Eco Tip #5 The student’s new clothes

by | Jan 17, 2013 | Business | Tech

Clothes are just awesome: they keep us warm, they protect us and they are a way of showing the world our individuality. But as fun as it is to develop a certain style, it is also important to shop first and foremost with our heads, not with our credit cards....

Upload the undead

by | Jan 14, 2013 | Culture

Remember when people first started pouring fake blood all over themselves and filling city streets for zombie walks? Why hasn’t this phase died? Why do so many people love zombies as passionately as others love steampunk or going to Burning Man? What attracts people...

Letters January 10, 2013

by | Jan 14, 2013 | Opinions

Arbitration needed in transit dispute As Vanessa Hawk’s recent article (“Transit job action continues, no formal negotiations scheduled,” Dec. 13) makes clear, the main impediment to a settlement in the ongoing B.C. Transit dispute is whether the drivers of the...

Bus pass costs UVic employees more than they may realize

by | Dec 13, 2012 | News

UVic’s employee bus plan (E-Pass) program is promoted as “more than 50 per cent off the regular price” for most employees who live off-campus and do not own a parking pass — mainly to encourage them to switch to more sustainable forms of transportation. However, this...

The real apocalypse of 2012

by | Dec 13, 2012 | Humour

The Mayans’ premonitions of the end of human civilization have come true, and early, but not as a result of a shift in Earth’s magnetic field. There are no natural disasters, tsunamis or floods. No livestock are being whipped about the globe like waffle balls. Rather,...