Know Your Profs: Camosun writing prof Jasmine North becomes other and marvels at communityKnow 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 […] Continue Reading |
New Camosun club helps women in engineering gain confidenceCamosun College has a new student club for women in engineering. Second-year Civil Engineering Technology student Valerie Shearsmith says she started the Interurban Women in Engineering club (which Shearsmith says aims to instill “confidence and assertiveness” to women) after personal experiences of feeling intimidated in the industry. “Sometimes, in my experience, I’ve been the only […] Continue Reading |
News Briefs: February 3, 2016Camosun to host championships Camosun College will be hosting the 2017 Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) Women’s Volleyball National Championship. The championships will take place at the Camosun Chargers’ home base, the Pacific Institute for Sport Excellence at the Interurban campus, from March 8 to 11, 2017. Visit camosun.ca/sports/chargers for more information on the Camosun […] Continue Reading |
Motions to separate from national Canadian Federation of Students organization pass at Canadian Federation of Students-British Columbia meetingThree motions were passed during the Canadian Federation of Students-British Columbia (CFS-BC)’s 34th annual general meeting that indicate the beginnings of separation from the national Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) organization. The relationship between BC member groups and the national CFS organization has been strained due to allegations of corruption in the national organization as […] Continue Reading |
Open Space: Valentine’s Day just a holiday for business fat catsValentine’s Day is a mysterious holiday filled with romantic and heroic stories of a saint of (or in some cases in) love, a saint of justice, protesting prison conditions, who passed away after being locked up and falling in love with his jailor’s daughter; or a saint who continued to perform marriages in secret after […] Continue Reading |
What’s Going On: February 3 to 16, 2016Wednesday, February 3 Rally against student debt Join students protesting against student debt at the legislature. Things get started at 11:30 am at Centennial Square; at 12 pm the rally starts at the BC legislature. The rally is being held by the Camosun College Student Society and the University of Victoria Students’ Society; see uvss.ca/educationisaright […] Continue Reading |
The Bi-weekly Gamer: A struggle against the metaBack in November, I wrote an article on Guild Wars 2 and the then-newly released expansion pack. Since then, many fixes and updates have been dumped on the player base. Two big changes are the revamp of player-vs.-player (PvP) ranked matches and Elite Specializations, which aim to allow players to explore new ways to play […] Continue Reading |
The cats have taken over Instagram, and their owners are weirdI don’t want to alarm you, but there’s something you need to know: cats have taken over Instagram. Now, while it’s true that we’re all guilty of seeing these cute fur buddies on our smartphones and double tapping our favourite Instacat, there’s a problem at hand, and it too might cause alarm: there are humans […] Continue Reading |
25 years ago in Nexus: February 3, 2016 issueWindow-man saga continues: We’ve been reporting on the strange saga of “the man in the window” for the past few issues here in this column because, apparently, back in 1991 that was a big deal around Camosun. In a nutshell, a cardboard cutout of a man went missing from Camosun’s Audio/Visual department. In our February […] Continue Reading |
Lit Matters: Paul Auster’s identity collage“Reality is a great deal more mysterious than we ever give it credit for,” said Paul Auster, an American novelist, essayist, and translator who is probably best known for his existential detective novels, collected as The New York Trilogy. Auster, who began writing in the early ’80s, is impossible to pin to a single genre. […] Continue Reading |
