The smell of sweet skunk and sounds of cannabis coughing were tell-tale clues for the location of the 11th-annual Victoria Cannabis Convention. Many members of ...

If you find the student support system complicated, get lost without a map, or you just think the university could be a better host, you can take comfort in the fact that ...

The Student Union Building’s (SUB) deficit, pro-life group Youth Protecting Youth (YPY) and the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) were all on the table at ...

They’re shaving it anyway. Despite not reaching their goal of raising $25,000, the women of Babes Go Bare for Cancer will still cut off their curls to demonstrate ...

As this year’s UVic Students’ Society (UVSS) chairperson candidates debated the issues of the day in the Student Union Building’s (SUB) Michelle Pujol room on March ...

UVic’s Anti-Violence Project (AVP) is hosting a film series in hopes of creating a place where people can talk about how violence impacts lives and to show how ...

This week’s election marks the end of a long-lived appeals process that, at times, embroiled the UVic Students’ Society (UVSS) in controversy. At the UVSS ...

Alkis Gerd’son, a business management student at UVic with provincial disability status, is being shown the door of his residence apartment. The university has ...

On March 3, 4 and 5, students will once again head to the polls to choose who will represent them on the UVic Students’ Society (UVSS) Board of Directors for the 2010 ...

The UVic Students’ Society (UVSS) is officially neutral on having fraternities and sororities on campus. Until the UVSS Semi-Annual General Meeting (SAGM) on Feb. 11, ...

Every team but one will end their season in a loss, and this year, the UVic women’s basketball team will not be that winner. The Vikes were swept in a best-of-three ...

The Winter Olympics are a joke. Not in the “Vancouver spent too much money and a few things went wrong” way, but in what’s happening on the ice and the slopes of ...

To the strangers in the cozy Victoria coffee shop, Kyla Coates seems normal enough — sipping away at her grande extra-hot soy chai latte. Little do these patrons ...

Early in the afternoon on Saturday, Feb. 13, while many UVic students were nursing their heads after the first night of reading break, the women’s basketball team was on ...

It was a bittersweet week in men’s basketball. The Vikes beat SFU 77-67 on Saturday, Feb. 13, their last regular season game, only to lose out the last spot in the ...

The UVic men’s basketball team’s playoff hopes hung by a thread on Saturday, Feb. 13. Fighting for the wild card spot in the CanWest postseason with both Trinity ...

An Asian man stands in the middle of main street with a neon fanny pack clipped to his waist and various bag straps zigzagging across his body. Sweat seeps into his ...

Hey LIO, I moved to Victoria in September for school. Despite having been here for over five months, I’ve had no success meeting anyone special. I’m a decent-looking, ...

These apple chips are a great snack for nights in or cram sessions — and they’re much healthier than their classic potato counterparts. They also offer the ...

Civil servants beware — that tedious job could be killing you. At least that’s the case according to “Boring Ourselves to Death,” a soon-to-be-released British study. ...

Raise Shit! That’s the mantra, and title, of a new book written in part by a UVic professor. Published in October of last year, Raise Shit! Social Action Save Lives is ...

Who: Director Wes Anderson What: Four of his films Where: Cinecenta When: Every Tuesday this March How much: Regular admission Wes Anderson’s style is ...

Commentators are billing the 82nd Academy Awards as the “Battle of the Exes,” with James Cameron’s Avatar vying for the top prize versus his ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow’s ...

Othello may be a werewolf amidst vampires in the Big Ideas club production that ran in Vertigo last week, but the crew doesn’t want any association with Twilight. ...

It is often said that the divide between poetry and mathematics lies in the disjunct between the rational and the romantic. On Feb. 25, these two disparities came ...

He says his name is Tron. His cocoa-coloured eyes stare up at me from his online photo while he pleads for a letter from me — or any other human with two X chromosomes ...

March 10, 1959: Tibetans rise up against the oppression of Chinese military occupancy. His Holiness the Dalai Lama fled. He continues to lead his people in exile. ...

About 30 citizens and members of the Victoria Coalition Against Poverty greeted the Tuesday, March 2, provincial budget with a “death march” from Centennial Square to ...

The region’s newsprint collected for recycling will now have to travel a bit farther thanks to the closure of one of B.C.’s last paper recycling plants. Catalyst Paper ...

Potterheads, Canlit hounds and Orwellian-dystopia fans all have something in common — each has held a banned or challenged book in his or her hands. This week, ...

As someone who has served on the UVSS Board of Directors as an independent director-at-large for the past two years, who has worked at Felicitas for the past four years ...

All of us at one time or another have had a less-than-satisfying escapade in the bedroom. I will risk controversy by suggesting that more heterosexual women than men ...

I often cringe at the sight of high heels. Especially the sort most people can barely even walk in — stilettos and pumps in particular. Really, what’s the point? I ...

With UVic Students’ Society (UVSS) campaigning in full swing, the Martlet couldn’t help but notice some of the candidates behaviour was, well, rude. Harsh words, yes. ...

The article looking at the medical literature relating to abortion that ran in the Feb. 11 edition of the Martlet brought up some points that need to be responded to. ...

After final exams and graduation every spring, too many university and college campuses become astonishing junkyards of abandoned stuff — providing what some call a ...

It’s election time again for the UVic Students’ Society (UVSS) — an exciting time of year for that 18.8 per cent of the student population that actually votes in ...