News Briefs: November 2, 2016 issueNew student reps elected to CCSS board The Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) held their student-board by-elections on October 25 and 26. 16 students were voted into their positions; look for a complete story in the Nov. 16 issue of Nexus. Student society gives the gift of giving Every year, the CCSS puts together a […] Continue Reading |
Know Your Profs: Camosun English prof Nigel Brooks gets post-apocalypticalKnow 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 to get to know them better. If you have an instructor you’d like to see interviewed in the paper, but perhaps you’re too busy to ask them […] Continue Reading |
Calculated Thought: Matters of interest, part deuxLast issue I voiced an ominous warning to not celebrate low interest rates, as they can be a sign of wobbling economies grasping for growth. And at such extreme lows, rates generally have only one direction to go. If interest rates rise, it shows that there’s confidence in our economy, which hopefully means wage increases […] Continue Reading |
Smashing spiritual stereotypes: A look at Victoria’s witchcraft communityAttending a post-secondary institution is not just about making it to class on time, double-spacing your mid-term paper, and choking down cafeteria food. Those are elements of a student’s day-to-day life—some of them vital elements—but education sometimes comes when a chalkboard is nowhere in sight, as it did for me the foggy fall Friday afternoon […] Continue Reading |
Victoria’s Evan Crofton brings Busty and the Bass homeVictoria’s Evan Crofton fell in love with hip hop and rap at a young age. From listening to records as a teenager to touring the UK and mainland Europe with his band Busty And The Bass (who are based in Montreal, where Crofton lives now), music and performance have always been his life. After being […] Continue Reading |
To See or Not to See: Adaptation is a modern masterpieceAdaptation (2002) 5/5 “Do I have an original thought in my head?” This is the first line of the Charlie Kaufman-written, Spike Jonze-directed Adaptation (2002), and from there the film sets about exploring the depths of its own question, proving itself to be one of the most fascinating, inventive, and oddly universal plumbings of the […] Continue Reading |
25 Years Ago in Nexus: November 2, 2016 issueSo it begins…: Our October 28, 1991 issue featured a story talking about whether or not Camosun students should join the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS). The cost at the time was estimated to be around $70,000 annually (although in our next issue, the Camosun College Student Society president wrote a letter to say that […] Continue Reading |
Donovan Woods brings Canada to NashvilleToronto folk musician Donovan Woods knows when to admit his songs aren’t up to par. After Woods released his fourth LP, Hard Settle, Ain’t Troubled, earlier this year, he released the They Are Going Away EP, which he says consists of tracks that weren’t quite ready to be included in the full-length album. “They just […] Continue Reading |
Camosun College instructor explores intense themes in new bookCamosun College English and Creative Writing instructor Kari Jones knows all about betrayal, responsibility, crisis, and community. After all, her new young-adult novel, At the Edge of the World, explores all of those themes and more. The book is set in a fictional small town along the west coast of Vancouver Island inspired by Tofino […] Continue Reading |
To See or Not to See: Fitzcarraldo fearsomely and fantastically unfalteringFitzcarraldo (1982) 5/5 Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo (1982) is a film so bizarre that there are scenes that, in retrospect, I feel I must have dreamed. There is an untenable wild—a musty creeping of fortune and disaster—at the heart of this film. There’s an omnipresent sense of dread and unease that captures the viewer and slowly […] Continue Reading |
