It’s up to 100 times more powerful than morphine, and contributed to 60 per cent of illicit drug deaths in B.C. last year. But why is fentanyl really dangerous? In the second season of A&E’s Intervention Canada, we met Aimee Parry, a 26-year-old blue-eyed bookworm from Ottawa, Ont. As per the show’s premise, Parry agrees to be… Read more »
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FEATURE: Long-distance learning
Make 2017 the year to say ‘yes!’ to studying abroad For those of us who are always daydreaming about exploring somewhere new, a semester abroad is a no-brainer: experiencing new cultures, trying new foods, meeting new people, and perhaps most importantly, getting to travel while earning university credits? What’s not to love? UVic boasts of… Read more »
Into the VR Zone: How virtual reality is changing Victoria’s world
START You’re diving underwater with a pod of orcas. You’re flying through space with a jetpack and a laser gun. You’re ducking beneath the crack of gunfire in an Iraqi warzone. And then you take your virtual reality headset off. Virtual reality (VR) is not a new invention. It started—as so many new technologies do—as… Read more »
The art of the dive: Behind the scenes of UVic’s Community Cabbage
The eight of us sat in a GMC VanDura Campwagon outside the Thrifty Foods on Quadra and Cook. It was dark—9:30 p.m. in early November. We were nervous and excited, unsure of what to do next. In the two front seats, Kaia Bryce and Michael Nyquist, the most experienced members of our group, mulled over… Read more »
Flight of the Valkyries: It’s broom’s up for UVic’s Quidditch team
Rumours and outright speculation around UVic’s Quidditch team have existed on campus since they started as a club in 2010. Most people know about them, others wonder, and some outright don’t even know they exist. Quidditch is just a Potterhead activity, right? Actually, it’s a sport that has garnered worldwide interest complete with national teams,… Read more »
What’s the Martlet afraid of?
In the spirit of Halloween, the Martlet staff has compiled a brief list of our worst fears and phobias. All we ask is that you use this information for educational purposes only, and not as a means to terrify and frighten us. Leone Brander, Design Director: Sea monsters, germs, haunted house attractions Alex Coates, Business… Read more »
Confessions of an overthinking backpacker
Here’s the toughest thing to admit about my four-month solo “Eurodyssey:” I’d built up high expectations of adventurous discovery, falling in love with a pretty European girl and segueing into wild romantic escapades, and then brunching it after a hedonistic booze-fuelled night. With these ideals of what SHOULD happen — rather than what COULD happen — you can imagine… Read more »
A newbie’s guide to UVSS advocacy groups and the Board of Directors
For those of you who are new to UVic, or are otherwise unaware, this campus has a particularly active political culture. Aside from the UVSS board of directors, the Students’ Union Building (SUB) houses the Native Students Union and four advocacy groups. Each of these collectives advocates for specific communities who may face different sociopolitical … Read more »
Getting the band back together: Inside the UVSS’s split—and possible reunion—with the ABCS
In December 2013, the Alliance of B.C. Students (ABCS), a non-profit advocacy group with a mission to address issues facing post-secondary education in British Columbia, was formed. The University of Victoria Students Society (UVSS) was one of its founding members. But two years later, at the end of the 2014-15 academic year, the UVSS quietly… Read more »
I, witness: My experience at the Holocaust field school
I remember my hesitation clearly as I walked into the Germanic Studies office in Clearihue on the first of November. My hands were sweating, my stomach was in knots, and my head kept screaming at me, wondering what I was getting myself into. In my hands I clutched my final application for the I-witness Holocaust field… Read more »
