Penguin & Peacock: January 4, 2017 issue |
Magazine Issue
The long, long road to Camosun: How the college’s first sponsored student refugee made it hereIt wasn’t easy for Kabwari Chomba to get to Camosun College. Chomba—who arrived at Camosun in August 2016 as the first student brought to the college by the World University Service Canada Student Refugee Program (WUSC)—was born in a refugee camp in the Congo. “In the camp, life is not simple. There are no jokes, […] Continue Reading |
Camosun places on North American post-secondary sustainability chartsCamosun College recently placed 10th in the Associate’s Colleges category in the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE)’s 2016 Sustainable Campus Index. The college uses AASHE’s Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System (STARS). In January of 2016 Camosun College got a STARS silver rating for its sustainability achievements. Camosun College acting […] Continue Reading |
Camosun students use online media to facilitate social discussionCamosun Sociology students Orieanna Hartley, Adam Jenkins, and Linda Derkacz united in November to embark on a project they had been inspired to take on right here in the classrooms of the college. Struck by the degree to which they felt that certain societal issues went insufficiently examined, the young academics decided to create an […] Continue Reading |
Dearest Reader: A proposal: Camosun College needs a dress codeDearest Reader, Doubtless it is of great concern to you, as it is to myself, that Camosun College finds itself making a foray into another semester while sorely lacking any form of dress code, insofar as such a thing might be both mandated and practiced in a unilateral fashion. Your relief will then be palpable […] Continue Reading |
Open Space: Camosun board needs to explain why they terminated president’s contractA public post-secondary institution needs to operate with transparency and responsibility to the public. When former Camosun College president Kathryn Laurin had her contract with the college terminated in 2014, the reasons were never made public by the college’s board of governors. As per the terms of her contract, she continued to receive a severance […] Continue Reading |
News Briefs: January 4, 2017 issueFormer UVic professor pleads guilty to smuggling steroids Former University of Victoria computer science professor Gautam Srivastava has pleaded guilty to illegal-steroids smuggling. But a judge stayed the case—meaning Srivastava will not be charged, or have a criminal record—because, he said, the case had gone on longer than necessary. Srivastava is currently a faculty member […] Continue Reading |
Know Your Profs: Camosun’s Brian Young wants the college to help students try something newKnow Your Profs is an ongoing series of profiles on the instructors at Camosun College. Every issue we ask a different instructor at Camosun the same 10 questions in an attempt to get to know them a little better. If you have an instructor you’d like to see interviewed in the paper, but perhaps you’re […] Continue Reading |
What’s Going On: January 4 to 17, 2017Until Sunday, January 22 Going from door to door A story about three generations of women, From Door to Door is a comedy being held at Congregation Emanu-El synagogue. Focusing on the loss of a mother’s husband, the play expands on the roles of a grandmother, mother, and daughter and how each one affects the […] Continue Reading |
New book highlights Canadian radio broadcaster Red Robinson’s celebrity lifeI had no idea what I was about to get into when I started reading Red Robinson: The Last Deejay. I had never heard of Robinson, and I didn’t know that Canadian radio had such a fabulous past; all this, and I was raised in the very same city that Robinson made famous. The book […] Continue Reading |