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Academic Confessions: Outside looking in

The first few lines of my CV and biography say: “Samantha Tsuruda holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree, Psychology Major, from the University of Victoria. She is a consultant in…

New audience for spoken word poetry?

While the first Vike’s Men’s football game led to a loss against the UBC Thunderbirds, Jeremy Loveday’s spoken word poem “Masks Off: a Message to Men” scored with many in…

Fashion should be taught in university

Anna Wintour, the editor-in-chief of Vogue, once said that fashion can make people very nervous. It’s an industry that people don’t grasp easily, and as a result, it’s mocked and…

Why bureaucracy and education don’t mix

When I came to university, I believed I would be entering a place of forward-thinking ideas and collaboration. But I realized that university was not the open intellectual haven I…

Family and friends quell first year fears

Growing up, I would make my parents take me to universities wherever we went: UBC, the University of Edinburgh, Oxford, SFU, and, of course, UVic. Being on a huge campus…

The unappetizing future of native advertising

As part of promotion for Orange is the New Black, Netflix paid for a story on the New York Times website about women in the prison system.

Returning to school routines

With September approaching, it’s difficult to know whether I’ve really changed as a student since April. I’ve often had to give vague and mixed answers to those who ask how…

The Lens: August 14

Stopping media stereotypes in Aboriginal health and education

According to Duncan McCue, an Anishinaabe journalist who has been a CBC reporter for over 15 years, “an elder once told me the only way an Indian would make it…

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