{"id":15520,"date":"2018-03-07T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T17:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=15520"},"modified":"2018-03-05T14:06:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T22:06:15","slug":"25-years-ago-in-nexus-march-7-2018-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2018\/03\/07\/25-years-ago-in-nexus-march-7-2018-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"25 Years Ago in<\/em> Nexus: March 7, 2018 issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The endless talk of CFS defederation: <\/b>To the surprise of absolutely no one, while looking through our March 8, 1993 issue, we came across a letter to the editor rallying for Camosun students to defederate from the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS). Letter-writer Sue Williams, who was the Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) director of communications at the time, urged students to get a referendum happening to defederate from the national student organization. Williams cited the same concerns that students have today about the national organization, \u201cconstant, internal union bureaucratic bickering\u201d being but one example. Camosun students are still paying members of the CFS, and are currently trying to have a referendum to defederate, but the CFS is saying it can\u2019t happen due to outstanding fees (see page 3).<\/p>\n

Even more talk of CFS defederation:<\/b> We also reported in this issue on a CCSS meeting where\u2014surprise, surprise\u2014talk of defederating from the CFS was brought up. And voted down. \u201cOpponents of the motion cited potential loss of national support and benefits as reasons for saying no,\u201d writer Ben McDonald reported. CCSS chairperson Niki Stanford said in the meeting that she was offended by CCSS executives trying to \u201cmuzzle\u201d others who attempted to \u201cclarify and improve the situation,\u201d and that the CCSS is not \u201cbeing accountable to its constituents.\u201d Stanford also mentioned she would not run for re-election in April of that year.<\/p>\n

You can get shampoo for that: <\/b>Alan Callbeck\u2019s Earth Person Commentary<\/i> column was always an entertaining read; in this issue, Callbeck lamented humanity\u2019s attitude toward nature. He ended off with the sobering words, \u201cAre we, in reality, no more than body lice?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The endless talk of CFS defederation: To the surprise of absolutely no one, while looking through our March 8, 1993 issue, we came across a letter to the editor rallying for Camosun students to defederate from the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS). Letter-writer Sue Williams, who was the Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) director of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15521,"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":[14,208],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-views","category-march-7-2018"],"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