{"id":15352,"date":"2018-02-07T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T17:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=15352"},"modified":"2018-02-05T12:49:16","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T20:49:16","slug":"25-years-ago-in-nexus-february-7-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2018\/02\/07\/25-years-ago-in-nexus-february-7-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>25 Years Ago in<\/em> Nexus: February 7, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/25-Years-ago-for-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15353\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/25-Years-ago-for-web-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/25-Years-ago-for-web-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/25-Years-ago-for-web.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/25-Years-ago-for-web-180x133.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Still senseless?:<\/b> In his <i>Earth Person Commentary<\/i> column in our February 8, 1993 issue, writer Alan Callbeck said that humanity is \u201cmoving toward increased senselessness, a depersonalized reality where emotional expression, intellectualization and simple human contact have been reduced by the way we live, work and behave.\u201d So, it\u2019s 25 years later, and our question, to Callbeck\u2014if he\u2019s reading this\u2014and to our readers in general, is this: have we reached that point?<\/p>\n<p><b>Still not good: <\/b>This issue had a focus on sexual harassment; in the editorial, writer Elizabeth Rotenburger said that if we could \u201ccultivate some respect for one another, the hideous and degrading problem of sexual harassment could be solved. This, though, would be an ideal world and we, unfortunately, live in the real one.\u201d But Rotenburger had hope, adding that just because \u201cthe world is not perfect, however, is certainly not a sufficient excuse to renege on the obligation we have to each other as fellow human beings.\u201d Made sense then, makes sense now.<\/p>\n<p><b>Still blushing: <\/b>In this issue, former <i>Nexus <\/i>photos editor S. Paul Varga wrote in to sing our praises. \u201cI wish <i>The Nexus<\/i> all the best and urge anyone who ever read a newspaper to get involved in a most rewarding venture\u2014volunteering for the best looking and reading college community newspaper I have seen.\u201d Thanks, Paul. And to you, dear reader: we\u2019re still taking on new volunteers, just FYI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still senseless?: In his Earth Person Commentary column in our February 8, 1993 issue, writer Alan Callbeck said that humanity is \u201cmoving toward increased senselessness, a depersonalized reality where emotional expression, intellectualization and simple human contact have been reduced by the way we live, work and behave.\u201d So, it\u2019s 25 years later, and our question, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15353,"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":[14,206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-views","category-february-7-2018"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15352","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=15352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15355,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15352\/revisions\/15355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}