STUDENT LIFE * * * While students enter Biola with a serious purpose in view, they are none the less keenly interested in the activities of school life, which serve to counterbalance a program of work and study, making it both enjoyable and wholesome for the all-round development of the individual. STUDENT BODY ASSOCIATION * * * The Student Body Association, of which all students are automatically members , exists for a threefold purpose: To foster the spirit of fellowship, to promote the interests and welfare of the students, and to direct all student affairs.
Each Friday morning the Student Body Associa tion holds a short business and fellowship meet ing in conjunction with special student-led devotions. This organization supervises the publication of an outstanding school yearbook, the BIOLAN, and a monthly newspaper, the BIOLA CHIMES·. Planning student body outings is also a vital project of the S. B. A. executive committee. Typi cal examples of events sponsored by this group are the semiannual picnics, trips to Mount Wilson Observatory and Switzer's Land, and the annual Mount Baldy snow party. Also along the line of recreation, the student body sponsors a men's basketball team, which is a member of the Los Angeles Church League. This team plays Saturday nights during the season at the dow~town Y.M.C.A., and students witness these contests with a great deal of en thusiasm, since the Biola aggregation is fre quently contending for top position in the league. It is the object of these games not only to give physical exercise and relaxation but also to offer
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the highest type of clean sportsmanship. On Friday nights, members of the Biola family meet for "Home Night." Various represen tative groups such as, for example, San Diego students, married couples, students from the State of Washington, or perhaps all those working at a popular local cafeteria, plan the enter tainment for one of these functions and vie with each other in displaying the recreational talents of that particular group. A short devotional period always climaxes the evening. The Student Body Association also sponsors parties for special holidays, and concludes its program of social activities for the year with a Junior-Senior reception. STUDENT MISSIONARY UNION * * * Undoubtedly the point of highest interest in the week for many a Bible Institute student whose face is set toward some field of missionary service is the regular Thursday evening meeting of the Student Missionary Union, an organization which aims to stimulate interest in the many fields of home and foreign missions. Los Angeles Harbor being port of entry and exit of many missionaries to the Orient and Latin America, Biola has a marked privilege. These meetings are open to the entire student body, and hearts are deeply stirred as returned missionaries and missionary candidates vividly portray condi tions in the many regions where "the Name that is above every name" is yet unknown. Immediately following this meeting, the students, dividing into various groups accord ing to their interest in the different fields, withdraw to separate rooms for earnest prayer. A number of students correspond with missionaries on the field, in order that they may more intelligently carry on this work of intercession; still others come to know the Lord's plan for their own lives through participation in· these meetings. The S. M. U. sends deputation teams, upon request, to various churches and young people's groups in Los Angeles for the purpose of fostering missionary interest through
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