{"id":11019,"date":"2015-09-30T06:49:06","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T13:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=11019"},"modified":"2015-10-05T11:50:24","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T18:50:24","slug":"25-years-ago-in-nexus-september-23-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2015\/09\/30\/25-years-ago-in-nexus-september-23-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>25 years ago in Nexus<\/em>: September 23, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Nexus-1-2-cover-FOR-WEB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11020 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Nexus-1-2-cover-FOR-WEB-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Nexus-1-2-cover-FOR-WEB-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Nexus-1-2-cover-FOR-WEB.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Nexus-1-2-cover-FOR-WEB-180x139.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Did you know we are celebrating our 25th anniversary this year? The first issue of <i>Nexus<\/i>, known back then as <i>The Nexus<\/i>, came out in September 1990; we\u2019re relaunching the <i>20 Years Ago <\/i>column as <i>25 Years Ago<\/i> to celebrate.<\/p>\n<p><b>Commenters anonymous:<\/b> Our September 19, 1990 issue was our second issue, and in it we asked, as we still do today, for you to send in your thoughts in a letter to the editor. We also asked, and this might seem shocking to people so used to online comments today, to not hide behind anonymity: \u201cThe letters that get preference will be the ones that say: This is who I am, this is what I think!\u201d We\u2019d like to keep that challenge going today: letters with names attached to them will always pack more of a punch than those without.<\/p>\n<p><b>Was it ever easy?: <\/b>Remember how this summer you and your friends were talking about how hard it was to find a decent job? Turns out it was 25 years ago, too. \u201cThe unemployment rate was out of control this summer,\u201d then-chair of the Canadian Federation of Students Jane Arnold said in the story \u201cStudents had another tough summer.\u201d \u201cStudents just couldn\u2019t find jobs,\u201d Arnold said, \u201cperiod.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>A coming-of-age story: <\/b>Our outgoing interim managing editor at the time, Brian Vallee, wrote in his editor\u2019s letter that the paper was an infant with great potential to grow. Looking at what <i>Nexus <\/i>has accomplished over the years\u0143winning awards for our investigative work into missing aboriginal women on the mainland; having a direct impact on college policy, such as smoking areas, that we reported on; becoming a springboard for student volunteers to go on to work in media\u0143I think it\u2019s safe to say that the infant grew up all right after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know we are celebrating our 25th anniversary this year? The first issue of Nexus, known back then as The Nexus, came out in September 1990; we\u2019re relaunching the 20 Years Ago column as 25 Years Ago to celebrate. Commenters anonymous: Our September 19, 1990 issue was our second issue, and in it we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11020,"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":[5,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-september-23-2015"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11019","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=11019"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11081,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11019\/revisions\/11081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}