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No concrete answers after UVic’s snowmageddon causes pileup

No concrete answers after UVic’s snowmageddon causes pileup

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

For most students at UVic, Feb. 8’s snowstorm was the most chaos on campus they’d ever seen. Cars were trapped in the flood of people trying to exit Ring Road, and hundreds of students waited in the snow and sleet for buses that took hours to arrive—if they showed up...
UnCovered: A Story of Student Newspapers, Advocacy Journalism, and Genitalia

UnCovered: A Story of Student Newspapers, Advocacy Journalism, and Genitalia

by Cormac O’Brien | Feb 9, 2017 | Features, Stories

CONTENT WARNING: This story features a graphic image of genitalia.  The clouds hung low in the air at the University of Victoria on the morning of Feb. 13, 1992. It had been a bleak month, with temperatures rarely venturing above two or three degrees Celsius, and...
No concrete answers after UVic’s snowmageddon causes pileup

Three things you should know about UVic’s draft sexualized violence policy

by Cormac O’Brien | Feb 7, 2017 | Campus, News

On Monday, Feb. 6, UVic released a draft version of its Sexualized Violence Prevention and Response Policy. The policy comes after several months worth of consultations with university and community groups, following the establishment of a sexualized violence working...

The Martlet’s 2017 Victoria Film Festival picks

by Cormac O’Brien | Jan 26, 2017 | Culture, Film

When Oscars season arrives in late January/early February, people change. All of a sudden, everyone and their dog becomes a film expert; the general public is preoccupied with finding a cinematic gem and making something up that sounds intellectual to show how deep...
No concrete answers after UVic’s snowmageddon causes pileup

Board of Directors debates right to party, supports Trutch name change

by Cormac O’Brien | Jan 25, 2017 | Campus, News

Despite the four-hour-long slog that was the UVSS Board of Directors meeting two weeks ago, I headed back to Vertigo on Jan. 23 to report on what was hip and happening with our student representatives. We didn’t get a presentation from the UVic Free Speech...
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