by Devon Bidal | Apr 22, 2018 | Culture, Events
It’s a grey Sunday afternoon and the quad is fairly quiet, but the Elliot lecture wing is buzzing. UVic is hosting the 57th annual Vancouver Island Regional Science Fair for the second time and the public viewing portion has just begun. The main areas of the building...
by Devon Bidal | Apr 4, 2018 | Op-eds, Opinions
Here’s why Nixon, not her character, is running for governor of New York On March 19, 2018, Cynthia Nixon announced her candidacy for governor of New York, and all anyone seems to want to talk about is the fact that she played Miranda Hobbes on Sex and The City...
by Devon Bidal | Mar 6, 2018 | Culture, Events
An all-ages group of women crowds around a table in the Germanic and Slavic Studies reading room. The window is open and the icy wind that wafts in is a welcome contrast to the warm Clearihue air. It’s only six o’clock, but it’s already dark outside. Most students...
by Devon Bidal | Feb 12, 2018 | Culture, Food | Drink
10 restaurants near UVic Picture this: a tall, blond man in a suit folds and re-folds his purple pocket square, while his girlfriend tries to tame her frizzy hair and stand up straight in her high heels. What fancy event could they be attending? Are they headed to a...
by Devon Bidal | Sep 10, 2017 | Features, Stories
In the fall of 2015, first-year student and 18-year-old Elliot Smith headed across campus to meet up with a group of friends outside the Poole residence building and head to a party. He had a case of Lucky beer hidden under a hoodie at the bottom of the backpack he...