Camosun College students aim for refugee-sponsorship programWorld University Service of Canada (WUSC), a student-based and student-run non-governmental organization that has a chapter operating out of Camosun College, is hoping to start a refugee-sponsorship program through an official Camosun student refugee program. The program would place a sponsored refugee student at Camosun College. “Sixty-one schools across Canada already fund this program,” says […] Continue Reading |
Open Space: The new liberal puritanismAccording to a recent article in The Atlantic, American universities are under siege. Apparently, the current generation of students feels entitled to an education scrubbed clean of any ideas, words, or works of literature that may in any way trouble one of their number. They are pressuring teachers to limit discussion of offensive topics and […] Continue Reading |
Camosun Chargers golf team starts season strongThe 2015/2016 PACWEST golf season has begun, and the Camosun Chargers golf team has claimed its third consecutive win on home turf. The Chargers golf team, who took home silver in the provincial and national championships last year, hosted the Camosun Invitational at Bear Mountain Golf Resort and Spa on September 26 and 27. They […] Continue Reading |
Look: Art, fun, and creativityI was transported back in time last week to the land of elementary school field trips. Back then, the field trip was the holiest of holidays. Would our parents sign? Of course, now, I’m 43. I can sign my own permission form, which is what I did, so to speak, when it was time to […] Continue Reading |
New chair elected to Camosun College board of governorsRuss Lazaruk was elected as the new chair of Camosun College’s board of governors on September 14. Lazaruk has been a member of the board of governors for the last four years, and he has held the position of vice chair since last year. Current Camosun board of governors vice chair Ron Rice says he […] Continue Reading |
What’s Going On: October 7 to October 21, 2015Until Saturday, October 17 Family hilarity at Langham Court You Can’t Take It With You is a comedic dive into the lives of a batty family that has unusual views regarding normality. This play originally premiered on Broadway in 1936 and won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1937. You Can’t Take It With You […] Continue Reading |
If We Were Birds doesn’t back down from tough subject matterIf We Were Birds director Wendy Merk claims that this particular production is going to be one of the most difficult plays she’s ever directed. The play has graphic sexual violence and centres around the theme of rape used as a weapon of war against women. But Merk has the skills necessary to pull it […] Continue Reading |
News Briefs: October 7, 2015 issueBC students pledge to vote Just two weeks after the launch of the Canadian Federation of Students-British Columbia (CFS-BC) campaign This Time We Decide, over 4,200 postsecondary students have pledged to vote across the province, according to CFS-BC. The campaign focuses on first-time voters and uses social media and modern technologies to send reminders and […] Continue Reading |
Peeling back the textbook price tags: a look at why exactly textbooks are so expensive, and what students can do about itTextbooks are a big part of the life of any student; many students have one or two of them with them at all times. But there is a love/hate relationship between a pupil and their textbooks. They help us learn and succeed, but they can cause us an awful lot of grief: they are very […] Continue Reading |
Lit Matters: Yukio Mishima finds true beauty“True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys,” wrote Yukio Mishima, a Japanese author who is as famous for his death at age 45 as he is for his prodigious literary output. It is hard to overstate the expanse of Mishima’s life. Considered the most important Japanese author of the 20th century, […] Continue Reading |
