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The Camosun Chargers have added a women’s curling team to their roster. The team formed after a group of Camosun student athletes talked to Melissa Soligo, who expressed interest in coaching the team. Soligo, an Olympic athlete, then approached Camosun recreation and athletics coordinator Graham Matthews to get the process of starting a curling team […]

Camosun general awards now open  Camosun College’s financial aid and awards office is looking for students for its General Camosun Awards. The awards, valued at approximately $500 each, are given to students who have overcome personal or mental struggle, those who show outstanding leadership, are academically equipped, or have taken action on animal rights issues […]

Camosun Comics and Graphic Novels students are getting ready to show off their 28-page comics at the sixth annual Camosun Comic Arts Festival. Comics and Graphic Novels program co-founder Ken Steacy says tabling—where students put their work on a table and interact with passers-by about what they’ve created—is an important part of growth in the […]

Camosun to deliver new culinary arts program with Songhees Nation The provincial government announced in the last week of March that $665,000 would go toward starting up a new Aboriginal Culinary Arts, Hospitality and Tourism Management program at Camosun College. The program will be a partnership with Songhees Nation and delivered at the college. Camosun […]

Camosun indigenous artist in residence Margaret Briere focuses on Coast Salish art, a genre found largely in the Pacific Northwest; much of Briere’s art deals with issues surrounding mental health. She says her art does not represent mental health in a typical way, often using birds as symbolism. “In my mind, if I didn’t say […]

If you notice that students seem a bit happier this week, not to mention falling over drunk, that’s because an error on the part of work crews occurred while installing a new pipeline that has replaced the school’s drinking water with local craft beer. A spokesperson for Camosun College says this couldn’t come at a […]

With the stress of final exams looming, the tension on both Camosun’s Lansdowne and Interurban campuses is palpable. Camosun students are wandering like time-bomb zombies, waiting to explode with the pressure of mounting assignments and tests; some students, apparently, have, literally, not slept for three years. Lucky for the tension-riddled masses, a solution has been […]

Keen eyes may have noticed that there’s basically always a lot of construction happening at Camosun College’s Lansdowne campus. The Slum Building has been caught up in a legal battle for years now, and students can’t actually walk around it. Meanwhile, Wisher’s construction, slated to be done by September 1 of 1998, is still not […]

Spring has arrived, and students and faculty are enjoying being out of the dull greyness of constant cloud and rain. So the name of the year-end exhibit for first-year Camosun Visual Arts students, Out of the Grey, makes perfect sense, which Visual Arts instructor John Boehme acknowledges with a laugh. He says that Out of […]