Flyer friction: We did a cover story on feminism at Camosun back in August of this year, but it’s been a hot topic on campus for a long time. Athena Tupaatsch wrote in a letter to the editor in our November 29, 1993 issue that the Camosun College Student Society’s “women’s centre has done me a grave disservice.” Tupaatsch was upset about a women’s centre flyer that, she says, “featured a detailed illustration of female genitalia.” “As a woman, I am disgusted that the women’s centre could remotely assume that such tacky tactics could in any way represent me,” she wrote, adding, “Just as I do not want to see the penis paraded across my eyes, I do not want to see the vagina paraded across my eyes. Nor do I see any need to pull my pants down to demand my moral rights.”
Degrees, please: This issue’s Student Opinion editorial column, written by Keith Bell, talked about the woes of being a student: most importantly, high debt and a worry about finding work after graduation. In the column, Bell told a joke that has become more or less timeless: “What do you say to a person who holds a degree? I’d like a Big Mac and fries, please.” Ouch.
More flyer friction: The story “Posters removed by students” in this issue talked about how representatives of the Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) said two different event posters around campus were examples of sexism toward women and that people had been tearing them down. In a statement that almost echoes the one levied against the women’s centre’s fliers above, CCSS women’s centre executive Laurie Sluchinski said, “It’s pretty disgusting.”