March 24, 2010

/

“Everything is sunshine and rainbows….Thereโ€™s nothing wrong with admitting โ€˜we have no money. We have to cut.”
-Laurier graduate Josh Smyth, on the unviersityโ€™s view on its financial situation.

“Sell first-years into slavery.”
โ€“Archaeology and classical studies student Anatolijs Venovcevsโ€™ alternative solution to Laurierโ€™s financial problems in the arts department.

โ€œSo hot and drunk in here.โ€
โ€“The Hawk, in the Cord office on St. Patrickโ€™s day

โ€œThis is what happens when economics calls the shots.โ€
โ€“English professor Markus Poetzsch about the possibility of losing fourth-year seminars in order to accommodate more students in the honours program

โ€œIf feminism was already dead there wouldnโ€™t be so many people trying to kill it.โ€
โ€“Author and blogger Jessica Valenti highlighting the importance of continuing the feminist movement

โ€œEvery time Jim Flaherty gets up and talks about how well Canada is doing because of our debt to GDP ratio, I want to say youโ€™re welcome.โ€
โ€“Martha Hall Findlay, Liberal MP, on the economic legacy left by the Liberal governments of the 1990s and early 2000s

โ€œItโ€™s so messed up now. Students are paying higher tuition and I donโ€™t think theyโ€™re receiving the best education that institutions can give them.โ€
โ€“Chair of the English department James Weldon about the current state of education

โ€œWould it really matter if the government sold it? No.โ€
โ€“Laurier professor of economics David Johnson regarding privatizing the LCBO

โ€œYou canโ€™t help but be happy for him. Heโ€™s a really good kid and weโ€™re happy for him.โ€
โ€“Gary Jeffries on former Hawksโ€™ QB Ian Noble playing for Western next year


Serving the Waterloo campus, The Cord seeks to provide students with relevant, up to date stories. Weโ€™re always interested in having more volunteer writers, photographers and graphic designers.