The Ring September 2006

Helping hands

Members of UVic’s Orientation team are willing to lend a hand to help new and returning students put their best foot forward when they come to campus to begin classes this fall. Giving a lift to April McNeil are Orientation staff and volunteers (from left): Kenny Chue, Matthew Liem, George Robinson, Amesh Narsing and Emil Hadad. Orientation sessions and tours began at the end of August for new students living off campus, and activities continued through the Labour Day weekend and into the first week of classes. Orientation website

Features

	Two UVic historians join Canada’s academic elite Dean of humanities Andrew Rippin and professor emeritus Patricia Roy are the University of Victoria’s newest fellows of the the Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada (RSC).
	Methane hydrates not cause of past global warming University of Victoria researchers have dispelled a popular theory that marine gas hydrates caused a significant release of methane gas into the Earth’s atmosphere.
	Voices on the street Two University of Victoria researchers are doing more than dropping coins in the palms of panhandlers.