25 Years Ago in Nexus: October 9, 2019 issueCamosun crawling with private dicks: In “Investigation of student raises questions of confidentiality” in our October 17, 1994 issue, we reported that some Camosun instructors were concerned about a private investigator walking around campus asking for information about a Camosun student. The investigator was working on behalf of ICBC for a firm owned by—wait for […] Continue Reading |
Camosun College Student Society to hold Sustainability DayThe Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) will hold its Sustainability Day on Thursday, October 17. The event is being held at the Interurban campus and is focused on three “pillars,” according to CCSS sustainability director Tamara Bonsdorf: food, transport, and waste. Bonsdorf feels that the interactive aspect of the day will help instill awareness of […] Continue Reading |
Camosun English instructor Laurie Elmquist releases new children’s bookWriting, as any writer will tell you, is hard work. Writers work day and night to provide readers with quality material that not only entertains but also tells the truth and accurately represents the writer’s point of view. Camosun English instructor Laurie Elmquist writes children’s books when she’s not teaching, and she follows that formula […] Continue Reading |
Experimental documentary at Antimatter explores Amazon’s business practicesAmazonia is Columbus, Ohio-based filmmaker Roger Beebe’s new experimental documentary about the physical places where Amazon packages are stored, processed, and delivered, and he’s bringing it to this year’s Antimatter film fest here in Victoria. Since 2007, Beebe has been exploring what he calls a “multi-projector performance,” where he uses up to eight projectors working […] Continue Reading |
Camosun Office of Student Support aims to help struggling studentsIt can be hard to be a student. The feeling of being stretched too thin is constant for many Camosun students. But when students pay their fees at the college, that includes counselling and student support services. Camosun has two student support managers (one for each campus) in the Office of Student Support: Jenny Holder […] Continue Reading |
News Briefs: October 9, 2019 issueCamosun gets ready to shake out On Thursday, October 17 at 10:17 am, Camosun will participate in The Great British Columbia ShakeOut provincial earthquake drill. If you’re on campus at that time, drop, cover, and hold on to a piece of furniture, and stay put for one minute. Then, gather at the nearest Emergency Assembly […] Continue Reading |
Vancouver indie band Said the Whale discuss their history and growthVancouver-based indie band Said the Whale are in the middle of a tour across Canada and the United States to promote their new album Cascadia. For guitarist/vocalist Tyler Bancroft, the tour finds the band—who formed in 2007—coming full circle. “It is really our return to where it began,” says Bancroft, “appreciating the west coast and […] Continue Reading |
25 Years Ago in Nexus: September 25, 2019 issueNot that $200 textbooks are outrageous: It gets a bit tiresome to look back on old stories and lament about how some student struggles never change, but good lord: our October 3, 1994 issue featured the front page story “Cost of textbooks forces students to consider cheaper alternatives.” What more can we say? It was […] Continue Reading |
Social Survival 101: How to make eye contact in four simple stepsYear after year, I’m increasingly convinced that we will one day see the dawn of that great utopian vision foretold by WALL-E of a truly advanced, carefree human society. But in the meantime, as we trudge through the crude world beyond our mystical screens together, the rudimentary ability to make eye contact with the people […] Continue Reading |
Lovebirds: September 25, 2019 issue |
