Penguin & Peacock: March 20, 2019 issue |
March 20, 2019
Know Your Profs: Chemistry instructor Silvija Smith on the importance of having fun while learningKnow Your Profs is an ongoing series of profiles on the instructors at Camosun College. Every issue we ask a different instructor at Camosun the same 10 questions in an attempt to get to know them a little better. Do you have an instructor who you want to see interviewed in the paper? Maybe you […] Continue Reading |
Camosun student and instructor volunteer with Canucks Autism NetworkA Camosun student and instructor have been volunteering with an organization that brings team-sports opportunities to autistic children. The Canucks Autism Network (CAN) currently helps support over 4,000 young autistic people living in BC and relies heavily on volunteers. One of these volunteers is fourth-year Sport and Fitness Leadership student Teresa Vivian. Vivian heard about […] Continue Reading |
Camosun College involved in proposal to enhance transportation to rural Indigenous areasThe South Island Prosperity Partnership (SIPP, formerly known as the South Island Prosperity Project) and Camosun College have partnered on a proposal that will focus on improving transportation to and from school for students living in rural Indigenous communities. The two organizations are finalists in the Smart Cities Challenge, a government-funded competition encouraging communities to […] Continue Reading |
Let’s Talk: Not my job to cook dinnerRecently, I was reminded just how old school the old-school way of thinking about gender roles really is. I was chatting with an older man about younger people and our hippie ways, which included him making a crack about vegans, to which I lamented that my boyfriend is a vegan but he wasn’t one when […] Continue Reading |
Communication Error: Down side upOur lives are inverted. Life is inside out. For a moment, imagine that we are trying to keep the dead dead. Suppose that the aim of life is not for it to end in death, but rather to keep the dead in their place—to keep them from living, so that we can continue to live. […] Continue Reading |
New Music Revue: Trampoline’s rock musical only halfway thereTrampolineHappy Crimes(Independent)2.5/5 The rock musical Happy Crimes from Winnipeg’s Trampoline is an interesting and unfamiliar mix of music and storytelling that I really expected to enjoy more than I did. I love musicals; I love rock music; what’s not to like? For starters, the songs are not as melodic as a musical demands. The vocals […] Continue Reading |
1919 offers a new look at Winnipeg strikeMost people have too little time in their busy lives to think much about their past. We are too concerned with our next meeting or class or what our commute time looks like to worry about history. However, the things we can learn about our past can often help us shape our futures, which is […] Continue Reading |
25 Years Ago in Nexus: March 20, 2019 issueThe ones we didn’t run were worse: When you see a headline that says “Are there limits to political correctness?” on a newspaper from 1994, with an accompanying photo of a man dressed up in a skirt with a “Miss Camosun” sash over his torso, you think, uh-oh, this one hasn’t aged well. But most […] Continue Reading |
New Music Revue: Lamb of God’s Mark Morton gets collaborativeMark MortonAnesthetic(WPP Records/Spinefarm Records)3.5/5 Lamb of God fans will be eager to check out lead guitarist Mark Morton’s debut solo album, Anesthetic. The record is more like acollaborative project orchestrated by Morton than it is a traditional solo album, as every song features a different vocalist, which is a refreshing take on the Lamb of […] Continue Reading |