{"id":21706,"date":"2021-11-10T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T17:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=21706"},"modified":"2021-10-28T10:14:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T17:14:52","slug":"25-years-ago-in-nexus-november-3-2021-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2021\/11\/10\/25-years-ago-in-nexus-november-3-2021-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>25 Years Ago in<\/em> Nexus: November 3, 2021 issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/25-Years-Ago.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-21707\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/25-Years-Ago-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/25-Years-Ago-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/25-Years-Ago.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>New direction then, new direction now:<\/b> Our October 28, 1996 issue featured the story \u201cCollege gets set to change direction,\u201d which detailed how Camosun was developing a new mission statement in a strategy \u201cintended to bring the college into the information age.\u201d It&#8217;s fitting reading this today, as the college goes through more changes (see our recent interview with outgoing Camosun president Sherri Bell)<\/p>\n<p><b>Park off:<\/b> Hmm, it&#8217;s been a while since we complained about on-campus parking here, so: our <i>Speak <\/i><i>Up<\/i> in this issue asked students what improvements\/facilities they&#8217;d like to see on campus, and Lansdowne student Alvin Wong said \u201cI think we need more parking and it should be cheaper parking.\u201d Let&#8217;s just hope Wong hasn&#8217;t tried to get a spot at Interurban recently.<\/p>\n<p><b>Composting history:<\/b> We&#8217;ve hinted at this recently, but I&#8217;m just going to come right out and say it: environmental issues should be the next big thing the college focuses on. The students want it, and even a quarter-century back we were talking about it, with several columns in this issue looking at subjects like composting, \u201cgreening up\u201d the home, and the relationship between science and ecology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New direction then, new direction now: Our October 28, 1996 issue featured the story \u201cCollege gets set to change direction,\u201d which detailed how Camosun was developing a new mission statement in a strategy \u201cintended to bring the college into the information age.\u201d It&#8217;s fitting reading this today, as the college goes through more changes (see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21707,"comment_status":"closed","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":[14,258],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-views","category-november-3-2021"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21706","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=21706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21708,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21706\/revisions\/21708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}