Voter turnout rose slightly in this year’s UVic Students’ Society election, according to Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Conrad Vanderkamp. Though Team FAST took the four executive seats again, their slate lost seats overall.

Another student group wants your underwear — this time, especially if you’re a guy.

Still using a disposable cup every time you refuel on coffee? If so, you’re helping The Paper Cup Army.

For years, police, health professionals and others have been warning cyclists about the dangers of riding without a helmet. Their message does not appear, however, to be getting through to many UVic students.

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

When the last class is done each semester, the only thing between most students and the bliss of vacation are final exams. But while many are bogged down with a full load, others have none at all.

Access UVic’s bid for further funding gained support at the polls, but the other two referenda failed when a majority of students opposed them while voting in last week’s UVic Students’ Society elections.

The UVic Students’ Society election campaign leaped into the blogosphere last week with the launch of the controversial Vote Smart UVSS blog.

On Sunday, March 8, a dedicated group of individuals were gearing up for their highlight of the year — University of B.C.’s annual triathlon. Despite the possiblity of snow and rain, UVic’s triathlon club was ready to put their training and skills to the ultimate test.

That nasty little word “recession” has crept its way into the discussion of sports and business. Despite published reports of an increase in NBA game attendance — a figure skewed by season ticket and luxury suite purchases made before the financial downfall — the economic state of individual franchises can be judged by their creative ticket packages.

The Oregon State Beavers paid UVic a visit last weekend as they traveled north of the border to take on the Vikes for the dual race rowing regatta.

Students and Victoria residents alike will be lacing up their sneakers this weekend to raise money for HIV/AIDS in Africa — and they’ll be doing it around a lake near you.

The Vikes definitely missed their enforcers Adam Kleeberger and Neil Meechan on Saturday, March 7, as they took on a powerful Meraloma side on Wallace Field.

When there’s talk that a novel — graphic or other wise — is going to be made into a movie, fans always fear that it won’t do the book justice.

New albums from indie Canadian acts rock from coast to coast, while the Killers’ third offering fails to redeem

It’s all about meat on March 14, as guys everywhere pull out their steak knives and drop their pants in celebration of the annual Steak and Blow Job (BJ) Day.

Who knew that alcohol could be good for baking?

For most Victoria artists, the hardest part about getting recognition is getting exposure. The Imagination Gallery, a unique group of young artists dedicated to uncovering other young artists, has the answer.

In his 35-year career as a comic book illustrator/author, Ken Steacy never thought he would have his work displayed in a fancy art gallery. But from March 8 to 28, Victoria’s Winchester Galleries will do just that, hosting “Modern Myths and Icons: The Comic Art of Ken Steacy.”

In February, representatives from the UVic Pride Collective attended the Canadian University’s Queer Services Conference (CUQSC) in Guelph, Ontario. And they returned in high spirits – now UVic is set to host the conference in 2010. But there is plenty to be done before then.

Victoria‘s music fans will come together on March 21 to Get up! Stand Up! at Lucky Bar, and all for a good cause. The night of spoken word, hip-hop, reggae and contests will raise money for the Blossom Gardens orphanage in Montego Bay, Jamaica.

Investigating citizens for possessing subversive literature and recruiting informants against those who criticize authority are tactics usually reserved for thought-police in dystopian fantasy novels. Such tactics are also proving to be standard practice for the RCMP-led team responsible for Vancouver’s 2010 Olympic security.

Oil-stained loonies are turning up in change collections across the country, thanks to a campaign by The Dogwood Initiative, a Victoria-based non-profit environmental organization.

The words “university research” don’t usually elicit images of collecting metal scraps, food spoils and dingy plastic in some of the world’s most marginalized communities. But UVic geography professor Jutta Gutberlet and her team are not interested in the type of research that never leaves the ivory tower — they brand their studies as “action-oriented” research, making direct social change central to the program.

After what seems like years of campaigning and polling, B.C. residents have one more frenzy to get through: the provincial election.

Have you watched a full bus pass you at the stop in the morning? Have you watched two in a row go by? Have you left the library at closing, only to find that your bus has stopped running? Have you had to shell out for a cab ride home from a late shift at work for the same reason?

I can’t think of a more sublime pleasure than taking a long, satisfying dump. When I was young, my dad would sit on the toilet for hours and leaf through a ...

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Last week, independent UVic Students’ Society board member Ahmed Mumeni wrote a heated column in the Martlet smearing the current UVSS board. Ahmed’s words surprised me. First, his tactic to engage students was counter-intuitive. More students are disenfranchised when they hear nothing but negativity

An HIV-positive Victoria man is heading to jail for having unprotected sex with women without telling them he has the virus that causes AIDS.

Steak and Blow Job Day — oh, the romance. March 14: yet another day we can feel bad about not being shacked up with a significant other, or just feel the pressure of exaggerated expectations to please the one we do have. Or is it?