ARIES (March 21 – April 20) Aries, if you feel like everyone’s giving you the cold shoulder, stop thinking so darn metaphorically! Everybody loves you! Just put on a sweater. You’ll see your shoulders, and your self-confidence, are fine. TAURUS (April 21 – May 21) Deciduo-ns, Deciduo-ns Taurus. Over the long summer, you might…
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…
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…
At a crossroad between two very different career paths — law and broadcasting — Nabil Karim, a BCIT broadcast and online journalism program graduate, went down the less conventional path. It has led him to a thriving career in the competitive industry of sports broadcasting. The sports reporter and anchor for TSN graduated from BCIT…
Humour Comic: Top Down April 24, 2013 Culture · Top Stories Art of the Sailor leaves its mark on Vancouver April 23, 2013 Latest Vancouver Maritime Museum exhibit explores the nautical origins of a popular body art form[…] Culture Showtime is over for the Apollo Ghosts April 23, 2013 Heroes of local indie scene hang…
Five summer outings that you just can’t refuse Summer’s on, the days are long and sunny, and you just want to get outside. You want the best summer ever, but typically, you have no money to speak of. Lucky for you, amazing outdoor adventures await within a reasonable radius of the Lower Mainland, using either…
Sold out, full of sell-outs, so shell out Line-ups for this summer’s music festival season are now being unveiled, bringing with them the inevitable yearly waves of excitement and cynicism. Criticisms of large music festivals are widespread and mostly valid. Artists like Mumford and Sons, The Black Keys and The Flaming Lips show up on…
Keep cool this summer with these hip happenings around the Lower Mainland So. School is wrapping up and it’s almost time for summer break. Too bad BCIT’s tuition and rigid payment structures mean you’ll be working all summer instead of flying off to beaches, festivals, and European backpacking odysseys. Fear not! The Link has…
Largest retrospective of Spiegelman’s work opens at the Vancouver Art Gallery Many Gen Y readers have been introduced to the work of Art Spiegelman though their academic curriculum. MAUS, Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize- winning graphic novel, is commonly discussed in high school history classes and college-level Holocaust studies. MAUS marks only the tip of the iceberg…
Casual encounters are crafting a new campus relationship culture OTTAWA (CUP) — A study presented at the American Psychological Association Symposium in 2000 stated that 87 per cent of college students report having “hooked up.” The vague term describes the type of encounters that have been replacing traditional dating on university campuses over the recent…
Despite its questionable history, the vibrator’s story is entertaining and eye-opening ANTIGONISH, N.S. (CUP) — The insulting but hilarious story of the invention of the vibrator seems to be popping up everywhere. Let’s face it; if anything warrants a retelling and celebration of its invention, it’s the vibrator. Rachel P. Maines’ 1999 novel The Technology…
I saw you in Starbucks, wearing a fur coat and a mink hat. As you ordered your hazelnut Americano, I couldn’t help but wonder if coffee is the only thing you like tall, dark and strong? Hit me up and you’ll upsize your life to a grande. . . . I saw you at the…