Know Your Profs: Camosun College accounting instructor Amy HoggardKnow Your Profs is an ongoing series of articles helping you get to know the instructors at Camosun College a bit better. Got someone you want to see interviewed? Email editor@nexusnewspaper.com and we’ll get on it. This time around we caught up with accounting instructor Amy Hoggard and talked about knuckle-cracking, fraud, and handbag addictions. […] Continue Reading |
Events, September 18 to October 1, 2013: flying art, bountiful Bard, Bat Sabbath, and moreUntil September 26 Get disoriented Check out Dis/Orientation Days, a new take on the timeless orientation days that colleges and universities offer. With workshops, field trips, activist tours, a movie night, and disability advocacy events at UVic, this promises to be a fun and interesting time. Check out tons more info at viprg.ca/disorientation, and, hey, […] Continue Reading |
Camosun Mechanical Engineering Showcase brings a bit of television drama to Interurban campusEveryone has ideas. 3D printing filament extruders, for example. Who hasn’t daydreamed of making those? Uh… who knows what those are? Well, the students involved in Camosun’s annual Mechanical Engineering Showcase do, and they’re ready to show off their ideas in physical form. Every year, second-year mechanical engineering students get a chance to display their […] Continue Reading |
Know Your Profs: Camosun College fine furniture instructor Cam RussellKnow Your Profs is an ongoing series of articles helping you get to know the instructors at Camosun College a bit better. Got someone you want to see interviewed? Email editor@nexusnewspaper.com and we’ll get on it. This time around we caught up with fine furniture and joinery instructor Cam Russell and talked about shop safety, […] Continue Reading |
Events, September 4 to September 17, 2013: Comforting creatures, Camosun Farmbox, Rifflandia, and moreUntil October 4 Creature feature Creature Comforts is happening now. What is it? Good thing you asked! It’s an exhibit going down at the Maritime Museum of BC until October 4, showing what it’s like for animals who live at sea. Dogs on boats? Geese on boats? Reindeer on boats?! Hold on, reindeer are real? […] Continue Reading |
Know Your Profs: Camosun College nursing instructor Dianne PerryKnow Your Profs is an ongoing series of articles helping you get to know the instructors at Camosun College a bit better. Got someone you want to see interviewed? Email editor@nexusnewspaper.com and we’ll get on it. This time around we caught up with nursing instructor Dianne Perry and talked about travel, judgmental attitudes, and French […] Continue Reading |
Events: Royal Canoe and other musicians with odd names; canoeing programs; things that have nothing to do with canoesThursday, August 15 and Thursday, August 29 Arts and Alzheimer’s Does someone you know suffer from dementia? If so, head down to the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria on one of these two days for a guided gallery tour for people with dementia and their families. Space is limited; email info@werageweweep.com or call 250–920–9573 for […] Continue Reading |
Know Your Profs: Camosun College business instructor Al MorrisonKnow Your Profs is an ongoing series of articles helping you get to know the instructors at Camosun College a bit better. This time around we caught up with business instructor Al Morrison and talked about classroom diversity, faking it, and Telus ads. Is there a professor on campus that you want to see interviewed? […] Continue Reading |
Camosun chair Gilbert Noussitou receives Canadian Culinary Federation honourWhen a colleague of Camosun culinary arts chair Gilbert Noussitou insisted that Noussitou attend a recent national conference of the Canadian Culinary Federation (CCF), he kind of knew something was up. But little did Noussitou realize that he’d be coming back home from the conference as a prestigious member of the CCF’s honour society, a […] Continue Reading |
Events: Victoria park programs, Crossing Channels, Abstractions, accordionist Joaquin Diaz, Inlet Sound: the band, Lavenderfest, and much moreThursday, July 18 and Friday, July 19 Park program paradise At least it’ll feel like paradise for these two days if you’re into park programs. “Going buggy” goes down on Thursday from 11 am to 2 pm at Elk/Beaver Lake and is an all-ages event looking at bugs. On Friday, there’s “Nature babies in backpacks,” […] Continue Reading |
