If they only knew then: Our November 1, 1993 issue featured a story talking about how the Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) recently approved a Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) fee increase. The CCSS had recently joined the national student organization; the CFS expelled the CCSS from the CFS in 2018 after ongoing tensions over the past few years.
Gettin’ sporty: The story “Interurban students say ‘not fair’ to Rec levy” pointed out that some students at Interurban didn’t think it was fair that they had to pay a then-new recreation levy, which had been passed by referendum. “Lansdowne has a lot of activities, and we don’t have anything here,” said student Paul Walker. But Camosun recreation and activities coordinator Graham Matthews knew Interurban would become the campus to be at for sporty types: “Patience is the key,” Matthews said in the story.
Classics never die: This issue had a preview of Kaleidoscope Theatre’s rendition of Shakespeare’s Pericles; the play, which is one of Shakespeare’s lesser known and was written near the end of his career, was put on this summer on the grounds of Camosun’s Lansdowne campus by the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival.