25 Years Ago in Nexus: November 16, 2016Bound with surprising claims: Here in 2016 we’re used to seeing news stories about people being offended about, well, everything; a news story, for example, about someone claiming a toy sexually harassed them barely registers as being absurd anymore. But maybe it’s not that new of a thing: in our November 12, 1991 issue, we […] Continue Reading |
Open Space: Bill C-16 not taking away rightsI’m tired of the opinion that Bill C-16 is about taking away a person’s rights when it’s about recognizing them. I’m tired of the fact that it is a certain type of person with this opinion, and I’m tired of the fragile male ego, the one that objects when others succeed in fighting for their […] Continue Reading |
Open Space: For our collective benefitDearest reader, Allow me to draw your attention to the crisis of the student debt and all of its attendant problems, a concern on whose unhappy nature much has recently been written, and for whose reformation far more precedent yet remains. I am astonished, bystander though I am, that a certain collection of glaringly obvious solutions […] Continue Reading |
25 Years Ago in Nexus: November 2, 2016 issueSo 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 […] Continue Reading |
25 Years Ago in Nexus: October 19, 2016 issueHarshing 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 […] Continue Reading |
Open Space: Feminists need to listen to cis men tooI 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 […] Continue Reading |
25 Years Ago in Nexus: October 5, 2016 issueStill 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 […] Continue Reading |
Open Space: Cut corporations from CamosunThe 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. […] Continue Reading |
Open Space: Government needs to stop valuing pipelines over treatiesWhen 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 […] Continue Reading |
Open Space: Make social media social againAs 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 […] Continue Reading |
