{"id":26585,"date":"2025-03-05T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T17:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/?p=26585"},"modified":"2025-02-28T10:32:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T18:32:54","slug":"25-years-ago-in-nexus-march-5-2025-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2025\/03\/05\/25-years-ago-in-nexus-march-5-2025-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"25 Years Ago in<\/em> Nexus: March 5, 2025 issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Statuesque:<\/b> A sculpture displayed at the Royal Roads campus had people upset back in 2000. About three people, all displeased with both the silhouette of the sculpture (a nude woman\u2019s backside) and the manner it was displayed (completely horizontal). In our March 6, 2000 issue, we covered why the Nicholas Dimbleby sculpture Afternoon<\/i> caused an uproar. Afternoon<\/i> was never meant to be displayed face down; in fact, in that form she appears drowning at her own hand as she sprays herself with a garden hose. No, Afternoon<\/i> was to appear elevated so water does not stagnate, and instead trickles down from the stone garden hose she holds above her head. But, art is subjective. Indeed, especially to art installers.<\/p>\n

The haunting on castle hill: <\/b>Beyond whale watching and Chinatown, Victoria\u2019s tourist industry offers ghosts. And there are many to keep a third eye on. In this issue, we covered the spirits who linger around the city, namely at the Craigdarroch and Hatley castles. The Dunsmuirs particularly are accused of returning from the dead, to haunt over their wildly extravagant homes-turned-museums. Many volunteers and groundskeepers were even said to be apprehensive when entering certain rooms with peculiar smells and ambience. But if anyone is to spend $185,000 to $500,000 on a castle\u2019s construction, they would earn the right to haunt however they choose.<\/p>\n

Women\u2019s lib 2000:<\/b> The back of our March 6, 2000 issue was uncommon. While the back page typically held space for advertisements or the events page, this issue held a proclamation. One for Women\u2019s History Month. Covering the entirety it read: \u201cBecause women\u2019s work is never done and is underpaid or unpaid or boring or repetitious and we\u2019re the first to get fired and what we look like is more important than what we do and if we get raped it\u2019s our fault and if we get beaten we must have provoked it and if we raise our voices we\u2019re nagging bitches and if we enjoy sex we\u2019re nymphos and if we don\u2019t we\u2019re frigid and if we love women it\u2019s because we can\u2019t get a \u2018real\u2019 man and if we ask our doctor too many questions we\u2019re neurotic and\/or pushy\u2026and\u2026 for lots and lots of other reasons we are part of the women\u2019s liberation movement.\u201d A very long, very profound, run-on sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Statuesque: A sculpture displayed at the Royal Roads campus had people upset back in 2000. About three people, all displeased with both the silhouette of the sculpture (a nude woman\u2019s backside) and the manner it was displayed (completely horizontal). In our March 6, 2000 issue, we covered why the Nicholas Dimbleby sculpture Afternoon caused an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26586,"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":[14,328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-views","category-march-5-2025"],"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