2012-2013
ISSUE #
STUDENTS
SERVING
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STUDENTS
TAYLORtalk
SEPTEMBER 2012
In this issue of the
UPCOMING
EVENTS
of TAYLOR talk
Financial Aid
Application Deadline!
New TSSA Executive
June 10, 2013
TSSA Fees Changing
Last Day for Admissions App!
Your Invitation to Get Involved
Friday, Aug. 2nd
Orientation – New Students!
Thursday, Aug. 29th
Taylor Commons
Fall Semester Begins!
rd
Tuesday, Sept. 3
Taylor Commons
STAY CONNECTED
Find us online
http://www.taylorseminary.ca/pros
New Executive for TSSA
As the outgoing president of the TSSA, it is my pleasure to introduce the new executive for the coming
year.
- President: Matt Hammond
- Vice-President: Alexander Frimapong
- Spiritual Life Coordinator (Chapels): Amica Beulshausen
- Social Convenor : Janine Padatella
- Communications: David Heavenor
- Community Groups Coordinator: Nathaniel Trinh
I would like to say a big "THANK YOU" to those who served on the TSSA Executive this year, particularly
to Megan Jackins and Loretta Stadt who served every week by putting together chapels and community
groups, which were means of God's grace, thank you! Also, thank you to Tim Willson and Janine Cooper
who helped the TSSA Exec behind the scenes, and to those who helped in many other tasks while not
officially serving on the council, thank you!
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On Facebook
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Email
[email protected] or
[email protected]
Blessings,
Amy
TAYLORtalk, cont.
Other News
The Sydneys
TSSA Fees Changing
The annual Sydneys were handed out in April.
Among the awards handed out at this mockOscar’s awards event was a special Christian
Men’s Beard Award, presented by Alan Fiebich
to President Dr. David Williams, Dr. Jerry
Shepherd and Dr. Syd Page.
Fee Changes Coming –
TSSA changing with the times
TSSA student fees have been amended to be
more fair and consistent, so that all students,
regardless of mode of course offering, are
paying $4 per credit hour ($12 per course) in
student fees. This fee reflects that the TSSA
Executive still needs to have an operating
budget and represent students regardless of
how that student is taking courses.
As a result, it is our duty to be in greater contact
with online students and represent their
concerns as well as the concerns of regulsr
semester students, and we have been doing
this.
If you have any questions, comments or
concerns,
please
email
us:
[email protected].
CHAPEL & GROUPS
Signed Up for a Community Group?
Every semester there are a number of chapels and
spiritual formation activities planned. These consist
of a variety of chapels and a series of small groups,
also called community groups. If you are a student
at Taylor Seminary you will automatically be assigned
a community group. If you need to discuss issues
related to community groups, please contact
Nathaniel Trinh - the new Community Groups
Coordinator.
One of the highlights of the Sydney Awards was
a reading of The Student, which is reproduced
on the following page.
The Student
Let me look, then, let me see once more,
Let me gaze quickly and this truth account for,
By Heather Breitkreuz (with many apologies to Edgar
Allan Poe)
He’s distracted but a moment, and nothing more.”
Once upon a morning weary, in class I took notes,
eyes still bleary
To his screen my eyes did flutter, beneath my breath I
began to mutter,
Handwriting scribbles, volumes from my pen did pour,
For no notes took he, as students of saintly days of
yore,
While I jotted knowledge lapping, suddenly there
came a tapping,
As of someone gently tapping, tapping, tapping on a
keyboard,
“’Tis some student,” I muttered, “typing notes on their
keyboard,
Only this, and nothing more.”
Not the least obeisance made he, not a moment of
attention paid he,
But, with the mien of someone bored, he continued to
type on his keyboard
On Facebook his exploits he poured, tap-tap-tapping
on his keyboard,
Only this, and nothing more.
Ah, distinctly I remember twas still early in
September,
Knowledge and wisdom from the professors mouth
did pour,
Eagerly I caught each word, the ink would never be
deterred,
For some a laptop was preferred, I was writing ere my
hand was sore
‘Til I glimpsed the young student this poem was
written for,
Nameless here for evermore.
Suddenly the student, at once beguiling, hid his
screen while at the professor smiling,
I stared at my own note-taking, never thinking it as a
chore,
Still deeper in my chair sinking, I soon betook myself
to thinking,
Thinking of this student, bored, distracted from all the
Biblical lore,
Thinking on the ominous sign for all of what would be
his final score,
Here rests the church’s future, evermore.
Far across that classroom peering, long I stared,
wondering, sneering,
Riled at what I saw, for this youth’s actions did I
abhor,
Then I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable
expressing
Into his back my fiery eyes now pierced his very core,
But his tapping was unceasing, indeed with speed it
was increasing,
“All he does is text!” I felt my very soul becoming
vexed,
But no notes of lecture learning, from his fingers did
outpour,
On his i-Phone, head to the floor, I felt anger to my
core
For it was only internet, email & Facebook that he did
explore,
Texting, emailing, all the more, within I felt I was at
war,
Merely this, and nothing more.
Why does he come to class? What for?
Back to the lecture my attention turning, all my soul
within me burning,
Then me-thought the air grew denser, perfumed from
an unseen censer
Soon again I heard the tapping somewhat louder than
before.
Swung by Seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the
carpet floor.
“Surely,” said I, “I should not impugn, he must to the
professor be attuned,
“Wretch,” I cried, “thy God hath lent thee - by these
angels he hath sent thee
To remind me and despise me, of times I must repent
for
For once I was young and sat in many lectures I too
did ignore
Youth does not change, no nevermore.
“Be that truth our sign in parting, old or young, to all
students, I am imparting,
Endeavour in class, be tempted not by siren call from
Facebook’s shore!
Hear the words spoken by your professors in lectures
long and unbroken,
By messaging, texting, emailing, surfing, and what not
I implore,
There is so much to learn, why not attend more?
And surf the net in class, “nevermore!”
Yet still the student, never quitting, still is sitting, still is
hitting,
Buttons on his phone, computer and the more
Now on YouTube, now live-streaming, is he watching
a movie, or am I dreaming?
And the laptop light o’er him streaming... throws his
shadow on the floor,
And my own youth from out that shadow, that lies
floating on the floor,
Shall be lifted – nevermore.
The Student was written and performed by Heather
Breitkreuz for the 2013 Sydneys.