Bean There coffee shop is hoping that the $280,000 spent in renovations will rejuvenate its business in the Student Union Building (SUB). The shop reopened this week after being closed for three months to add new appliances, booths, better lighting and to “create excitement and a new operation.”

Do you need work experience? Maybe you just want to lend a friendly ear. Either way, answering phones or staffing the keyboards at the NEED Crisis and Information Line might be right for you.

Every semester, each undergraduate student at UVic pays $69.18 in fees to the University of Victoria Students’ Society (UVSS). But who is the UVSS and what does it do with all that money?

The UVic Students’ Society (UVSS) Board is inviting students to contribute to a proposed overhaul of UVSS election regulations through a new ad-hoc committee.

If you’re standing around Ring Road on Friday afternoon, don’t be surprised if a large blur of skin streaks past. The fourth-annual UVic Undie Run will be taking place on Sept. 18, with students dropping their drawers and striping their shirts to raise money for cancer research.

Victoria bars and nightclubs will be keeping track of patrons once again, very soon.

You might have noticed the new building in the middle of campus — two Coast Salish welcoming figures stand at the main entrance, facing east. What you may not know is that these figures represent UVic’s welcome to an under-represented group on campus.

Halfway through September, most UVic students are still switching schedules, avoiding homework and trying to get their bearings for the new school year. The students on UVic’s women’s field hockey team, however, are working hard to find their stride on the pitch.

UVic’s men’s soccer team kicked off the regular season with two wins last weekend, defeating the University of Calgary Dinos 2-0 on Sept. 12 and the University of Lethbridge Pronghorns 2-1 on Sept. 13.

Last year UVic’s varsity athletics teams dominated Canadian Interuniversity Sports (CIS). Now Vikes athletes are gearing up to conquer the pitches, fields, floors and waters once again.

Those who appreciate beer come in many shapes and sizes. There are fleshy cape-clad beer-chugging machines, uniformed members of drinking teams complete with drinking accessories and girls donning beer-themed T-shirts with puns about their jugs.

Think you have what it takes to stand up naked in front of a crowd and recite your most revealing poem?

It was my first week working as an English teacher in Taiwan and I was exhausted. I was dozing off to Elvis Presley on Taipei’s subway train when I was startled awake by a short, shrill sound.

Get ready: the second-annual Rifflandia Music Festival will be invading some of Victoria’s hottest venues from September 24 to 27.

It’s time to bust out the fishnets. On Sept. 25, Cinecenta is once again presenting The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Theatre manager Michael Ryan says the screening is always a highlight of the year.

“It’s hard not to fall in love with Ted Harrison,” said author Katherine Gibson. When Gibson was an elementary school teacher in the 1980s, she was introduced to the brilliant colours and magical landscapes of Harrison’s paintings. She was instantly transfixed.

A.J. Jacobs made his first-ever Victoria appearance this Saturday, Sept. 12, at Bolen Books.

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Go anywhere near Petch Fountain or the Vancouver Art Gallery on Sept. 19 and you’ll get baked - guaranteed. That’s because the locations will be hosting two of the many rallies being held worldwide to free Marc Emery, the Prince of Pot.

A couple of years ago, I was having dinner with two of my friends in Vancouver. Our waitress came to take our order.

Being new to Victoria can be a tad nerve-wracking when you can’t even find the local Value Village or figure out which bus routes take you straight to the Sticky Wicket. But no need to fear, ladies and gentlemen. Following this comprehensive list will take you straight down Pandora and back to Ring Road like a local.

The first week of school isn’t what it once was. Long ago typified by excessive drinking and mean-spirited pranks, the traditional frosh week is now a thing of the past. These days, there is a new university sanctioned addiction that is getting students more drunk than any buck-a-beer event ever coul

When I was 16-years-old, I watched the L.A. Galaxy soccer team play the Vancouver Whitecaps. I noticed two things I considered to be terribly wrong: first, the ratio of people wearing Galaxy jerseys to people wearing Whitecaps jerseys was alarmingly higher — second, from a soccer player point of view, David Beckham wasn’t doing anything productive.