{"id":20918,"date":"2021-04-16T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=20918"},"modified":"2021-04-23T09:41:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T16:41:15","slug":"25-years-ago-in-nexus-april-16-2021-web-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2021\/04\/16\/25-years-ago-in-nexus-april-16-2021-web-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>25 Years Ago in<\/em> Nexus: April 16, 2021 web exclusive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Document_2021-04-13_101507.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20919\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Document_2021-04-13_101507-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Document_2021-04-13_101507-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Document_2021-04-13_101507.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kinda has a ring to it:<\/strong> A letter to the editor in our April 15, 1996 edition took issue with our story about the Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) council that ran the month before. The anonymous letter-writer had concerns with our lack of \u201cresponsible reporting.\u201d The writer said, correctly, that one of the roles of the student press is to act as a watchdog of the student society, but they said that they felt our recent coverage of the CCSS has leaned toward sensationalism, so suggested that we may consider renaming the paper the <em>Nexus Enquirer<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And, somewhere, Robert smiled:<\/strong> Our story \u201cStudent Society AGM close but no cigar\u201d talked about the CCSS having two failed attempts at holding their annual general meeting due to lack of quorum and \u201capathy and excessive debate.\u201d Most interesting was the positive spin that then-CCSS chair Julie Alatiit put on things: \u201cIt was an enlightening experience on the dynamics of Robert\u2019s Rules of Order,\u201d she said, which marked the first and only time anyone has ever said those words.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let the college hear it:<\/strong> The story \u201cNew committee created for grade appeal\u201d detailed how Camosun College was streamlining its academic appeals process by creating an Academic Appeals Committee, with a student representative position. Today, the college continues to seek input from students, with a new Student Voice Survey available for students to have their say; see the college\u2019s Instagram bio for the survey link.<\/p>\n<p><em>25 Years Ago in Nexus<\/em> will return in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kinda has a ring to it: A letter to the editor in our April 15, 1996 edition took issue with our story about the Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) council that ran the month before. The anonymous letter-writer had concerns with our lack of \u201cresponsible reporting.\u201d The writer said, correctly, that one of the roles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20919,"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-20918","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\/20918","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=20918"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20966,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20918\/revisions\/20966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}