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What the soul does want: new Lorna Crozier poetry

What the Soul Doesn’t Want is Lorna Crozier’s seventeenth book of poetry, and the mastery that comes with long practice certainly shows. The collection launched with a reading at Munro’s…

UVic motorsport club speeds to high finish at international competition

A UVic motorsport club has further success in their sights after a top-20 finish at an international collegiate design competition in Michigan. The UVic Formula Society of Automotive Engineers (or…

Uncertainty at UVic child care centre

Centre 6 shows signs of cracking with possibility of closure A missing van. Rumours of the UVic administration looking for ways to fire union workers. Children making posters imploring UVic…

A letter to UVic: It’s not you, it’s me-ortgage rates

Dear UVic, I have a confession: I’m a nerd. That’s right; a pun-loving, glasses-wearing, life-long learner, a lover of science and politics and all things academic. I am involved in…

Tensions high as Ring Road standoff enters 45th hour

Onlookers are beginning to worry as a standoff between a student trying to cross Ring Road and a car enters its 45th hour. Various members of the gathered crowd confirmed…

Shaking loose the fiction around earthquake safety codes

When the big earthquake hits, will the buildings on campus survive? Earthquake retrofits or not, the answer is most likely no. It’s a common mistake to think that seismic retrofits…

Camper van art project stands on its own legs

Sitting in the Fine Arts quad, waiting for my interviewee to arrive, I watched the confused faces of onlookers walking past the camper van seemingly dropped from the sky out…

No concrete answers after UVic’s snowmageddon causes pileup

For most students at UVic, Feb. 8’s snowstorm was the most chaos on campus they’d ever seen. Cars were trapped in the flood of people trying to exit Ring Road,…

Campus shuts down as snowpocalypse hits Victoria

It was history in the making on Wednesday as UVic was forced to close campus after excessive snowfall plunged the Greater Victoria area into a whiteout. Snow had been on…

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