Dig deep: The first story in our October 5, 1992 issue was about how there was a movie called Digger being filmed in the Camosun parking lot. Now, this one may not have turned into a time-tested classic, but it did boast at least one big name. Yes, for a period in 1992, the one and only Leslie Nielsen was on campus. Just think, next time you’re getting gouged over parking fees, you’re getting gouged over parking fees where Leslie Nielsen once stood. Kinda takes the sting away a bit, yes?
Times change, but it still makes us laugh: There’s just something incredibly quaint about seeing ads for cassettes (remember those?) in the paper. In this issue, there was an advertisement for Temple of the Dog’s one and only album and Barenaked Ladies’ Gordon, both on the much-maligned tape format for only $7.93 at a local now-defunct video store (remember those?).
Now that’s poetry: From a letter to the editor: “The counters were thick with floating debris and dripping onto a sopping heap of rubbish producing an ever-increasing mess of paper mache solution.” What exactly on campus could this letter-writer be referring to? What was in such a horrid state of affairs? Apparently, the women’s bathroom. “The feeling of sister-hood I had once held for my gender was flushed away along with my lunch after my first introduction to the washrooms on campus,” Shelley Evans also said in her letter decrying the lack of cleanliness in the loos. “If this is how people act in a public setting, I’d hate to see what they do in the privacy of their own cave.”