Humour

PHOTO ESSAY: In search of the UVic Edge

“You’ll tell them the next thing will be better because it always is.” — Don Draper ”I’m on the edge of glory, and I’m hanging on a moment of truth.”…

Jesus was found behind my couch, and he’s pretty tight

If anyone’s been looking for him, Jesus is at my place. I’m still not entirely sure how he got there, but there he is, and there he’ll presumably stay. At…

I gave up pretending to be @dril on Yik Yak after mods kept deleting my shit

Last issue, I expressed my disdain for Yik Yak and the woes of anonymity within an open forum, and while I admit that piece may have lacked a certain nuance,…

HUMOUR: I got high and asked why UVic’s Webmail looks so ’90s

I met my guide, Don, a middle-aged systems administrator with dad jeans and a friendly mustache in an unknown wing of the Clearihue basement. I walked over to shake his hand…

The UVSS and SPCA are teaming up to give new graduates aging dogs instead of degrees

For the past couple of years, the terrors of exam time have been mediated with the Pacific Animal Therapy Society (PATS), the UVSS’s De-Stress Week campaign puppy playtime. Now, De-Stress…

COMIC: March 17—Professor Y

Comic: March 3

Not all of us are assholes, but all of us have one

Letting one rip. Shooting the breeze. Breaking wind. Cuttin’ the cheese. Farting. Reading that, I bet you felt discomforted. Why is that? We all know we fart, so what’s the…

Stand on me: Linguistics of love

Would you date someone who is a native speaker of a language that you were in the process of learning? It can be difficult enough to communicate in my first…

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