{"id":9413,"date":"2014-09-03T08:56:49","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T15:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=9413"},"modified":"2014-08-29T13:03:48","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T20:03:48","slug":"20-years-ago-in-nexus-september-3-2014-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2014\/09\/03\/20-years-ago-in-nexus-september-3-2014-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>20 Years Ago in<\/em> Nexus: September 3, 2014 issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Nexus-5-1-cover.tif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9414 alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Nexus-5-1-cover.tif\" width=\"368\" height=\"273\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Walk Safer turns 20:<\/b> We\u2019re not sure if it\u2019s cause for celebration or dismay that 20 years after its inception a program helping students walk safely to their cars or off campus is still needed, but, hey, happy birthday Walk Safer! Back in our September 6, 1994 issue, we wrote an article announcing the program\u2019s launch; their work is still very much appreciated, but hopefully they won\u2019t be needed in 20 years. No offense.<\/p>\n<p><b>Graffiti of the times:<\/b> The cover story of this issue talked about some disturbing graffiti over at Interurban that was targetting female campus staff. But in an only-woulda-happened-20-years-ago twist, the graffiti also targetted, among other things, \u201cMichael Jackson and Loreena Bobbitt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Tech gets big: <\/b>In this issue we also had a story talking about how the Interurban campus had become larger than the Lansdowne campus. Seemed a bit strange back then, but with the amount of attention, and money, that the Interurban programs get compared to the Lansdowne programs nowadays, it makes perfect sense.<\/p>\n<p><b>Commonwealth comment: <\/b>Our <i>Sports Comment <\/i>column took at a jab at the Commonwealth Games, which were happening at the time in Victoria. In regards to synchronized swimming, writer Chris Siver said that \u201calthough the judges would never admit to it, the women are judged by what music they choose and how good they look in a bathing suit.\u201d Any ex-Commonwealth judges out there care to comment?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walk Safer turns 20: We\u2019re not sure if it\u2019s cause for celebration or dismay that 20 years after its inception a program helping students walk safely to their cars or off campus is still needed, but, hey, happy birthday Walk Safer! Back in our September 6, 1994 issue, we wrote an article announcing the program\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9415,"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":[5,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-september-3-2014"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9413","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=9413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9416,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9413\/revisions\/9416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}