Postsecondary on an empty stomach: the rise of student poverty in CanadaIt would be comforting to think that a slight dip in Canada’s economy has led to the situation many postsecondary students are in: struggling with poverty. Unfortunately, many working within postsecondary education feel that the factors at play are much more complex than that. It’s more than just waiting for the economy to get better: […] Continue Reading |
Rick Miller reinvents the solo act with BOOMTypical solo acts consist of performers utilizing their own talents: singers sing their own songs, comedians tell their own jokes, and magicians perform their own magic tricks. One person would never attempt to impersonate 100 people in just one show, right? Well, Rick Miller does, and he will break every preconceived notion of solo shows […] Continue Reading |
What’s Going On: July 15, 2015 issueVarious dates in July Symphonic summer The Victoria Symphony is seeing to it that there’s lots of historic music being played in nice sunshine-y places, such as the Inner Harbour and the Butchart Gardens, this month. See victoriasymphony.ca for info. Until August 1 Get coupled Michael Doerksen’s Coupling is a three-part exhibit based around cast […] Continue Reading |
Lit Matters: The fantastic humanity of Bohumil Hrabal“I was always lucky in my bad luck,” quipped Bohumil Hrabal, a Czech writer famous for his lovable characters and raucous plots. In his novels, a wastepaper compacter quotes philosophy, a man narrates a whole book in a single sentence, and an innocent, clumsy young train-station attendant manages to blow up a Nazi munitions train, […] Continue Reading |
Know Your Profs: Camosun Pipe Trades instructor and chair John Gordon sees trades fighting entitlementKnow 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 |
New Music Revue: Rain Over St. Ambrose’s new album displays a spectrum of stylesRain Over St. Ambrose Still Waking Up (Independent) 4/5 This second album from Nova Scotia indie rockers Rain Over St. Ambrose is slow to start: the repetitive “29 Takes” fails to take full advantage of the band’s vocals. But things pick up fast. While “Broken Love” sounds like two other songs I know, the added […] Continue Reading |
News Briefs: July 15, 2015 issueThousands graduate at Camosun ceremony On June 18 and 19 over 3,000 students graduated from Camosun College at official ceremonies held at the Interurban campus. The ceremonies also saw six awards given, including one to Camosun Anthropology teacher Nicole Kilburn and her students for their bug festival, which was featured on the cover of Nexus […] Continue Reading |
Open Space: A message to the anti-feministFeminism, like any body of theology, has extremists and opposing opinions. Still, most feminists agree that our goal is simple: for everyone to be given the same opportunities to live without being discriminated against. But somehow this message has been skewed, as the recent trend of young women declaring themselves as anti-feminists online shows how […] Continue Reading |
No Sinner ignore the negativity and return to rock the shoresColleen Rennison, vocalist of Vancouver rockers No Sinner, says that being a musician is pretty wild, so it makes sense that people who have personalities that aren’t exactly moderate end up in this line of work. “I’m either trying to save the day or absolutely destroying it,” says Rennison. “It feels like that’s just the […] Continue Reading |
Camosun students present their findings at geoscience conference (with web-exclusive content)Two Camosun College students were recently given the unique opportunity of presenting at an annual geoscience conference. The conference, held in Victoria in June, was the 17th annual Meeting of the Pacific Northwest Section of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT). Among the presenters was first-year Environmental Technology student Julio Flores. A few months […] Continue Reading |
