Mars' Hill

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Mars’ Hill is the official student newspaper of Trinity Western University. It is funded by the TWU Student Association and according to its website, "seeks to be a professional and relevant student publication, reflecting and challenging the TWU community, while also addressing local, national and international issues". It started as an underground newspaper in 1988, led by Bruce Beck, but was shut down by administration after only two issues. In 1995, it usurped the current official student newspaper, "The Today".

Mars' Hill is published twelve times during the academic school year (September to May), coming out approximately every two weeks. Its current distribution is 1500, reaching over 4000 students, faculty, staff and alumni both on and off the Trinity Western University campus.

Mars' Hill has won several awards since its inception in 1995, including the Associate Collegiate Press' Newspaper of the Year 2005. Mars' Hill is a member both of the Associate Collegiate Press and of the Canadian University Press.

Mars' Hill received unusual mainstream media attention in the fall of the 2005 due to its covering of the allegations of sexual harassment against then university president Neil Snider which had been filed with the BC Human Rights Tribunal, and for its further criticism of how those complaints were handled by the University.