Eye on Campus: September 19 – October 2Until Sunday, September 23 Latin American and Spanish film week UVic is hosting its third Latin American and Spanish film week at Cinecenta in their student union building. Each day will boast two showings at 7 and 9 pm, costing $5.60-$7.75. A large variety of films will be featured, and all of them will have […] Continue Reading |
News briefs: CKMO update, Chargers golf news, UVic bathroom briefingCKMO on last leg Camosun College’s radio station, CKMO The Village 900, was set to be shut down at the end of last April. Due to the station’s requirement for the applied communications program students to finish their course, the termination of the station has been temporarily postponed until this coming April. The station is […] Continue Reading |
Comics: September 5, 2012 issue |
Open Space: Down with taxpayer-funded vanityIf a cyclist gets into an accident and cracks their head open because they decided to not wear a helmet, we all pay, and it’s time people realized that. Some people are strongly opposed to wearing a bicycle helmet. They attribute many reasons to their displeasure with noggin fortification, citing such ridiculous claims as longing […] Continue Reading |
Rifflandia brings international talent, benefits local artistsThe biggest problems that the organizers of Victoria’s Rifflandia fest have faced while doing the annual music to-do have been good ones, as far as problems go. Past Rifflandias brought complaints and dissatisfied festival-goers when venues reached capacity and long lines caused people to miss concerts, but that was smoothed out with the introduction of […] Continue Reading |
Celeste and Jesse Forever failsIn any film, there’s always something easy to pick at, even if the movie was great. Finger-pointing is simple because it’s obvious what went wrong, whether it’s to do with an actor, a director, or the set. Eight fingers and two thumbs aren’t enough to point out all the wrongs in Celeste and Jesse Forever. […] Continue Reading |
New Chargers coach refuses to go lower than bronzeAfter putting in two years as assistant coach of the men’s Chargers basketball team, Scot Cuachon is starting to move up. Newly appointed as the interim head coach after previous head coach Craig Price shipped out to Alberta, Cuachon has high expectations for the boys in the upcoming year. “To be completely honest, if we […] Continue Reading |
From burgundy and python print, fall fashion has it allPut away your fake Uggs, yoga pants and latest American Eagle/Hollister/Billabong/Roxy sweater and embrace some fall fashion trends. Summer was all about flirty high-low skirts, ripped jeans, sheer tops, and pastel colours, but now autumn has arrived, with a darker colour palette and edgier details; colours always darken in the fall to reflect the changing […] Continue Reading |
BC Transit reinstates 7,000 service hoursBC Transit recently announced they have reinstated 7,000 hours of service to their routes, 5,000 of which are going back into conventional bus lines (the other 2,000 hours are going to handyDART lines). Students are affected by busses passing them by on a regular basis, and that’s the main problem that BC Transit is trying […] Continue Reading |
In Search of Lost Time: Manufactured identityAs a MTF transsexual, sex was always a strange act for me. I always felt closer and more enduring emotion from cuddling, kissing, caressing. During sex, I would imagine being the woman that I am, which made things difficult. Sex was a strange and foreign act that was not as satisfactory as the media would […] Continue Reading |
