{"id":19983,"date":"2020-10-02T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=19983"},"modified":"2020-10-06T09:07:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T16:07:54","slug":"25-years-ago-in-nexus-2020-web-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2020\/10\/02\/25-years-ago-in-nexus-2020-web-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>25 Years Ago in Nexus<\/em>: October 2, 2020 web exclusive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/25ya-sept-18-1995.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19984\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/25ya-sept-18-1995-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/25ya-sept-18-1995-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/25ya-sept-18-1995.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Easy solutions to complex problems:<\/strong> Our September 18, 1995 issue featured the <em>Speak Up<\/em> question \u201cWhat is your response to the government turning over responsibility for student loans to the banks?\u201d Camosun student Clark Stuart pulled no punches: \u201cI am against the banks,\u201d Stuart told us. \u201cThe money the banks make off of interest could feed this whole town.\u201d The more things change\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Before there was no fore, or something: <\/strong>The article \u201cFore!! Charger golf team ready for season\u201d in this issue announced that the Chargers golf team was officially up and running. The team is still going strong today, as are the Chargers women\u2019s and men\u2019s basketball and volleyball teams. To add to that, it was recently announced that there will be a new collegiate baseball team in Victoria open to Camosun students.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We are now on Snapchat: <\/strong>I know it was 25 years ago, but I just can\u2019t help but smirk at the small PSA we slapped on page 2 announcing that \u201cWe are now on email\u201d (with the extremely archaic-looking email nexus@camins.camosun.bc.ca). Today, we\u2019re all over your computers, including our website, on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and our most recent venture into social media over at Snapchat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Easy solutions to complex problems: Our September 18, 1995 issue featured the Speak Up question \u201cWhat is your response to the government turning over responsibility for student loans to the banks?\u201d Camosun student Clark Stuart pulled no punches: \u201cI am against the banks,\u201d Stuart told us. \u201cThe money the banks make off of interest could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19984,"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-19983","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\/19983","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=19983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20004,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19983\/revisions\/20004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}