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Students take initiative for LGBTQ2+ training in the education program

Faculty currently doesn’t offer specific courses for inclusion, sexual orientation, or gender identity UVic’s campus is usually empty on a Saturday afternoon, which made the sound of Hayley Kiyoko’s “Curious”…
Alisha Gauvreau and Larissa Dixon prepare to take measurements of a worked wood artifact from the Triquet Island village site. The measurements will be used in Dixon’s independent class paper which Gauvreau will later reference for her PhD thesis.

Archaeologists and Heiltsuk community brace for next public release

The quiet concentration inside UVic’s archaeology research lab gives no indication of the media commotion that arrived alongside the discovery of 14 000-year-old artifacts on Triquet Island in Heiltsuk Territory last…

Advocacy group policy scrapped at tense board meeting

Consultations will take place before policy is reintroduced / Interim Director of Outreach and University Relations Pierre-Paul Angelblazer had barely started to introduce the agenda for the March 26 UVSS…

Board of Governors approves budget, 20% hike for incoming international students

Ignoring the shouting from the 50 or 60 students gathered outside the University Centre and eventually inside the Senate Chambers, the UVic Board of Governors passed their 2018–2019 budget which…

Advocacy groups respond to proposed policy changes

Most reps concerned with lack of consultation process, group responsibility for legal fees   Many of the UVSS advocacy group representatives are troubled about a proposed policy that dictates how…

UVSS to discuss sweeping social media rules for advocacy groups, clubs, and course unions

Policy would change how advocacy groups, clubs, and course unions are responsible for legal fees EDIT: This article has been edited to clarify a section of the policy which would…

A Conversation with A Tribe Called Red at VIPIRG conference

VIPIRG’s 3rd annual conference “Cracks in the Concrete” sells out The Vancouver Island Public Interest Research Group (VIPIRG) hosted their third annual conference on March 16–18. Titled New Reflections, Ongoing…

UVic announces plans for two new student residence buildings

Prepare for a lot of cranes, jackhammers, and construction workers on campus over the next few years. In the midst of the ongoing housing crisis—and a month after the B.C.…

UVic reshaping cycling climate on campus

Campus Cycling Plan currently in consultative stage Whether you bike, drive, walk, bus, or longboard, most people have encountered issues either with or as cyclists on campus. Close calls and…

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