{"id":14544,"date":"2017-09-05T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T16:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=14544"},"modified":"2017-08-29T10:27:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T17:27:01","slug":"25-years-ago-in-nexus-september-5-2017-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2017\/09\/05\/25-years-ago-in-nexus-september-5-2017-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>25 Years Ago in<\/em> Nexus: September 5, 2017 issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/25-YEARS-AGO-FOR-WEB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14545\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/25-YEARS-AGO-FOR-WEB-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/25-YEARS-AGO-FOR-WEB-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/25-YEARS-AGO-FOR-WEB.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/25-YEARS-AGO-FOR-WEB-180x133.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><b>Define \u201ctight\u201d:<\/b> Our September 8, 1992 issue started that semester off with a bang, as an ad in our classifieds section proves. \u201cTo the guy in the tight Levis who lent me $10 at Registration; I\u2019d like to pay you back. Let\u2019s meet. L.B.\u201d Okay, serious request now that I\u2019m finished snorting coffee out my nose at the phrase \u201ctight Levis\u201d: keep reading this column in the weeks to come, because we have much more to report about these two.<\/p>\n<p><b>Student society impeachment blues: <\/b>The story \u201cStudent society impeaches communications director\u201d detailed how the Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) had impeached then-director of campus communication Eugene Evans. The CCSS said it was due to claims of misuse of CCSS \u201cletterhead and logos\u201d; Evans said it was due to his outspoken anti-Canadian Federation of Students stance. \u201cIf one\u2026 speaks out about spending $30,000 to $60,000 on sending student society executives to social functions of the Canadian Federation of Students back east, your days as a student society executive are numbered,\u201d he said in the story.<\/p>\n<p><b>Way to woo our readers:<\/b> Our always entertaining <i>Words &amp; Thoughts for the Thinking Idiot<\/i> column, written by Al Callbeck (clearly at the end of his rope already in September), certainly caught readers\u2019 attention in this issue. Callbeck started his column by saying, \u201cI begin this column assuming you are stupid, greedy, and environmentally unfriendly\u2014a typical thinking idiot\u2014led by people that are stupid, greedy, and politically motivated. Consider yourself identified.\u201d Ouch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Define \u201ctight\u201d: Our September 8, 1992 issue started that semester off with a bang, as an ad in our classifieds section proves. \u201cTo the guy in the tight Levis who lent me $10 at Registration; I\u2019d like to pay you back. Let\u2019s meet. L.B.\u201d Okay, serious request now that I\u2019m finished snorting coffee out my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14545,"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":[14,197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-views","category-september-5-2017"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14544","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=14544"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14547,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14544\/revisions\/14547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}