Camosun Visual Arts faculty show students how it’s done with new exhibitNext time you think your teachers are robots who don’t exist outside of class, head to the mezzanine in the Lansdowne library or the space between Young 111 and 117, also at Lansdowne. Both of these spots will be filled with the work of Visual Arts faculty in the R + D exhibit. Camosun Visual […] Continue Reading |
Dead Reckoning recounts woman’s tale of meeting her father’s murdererCarys Cragg’s Dead Reckoning is an emotional and compelling memoir about meeting her father’s murderer. While also looking at the injustice that surrounds the case, Cragg gives an in-depth view into an intense process, with details about her thoughts and experiences as she meets the man who murdered her father 20 years earlier. Cragg’s active […] Continue Reading |
Penguin & Peacock: October 4, 2017 issue |
Eye on the National Student Movement: October 4, 2017 issueThe British Columbia Federation of Students (BCFS) is still holding the $202,305.11 of Camosun student fees that students were told was going to the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) through the Camosun College Student Society (CCSS). The BCFS—which is a separate legal entity from the CFS—is keeping the Camosun student fees because the CFS owes […] Continue Reading |
Dearest Reader: A proposal: Victoria’s community must learn to be less tolerantDearest Reader, It has been by this point established that my endlessly well-intentioned propositions, aimed at the improvement of our noble college and the surrounding locale, have proven somewhat incendiary with particular subsets of the Camosun population. I can only surmise that my wisdom, lacking peer in our halls, has fallen on ears both few […] Continue Reading |
Calculated Thought: Examining Canada’s legal marijuana marketJuly 1, 2018 could mark the first day that adult Canadians will be able walk into a storefront and purchase cannabis legally, without a prescription. Governments, industry leaders, and the finance and economics folks are trying to figure out what the recreational marijuana industry in Canada is going to look like. Of course, the accountants […] Continue Reading |
What’s Going On: October 4 to 17, 2017Until Saturday, October 14 Down the drain Langham Court Theatre is presenting its newest play, Girl in the Goldfish Bowl, until October 14. The play is about a 10-year old girl, her goldfish, and how she deals with her parents’ deteriorating marriage. As a bonus, check out a group art exhibit up at Langham Court […] Continue Reading |
25 Years Ago in Nexus: October 4, 2017 issueYou should have seen the men’s: Our October 5, 1992 issue had a letter from Camosun student Shelley Evans bemoaning the state of the women’s bathrooms. “Rolls of toilet tissue were strewn haphazardly over the floor leaving nothing resembling paper to be had… The counters were thick with floating debris and dripping onto a sopping […] Continue Reading |
Tei Shi uses knowledge gained from the road on new albumMusicians are constantly on the move when they’re on tour. But Valerie Teicher—who goes by the name Tei Shi and is touring in support of her latest album, Crawl Space—has conquered the turbulence of the road. Teicher—who was born in Buenos Aires, moved to Vancouver when she was younger, and now lives in New York—says […] Continue Reading |
News Briefs: October 4, 2017 issueStudent society to hold vigil The Camosun College Student Society will hold the Sisters in Spirit vigil commemorating missing and murdered indigenous women on Wednesday, October 4. The vigil will take place at 12 pm at Lansdowne in Na’Tsa’Maht and at 4 pm at Interurban beside the pole in the main courtyard. Four Camosun student […] Continue Reading |
