What’s Up With Her?: How to confront a profI recently had a professor make a discriminatory remark about people with mental illness. The prof argued that most people wouldn’t want someone with a mental illness flying a plane. Our society has a very skewed idea of what mental illness is and usually associates it with negative tendencies. This adds to the fear these […] Continue Reading |
Green Your World: Bottled water bailoutA few weeks back, the Camosun College Student Society hosted Sustainability Day, which coincided with National Bottled Water Free Day. This is the reason why there were a bunch of plastic water and pop bottles in the fountain next to Dawson building. We did this because one in three Canadians drink bottled water as their […] Continue Reading |
Rococode fuse melody with spontaneityLots of people claim, sometimes in an incorrect and hyperbolic manner, that music is their life. But when it comes to Laura Smith, vocalist and keyboardist of the Vancouver-based pop-rock sensation Rococode, music really always has been her life. “I played piano since I was really little,” she says. “It got to the point where […] Continue Reading |
Climbing film explores human ambition via Mount EverestClimbing Mount Everest is an unattainable dream for many people, unless you have $100,000. It used to be that a climber would spend many gruelling years in training before approaching Mount Everest; now all you need is money. Documentary filmmaker Dianne Whelan spent 40 days at the base of Mount Everest documenting the climbing season […] Continue Reading |
New Music Revue: April 4, 2012 issueHey Mother Death Hey Mother Death (Divorce Records) 2.5/5 The first release by Halifax/Paris-based duo Hey Mother Death is a dark, atmospheric soundscape. But Hey Mother Death are largely inaccessible and far too on-the-fringe for most listeners. The EP begins with the compelling and moody instrumental “You Left Me.” Dark, eerie synths, a slow, resonant, […] Continue Reading |
Students take issue with plagiarism checkerEDMONTON (CUP) – Text-matching technology is currently under scrutiny at the University of Alberta, with the department of biological sciences’ plagiarism checker the latest subject in a long discussion about academic integrity on campus. The mandatory text-matching tool, used by the biological sciences department since September, is inciting controversy after the department’s decision to go […] Continue Reading |
Twenty-year-old UVic student battles rare form of bone cancerThe unconditional love from family and friends surrounding Subha Gill, a 20-year-old second-year UVic student and aspiring doctor who is battling bone cancer, may be the key to the success of an upcoming fundraiser. An April 6-7 event, including a 24-hour skating marathon and a three-on-three hockey tournament, hopes to raise $5,000 for Gill, who […] Continue Reading |
School presidents say 2012 budget will affect studentsVANCOUVER (CUP) – BC’s university and college presidents believe that service cuts will come if the provincial government cuts funding to post-secondary education. A letter signed by presidents of the 25 publicly funded universities and colleges in BC, including Camosun College president Kathryn Laurin, argues that it’s “unrealistic to assume that the [funding] reductions contemplated […] Continue Reading |
Open Space: New approach needed for drug awarenessOver the past year there has been considerable media coverage given to the increasing incidence of ecstasy-related deaths in Canada. In BC alone, 16 people died from adverse effects to the party drug in 2011; two more have already died in 2012. At least five of these deaths have been blamed on the drug being […] Continue Reading |
Local, Live, and Loud: April 4-10Friday, April 6 The Sentimentals, Lovers, Capital Region Logans, $8, 9:30 pm Lovers had one of my favourite releases of 2010, and, to my understanding, the release went virtually untouched. Darklight is a fantastic album and has some really enjoyable, mellow pop songs. The trio has a lot of energy and emotion behind their music. […] Continue Reading |
