Felicita is a person, after all!: Our March 7, 1994 issue featured plenty of hard-hitting stories but the thing that stands out the most is this little nugget of information, found in a story called “UVic Sub centre of hub”: Felicita’s pub, UVic’s long-running pub hangout, was “named after an adored member of the janitorial staff.” So, now you know!
Low-culture high-culture: Our review of a gig by local art-rockers Dixie’s Death Pool featured this humorous summation of the band’s sound from writer Kim MacNaughton: “For those whose ears are trained to structural melodies, listening to the Dixie’s Death Pool show would have been somewhat of a crash course in hillbilly subcultural sound.”
End of an era: Since this issue came out 20 years back, the day of the pay phone has come to an endÉ almost. You still see one or two around town now and again (we still have some on campus), but, obviously, they’re just not as needed these days. In this issue, the story “Free phones on campus” talked about free public telephones potentially coming to both campuses. There was concern, however, as writer Jennifer Siegg put it, that people would talk on the phones for “hours on end.” Talking for hours on a phone with a cord attached to it? Positively retro.