{"id":20765,"date":"2021-04-02T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T16:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=20765"},"modified":"2021-04-02T09:37:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T16:37:56","slug":"25-years-ago-in-nexus-april-2-2021-web-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2021\/04\/02\/25-years-ago-in-nexus-april-2-2021-web-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>25 Years Ago in<\/em> Nexus: April 2, 2021 web exclusive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/25-years-ago-april-1-1996.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20791\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/25-years-ago-april-1-1996-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/25-years-ago-april-1-1996-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/25-years-ago-april-1-1996.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Like a unicorn sighting:<\/strong> The story \u201cTuition freeze gives students room to breathe\u201d in our April 1, 1996 issue offered up something that we, unfortunately, don&#8217;t get to report on too often: good news about tuition fees. BC premier Glen Clark had announced a freeze on tuition fees for 1996, saying that high tuition fees should not be a burden to education.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The customer is always right, right?:<\/strong> The story \u201cEducators debate students as clients\u201d talked about an education forum hosted by the Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce that focused on the question \u201cAre students &#8216;clients&#8217;?\u201d Two speakers on the panel were Camosun president Liz Ashton and UVic president David Strong. Ashton said that seeing students as clients implies a change from the traditional teacher\/student relationship, while Strong said that \u201cThe very idea of the student as client, i.e. knowing what should be taught, could be anathema to the professor who has invested a life in a particular specialty of a particular discipline.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>RIP Kim Shattuck:<\/strong> One sad thing about looking through old issues is coming across stories about musicians who played in Victoria and have since died. This issue we ran a review of The Muffs&#8217; performance at The Limit, written by now-<em>Times Colonist<\/em> scribe Mike Devlin. Talking about the great performance given by vocalist\/guitarist Kim Shattuck, Devlin said that \u201cCourtney Love could definitely use some tutoring from Mademoiselle Shattuck.\u201d Shattuck died in October 2019 from complications of ALS. She was 56.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like a unicorn sighting: The story \u201cTuition freeze gives students room to breathe\u201d in our April 1, 1996 issue offered up something that we, unfortunately, don&#8217;t get to report on too often: good news about tuition fees. BC premier Glen Clark had announced a freeze on tuition fees for 1996, saying that high tuition fees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20791,"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-20765","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\/20765","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=20765"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20792,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20765\/revisions\/20792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}