REVIEW. * 187,142 4 85 #@ ! words published

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April 10, 2013

all-nighters

articles about sex

mars’ tweets compiled by KAITIE SIMONSON

Sunshine, you make me want to do nothing!

It’s a Latina-African thing :D Frick. It will all be over soon. :( You make real friends quickly.

I was fine before I met you.

No, YOUR the best.

daaaaang eric delang

#ILUVJESUS

Reasons to date me: (1) (2) (3) Please? #happypraisechapel

You broke my heart but I like it that way.

I planned my entire dorm meeting around de-classifieds, please put this in.

No ma!er the day, hour, or minute remember that someone always loves Hey Students, good luck.

YOU. Tessa Kastelien+Olivia Stephen=friends Dear midterms/exams/essays/my life ld***n@gu$@hg7@kjn*gnaghh!!!!!

Why?!?!?

Could the person who wrote “you’re the best ever heart heart love you” on Micheal’s car please step forward #Iknowsomethingyoudon’t

Colton Martin=the bomb

Lord, please forgive me for all the lies I told during Gotcha week.

The Creep (feat. Nicki Minaj & John Waters) #gotcha2013

I would tell you I like you via Mars Hill, Sometimes I fart on the way out of but this whole ‘annoymous’ thing is chapel. kinda sketchy...

Is it just me, or does Jacob and Pepe, come to the LC. Brenna look cute together?

You work dat clean-shaven face Kevin.

YOU.WERK.DAT. CAYLA COLEMAN CAYLA COLEMAN CAYLA COLEMAN CAYLA COLEMAN CAYLA COLEMAN CAYLA COLEMAN CAYLA COLEMAN CAYLA COLEMAN CAYLA COLEMAN CAYLA COLEMAN CAYLA COLEMAN CAYLA COLEMAN CAYLA COLEMAN CAYLA COLEMAN CAYLA COLEMAN CAYLA COLEMAN CAYLA COLEMAN CAYLA COLEMAN CAYLA COLEMAN CAYLA COLEMAN CAYLA COLEMAN CAYLA COLEMAN CAYLA COLEMAN CAYLA ...hi.

Zoey Lavergne for trinity president.

Go take 50 cents to the girls washroom and put whateever comes out on your face.

@emilyknauff: by the looks of it id say Kim Kardashian is carrying her baby in her bu!.

@terrible_tia: I slouch so I get lines on my stomach that trick you into thinking I have abs.

@ma!ruby: When your dorm toilet starts shaking and you’re not sure if its cause of the train, an earthquake, or your lunch.

@krkndrsn: It’s 2013. Why does anyone feel a need to call a radio station to request a song?

Surely that’s more work than finding it yourself... @TLWsGurl: You know you’re ge!ing a bad mark on your art project when your prof says your picture of a bowl and spoon looks like an egg and sperm

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DE-CLASSIFIEDS.

marshillonline.com/de-classified

Mars’ Hill editors reserve the right to edit or reject submissions based on content and/or length. A printed submission does not necessarily reflect an endorsement of any kind, nor does it necessarily reflect the opinions of Mars’ Hill staff , the student association, or that of the University. In fact probably not.

Note to self: when playing gotcha, skip all classes in RPC, its not worth it :( “I just hit someone!” -said no stormtrooper ever Guy asked me to hand him a weight in the gym today. It was the weight of a thousand moons. All that was running through my head: BE COOL. BE COOL. BE COOL. Dear TWUSA, Just because you’ve been voted onto executive council for next year, does not mean you are above the rules and regulations. #dormhours #setanexample #previewweekend #justplainrude Sleep > Showering If I had a Portal gun, I’d be able to properly french braid my hair...

My favorite part of dorm dates is when the girls giggle with their friends and then don’t talk to you.

Hey 3W, when are you gonna start labelling your stuff? THE SUNNY D IS MIIINNEEE. muhaha #freereignx2 It doesn’t ma"er how many papers I write, I still don’t know how many pages make a 1500 word essay.

Common guys, Romans 13! Why are we still going 70 down Telegraph Trail?

Hey guy with the jedi braid and fedora. Don’t.

Dating tip from Devyn Ple": Lead with the tongue.

more people more time to write.

This usually means that we end up pu"ing the entire paper together in a single weekend. But we don’t mind; we believe it’s worth it. Your words have been beautiful, and it has been an honour to publish them, despite the difficulties.

At 3am on Sunday, during our second all-nighter in a row, we sometimes order a pizza to keep us going—a slice in one hand, computer mouse in the other. But TWUSA says it’s irresponsible: “You can go home and cook your own food,” … while making the paper…at 3am…

Currently, our editors make less money than SOS Leaders. When we have a li"le bit of money le$ over at the end of the year, and try to compensate the amazing hours they’ve invested in your campus publication, TWUSA says it’s irresponsible: “Being on Mars’ Hill is privilege enough.”

The fact that TWUSA President and VP Finance veto Mars’ Hill’s budget decisions is in direct violation of the 2012-2013 Bylaws, which clearly state, “It is not the job of the

Vice President of Finance to dictate or control the content or value of each [department’s] budget.”

But what puzzles us the most is that our Editor-in-Chief is carefully ve"ed each year by a skilled panel of university staff and faculty. Meanwhile, TWUSA is hired based on the familiarity of the student population, which can verge on becoming a popularity contest. When was the last time you looked at their resumes before voting for them? And yet Mars’ Hill’s budget continues to be controlled by the TWUSA President and VP Finance.

We hope that next year’s TWUSA President will recognize that the university implicitly trusts the financial integrity of the new Editorin-Chief, and let your newspaper determine how to best serve you— whether that means a full-colour issue or midnight can of coke.

If you believe that Mars’ Hill is responsible and want to see your paper continue, please take a sec to email twusapresident@twu.ca.

Just put something in the subject line… #friendsofmarshill

When life gives you lemons throw them back and demand Channing Tatum.

“So in the last chorus of ‘How He Loves’, we’re gonna sing 8 octaves higher than we usually do okay?” -.-

To our beloved readers We’ve loved pu"ing the paper together for you guys this year; but there were times when it almost didn’t happen. Actually, it almost doesn’t happen every year; and we believe it’s time someone told you, the student body, why.

Mars’ Hill is guaranteed 19.5% of your student fees every year. But when our editors need to upgrade the office computer, we have to make these payments on our own personal credit cards. These expenses sit on our bank accounts until TWUSA approves our request for reimbursement and gets around to signing a cheque to compensate us. Of course, it’s more than a li"le nerve-wracking dropping money on a large payment unsure of when, and if, you’ll ever be compensated.

Mars’ Hill is wri"en for the students by the students, so we’ve made an effort to include your voices in the paper and have ended this year with an all-time record high in contributor numbers. We know you’re awfully busy, which is why we extended our deadlines to give You think we can’t see what’s under your shirt but God still knows what’s covering your heart: black, lacy sin.

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Paul Robinson Year: 3 Height: 5’10

Christianity & Culture

Hey Trinity, might want to consider changing the time on the digital info sign--daylight savings happened 2 weeks ago.

I’m not saying I’m Batman. I’m just saying no one has ever seen me and Batman in the same room.

Dear Mars Hill, Thanks for giving me reading material for when I poop.

Sincerely, Jacob Schellenberg To the North West girls who leave their dumps in the toilet without flushing, you need to flush!

Everyone has a “booger spot” in the car right?

Rule of thumb in the caf: if it’s fish, its probably not good.

To the couple making out in the atrium on March 26th, Stop making out/snuggling/kissyfacing/ giggling while I study 10 feet away.

Sincerely, The uncomfortable guy with the orange laptop case.

To the guy who plugged the bathroom by the LC. Yes, you pay a lot of money to go here. No, that does not mean you can just leave your crap stewing for poor the janitors to clean up.

You put the sexy in dyslexic.

THE HIMNAL

Hometown: Maple Ridge, B.C. Denomination: The Paul and Derek Free Church. We baptize down at the pond.

Fave man in the Bible: Ehud. Crazy assassin.

View on courtship: What her dad says.

Idea of a perfect date? Afternoon

hike. Dinner watching the sunset from the top How would you win her parents of the mountain. BASE jump down. Book it back over? to TWU and stay up all night writing papers.

I’ll be sure to say please. And cheesecake… no Drive out to Fort Langley for the Sunrise. Sleep. one can resist good cheesecake.

Repeat.

Good age to get married?

3rd year…oh, wait.

Best place for a kiss?

Back of the bus in elementary school.

How do you know its love? isn’t real (yet).

How many kids do you want? ThreeOne of whom is adopted.

What’s the first thing you’ll do after finals? “Throw all my papers in the air while I shout for joy” – Karianne Tigh