Get off their lawn: In our February 9, 1998 issue we reported on a student rally against rising prices for post-secondary education that took place in downtown Victoria; the angry group of students was three blocks long as they marched to Parliament. However, the rally got very little coverage as they were only allowed to protest behind the Parliament Buildings, because, supposedly, a student rally two years prior ruined the grass at the front of the building. Event organizers were suspicious that the provincial government had ulterior motives by not allowing protests to occur on the front lawn.
A fruity bitterness: Nexus writer Rachel O’Neill wrote about her annoyance toward an “impenetrable wall of smoke that greets people coming and going from Fisher.” In a time before designated smoking areas on campus, many cigarette smokers would gather in the entryway to Fisher to hide from bad weather. I wonder how O’Neill would feel about a wall of watermelon-scented vape smoke.
BHM then, BHM now: Much like our feature article in the issue you’re reading now, we wrote about Black History Month in our February 9, 1998 issue. It was noted that not enough was being done on campus, or personally by students, to learn about Black history. Black History Awareness Society president Carol Downey-Brown explained that’s “because it’s not taught in schools and unless people are directly affected by it they don’t care.”