20 Years Ago In Nexus: April 1, 2015 issue

Columns April 1, 2015

Nexus 5-15 COVER FOR WEB

Usually bathroom graffiti is much more intelligent: The main cover story in our April 3, 1995 issue, “Hate graffiti sparks student outrage,” was about how graffiti targeting “people with disabilities, women, ethnic groups, and homosexuals” had been popping up around campus. “It’s scary that people have these ideas,” said student Nick Yaremchuk, who brought the graffiti to the Camosun College Student Society (CCSS)’s attention. “We’ve got to let whoever wrote this know that we are not going to take it.”

Students weigh in: Both Shane Calder, who was then the CCSS students with disabilities executive, and Sara Kemp, then CCSS chair, wrote in this issue about the aforementioned graffiti. The anonymous scrawler, in a nutshell, got owned and did not step up to defend him/herself in a public forum, to the surprise of absolutely no one.

What a good sport: Chris Siver, who wrote our Sports Comment column 20 years ago, admitted in this issue that “this was a crappy year to be spending my time pontificating about the world of athleticism. Last year there was no baseball strike, no hockey lockout, the Supersonics were the undisputed kings of the hardwood.” But, hey, he was honest, much to the chagrin of his editor at the time, I’m sure: “I did a good job coming up with filler material,” he wrote.