Cafeteria chaos: One of the main cover stories in our March 5, 1991 issue looked at a strike that almost shut down the Lansdowne cafeteria. But not quite: a one-year contract was agreed upon between Beaver Foods, who owned the cafeteria then, and their workers. The Camosun College Student Society stepped in and suggested mediation between the two sides, which worked.
Students then, students now: In the Peer Support column in this issue, the writer looked at the state of the student populace at the time. And it’s funny: it sounds like they were talking about the state of the student populace in 2016 during exam time. “I have seen this week, in the halls and in the cafeteria, many long faces, many weary eyes, many stressed-out people. Mid-terms, papers due, lab reports, quizzes… the list is endless.” Ring a bell?
Man in the window demands made: The ongoing situation with the “man in the window” cardboard cut-out continued in this issue, with the cut-out’s captors writing a letter to the editor of Nexus explaining what they wanted. The letter laid out the demands for the cut-out’s safe return to the A/V department at Camosun: turning the Carey Road campus into a common parking lot for Camosun’s other campuses, with a shuttle bus running to Lansdowne and Interurban; also, the elimination of all parking fees. If these weren’t met, the cardboard cut-out would be turned into “pizza crust,” which only furthers our ongoing confusion at this whole story. Was pizza crust made from paper in 1991?