{"id":10462,"date":"2015-04-01T06:21:20","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T13:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=10462"},"modified":"2015-03-30T13:24:19","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T20:24:19","slug":"20-years-ago-in-nexus-april-1-2015-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2015\/04\/01\/20-years-ago-in-nexus-april-1-2015-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>20 Years Ago In<\/em> Nexus: April 1, 2015 issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Nexus-5-15-COVER-FOR-WEB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10463\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Nexus-5-15-COVER-FOR-WEB-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"Nexus 5-15 COVER FOR WEB\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Nexus-5-15-COVER-FOR-WEB-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Nexus-5-15-COVER-FOR-WEB.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Nexus-5-15-COVER-FOR-WEB-180x131.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Usually bathroom graffiti is much more intelligent:<\/b> The main cover story in our April 3, 1995 issue, \u201cHate graffiti sparks student outrage,\u201d was about how graffiti targeting \u201cpeople with disabilities, women, ethnic groups, and homosexuals\u201d had been popping up around campus. \u201cIt\u2019s scary that people have these ideas,\u201d said student Nick Yaremchuk, who brought the graffiti to the Camosun College Student Society (CCSS)\u2019s attention. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to let whoever wrote this know that we are not going to take it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Students weigh in: <\/b>Both Shane Calder, who was then the CCSS students with disabilities executive, and Sara Kemp, then CCSS chair, wrote in this issue about the aforementioned graffiti. The anonymous scrawler, in a nutshell, got owned and did not step up to defend him\/herself in a public forum, to the surprise of absolutely no one.<\/p>\n<p><b>What a good sport: <\/b>Chris Siver, who wrote our <i>Sports Comment<\/i> column 20 years ago, admitted in this issue that \u201cthis was a crappy year to be spending my time pontificating about the world of athleticism. Last year there was no baseball strike, no hockey lockout, the Supersonics were the undisputed kings of the hardwood.\u201d But, hey, he was honest, much to the chagrin of his editor at the time, I\u2019m sure: \u201cI did a good job coming up with filler material,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usually bathroom graffiti is much more intelligent: The main cover story in our April 3, 1995 issue, \u201cHate graffiti sparks student outrage,\u201d was about how graffiti targeting \u201cpeople with disabilities, women, ethnic groups, and homosexuals\u201d had been popping up around campus. \u201cIt\u2019s scary that people have these ideas,\u201d said student Nick Yaremchuk, who brought the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10463,"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":[5,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-april-1-2015"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10462","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=10462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10464,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10462\/revisions\/10464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}