Like a unicorn sighting: The story “Tuition freeze gives students room to breathe” in our April 1, 1996 issue offered up something that we, unfortunately, don’t get to report on too often: good news about tuition fees. BC premier Glen Clark had announced a freeze on tuition fees for 1996, saying that high tuition fees should not be a burden to education.
The customer is always right, right?: The story “Educators debate students as clients” talked about an education forum hosted by the Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce that focused on the question “Are students ‘clients’?” Two speakers on the panel were Camosun president Liz Ashton and UVic president David Strong. Ashton said that seeing students as clients implies a change from the traditional teacher/student relationship, while Strong said that “The very idea of the student as client, i.e. knowing what should be taught, could be anathema to the professor who has invested a life in a particular specialty of a particular discipline.”
RIP Kim Shattuck: One sad thing about looking through old issues is coming across stories about musicians who played in Victoria and have since died. This issue we ran a review of The Muffs’ performance at The Limit, written by now-Times Colonist scribe Mike Devlin. Talking about the great performance given by vocalist/guitarist Kim Shattuck, Devlin said that “Courtney Love could definitely use some tutoring from Mademoiselle Shattuck.” Shattuck died in October 2019 from complications of ALS. She was 56.