News Briefs: September 9, 2015 issueWi-fi issues? Camosun College’s Information Technology Services would like to remind all Camosun students to reset their passwords to get on Camosun’s wi-fi. To do so, visit the library or computer lab, or go to password.camosun.ca. If you’re a new student, the default is your birthday in this format: mmddyy. Good luck! Good things happen […] Continue Reading |
Local festival preaches world peace through puppetryTimothy Gosley is best known around town right now for being the director for this year’s Puppets for Peace festival weekend, but there’s something that not everyone knows about the man: he was once a puppeteer for the beloved children’s show Sesame Street. “I have been a puppeteer since about 1980,” he says. “One of […] Continue Reading |
Canadian Federation of Students under fire from BC membersThe Canadian Federation of Students-British Columbia (CFS-BC) had its semi-annual general meeting from August 13 to 16; the meeting agenda contained several motions condemning the national Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) organization. The motions talk in detail about how the BC branch of CFS (which is a separate legal entity from the national CFS) has […] Continue Reading |
What’s Going On: September 9 to September 22, 2015Friday, September 11 I wonder what facts they would like disregarded? Revel in the chaos that Ontario-based grindcore band Fuck the Facts will bring to Victoria on September 11. Our quaint city is just one they will be screaming at during their North American tour for their latest album, Desire Will Rot, which was released […] Continue Reading |
Know Your Profs: Camosun geoscience instructor Tark Hamilton loves to explore and researchKnow 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 |
A Message from the Camosun College Student Society: September 9, 2015Welcome to a new semester at Camosun College! We look forward to meeting you this year! Students often ask what it is we do, so we thought this would be a great time to introduce ourselves. The purpose of the Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) is to make Camosun a community rather than just an […] Continue Reading |
Lit Matters: John Gardner on monsters and menAmerican novelist, essayist, poet, and critic John Gardner is perhaps best known for his novel Grendel, in which he constructs the world of Beowulf from the perspective of a sensitive, curious monster. Grendel, who has a love/hate relationship with his terrible mother and hangs out with a philosophizing dragon, gives us a unique chance to […] Continue Reading |
Open Space: A Camosun student looks at Hong Kong’s recycling systemCompared to Victoria, Hong Kong is in the dump in regard to their waste management schemes: their landfills are expected to be full this year. The easiest thing to do would be to criticize them and suggest that Hong Kong adopt a system such as Victoria’s, where places to deposit recyclables, compostables, and garbage are […] Continue Reading |
Camosun alumnus Jeff Mason’s new book shows great promiseCamosun alumnus Jeff Mason’s first novel, The Symmetry of Belief (self-published), is heavily influenced by classic sci-fi, fantasy, and horror by authors such as H.P. Lovecraft, Frank Herbert, and J.G. Ballard. The story is reminiscent of Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” in which humans willingly fall from heaven, or, rather, ascend from paradise into the cruel void […] Continue Reading |
Arthur Black misses the mark in new bookArthur Black’s Paint the Town Black (Harbour Publishing) is a stream-of-consciousness series of opinion column pieces written by a 71-year-old white Canadian male who is an ex-CBC host and comes across as very anti-technology. This book’s content comes as no surprise but will still keep you shaking your head all the way through. I’ve never […] Continue Reading |
