Magazine Issue | Nexus newspaper

The Valley brings current events close to home

Sera Down, contributing writer

February 17, 2016

As students, we’re often too focused on our coursework to assess our own mental health or that of those around us. We consider the victims of police aggression and devastating mental illness to be beyond us, fleeting figures in dashcam videos and quivering cell-phone recordings whose altercations are to be put on trial on YouTube. […]

Local author examines The Butchart Gardens’ hidden history

Alexis Koome, contributing writer

February 17, 2016

Residents of Victoria are all too familiar with The Butchart Gardens. It’s one of our more well-known claims to fame; it’s also widely known that beneath the beautiful and blossoming landscape lies a historic tale, although the details of the tale are unknown to many. This uncertainty is precisely what prompted University of Victoria professor […]

Camosun’s Art-Poem-Art Experiment shows off student work

Jayden Grieve, contributing writer

February 17, 2016

During February and March, Camosun College Visual Arts instructor Nancy Yakimoski and visual arts student Aileen Penner are facilitating a special art project for students at the college. It’s called the Art-Poem-Art Experiment, and it will show off the talents of Camosun students in a unique way. “We’re both poets involved in the writing community, […]

Know Your Profs: Camosun’s Clarence Bolt still a student at heart

Adam Marsh, student editor

February 17, 2016

Know 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 that you want to see interviewed in the paper? Maybe you […]

News Briefs: February 17, 2016 issue

Pascale Archibald, student editor

February 17, 2016

Minister comments irk student society The Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) is concerned after comments made by BC minister of advanced education Andrew Wilkinson in a Times Colonist story. In the piece, Wilkinson made several statements about student debt in BC which the CCSS says were misleading. In the article, Wilkinson stated that 61,000 students […]

Camosun student starts petition protesting potential tuition raise

Adam Marsh, student editor

February 17, 2016

The tuition for Camosun’s Civil Engineering Technology program will increase above the two percent allowed for an existing program if the Ministry of Advanced Education deems it as being “new,” and one Camosun student has started a petition in protest of this potential increase. The Ministry of Advanced Education has a two-percent tuition increase cap […]

Open Space: Pick-up artists taking civilization backwards

Jayden Grieve, contributing writer

February 17, 2016

The advent of pick-up artistry in our culture is a gross step backwards for equality, and for civilization at large. A pick-up artist is not someone who has bettered themselves so that they may become more attractive to their target. They are a slimy worm, twisting and contorting themselves into whatever false shape will best […]

25 Years Ago in Nexus

Greg Pratt, managing editor

February 17, 2016

Camosun saves work/study program: The work/study program was under some budgetary strains 25 years ago; our February 19, 1991 issue detailed the troubles in the cover story “College saves work/study.” The piece explained how the Ministry of Advanced Education wouldn’t spend the surplus money it had left in the program, leaving Camosun scrambling to pick […]

What’s Going On: February 17 to March 1, 2016

Pascale Archibald, student editor

February 17, 2016

Wednesday, February 17 Bluesman Andersen New Brunswick’s Matt Andersen brings his narrative-driven soul and blues tunes to the University of Victoria’s Farquhar Auditorium. Tickets start at $23 and doors are at 7 pm; for more info, go to uvic.ca/auditorium. Friday, February 19 Do the bat walk All ages are welcome to this free informational stroll […]

Camosun College launches Student Mental Health and Well-being Strategy

Pascale Archibald, student editor

February 17, 2016

On January 28, Camosun College officially launched its new Student Mental Health and Well-being Strategy. The plan is intended to provide a foundation for creating awareness of the mental health and well-being needs of students on campus. Camosun counsellor Chris Balmer is the leader of the strategy’s development team; he says the plan is a […]