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The importance of student media: The story “Nexus Managing Editor has seen it all” in this issue profiled our then-managing editor Barbara Risto (who I wrote for at Nexus when I was a Camosun student). In the piece, Risto says that “When I’m gone, the paper will still be here. The Nexus is more important […]

You need to be at Camosun at, say, 10 am, so the first thing you do when you wake up is check the bus schedule to see which bus you’re taking. You pack all your books, food, computer, and anything else you’ll need for the day. You race out your door and get to the […]

New direction then, new direction now: Our October 28, 1996 issue featured the story “College gets set to change direction,” which detailed how Camosun was developing a new mission statement in a strategy “intended to bring the college into the information age.” It’s fitting reading this today, as the college goes through more changes (see […]

Two-piece plastic sushi containers, sandwich packaging, plastic-wrapped cookies, plastic beverage bottles, plastic cutlery, and plastic coffee lids. These are just some of the single-use plastics you might see on the shelf and in the bins around campus. Looking around campus, I see empty and discarded packages waiting to be thrown away. But I also see […]