January 20, 2016 | Nexus newspaper

Lit Matters: Nicolle Brossard on making sense out of reality

Keagan Hawthorne, contributing writer

January 20, 2016

“Before I became a feminist, I suppose I was an angel, a poet, a revolutionary,” wrote Nicolle Brossard, a Quebec poet, novelist, and essayist who has written more than 30 books since she began publishing in the 1960s. Along with numerous other awards she’s won, she’s taken home the Governor General’s Award for poetry twice, […]

The Functional Traveller: A journey into Aokigahara

Sera Down, contributing writer

January 20, 2016

With the advent of a terribly inaccurate Hollywood film, and a more respectfully documented Vice short, I thought the time was right to explore a Japanese topic that many people are curious about: Aokigahara, also known as the Suicide Forest. I recently went there with a friend under the premise of an anthropological expedition. This […]

25 Years Ago in Nexus: January 20, 2016 issue

Greg Pratt, managing editor

January 20, 2016

No idea: Our January 22, 1991 issue featured the story “Who stole the man in the window?” The piece looked at the strange case of Cam Olsun, who was not a man but a cardboard cutout (bear with me here). Turns out Olsun had been hanging out on the second-floor window of Camosun’s audio/visual department […]

Star Wars: The Force Awakens a triumphant, yet not flawless, return

Jayden Grieve, contributing writer

January 20, 2016

Star Wars: The Force Awakens 4/5 How Star Wars: The Force Awakens executive producer J.J. Abrams has gone almost 50 years without ever encountering the concept of subtlety is beyond me. Fortunately, he subsidizes this gaping hole in his creative efforts by jamming every second with dazzling imagery and exciting action. Star Wars: The Force […]

Victoria’s Astrocolor offer weird take on holiday music with debut release

Jake Wyatt, contributing writer

January 20, 2016

Around the holidays, Christmas music is inescapable. From shopping malls to private parties, the blithe choruses of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and “Deck the Halls” will follow you from Thanksgiving dinner right up until your Christmas feast. Some relish how these songs carry with them the spirit of the season, while others fiercely detest them. […]

New Music Revue: Reversing Falls rock ragged, raw

Greg Pratt, managing editor

January 20, 2016

Reversing Falls Reversing Falls 2 (Independent) 3.5/5 This Montreal-based noisy rock band storms out of the gates strong with “This Is Why,” the song taking an almost-surf-rock guitar line and filtering it through shoegaze production and a ragged garage-rock/indie-rock sound. It’s a stellar way to start off their second album, and it doesn’t stop there. […]

One door for all: The Camosun College Pride Collective is leading the way for gender-neutral multi-stall bathrooms at Camosun

Jayden Grieve, contributing writer

January 20, 2016

The Camosun College Pride Collective is currently working on a proposal that would see the implementation of gender-neutral washrooms on both campuses. Gender-neutral, also known as gender-inclusive, washrooms are washrooms that can be used by those who identify as male, female, or outside the gender binary. This would be good news for transgender students, who, […]

Gamers excited about 2016 releases

Tabitha Ross, contributing writer

January 20, 2016

2016 is set to be a huge year for exciting video games, with big-name sequels such as Final Fantasy XV, Street Fighter V, and Mass Effect: Andromeda hitting shelves. Down at Hang & Play Video Games, store owner Adrian McBurney is hearing a lot of excitement from his customers, including much talk about a new […]

Know Your Profs: Camosun’s Jodi Lundgren gets creative

Adam Marsh, student editor

January 20, 2016

Know Your Profs is an ongoing series of profiles on the instructors at Camosun College. Every issue we ask a different instructor the same 10 questions in an attempt to get to know them a little better. Do you have an instructor that you want to see interviewed in the paper? Maybe you want to […]

What’s Going On: January 20 to February 2, 2016

Pascale Archibald, student editor

January 20, 2016

Wednesday, January 20 until Saturday, January 30 Tap dancing comedy The Langham Court Theatre is starting off the new year with Stepping Out. Set in the 1980s in a dingy church hall, the show features a group of wannabe tap dancers stumbling their way through dance classes in a comedic way. Shows start at 8 […]