{"id":9485,"date":"2014-09-17T06:51:13","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T13:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=9485"},"modified":"2014-09-29T10:00:18","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T17:00:18","slug":"20-years-ago-in-nexus-september-17-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2014\/09\/17\/20-years-ago-in-nexus-september-17-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Years Ago In<\/em> Nexus: September 17, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Presidential faux pas:<\/i><\/b> In our September 19, 1994 issue we had a story about how Camosun\u2019s first female president, Liz Ashton, had officially commenced her duties. Ashton went on to much notoriety by saying in an unrehearsed speech in 2008 that \u201cthe students that come to us, initially, they\u2019re not the best and not the brightest in terms of their academic standing,\u201d a statement she later defended in our March 5, 2008 issue, saying \u201cCamosun students are not coming out of high school as the highest qualified academic students. That\u2019s a reality; it\u2019s not me in any way putting students down.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Nexus<\/a><\/p>\n

Crime never sleeps: <\/b>One of my favourite old-school Nexus<\/i> columns was Crime Watch!<\/i> A round-up of all the crimes to happen on campus over the previous two weeks, it was as entertaining as it was slow-moving, and far more confounding than anything. In this issue, well, the report is that apart from some graffiti, not much happened. And there you have it!<\/p>\n

Camosun overcrowded?: <\/b>One of the common praises Camosun receives is the smaller class sizes compared to UVic. So it\u2019s suprising to see the issue of overcrowding come up in this issue\u2019s Speak Up. Four of the six students we spoke with agreed without a doubt that Camosun was overcrowded, with one saying that \u201call the classes are overcrowded.\u201d What do you think? Is Camosun overcrowded in 2014?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Presidential faux pas: In our September 19, 1994 issue we had a story about how Camosun\u2019s first female president, Liz Ashton, had officially commenced her duties. Ashton went on to much notoriety by saying in an unrehearsed speech in 2008 that \u201cthe students that come to us, initially, they\u2019re not the best and not the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9487,"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":[5,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-september-17-2014"],"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