{"id":15066,"date":"2017-11-29T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T17:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=15066"},"modified":"2017-12-05T10:14:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T18:14:33","slug":"25-years-ago-in-nexus-november-29-2017-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2017\/11\/29\/25-years-ago-in-nexus-november-29-2017-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>25 Years Ago in<\/em> Nexus: November 29, 2017 issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/25-YEARS-AGO-FOR-WEB-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/25-YEARS-AGO-FOR-WEB-1-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/25-YEARS-AGO-FOR-WEB-1-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/25-YEARS-AGO-FOR-WEB-1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/25-YEARS-AGO-FOR-WEB-1-180x136.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Still wasting after all these years: <\/b>An editorial in our November 30, 1992 issue lamented finding paper in garbage cans on campus. Amazingly, all these years later, that problem persists (<i>Nexus<\/i> staffers have been spotted elbow-deep pulling paper out of garbage cans). One would hope that things are getting better. Right? Right. Now, if anyone needs me, I\u2019ll be in that garbage can over there.<\/p>\n<p><b>Fire determined arson:<\/b> Last issue in this column, we talked about a 1992 fire at Camosun\u2019s Interurban campus that caused $1.5 million in damages and destroyed the carpentry shop; in our November 30, 1992 issue, we delivered the unsettling news that the fire was declared to be an arson by the Saanich Fire Department. Unfortunately, it wasn\u2019t the first Camosun-related arson that happened in that era; there were arson attempts at Lansdowne as well.<\/p>\n<p><b>Is that sarcasm?: <\/b>Our <i>Speak Up <\/i>question in this issue was about safety on campus; student Raymond Lau said that he felt safe, even at night. \u201cWhy should I be paranoid?\u201d he said, before adding that the college could \u201ccompletely wire\u201d the parking lot, add security guards, and put \u201cbarbed wire or razor wire on the fences so people couldn\u2019t climb over and crawl under cars.\u201d Yes, no reason to be paranoid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still wasting after all these years: An editorial in our November 30, 1992 issue lamented finding paper in garbage cans on campus. Amazingly, all these years later, that problem persists (Nexus staffers have been spotted elbow-deep pulling paper out of garbage cans). One would hope that things are getting better. Right? Right. Now, if anyone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15067,"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":[14,203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-views","category-november-29-2017"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15066","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=15066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15068,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15066\/revisions\/15068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}