{"id":19812,"date":"2020-08-12T09:34:07","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T16:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=19812"},"modified":"2020-08-12T09:34:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T16:34:07","slug":"student-editors-letter-the-rushless-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2020\/08\/12\/student-editors-letter-the-rushless-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Editor\u2019s Letter: The rushless September"},"content":{"rendered":"

It doesn\u2019t matter who you are or where you are\u2014the last five months, if nothing else, certainly have been novel. But now it\u2019s almost September. It doesn\u2019t feel like we\u2019ve been doing this social dance\u2014quickly moving over on the sidewalk or in the grocery store aisle so someone can get by without feeling vaguely violated\u2014for almost half a year. Some days it feels far longer, and others it feels like March madness was last week; either way, it doesn\u2019t feel like five months ago. We\u2019re officially approaching being in this for the long haul, and that means at Camosun the ramifications are feeling more real every day.<\/p>\n

The courtyards are quiet, I imagine (who knows?), and custodians are busy racing around sanitizing doorknobs for no one. This year, September means quiet, and in a sense it\u2019s a relief after years of stress (good stress, but still stress) associated with the September rush.<\/p>\n

This September is rushless.<\/p>\n

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A sign on Camosun College’s Lansdowne campus in late June 2020 (file photo).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you\u2019re a student who has been cleared to come to campus for class but you\u2019re not quite sure what\u2019s going on, check the Nexus<\/em> site soon for a story giving the lowdown on what\u2019s open, what\u2019s not, and how best to enter and exit campus and buildings. And if, like most of us, you\u2019re living from home, be sure to check our site daily, as we bring you to Camosun even if you can\u2019t be on campus.<\/p>\n

I used to direct stage plays. Any theatre person\u2014or any person, for that matter\u2014knows what the phrase \u201cthe show must go on\u201d really means. And that phrase comes to mind when I think of the uncertainty that has faced the college community, and us here at the paper, this year. Like everyone else, our livelihoods have been brought into question as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. And we\u2019re constantly adapting and changing how we get you the news, one reality holds true: where there are students, there is Nexus<\/em>.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve been around, and been written by Camosun students, for over 30 years, and we\u2019re still here, even in a changed world. Students used to come into our office for the lowdown when they were interested in writing for us; while we can\u2019t have people come in right now, for obvious reasons, we can still easily train and chat with writers, and there\u2019s still no experience necessary.<\/p>\n

Whether you want to explore the frontlines as a news writer or you want to chat up those bands you\u2019ve idolized since you were a kid, we can make it happen. There\u2019s never any obligation after deadline to pick up another story, so you can come and go as you please. It\u2019s been five years since managing editor Greg Pratt introduced me to this wild, alluring, humorous, and incredibly unique way of life; I\u2019ve never looked back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It doesn\u2019t matter who you are or where you are\u2014the last five months, if nothing else, certainly have been novel. But now it\u2019s almost September. It doesn\u2019t feel like we\u2019ve been doing this social dance\u2014quickly moving over on the sidewalk or in the grocery store aisle so someone can get by without feeling vaguely violated\u2014for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19671,"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":[9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive","category-views"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19812","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=19812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19813,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19812\/revisions\/19813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}