{"id":4056,"date":"2012-09-19T08:35:11","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T15:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=4056"},"modified":"2012-09-19T13:59:36","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T20:59:36","slug":"20-years-ago-in-nexus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2012\/09\/19\/20-years-ago-in-nexus\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>20 years ago in Nexus<\/em>: September 19, 2012 issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Well, that\u2019s good news:<\/strong> In our last issue, we looked back 20 years at our September 8, 1992 issue, where we found an article about the library shortening its hours due to budget cuts. Well, we\u2019re happy to report that looking back 20 years two weeks later, to our September 21, 1992 issue, we found a news article entitled \u201cLansdowne extends library hours.\u201d Turns out that the library found some ways to come up with the bread themselves by shifting the budget around\u00a0a bit. Take that, cuts!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/old-nexus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4200\" title=\"old nexus\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/old-nexus-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/old-nexus-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/old-nexus-180x132.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/old-nexus.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The future is here:<\/strong> Our feature story for this issue was entitled \u201cInterurban: Campus of the future.\u201d And, you know, us <em>Nexus<\/em> folk go out to Interurban regularly and we\u2019d have to agree. That is one fine campus, from the great food to the architectural eye candy. In the story, Camosun College Student Society Interurban campus director at the time Susan Williams laid down this particularly vicious quote: \u201cAt UVic they claim to have their finger on the pulse of education. Here at Interurban, we are the pulse.\u201d Boom!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lotsa letters:<\/strong> The letters to the editor section was particularly active this issue. There\u2019s someone rallying on about the merits of technocracy for two loooong paragraphs, a letter from someone who had recently gone blind but had succeeded in becoming a student, and a detailed explanation about where the Camosun College Student Society spent the part of their budget allocated to sending their reps to Canadian Federation of Students \u201csocial functions\u201d out east. (Diverse letter sections are the best: send in your thoughts to us today!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that\u2019s good news: In our last issue, we looked back 20 years at our September 8, 1992 issue, where we found an article about the library shortening its hours due to budget cuts. Well, we\u2019re happy to report that looking back 20 years two weeks later, to our September 21, 1992 issue, we found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4200,"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":[11,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-issue","category-september-19-2012"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4056","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=4056"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4201,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4056\/revisions\/4201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}