De-Stress Fest gives students some needed R&R November 16, 2016November 16, 2016 Arianna Cheveldave Ready to find some inner peace before the semester ends? De-Stress Fest runs from Tuesday, Nov. 22 to Friday, Nov. 25, and is full of events designed to help you...
New guide dog certification might be barking up wrong tree March 31, 2016March 30, 2016 Arianna Cheveldave On Jan. 18, 2016, the Guide Dog and Service Dog Act came into effect, modernizing service and guide dog guidelines in B.C. The certification is optional, but is meant to...
Contest encourages those with anxiety to share experience March 16, 2016March 16, 2016 Arianna Cheveldave Anxiety is a paranoid-headed monster that keeps you up at night. Anxiety keeps you from just asking for help in Wal-Mart — instead, you wander, eternally lost in the endless aisles, not wanting...
UVic GameDev Club fosters digital creativity March 2, 2016March 2, 2016 Arianna Cheveldave Coming this March, brace yourself for UVic GameDev’s next game jam! If you’re wondering what that means, a game jam is a 48-hour game-developing marathon where participants spend an entire...
Where’s your head at? Date your age, not your shoe size February 4, 2016February 3, 2016 Arianna Cheveldave You ever look at a 16-year-old and go, “Damn, they’re hot. I wanna get me some of that”? Yeah, don’t. It’s weird. Whenever I hear about university students dating high schoolers, my...
Yakkers yap it up on Yik Yak January 20, 2016January 20, 2016 Arianna Cheveldave Yik Yak: it’s the social media sensation that’s sweeping Vikes Nation. And with good reason: hipper than Facebook and more ridiculous than Tumblr, Yik Yak is kind of like an...
A newbie’s guide to Star Wars December 17, 2015December 16, 2015 Arianna Cheveldave In a galaxy far, far away, with aliens from a thousand worlds, a bunch of robots and guys in robes fire lasers at each other. There’s romance, rebellion, and a...
Reinstating census essential for Canada, says professor December 3, 2015December 3, 2015 Arianna Cheveldave The day after he was sworn in, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that the long-form census would return in 2016. The long-form census was repealed by former PM Stephen Harper...
Improv troupe bares it all with outrageous results November 26, 2015 Arianna Cheveldave On my dad’s 58th birthday, I couldn’t be with him to celebrate. However, I was able to commemorate his special day in true middle-aged style by going to see a...
There’s fashionably late—and then there’s American Thanksgiving November 18, 2015November 20, 2015 Arianna Cheveldave American Thanksgiving makes no sense. Now, before any Americans get all up in their right to bear arms and try to shoot me through the head with their grandmother’s shotgun, hear...