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...
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...
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...
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...
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...