{"id":12516,"date":"2016-10-05T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T16:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=12516"},"modified":"2016-10-03T12:05:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T19:05:43","slug":"25-years-ago-in-nexus-october-5-2016-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2016\/10\/05\/25-years-ago-in-nexus-october-5-2016-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>25 Years Ago in<\/em> Nexus: October 5, 2016 issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Nexus-2-3-COVER-FOR-WEB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12517\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Nexus-2-3-COVER-FOR-WEB-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Nexus-2-3-COVER-FOR-WEB-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Nexus-2-3-COVER-FOR-WEB.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Nexus-2-3-COVER-FOR-WEB-180x131.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Still not hiring:<\/b> The story \u201cRecord number of students out of work this summer\u201d in our September 30, 1991 issue talked about the number of students who had struggled to find employment over the summer. This has clearly been an ongoing problem, and we have no happy update, as it\u2019s still a very real part of the student struggle here in 2016.<\/p>\n<p><b>And you thought 2016 had a lot to be offended about: <\/b>A story (written by a young Naomi Klein) we ran from a national news wire in this issue talked about people being offended over slogans that University of Toronto orientation day leaders were painting on peoples\u2019 shirts. I mean, if you consider slogans like \u201cI give stray dogs head\u201d and \u201cBlow me where I piss\u201d offensive, that is. But don\u2019t worry, it wasn\u2019t all horribly insensitive: information about date rape was included in the orientation packages, as were shirts emblazoned with the slogan \u201cWhere there\u2019s a hole there\u2019s my pole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Unfortunately, sick people will always do this: <\/b>An anonymous and concerned reader wrote in to us in this issue lamenting how their classmates would show up to school sick, in the process getting others sick. And they weren\u2019t messing around: \u201cGo home! Stay home! And ask your mommy to show you what Kleenex is,\u201d they wrote, before signing off with the pseudonym \u201cIrate and Grossed Out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still not hiring: The story \u201cRecord number of students out of work this summer\u201d in our September 30, 1991 issue talked about the number of students who had struggled to find employment over the summer. This has clearly been an ongoing problem, and we have no happy update, as it\u2019s still a very real part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12517,"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":[14,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-views","category-october-5-2016"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12516","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=12516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12518,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12516\/revisions\/12518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}