Thursday option allows students to practice language through praise
June 15, 2008
Originally published Oct. 10, 2007.
The standard chapel format looks a little different in Mayers Auditorium this morning.
Sure, the music starts up, the students begin to sing and the praise team belts out a heartfelt praise chorus.
Then a few students gather at the front to read some Bible...
As the social networking site eclipses its rival MySpace, students weigh its pros and cons
June 15, 2008
Originally published Oct. 18, 2007.
“You know you go to Biola when … you hear there's a Biola party, and you automatically assume it includes a Disney movie and popcorn,” or when “you go on a coffee date at Common Grounds and everyone assumes you're getting married,” or even when all this...
Originally published Oct. 3, 2007
The hospitals had turned her away, the medications were hardly helping the pain, and death itself seemed to be promptly approaching. What had begun as a three-week missions trip to Las Vegas, soon turned into pivotal experience altered sophomore Karen Myer’s...
Originally published Sept. 26, 2007
Anya Tronson, a 2005 Biola alumna, never dreamed she would train Olympic athletes just a year and a half after graduating.
“I thought I wanted to be an Olympic trainer when I was 35, but now, ten years earlier, I have to figure out what I’m going...
Originally published Sept. 25, 2007
Biola as a community continually seeks ways to better integrate students. Whether it is across the campus, or across the world, we are a part of a larger community of alumni, current students and students yet to come. We eat together in the cafeteria, we profess...
An idea hatched between friends last winter has, for three CMA students, paid off big time.
Three weeks ago, cinema and media arts majors junior Jeremy Davidson and seniors Michael “Danger” Kilpatrick and Christopher Irwin found out that they placed third in Shure’s Fantastic Scholastic...
This week’s Hidden Place is a rock — a rock that has no earthly business being on Biola’s campus. It’s a great place to sit and escape the final week of the school year. Go anytime, but know there is little light at night.
From Jesus (who I hear they are talking about painting...
As college is slowly coming to an end and I look back on all that I've experienced — the ups, the downs, the good times and bad — I can't help but think to myself: My goodness, how many all-nighters did I pull? I knew from the beginning they would be unavoidable. They're the ultimate...
Travel fever has plagued me the last few months. I frequently wanted to sail away to another place, preferably at sunset, and never return. A plane would work too. The academic challenges, the amount of hours at The Chimes and stress this last semester have pushed me over the edge once or twice. However,...
I searched for study tips that I could share with you to make this column worth your time this week — it being finals crunch time and all. Instead, I found a lot of unhelpful advice. It seemed as though all the pointers demanded no procrastination, nutritious apples and almonds and protein bars...
Apparently this is my last column ever for The Chimes, and I kind of have mixed emotions, mostly because I can’t tell if I’m retiring or getting fired. Sure, I’m reaching that age when it’s time to move on, but at the same time I realize that no one is going to allow me to keep...
Biola students ranked Instructional Effectiveness as the most important area of student life, and as the area that they were most satisfied with, according to a survey conducted in Fall of 2007.
942 out of 3550 traditional Biola undergraduates participated in an online Noel Levitz Student Satisfaction...
