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Editor’s Picks: Highlights of Spring 2025 (So Far)

Editor’s Picks: Highlights of Spring 2025 (So Far)
A look at standout stories from this semester, handpicked by our editors.

As the spring semester comes to a close, our editors selected their favorite stories that highlight crucial, timely topics and demonstrate journalistic rigor. Patricia Yang, Editor-in-Chief: A story that came out of the news about fires appearing close to The Getty — as someone who really loves art...

Looking after Biola’s LGBTQIA+ community

A visual expression of unity and belonging—core values at the heart of The Dwelling's mission to cultivate connection and care for LGBTQ+ students at Biola.
Biola’s LGBTQIA+ and SSA groups through the years
Joseph Abboud, Business Manager April 15, 2025

As The Dwelling nears its seventh birthday, there is still a lot of confusion among students about the group and how it functions. Recently, changes at Biola University and policies enacted by the Trump Administration have increased the uncertainty surrounding groups like The Dwelling. In Summer 2024,...

Biola recognizes student excellence in film at the 2025 Biola Film Festival

left to right: Sean O'Hara, Samuel Hernandez, Nick Bash and Tristan Baumgardner posing with awards.
A select number of student CMA projects, including Biola Films and senior theses, were nominated for best-of-year awards at the Biola Film Festival this past Friday.
Kelly Van Duine, Staff Writer April 12, 2025

On April 4, Biola University’s Cinema and Media Arts (CMA) department hosted their annual Biola Film Festival, an award show in which all current Biola students can submit their work. Films included senior thesis projects, past Biola Films, class projects, music videos, student-made documentaries and...

4/4 SGA Rundown: A Tale of Two Proposals

SGA Senate
SGA deliberates over two student proposals and announces upcoming campus events.
Emanuel Gomez, Staff Writer April 9, 2025

KEY POINTS On Friday, April 4, Biola University’s Student Government Association (SGA) met to discuss two student proposals and a variety of upcoming campus events. The following is a summary of the meeting: Biola University’s annual Spring Formal, organized by SGA, is taking place this Saturday,...

“Called” through the lens

Students worshipping in the 2025 Cook Missions Conference at the Chase Gymnasium
The 95th Annual Clyde and Anna Belle Cook Missions Conference as seen in pictures.
Katie Ragains, Photo Editor April 1, 2025

The 2025 Cook Missions Conference hosted seven speakers, featured worship led by Circuit Riders Music, and exhorted students to look at the Great Commission as something that is not optional. Here is what it looked like.  As students fill Chase Gymnasium and find their seats, each session starts...

Biola and Immigration

Biola and Immigration
Mass Deportations have been rampant, affecting many communities, including those at Biola.
Jamileh Lopez, News Editor March 31, 2025

Victoria García, a freshman sociology major, shared that the increasing traction of U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids and deportations brings worries for family members, though they have done their best to live peacefully for years.  “There is a small fear that I have for family...

Biola’s rookie robotics team qualifies for World Championship

Robotics team at competition hosted by Cal Poly SLO.
A long year of trial and error and competition results in an opportunity to win it all for the fresh Biola team
Olivia Kam, News Editor March 31, 2025

On Mar. 4, Biola’s robotics team announced that they were headed to the VEX U Robotics World Championship in an Instagram post. It also stated that the team was successful at the weekend’s competition earlier at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo on Mar. 1. The post announced...

The second covering of Jesus

Volunteers and staff for the Student Missionary Union hand painting the two-story tall sign that would later cover the Jesus Mural on Bardwell Hall.
The Jesus Mural was hidden by a black tarp for this year’s Missions Conference, but it is not the first time this was done.
Katie Ragains, Photo Editor March 28, 2025

The somewhat controversial The WORD (or “Jesus Mural” as the students call it) was covered with a black tarp by Student Missionary Union (SMU) staff this year as a part of the theme for Missions Conference. This took place just two days ahead of the 95th annual Clyde and Anna Belle Cook Mission’s...

CMA building’s topping-out ceremony marks second big construction step

CMA topping-off ceremony on Mar. 27, 2025
Biola celebrates topping-out ceremony for new CMA building with worship and gratitude
Olivia Kam, News Editor March 28, 2025

On Mar. 27, the Biola community gathered at the construction site for the new CMA building. Many donors and faculty were present, including Tom Halleen, founding dean of the Snyder School of Cinema and Media Arts and President Barry Corey. The ceremony began with David Vazquez, vice president of university...

Thirty-minute power outage affects Biola’s campus

The fifth floor of Horton Hall was shrouded in darkness during a 30-minute campus-wide power outage that disrupted regular activity on Mar. 27, 2025.
Blackout affected lights, Wi-Fi, air conditioning, elevators
Hope Li, Olivia Kam, and Isahi Minero March 27, 2025

The power went out for half an hour across Biola’s campus on Mar. 27, affecting overhead lights, automatic sliding doors, air conditioning, Wi-Fi and elevators. “The protective relay for campus power failed, causing our campus main breaker to trip,” said Biola’s chief of Campus Safety and...

Snyder building construction remains on schedule, set to complete May 2026

The Snyder School construction begins to take shape just 8 months after the groundbreaking Mar. 26, 2025.
The new CMA building is still on track eight months after groundbreaking despite weather and fundraising challenges
Olivia Kam, News Editor March 27, 2025

A previous version of this article stated that $55.9 million had been raised as of the CMA groundbreaking ceremony and that less than $1 million was raised between September 2024 and February 2025. The correct amount raised as of the groundbreaking was $53.4 million, and approximately $5 million was...

Beloved Biola and Torrey alumnus passes away

Cameron Huelin and his wife, Allie Wells
Family members and Torrey community mourns and commemorates Cameron Huelin, Biola 2024 alumnus
Olivia Kam, News Editor March 27, 2025

Cameron Huelin, a 2024 Biola business major and Torrey Honors College alumnus, passed away on Mar. 18, 2025. The Torrey community held prayer services for Huelin after he discovered he had a malignant brain tumor in the fall of 2022. He met his wife, Allie Wells, a 2023 biology and pre-medicine Biola...