{"id":6458,"date":"2013-03-14T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T16:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=6458"},"modified":"2013-03-15T09:11:35","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T16:11:35","slug":"20-years-ago-in-nexus-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2013\/03\/14\/20-years-ago-in-nexus-7\/","title":{"rendered":"History: 20 years ago in <em>Nexus<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Nexus-3-13-cover-treated-FO.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6459 alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Nexus-3-13-cover-treated-FO-300x217.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Nexus-3-13-cover-treated-FO-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Nexus-3-13-cover-treated-FO-180x130.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Nexus-3-13-cover-treated-FO.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Bookstore retorts:<\/b> So, last issue in this column we talked about how way back in our February 22, 1993 issue, letter-writer Anton Prins expressed concern over the bookstore using 182 pieces of paper to promote Valentine\u2019s Day. Well, in our March 8, 1993 issue, Camosun bookstore manager Darla Stipanovich sent in a letter of her own. \u201cWe used recycled paper,\u201d she verified, and they \u201calso kept every sheet of it to use again next year.\u201d The sheets of paper were also, she pointed out, used to raise awareness regarding HIV\/AIDS.<\/p>\n<p><b>Uh, can we print a retraction on this?: <\/b>Also in this issue, we ran an article in which we raved about creative resumes. \u201cThe ingenious resume will seldom be forgotten,\u201d we said, before talking about resumes that were designed as wanted ads and that contained \u201ccatchy phrases that sell the reader\u201d on the first page. Hey, it was 20 years ago, cut us some slack. Just please, never, ever design your resume as a wanted ad.<\/p>\n<p><b>Earth person = bitter person: <\/b>Alan Callbeck\u2019s <i>Earth Person Commentary <\/i>was always an entertaining and well-written column. In this issue, one wonders if the dual tasks of studying and being a budding journalist were getting to Callbeck. He ends his thought-provoking column, where he claims that we cannot destroy nature because we are not powerful enough, with this: \u201cAre we, in reality, no more than body lice?\u201d Ouch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bookstore retorts: So, last issue in this column we talked about how way back in our February 22, 1993 issue, letter-writer Anton Prins expressed concern over the bookstore using 182 pieces of paper to promote Valentine\u2019s Day. Well, in our March 8, 1993 issue, Camosun bookstore manager Darla Stipanovich sent in a letter of her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6459,"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":[14,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-views","category-march-6-2013"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6458","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=6458"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6549,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6458\/revisions\/6549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}