{"id":13703,"date":"2017-03-15T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T16:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=13703"},"modified":"2017-03-13T15:08:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T22:08:54","slug":"25-years-ago-in-nexus-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2017\/03\/15\/25-years-ago-in-nexus-5\/","title":{"rendered":"25 Years Ago in <em>Nexus<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/13-25-years-ago-FOR-WEB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13782\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/13-25-years-ago-FOR-WEB-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/13-25-years-ago-FOR-WEB-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/13-25-years-ago-FOR-WEB.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/13-25-years-ago-FOR-WEB-180x139.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A conspiracy theory worth considering:<\/strong> We asked students what they thought about student loans in Speak Up in our March 16, 1992 issue. Responses were as you may expect, although one stands out: Camosun student Jason Crockett told us, \u201cI think it is an evil plot by the government to reduce the population of the planet of Canada. I think the strong will survive and death to ones who can\u2019t.\u201d The planet of Canada?<\/p>\n<p><strong>To federate or not to federate?:<\/strong> This issue featured the story \u201cStudent election to include important referendum questions,\u201d which talked about referendum questions that were to be asked at an upcoming Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) election. One of the questions regarded joining the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS); Camosun students did end up voting to join the organization. How\u2019s the relationship between the CCSS and the CFS working out these days? Search \u201cCFS\u201d on our website to read some stories about it\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wonder if this is still available?:<\/strong> I love looking at old classifieds, for reasons like this: \u201cCommodore Amiga 500, 3.5\u201d disk drive, 1 meg ram, 1084s stereo VGA monitor, excellent word processing program, plus other software. $750.\u201d Anyone else out there get a little shiver of excitement when seeing the word \u201cAmiga\u201d? Dragon\u2019s Lair? Space Ace? Shadow of the Beast? Hello?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A conspiracy theory worth considering: We asked students what they thought about student loans in Speak Up in our March 16, 1992 issue. Responses were as you may expect, although one stands out: Camosun student Jason Crockett told us, \u201cI think it is an evil plot by the government to reduce the population of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13782,"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":[14,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-views","category-issuemarch-1-2017"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13703","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=13703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13783,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13703\/revisions\/13783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}