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April 23, 2019

Final UVSS board meeting sees presentations on election report

On April 15, the 2018/2019 UVSS Board of Directors met for the final time to reflect on potential ways to improve UVSS elections and poli-sci gargoyles. The meeting consisted of a summary of the UVSS elections report, as presented by Chief Electoral Officer Gary Nason,

April 23, 2019

Blood and bruises: inclusive classrooms gone wrong

B.C. teachers and students are increasingly at risk of attack in a system that cannot support traumatized and violent children in regular classrooms, and the University of Victoria falls woefully short in terms of preparing student teachers for the violent aspects of their profession’s

April 22, 2019

Holomodor bus teaches students about the Ukrainian genocide

The bus is impossible to miss. It’s massive, painted with orange wheat fields, blue sky, and “HOLODOMOR — THE UKRAINIAN GENOCIDE” in white capital letters. A sight that causes drivers to do double takes on the highway, it was equally arresting parked outside UVic's McPherson

OPINION

April 23, 2019

EDITORIAL | Activism shouldn’t take a summer holiday

As classes end and exam season wraps up, students head back home, jet off to Southeast Asia, or relocate for a four-month internship or co-op in a new city. The university campus goes quiet. In spite of the absence of students, the university campus continues

April 23, 2019

Dating a conservative changed the way I engage in discussions

Dating a conservative has taught me a lot of lessons — first and foremost that my assumption was wrong: no one way of thinking has all the answers for every issue. And more than that, most of the differences between political views on the left

April 22, 2019

NEWS UNSETTLED | Changing the name

UVic has decided to decline taking a stance of support Unist’ot’en. For me, this is a testament to the limits of reconciliation. For universities and many Canadian institutions, even the best ones are still unwilling to show true support, even symbolically. Reconciliation does not have

CULTURE

April 24, 2019

Youth poets showcase talent at 10th annual Victorious Voices Festival

After months of hard work, high school students across Victoria were given a chance to express themselves, to perform the poems they spent hours writing, rewriting, and writing again for a live audience. 10 years ago, Jeremy Loveday could only dream of nights like this.

April 11, 2019

Patrick Boyle to play at latest ‘Blues for Eric’ concert on April 13

Trumpet star and UVic professor Patrick Boyle will celebrate the seminal music of Louis Armstrong while raising funds at the ninth 'Blues for Eric' benefit concert. The show starts at 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 13 at the Oaks Restaurant and Tea Room in Oak

April 4, 2019

UVic’s Japanese Culture Club hosts first Japanese Equinox Festival

From the drums of the Uminari Taiko group that made the Michele Pujol room rumble to the Furusato Dancers twirling with branches of flowering cherry blossoms, the Japanese Equinox Festival, held on Mar. 23 in the Student Union Building at UVic, was subarashii (awesome)

SPORTS AND LIFESTYLE

April 18, 2019

Sex and the (Univer)City | Women at B.C. Legislature call out archaic dress code

A few weeks ago, a government communications staff member — who has worked in the Legislature since 2014 — was reprimanded by a security guard because her cap-sleeve blouse was deemed unprofessional. The following day, many of the people in the press gallery who identify

April 9, 2019

Sex and the (Univer)City | Snakes on a plane

On Monday, Star Vancouver reporter Joanna Chiu tweeted that while she was on a flight to Toronto, she witnessed an older man hitting on a teenaged girl who was seated separately from her family. Apparently, harassment on airplanes is fairly common and happening more often

April 3, 2019

The Hippocrates tree

The University of Victoria campus is full of beautiful plants — a sight to behold in every season. Hippocrates, an ancient physician, supposedly taught lectures under a big Oriental Plane tree on the island of Kos in Greece. And it turns out UVic is home

FEATURES

April 23, 2019

Blood and bruises: inclusive classrooms gone wrong

B.C. teachers and students are increasingly at risk of attack in a system that cannot support traumatized and violent children in regular classrooms, and the University of Victoria falls woefully short in terms of preparing student teachers for the violent aspects of their profession’s

April 4, 2019

The human impact of UVic’s seven months without a general psychiatrist

In the seven months without a general psychiatrist at UVic, students reported being denied referrals and access to their files, were given misleading information about the available psychiatric care, and some even left the university due to the lack of psychiatric support.

March 9, 2019

Witnessing history: Victoria resident Aldo Nazarko remembers August 28, 1963

CFUV host Aldo Nazarko shares his experience at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom There are few moments in history that are so iconic they become synonymous with their own day in the calendar. Sept. 11, 2001 is burned into the memory of those...