Many within the Biola community are local to the Los Angeles and Pasadena area and suffered because of the fires ravaging the region over the past two weeks. Students affected shared their experiences, feelings and stories about the fires. STUDENT STORIES Hillary Ramirez, a junior cinema and media...

Speaking to the “Geek's Guide to the Galaxy” podcasters, science fiction writer Andrew Duncan reflected on a short story he had written in 2001 in which he told a sympathetic tale using J. R. R. Tolkien’s “orc” characters. It seems that the story was inspired by a subliminal racism he sensed...