{"id":18201,"date":"2019-09-25T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=18201"},"modified":"2019-09-30T09:20:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T16:20:59","slug":"25-years-ago-in-nexus-september-25-2019-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2019\/09\/25\/25-years-ago-in-nexus-september-25-2019-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>25 Years Ago in<\/em> Nexus: September 25, 2019 issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/3-25-YA-for-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18202\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/3-25-YA-for-web-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/3-25-YA-for-web-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/3-25-YA-for-web.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Not that $200 textbooks are outrageous: <\/b>It gets a bit tiresome to look back on old stories and lament about how some student struggles never change, but good lord: our October 3, 1994 issue featured the front page story \u201cCost of textbooks forces students to consider cheaper alternatives.\u201d What more can we say? It was a slow process, but today there are free textbook alternatives available to at least help ease the burden on some students.<\/p>\n<p><b>Green light, red light:<\/b> \u201cInterurban Women\u2019s Centre gets green light\u201d talked about how the Interurban campus was getting a Women\u2019s Centre. It didn\u2019t last: today, the campus has no Women\u2019s Centre, but the Lansdowne Women\u2019s Centre, located in the Richmond House, is still going strong. Want to see the Interurban campus get a Women\u2019s Centre again? Tell the Camosun College Student Society your concerns.<\/p>\n<p><b>Write on:<\/b> The story \u201cAxed Writing Centre critical to student success\u201d gave the unfortunate news that the fate of the college\u2019s Writing Centre, which had closed in June 1994, was still up in the air. The college has Writing Centres back in action on both campuses here in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not that $200 textbooks are outrageous: It gets a bit tiresome to look back on old stories and lament about how some student struggles never change, but good lord: our October 3, 1994 issue featured the front page story \u201cCost of textbooks forces students to consider cheaper alternatives.\u201d What more can we say? It was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18202,"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":[14,240],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-views","category-september-25-2019"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18201","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=18201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18203,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18201\/revisions\/18203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}