Camosun College Student Society excited for slightly different Camfest this yearEvery year, during the first week of the fall semester, the Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) holds Camfest, a welcome-back event for students. Camfest is happening this year from Tuesday, September 7 to Friday, September 10, and it will look a bit different than it has in previous years. CCSS outreach coordinator Quinn Park says […] Continue Reading |
International at Camosun: Travelling as an international studentInternational students have made a lot of efforts to reach Canada to study in their schools, especially in this pandemic. This article is for international students who will be travelling soon, and it’s for students who had to go through a lot and spend a lot of money to fly to Canada. Like every other […] Continue Reading |
No vaccines required at Camosun, but students need vaccine passport to access certain parts of campus; mask mandate backWhen students return to campus in September, they will need to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to access certain parts of campus, although not to attend classes. As well, masks are now again required in all indoor public spaces in British Columbia, which includes common areas of post-secondary institutions, such as classrooms, stairwells, libraries, and […] Continue Reading |
Student Editor’s Letter: Reading the writing on the wall for fallChange is the only constant, but, in some ways, things don’t change too much. It’s a horrible cliche, but it’s true. What I’m getting at is that we’re in for another rocky fall semester. The false starts are taxing. Economically, we need to buy into it—literally—but I’m getting to a point where I want to […] Continue Reading |
Blockchain training coming to Camosun in fallBlockchain training is coming to Camosun College. Training in Blockchain—a digital ledger of transactions distributed across a network of computers, making it very difficult to hack—will take place through the college’s recently reopened Continuing Education department. Camosun director of strategic initiatives/acting director of Continuing Education and Contract Training Jen Stone says Blockchain training at the […] Continue Reading |
BCFS launches Influence the Vote campaign ahead of federal electionThe British Columbia Federation of Students (BCFS) and the Alberta Student Executive Council recently launched Influence the Vote, a new campaign aimed at providing students the incentive and information to make an informed vote in the upcoming federal election, taking place on September 20. BCFS chairperson Melissa Chirino says the BCFS is taking a non-partisan […] Continue Reading |
Nic’s Flicks: The Suicide Squad funny, entertaining, riskyThe Suicide Squad (2021) 3.5/4 My favourite kinds of movies are ones that take risks. Take a movie like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, for instance. It took a lot of guts, both figuratively and literally, to make a movie that showed someone getting their heart ripped out from their body in that […] Continue Reading |
Let’s Talk 2.0: Fragile femininityIt was a sweaty summer afternoon and I had just gotten off work for the day. Sighing in heat-fuelled exhaustion, I got in the car and turned on my summer Spotify playlist. I always listen to music in the car, and, naturally, this playlist had lots of classic summer hits. I was halfway home when […] Continue Reading |
Student Editor’s Letter: Feeling the strain of anxiety and smokeGoogling current wildfire activity for BC is terrifying. The province is a cluster of multi-coloured dots, each one indicating a fire, with an orange flame emoji beside the ones that are considered of note. And it’s starting to become a concern close to home: outside my building, signage has been posted informing smokers to use […] Continue Reading |
Camosun Classes Abroad: Things I can’t wait to do once I get to CamosunI am writing this in a hotel in Doha. I have tested negative for COVID and there are six more days left in my quarantine. I’ve finally gotten comfortable with the idea of travelling via a third country and quarantining. I’m trying to make the most of my unpredictable and unplanned hotel vacation in Qatar. […] Continue Reading |
