{"id":16331,"date":"2018-09-12T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T16:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=16331"},"modified":"2018-09-18T09:39:58","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T16:39:58","slug":"25-years-ago-in-nexus-september-12-2018-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2018\/09\/12\/25-years-ago-in-nexus-september-12-2018-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"25 Years Ago in<\/em> Nexus: September 12, 2018 issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Virtually upset: <\/b>In the Excrementia Factorum<\/i> column in our September 20, 1993 issue, writer Shelley Evans, after saying that video games can cause \u201cfamily separation, murder or suicide!\u201d says,\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cI can\u2019t wait until virtual reality is finally in the hands of consumers.\u201d Well, the technology has had a long gestation period but seems to finally, slowly be creeping out to the masses. We don\u2019t know where Evans is today, but it\u2019s safe to assume she\u2019s probably not viewing life through an Oculus Rift.<\/p>\n

Disposable battles: <\/b>Disposable cutlery at the Lansdowne cafeteria was a hot topic back in 1993. In this issue, Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) chairperson John-Henry Harter wrote a pointed letter to the editor about Beaver Foods, which at the time ran the cafeteria. \u201cBeaver Foods is a profit-oriented company; their prices just went up, while their polluting continues,\u201d he wrote. \u201cWho pays the cost? The students and the environment.\u201d<\/p>\n

CCSS to the rescue:<\/b> Our tastefully headlined story \u201cMinistry screw-up results in loan delays\u201d detailed how approximately 500 Camosun students were still waiting for student loans in the first week of classes due to \u201cconstantly busy phone lines and paper and electronic records that did not match,\u201d according to a government memo mentioned in the story. Luckily for Camosun students, the student society came to their aid, using an emergency fund to help students impacted by the loan delay buy textbooks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Virtually upset: In the Excrementia Factorum column in our September 20, 1993 issue, writer Shelley Evans, after saying that video games can cause \u201cfamily separation, murder or suicide!\u201d says,\u00a0 \u201cI can\u2019t wait until virtual reality is finally in the hands of consumers.\u201d Well, the technology has had a long gestation period but seems to finally, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16332,"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":[14,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-views","category-september-12-2018"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16331","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=16331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16333,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16331\/revisions\/16333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}