Character development: A look inside Victoria’s cosplay cultureTaking inspiration from comic books, movies, TV shows, novels, and video games, fans of pop culture worldwide share a passion for dressing up as their favourite characters—a passion for cosplaying. And the passion is alive and well here in Victoria. It’s exciting for those who go ahead with the thrill of dressing up in cosplay […] Continue Reading |
It is not a celebration if there is no reflection: A historical date for women and the importance of speaking upApart from the challenges of moving to a new country, living abroad offers a delightful chance to be immersed in a new culture, to appreciate the richness of sharing experiences, and, hopefully, to celebrate the beauty of diversity. This gets even more interesting when we can build a sense of belonging that’s applicable in both […] Continue Reading |
Finding a safe space in the trades: Three Camosun students tell their storyChoosing a career is a complicated decision for many people. It’s a struggle that often starts at the transition that follows high school but may last much longer, as there are rarely guarantees of straightforward professional pathways. Social circles of influence such as family and school play a key role in presenting possibilities, discussing programs […] Continue Reading |
Outside looking in: The ongoing struggle of accessibility at Camosun CollegeI have disabilities—a bit of a soup of them, in fact. Most relevant to life at Camosun, I have chronic hip pain. I also have a class on the third floor of the Ewing building, which has no elevator. To me, it seems reasonable that the college installs in Ewing one of those little freight elevators […] Continue Reading |
The new plan: The Nexus analysis and critique of the Camosun Campus Master Plan 2019When you walk on Camosun College’s grounds, you walk on stones and earth with a history. You walk in a place where wounded soldiers died and were nursed back to health in World War II in Lansdowne’s Young Building; you walk on the grounds of the BC Vocational School, which merged with Camosun in 1971 […] Continue Reading |
Thinking positive: Exploring how views of sex have changedSex. That’s all I need to say and there’s an immediate reaction. “Hell yeah,” say some of you. “Oh, no,” say others. Like it or not, sex is a part of biology, which means it’s a part of human life. Its connotations are ever-changing, depending on the social circles we’re in at any given time. […] Continue Reading |
Angry in the snow, but with slightly less student-loan debt: Looking back on the top 10 most-read Nexus stories of 2019I loathe top-10 lists of anything. At first, it felt like a huge cop-out to make this feature a look at the 10 most-read stories at nexusnewspaper.com in 2019 and say, “This is what everyone liked, see you next year.” But for us at the Nexus office, it’s not that at all. The end result of […] Continue Reading |
Drysdale destruction? Student-housing success? Looking into the good and the bad of the Camosun Campus Master Plan 2019I know what you’re thinking when you see the words “master plan”: a dark room, lit by a sole flickering light hanging right above a blueprint of both Camosun campuses laid out on a desk, with the scribblings of a mad genius scrawled all over those familiar campus landmarks. Well, the college’s Campus Master Plan 2019 […] Continue Reading |
Fright night: A Nexus guide to local haunted hot spotsI was sitting at my computer, slapping at the keyboard in a frantic effort to set up interviews, edit whatever, take words out, put words in, scribble an illustration, when my blessed editor Greg, probably exhausted from talking to a glorious and endless stream of new volunteers about what exactly we do here at Nexus, approached […] Continue Reading |
The road to reconciliation: Camosun College continues on its Indigenization journeyPART 1: History cannot be changed Canada was built on colonial power and the abuse of Indigenous people. The past can’t be changed. But Camosun College can, and the changes on campus aren’t restricted to Camosun’s aesthetics. Installments like Na’tsa’maht at Lansdowne or the Cultural Centre in Interurban’s new Alex & Jo Campbell Centre for […] Continue Reading |
