Piercing pondering: Our January 24, 1994 issue featured writer Shelley Evans’ thoughts on piercing, which was really taking off at the time. The Excrementia Factorum column had Evans opining on clitoris piercing (“The only reason I can think of is the little bell locates you in the woods late at night when you’re camping.”) and nipple piercing (“Aren’t you just ruining your chances at breastfeeding?”). Evans even offered up some thoughts on penis piercing: “That must aid in finding ‘true north.’”
Accessibility, then and now: We ran a comic in our January 24, 1994 issue drawing attention to accessibility issues on campus; in the comic, a student in a wheelchair was yelling up to an instructor in a window asking if they could talk about their term paper. Last year, we debuted our Campus Access column, looking at access issues at Camosun (the column ended last issue). The verdict: like with lots of things, the college has shown improvement, but there’s still progress to be made.
Everyone’s a winner: It wouldn’t be a Canadian college paper in 1994 without some reference to groove-rockers Bootsauce back in the arts section. Here, the band was preparing to hit up legendary local venue Harpo’s for two nights, and, inexplicably, we had not one but two interviews with the band in this issue.