Bubbles: August 28, 2019 issue |
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News Briefs: August 28, 2019 issueCamosun Chargers holding tryouts From Saturday, August 31 to Friday, September 6, Camosun students can try out for the Camosun Chargers teams. The Chargers teams consist of men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s volleyball, and golf. Find more details at camosun.ca/chargers. Camosun participates in environmental action Camosun College is one of 12 Saanich-based organizations participating […] Continue Reading |
New Chargers coach, on heels of overseas success, says it’s all about relationshipsFor new Camosun Chargers women’s basketball coach Justin Thiessen—who started a basketball academy in China before settling in Victoria this summer—sport is not the only focus of being a coach. A teacher by trade, Thiessen says basketball and education go hand in hand. “If it wasn’t for basketball I wouldn’t have a lot of the […] Continue Reading |
The Great Canadian Beer Festival returns with more breweries than everIt makes sense to assume that The Great Canadian Beer Festival—Canada’s oldest beer fest, now in its 27th year—is a well-oiled machine, stumbling along status quo, quaffing a few sours and stouts along the way. But there’s big changes behind the scenes in 2019: the Victoria Beer Society (VBS) took over operations of the fest […] Continue Reading |
C’est la Vie: August 28, 2019 issue |
25 Years Ago in Nexus: August 28, 2019 issueTime capsule via the bathroom wall: The story “Interurban graffiti targets female campus staff” in our September 6, 1994 issue detailed an unfortunate spree of graffiti in the men’s bathrooms at Camosun’s Interurban campus. The targets of the graffiti included “specific individuals on campus, women, minority groups,” and what we must admit is a very […] Continue Reading |
Hold My Beer, I Lost My Keys: Drunk on deadlinesYou know, when I got the opportunity to start this column and came up with the idea for Hold My Beer, I Lost My Keys, I was over the moon about the thought that any wisdom I’ve accumulated while attempting to walk the tightrope of being a responsible adult and self-assured child with a credit […] Continue Reading |
Know Your Profs: Julian Gunn on the importance of a little mystery, the horrors of comma splicingKnow Your Profs is an ongoing series of profiles on the instructors at Camosun College. Every issue we ask a different instructor at Camosun the same 10 questions in an attempt to get to know them a little better. Do you have an instructor who you want to see interviewed in the paper? Maybe you […] Continue Reading |
Penguin & Peacock: August 28, 2019 issue |
Camosun College Student Society brings CamFest back for fun, food, and friendshipEvery September, returning Camosun students and fresh-faced rookies meet at both campuses to partake in CamFest, which is more or less exactly what it sounds like. Put on by the Camosun College Student Society (CCSS), CamFest is the annual festival at Camosun, a day to welcome back returning students and say hello to new ones, […] Continue Reading |