by Jon-Paul Zacharias | Apr 11, 2013 | Video
Facebook has been popular for several years now. So the Martlet decided to take a quick stroll around campus, asking students how Facebook has changed their lives for better or worse. And has it had an overall positive effect? Watch to find out. You can view brief...
by Jon-Paul Zacharias | Apr 4, 2013 | Culture
Students in UVic housing are 18-year-old first-years and middle-aged grad students. Some are ready to party; others wish their neighbours would shut up. Some long for a kitchen; others wonder why their cluster roommates never clean the kitchen they share. Students in...
by Jon-Paul Zacharias | Apr 4, 2013 | Business | Tech
Tiffany Gunton Fourth year History “I can keep in touch with a lot of old friends from high school, and even earlier than that. I can also keep a connection to new friends. But at the same time, I feel like I always have to be on Facebook or have to check it all the...
by Jon-Paul Zacharias | Mar 28, 2013 | Humour
HUMOUR — Every now and then I walk by a bakery and am hit by the smell of freshly baked bread, wafting out all warm and rich and vaporous and moist. I hate it. The smell of freshly baked bread makes me sick. It’s like rich, gasified dough that soaks into your lungs...
by Jon-Paul Zacharias | Mar 21, 2013 | Opinions
I don’t wear a bike helmet. Ever. I don’t even own one. You may react with disapproval, and you’ll be in good company: police and grown-ups disapprove, and so too do other 20-somethings, people much cooler than I. “Dude,” they say. “You really should wear a helmet....