As I entered the room, Alice was sitting in a wheel chair. She had warned me that ALS had sapped much of her strength since I had last seen her 18 months ago.

Since it comes at the end of the collegiate experience, most of us have to remind ourselves why graduation is called "commencement." For InterVarsity students it signals the end of ever-present friends, close community, exciting fellowship and a vibrant discipleship that impacts the entire campus. But it is also a beginning.

A faithful life lived out in obedience to Christ on a college campus is in contrast with the flow of the surrounding culture. The contrast can be so stark that even the news media can't help but notice. These are the kind of stories that accumulate in "InterVarsity in the News."

Is your life characterized by long, leisurely walks — or by frenzied sprints to get to your next engagement?

Influencing a culture through its entertainment

The trend highlights InterVarsity's multiethnic emphasis

There’s more than one way of doing it

A self-described naturally stingy person makes a thoughtful gift that will have long lasting impact

Students better understand God’s world and God’s Word after they pitch in

Paul wanted the Philippians to be a vibrant church, growing in the Lord and declaring his Word. "And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless in the day of Christ" (Phil 1:9-10). Bill and Beth McConnell wanted the same thing for the Brazilian Christians with whom they worked. God used InterVarsity to prepare Bill and Beth for their work in Brazil.