On my very first day at UVic, Dr. Brad Buckham described engineering as “a calling requiring specialized knowledge and often long and intensive academic preparation”. That is what engineering is:…
The British Columbia Intercollegiate Hockey League (BCIHL) consists of six teams. Five are recognized as varsity sports and financially supported by their respective schools. The sixth team, the lone wolf…
Earlier this month, it was announced that critically acclaimed Canadian author Margaret Atwood will be the first artist to participate in the Future Library project, giving her exactly one year…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…