Never-ending raises: The story “College discusses tuition increases” in our February 20, 1995 issue talked about how Camosun was in discussions about increasing tuition for the fall 1995 semester. This was following a 7.75-percent tuition raise in 1994. Then-chair of the Camosun College Student Society Sara Kemp said in the story, “How do they expect students to survive? They are already using the soup kitchen and food bank on a regular basis.” Sadly, tuition raises remain at the forefront of student concerns here in 2020; thankfully, there are still resources like food banks and soup kitchens to help out.
Never-ending raises for international students, too: The story “Proposed tuition fee increase forces international students to reconsider college choices” reported the same issue we did in our recent two-part story looking at concerns of international students today: they have to pay a lot of tuition. There’s a simple reason—domestic students’ tuition is subsidized by the government—but that doesn’t take away the sting for the students, some of whom, in this story, were saying that they might as well go to the USA to study if it was going to be so expensive at Camosun. “There are many opportunities there,” said student Tejo Wahidin, “and much more things to do, compared to Victoria.” Burn.
Answering the tough questions: After all this dour talk of tuition, a random article called “Why do men have nipples?” really got the bottom of things. I mean, it’s a fair question, after all. Among the answers was that nipples are an erogenous zone, there to encourage hugging. Aww.