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From the grounds up: understanding the appeal of coffee
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Coffee is a staple of my every day routine. There’s something gratifying about brewing coffee each morning or entering a local coffee shop that’s
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A look at textbook costs in the era of #textbookbroke
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The cost of textbooks has been a topic of discussion and debate more or less since they were first invented, but the conversation has
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Me, Myself and I Do: taking a look at sologamy, the unusual phenomenon of people marrying themselves
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“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” It’s
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Presidential: a retrospective of the last ten years of Students’ Union presidents
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[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] 2008 – 2009 Colin Le Fevre Following a messy voting period — one of the presidential candidates was disqualified from the race
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Degrees for Download: online learning and concerns for the future
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Your professor is linked to a circuitboard. Your professor no longer dresses up in a gaudy shirt and tie, because your professor doesn’t
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Defining Hate Speech across Canada
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The discussion of the discernment between free speech and hate speech is a difficult one, with an especially prominent place on the Wilfrid
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The big debate on campus: new perspectives on the Laurier scandal
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Almost three weeks ago, Lindsay Shepherd, a Laurier graduate student and teaching assistant, was reprimanded for showing a TVO clip of a Jordan
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Strumming a swan song: an obituary for the guitar
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Over the past hundred years, learning to play the guitar has been an important, often defining component in the lives of many adolescents
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Separating fact from fiction: does reading really make us smarter?
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“I wish I read more.” – Everyone I spent the bulk of this past weekend reading through a recent bestseller. Despite being steeped
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Crafting a community: the value and importance of drinking local beer
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Craft beer can be a bit of a misnomer. The name connotes a kind of quality that is often a component of the beverage
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