Mike Hajmasy
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Seeking out the true meaning of Christmas
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Perhaps it’s because ‘Black Friday’ is just around the corner, or maybe it’s because Christmas themed commercials have been encouraging me to shop since the beginning of November, but once again I find myself questioning the overwhelming value our society places on consumerism. Before we even have time to digest our Halloween candy, marketing teams…
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The Weigh-In: unpaid internships
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For – Dani Saad Like most issues portrayed as starkly two-sided, unpaid internships are part of a larger, more complex reality, with nuances that are typically overlooked by simplified debate. Unpaid internships can be useful in building skills and propelling careers. Just because they, like any type of job, can be misused does not mean…
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The Weigh-In: 7 a.m. classes
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Mike Hajmasy AGAINST – WLU students were recently faced with two equally unappealing alternatives: Saturday classes or a 7:00 a.m. start. Yikes. Laurier administration seems to have chosen the latter, introducing 7:00 a.m.classes for business students. If there was any debate surrounding this decision at all, it clearly didn’t consider the ‘cons’ list carefully…
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Learning not a priority for online courses
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New types of digital devices coupled with widespread and instantaneous connectivity via the internet has led to a new conceptualization of how people engage with the world around them. In our part of the world, digital media has entered virtually every realm of our lives, creating new norms, values and practices while re-shaping old ones.…
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Off-campus study spaces
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As the sun begins to shine on the often-ominous winter term, final exams stand as the last hurdles to conquer in the race for summer vacation. Study space becomes a highly sought after necessity, and let’s face it, the options are less than abundant on campus. As a result, the remaining places for students to…
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A shift in finding sources
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For the first time in my four years at Laurier, I signed out a book from the library. I was unable to find the online version of a specific book and was left with no choice but to obtain the soon-to-be obsolete physical copy. This quest for knowledge was no simple feat. In addition to…
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Life beyond the screen
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“I remember a time when the Internet was just the Internet and real life was cooler,” reads a recent tweet from Hayley Williams, lead singer of Paramore. This brief memento of a thought sheds light on an important subject that concerns the majority of the student body at Wilfrid Laurier: technological dependence. Today, technology enters…
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