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Where are the men in ECE? Camosun moves ahead with Indie rockers Wolf Parade sexual-misconduct policy return to Victoria 2 VIEWS February 15, 2017 student editor’s letter open space Featuring: features Excess consumption must stop camosun’s student voice since 1990 Opening up the latest issue of Nexus to the middle spread to find JAYDEN GRIEVE our complaints about poverty echo CONTRIBUTING WRITER Next publication: March 1, 2017 invigorating, text-heavy features, as they have been of late, truly makes inside our empty vaults. Deadline: 9 am Monday February 20, 2017 me proud. Features are the peak of our plotline, the face of the paper Materiality is a spectre, pos- Name for me one good reason (literally), and, occasionally, the entities responsible for the grey hairs in sessing our body without our to shatter ourselves at work per- Address: 3100 Foul Bay Rd., Victoria, BC, V8P 5J2 managing editor Greg Pratt’s beard. Stress is the name of the game, but knowledge, causing us pain that petually if we’re going to waste our Location: Lansdowne Richmond House 201 it’s a small price to pay for doing journalism proud. we think we are enjoying. There are reparations on things that we will Phone: 250-370-3591 Many people don’t know that Nexus has no official ties to Camosun things—physical things—that we cease to think about the moment Email: [email protected] College. This allows us to look through the objective, unbiased lens that need; there is nothing wrong with they land on our floor with an empty Website: nexusnewspaper.com seems to be dying a slow, sad death in Trump-era North America, and it a certain amount of possessions. thud. allows us to bring you the reader nothing but the truth from a student’s What is wrong is when the volume Why waste? Why waste any- Publisher: Nexus Publishing Society perspective. of one’s possessions begins to fill thing when life is so short it’s al- NEXUS PUBLISHING SOCIETY This issue’s feature is about men in Early Childhood Care and Educa- their mortal glass until their cup ready practically over? Reassess STUDENT BOARD MEMBERS tion; features writer Quinn Hiebert has written another one to remember. runneth over… and onto the table… what you think you need. There is Matt Gadd Turn to page 6 for the lowdown. and all over the floor. no denying that there are things that Jayden Grieve Speaking of our writers, if you want to get to know them a little better, Is it the American dream that you need. The extent, the extrava- Patrick Newman we’ve started a new column—Know Your Writers—where Nexus writers has suggested we buy until there is gance—these are what need to be Lynn Wohlgemuth answer a few questions that might be burning in your mind, such as what nothing to buy? I think most have reconsidered. Jennifer Wyatt drew us to journalism. Check it out on page 12. realized that the American dream Work less and buy a smaller MANAGING EDITOR Camosun College is moving ahead with their new sexual-miscon- is an ornamental cherry—fruitless house. Don’t buy things you will Greg Pratt duct policy; check out page 3 to get the scoop on that. And once you’re STUDENT EDITOR done with the issue, don’t forget to head over to our website to read our Adam Marsh web-exclusive stories, which are added regularly; see page 10 for a listing Don’t buy things you will never think about WEB EDITOR Mason Hendricks of some recent ones. again. Do things that you will have a hard time We’ve almost made it through winter here. There have been dark STAFF WRITER not thinking about every second for the rest of Adam Boyle times, light times, and everything in between. No matter what, keep on FEATURES WRITER keeping on. your life. Quinn Hiebert Until next issue, we hope you enjoy this one. As always, you are more STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER than welcome to write us at any time if you’ve got something that pertains Jill Westby to students that we should know about, look into, and write about. despite its beauty—that encourages never think about again. Do things ADVERTISING SALES Adam Marsh, student editor the instinctual acquiring habits of that you will have a hard time not Greg Pratt [email protected] our populace. thinking about every second for the 250-370-3593 There are things—physical rest of your life. Experience. We are FREE Media (national) things—that will bring happiness, our biggest limiter. [email protected] 780-421-1000 but if an objective spyglass is turned Fruit is not ornamental, and it CONTRIBUTORS flashback to Mt. Material it becomes obvious is not meant to just sit decoratively Sean Annable that those things make up only a on our tables; fruit is meant to be Jordyn Goodwin 25 Years Ago in Nexus dusted snowcap. devoured. Jayden Grieve Buying is second nature to us. You can touch everything. Un- Patrick Newman it from a design perspective. Sorry Calista Pearson We’ve been told, despite our know- fetter yourself. Go, do, be; these ’bout that. Amber Peckham ing better, that physical things are all as important as have. To Wha…?: The Camosun College Finlay Pogue will make us happy, and we are buy a plane ticket costs as much as Matt Smith Business Network had a humorous slumbering in rising bathwater. buying an oversized Buddha statue, Felicia Santarossa column of sorts published this issue Too long have we ignored our bet- but buying the ticket is what would Aaron Stefik called “15 ways to deal with stress.” ter judgment in our health and in make Buddha happy. Amongst the silly ideas was num- Something on your mind? If you’re a our habits; we are buying to buy, You do not learn from things, ber 9, which was probably not the Camosun student, send Open Space scrambling for Tickle Me Elmos you learn from experiences. I am funniest thing ever printed in our submissions (up to 500 words) to and embroidered signs that say not berating you with anger; I am inky pages: “Leaf through National [email protected]. “bless this mess” while listening to begging you with everything. Include your student number. Thanks! Clip-art catastrophe: The story Geographic and draw underwear on “Lead in Carey water exceeds ac- the natives.” Sure thing. ceptable limits” in our February Camosun College fever: Let- All editorial content appearing in Nexus is property of the Nexus Publishing Society. Stories, photographs, and artwork 17, 1992 issue talked about how ter-writer Yvonne M. Bob wrote in contained herein cannot be reproduced without written permis- camosun’s student voice since 1990 sion of the Nexus Publishing Society. The views and opinions water in the now-defunct Camosun this issue to state she had a prob- expressed herein are those of the authors, not of Nexus. Nexus has no official ties to the administration of Camosun Carey Road campus had lead con- lem with student clubs raffling off College. One copy of Nexus is available per issue, per person. centrations that were higher than bottles of alcohol on campus. She Send a letter they should have been. That’s no said it was problematic, as some Nexus prints letters to the editor. Nexus reserves the right to refuse publication of letters. Letters must in - surprise for buildings of a certain students may have drinking prob- Call, clude full name and student number if a Camosun stu - dent (not printed). Nexus accepts all letters by email to vintage, but what was surprising lems and she had a friend die due to email, [email protected]. We reserve the right to edit all letters. was our rather tactless and most a drunk driver. Still, as serious as the stop by. certainly puzzling decision to adorn letter is, the last line is a funny one: OVERHEARD AT NEXUS: “It’s a somewhat unremarkable We want to penis.” the story with images of clip-art “Raffling off a booze bottle in the hear your story tips. COVER ILLUSTRATION: skull and crossbones. Clip art! This 1990s is about as in touch with the Matt Smith/Nexus is offensive on a few levels, not the times as coming to school wearing least of which involves looking at disco pants.” 250-370-3591. [email protected]. richmond house 201, lansdowne. How do you feel about the quality of instruction at Camosun? by AdAm mArsh EMILY WOOD BRIANNA QUINSEY MAIA GRISCH GRAHAM WRIGLEY NICK HOLLAWAY REXX CURRAN “I think it’s great. I’m in the “I feel really good about “I really like it. The “It all comes down to the “I feel the quality is good. “Sometimes the teaching Nursing program and all it. I’ve been here for two teachers are very nice and professor or the instructor, I’ve had no problems with quality can be hit or miss. of the teachers are really years; the amount I knew relaxed and lenient with really. Some of them fly it.” Some teachers are really nice and really supportive, when I came here versus assignments; they’re very through the material a on it and then others, I and you can just tell that now is totally different. understanding of mental- little too quickly when they have a hard time going to they’re in it for the students’ The instructors are really health problems.” don’t really understand their lectures.” success.” engaged; they’re really who the students are that passionate, because you they’re teaching.” get to actually interact.” nexusnewspaper.com NEWS 3 community Camosun gets feedback on new sexual violence policy Yates agrees that the feedback —from students and outside par- “Those that came gave us incredible thought ties—has been incredibly import- and are spending a great deal of time giving ant.