Taking matters into their own hands:The story “Students propose alternate budget to college” in our April 3, 1995 issue talked about the ongoing concerns from the Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) about potential tuition-fee raises at the college. In an attempt to show the college a way to keep the raise down to just inflation, the story explains, the CCSS had drafted an alternate budget and were going to present it to the college. Regardless of whether the college took any of the CCSS’ advice, it’s a good example of the importance of student groups and the potential for change they carry with them.
Not messing around:Speaking of the CCSS, then-students with disabilities executive Shane Calder wrote a scathing letter to the editor this issue addressing whoever had been writing graffiti on campus attacking disabled people. “There are thousands of persons with disabilities outside the Camosun environment,” wrote Calder, “who will be made aware of your beliefs once I have done my best to inform every living person I can possibly contact that you are lower than life and should not be wasting taxpayer money on getting an education… I am doing my best to catch you in the act. When I do, I’ll make sure that you are never admitted to another post-secondary school from here to Guatemala.”
Just give me this one cheap laugh:We all love chuckling at technology from years past, and looking at old issues of the paper often brings some good examples of that. For example, the story “Get ready to Touch-Tel”… well, the headline alone really sums it all up. Get ready to Touch-Tel, indeed.