{"id":10392,"date":"2015-03-18T06:10:08","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T13:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=10392"},"modified":"2015-03-16T10:16:28","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T17:16:28","slug":"20-years-ago-in-nexus-march-18-2015-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2015\/03\/18\/20-years-ago-in-nexus-march-18-2015-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Years Ago In<\/em> Nexus: March 18, 2015 issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Nexus<\/a><\/p>\n

Interurban Walk Safer\u2019s tough start:<\/b> We reported in a previous installment of this column that 20 years ago marked the start of the Walk Safer program at Interurban. Unfortunately, our March 20, 1995 issue had a story updating readers on how things were going… and they weren\u2019t good. \u201cPeople aren\u2019t as interested in volunteering [at Interurban] as they are at Lansdowne,\u201d explained Gaileen Flaman, who was then the director of Walk Safer. Fortunately, they made it through the tough times and Walk Safer is still running at both campuses today.<\/p>\n

Wasn\u2019t funny then, not funny now: <\/b>On the topic of Walk Safer, the news story \u201cPrankster targets Walk Safer\u201d in this issue detailed how Walk Safer\u2019s director and coordinators at the time heard a \u201cyoung male voice, calling for help, using cliche terms and sounding really emotionless,\u201d while patrolling, said Gaileen Flaman, Walk Safer director. It sounds either really creepy or really stupid, but either way, the young man stopped his joking as the two approached. He was never seen, but a report was filed and Flamen reminded students that \u201cpersonal violation is not a joke.\u201d<\/p>\n

Digital debates: <\/b>These days you can\u2019t throw a lonely guy at another lonely guy without a debate raging out about whether it\u2019s best to listen to music on CD, vinyl, or your computer. And while\u00c9 yawn\u00c9 that debate is fascinating, let\u2019s put things in perspective for a moment: in this issue, 20 years ago, our writer Esme Friesen took time out of her review of Stereolab\u2019s most recent album to poke a bit of fun at people who at that point were already going off of CDs. \u201cFor all those converted to digital, what are those equalizers on your fancy stereo systems for now, anyway?\u201d she asked, before adding, \u201cDon\u2019t worry, they still make CDs, and they are available in Victoria.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Interurban Walk Safer\u2019s tough start: We reported in a previous installment of this column that 20 years ago marked the start of the Walk Safer program at Interurban. Unfortunately, our March 20, 1995 issue had a story updating readers on how things were going… and they weren\u2019t good. \u201cPeople aren\u2019t as interested in volunteering [at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-march-18-2015"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10392"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10396,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10392\/revisions\/10396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}