New Camosun student club explores outdoor adventureThe new Camosun Outdoor Adventure Club may have started as just a class project, but third year Camosun Sport and Fitness Leadership student Sylvia Watkins has turned it into a functioning student club, taking her fellow students from the classroom to the fresh air for hikes and more. “We had to do something in the […] Continue Reading |
Know Your Profs: Camosun’s Michelle Bass negotiates through classroom conflictKnow 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 to get to know them a little better. Do you have an instructor that you want to see interviewed in the paper? Maybe you want to know […] Continue Reading |
Camosun Chargers coach Charles Parkinson enters Volleyball BC Hall of FameCamosun Chargers men’s volleyball head coach Charles Parkinson was recently inducted into the Volleyball BC Hall of Fame. Parkinson, who is also a faculty member of Camosun’s Centre for Sport and Exercise Education, is both appreciative of and humble about being chosen for induction. “It’s awesome. I can’t say that I’ve ever thought about it […] Continue Reading |
News Briefs: December 2, 2015 issueCamosun Chargers men’s volleyball number one The Camosun Chargers men’s volleyball team beat the Capilano University Blues 3-1 on Friday, November 20. This was the men’s 10th straight win and put them in at number 1 in the national ranking. The women’s volleyball team lost 3-2 to the Blues, putting them to the number 8 […] Continue Reading |
News Briefs: November 18, 2015 issue (with extra web-exclusive content)Camosun carpentry students kick butt Two Camosun Carpentry Foundation students, Derek Vally and Kendall Foster, won first and second place, respectively, in the third annual BC GameChanger Youth Expo, held in Vancouver. The competition challenges students to impress with their mad carpentry skills as they work against the clock in teams of two. This year […] Continue Reading |
What’s Going On: November 18 to December 1, 2015Wednesday, November 18 until Saturday, November 21 Three useless coins Head over to the Phoenix Theatre at UVic for some musical satire in The Threepenny Opera. In an absurd dystopian future and a society where money corrupts, law is fickle, crime pays, and Mack the Knife displays his broken moral compass in song. For ticket prices and show times visit finearts.uvic.ca/theatre/phoenix/. […] Continue Reading |
The Bi-weekly Gamer: Revolutionizing the marketLeading up to October, there was a ton of hype around the popular Guild Wars 2. A massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG), it’s a huge online game in which the player creates an avatar and is thrown into a digital realm with thousands of other players with the task of levelling up, completing quests, […] Continue Reading |
The Functional Traveller: Why so kawaii?As I traipse through the 24-hour grocer on a late-night hunger-fuelled purchase-capade, I jaunt past the refrigeration cabinets stocked with cured meats. Then I double back. Sandwiched between Vienna sausage and Italian ham is a package of tiny Vienna sausages shaped like octopus, complete with edible smiley faces. Despite their innocent grins compelling me to […] Continue Reading |
Camosun College Student Society elections bring in new student representatives, referendum goes throughThe Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) student bi-elections were held on Wednesday, October 28 and Thursday, October 29. Huy Ho, Carlos Suarez Rubio, Kimberley Banfield, and Gavin Howie were elected as directors at large for the Lansdowne campus, while Bobby Tiet, Vikas Verma, Mehtab Saluja, and Ellen Young were elected as Interurban campus directors at […] Continue Reading |
Look: TimeWhat is time, anyway? I want to pinpoint this question down very narrowly because time seems to be this illusion that never stays on track. When I need time, I don’t have it; when I don’t need time, time seems to stand still. Always. I know this sounds very metaphysical. I only ask because there […] Continue Reading |
