Another school year is beginning at BCIT, and with the autumn weather comes premiere season on TV – a perfect procrastination excuse for students. Every year, the wait for television premieres in the last half of September is unbearable. There seems to be even more anticipation this year, as there are many exciting shows ending…
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Vancouver International Film Festival opens on September 26 and runs through October 11. With the closure of the historic Granville 7 cinemas, VIFF found a new home at several venues, including the Vancouver Playhouse and The Centre for the Performing Arts. Festival screenings also returned to previously used theatres, such as The Rio on Commercial…
The second annual FroshFest, organized by the BCIT student association (BCITSA), attracted hundreds of students to the Burnaby campus tennis courts on the first Friday of the fall term. Students celebrated with cheap drinks, delicious food, and classic tunes. According to BCITSA’s official Facebook event page, admission cost $15. One beverage and one burger were included in…
Plastic, yellow fish are replacing the barely visible aquatic markings that had previously been guarding storm drains around BCIT’s Burnaby campus. Two students from the Ecological Restoration program worked to revitalize the markings as part of an internship earlier this year. Ken Ashley, Director of BCIT’s Rivers Institute, explained that BCIT is actually built on…
Rape is probably not the first word that comes to mind when you think of post-secondary education. Yet in the span of less than a week, two Canadian universities on opposite sides of the country have come under fire for students spouting pro-rape chants during frosh week celebrations. On September 4, St. Mary’s University in…
Sexual orientation runs a lengthy gamut. From hetero to bi to homo, with appetites for anything from plain old missionary, to leather and whips, to tastes less commonplace, the reality is that behind closed doors, no sexual identity perfectly fits onto a label. “Asexuality” adds yet another dimension to this diverse nomenclature. Identifying as asexual…
After the high-profile suicides of Amanda Todd and Rehtaeh Parsons, Canadians on both coasts have learned the hard way that cyber bullying is a virulent issue that, at its worst, can end lives. In both Todd and Parsons’ cases, explicit pictures of the girls were posted online, which led to bullying at school and through…
Some people are interning, summer people are not. I am some people this summer, interning at a local radio station. Although I constantly sweat through my cardigans from performance anxiety and wasn’t thrilled to trip on the sidewalk while bustling around with my big tape recorder, I am happy to be working in the industry…
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Latest Vancouver Maritime Museum exhibit explores the nautical origins of a popular body art form Over the past century, body art has made a fascinating journey from taboo to trend in Western society. The ink that covered a select few on the fringes of society can now be seen on anyone with enough bravery and…
