Open Space: Online learning a bumbling circus of ineffectivenessThe phrase “online learning” is an oxymoron. Since COVID-19 began, Camosun classes are mostly online, forcing instructors and students to adapt to streaming Zoom lectures and using online platforms like D2L. There’s a reason why online courses are usually cheaper: it’s an inferior environment for learning. Despite this, students are still paying full tuition for […] Continue Reading |
Student Editor’s Letter: Coping with Lockdown 2.0A reality of lockdowns is that they cause me to shut down emotionally, and it’s next to impossible to count on the future I envisioned for myself. Picture this: a dusty orange winter sunrise leaks through foggy windowpanes in the Fisher building. I had spent the morning before going to school as a young father […] Continue Reading |
Saying goodbye to Logan’s Pub with David Chenery20 years from now, how do you think we’ll look back on 2020? What is the new normal going to look like? To be honest, I don’t think I want any part of it. The whole city’s running at half capacity, bars are shutting down at 10 pm, and everything is cancelled. I don’t know […] Continue Reading |
Camosun College Student Society ready to deliver annual Christmas hampersThe Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) is putting together Christmas hampers for Camosun students once again. While the CCSS gives out the hampers every year, things are being done a little differently in light on the COVID-19 crisis this year: students won’t pick up the hampers on campus, instead, the student society has about 20 […] Continue Reading |
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Open Space: Racism needs to stop in CanadaI am a human being blessed with being born in Canada, which maintains a multicultural society. In order for multiculturalism to exist, we as Canadians must accept and encourage many cultures to thrive within our society. Seeing slurs such as the n-word, given the derogatory history associated with the word, being used does not feel […] Continue Reading |
Unsettled and Striving: Empower our youth with the truthWhen entering Camosun College this year, I chose the courses I did because I wanted to hear in-depth details about this country’s truths that are generally kept hushed. Once I understood that what had been taught in my middle- and high-school “social studies” classes was a censored, white-washed illusion regarding the establishment of so-called “Canada,” […] Continue Reading |
New Music Review: Once a Tree offer insightful stories on new EPOnce a Tree Fool’s Paradise (Independent) 4/5 BC-born and Toronto-based Indigenous electro-pop duo Once a Tree’s new EP, Fool’s Paradise, is coming out on November 20. The two members of the group—partners Jayli and Hayden Wolf—focus on experiences they’ve had on the EP’s songs, with powerful results. The songs on the EP—which follows up 2017’s […] Continue Reading |
The Examined Life: The thin line of progressModern computers have existed for less than 100 years. In that time, they’ve gone from monoliths that took up entire rooms to the pocket-sized devices we all walk around with today. Smartphones are said to have 100,000 times more processing power than the computer used by NASA in the Apollo 11 mission. The advancement in […] Continue Reading |
Freedom from Addiction: Becoming aware of your whole beingSome moments, I am okay, thankfully. Some moments I am good, content, grateful, peaceful. Sometimes, however, I suddenly feel like I’m starving for something. It’s an emotional or psychological something, but it feels like intense hunger, so I might eat something, even though my body is not hungry. This is how addiction works: we are […] Continue Reading |
