How could hell be any worse?: Our cover story for our April 18, 1994 issue looked at students and poverty. Clearly, not much has changed on this front. However, it has rarely been explained so passionately as by a poem printed in the Letters to the Editor section of this issue. A letter writer named Saki wrote a poem to Camosun’s president, saying, “Before you leave this institution, is it possible that you can see to its effective operation? This is in reference to my personal request that I made to you before Easter in your office.” The writer then goes into the poem, which concludes with this: “A long ravenous week ahead/And 20 books to read/This questions often boggles his mind,/‘If this is a student’s life what is the Devil’s hell?’”
Starving for an answer: In the Student Opinion column, writer Jodi Spiller looked at the never-ending rise of tuition fees and tries to come up with a few solutions to the problem. Her most interesting? “Starve your local MP and maybe he or she will begin to develop ideas that will actually help students rather than hinder them.”
News today, legend tomorrow: The story “West coast music biz” talked about, among other things, a tale of local music legend: after Victoria punk rockers Dayglo Abortions released their Here Today Guano Tomorrow album the offices of their record label, Ontario’s Fringe Records, were raided by the RCMP. Fringe were charged with distributing obscene material: the Victoria band’s album.