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 |
Let’s Talk?: Overcoming apathyHere we are, team—a year after the #metoo movement began. And I don’t know about y’all, but I am exhausted. How? How are we still having the exact same conversations about sexual consent, victim shaming, and due process as when we started? I mean, really, the only difference is that the issues have become more […] Continue Reading |
Local symphonies and choirs to perform Bach and Pärt piecesConductor Brian Wismath inspires not only choral performance regulars but also skeptics of live music to put their uncertainty aside and feel the magic of the music on November 2. Wismath will be working to ensure a faultless collaborative performance of Bach’s Magnificat by The Victoria Choral Society and Arvo Pärt’s Adam’s Lament by Vox Humana […] Continue Reading |
25 Years Ago in Nexus: October 24, 2018 issueIf they only knew then: Our November 1, 1993 issue featured a story talking about how the Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) recently approved a Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) fee increase. The CCSS had recently joined the national student organization; the CFS expelled the CCSS from the CFS in 2018 after ongoing tensions over […] Continue Reading |
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Tech Talk: Student tech discountsBetween tuition and textbooks, being a student can cost a lot. But there are some companies offering benefits only to students. It can be their marketing effort trying to entice you to their products early on so you use them after school, but if they are standard in your industry there might be no harm […] Continue Reading |
Open Space: To like or not to like the word “like”When did we get so lazy about speaking our own language? I’m guilty of it myself: the insertion of “like” into every sentence, for example, using it as an adjective, an adverb, a preposition. Using “like” can send the meaning of one very simple sentence into many different directions, and we don’t ever think about […] Continue Reading |
Trying to conjure Bloody Mary at Camosun’s Lansdowne campusEver have one of those moments when you question your sanity? Welp, for me, that moment happened on a recent Saturday night in one of the bathrooms in the Richmond House at Camosun’s Lansdowne campus. I stood huddled in the corner of a rusty bathtub, heart pounding, thoroughly regretting my life choices, including eating Mucho […] Continue Reading |
