page_title: Victoria University, Toronto
section_title: Student life
hierarchical_section_title: Victoria University, Toronto / Student life
caption_attribution_description: eating hall, victoria college
context_page_description: Victoria University is a college of the University of Toronto, founded in 1836 and named in honour of Queen Victoria. It is commonly called Victoria College, informally Vic, after the original academic component that now forms its undergraduate division. Since 1928, Victoria College has retained secular studies in the liberal arts and sciences while Emmanuel College has functioned as its postgraduate theological college.
  Victoria is situated in the northeastern part of the university campus, adjacent to St. Michael's College and Queen's Park. Among its residential halls is Annesley Hall, a National Historic Site of Canada. A major centre for Reformation and Renaissance studies, Victoria is home to international scholarly projects and holdings devoted to pre-Puritan English drama and the works of Desiderius Erasmus.
context_section_description: Campus life for Victoria students is active and varied.  Victoria College has levy receivers, student organizations that directly receive a fixed amount of funding from students every year, as well as clubs whose funding are overseen by the Victoria University Students' Administrative Council (VUSAC).  Clubs include the Environmental Fashion Show, PlenTea to Talk About, Vic Dance and the Victoria College Chorus.
  Levy receivers are students groups with special status based on providing an essential service for student life, and levy heads are also assessor members in VUSAC.  Victoria's eleven levy receivers are:
  Acta Victoriana, the college literary journal.
  Victoria College Drama Society (VCDS), which runs at least four shows per year (a fall show, a winter show, a submission to the University of Toronto Drama Festival, and a musical)
  The Strand, Vic's student-run newspaper that is distributed fortnightly across the University of Toronto's downtown campus.
  Victoria College Athletics Association (VCAA), which provides students with a chance to participate and compete in intramural sports.
  The Cat's Eye, a student lounge in the Goldring Student Centre building that is often used to hold events.
  WUSC, which sponsors a student from a developing country to come to the University of Toronto.
  Caffiends, Vic's student-run fair trade organic cafe.
  VicPride!, an LGBTQ organization that strives to create a safe space at Victoria.
  Student Projects, a fund available to students to finance projects that will enrich student life.
  VicXposure, a photography group offering workshops, equipment rentals and darkroom use.
  VISA, the Victoria International Students Association.
  Victoria is also home to the Isabel Bader Theatre, opened in March 2001.  During the past few years the theatre has been used as a lecture hall for University of Toronto students, an active learning space for Victoria University students groups, numerous concerts, film screenings, conferences, and theatrical productions, including the annual sophomore tradition launched in 1872, The Bob Comedy Revue, each written, directed, produced and performed by students such as Lester B. Pearson, Norman Jewison, E. J. Pratt, Northrop Frye, and Margaret Atwood.
caption: Inside the dining hall of Burwash Hall
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