by Cormac O’Brien | Apr 1, 2017 | Campus, News
As the debate rages around the future of fossil fuels in public industry and private life, university campuses have become a hotspot for pushback against investing in companies that deal in non-renewable energy. Recently, the divestment movement (divestment being the...
by Cormac O’Brien | Mar 23, 2017 | Campus, News
A UVic-based engineering initiative that 3D-prints hands for amputees in developing nations is in the running for a Google-funded prize worth half a million dollars. The Victoria Hand Project (VHP), run out of UVic’s Engineering Lab building, is in the running to...
by Cormac O’Brien | Mar 22, 2017 | Campus, News
With the UVSS Board of Director’s term coming to a close, the days of fiery and fierce UVSS board meetings are seemingly behind us. But here’s the recap of what did go down on Monday, March 20. Lessons learned from a lackluster election Only 14.99 per cent of...
by Cormac O’Brien | Mar 9, 2017 | Op-eds, Opinions
In case you didn’t know, the UVSS just held its annual student election, in which students selected seventeen other students to act on their behalf on campus, in the greater municipality, and even in provincial and federal lobbying rooms. Not that I would blame you...
by Cormac O’Brien | Feb 23, 2017 | Sports, Sports | Lifestyle
The athletes who filed into CARSA’s gym on the morning of Sunday, Feb. 19, differed in gender, height, size, and age, but they all had one unifying trait—they dreamt about becoming Olympians. “For me,” says Avalon Wasteneys, one of those athletes, “that was always the...