The Bi-weekly Gamer: From one worlds to the nextGame developers Blizzard recently hosted their annual convention, Blizzcon. By far the most noticeable event at the otherwise boring convention was their Overwatch world cup tournament. I talked about Overwatch in this column a couple of months ago, when the game was first released. In seemingly no time at all, it has fully flourished into […] Continue Reading |
Les Liaisons Dangereuses draws upper-class parallels from eras pastSex is a weapon of manipulation. At least the two rivals in the play Les Liaisons Dangereuses would have you believe it is. But the play—Christopher Hampton’s stage adaptation of the Pierre Choderlos de Laclos novel—is much more than that, says director Fran Gebhard. “The play is set in the 1780s, just before the French […] Continue Reading |
Lit Matters: The genre-busting fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin“My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it,” wrote Ursula K. Le Guin, one of the 20th century’s most successful world-hopping novelists. Because many of her novels and stories take place on other planets or in times far removed from our own, […] Continue Reading |
Former Camosun students get the spotlight in art showSeveral Camosun alumni have their work displayed in an ongoing exhibit, It’s In the Making, at the Victoria Art Gallery, but what’s on display is different than what’s usually at art shows. Exhibit co-curator Nicole Stanbridge says that the exhibit is about how artists actually create their work. “A lot of this show is about […] Continue Reading |
Campus Closet student club first of its kind at CamosunAlthough the name is vague, Campus Closet is very clear on its goals. One of Camosun’s newest student clubs, Campus Closet consists of a group of volunteers that are opening a shop of sorts to provide Camosun students a place to borrow business attire for free. Once they have the shop open (they are hoping […] Continue Reading |
Student society by-elections bring in new student board membersThe Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) by-elections were held on Tuesday, October 25 and Wednesday, October 26; at both campuses, Camosun students voted in new student representatives to the CCSS student council. Callum Harrison was elected as the Lansdowne executive, Srijani Nath the international director; Draco Recalma is now the First Nations director, and Ellen […] Continue Reading |
Smith vs. Smith: November 16, 2016 issue |
New Music Revue: Redspencer relaxes, Rykka brings the partyRedspencer Perks (Deaf Ambitions) 3/5 While Redspencer is based in Melbourne, Australia, the indie-pop band’s members grew up in northern New South Wales; the influence of that area’s sunny weather can be heard from the first chord on Perks. This, Redspencer’s debut album, is the perfect soundtrack for day trips in the summer, gazing at […] Continue Reading |
Open Space: Bill C-16 not taking away rightsI’m tired of the opinion that Bill C-16 is about taking away a person’s rights when it’s about recognizing them. I’m tired of the fact that it is a certain type of person with this opinion, and I’m tired of the fragile male ego, the one that objects when others succeed in fighting for their […] Continue Reading |
Camosun student developing new appEvery Camosun student develops their own path in life; sometime students end up in places they thought they’d never be. Camosun College Business major Connor Foreman, for example, has found himself entering into the world of app design and getting a head start in the business world. Foreman says that his app, Locus, aims to […] Continue Reading |
