“Everything is sunshine and rainbows….Thereโs nothing wrong with admitting โwe have no money. We have to cut.”
-Laurier graduate Josh Smyth, on the unviersityโs view on its financial situation.
“Sell first-years into slavery.”
โArchaeology and classical studies student Anatolijs Venovcevsโ alternative solution to Laurierโs financial problems in the arts department.
โSo hot and drunk in here.โ
โThe Hawk, in the Cord office on St. Patrickโs day
โThis is what happens when economics calls the shots.โ
โEnglish professor Markus Poetzsch about the possibility of losing fourth-year seminars in order to accommodate more students in the honours program
โIf feminism was already dead there wouldnโt be so many people trying to kill it.โ
โAuthor and blogger Jessica Valenti highlighting the importance of continuing the feminist movement
โEvery time Jim Flaherty gets up and talks about how well Canada is doing because of our debt to GDP ratio, I want to say youโre welcome.โ
โMartha Hall Findlay, Liberal MP, on the economic legacy left by the Liberal governments of the 1990s and early 2000s
โItโs so messed up now. Students are paying higher tuition and I donโt think theyโre receiving the best education that institutions can give them.โ
โChair of the English department James Weldon about the current state of education
โWould it really matter if the government sold it? No.โ
โLaurier professor of economics David Johnson regarding privatizing the LCBO
โYou canโt help but be happy for him. Heโs a really good kid and weโre happy for him.โ
โGary Jeffries on former Hawksโ QB Ian Noble playing for Western next year