The Bi-weekly Gamer: Rebuilding the systemAfter the end of the spring League of Legends (LoL) Championship Series (LCS) split, LoL developer Riot Games decided that it was time to bring some changes to the system. After every split, Riot tends to shift the rules and format of the LCS slightly. Sometimes it’s larger changes (changing the total number of teams) […] Continue Reading |
Susan Chen on post-secondary budget cutbacks, Netflix, and Camosun’s integrityKnow 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. Do you have an instructor that you want to see interviewed in the paper? Maybe you […] Continue Reading |
Camosun prof, students return from educational Bolivia tripCamosun Sports Management instructor Nevin Harper recently returned from a two-week trip to Bolivia with 10 Camosun students from a variety of different programs. Harper took his students everywhere from 4,000 metres above sea level—an altitude that can be dangerous if you’re not properly equipped—to the Sendra Verde ecological reserve, which is home to more […] Continue Reading |
News Briefs: June 15, 2016 issueCamosun Chargers golfers get fifth The Camosun College Chargers golf team placed fifth overall in the recent Canadian University/College Championship, which was held at the Morningstar Golf Club in Parksville from May 30 to June 3. Camosun closed the final round with a collective total of 299. Chargers coach on CBC broadcast team for Olympics […] Continue Reading |
Lit Matters: The dog days of André Alexis“Artists make language vague so that someone can enter into it,” said André Alexis, winner of the 2015 Giller prize for his novel Fifteen Dogs. Alexis spent most of his life in Toronto but was born in Trinidad. Like many immigrant children, he was always conscious of being different, especially when it came to language. […] Continue Reading |
Camosun College Student Society concerned about campus securityThe April Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) elections contained a referendum question asking if Camosun students were in support of a funding increase to the Walksafer program; the vote did not reach quorum, so funding was not changed. This is an issue for CCSS Student Services Coordinator Michael Glover. Glover, who runs the Walksafer program, […] Continue Reading |
New book takes readers into ups and downs of boating lifeFor lovers of the sea and dry land alike, Peter L. Gordon’s novel Stalking Salmon & Wrestling Drunks: Confessions of a Charter Boat Skipper provides a pleasing read about the complexities of people. Recalled in first person are true tales that took place aboard his charter fishing boat from 1978 to 1990. Born in Vietnam […] Continue Reading |
Open Space: We need to change how we eatWhile recently researching a class paper about modern agriculture, I wound up awake late into each night, dumbfounded and intrigued by the obvious and simple truth it seems billions of people have overlooked. And here it is: poor health starts not only with what we are putting into our bodies, but also with what we […] Continue Reading |
The Heaviness of Things that Float tells powerful story of Canada’s First NationsJennifer Manuel’s debut novel is a literary work of fiction based on the west coast of British Columbia, which inspired Manuel as she wrote the book. Manuel is very capable of sharing the fullness of what she writes about in The Heaviness of Things that Float. Using her experience from a lifetime dedicated to researching […] Continue Reading |
Open Space: Smoking in public needs to stopTo smoke around another person without their consent is a violation of their basic rights. It’s understandable that cigarette cravings are difficult to control and can strike at any time, but when a person lights up while walking down the sidewalk or sitting at a bus stop, it’s completely unfair to anyone standing within a […] Continue Reading |
