{"id":4606,"date":"2012-10-30T14:14:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T21:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=4606"},"modified":"2012-10-31T09:59:41","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T16:59:41","slug":"news-briefs-uvss-camosun-college-golf-team-wine-auction-cancelled-al-qaeda-terrorist-gets-soft-punishment-virgin-sells-her-virginity-for-780000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2012\/10\/30\/news-briefs-uvss-camosun-college-golf-team-wine-auction-cancelled-al-qaeda-terrorist-gets-soft-punishment-virgin-sells-her-virginity-for-780000\/","title":{"rendered":"News Briefs<\/em>: UVSS, Camosun College Golf Team, Wine auction cancelled, al-Qaeda terrorist, Virgin sells virginity for $780,000"},"content":{"rendered":"

UVSS supports plan for students<\/strong><\/p>\n

The University of Victoria Students\u2019 Society has come out in support of a new plan put forth by the Research Universities\u2019 Council of British Columbia. It was delivered to the Government\u2019s Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services on October 18. The three-point plan argues that there needs to be more spaces for students, improved access to postsecondary education through initiatives such as an up-front needs-based grants program, and guaranteed funding that would match federal dollars for research initiatives at BC postsecondary institutions.<\/p>\n

Golfers grab silver<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Camosun College golf team did it again. If you\u2019re wondering what \u201cit\u201d is, fear not, as you\u2019re about to have your socks blown off by way of mad pride. The Chargers have successfully acquired the silver medal in this year\u2019s Canadian Colleges Athletic Association golf season. The final tournament was held in Oshawa, Ontario, home of the fierce Durham Lords. After a rough start to the tournament, finishing the first day in seventh place, Camosun charged forward and were able to finish only behind the Humber College Hawks, who are now the reigning champions four times over. The whole Camosun team came together for this success, however one cannot ignore Jarred Callbeck\u2019s inspirational showing on day two, shooting the second lowest score of the day (for all you for all you pointy-headed intellectuals, low is good), that indubitably helped the Chargers sequester the silver.<\/p>\n

Crush organizers crushed<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Liquor Control and Licensing Branch (LCLB) recently announced a ruling that prohibits the auction of any bottles of wine that have not been directly purchased through the LCLB. This ruling is having negative consequences on many charities that auction off bottles of wine. One such charity is the Belfry Theatre\u2019s fine wine auction, Crush. They\u2019ve had to cancel the event, which received donations of fine wines from private donors, and has had no problems operating for the past two years. \u201cOur many volunteers, sponsors and donors have been working for months to realize this event,\u201d said Sherri Bird, chair of the fundraising committee for the Belfry, in a press release.\u00a0\u201cThe LCLB approved our past two events without incident.\u201d<\/p>\n

Justice served?<\/strong><\/p>\n

About a decade back, Algerian Ahmed Ressam was caught with a trunk full of explosives when coming off of a ferry from Victoria; his plan was to bomb the Los Angeles airport. He has recently been sentenced to spend 37 years in prison. Ressam, who had trained with internationally recognized terrorist organization al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, was caught in 1991 in Coho, Washington. Since this was a pre-9\/11 occurrence, Ressam will not face as harsh a sentence as someone would if they were to do the same thing today. If he were caught today, he would be charged with carrying a weapon of mass destruction, which can lead to a life in prison.<\/p>\n

Modern economic strategies<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hey, virgins, here\u2019s the inside scoop on how you can make some quick cash. By simply selling your virginity online, you could make hundreds of thousands of dollars! This is exactly what 20-year-old Brazilian physical education student Catarina Migliorini has done. By auctioning off her virginity to a Japanese man, she has made $780,000, which she reportedly intends to give a small portion of to help her hometown of Santa Catarina. When accused of prostitution, she said that \u201cif you only do it once in your life then you are not a prostitute, just like if you take one amazing photograph it does not automatically make you a photographer,\u201d The Daily Mail reported. And men, this is equal-opportunity weirdness: a male virgin did the same thing and made a comparably small but still rather whopping $3,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UVSS supports plan for students The University of Victoria Students\u2019 Society has come out in support of a new plan put forth by the Research Universities\u2019 Council of British Columbia. It was delivered to the Government\u2019s Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services on October 18. The three-point plan argues that there needs to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue","category-news","category-october-31-2012"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4606"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4608,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606\/revisions\/4608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}