Masks now mandatory in Camosun classrooms
Camosun College updated its website on April 27 to say that masks are now mandatory for students in all classrooms and can no longer be removed when sitting at a desk, even when physically distanced. This is the result of a change in the Provincial Health Officer Workplace and Post-secondary Institution Safety Order, which you can read here.
Camosun anniversary student contest winners announced
Camosun recently announced the winners of its 50th Anniversary Student Creativity Contest. Office Administration student Erica Potvin won in the 2D/3D artwork category, Business student Jimmy Chhor won in the written word category, and Automotive student Chloe Jess won in audio art. Each student will get a $1,000 prize. The theme for the contest was “Honouring the past, Inspiring the future.” There were 56 submissions, which were judged by a panel consisting of Camosun president Sherri Bell, Camosun board of governors chair Monty Bryant, and Camosun College Student Society external executive Quinn Cunningham. Check out the winning entries here.
College adopts new seal
Camosun has adopted a new institutional seal. The seal, which is based on the artwork for the college’s 50th anniversary logo—created by Camosun alumnus and Coast Salish artist Dylan Thomas—will be used on official college documents such as transcripts and parchments. The graduating class of 2021 will be the first to get a parchment with the new seal. Get a look at the new seal here.
Fundraiser on for Camosun and Nexus alumnus
Camosun alumnus and former Nexus student editor Shane Scott-Travis, who penned some of the sharpest and punniest cover-throw headlines in our history, is fighting stage 4 appendiceal carcinoma, a cancer of the appendix. The fundraiser, which you can check out here, has already raised $36,494; it had a $30,000 goal. Nexus sends our best wishes to Scott-Travis.