Humour

The economy of the hug

Ah, the Board Game Café on bustling Yates Street in the heart of Victoria. Can you stand the excitement? Smells like popcorn, no? Bowls of buttered kernels overflowing next to…

Drowning in debt

Comic by Liam Moore Razzell.

Transit is a student’s best friend but also a nightmare

Everyone has their own routine to help them wake up in the morning. Some people choose coffee or tea, others a cold shower. But a very underrated, exhilarating start to…

Who is the shy pooper king?

Raindrops rolled down the foggy window of my second-floor perch as I peered out at the open umbrellas weaving through the quad, obscuring the figures underneath, nothing but legs. It…

“… and here’s where I messed up the Excel spreadsheet.”

Comic by Liam Moore Razzell.

“That semicolon should be a period, that em-dash should be a comma, and your main character should be a cat.”

“I’m good. I don’t eat junk food.”

The unspoken law of seat assignment

It's the first day of class. Eager students shuffle into the room like lambs to the slaughter. Frenzied feral creatures, the lot of us, scattering about frantically to find an…

The best ways to maximize the UVic text alert function

By now, we should all be accustomed to the UVic Alert system which notifies us of incidents occurring on or near campus. This past semester we’ve had a couple different…