{"id":13826,"date":"2017-03-29T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T16:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=13826"},"modified":"2017-03-27T13:45:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T20:45:17","slug":"25-years-ago-in-nexus-march-29-2017-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2017\/03\/29\/25-years-ago-in-nexus-march-29-2017-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"25 Years Ago in<\/em> Nexus: March 29, 2017 issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>CFS controversy begins:<\/b> Back in 1992, the Camosun College Student Society was talking about joining the Canadian Federation of Students; Camosun students did end up voting to join the national student organization. Letter-writer Chris Conway wrote in our March 30, 1992 issue, \u201cWhat benefit is membership in the Canadian Federation of Students?\u201d Interestingly, we ran an opinion piece recently where a student was asking that very same question.<\/p>\n

Did these phone calls really happen?:<\/b> So, I guess we ran a story about a duathlon, which apparently is a thing, and a reader called in and \u201crudely insisted\u201d that \u201cbiathlon\u201d is the word we were after. We were so up in arms about this conversation we wrote a mini story in this issue defending our use of the word \u201cduathlon.\u201d Wow, all around.<\/p>\n

Now there\u2019s an idea:<\/b> This issue featured an ad for a special issue of Nexus<\/i> that looked back on the past year. A nice idea; given that we\u2019re a few years away from approaching our 30th anniversary, just imagine what a nice collection looking back at the entire history of this (give me a minute to gloat) award-winning, thought-provoking, policy-changing paper would look like. Say, a book. Just imagine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CFS controversy begins: Back in 1992, the Camosun College Student Society was talking about joining the Canadian Federation of Students; Camosun students did end up voting to join the national student organization. Letter-writer Chris Conway wrote in our March 30, 1992 issue, \u201cWhat benefit is membership in the Canadian Federation of Students?\u201d Interestingly, we ran […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13827,"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":[14,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-views","category-march-29-2017"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t