25 Years Ago in Nexus: September 2, 2025 issueFall-ing and can’t get up: Former Nexus writer Jon Valentine’s “Top 10 Things to Look Forward to in the New School Year” reads like a schoolboy manifesto. For our September 5, 2000 issue, he modelled his insight and prophesized the BC government’s end of a tuition freeze (resulting in the collective student debt of $500 […] Continue Reading |
Open Space: Stop and smell the campusJust last May, I, like so many other Business students, made a gruelling decision. One that would fill the preceding few months with stress, anxiety, and exhaustion. I decided to take summer courses. With the arrival of the warmth and the flourish of nature, students yearned longingly for the outside. I saw it in my […] Continue Reading |
Open Space: Camosun needs to re-evaluate math creditI’ve taken a variety of courses at Camosun: English, philosophy, psychology, and symbolic logic, for example. I achieved a broad education, which is what Camosun wants, and I mostly did it on my terms. But there was one course that was required for my program, and I did everything I could to avoid it. Getting […] Continue Reading |
Editor’s Letter: The easy poseIn Salabhasana, the locust pose, I was ordered by a poised, cavalier, liberated man to abandon my likes and dislikes—my dislikes there in those damp moments assumed to be the waves of contractions burning in my lower abdomen and then the rest of me. This was the correct expectation. We paused, all nine of us […] Continue Reading |
Open Space: Why does it gotta be straight?Every June is Pride Month—this isn’t anything new. Yet, I always brace myself for the butthurt cisgender men who come out of the woodwork to comment on Pride-themed corporate Facebook posts (or Pride support from, heaven forbid, their football teams). The question always posed is “where is my straight pride?” and to that I say, […] Continue Reading |
Open Space: Thoughts on leaving CamosunWhen I came to Camosun College, I had three goals: get a Digital Production, Writing and Design (DPWD) certificate, get an Arts and Science diploma, and write as much as possible for Nexus newspaper. After that, I’d get a degree in Political Science with a minor in Journalism. I completed my goals at Camosun, and […] Continue Reading |
Open Space: The CRA hates studentsIn the waning days of this year’s tax season, nothing could be so dull as to reignite the topic—it isn’t particularly stimulating conversation. But to many Canadians, the spring months severely disappoint pockets, and of those individuals, students are directly harmed. It isn’t new, certainly, but remains improperly addressed: unreasonable restrictions on the Canada Workers […] Continue Reading |
Editor’s Letter: Where are we headingIt’s been done before, this tension; it’s nothing new. It echoes from the 20th century a reverberation of continual strike. We listen but fail to comment. Or we do but not directly, for that requires too much of our sanity, and that is required to hold our centre. Or we do but not adequately, for […] Continue Reading |
Open Space: A pet-friendlier VictoriaVictoria is home to tens of thousands of pet owners. Yet, its pet-friendly policies remain limited. While cities such as Vancouver, Calgary, and Toronto have advanced toward pet-friendly spaces, transit options, and housing opportunities, Victoria is still on the path toward improvement in these areas. With the right initiatives, Victoria has the potential to embrace […] Continue Reading |
25 Years Ago in Nexus: April 2, 2025 issueOrigin story: The library on campus is often addressed only by its colloquial name: the library. And, unfortunately, students usually neglect its Christian name: the Alan Batey Library & Learning Commons. The name is no small commemoration. Batey was from 1966 to 1971 principal of the Institute of Adult Studies, and, following 1971’s conversion to […] Continue Reading |
