Today at Biola, students lined up to donate their time and blood at Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital’s blood drive. The contributors were glad to give.
“I think if I have the opportunity to do something that can help someone else, I should do it,” said sophomore Elise Paty. “It doesn’t...
College, high school students join hands at on campus prayer
September 26, 2007
For Biola junior Ariel Okamoto, this morning was a flashback – she woke up early and drove to Esperanza High School to pray around the flagpole with members of the Christian Club.
But this time around, she came to See You at the Pole as a college student and member of the California School Project...
At the AS Senate's Tuesday meetings, senators give audience to parties requesting money, vote on pending proposals and discuss finances.
Here is a rundown of the most recent senate meeting, which was held September 25th.
NEW PROPOSALS (have yet to be voted on)
Rugby Club: $1900 i. Biola's...
It was Sept. 25, 1957, when the Little Rock Nine marched into Arkansas’ Central High, guarded by the Army’s 101st Airborne Division. Fifty years after that dramatic episode of forced integration, the civil rights movement has a new face.
Senior Brittney Walker attended a rally last Thursday...
This morning marked Biola’s 29th annual golf tournament. Hundreds showed up for the event with their golf bags, ready for a game on the sunny greens of Los Coyotes Country Club in Buena Park.
Biola’s cheer squad welcomed tournament golfers as they arrived at the course, ushering them into the...
Theology of Suffering and Disability scheduled for spring '08
September 24, 2007
The Bible department is adding a one-of-a-kind upper division course next semester -- Theology of Suffering and Disability. Biola will be the first school in the nation to offer such a class, quadriplegic Joni Eareckson Tada said in chapel on Sept. 19.
“Our churches don’t know what to do,” said...
Sophomore Biola student Eileen Evind spent this week passing out fliers for a prayer meeting. Evind was surprised when she received weird looks since fliers are so ordinary at Biola. The flier was an invite to a time of prayer for what she believes is a social injustice.
Last night Biola students...
Sharing the Gospel can be difficult or intimidating, but with the upstart of the new Office of Spiritual Life, students are equipped to be healthy ministers of the gospel in the church and to the world, according to their new page on Biola’s Web site.
What used to be known as the Department...
Blue-shirted fans swarmed through Dodger Stadium on Sunday afternoon, but there was a group that clearly stood out from the rest. Sporting blue t-shirts that declared “Biola loves the Dodgers,” the crowd in the right-field bleachers had enough enthusiasm to make the wave travel around the entire...
A smattering of black specks vigorously leapt about, and red bumps of intense itchiness appeared on various body parts of several dorm residents last week. These were the unhappy symptoms of a flea epidemic that had been experienced by a room in Horton.
Kristen Girard, Resident Assistant (RA) of upper...
O.J. Simpson has been arrested and released by Nevada authorities this week in relation to an armed robbery in the Palace Station hotel on the Las Vegas strip.
Thomas Riccio, a California auctioneer, said he arranged a meeting with Simpson and two other collectors, Alfred Beardsley and Bruce Fromong,...
It was a unique place for Biola to publicly induct President Barry Corey. Last Sunday at Chavez Ravine, home park of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Corey had the privilege of throwing out the first pitch at Biola’s second centennial event, Dodger Day.
The game itself was the series finale between the...
