Uncomfortable parallel: It was more than a little chilling and upsetting to crack open our March 22, 1993 issue to read about a sexual assault on a chip trail at UVic. The cover of this issue claimed that “The Times They Are a Changin’” (hey, leave us alone: we can use cliches sometimes). In light of recent events at UVic (a sexual assault on a chip trail), I think we can all agree that the times aren’t changing quickly enough.
Bob Dylan wishes everyone would stop using those words: That phrase on our cover was regarding an article in the issue about women in trades, which was something we still talk about (actually, we talked about it last issue). While still a small presence, the numbers of women in the trades are growing, which these women who we profiled 20 years ago would no doubt be proud of.
Mattered then, matters now: An opinion piece on page three further hammered home the point that the same issues that are on students’ minds now were on students’ minds back then. Echoing comments from a recent Nexus column, the piece was about how language is powerful and words such as “disabled” deny people the basic right to be a human being.