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Oct. 27, 2010
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Love, tolerance, self discipline; these come from the basis of warmheartedness. Now is a time to look inward, not to external factors.” —His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama “When I knocked on students’ doors I asked them more about the questions asked of them. Rather, not so much whether they should vote for city council…
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Laurier’s seminary turns 99
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With all of the centennial celebrations, it isn’t easy to overlook Laurier’s historical roots. However, many fail to recognize the school’s religious history, beginning with the opening of the Evangelical Lutheran Seminary of Canada in 1911. Waterloo was chosen as the location for the institution, which was meant to preserve Lutheran doctrine and the German…
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Uncertainty and disarray:Revising ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’
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A federal appeals court in California has temporarily re-instated the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy after another federal judge controversially struck down the policy just one week prior on the grounds that it was in violation of the First and Fifth Amendment. The military had already begun welcoming gay and lesbian soldiers after the federal…
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The human approaches to world peace
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“What is the greatest challenge that faces our world?” asked Free the Children’s Craig Kielburger, addressing an audience at the Rogers Centre on Oct. 22 to honour the arrival of the 14th Dalai Lama to Toronto. Kielburger explained that this is a concept he has struggled with his entire life. Easily discounting famine, poverty or…
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Oct. 27, 2010
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Property Damage: Date: October 23, 2010 @ 1.38 am Location: Residence A patrolling duty Don discovered a shattered window in one of the north side interior doors. The damage had been done recently. SCS was called in to investigate. *Property Damage: Date: October 23, 2010 @ 2.21 am Location: MacDonald House, Student Publications Two students…
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Oct. 20, 2010
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We have a large amount of money that sort of ‘oops’ we forgot.*”* —Ted Brown, WLUSU director re: the union being $430,000 over budget for the Terrace expansion “I can’t speak to what the next president is going to say we need to cut inorder to save room to pay for the line of credit…
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“Getting back in the game”
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Paul Heinbecker, former Canadian ambassador to the United Nations (UN) and Laurier alumnus, spoke at CIGI this past Thursday on Canadian foreign policy as part of a promotion for his new book, Getting Back in the Game: A Foreign Policy Playbook for Canada. “The book is for people who are interested in Canadian foreign policy…
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Violence escalates in DRC
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Between July 30 and Aug. 3, Rwandan and Congolese rebels besieged the village of Luvungi, in North Kivu and raped almost 200 women. The rebels separated men from women and even children from mothers and began a mass rape with the United Nations (UN) Peacekeeping Mission only 19 miles away. Timothy Donais, a global studies…
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World in brief
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BELGRADE, Serbia The Gay Pride march in Belgrade, Serbia took an unfortunate turn when thousands of right-wing supporters swarmed the scene, a brutal riot quickly ensued. Their attempt to disrupt the parade was successful as anti-gay protestors threw stun grenades and gasoline bombs into the crowd. Police arrived in time to arrest over 250 people,…
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Elections yield new UNSC membership
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The United Nations (UN) General Assembly elected new non-permanent members of the Security Council last week at the organization’s headquarters in New York. As part of the yearly rotation process, five countries were to be selected to replace the members whose two-year term ends this December. India, Colombia, South Africa, Germany and Portugal went home…
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