25 Years Ago in NexusNow that’s a letter to the editor: We mentioned our columnist Alakson Snow recently here in 25 Years Ago in In Nexus; Snow is the pen name of someone who wrote opinion pieces for us a quarter-century back. These days, we don’t allow writers to hide behind fake names, but we did then, much to […] Continue Reading |
25 Years Ago in Nexus: February 15, 2017 issueClip-art catastrophe: The story “Lead in Carey water exceeds acceptable limits” in our February 17, 1992 issue talked about how water in the now-defunct Camosun Carey Road campus had lead concentrations that were higher than they should have been. That’s no surprise for buildings of a certain vintage, but what was surprising was our rather […] Continue Reading |
Open Space: Excess consumption must stopMateriality is a spectre, possessing our body without our knowledge, causing us pain that we think we are enjoying. There are things—physical things—that we need; there is nothing wrong with a certain amount of possessions. What is wrong is when the volume of one’s possessions begins to fill their mortal glass until their cup runneth […] Continue Reading |
Open Space: Pronoun usage shouldn’t trample freedom of speech“Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction”—powerful words once uttered by Ronald Reagan. And these words could not strike truer in recent days, as freedom of speech is under fire in academia. We live in a world where we are no longer man and woman, but man, […] Continue Reading |
25 Years in Nexus: February 1, 2017 issueThat’s one way to get the message across: The story “Tuition freeze unlikely” in our February 3, 1992 issue talked about how Tom Perry, who was the provincial minister of advanced education at the time, had recently visited Camosun College. The Camosun College Student Society, unhappy at the state of tuition, gave Perry a little […] Continue Reading |
25 Years Ago in Nexus: January 18, 2017 issueFormer Camosun student involved in manslaughter, fraud: Stories like this don’t come along too often, and that’s a good thing: our January 20, 1992 issue talked about the case of a former Camosun student who had allegedly murdered someone, dumped their body into Telegraph Cove, and then assumed their identity to drain their bank accounts. […] Continue Reading |
25 Years Ago in Nexus: January 4, 2017 issueThere’s no news like bad news: The cover of our January 9, 1992 issue featured not one but two grim headlines: “Oil leak contaminates Lansdowne” and “Camosun arsonist sentenced.” The latter talked about how a person who had been setting fires around the Lansdowne neighbourhood had been sentenced to 10 years in prison, while the […] Continue Reading |
Open Space: Camosun board needs to explain why they terminated president’s contractA public post-secondary institution needs to operate with transparency and responsibility to the public. When former Camosun College president Kathryn Laurin had her contract with the college terminated in 2014, the reasons were never made public by the college’s board of governors. As per the terms of her contract, she continued to receive a severance […] Continue Reading |
A Nexus look back at the year that was 2016Like every year that has ever happened, 2016 was a big one, filled with notable events, small victories, plenty of insects in unappealing places, etc. Before we march forth into 2017, here’s one last look at the year that was by way of each Nexus staffer’s list of their top five favourite things of 2016, […] Continue Reading |
Open Space: Uninformed voting must stopThe streets swelled and popped with euphoria. Reasons were shared as to why they voted for the winning party: “She just seemed more reassuring”; “My parents voted for them so I did the same”; “I heard too many bad things about the other party”; “Everyone told me I’d be stupid to vote for anyone else.” […] Continue Reading |
