Still more CFS controversy: Our April 5, 1993 issue featured the story “CFS controversy continues,” which, once again, detailed concerns students had about being part of the national organization. Considering it’s 25 years later and relations between Camosun students and the national organization have gotten even worse, one has to wonder when the speculation will end and defederation will begin. The Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) no longer acknowledges the CFS on its website or in its student handbook, and the CFS has basically zero presence at Camosun. Camosun students still pay into the CFS every semester through their CCSS student fees.
We can’t… We’re not… We don’t know: So, the story “Camosun student takes bank hostages” in this issue sounds unreal but looks serious but is maybe a joke considering this hit stands on April 5. And if it’s serious, we gave it a surprisingly small amount of real estate on the page. Apparently, an 18-year-old Camosun student, “despondent over his grades at school,” went into the Pacific Coast Savings Credit Union in Broadmead with two rifles and two knives and had an eight-hour standoff with police, which eventually resulted in him releasing the hostages and surrendering to police. There were no injuries during this event, which we think was real but we’re not really sure (and we weren’t when we wrote about it in “20 Years Ago in Nexus” in 2013, either) so we’re not going to make any jokes and just uneasily end this here.
Still more CCSS controversy: We reported in previous issues in this column about how their director of communications, Susan Williams, had spoken up about the CFS to Nexus and was censured by the CCSS for it; in this issue she wrote back to us and provided us with a copy of her agenda, showing us just how much work she did for students, and added that “if any one of the members of council would match my efforts we might have had a stronger, more effective student society.”