The life and insight of UVic Community Leaders

The life and insight of UVic Community Leaders

by | Apr 4, 2013 | Culture

Students in UVic housing are 18-year-old first-years and middle-aged grad students. Some are ready to party; others wish their neighbours would shut up. Some long for a kitchen; others wonder why their cluster roommates never clean the kitchen they share. Students in...
How has Facebook changed your life?

How has Facebook changed your life?

by | Apr 4, 2013 | Business | Tech

Tiffany Gunton Fourth year History “I can keep in touch with a lot of old friends from high school, and even earlier than that. I can also keep a connection to new friends. But at the same time, I feel like I always have to be on Facebook or have to check it all the...

A few of my favourite (and least favourite) things

by | Mar 28, 2013 | Humour

HUMOUR — Every now and then I walk by a bakery and am hit by the smell of freshly baked bread, wafting out all warm and rich and vaporous and moist. I hate it. The smell of freshly baked bread makes me sick. It’s like rich, gasified dough that soaks into your lungs...

Don’t be safety-normative with me

by | Mar 21, 2013 | Opinions

I don’t wear a bike helmet. Ever. I don’t even own one. You may react with disapproval, and you’ll be in good company: police and grown-ups disapprove, and so too do other 20-somethings, people much cooler than I. “Dude,” they say. “You really should wear a helmet....