by Paul Voll | Apr 17, 2025 | Sports, Sports | Lifestyle
Inside Owen Croft’s improbable journey to varsity golf Five years ago, UVic varsity golfer Owen Croft wasn’t even playing competitive junior golf. In March, he won Male Rookie Athlete of the year. “I remember getting into arguments with my dad because I didn’t want...
by Paul Voll | Apr 17, 2025 | Culture
Heartwarming first-person accounts from UVic students Student stories have been edited for length and clarity. American journalist and poet George Elliston summarized the power of kindness in the opening lines of her poem “How Beautiful”: “How beautiful a day can be /...
by Paul Voll | Apr 17, 2025 | Campus, News, Provincial
The 2026 budget will not include plans for reductions or layoffs Financial instability has led to faculty layoffs at several B.C. colleges and universities. However, UVic’s Associate Vice President of Academic Resource Planning, Tony Eder, said that UVic’s 2025-26...
by Paul Voll | Apr 3, 2025 | Features, Sports, Sports | Lifestyle
How youth clubs and the Vikes created a Vancouver Island basketball revolution Vikes fourth year forward Ethan Boag was cut from his Royal Oak Middle School basketball team in Grade 6. That summer, Boag’s older brother encouraged him to attend the Vikes Nation youth...
by Paul Voll | Mar 20, 2025 | Campus, Local, News
David MacGregor: ‘A real lover of life’ David MacGregor first attended UVic at the age of 47. Thirty-four years later, without missing as much as a year of study, he walked out of his final class — unofficially UVic’s longest-attending student. If he had his way, it...