Ability’s Muse: Submitted for your considerationAs students, we must manoeuvre a seemingly endless obstacle course of deadlines, cram sessions, and textbooks; add sleep deprivation and a substantial amount of debt and you’ve barely scratched the surface of the student experience. This is a common thread for all students, this struggle that exists to obtain that glorified piece of paper, and […] Continue Reading |
Age of Geeks: New phones all over the placeThe last two weeks have been quite eventful in the technology sector. New releases, acquisitions, controversial statements… everything seems to be happening at once. Here are the top four stories you shouldn’t have missed: Apple releases two new iPhones After several months’ worth of hype about the upcoming iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c, we finally […] Continue Reading |
Camosun Mechanical Engineering Showcase brings a bit of television drama to Interurban campusEveryone has ideas. 3D printing filament extruders, for example. Who hasn’t daydreamed of making those? Uh… who knows what those are? Well, the students involved in Camosun’s annual Mechanical Engineering Showcase do, and they’re ready to show off their ideas in physical form. Every year, second-year mechanical engineering students get a chance to display their […] Continue Reading |
Open Space: E-waste poisoning e-workersWith the advent of electronic devices, our life has become more and more convenient. For example, because of smartphones, we don’t have to remember a lot of information. To enjoy the convenience of electronic devices, we replace our electronic products more and more often. But what we do we do with the old ones? Some […] Continue Reading |
Know Your Profs: Camosun College fine furniture instructor Cam RussellKnow Your Profs is an ongoing series of articles helping you get to know the instructors at Camosun College a bit better. Got someone you want to see interviewed? Email editor@nexusnewspaper.com and we’ll get on it. This time around we caught up with fine furniture and joinery instructor Cam Russell and talked about shop safety, […] Continue Reading |
News Briefs, September 18, 2013 issue: New non-emergency number for Camosun, new BOG for Camosun, new ombudsman contest for youNew non-emergency number at Camosun Camosun College has a new non-emergency phone number to use at both campuses: 4567. Use this number for things like gaining after-hours access to labs or other spaces on campus, or reporting vandalism. The emergency number, 3075, is still to be used for things like emergency medical situations, crimes in […] Continue Reading |
20 Years Ago in Nexus: September 18, 2013 issueMinistry mix-ups: In our September 20, 1993 issue, a news story titled “Ministry screw-up results in loan delays” talked about how a mix-up resulted in about 500 Camosun students waiting to get student loan documents into their first week of classes. Apparently, there were some problems related to the Ministry of Advanced Education’s central system […] Continue Reading |
Events, September 4 to September 17, 2013: Comforting creatures, Camosun Farmbox, Rifflandia, and moreUntil October 4 Creature feature Creature Comforts is happening now. What is it? Good thing you asked! It’s an exhibit going down at the Maritime Museum of BC until October 4, showing what it’s like for animals who live at sea. Dogs on boats? Geese on boats? Reindeer on boats?! Hold on, reindeer are real? […] Continue Reading |
Open Space: Canada’s commercial flight scene dismalHave you ever noticed how Canada has absolutely no decent commercial airlines? First of all, it seems more than half the staff on Air Canada flights are old enough to be my grandmother and have probably been working there since the company started. Though, I have to give it to them, making it through countless […] Continue Reading |
20 Years Ago In Nexus: September 4, 2013 issueSilent airwaves: “FM Radio License Approved for Camosun’s Communication Program,” from our September 7, 1993 issue, tells a tale of Camosun’s radio station, well, getting approved for an FM radio license. Given how events shook down the past couple of years and that the station’s office is now an empty shell after it closed down […] Continue Reading |
