{"id":6642,"date":"2013-03-20T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=6642"},"modified":"2013-03-20T09:06:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T16:06:04","slug":"20-years-ago-in-nexus-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2013\/03\/20\/20-years-ago-in-nexus-8\/","title":{"rendered":"20 years ago in <em>Nexus<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/nexus-14-3-cover-treated-for-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6645 alignleft\" alt=\"nexus-14-3-cover-treated-for web\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/nexus-14-3-cover-treated-for-web-300x217.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/nexus-14-3-cover-treated-for-web-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/nexus-14-3-cover-treated-for-web-180x130.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/nexus-14-3-cover-treated-for-web.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Uncomfortable parallel: <\/b>It was more than a little chilling and upsetting to crack open our March 22, 1993 issue to read about a sexual assault on a chip trail at UVic. The cover of this issue claimed that \u201cThe Times They Are a Changin\u2019\u201d (hey, leave us alone: we can use cliches sometimes). In light of recent events at UVic (a sexual assault on a chip trail), I think we can all agree that the times aren\u2019t changing quickly enough.<\/p>\n<p><b>Bob Dylan wishes everyone would stop using those words: <\/b>That phrase on our cover was regarding an article in the issue about women in trades, which was something we still talk about (actually, we talked about it last issue). While still a small presence, the numbers of women in the trades are growing, which these women who we profiled 20 years ago would no doubt be proud of.<\/p>\n<p><b>Mattered then, matters now: <\/b>An opinion piece on page three further hammered home the point that the same issues that are on students\u2019 minds now were on students\u2019 minds back then. Echoing comments from a recent <i>Nexus<\/i> column, the piece was about how language is powerful and words such as \u201cdisabled\u201d deny people the basic right to be a human being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uncomfortable parallel: It was more than a little chilling and upsetting to crack open our March 22, 1993 issue to read about a sexual assault on a chip trail at UVic. The cover of this issue claimed that \u201cThe Times They Are a Changin\u2019\u201d (hey, leave us alone: we can use cliches sometimes). In light [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6645,"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":[14,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-views","category-march-20-2013"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6642","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=6642"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6644,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6642\/revisions\/6644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}