The Weigh-In: 7 a.m. classes
Mike Hajmasy AGAINST - WLU students were recently faced with two equally unappealing alternatives: Saturday classes or a 7:00 am start Yikes Laurier administration...
Russia claims gold in homophobia
Russia has been making quite a few headlines lately, and for all the wrong reasons Russia already has strained relations more than usual with the United States due to the...
Library renovations a pleasant departure from the norm
The Wilfrid Laurier University Library has announced a number of improvements to the existing facility, including a new one-stop Help Desk, increased study space, extruded...
Study on laptop usage should fuel meaningful discussion
Laptop use in class has been a contentious issue for some time for both educators and students; and debate mostly surrounds whether the negative aspects of laptop use outweigh...
How did we get from Tahrir to here?
The Egyptian chapter of the Arab Spring was the most defined, popular and peaceful movement to take place across the region It was also (at the time) the most effective,...
Learning not a priority for online courses
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...
Orientation week is not for everyone
That’s not meant to disparage the O-Week planning team or the many volunteers that participate in it It’s just that a whole lot of people come to Laurier, and it’s...
Living in the now puts future generations at risk
People of today are thoroughly modern; we are compelled by the new and toss the old into oblivion to make room for the new Anti-historical or at least ahistorical, we often...
You know what yanks my cord…
Seinfeld Seinfeld yanks my cord In fact, Seinfeld makes me want to yank my eyes, ears and sense of humour right out of my body and incinerate them Jerry Seinfeld is an...
Make the most of your degree
Working at a university newspaper, I’ve come across much cynicism surrounding Laurier, its institutions and the things it offers — or doesn’t offer — its students We’re...