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Desperate times…: The cover story for our October 31, 1994 issue was certainly scary, but not in an intentional way. A story about student poverty, it featured a quote from Brad Hett, who was Camosun College Student Society’s internal affairs executive at the time, saying that students are coming to the student society offices “looking […]

With little fanfare, Google recently announced every major mobile product expected from the company this year: the Nexus 6, Nexus 9, and Android 5.0, also called Lollipop. Other than these, there’s also something we weren’t expecting: but also with a very familiar name, an Asus-made set-top-box called the Nexus Player. First up is the Motorola-built […]

Sleepy students: Our Speak Up in the October 17, 1994 issue of Nexus posed one of the most important questions we’ve ever asked students: where is the best place to sleep on campus? Some popular snooze spots two decades back included Fisher 100 and the student lounge in the library. Where are your favourite spots […]

What? Protest the ESL funding cuts. When? Thursday, October 30 from 12 to 5 pm. Where? The BC Legislature. Why? Well, that’s a longer answer. Many of us, especially those born and raised in Canada, don’t think much of our ability to speak, listen, read, and write in English. We went to school, learned our […]

On September 20, the United Nations Women launched a new campaign called HeForShe, the first of its kind for the UN. The objective of the HeForShe campaign is to involve men and boys globally in the fight for gender equality. Over the next year, the campaign intends to mobilize one billion men and boys as […]

“Naked truth is unbearable to most, and art is our most effective means of overcoming human resistance to truth,” said Anais Nin. Nin, who was born in 1903 and died in 1977, is best known as the author of short erotic stories and a prodigious diary. She lived in Paris in the ’20s and ’30s, […]

The Churchill opened its doors in June; I’ve been there six times in the past two months. Considering the vast selection of bars, pubs, and lounges in our city, it definitely makes it into my personal go-to list. Trust me, this means a lot. There are several reasons it’s worth revisiting, the first being that […]

Microsoft gave us the first look at its Windows 10 operating system recently, a major release that will cover every device, from PCs to phones, and try to address the issues that plagued Windows 8. After all the coverage and announcements we had recently in mobile technology, here’s some news for our desktops and laptops. […]

Clock concerns: An opinion piece titled Wake Up! in our October 3, 1994 issue brought up an interesting point: facilities at Camosun just aren’t open early (or late) enough, according to writer Patrick Isaac. What do you think, now that two decades have passed? Has Camosun got the hours for the computer labs and libraries […]

We aren’t even halfway through the fall and it’s already been an awesome season for mobile technology: there were the announcements of the Xperia Z3, Note 4, and new Moto X, and now Apple has unveiled the latest member of the iPhone family: the iPhone 6. While Android and iOS are two very different systems […]