Know Your Profs: Camosun English instructor Katie Tanigawa on bad language and good weekendsKnow 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 want […] Continue Reading |
Camosun opens Interaction Lab at Interurban campusCamosun is opening its new Babcock Canada Interaction Lab to students on October 24. The lab is set to provide students with real-life problems that, once solved, will benefit local companies, mainly in the small-scale manufacturing and product-development sectors. The college’s intent for the lab is for students to get hands-on work experience. Working in […] Continue Reading |
Unpacking the Bags: How to cope with being away from familyAfter spending a long time away from home, we begin to reflect on the real consequences of the decision to move to another country. When we, international students, arrive at our destination, it’s all joy, novelty, and satisfaction to be living a dream. We need some time and some special days for us to really […] Continue Reading |
Dearest Reader: A proposal: Financially troubled students should try not being poorDearest Reader, Few, it sometimes seems, are the issues of this fine publication making their way to the stands without trace of that complaint most central in a student’s life. I write, of course, of the general and common concerns of financial instability in the lives of the city’s young populace, the instability that allegedly […] Continue Reading |
25 Years Ago in Nexus: October 18, 2017 issueLevi Guy’s romance continues: If you’ve been reading this column for the past few issues, you know all about the Levi Guy romance (if not, head over to nexusnewspaper.com and scan our last few issues to figure out what we’re talking about). I’m very happy to report that the meeting in the caf was a […] Continue Reading |
Ballet performance of Dracula goes beyond the goreBallet Victoria artistic and executive director Paul Destrooper is quick to point out that the gorier side of the 1897 Bram Stoker novel Dracula that Hollywood so lovingly dwells on is not the main focus of Ballet Victoria’s performance of the story. “Dracula is much more than some monster, this vampire—much more than some bad […] Continue Reading |
Eye on the National Student Movement: October 18, 2017 issueThe British Columbia Federation of Students (BCFS) is still holding $202,305.11 of Camosun students’ money, which was collected by the Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) as Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) fees but given to the BCFS. The BCFS says that it is holding the money because the CFS owes the BCFS an estimated $1 […] Continue Reading |
News Briefs: October 18, 2017 issueStudent society to hold elections Voting for the Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) spring 2017 elections will take place between 9 am on Monday, October 23 and 11:59 pm on Wednesday, October 25. The CCSS will be bringing on a new external executive, First Nations director, Lansdowne director, Interurban director, and off-campus director. Camosun College’s […] Continue Reading |
Ghosts, secret tunnels, time warps: Nexus investigates local legends so you don’t have toSatanic rituals. Secret tunnels. Bells that summon ghosts at midnight. As far as local legends go, Victoria’s got tons of them. But are they real? We figured the only way to find out was to try them ourselves and report our findings back to you. This feature was a group effort because none of us […] Continue Reading |
Festival of lights welcomes cultural diversity at CamosunDiwali—the festival of lights—is one of the biggest events of the year in India, and it’s coming to Camosun College. On Thursday, October 19 from 4 pm to 10 pm at Na’tsa’maht on the Lansdowne campus, there will be both Indian and western music (including a DJ) as part of the Diwali festivities at Camosun. […] Continue Reading |
