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UVic Student whose house was destroyed by Hurricane Dorian seeks to rebuild
Hurricane left her dad stranded for two days, house destroyed A week before Asiyah Robinson was expected to start her final year of a double major degree in Biochemistry and…
“My heart aches:” UVic community gathers to grieve lives lost in Friday bus crash
University staff and students gathered on Sep. 17 to grieve and support one another after a bus crash killed two first year students in the third incident on road to…
Two UVic students dead in weekend bus crash
Two UVic students were killed, and three more were seriously injured, when a bus went down an embankment over the weekend between Bamfield and Port Alberni.
Sexualized Violence Awareness Week brings much-needed discussions to campus
In the era of Me Too, conversations around consent and sexual health are still relatively new to university campuses. UVic's Sexualized Violence Awareness Week hopes to start those conversations through…
The four biggest news stories you might have missed this summer
Although many students were away from campus this summer — visiting home, on co-op, or traveling to exotic places — that didn’t keep UVic and Victoria from announcing several major…
VIPIRG terminates lease with UVSS, moves to Fifth Street office
On August 26, VIPIRG announced that they terminated their lease agreement with the University of Victoria Student Society (UVSS) due to what they felt was an increasingly unsustainable partnership. The…
Grad House financial struggle, apology discussed at Graduate Representative Council meeting
On August 13, the Graduate Representative Council (GRC) met to discuss the creation of a plan to tackle the Grad House restaurant’s ongoing financial struggle and issue an apology to…
Sessional instructor strike could hit campus this fall
After months of collective bargaining, the University of Victoria and CUPE 4163 (the union representing sessional and music performance instructors) have failed to reach an agreement on a new contract…Our Digital Print Issue
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