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Academic Confessions: Learning not to make mistakes

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:…

UVic men’s ice hockey: an underdog story

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…

Margaret Atwood: Writing for our future

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…

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.

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