The MSCU is a:
course Union within the Medieval Studies Program at the University of Victoria. We exist to create an outlet for students to come together and express their interest in the Middle Ages.
and as you might expect, their blog is a somewhat eclectic mix, ranging from notes from the Vatican on the distribution of Catholics and Muslims, a note on what “gilding” actually means, and clips from medieval themed movies.
A newly launched program at UVic encourages community members to strap on a pedometer and walk “around the island” by keeping track of the steps they take each day:
Active U is a new program for members of the campus community to team up with colleagues, get active and enhance your overall well-being.
…you can start tracking your progress as you virtually walk (cycling, yoga, swim or garden) around Vancouver Island.
The campus is encouraged to form “teams” and to engage in a bit of friendly rivalry with the aim of “getting active.” A number of events and guided walks are also planned.
“Connect with your sole mates” and sign up today!
The UVic Community Mapping project is having their Map the Campus event today:
We will be a throwing community mapping event with paper maps on tables, asset lists to review, and laptop computers to add points to our map. Draw for prizes! This is the final public data collection event before we make the (first) UVic Campus Community Green Maps in paper form. Come out and make sure your favorite sites are mapped.
11:30 – 13:30 at the University Centre.
Two self-declared crazy people from UVic are just about ready to trek across Africa through Namibia, Zambia, and Tanzania, averaging a marathon a day for 100 days – starting April 4th. The project’s aims:
- To fundraise and support sustainable educational projects in Africa. The continent’s downward cycle of poverty, famine and disease has wreacked havoc on all facets of African society. However, the benefit of education can help future African generations alleviate their problems.
- To simply show people that it can be done.Sure, there are areas of Africa that are unsafe to travel, but every major urban center in the developed world has ‘no go’ zones.
SEE-THEM-RUN will demonstrate that Africa too is a place where real people live real lives, and where, if you want to go for a 4200km jog, you are more than welcomed to.
Visit their site to check out their route, keep updated on their blog, and offer your support (and watch the video!).
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The Community Gardens have been established on campus for about 12 years and are run as a volunteer effort “with some practical support from Facilities Management and the UVIC Sustainability Office” as a student club.
Their site provides discussion areas, tips on growing, workshop information, and information about how you can get involved.
Coming up:
On Saturday, April 12, the Campus Community Garden Club will be hosting an “Intro to Permaculture” workshop in Fernwood with renowned local permaculture expert Geoff Johnson. The workshop will combine an in-class component introducing the concepts of permaculture, with a walking tour of permacultural sites in Fernwood and some hands-on activity.
The UVic community mapping project is a wonderfully collaborative enterprise designed to produce comprehensive paper and online maps of the campus. The vision is:
to provide a participatory mapping and planning system, including learning and technical tools, to facilitate innovative and sustainable development at UVic. The project vision includes building the capacity for UVic to directly assist CRD-wide projects and to contribute to national and global innovations and initiatives in community mapping and planning for sustainability.
to say nothing of building community in the effort. You can sign up online to participate, and/or attend a “mapping event” such as the Public Map the Campus Event coming up on March 27.
The Order of Pi brought it’s annual wrath down upon the guilty last week:
A procession of musical monks, equipped with the latest in medieval pieing equipment, is coming towards you. The next thing you know you’re in the stocks being threatened with a cream pie.
The Order of Pi has been an annual fundraiser of the Uvic Engineering Students Society since 1993. All funds raised go to the Queen Alexandra Children’s Hospital, with an additional 2 dollars for each pie ordered going to the Mustard Seed Food Bank.
Carlie is also one of our Life at UVic bloggers and in keeping with our last post on the library, check out these before and after videos of the “new and improved Bessie Brooks Winspear Media Commons” posted this week to her blog.
Here’s the “after”:
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In my experience, our university library system is wonderful, comprehensive and very service-oriented. This applies beyond the UVic students and faculty to the larger community as well. I use the Education curriculum library, for example, as a resource for my elementary school aged kids.
And here’s an example of how teachers from Camosun can take advantage of this resource:
After a great deal of deliberation by a posse of librarians, research librarians and the Supervisor, it transpires that We Who Teach at Camosun are entitled to an “Associate” card, which means we effectively get, for free, the same borrowing privileges that a UVic student has.
Read the whole entry at Between the Lines.
Today we are treated to a view of the campus from one of our students, Graeme, who is participating in a “Life at UVic” project which I will profile another day.
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