{"id":13311,"date":"2017-02-01T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T17:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=13311"},"modified":"2017-01-30T10:10:35","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T18:10:35","slug":"25-years-in-nexus-february-1-2017-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2017\/02\/01\/25-years-in-nexus-february-1-2017-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>25 Years in<\/em> Nexus: February 1, 2017 issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/10-25-years-ago-FOR-WEB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13312\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/10-25-years-ago-FOR-WEB-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/10-25-years-ago-FOR-WEB-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/10-25-years-ago-FOR-WEB.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/10-25-years-ago-FOR-WEB-180x139.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>That\u2019s one way to get the message across:<\/b> The story \u201cTuition freeze unlikely\u201d in our February 3, 1992 issue talked about how Tom Perry, who was the provincial minister of advanced education at the time, had recently visited Camosun College. The Camosun College Student Society, unhappy at the state of tuition, gave Perry a little gift welcoming him to campus: a coffin with the words \u201cR.I.P. education\u201d on it.<\/p>\n<p><b>Ho, ho, we report a loss in fiscal 1991-1992:<\/b> The headline \u201cCCSS loses $$ on Santa photos\u201d says it all: apparently, renting a Santa costume and taking photos is a money-losing venture at a college. Noted.<\/p>\n<p><b>How do they rank up today?:<\/b> For <i>Speak Up <\/i>in this issue we asked students at Interurban how they felt about some campus-specific issues. Student Richard Neufeld told us, \u201cSome of the instructors here are less than competent. The college should hire better teachers and start evaluating them.\u201d Neufeld\u2019s comment got us thinking: how do you feel instructors at Camosun are here in 2017? Let us know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s one way to get the message across: The story \u201cTuition freeze unlikely\u201d in our February 3, 1992 issue talked about how Tom Perry, who was the provincial minister of advanced education at the time, had recently visited Camosun College. The Camosun College Student Society, unhappy at the state of tuition, gave Perry a little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13312,"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":[14,181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-views","category-february-1-2017"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13311","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=13311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13313,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13311\/revisions\/13313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}