Know Your Profs: Camosun College accounting instructor Amy HoggardKnow 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 accounting instructor Amy Hoggard and talked about knuckle-cracking, fraud, and handbag addictions. […] Continue Reading |
A Message from the Camosun College Student Society: Strength in student numbersThe Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) provides services, events, and advocacy to its members to improve student life and educational quality at Camosun College. Students at Camosun are also members of their provincial and national students’ union, the Canadian Federation of Students-BC and the Canadian Federation of Students. As members of the provincial and national student federations, Camosun students have access to a […] Continue Reading |
Belfry’s production of Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) does the Bard justiceIf you’ve ever had the desire to see people in tights fervently raising the battle cry of “Bullshit! Bullshit!” in front of a sold-out Victoria audience, then I suggest you go see The Belfry Theatre’s production of Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet). Canadian playwright Ann-Marie MacDonald brings Shakespeare’s most famous characters into collision with the […] Continue Reading |
Gaining Uplift on the Downhill: The adjustment periodPsst! Want to write a mature students column for us? Get in touch! Going back to school after being out of school for a long time can feel really weird. There are familiar feelings of excitement and anticipation of new experiences and people, eagerness and motivation to learn new things. There is also trepidation […] Continue Reading |
Camosun College alumnus Jill Munro finalist in national Lay’s potato chip challengeJill Munro spent 2000 to 2009 as a Camosun student, going from biology to recreation leadership to tourism to business to, finally, marketing, which she got a degree in. Today, she works for BC Hydro and lives in Vancouver, where she loves Caesar salad to no end. And that love has now got her national […] Continue Reading |
A message from the Camosun College Student Society: The $15 billion costThe Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Canada’s progressive think tank, recently released a report on the cost of postsecondary education. The report highlights the many issues in the current system. Since 1990, tuition fees have tripled. At the same time, other economic indicators such as inflation and minimum wage rose at a much slower rate. […] Continue Reading |
Events, September 18 to October 1, 2013: flying art, bountiful Bard, Bat Sabbath, and moreUntil September 26 Get disoriented Check out Dis/Orientation Days, a new take on the timeless orientation days that colleges and universities offer. With workshops, field trips, activist tours, a movie night, and disability advocacy events at UVic, this promises to be a fun and interesting time. Check out tons more info at viprg.ca/disorientation, and, hey, […] Continue Reading |
Queerly Forward: Bathrooms should be inclusiveThe majority of students use the washrooms on campus without a second thought. However, issues of safety and accessibility affect a number of people who face a variety of challenges within these spaces. For some queers, the lack of gender-neutral spaces can lead to situations in which they may feel intimidated or uncomfortable in using […] Continue Reading |
Review: Victoria’s Great Canadian Beer Festival delivers a hoppy yearIt started off a bit gloomy with clouds, but the sun came out to whet beer-drinkers’ appetites at the 21st Great Canadian Beer Festival on September 6–7. Though the soggy turf at the festival site of Royal Athletic Park didn’t dry out, it was a small price to pay for the pleasure of drinking beer […] Continue Reading |
Gameplay: Hot fall games now availableAs gamers, we usually have to play the waiting game before getting our hands on a particular title. Sometimes we wait for weeks, even months, but eventually we push the thought of it out of our heads because the anticipation eats us up. Instead we busy ourselves with school, work, or just life itself, and […] Continue Reading |
