{"id":18393,"date":"2019-10-23T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=18393"},"modified":"2019-10-23T09:02:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T16:02:36","slug":"25-years-ago-in-nexus-october-23-2019-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2019\/10\/23\/25-years-ago-in-nexus-october-23-2019-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"25 Years Ago in<\/em> Nexus: October 23, 2019 issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

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CCSS under fire for women-only voting: <\/b>The Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) was laying down some radical gender-based initiatives back in the mid-\u201990s, as the story \u201cWomen-only vote raises questions of sexism\u201d from our October 31, 1994 issue proves. The CCSS had recently held its elections, and its then-policy of only allowing women to vote for the women\u2019s executive position had students talking. \u201cIf men are allowed to vote, they would then be allowed to run for the position,\u201d one woman, whom we did not identify, said. Others didn\u2019t like the policy, even those involved with the election: \u201cIt\u2019s sexist,\u201d said student Shannon Pressacco, who was working a CCSS election polling booth.<\/p>\n

Your voice counted then, your voice counts now:<\/b> The issue also featured the alarmingly named story \u201cStudent elections\u2014ho hum!\u201d which highlighted the frustration felt by Camosun College Student Society staff and volunteers during elections. It\u2019s never easy trying to get students to care about student politics, but it would appear students are more eager to vote these days. Final numbers weren\u2019t available for the 1994 story, but CCSS office resource coordinator Michael Subasic said, \u201cInterurban has been better than in the past, with about 25 [students] on the first day and about 30 on the second day.\u201d In the May 2019 elections, a total of 788 students from both campuses voted.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s ballsy:<\/b> According to a story in this issue, Camosun used to have a Camosun Ball Hockey League, and in that league was a team called The Screaming \u2018C\u2019 Men. That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CCSS under fire for women-only voting: The Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) was laying down some radical gender-based initiatives back in the mid-\u201990s, as the story \u201cWomen-only vote raises questions of sexism\u201d from our October 31, 1994 issue proves. The CCSS had recently held its elections, and its then-policy of only allowing women to vote […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18394,"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":[14,242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-views","category-october-23-2019"],"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