{"id":22997,"date":"2022-09-06T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T16:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=22997"},"modified":"2022-08-29T12:30:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T19:30:21","slug":"the-camosun-college-student-societys-slap-and-tickle-part-one-motives-and-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2022\/09\/06\/the-camosun-college-student-societys-slap-and-tickle-part-one-motives-and-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"The Camosun College Student Society’s Slap and Tickle<\/em>: Part one: motives and opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am not a journalist by any means: despite starting my career in the Camosun College Student Society as assistant editor of the Nexus<\/i> newspaper 25 years ago, I am an abysmal editor, utterly disastrous, and generally chaos embodied in human form. I once \u201cproudly resented\u201d the Victoria Shakespeare Festival, which I was the head of at the time. Where did that P go? I have no idea, but I assume one of two things: either Adobe InDesign hates me, entirely possible, or pushing yourself to run a festival that leads to very little sleep and lonely celibacy might make one\u2019s subconscious, sort of, proudly resentful.<\/p>\n

Either way, I am bad at catching my own mistakes.<\/p>\n

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A spectacular moment in my career is when laying out CCSS election platforms I forgot to delete an old statement but replaced the photo and name with that of a lovely Sikh gentleman. It was rather unfortunate that it was a pride candidate\u2019s statement and she was talking about her dedication to the pride community and how lesbian she was\u2014great for her, less so for the Sikh gentleman. Chaos. I had to own my mistake and make penance for my mistake and he was very gracious about the whole thing, especially as he lost that election.<\/p>\n

So, I am not a journalist, however, I am a gregarious storyteller and I am setting out for the CCSS to advocate for you, the student body, by telling some of my stories, and I want to be really clear\u2014especially with those of you who work for the college\u2014that I have an agenda here: I want to strengthen student influence on campus, and my method is to tell you two kinds of stories.<\/p>\n

I am going to tell you about the times when the college got it right and when the college missed important opportunities, from my perspective, over the last 25 years. I want you to celebrate this amazing institution as it is and I want you to lament with me what the college could have been, and together perhaps we can come up with a vision from our shared perspectives of what this institution should and could be.<\/p>\n

As I am often criticizing the college as the primary student advocate, I think we should start by talking about a college triumph: The Alex & Jo Campbell Centre for Health and Wellness (and not just because they took the scary mannequins that would stare at me from the Richmond House bathroom at night when I went to the washroom, but partly). See you next issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am not a journalist by any means: despite starting my career in the Camosun College Student Society as assistant editor of the Nexus newspaper 25 years ago, I am an abysmal editor, utterly disastrous, and generally chaos embodied in human form. I once \u201cproudly resented\u201d the Victoria Shakespeare Festival, which I was the head […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19372,"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":[5,272],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-september-6-2022"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t