This month: logging protesters, increase in student loans, mass unemployment.

Value-added businesses say they can’t find enough wood suppliers — because most of the rights to log on public forest lands are held by a few lumber companies.

Canadian forward and former UVic star Katie Rushton (far right) fires a shot at Malaysian goalkeeper Ernawati Mahmud in Olympic field hockey qualifiers on April 29. ...

Sports fans aren’t the only ones who get excited about the Olympics and the NHL playoffs — researchers love sports too; they’re a great source of data and information.

One UVic student calls a boat his home. Exciting? We think so.

Vancouver Island has many lakes — get out and enjoy them!

A feature on the troubling past and alarming side effects of the contraceptive that changed the world.

Icelandic singer-songwriter hero Mugison is about to shake up Canada in his upcoming tour with Queens of the Stone Age.

April 18 saw one of the greatest turnouts for the annual UVic visual arts undergrad show, Hot Sh*t, which lined the walls of the department with the work of more than 36 different artists.

Ani DiFranco drew from her musical archive, playing many older songs at the University Centre auditorium on April 22.

Have you ever played your iPod at full volume or gone to a rock concert without hearing protection? If you answered yes, you’re at risk of developing noise-induced hearing loss.

The Martlet tackles the new UVic.ca.

Spencer Anderson and Gavin Day have a War of Words about the possible boycott of the Beijing Olympics.

Letters for the month. Read them here!

Poet Alexander Pope was right — you can escape the sun, but there is no escaping love when summer turns the whole world brighter.