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“It feels like fraud…”
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If the Laurier community demands a lavish ball, like Charity Ball executives claim, then last year they received their wish at the expense of the committee’s final charitable donation. Despite working with a budget of upwards of $30,000, Charity Ball’s efforts to fundraise for the KidsAbility Foundation last year raised a meager amount: approximately $250.…
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Nine years. No degree. No problem.
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2000-01 (First) first year: Asif and the all-girl residences “Do you mean my first first year or my second first year?” Asif asks when I dive into the topic of his first year at Laurier. “I had two first years, three years apart,” was his response to the look of utter confusion spread across my…
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Laurier’s most balanced student
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Monday 7:30 a.m. – Wake up This might seem like an awful start to the week, but studies consistently show that successful people wake up earlier than the less successful variety. After a weekend of partying, including a wild time last night at Phil’s, Goldie is starting her week off strong with an early morning…
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Made in Romania
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For centuries, Romania was home to a collection of self-sufficient and successful rural communities. The country was a picturesque homestead akin to the likes of any agricultural powerhouse: adorned with rolling hills and great plains, home to vast tracks of fertile countryside and traversed by plentiful waterways. At one time, Romania was recognized as the…
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The lifestyle of leaders
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A student’s abrupt transition into the chaos of residence has the ability to shock, frustrate and upset even the most adaptable individual. But one upper-year Laurier student is supposed to have the comprehensive skill set to help all first-years adapt to new homes in residence – their don. Dons work around the clock in an…
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Talking grades with WLU profs
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1 Do the readings and do them at the right time. This may seem like common sense, I know. But according to English professor Michele Kramer and professor emeritus of psychology Don Morgenson, it’s not just doing the readings that gets you that elusive A; when you do your readings will really make that difference…
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Smuggling to survive
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Victoria Isadrru, now a middle-aged woman with five children, was born in the “Pearl of Africa:” Arua District, Uganda. Vicky witnessed Uganda’s most recent war firsthand as a teenager and barely lived through it. She reflects, “When they came, they were killing everything that was alive.” She traveled between Uganda, Sudan, Kenya and the Democratic…
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Travel advisory
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Examining how many students abroad are underprepared for the hardships of overseas volunteering and how Laurier’s global studies department is working to change this hazardous trend For many, volunteering overseas provides the perfect mixture of travel, adventure and self-sacrifice. But traveling as a volunteer abroad is full of unforeseen hurdles and obstacles. Many university students…
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The evolution of Laurier O-Week
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There are considerable differences in the Orientation Week experience as you journey through your years at Laurier. O-Week tends to be one of the best times of the year, regardless of what year you’re about to embark on. When else is everyone free to indulge in life’s simpler pleasures (like keg stands and body paint)?…
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A giant’s wasteland
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KWAZULU-NATAL, SOUTH AFRICA – Two decades ago, the elephant was the poster child for conservationists worldwide when the ban on ivory was initiated in 1989. Today, the African elephant is again at the centre of another heated conservation battle that surrounds the culling of the world’s largest land mammal. The culling of elephants means the…
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