You feed the hungry, we'll waive your fines

With food bank use across Canada at its highest level since 1997, UVic's Food for Fines food drive is back this year—through Dec. 10—in time to make a "gift" of library and parking fines to help fill food bank shelves.

UVic library users can drop off donations at the McPherson Library (Mearns Centre for Learning) and Curriculum Library (MacLaurin Building). For each non-perishable food item donated, they will have $2 waived from library fines, up to a maximum of $20. Food donations will be shared by the Mustard Seed and the UVic Students' Society Food Bank. Last year, UVic Libraries raised $4,480.32 for the Mustard Seed and UVSS food bank through 1,097 donations of food and money.

And campus parking scofflaws can assuage their conscience by bringing in their parking ticket and a food donation to Campus Security Services, thereby reducing parking ticket fines by $5.