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Growing momentum across Canada fuels the fire for divestment at UVic

Growing momentum across Canada fuels the fire for divestment at UVic

by Cormac O’Brien | Apr 1, 2017 | Campus, News

As the debate rages around the future of fossil fuels in public industry and private life, university campuses have become a hotspot for pushback against investing in companies that deal in non-renewable energy. Recently, the divestment movement (divestment being the...
Growing momentum across Canada fuels the fire for divestment at UVic

Victoria Hand Project gets tapped for half-million-dollar grant

by Cormac O’Brien | Mar 23, 2017 | Campus, News

A UVic-based engineering initiative that 3D-prints hands for amputees in developing nations is in the running for a Google-funded prize worth half a million dollars. The Victoria Hand Project (VHP), run out of UVic’s Engineering Lab building, is in the running to...
Growing momentum across Canada fuels the fire for divestment at UVic

Electoral report and Third Space wall discussed at UVSS board meeting

by Cormac O’Brien | Mar 22, 2017 | Campus, News

With the UVSS Board of Director’s term coming to a close, the days of fiery and fierce UVSS board meetings are seemingly behind us. But here’s the recap of what did go down on Monday, March 20. Lessons learned from a lackluster election  Only 14.99 per cent of...
Growing momentum across Canada fuels the fire for divestment at UVic

UVSS elections are a mess. It’s time to wipe the slate clean

by Cormac O’Brien | Mar 9, 2017 | Op-eds, Opinions

In case you didn’t know, the UVSS just held its annual student election, in which students selected seventeen other students to act on their behalf on campus, in the greater municipality, and even in provincial and federal lobbying rooms. Not that I would blame you...
Growing momentum across Canada fuels the fire for divestment at UVic

Olympic dreams put on full display at CARSA

by Cormac O’Brien | Feb 23, 2017 | Sports, Sports | Lifestyle

The athletes who filed into CARSA’s gym on the morning of Sunday, Feb. 19, differed in gender, height, size, and age, but they all had one unifying trait—they dreamt about becoming Olympians. “For me,” says Avalon Wasteneys, one of those athletes, “that was always the...
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