Beauty privileged in the workplace
Defining beauty is like “corralling a cloud” Yes, it might be difficult to define, but we sure know it when we see it, or at least think we do In every age and on every...
You know what yanks my cord… November 14, 2012
how much disrespect some people have during the moment of silence on Remembrance Day It’s disgusting Just because you’re not at an official ceremony doesn’t give you...
Celebrating Movember
We are halfway through November and the pandemic of upper-lip facial hair on men is growing You may have noticed the occasional “mo” here and there on campus, but they are...
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...
Talking Mental Health: Anxiety versus stress
It will come as no surprise that stress and anxiety are very common concerns for university students “Anxious mood” is consistently the reason students come to...
Letters to the Editor: November 14, 2012
Interest in politics should be encouraged Dear Editor, In Brad Kleinstruber’s “Democratic Elections not always fair” he criticizes both Obama and Romney as being bad...
Remembrance Day a time to reflect on reality of war
Every year, on Nov 11, we gather at cenotaphs to commemorate those who fought for Canada during both the world wars, the Korean and Vietnam wars and now the present war in...
Democratic elections not always fair
Remember the 2004 film Alien vs Predator If you don’t it’s okay It was pretty terrible, but the tagline, “Whoever winswe lose,” has timeless political...