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Easy solutions to complex problems: Our September 18, 1995 issue featured the Speak Up question “What is your response to the government turning over responsibility for student loans to the banks?” Camosun student Clark Stuart pulled no punches: “I am against the banks,” Stuart told us. “The money the banks make off of interest could […]

For months, I couldn’t stop worrying about what the fall was going to look like at Camosun. Were there even going to be enough students enrolled at the college to keep the lights on? How was productiveness and material absorption going to be affected with all these Zoom calls? While the answer to the latter […]

Either democracy is the most important, ethical, and sophisticated system of governance of all time or it is a wretched and ridiculous farce made pointless by the weight of its own stupidity. Personally, I believe it’s a bit of both. The BC NDP has decided that the election scheduled for October 16, 2021 will instead […]

On Friday, September 18, Saanich Police fined 11 UVic students for not adhering to physical distancing protocols and for openly consuming alcohol in public. It would appear those students aren’t learning too well: this is after police had to go to the university on Friday, September 12 to shut down a gathering on campus. The […]

As post-secondary students, part of what we deal with is future management. This means that, on or off campus, we students should never stop thinking about our futures, especially during a global pandemic. That’s why our post-secondary system works so well, and why it remains even more relevant during the COVID-19 crisis. Right now, we […]

On Friday, September 12, a large group of UVic students gathered outside the UVic McPherson Library to party. Now, that’s usually pretty normal—socializing in colossal groups is part of post-secondary culture. But at this point in 2020, it’s not normal. Or at least it shouldn’t be. According to UVic’s student newspaper The Martlet, there were […]

No matter your involvement at the college, it’s fair to say you’ve probably spent the better part of six months wondering how this would look. Now it’s here: students are back. Of course, “students being back” means something entirely different in this context than it did six months ago. There are welcome signs waving in […]

Bad times, bad times: The story “Federal cuts to BC mean fewer dollars for post-secondary education” in our September 5, 1995 issue talked about how there was set to be approximately $250 million in cuts to BC post-secondary over a three-year period. It’s easy to get bogged down in bad news in 2020, but, rest […]

Camosun is 100-percent open. Well, 100-percent open, but mainly remotely. Students are being directed to stay off campus unless they have a class or an appointment. It’s the smart thing to do; it’s the healthy thing to do; it’s the right thing to do. Speaking of the right thing to do, the political manoeuvre of […]

It was disheartening, to say the least, to hear the news about the Victoria resident who hosted not one but two parties over this past weekend. Three words went through my head when I first read the headlines about this: what the hell? The host was slapped with a $2,300 fine the first night. On […]