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Bill 41 poses threat to UVSS advocacy groups

The UVSS and affiliated student groups are mobilizing to oppose Bill 41, otherwise known as the Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act, which was introduced to the provincial legislature on Oct. 20.…

Resolutions come and go at UVSS AGM

Oct. 28 marked the UVSS Annual General Meeting, and having achieved quorum after a half-hour delay, several bylaw amendments as well as the 2015-2016 draft budget were ratified. While much…

UVic mourns death of student

The spectre of loss fell upon the UVic community the week of Oct. 25, as Anders Newman passed away in a hiking accident near Campbell River. Newman, 18, moved to…

Student film festival to roll out the red carpet in March

Three UVic students have set the ball rolling in creating their own film festival. The website for the Shoreline Film Festival launched on Oct. 14, and since then, visionaries Moiz…

UPDATE: UVSS, NSU oppose UPS conference after granting $6000 in funding

Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly referred to Blake Desjarlais as the administrative councillor for NSU; he is in fact the firekeeper. We sincerely regret the error. The print version of this article also stated…

Club proposal met with skepticism at board meeting

Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly referred to Saul Brown as the board representative for the Native Students Union. It was in fact Blake Desjarlais who was in attendance representing…

Field school a chance for students to witness Holocaust legacy

In May 2016, Helga Thorson, Chair of the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, will run this year’s I-witness Field School: one week of intensive study of the Holocaust, followed by…

UPDATE: Salty remarks from UVSS unpalatable to student body

On Oct. 19, as the Liberal Party of Canada won a landslide majority government with Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister, two UVSS directors took to social media to voice their…

CULT reinvigorates UVic Astronomy

A group of students at the University of Victoria are determined to change the way we study the stars. The Committee for Upgrading the Learning Telescopes (CULT) may be a…

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