{"id":11402,"date":"2015-12-02T06:52:48","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T14:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=11402"},"modified":"2015-11-30T10:54:53","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T18:54:53","slug":"25-years-ago-in-nexus-december-2-2015-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2015\/12\/02\/25-years-ago-in-nexus-december-2-2015-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>25 Years Ago in<\/em> Nexus: December 2, 2015 issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Nexus-1-7-cover-FOR-WEB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11403\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Nexus-1-7-cover-FOR-WEB-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Nexus-1-7-cover-FOR-WEB-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Nexus-1-7-cover-FOR-WEB.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Nexus-1-7-cover-FOR-WEB-180x139.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>At least there was no danger of a chemical explosion:<\/b> Our November 27, 1990 issue had a rather alarming headline on the front page: \u201cChemicals present safety concern at Camosun.\u201d Turns out that a new paper recycling and chemical storage area being built on the Lansdowne campus had Rinn Rapp, who was Camosun\u2019s chemistry coordinator at the time, a bit worried. \u201cWe\u2019re concerned about the whole safety aspect,\u201d said Rinn. \u201cWhile there is no danger of a chemical explosion, ventilation and condensation inside the temporary storage shed remain a far cry from ideal conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Language learnin\u2019: <\/b>In the <i>Everyone Who Loves<\/i> column, then-Camosun chaplain Clare Holmes mused on the word (and the concept of) wellness. Too bad that, at the time, computers\u2019 spellcheck didn\u2019t like it, Holmes laments in the column. Good news: I just tested and it looks like \u201cwellness\u201d gets a green light from spellcheck these days.<\/p>\n<p><b>Macaroni shower: <\/b>Again: macaroni shower. That was the phrase that caught my eye while scanning through the story \u201cKD-fests sweeping the nation?\u201d Not knowing what a macaroni shower or a KD-fest is, but obviously wanting to find out, I read on. Turns out, back in 1990 it was all the rage to find your least-favourite politician and toss Kraft Dinner at them. Indeed, during an appearance at York University on November 5, 1990, then-prime minister Brian Mulrooney was on the receiving end of a macaroni shower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least there was no danger of a chemical explosion: Our November 27, 1990 issue had a rather alarming headline on the front page: \u201cChemicals present safety concern at Camosun.\u201d Turns out that a new paper recycling and chemical storage area being built on the Lansdowne campus had Rinn Rapp, who was Camosun\u2019s chemistry coordinator [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11403,"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":[14,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-views","category-december-2-2015"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11402","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=11402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11404,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11402\/revisions\/11404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}