NEWS
The Gardiner Gala revisited
The Gardiner Gala is one of the chief traditions of Victoria College’s yearly Frost Week, which takes place every January. This year’s Gala was organised by VUSAC’s Arts and Culture and Scarlet and Gold Commissions, as well as the Dean’s Office and the Gardiner Museum. The Dean’s Office handled ...
CHEATING THE SYSTEM: ESSAY MILLS
Fake academic materials are produced for a wide variety of subjects ranging from introductory literature analysis to high-level technical disciplines. The commercial production of false work is an international industry with operations ranging in scale from local ads to multimillion-dollar production houses. So when a student decides to cheat on ...
Vic’s Newest Club Helps Students Navigate Difficult Scholarship Market
New this year to Victoria College, the Scholarship and Grant Writing Club aims to help students navigate the broad market for supplemental funding. Founder Spencer McMurray, a Peace, Conflict, and Justice Studies student from Victoria College, received official club recognition in November and has just recently begun operations, having held ...
Strangers sharing strange spaces: A look at residence life and pub nights
For many, living in residence is a rite of passage for living out the full university experience. Many of those admitted to residence are from overseas, from other provinces, or merely an hour’s drive away—but they all seek the unique experience that comes from living on campus. At Victoria ...
CIUT FM: Campus Radio and Breaking Down the Status Quo
CIUT 89.5 FM has been the broadcasted voice of the University of Toronto for over 50 years. Started by students in 1966, today CIUT is the only community radio station in the downtown Toronto region, providing a truly diverse range of programming that reflects the community it speaks to. With ...
#NASHtag: Survival of the Fittest, the Evolution of Legacy Media
The Internet has devalued all forms of ‘old’ media. Newspapers and TV news are traditional and out-dated mediums of communication, according to Canadian journalist Jesse Brown. ‘The future of traditional print journalism is dead’ was the message of the 78th annual student journalism conference, known as NASH. Despite administrative turmoil ...
VUSAC’s 2015-2016 Student Life Agenda: A mid-year appraisal
The 2015 semester was part of another great year for the Victoria University Students’ Administrative Council. Beginning in the summer of 2015, VUSAC began brainstorming initiatives for the 2015-2016 school year. “We came into the semester with very ambitious goals,” says Ben Atkins, one of the two VUSAC co-presidents. Priority ...
Caffiends Brings Environmental Sustainability, Ethical Consumerism and Delicious Coffee to Victoria College
Since 2006, Caffiends has been providing tired Victorians with their much-needed caffeine fix. Caffiends finds its home in Old Vic, giving students the perfect place to study, catch up with friends, or even sneak in a quick nap on one of the wonderfully comfortable sofas. It’s run by a passionate ...
Gardiner Gala postponed
Earlier this month, confusion erupted over Facebook after it was announced that the Gardiner Gala—planned as part of Victoria University’s Frost Week—had been postponed. The Gardiner Gala, considered a tradition for Victorians, is an event regularly held each year during the first week back at school after winter break. The ...
An interview with Bruce Meyer
Author Bruce Meyer is currently a Visiting Professor at Victoria University. He most recently published a collection of short stories, A Chronicle of Magpies (Tightrope Press, 2015). *** Bruce Meyer: Magpies is in some ways my first book of short stories. I did two before this. One was a book of baseball stories that was called Goodbye ...