Women’s Centre debate : The November 28, 1994 issue of Nexus featured the cover story “Male student kicked out of Women’s Centre sparks debate,” in which writer Bowen Moran explains how student Martin Moreau had been, according to Moreau, “in and out [of the Women’s Centre] all day, actually,” when two women in the centre demanded he leave. The Camosun College Student Society women’s executive said that kicking men out of the women’s centre was a step in the wrong direction.
Family funnies: In a humour piece, writer Brett Gosman discussed how the comic Family Circus is actually not funny at all and proposed putting together a group dedicating to hating it. “We would talk about how stupid the strips are, especially those where Billy is sent to do something and he does a bunch of other things on the way and leaves a dotted trail behind him,” Gosman wrote. “Let’s all join together and stop it before it goes any further.”
The next big thing?: Everyone loves to talk about “the next big thing.” You’ll notice the phrase doesn’t get bandied about Nexus too much anymore, because it’s been used for everyone and everything at some point, it seems. Back in this issue, we predicted Victoria ska-punks Pressure Cooker would be the next big thing. Alas, they weren’t, but they were a great band, even if they are now mainly forgotten in the unforgiving passage of time.