{"id":23138,"date":"2022-10-20T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=23138"},"modified":"2022-10-17T09:30:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T16:30:02","slug":"25-years-ago-in-nexus-october-19-2022-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2022\/10\/20\/25-years-ago-in-nexus-october-19-2022-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>25 Years Ago in<\/em> Nexus: October 19, 2022 issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/4-25-years-ago.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-23139 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/4-25-years-ago-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/4-25-years-ago-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/4-25-years-ago.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Lack of educational funding for Indigenous students:<\/b> A story by Gail Reardigan in our October 14, 1997 issue highlighted the lack of support for Indigenous students at college. For example, Indigenous students had to rely on their band council\u2019s post-secondary funds and hope that the school picked them to attend college. It\u2019s positive seeing how far Canadian post-secondary schools have come regarding support for Indigenous students; however, we still need to improve on many things moving forward.<\/p>\n<p><b>Your post-secondary bucket list: <\/b>A hilarious comprehensive list of 10 things to do before you leave college was shared in this issue, which includes activities related to \u201cfood,\u201d \u201cthe obscure,\u201d and \u201cdrugs and alcohol,\u201d among other things. Some things you should check off your post-secondary bucket list are to live off Kraft Dinner and Northern Brew, paint your nails black, and wake up one morning with no idea where you are or how you got there. 1997 sounds fun.<\/p>\n<p><b>Don\u2019t forget to vote:<\/b> This time 25 years ago, Camosun College Student Society elections were running, just like they are now. Some common issues that candidates were fighting for were women\u2019s rights, more support for Indigenous students, and, one that stuck out to us, gaining autonomy for <i>Nexus<\/i>. The CCSS student elections are happening this year from October 24 to October 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lack of educational funding for Indigenous students: A story by Gail Reardigan in our October 14, 1997 issue highlighted the lack of support for Indigenous students at college. For example, Indigenous students had to rely on their band council\u2019s post-secondary funds and hope that the school picked them to attend college. It\u2019s positive seeing how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23139,"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":[14,275],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-views","category-october-19-2022"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23138","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=23138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23140,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23138\/revisions\/23140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}