News Briefs: January 6, 2020 issue

Fresh-food vending machine installed at Interurban Students at Interurban now have access to fresh food, even after the cafeteria is closed, thanks to a new vending machine. The machine is part of a development that took place after the School of Health and Human Services moved to the Interurban campus in September. The food options […]

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25 Years Ago in Nexus: January 6, 2020 issue

Now that’s recreation: The story “New student lounge for Interurban students” in our January 9, 1995 issue talked about how students were getting a student lounge in Interurban’s Classroom Administration Building (CAB, not be confused with the CBA building at that campus). Among other services, such as a clothing exchange and soup kitchen, the lounge […]

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Politics and Other Nonsense: Plastic-bag ban now social obligation

As someone who has worked retail on and off for the past eight years between multiple stints in school, I have sold thousands of plastic bags. When I first moved to Victoria almost five years ago, plastic bags were still being used. There was, however—and there still is—growing concern from environmentalists that the use of […]

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Freedom from Addiction: Unhooking from mind patterns

Imagine a train barrelling down a track at full speed. There is a great deal of power moving the train forward. The train is headed for a specific destination and there is only one path to get there. The train cannot suddenly change course, and stopping—should something come into its path—is not an option.  The […]

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Camosun brings therapy dogs to campus to help during exam crunch time

Final exams are stressful. Every spare moment of time is all about studying, and tight, worried stares replace cheerful faces as students prepare for the scenario that could make them or break them.  This is why for the last five years Camosun College has been bringing therapy dogs to both campuses during exam time, offering […]

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Camosun Business Study Group column: Introductions and salutations

Welcome! Whether this is your first semester or you’re a few years in, Camosun Business Study Group welcomes you. We’re a group of students who help others succeed, whatever their career path may be. Do you have to be a Business student? Nope! We’ve helped students from all disciplines, and last semester we started to […]

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What’s Going On: January 6 to 21, 2019

Thursday, January 9 Make an exhibition of yourself I never knew this was a thing, but apparently even the Royal BC Museum has a happy hour. This is a mindfulness-themed happy hour for adults (how adult do you have to be?) with museum fare, drinks, and tapas. You can tell people you got drunk with […]

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