New Camosun group tackles social issues through theatre

Camosun Community Support and Education Assistant program leader Mary Harber recently received funding for a new student initiative called Voice Up. The funding came after a campus-wide call was made for research project proposals that have direct benefits to teaching and learning. Voice Up is based on the works of Brazilian writer and director Augusto […]

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News Briefs: January 6, 2016 issue

Camosun’s VP structure restructured Camosun College recently restructured its vice presidential positions. The new structure keeps four VP positions; however, each position now has different tasks in their portfolios, and two of the four are new positions. The former VP of communication, advancement, and planning is now VP of student experience; the VP of strategic […]

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Multi-million-dollar Young Building repairs remain Camosun College priority

The Young Building is one of Camosun College’s most well-known landmarks, but it’s been in a state of disrepair for several years. Students are unable to walk around the building, and there are canopies and large cement blocks surrounding it. These additions are there for the safety of those walking near Young, as concerns popped […]

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Stewed rabbits, mermaid hair, and lost U-Passes: Nexus’ 2015

To help ring in the new year, we gathered a bunch of Nexus writers and picked their brains about what their favourite things of 2015 were. Enjoy! Pascale Archibald student editor 1. Jokes from my one-and-a-half-year-old niece 2. My adorable cat, who I rescued in January of this year 3. Finding out my sister’s pregnant […]

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Know Your Profs: Camosun’s Chris Morier reclaims punk credibility

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 […]

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Raffi continues to delight crowds of all ages

Back in the ’70s, young Raffi Cavoukian, long hair and all, started his career as a children’s singer on the carpet of a nursery school. From this, he sprang into stardom very unexpectedly, and his music, both quirky and fun, gave a rather joyful vibe to the homes of stressed-out parents and energetic children. “When […]

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Open Space: Victoria’s winter lacking

I know that a lot of people choose Victoria as home because of its mild climate and temperate winters, and the comfort of a year in which no season ever really gets messy. We harvest from our gardens all year long. In February, while the rest of the country is tunnelling through snowdrifts to reach […]

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New Music Revue: Little You, Little Me entice with unique indie

Little You, Little Me I’d Watch the Day Til It Died (Monopolized Records) 3.5/5 The second album from Saint John, New Brunswick indie/garage rockers Little You, Little Me is enticing: no small task, considering it was recorded on a selection of broken or sort-of-broken equipment. With heavy guitar sounds and gritty vocals, I’d Watch the […]

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Victoria’s Torrefy bring thrash metal sounds to the west coast

Local thrash metal band Torrefy started out as many local bands do: they were a bunch of friends jamming (at a house party on New Year’s Eve, to boot). But they kept at it, and now they’re hard at work on their second album. “We went ahead as most bands do, just jamming as colleagues […]

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25 years ago in Nexus: January 6, 2016 issue

What is it good for?: Issues of war were on students’ minds 25 years ago: our January 8, 1991 issue’s main cover story was “Students protest gulf presence,” which examined how protestors were feeling about Canada’s presence in the Persian Gulf. Generally speaking, they weren’t feeling good about it: “No one has established that the […]

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