What’s Going On: November 16 to 29, 2016Until Tuesday, December 6 Typos maybe acceptable Camosun students will have their work on display at Typologies, an exhibit in which photography students were assigned to create a 100-photo typology of something. Check it out in the Lansdowne library mezzanine and beside Young 111 at the Lansdowne campus. Thursday, November 17 Bringing back comedy Comedy […] Continue Reading |
Campus Closet student club first of its kind at CamosunAlthough the name is vague, Campus Closet is very clear on its goals. One of Camosun’s newest student clubs, Campus Closet consists of a group of volunteers that are opening a shop of sorts to provide Camosun students a place to borrow business attire for free. Once they have the shop open (they are hoping […] Continue Reading |
Camosun student developing new appEvery Camosun student develops their own path in life; sometime students end up in places they thought they’d never be. Camosun College Business major Connor Foreman, for example, has found himself entering into the world of app design and getting a head start in the business world. Foreman says that his app, Locus, aims to […] Continue Reading |
Camosun Chargers volleyball season beginsVolleyball is one of those sports that everyone knows. From daring dives to powerful spikes to coordinated sets, a viewer expects the players to be masterful in all regards of the game. The wear and tear on the mental strength of a player or coach can be quite strenuous. The Camosun Chargers women’s volleyball team […] Continue Reading |
What’s Going On: November 2 to 15, 2016Until November 7 Local B.C. readings Reading helps to connect families and friends; Read Local BC is a series of events that can just do that through readings of poetry, stories, and more. For more information on authors, dates, and locations, see books.bc.ca. Until December 10 Without an origin Altering photos is one of those […] Continue Reading |
Know Your Profs: Camosun English prof Nigel Brooks gets post-apocalypticalKnow Your Profs is an ongoing series of profiles on the instructors at Camosun College. Every issue we ask a different instructor at Camosun the same 10 questions to get to know them better. If you have an instructor you’d like to see interviewed in the paper, but perhaps you’re too busy to ask them […] Continue Reading |
Camosun College instructor explores intense themes in new bookCamosun College English and Creative Writing instructor Kari Jones knows all about betrayal, responsibility, crisis, and community. After all, her new young-adult novel, At the Edge of the World, explores all of those themes and more. The book is set in a fictional small town along the west coast of Vancouver Island inspired by Tofino […] Continue Reading |
Camosun students get Disney World experience with co-op“Read ten thousand books, travel ten thousand miles.” This Chinese proverb means that knowledge should be connected with practice; looking at it through a post-secondary perspective, it could mean that when people acquire knowledge from school, they should use it in society. Camosun College is practicing this proverb with a co-op program that sends students […] Continue Reading |
Camosun considers bringing gamification to the classroomThe prospect of video games in classrooms seems like an absurd idea thought up by a group of nerds. But, in reality, video games are more popular than ever, and some innovation in our school system is long overdue; students have been writing tests, papers, worksheets, and everything else on paper and in Microsoft Word […] Continue Reading |
Camosun’s Africa Calling struggles to get phone donationsVictoria is known for its vast number of charities. Camosun College is no stranger to them; Africa Calling, for example, has had a strong presence here on campus for the past seven years (indeed, the group started as a class project at Camosun). Africa Calling collects phones and distributes them to those less fortunate, but […] Continue Reading |
