by Josh Kozelj | Mar 25, 2018 | Campus, News
Prepare for a lot of cranes, jackhammers, and construction workers on campus over the next few years. In the midst of the ongoing housing crisis—and a month after the B.C. provincial government pledged $450 million in government loans to help universities finance...
by Josh Kozelj | Mar 24, 2018 | Op-eds, Opinions
Student athletes should not be paid. It’s that simple, and as a current student athlete myself, I couldn’t be more comfortable saying that. What makes us any different than any other student? Student athletes already have a head start on regular students who have to...
by Josh Kozelj | Mar 12, 2018 | Campus, News
A petition launched by the UVic Sustainability Movement (UVSM) in hopes of persuading the university to move away from distributing paper coffee cups on campus has garnered over 1 500 signatures in just over a month and is picking up steam. “At UVic, over 4 500 paper...
by Josh Kozelj | Mar 12, 2018 | Campus, News
News comes amid demonstrations on campus, across Canada It’s not everyday that a world first is announced at UVic, but that’s exactly the news that the UVic law department shared on Feb. 21. The law department released plans to combine the study of Indigenous and...
by Josh Kozelj | Mar 8, 2018 | Campus, News
Beginning in 1938 as the Sentinel and the Microscope and founded as the Martlet in 1948 (and briefly changed to the Cougar City Gazette in the 1970s), it’s safe to say the Martlet has come a long way in its 70 years as UVic’s independent newspaper. “The Martlet, I...