CCSS under fire for women-only voting: The Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) was laying down some radical gender-based initiatives back in the mid-’90s, as the story “Women-only vote raises questions of sexism” from our October 31, 1994 issue proves. The CCSS had recently held its elections, and its then-policy of only allowing women to vote for the women’s executive position had students talking. “If men are allowed to vote, they would then be allowed to run for the position,” one woman, whom we did not identify, said. Others didn’t like the policy, even those involved with the election: “It’s sexist,” said student Shannon Pressacco, who was working a CCSS election polling booth.
Your voice counted then, your voice counts now: The issue also featured the alarmingly named story “Student elections—ho hum!” which highlighted the frustration felt by Camosun College Student Society staff and volunteers during elections. It’s never easy trying to get students to care about student politics, but it would appear students are more eager to vote these days. Final numbers weren’t available for the 1994 story, but CCSS office resource coordinator Michael Subasic said, “Interurban has been better than in the past, with about 25 [students] on the first day and about 30 on the second day.” In the May 2019 elections, a total of 788 students from both campuses voted.
That’s ballsy: According to a story in this issue, Camosun used to have a Camosun Ball Hockey League, and in that league was a team called The Screaming ‘C’ Men. That is all.