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YPY holds speak-out event
*Updated “Women Do Regret Abortion,” read signage at a speaking and outreach event held outside the UVic Students’ Society (UVSS) Student Union Building (SUB) on March 21. Hosted by student…
How well do you think the UVSS election process works?
Until I had a friend of mine explain it to me, I knew nothing about it. Zach Adams First year General studies I didn’t find it…
Student elections end amid budget controversy and resignation
Campus elections have come to a close once again. Five new paid members of the UVSS have signed on and nine new directors-at-large, with two who were re-elected, eager to…
Post-sec schools ask, ‘Why can’t we be friends?’
The collective nature of Vancouver Island is as strong as ever. On March 5, five colleges and universities on Vancouver Island signed an agreement to re-affirm a commitment to work…
CARBC researcher calls cannabis “the exit drug”
Philippe Lucas, who works at UVic and as a researcher at the Centre for Addictions Research of British Columbia (CARBC), presented a seminar titled “Cannabis: The Exit Drug” in the…
The one-wheeled activist
Victoria local Joseph Boutilier has decided to embark on a five-month journey to Ottawa in order to raise awareness about climate change. The trip will include stops in small towns…IdeaFest panel speaks on cyberbullying
A three-man panel spoke on cyberbullying during UVic’s 2014 IdeaFest. The first speaker, Kevin Runions, attempted to define cyberbullying. The second man, Brett Holfield, tried to articulate the best methods…
