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Bursting the music festival bubble

Strict security, high prices, and tall fences seem the norm at the super-festivals like Coachella or Glastonbury. The question is: do all the dollars ruin the raw, authentic experiences (musical…

Margaret Atwood: Writing for our future

Earlier this month, it was announced that critically acclaimed Canadian author Margaret Atwood will be the first artist to participate in the Future Library project, giving her exactly one year…

Academic Confessions: Outside looking in

The first few lines of my CV and biography say: “Samantha Tsuruda holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree, Psychology Major, from the University of Victoria. She is a consultant in…

New audience for spoken word poetry?

While the first Vike’s Men’s football game led to a loss against the UBC Thunderbirds, Jeremy Loveday’s spoken word poem “Masks Off: a Message to Men” scored with many in…

The Lens Sept 11th

The burden of proof is far too heavy

For over a week now, a student at New York’s Columbia University has been carrying a heavy burden in full view of the public. As part of her visual arts…

Fashion should be taught in university

Anna Wintour, the editor-in-chief of Vogue, once said that fashion can make people very nervous. It’s an industry that people don’t grasp easily, and as a result, it’s mocked and…

Family and friends quell first year fears

Growing up, I would make my parents take me to universities wherever we went: UBC, the University of Edinburgh, Oxford, SFU, and, of course, UVic. Being on a huge campus…

The unappetizing future of native advertising

As part of promotion for Orange is the New Black, Netflix paid for a story on the New York Times website about women in the prison system.

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