First Things First: Take care of yourselfThe topic of health should never be taken lightly, especially when the post-secondary workload is something you’ve never experienced before. You are not a machine, and, despite the career-based mindset of “work hard, play hard,” or “all-nighters are just a part of the job,” or even “sacrifice your health so you die young and stressed […] Continue Reading |
Communication Error: A breath of fresh airWhat is it like to feel alone in a room full of people, to suffocate on your own breath as if you gasp for air but each attempt to inhale is so asphyxiating that your eyes begin to water and you momentarily forget your own name? As you lie face-down in a pool filled with […] Continue Reading |
25 Years Ago in Nexus: November 7, 2018Revisiting repairs: The story “Dawson Building to be replaced—again” in our November 15, 1993 issue talked about how Camosun was hoping to go ahead with a total rebuild of the Dawson Building. Somehow, I just want to make a joke about how in 2018 students still can’t walk all the way around the Young Building, […] Continue Reading |
Winnipeg’s Madeleine Roger brings gender parity and nature to debut albumMadeleine Roger’s debut solo album Cottonwood is rich with the influence of the nature she surrounded herself with while writing it. The warm acoustic guitar and sweet vocal harmonies of the Winnipeg singer/songwriter will have the listener feeling transported to her great-grandparents’ cabin in the woods, stoking the wood stove to keep the room warm […] Continue Reading |
Penguin & Peacock: November 7, 2018 issue |
News Briefs: November 7, 2018 issuePoliticians meet with student organizations Student representatives in British Columbia met with a number of MLAs on the week of October 29, including premier John Horgan and minister of advanced education, skills and training Melanie Mark. Topics discussed were drawn from Making Post-Secondary Education Affordable for British Columbians, a paper created by the British Columbia […] Continue Reading |
The Chopping Block Chronicles: The importance of eating and shopping locallyEating local has become somewhat of a phenomenon. In Victoria, we are blessed to be surrounded by an abundance of amazing producers, farmers, growers, and artisanal shops. This not only makes eating local easy but also gives us a vast quantity of choices. In high school, my chef was an advocate of the slow-food movement. […] Continue Reading |
Burst bubbles: How Victoria’s housing crisis impacts Camosun studentsOn September 15 of this year, a letter from a Camosun College instructor was published in the Times Colonist; in the letter, the instructor told of a “dedicated student” who had been evicted from Saanich’s tent city and faced challenges that most of his peers likely haven’t considered. My initial response was strengthened gratitude for […] Continue Reading |
The Periodic Column: A second domesticationSometime between 11,000 and 40,000 years ago, early humans domesticated wolves. There are theories, but, in the end, no one’s quite sure how it happened. One of the most widely accepted of these theories is that wolves followed human groups to scavenge from the carcasses left behind after human hunts. The presence of the wolves […] Continue Reading |
New book of poems pays tribute to Al PurdyBeyond Forgetting, a new collection of poems edited by Howard White and Emma Skagen, celebrates the life of Canadian poet Al Purdy, who died in 2000. The book features poems by writers who have met, known, or been inspired by Purdy. Beyond Forgetting is being released to honour 100 years since Purdy’s birth, and it […] Continue Reading |
