} July 25, 2024
Saving Rivers
My mother grew up on an island known for jungles, giant flowers, and orangutans. After getting a degree in ecology, she worked in fisheries research on the second largest river in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, on Borneo. For seven years she and her crew travelled up...![Fighting words: photo exhibit on indigenous oppression inspires conversation](https://martlet.ca/martlet.ca/uploads/2014/05/NEW-CJPME-photo-exhibit-Emily-Thiessen.jpg)
Fighting words: photo exhibit on indigenous oppression inspires conversation
The Cedar Hill Rec Centre café initially seems like an unlikely place for an exhibit about indigenous resistance. Photos of prisons, protests, and funerals hang off three walls like an encyclopedia of oppression, lining the route between coffee and squash lessons....![10-year moratorium on campus deforestation to expire](https://martlet.ca/martlet.ca/uploads/2013/10/NEW_Protected-Forests_featured.jpg)
10-year moratorium on campus deforestation to expire
The trail on the journey between the MacLaurin building end of the quad and the Engineering building is as eccentric as routes between classes go. It seems like a trek through the wilderness, except it’s less than 100 metres long. Like most places on the UVic campus,...![You know you’re a first year when](https://martlet.ca/martlet.ca/uploads/2013/09/HUM_First-Year_Emily-Theissen-.jpg)