Camlink crash leaves students scrambling during registration, improvement underwayCamlink, Camosun’s online course-registration system, went down on October 11 and again from October 13 to 15, leaving students and faculty unable to access the site. The crash came during registration for January 2019 courses. Camosun registrar Scott Harris says that Colleague—the database platform Camosun uses—is “quite an old implementation” and that because it’s getting […] Continue Reading |
Frankenstein meets Giselle in new balletFor Ballet Victoria (BV) artistic and executive director Paul Destrooper, opening BV’s season with an original interpretation of Frankenstein was a no-brainer. “This is the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s novel,” Destrooper explains. “And I think it’s kind of fun that, also, she was the first female writer to start a whole genre with essentially […] Continue Reading |
Camosun College Student Society gears up for fall student electionsUpdate: The CCSS elections have been extended until noon on Thursday, October 25. The Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) fall student elections are happening from Monday, October 22 to Wednesday, October 24. Aside from the candidates for the CCSS board of governors, the election ballots will include two referendum questions. The CCSS board of directors […] Continue Reading |
News Briefs: October 10, 2018 issueCamosun instructor first to defend doctoral dissertation in traditional territory Camosun indigenization and sustainability strategist Dawn Smith recently became the first person in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia to defend her thesis off campus in her traditional Nuu-chah-nulth territory. Smith’s thesis focused on epistemological collisions experienced by Indigenous professors teaching […] Continue Reading |
Unpacking the Bags: Making the biggest step possibleMany people ask me what led me to leave my country, my family, and my culture behind to come and live in Canada. The truth is that every international student has a different answer to why they made that decision; in my case, I left my country in search of better opportunities in the labour […] Continue Reading |
New play about motherhood has Camosun College rootsFor actress and playwright Nicolle Nattrass, the journey to motherhood was not a simple one. “It was quite a journey,” says Nattrass, “because I always said if I don’t have a child by the time that I’m 40 then that’s okay, because I had lots of kids in my life. You know, ‘happy auntie,’ and […] Continue Reading |
Beethoven’s freedom fight on display with new performanceSocial justice meets opera with Pacific Opera Victoria (POV)’s contemporary production of Beethoven’s Fidelio, which may just challenge your perceptions of the human condition. Bogotá-raised multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker Monica Hernandez has joined with director Wim Trompert and designer Nancy Bryant to create an on-set memorial to resistance and freedom fighters that is “extraordinarily expressive,” […] Continue Reading |
What’s Going On: October 10 to 23, 2018Until Saturday, October 27 Get your creep on! The only thing creepier than classic horror movies is classic horror movies in a historical castle. Craigdarroch Castle is launching Classics at Craigdarroch Movie Series on Thursday and Saturday nights at 6 pm throughout October. The movie list includes Dracula, Frankenstein, House on Haunted Hill, and more. […] Continue Reading |
The Periodic Column: Gene-driving out of controlA huge breakthrough in the world of gene editing is a tool known as CRISPR, or “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats.” CRISPR guides enzymes to certain places in a genetic code where they can cut the DNA. Then the cells repair the genes, or other pieces of genetic code can be inserted. Another recent […] Continue Reading |
Toronto singer/songwriter Ben Kunder connects through carpentry, musicSince he was a little kid—stumbling over his dad’s old college guitar in the basement and teaching himself to play it with Bob Dylan songbooks—music has played a vital role in Toronto singer/songwriter Ben Kunder’s life. “We always had music in the house; we had a pretty expansive record collection, and [my dad] always took […] Continue Reading |
