Corporate collusion: Concerned about corporate influence on campus? I mean, you probably should be, and you wouldn’t be alone in that: back in our September 4, 2001 issue, we covered how students were upset about corporate donor plaques popping up around campus. “I think it is pretty disgusting,” said Camosun College Student Society director Kristen Reiber, “especially when you are going to take a class on social change in the CIBC Bank Room or the Royal Bank Room.” Reiber went on to say the CCSS was going to lobby the government to place an emphasis on public post-secondary as being just that, “and looking out for the interest of the public at large and not Coca Cola.”
Credit concerns: Students also had opinions in this issue about the government implementing credit checks on people applying for student loans. Credit checks for student loans had been banned previously in an effort to ensure equal access to education, but the Liberal government brought them back. But good news to angry students of a quarter-century back: the credit checks—which were for first-time applicants 22 years of age or older—were waived in August 2024.
College cutlines: We talked in this issue, as we tend to do, about the importance of writing for Nexus. New to Camosun? This is the place to have your voice heard, and to bring your concerns to the public, and to Camosun brass. “Nexus is the student voice on campus and when you speak through its pages, people listen,” wrote Barbara Risto, who was Nexus’ managing editor at the time. All these years later, the sentiment holds true.