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I have only participated in sushi a handful of times since I arrived in Japan. Your collective gasps can be heard from across the Pacific. Have I encased myself in a bubble of Canadian comfort food and avoided immersing myself in Japanese culture? For many, sushi is the pinnacle of Japanese cuisine; a Western portrait […]

I’m not always the most prepared person. I’m a procrastinator. I wait and I wait until basically the moment makes all the minutes disappear and time ticks down like a clock on high-speed internet. Assignments are due and the workload is huge. I remember, somewhere in the far reaches of my memory, someone telling me […]

“When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life,” said Ignatius J. Reilly, the fat, slovenly anti-hero of John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces. Set in mid-century New Orleans, the book features a menagerie of hilarious characters that revolves around the bombastic Reilly. Lover of medieval philosophy […]

Don’t forget to make your voice heard: The story “No student elections for Lansdowne!” in our October 16, 1990 issue was notable enough for its outrageous use of an exclamation point in a headline (ugh), never mind the content: due to a shortage of candidates, the student council elections for that October had to be […]

The invention of the modern dorm (or party-house, depending on how you view it) has mostly curbed the amount of contact necessary between normal society and the rowdy youth. Some schools, like Camosun, still have not adopted the dormitory model of student housing, whether it be due to financial or social reasons. For Josai International […]

Did you know we are turning 25 this year? That’s right: the very first issue of Nexus, known back then as The Nexus, appeared on stands around Camosun in September 1990. So we’re relaunching our 20 Years Ago column as 25 Years Ago and starting back at the beginning… Changing attitudes: In the editor’s letter […]

“The good thing about writing books is that you can dream while you are awake,” Japanese author Haruki Murakami once said. Murakami’s books, often featuring a dream-like blend of realism and surrealism, have sold millions of copies worldwide and made Murakami a literary superstar in his native Japan. But the literary life came as a […]

I was transported back in time last week to the land of elementary school field trips. Back then, the field trip was the holiest of holidays. Would our parents sign? Of course, now, I’m 43. I can sign my own permission form, which is what I did, so to speak, when it was time to […]