25 Years Ago in Nexus: November 2, 2016 issue

So it begins…: Our October 28, 1991 issue featured a story talking about whether or not Camosun students should join the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS). The cost at the time was estimated to be around $70,000 annually (although in our next issue, the Camosun College Student Society president wrote a letter to say that […]

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25 Years Ago in Nexus: October 19, 2016 issue

Harshing the college’s mellow: According to a story in our October 15, 1991 issue, Camosun was dealing with the “stoned virus” on its computers at the time. The virus, which displayed a message on computer screens calling for legalization of marijuana, was spreading throughout the computer labs at the college. Unfortunately, this was before the […]

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Open Space: Feminists need to listen to cis men too

I would be perfectly justified if I hated men. It’s a statement I’ve made many times to cis men, after a conversation where I “out” myself as a feminist and state that feminism is about equality. The gears turn, they get the look, they blurt out that feminism is about hating men. They expect me […]

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25 Years Ago in Nexus: October 5, 2016 issue

Still not hiring: The story “Record number of students out of work this summer” in our September 30, 1991 issue talked about the number of students who had struggled to find employment over the summer. This has clearly been an ongoing problem, and we have no happy update, as it’s still a very real part […]

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Open Space: Cut corporations from Camosun

The privatization of Canada’s education system marches onward: Camosun College celebrated its opening day by turning into a shopping mall at CamFest. Our subservience to the corporations that dominate Canadian life was naked for all to see. Entering the central walkway at either campus during CamFest, students were ushered through a gauntlet of corporate solicitation. […]

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Open Space: Government needs to stop valuing pipelines over treaties

When a government enacts a treaty with a First Nations tribe and then turns around and breaks that treaty, it’s swept under the rug with justifications or bribes, and it’s time for that to stop. I can’t help but notice striking parallels between the fiasco in North Dakota, which is centred around the construction of […]

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Open Space: Make social media social again

As metal machines of death impatiently rage on to nowhere in an age of isolation and self-loathing, phones have become gods; the screen is the messiah’s call. The outside world is just so mundane. Yawn as your brain splatters, and with your last breath be sure to take a selfie; the blood in your hair […]

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Open Space: Camosun College moving Disability Resource Centre harmful to students

Moving the Disability Resource Centre (DRC) into the Lansdowne library was a move ignorant to the needs of Camosun students. Many students are self-conscious of their learning disabilities; putting what is quite often their lifeline—for extra help during high-stress times such as exams or just for day-to-day needs like picking up notes—in the academic centre […]

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25 Years Ago in Nexus: September 21, 2016 issue

Just a story about a big-ass tent theft: From the “why would anyone bother?” department: our September 16, 1991 issue featured the cover story “Tent theft proves costly to student society,” which detailed, well, exactly what it promised: the woes of the Camosun College Student Society as they dealt with the aftermath of one of […]

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Open Space: It’s time to eliminate tuition in Canada

Tuition should be eliminated, and we the students need to make that happen. For many years I’ve heard warning klaxons signal the approach of the debt apocalypse. Social spending must be cut due to constant budget shortfalls; in other news, our corporate benefactors will abandon us if we do not lower their taxes and entice […]

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