Bitcoin debate to take place at Camosun CollegeMost postsecondary students have at least heard of bitcoin currency. Though a popular topic in the media for the last year, what bitcoin actually is has remained an unclear concept for many people. To help inform Camosun students who wish to learn more, a debate has been set up for mid-September between two of the […] Continue Reading |
What’s Going On: September 3 to 16, 2014: crashing UVic, festing Camosun, sliding backbonesUntil Friday, September 12 Crash the UVic party The University of Victoria is holding it own welcome back events up at the university until Friday, September 12. The events include a pancake breakfast and fair on September 3 (that’s the day we come out, so hurry!), a series of outdoor movies in the quad, live […] Continue Reading |
News Briefs: Camosun Express is back, UPASS update update, and Camosun Chargers tryout infoThe Camosun Express returns The Camosun Express shuttle bus, which offers free intercampus travel and links to the West Shore for students and staff, will resume September 2 until December 5, and then start again in the winter semester. Free wifi and bike storage are provided on the shuttles, which leave Interurban hourly on the […] Continue Reading |
Ability’s Muse: Working poor studentsI came to the conclusion this year that I’m a member of the working poor. Sadly, I’m not alone and, because of that, I’m surely becoming an antipoverty activist. Many will argue poverty doesn’t exist in the western world and that we have to pull ourselves up by our own bootstraps and find work. Well, […] Continue Reading |
Camosun College Mechanical Engineering showcase brings new inventions, beer to campusA new invention that could change the face of the craft-brewing scene is just one of the projects on display at the upcoming Camosun Mechanical Engineering showcase. Second-year Mechanical Engineering technology student David Gilmour has no shortage of enthusiasm for his team’s project, which is one of many student inventions being showcased at the upcoming […] Continue Reading |
Age of Geeks: Tech gadgets you just don’t needIt’s that time of the year again, when fresh young minds merge into the world of education, while returning students continue to take on the real world in the coming years. Packing the right tech goes a long way to making your life easier and, of course, more fun when you go back to school, […] Continue Reading |
New Music Revue: Latest round of Led Zeppelin reissues explores rich, and stoned, historyMan… sometimes there’s another batch of Led Zeppelin reissues and you just want to close your eyes and wish it all away. I mean, the band put out eight (nine if you count Coda) classic, timeless albums, and then we have to suffer through a lifetime of BS because of it? Well, good news: while […] Continue Reading |
New Music Revue: WISH’s psychedelics best left aloneWISH WISH (Hand Drawn Dracula) 2/5 After a couple of mugs of coffee I sat down to listen to WISH’s self-titled and self-described “alternative/psychedelic” album. I quickly became irritated by the excessively grungy sound of feedback from heavily distorted guitars going off on unending solo jam sprees. Perhaps the coffee had made me overly sensitive […] Continue Reading |
Victoria’s booming craft-beer scene fosters fest, online museum, breweriesHomer Simpson once extolled on an episode of The Simpsons that beer is “the cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.” So it’s the cause of much excitement (and hangovers) that the Great Canadian Beer Fest will again take place in Victoria on September 5 and 6. Two days may not seem like […] Continue Reading |
Derriere redux: The return of Victoria pop-punkers BumThis is the story of a ’90s Victoria pop-punk band that got pretty huge in faraway places like Spain and Japan, and put out records on labels based in places as distant as Australia, but never really got enough respect in their hometown. Now, almost 20 years since they disbanded, Bum are back for at […] Continue Reading |
