Port Theatre’s Virtual Spotlight Series
After having shut its doors for six months, the Port Theatre reopened at the beginning of October. Because the theatre's usual 800-person audience...
Kristen Bounds
Kristen Bounds is a fifth-year Creative Writing major focusing on non-fiction and journalism. Her writing mostly centres around her passion topics: environmentalism and social justice. Apart from talking about plastic to anyone who will listen, she enjoys reading, surfing, and is quite partial to a cold hazy pale ale.
Everything by Kristen Bounds
Turning Setbacks Into Goals
If you’re looking for inspiration on how to not only be an exemplary citizen in your community, but in school and in your personal life, look no...
Students to Vote for VIUSU Reps
The polls are now open for VIU Students’ Union Fall 2020 General Election! Even though we’re not in typical class settings this year, VIUSU is still...
Music to Help You Focus
I think we can all agree that staying focused and on-task is a little hard these days. Being alone in a house with no other people is a little eerie...
Is “A New Future for Old Growths” Possible?
Most Vancouver Island residents will remember the War in the Woods some 27 years ago. It was an environmental movement that saw 12,000 people show...
How to LFH (Learn From Home) Like a Pro
At the beginning of the year, when attending class meant climbing the 403 steps at VIU in the dreary, pouring rain of January, the idea of studying...
The Importance of Increasing Indigeneity at VIU
With everything that has happened so far in 2020—the pandemic, a steep rise in awareness about systemic racism, alarming weather events due to...
More Bang for your VIU Buck
Imagine if there was a way to turn textbooks into coffee. Or put the hundreds of dollars spent on printing in the library towards sandwiches in the...