Camosun College president Sherri Bell announces retirementCamosun College president Sherri Bell announced today in an email that she will be retiring at the end of 2021. Bell says that she has no immediate plans for post-retirement and says that her time as Camosun president has been the highlight of her career. Bell became president in 2015. Look for our full story […] Continue Reading |
Let’s Talk 2.0: Let’s talk about Disney moviesHave you ever wondered why gender roles come to exist in society? More important question: have you ever questioned it? No? Well, then, let’s talk! So, let’s think about this for a second. What if everything we think or do does not come from rationality but is learned? In fact, we know that most things […] Continue Reading |
Meet Your Writers: Nexus contributing writer Celina LessardOur team of writers work relentlessly behind the scenes to keep the Nexus site constantly updated, but who are these mysterious Camosun College students who keep us supplied with stories? Wonder no more, as our new series Meet Your Writers will help you get to know the names behind the pieces you read at Nexus. […] Continue Reading |
Student Editor’s Letter: The art of taking chancesIn October 2015—just as I was finally starting to feel settled into my classes at Camosun after a year of being that guy who always sat in the back, never raised his hand, and darted off campus as soon as class was done—I was working a graveyard shift at a take-out sushi place downtown. I […] Continue Reading |
Provincial government funds 20 new spaces in Camosun’s Mental Health and Addictions programCamosun College is receiving space for 20 additional full-time students in its Mental Health and Addictions (MHA) program. The money for the spaces comes from the provincial government after it cited a need for mental-health support during the COVID-19 pandemic. The government is spending $800,000 between four public post-secondary institutions on the spaces as part […] Continue Reading |
CCSS, BCFS continue to campaign against interest on student loansFrom February 8 to 12, the British Columbia Federation of Students (BCFS) participated in The Week of Action, a week-long effort that was part of the two-year Knock Out Interest campaign. Through the campaign, the BCFS—along with 40 student unions across Canada, including the Camosun College Student Society—is calling on the federal government to eliminate […] Continue Reading |
Camosun award-winner aims to create space and power for Indigenous studentsKit Caudron-Robinson was working on the oil rigs in Alberta, but it wasn’t what he wanted to be doing. After listening to one of his three older sisters, a practicing lawyer, talk about how going back to school would be the best possible thing he could do, he enrolled at Camosun with the long-term goal […] Continue Reading |
Victoria Film Festival 2021 review: MarleneWhen it comes to positive things you can say about COVID-19, the list is very short, but one of the few things that this pandemic has done is reinvigorate the need for inspirational art. With her new film Marlene, Calgary-based director Wendy Hill-Tout proves how essential inspirational art is. Marlene revolves around Marlene Truscott’s side […] Continue Reading |
Victoria Film Festival 2021 review: Queen of the AndesAs horrific as this past year was for most of us, 2020 will go down as the year when science prevailed. This past year brought new, effective vaccines, the potential discovery of life-preserving levels of phosphine on Venus’ surface, and the finding of more bodies of salt water on Mars. Discoveries like these have effectively […] Continue Reading |
An Inside Voice: Keep on keeping onIt’s one thing to be an online student by choice; it’s quite another to have the situation thrust upon us, as we have in this pandemic. We went from being carefree and crowded on campus—happy as anything to shake hands with a stranger or walk arm in arm with a friend to class—to having classes […] Continue Reading |
