The Martlet gives a yay! or nay! to the news of the day.

A plot of land at UVic may be growing controversy between students and the administration in the coming months, but if one campus club gets its way, the land’s final planning stages could leave students looking forward to new opportunities for campus agriculture.

This week in Martlet history: net neutrality, low voter turnout, and more!

The Ethical Governance Series at UVic has brought out many professors from different disciplines to speak on the responsibilities of government and leadership.

The quasi-legal status of Victoria’s compassion clubs may have come a step closer to resolution this week after a B.C. Supreme Court ruling declared parts of Canada’s current medicinal marijuana laws unconstitutional.

The pro-life student club Youth Protecting Youth was denied clubs funding again by the UVic Students’ Society, despite Clubs Council voting in favour of the group receiving funding.

Campaign shenanigans have been relatively mild this UVSS election, say candidates and election officials. Both parties placed a distinction between acceptable and unacceptable mischief.

Anti-Islamic material being posted around campus spurred the UVic Students’ Society to file a letter of complaint to the Equity and Human Rights Office and Campus Security last week.

UVic students are about to get creamed — at least if a group of engineering students have their way.

The season may be over for UVic’s basketball teams, but the accolades just keep coming in. On the women’s side, Kayla Dykstra was named Canada West MVP and Vanessa Forstbauer earned Comeback Player of the Year. For the men, senior Mitch Gudgeon received the nod for a second team all-star berth.

Assisted by walkers and canes, curling fans from Victoria and across the country flooded the Save On Foods Memorial Centre from Feb. 21 to March 1, barely staying seated at the tense excitement of the 2009 Scotties Tournament of Hearts.

Conditions at Centennial Stadium were less than enjoyable on Saturday, Feb. 28, as the UVic Vikes were unable to fight back against 3-0 deficit that saw them go down against a younger-looking Vancouver Whitecaps.

From the countless grueling practices that have rowers out on the water before the sunrise, to the hours of mundane dry-land training, it all came together for the Vikes crews last weekend as they showed the visiting teams who owns Elk Lake.

It’s been an interesting first half of the season in the Canadian Direct Insurance (CDI) Premier League in B.C.

For many of us, enjoying espresso is a regular ritual. Fortunately for coffee connoisseurs with a discerning palate, a growing number of espresso bars are intent on delivering a delicious dose.

If you are looking for a fast-paced Hollywood vampire thriller without an ounce of charm, Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in) isn’t for you.

UVic students plunged into the icy waters of Cadboro Bay on March 1 to raise money for cancer research.

A group of women made a statement about body image and femininity Sunday night, March 1, by reading poetry — and taking their clothes off

An eclectic group of girls and women and a handful of men gathered in the Student Union Building (SUB) for the workshop “Unlabeled Fashion 2009: cut up stereotypes” on Feb. 28.

Two UVic students have started a zine to create a sense of community within Victoria’s queer society.

People across the globe will join together on March 8 to celebrate grandmothers and mothers, sisters and daughters, aunts and friends as part of International Women’s Day (IWD). In Victoria, people will gather over the next couple of weeks during the first annual LoudSpeaker festival — a celebration series geared to rejoice women through art.

The Taliban insurgency can’t be defeated by NATO soldiers, according to Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

Student groups and campus unions are gearing up to hit the streets on March 5 for the First Annual Funeral Procession for Public Education protest. Organizers hope that the rallies planned at UVic and downtown will highlight what they say is the chronic underfunding of public post-secondary education by the provincial Liberal government.

If all the books on the Top 100 Challenged/Banned Books list had been successfully censored, chances are you wouldn’t have read the majority of books assigned to you back in high school.

An alien campus, an alien city, an alien island. To this Ontario expatriate, the UVic campus presents itself, at first glance, as an other-worldly entity; an alternate reality place replete with mountains, hordes of bunnies and Douglas firs. The west coast vibe somehow permeates students and faculty alike.

The only place that people try to dance en masse is at night clubs. And once you get past the make-up, the cleavage, and the eye-fucks, clubs are great. An ultimate workout. Punching the air, kicking your feet. Head-banging.

Twenty five things list becomes international sensation.

The UVSS elections are coming to a climactic close this week, and there’s only a short time left until we find out who our new elected officials will be this coming year — or so we think.

Christine Comrie claims that the UVSS board’s denial of funding to Youth Protecting Youth (YPY) is based on “arguments made by the board last fall.” I find this claim rather confusing. At both UVSS Board meetings last semester, Comrie (along with many other members of the board) stridently championed the prerogative of Clubs Council to make the final funding decision.

It’s that time of year again. The banners are up, the leaflets are being handed out and people are harassing you as you walk to class. It must be election season.

Thank you, Martlet As the Chair candidate running a paperless campaign with my slate (YES!) I was delighted when the Martlet ran a news article about us last week. I ...