{"id":12820,"date":"2016-11-16T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T17:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=12820"},"modified":"2016-11-28T13:41:35","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T21:41:35","slug":"flashback-25-years-ago-in-nexus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2016\/11\/16\/flashback-25-years-ago-in-nexus\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>25 Years Ago in<\/em> Nexus: November 16, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Bound with surpr<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12821\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Nexus-2-6-COVER-FOR-WEB-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"nexus-2-6-cover-for-web\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Nexus-2-6-COVER-FOR-WEB-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Nexus-2-6-COVER-FOR-WEB.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Nexus-2-6-COVER-FOR-WEB-180x131.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>ising claims: <\/b>Here in 2016 we\u2019re used to seeing news stories about people being offended about, well, everything; a news story, for example, about someone claiming a toy sexually harassed them barely registers as being absurd anymore. But maybe it\u2019s not that new of a thing: in our November 12, 1991 issue, we ran a story talking about some concerns people had about a poster around campus for Camosun\u2019s <i>Bound with Glue Review <\/i>journal. The poster featured the words \u201cfree,\u201d \u201cnew,\u201d \u201cimproved,\u201d and \u201csex\u201d in large, bold print, prompting Camosun\u2019s President\u2019s Advisory Committee on Sexual Harassment to suggest the poster \u201cconstituted a form of sexual harassment.\u201d <i>Bound with Glue<\/i> insisted there was nothing wrong with the posters, which ended up being torn down around campus.<\/p>\n<p><b>2 out of 25 ain\u2019t bad: <\/b>We followed up the story about the contentious poster with an informal poll of 25 Camosun students asking their opinion on the matter. Our first question was if they considered the poster to be a form of sexual harassment: two said yes, and 23 said no. One Camosun student added, \u201cJust because the word \u2018sex\u2019 is in it does not mean it\u2019s sexual harassment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>A spark that will become the Chargers: <\/b>In this issue, the story \u201cCamosun launches competitive basketball teams\u201d talked about how the school was organizing a \u201csoon-to-be-competitive\u201d basketball team. Of course, we know them today as the school\u2019s Chargers, who have grown to include teams for men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball, men\u2019s and women\u2019s volleyball, and golf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bound with surprising claims: Here in 2016 we\u2019re used to seeing news stories about people being offended about, well, everything; a news story, for example, about someone claiming a toy sexually harassed them barely registers as being absurd anymore. But maybe it\u2019s not that new of a thing: in our November 12, 1991 issue, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12821,"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":[14,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-views","category-november-16-2016"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12820","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=12820"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12983,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12820\/revisions\/12983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}