Finding a safe space in the trades: Three Camosun students tell their storyChoosing a career is a complicated decision for many people. It’s a struggle that often starts at the transition that follows high school but may last much longer, as there are rarely guarantees of straightforward professional pathways. Social circles of influence such as family and school play a key role in presenting possibilities, discussing programs […] Continue Reading |
Outside looking in: The ongoing struggle of accessibility at Camosun CollegeI have disabilities—a bit of a soup of them, in fact. Most relevant to life at Camosun, I have chronic hip pain. I also have a class on the third floor of the Ewing building, which has no elevator. To me, it seems reasonable that the college installs in Ewing one of those little freight elevators […] Continue Reading |
The new plan: The Nexus analysis and critique of the Camosun Campus Master Plan 2019When you walk on Camosun College’s grounds, you walk on stones and earth with a history. You walk in a place where wounded soldiers died and were nursed back to health in World War II in Lansdowne’s Young Building; you walk on the grounds of the BC Vocational School, which merged with Camosun in 1971 […] Continue Reading |
Thinking positive: Exploring how views of sex have changedSex. That’s all I need to say and there’s an immediate reaction. “Hell yeah,” say some of you. “Oh, no,” say others. Like it or not, sex is a part of biology, which means it’s a part of human life. Its connotations are ever-changing, depending on the social circles we’re in at any given time. […] Continue Reading |
Angry in the snow, but with slightly less student-loan debt: Looking back on the top 10 most-read Nexus stories of 2019I loathe top-10 lists of anything. At first, it felt like a huge cop-out to make this feature a look at the 10 most-read stories at nexusnewspaper.com in 2019 and say, “This is what everyone liked, see you next year.” But for us at the Nexus office, it’s not that at all. The end result of […] Continue Reading |
Drysdale destruction? Student-housing success? Looking into the good and the bad of the Camosun Campus Master Plan 2019I know what you’re thinking when you see the words “master plan”: a dark room, lit by a sole flickering light hanging right above a blueprint of both Camosun campuses laid out on a desk, with the scribblings of a mad genius scrawled all over those familiar campus landmarks. Well, the college’s Campus Master Plan 2019 […] Continue Reading |
Fright night: A Nexus guide to local haunted hot spotsI was sitting at my computer, slapping at the keyboard in a frantic effort to set up interviews, edit whatever, take words out, put words in, scribble an illustration, when my blessed editor Greg, probably exhausted from talking to a glorious and endless stream of new volunteers about what exactly we do here at Nexus, approached […] Continue Reading |
The road to reconciliation: Camosun College continues on its Indigenization journeyPART 1: History cannot be changed Canada was built on colonial power and the abuse of Indigenous people. The past can’t be changed. But Camosun College can, and the changes on campus aren’t restricted to Camosun’s aesthetics. Installments like Na’tsa’maht at Lansdowne or the Cultural Centre in Interurban’s new Alex & Jo Campbell Centre for […] Continue Reading |
Parking pressures: Camosun has built a new parking lot at Interurban, but is it enough?With Camosun opening the doors to the new Alex & Jo Campbell Centre for Health and Wellness at the Interurban campus this month, there is excitement brewing for everyone. The building has a sleek design and room for more intensive and specialized classrooms and, of course, a lot of students. This means that Interurban, which […] Continue Reading |
Living beyond nature: How Camosun College is dealing with environmental issues in times of climate-change crisisLiving in Victoria is living in an urban fantasy. My commute to work or school is greeted with cautiously curious deer, or ominous crows, or the neighbourhood cats. Tamed flowers in people’s gardens burst into bloom in spring, and vibrant, fiery leaves drop from their branches in autumn. This sensory life cycle constantly changes around […] Continue Reading |
