Feb. 16, 2011

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โ€œJust like the Packers weโ€™re going to
come in as the wild card and do some
damage in the playoffs.โ€
โ€”Erik Kroman, Laurier menโ€™s volleyball captain re: his teamโ€™s
chances

โ€œOurs is more fun, the girls are cuter
and the rap is hotter.โ€
โ€”Brandon Greenwood, Laurier fourth-year communications student and
one of the artists involved in the
Laurier rap remix โ€œGold and Purpleโ€

โ€œHe said: โ€˜Come work for a real board.โ€™โ€
โ€”Jon Pryce, Wilfrid Laurier University Student Publications (WLUSP) board member elect re: Bryn Ossington

โ€œThereโ€™s a kind of superficial community that exists between cultures thatโ€™s a really stimulating and mind-expanding kind of process to go through and I donโ€™t think when youโ€™re a long time in one place or you get all your education in one country that you ever have an experience quite like that.โ€
โ€”Patrick Deane, president of McMaster University

โ€œOur number one [priority] was promoting Laurier before dissing
everybody else. A lot of other tracks wanted to diss first and then kind of promote their school on the side.โ€
โ€”Adel โ€œJaziโ€ Hijazi, one of the creators of the โ€œGold and Purpleโ€ video re: the groupโ€™s philosophy on their rendition of the song

โ€œThis is how we did it this year and I donโ€™t know if it had that much
influence on who was elected.โ€
โ€”Kyle Walker, WLUSU president re: randomized ballots during the online election


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