{"id":13063,"date":"2016-12-05T09:30:35","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T17:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=13063"},"modified":"2016-12-06T10:22:33","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T18:22:33","slug":"open-space-camosun-college-students-should-leave-the-canadian-federation-of-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2016\/12\/05\/open-space-camosun-college-students-should-leave-the-canadian-federation-of-students\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Open Space<\/em>: Camosun College students should leave the Canadian Federation of Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Camosun College students pay $1.11 per month to be members of the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS). But what help or benefits are Camosun students getting from the CFS at this point?<\/p>\n<p>I think Camosun College students should leave the organization.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, money should be used for more important things. If the Camosun College Student Society could use the money for something else, it would be a big help for the school and students.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13064\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13064\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_3854-TREATED.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13064\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_3854-TREATED-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"CFS-BC motions to start the process of separating from CFS; should the Camosun College Student Society do the same? (File photo.)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_3854-TREATED-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_3854-TREATED.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_3854-TREATED-180x135.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13064\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CFS-BC motions to start the process of separating from the national CFS; should the Camosun College Student Society do the same? (File photo.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Although $1.11 is not too much, if money cannot be used effectively, I do not want to pay one cent. After paying the fee, I don\u2019t feel I get any benefits from being a member of the CFS, so what\u2019s the point?<\/p>\n<p>After I pay tuition fees, I can study and gain more knowledge; I don\u2019t know what paying into the CFS does for me.<\/p>\n<p>Camosun students also pay $1.11 per month to be members of the British Columbia Federation of Students, so even if we left the CFS, we would still not be alone.<\/p>\n<p>Also, it\u2019s worth noting that the CFS is not the only national student organization in Canada, so if Camosun College students left CFS, they could still have the option to join a different national student group.<\/p>\n<p>Even if they don\u2019t, I still think Camosun students should leave the organization. If nothing else, at least they\u2019ll save $1.11 every month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Camosun College students pay $1.11 per month to be members of the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS). But what help or benefits are Camosun students getting from the CFS at this point? I think Camosun College students should leave the organization. First of all, money should be used for more important things. If the Camosun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13064,"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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13063","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=13063"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13066,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13063\/revisions\/13066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}