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A Final Note: What This Paper Gave Me
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I don’t think there’s a clean way to write a final editorial. For something that has taken up so much space in my life, my time, my energy,
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International Women’s Day: A Personal Reflection on Strength and Change
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Every year on March 8, the world celebrates International Women’s Day. For many, it is a day of social media tributes, floral gestures, and
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Family Day on Campus: More Than Just a Day Off
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For many Laurier students, Family Day arrives as a pause in the middle of an already demanding semester. It’s a long weekend marked by mixed reactions:
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A Look at Valentine’s Day’s Complex Past and Present
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Since its establishment in 1911, Wilfrid Laurier University has marked 115 years of Valentine’s Day. For many, the holiday is a time of love
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January: A Beginning That Asks Something of Us
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January arrives quietly but firmly, like a clean page that still smells of ink. Page 1 of 365 pages that you are going to write
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Women in Leadership Laurier’s little library returns to campus
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For all the book lovers out there, Women in Leadership Laurier’s (WILL) Little Library made its return on Dec. 4. WILL introduced their little
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The effects of 2000’s diet culture lingers today
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Almost every magazine cover in the 2000s showed thin models with bold fonts cheering on the next fad diet that will guarantee the fastest
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Editorial: How I survived my first year at Laurier
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“I’m so lucky we all lived through who we were to become who we are.” – Neil Hilborn. When I graduated high school, I’d
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Editorial: No one’s ever always right
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Only a couple of weeks ago, one of my favourite active authors released his newest novel. To say I was excited was an understatement—the
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Editorial: What the hell am I doing here?
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I spent the entirety of the lecture fiddling with the stray end of a stitch on the bulb of my trimmed scalp. This was
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