St. Patrick ruined Ireland

by | Mar 14, 2013 | Humour

HUMOUR — St. Patrick is affectionately known to the most studious historians, such as myself, as Mr. P. He was born in England sometime around the year 385 AD and was taken as a slave to Ireland when he was 16. He didn’t even want to go! Eventually he ran away from...

Editorial: Parking panic at UVic

by | Mar 7, 2013 | Opinions

Ah, parking. Few other topics have the power to incite such furor on campus as the debate over transportation termini. From Malahat commuters to UVic’s closest neighbours, nobody seems to agree on the best plan for handling the university’s traffic, and the...

Liquid Diet: Changing of the guard

by | Mar 7, 2013 | Culture

It wasn’t so long ago that I bore witness to — and maybe a little responsibility for — my underage cousins doing a bit of underage drinking. Zach was 17, Jake was 15 and I was 23, visiting them in Ontario. Living in B.C., I didn’t get to see them often, so when they...

New Year’s resolutions assessed in March

by | Mar 7, 2013 | Humour

HUMOUR — We all make New Year’s resolutions. The problem is we usually abandon them around the time of year that we all get sick of being better people — say, early January. But this year, for me, is different. This year, I made a New Year’s resolution for my...

Rethinking the game of drones

by | Mar 7, 2013 | Opinions

Every so often, a technology comes along that changes the rules of the game. This is true of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), or what has become a pejorative term for many people: drones. In war, technology tends to lose its redeeming qualities. Tools becoming weapons...