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NEXUS ISSUE 19-11 Feb. 4/09
Nexus Issue 19-11 Feb. 4/09
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Volume 19 Issue 10 January 21, 2009
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Camosun’s Student VoiceSince 1990
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Food critics Guy Alaimo and DonaldKennedy praise the merits of tastysandwiches and pretty girls.
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Are you aware that Canadianshave the most knowledge aboutthe weather and talk about it more
frequently than any other country?
Seriously, stop going on dates andasking the person across the table,“So how aboot this weather, eh?”It’s getting annoying.Islanders are the worst. Notonly do we talk about the weather
too much, but the entire island also
shuts down at a mere glance of theuffy white stuff.
This winter was a brutal one, but
I’ve seen students walk to school in
four feet of snow in Grande Prairie, Alberta with more snowballs thanus. In Victoria the cab companiesput their busy tones on instantly,and most family-run restaurantsgo on vacation.There’s nowhere to go for food,
pizza boys go on strike, buses refuse
to drive, and people call in sick towork because they have all-seasontires and no snow shovel in sight.Stop the whining and beprepared! We look like pansies. We’re supposed to live in igloos,remember?On the other hand, I know alot of snowboard enthusiasts in Victoria, and this winter acted as a
goldmine up at Mount Washington.
There was more powder up therethan up Hunter S. Thompson’snose.The City of Victoria needs tolook at this winter as a warning. We need more money put towards
our snow budget—we’re the capital
city, for Pete’s sake. Some majorroads weren’t even plowed andvolunteers with bags of salt wereseen everywhere. At least we’re acity that has a lot of nice folks withbags of salt. We’re going to look pretty silly if 10 centimeters of snow shuts
down Vancouver during the Winter
Olympics. If New Brunswick washosting the games, it would nd away to keep trafc moving even if 10 times that amount fell. Yes, far too much emphasis isput on the weather, and I realizeI’m being a hypocrite by writingabout it, but if we all complain tothe city to put aside some moretime and effort, and buy some bet-ter tires for ourselves, then maybewe won’t have to dig ourselves outnext year.
Vancouver Island closed formaintenance
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CoNtrIbutINg WrItEr
Our world is lled with conven-iences. Almost any object we desireis available to us after a quick trip to
the shopping mall or corner store.Globalization has given uscheap products from all over theworld. And it’s not hard to get a
source of income to buy these cheap
goods; student loans, bursaries,rich relatives, and employmenton and off campus are availableto those who want to spend a bitof time applying, searching, orbegging.But do all the latest gadgets,new clothing, and silly accessories
really give us that much pleasure or
happiness? How long does it takebefore you get tired of your newcell phone, pair of shoes, or latestvideo game?Is all the work you put in to getyour latest object of desire really worth it? In most cases, it’s not.Normally the fun and novelty of something new quickly goes
away and we’re left with a desire for
something else. Start the processover again and go shopping.Desiring objects can be like anaddiction, and feeding this desire
just leads to a stronger addiction. It
seems the Buddhists were right—the more you have, the more you’lldesire, while the less you have, theless you’ll desire.
If this weren’t true, then people
with the most stuff would be the
happiest in the world, while peoplewho live a life of moderation would
be the unhappiest. In my experience,
this isn’t the case.I recommend a life of simplepleasures. We’re surrounded by them on Vancouver Island. We’re
blessed to live in a place with beauti-ful scenery to enjoy and interesting
people from all different back-grounds to socialize with.By enjoying the simpler pleas-
ures in life, we can stop our desires
for object acquisition. That way,we won’t have to work as much toafford all these things, leaving usmore time to nd other things tomake us smile.
Find happiness by rejecting consumerism
D all he laesades, new clhin,and sill accessieseall ive s hamch please happiness?
MicHaEl BRaR
CoNtrIbutINg WrItEr
By the time exam week rollsaround each quarter/semester,most of us are either totally out of
gas or are barely hanging on for that
last, painful nal.
I, most assuredly, am no ex-ception. Our coping techniquesare all quite different, but noth-ing works better for me thanan hour or two in the gym.With four out of five exams yetto be written last quarter, I foundmyself wandering blearily aroundthe Pacific Institute for Sport Ex-cellence (PISE) at 8 am searchingdesperately for some motivation.At 8:30 am, I found it.The Canadian NationalMen’s Rugby Team had joinedme in the empty weight roomfor a training session, and I wasabsolutely blown away by their god-like strength and ability.And that was neither the first nor the last time I was lucky enoughto watch world-class athletes trainat PISE.At least once a week, I amtreated to the workouts of eliterowers, volleyball players, body builders, soccer players, andseemingly everyone in between.Which begs the question, whyis it always empty in there?The PISE prides itself on beingthe best athletic training facilityin the city, and I am inclined to
agree. Three state-of-the-art weight
rooms, a world-class gymnasium,and two turf soccer pitches are the
backbone of the institution, and yet
their locker rooms sit empty mostof the time.
To be fair, PISE isn’t the type of place you would go to slowly walk on a treadmill for 45 minutes while
watching
Paris Hilton’s My New BFF;
it’s the type of place wherecommitted men and women cometo train and talk shop with other,similarly minded individuals.Victoria has no shortage of people like this, and yet I spendmost of my time there training insilence with no one around to talk
to other than the friendly PISE staff
and the occasional Olympic-levelathlete.PISE is an under-appreciated
gem located right next to Interurban
Campus.The combination of fair mem- bership rates (students pay $5/day,$91/four months, or $173/schoolyear), excellent trainers, and theaforementioned facilities add upto an unbeatable package that notnearly enough people have takenadvantage of.If you’re still unsure about
where you should go to fulfill your
new year’s resolution, give PISEa chance.
PISE facility the temple of sport
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CoNtrIbutINg WrItEr
The good news is a new trial
policy at Camosun will make select
programs at the college more ac-cessible for students who are 23 or
older. The only drawback? Younger
students will now be referred to as“mature students.”“It’s better than immature stu-dent,” jokes Lansdowne studentMiles Patterson, who is now classi-ed as a mature student under thedeveloping policy.In the past, the college didn’thave a mature student policy andprerequisites were required for
students of all ages. The new policy,
presented at a recent Camosun
Education Council meeting, will be
more accommodating than policies
at other institutions, according to Vice-President of Education andStudent Services Baldev Pooni.“We are hoping to develop amore exible approach in that if a‘mature’ student gains access to aprogram, then there would not bethe need to meet individual courserequirements,” says Pooni.The policy will enable the col-
lege to allow admission to programs
based on an individual assessment
process, where both life and workexperience are valued, insteadof traditional entrance require-ments.
While many other post-second-
ary institutions have had maturestudent policies for some time,students usually still have to fulllprerequisites in order to accessprograms.“We are looking to offer some-
thing more substantial [than other
institutions] which needs to bemodeled with a pilot,” says Pooni.The pilot programs that willintroduce the policy include Crim-inal Justice, Electronics and Com-puter Engineering Technology,
Applied Business Technology, Sport
Management, Exercise and Well-ness, and Community Supportand Educational Assistant, someof which are still in developmentthemselves.
Christopher Gillepsie, external
affairs executive for Camosun Col-lege Student Society, predicts thepolicy will attract more students
and help the college avoid drop offs
in enrolment.“I suspect the pilot programswere chosen based on their levels
of provincial funding to ensure rep-
resentation from Camosun’s variety
of schools,” says Gillepsie.
A committee of chairs and deans
will carefully monitor the policy toensure academic standards andstudent participation levels aremaintained.The committee will be meetingregularly over the next academicyear to design a framework forthe policy and eventually createa standardized procedure for the
expansion of the policy into further
programs.Maybe being called a “maturestudent” does have its benefitsafter all.
Iggy lays out Canadian foreign policy
Mature student policy increases college accessibility
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By saM noRRis
tHE PEAk (SIMoN FrASEr uNIVErSIty)
VANCOUVER (CUP)—Ina recent appearance before sup-porters in Vancouver, new Liberalleader Michael Ignatieff laid outa muscular vision for Canadianforeign policy.“It’s unfamiliar for Canadiansto understand how powerful theoil sands make us,” he told thecrowd. “We don’t like to play the
power card, but it’s very important
with the United States, even with
a Democratic administration, to be
as tough as hell.”
Ignatieff cited sovereignty over
the Northwest Passage and the re-
negotiation of the North AmericanFree Trade Agreement as two situa-
tions where its role as the largestsupplier of energy to the UnitedStates would increase Canada’sclout at the bargaining table.“[The oil sands] changes every-
thing about our economic future; it
changes everything about Canada’s
importance in the world,” he said. Although Ignatieff called forincreased effort towards cleaningup oil sands projects, which havebeen criticized by environmentalgroups for their high carbon emis-
sions, water use, and environmental
despoliation, he ruled out eithershutting them down or adopting a
carbon tax, which could potentially
make oil sands projects unprot-able and slow development.“We got killed at the doorstepwith the Green Shift. It was a goodidea . . . [but] we couldn’t get itthrough,” said Ignatieff. “Every-body who ran a tractor, everybody who ran a boat, everybody whodrove a truck for a living, said
there’s only one thing I understand
about this—’You’ve just added tomy cost of living.’”But Ignatieff vowed not to jetti-
son former Liberal leader Stéphane
Dion’s environmental sensibilities
from the platform. Liberals areexpected to adopt a cap-and-tradesystem as part of their platform.Ignatieff also warned the audi-ence of the national unity implica-tions of oil sand policy.“The dumbest thing you cando—and no Liberal must ever doit—is run against Alberta, make
Alberta the enemy, isolate Alberta,”
he said, perhaps referring to thediscontent spawned in the prov-ince by former Prime MinisterPierre Trudeau’s National Energy Program.
The program legislated a below-
market price for Canadian oil andfunneled oil dollars into federal
coffers, both primarily at Alberta’s
expense.
The most contentious subject of
the night, however, was Ignatieff’s
position on the recent ghting inGaza.Upon arrival, anti-war pro-testors greeted the Liberal leader,banging pots and chanting pro-Palestinian slogans.
Ignatieff, who told reporters last
week “Canada has to support the
right of a democratic country to de-fend itself,” was asked to denounce
Israel’s attack on Gaza.Instead, he maintained “thereare no military solutions here,”and reiterated his support for thetwo-state solution, with Canadian
humanitarian assistance and a pos-sible United Nations peacekeeping
force.“The rocket attacks on Sderotand Ashkelon and Ashdod haveto stop; they’ve just got to stop,”he said.
“Israeli civilians have been killed,
Israel has a right to take actionsin self-defense,” he later told thecrowd inside. When pressed for claricationafter the event, Ignatieff said it
wasn’t the Canadian government’s
“place” to say whether or not Israel’s
response to Hamas had been pro-portional, but that Canada shouldconcentrate on providing humani-tarian and medical aid.The BC Young Liberals-spon-sored event, which was Ignatieff’sfirst youth event since becoming
Liberal leader, was so well attended
that an overflow room had to beopened.
“the dmes hin can d—and nLieal ms eve di—is n aainsAlea, mae Aleahe enem, islaeAlea.”
MicHaEl ignatiEff
LIbErAL LEADEr
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