Every September 30, the University of Victoria and the Greater Victoria community hold events and wear orange shirts as part of an ongoing process of truth and reconciliation between Indigenous people and colonial settlers. Two organizers of this event in Victoria spoke on how this project took shape.
The university recently announced the launch of the UVic SafetyApp, a new mobile resource for students. But how easy is the app to use? What are its features? Is it free? To answer these questions and more, here’s our review on the university’s latest attempt to streamline services.
On August 26, VIPIRG announced that they terminated their lease agreement with the University of Victoria Student Society (UVSS) due to what they felt was an increasingly unsustainable partnership. The new offices of the non-profit research and education group are located at 2722 Fifth Street.
Congratulations to the 2019 Martlet Summer Writing Contest Winner — Shards, written by Christopher Beck.
The social justice work done over the last 50 years has carried the LGBTQIA2S community to its highest point of acceptance in colonial history. With all of these legal improvements, isn’t everything truly equal? Unfortunately, equality on paper does not guarantee fair treatment in society.
new policy proposed by the Alberta United Conservative Party looks to ‘protect free speech’ by allowing all protesters, no matter how offensive, on university campuses. Here at UVic, we can continue to be self-aware and self-critical about the language we use, without resorting to hate speech.
As an institution supposedly committed to supporting the process of reconciliation, UVic must first reconcile its own complicity in silencing the voices of Indigenous matriarchs, and reconsider the decision to deny support for the Unist’ot’en clan and the Wet’suwet’en nation.
So what is our role as the Martlet? In our efforts to remain objective, we have sometimes shied away from expressing support for students in a way that counters the status quo. We are a source of news, and there are inherent limits in our abilities to be political.
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