Mental illness stigma not eliminated yet
There has been a recent shift within popular discussion to engage with the topic of mental health and create a platform to discuss this increasingly significant...
Laurier more than just a business school
With plans to build “Canada’s best business school” it’s evident that Laurier’s music, arts, science and graduate programs are no longer a top priority for the...
Open Cord: Most unintentionally terrifying movies
Q: What movie moments or films in their entirety were unintentionally terrifying to you as a kid (As in, a movie you watched as a kid that scared you when it really did not...
Technology tensions in the classroom
Technology; can’t live with it, can’t live without it As students in an academic classroom, we rely heavily on laptops to assist us with papers, to download lecture notes or...
Laurier failed to honour Remembrance Day
For the past decade, the responsibility of planning and coordinating an on-campus Remembrance Day ceremony has fallen to Laurier’s History Students’ Association (HSA) Not...
WLU privacy slip up a wake up call
When Bob Baumgartner, a former Wilfrid Laurier University student, found his private contact information available through a public document off of Google, he was astonished that...
Farewell Coach ‘Jeff’
It doesn’t seem right that Gary Jeffries’ tenure at Laurier ended the way it did Following nearly 40 years at the university, the last ten of which he spent as head...
Legislation will not end bullying
With the Amanda Todd case fresh in everyone’s minds, the danger of bullying is in the spotlight of major social issues Bullying is often dismissed by most people as a rite of...