Emilia Curcic
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Unsigned: Click-bait in reality for politics instead of a fictional thrill
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This Halloween, Princess Cinemas and the Horror Show Collective invited viewers to screen the “scariest movie ever” for a chance to win $200, but they didn’t know the title of the film going into the screening. While patrons were expecting gore and horror in the form of Michael Meyers or Jason, what they got was…
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Laurier and City of Waterloo to unveil CityStudio
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Wilfrid Laurier University will soon be unveiling the CityStudio project, a newly developed course to be offered through a partnership with the City of Waterloo. The new course, named Social Innovation in the City, is set to be offered in the beginning of January 2017 for the winter term through the department of Global Studies.…
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Another chance for Laurier to have a Milton campus
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On Wednesday October 26, the Ontario provincial government announced it’s commitment to support the idea of establishing post-secondary campuses in both Milton and Brampton. Wilfrid Laurier University is planning to move forward with its ambition to develop campuses in Milton following this announcement. This has been the latest development of a long collaboration which first…
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Unexpected reactions to Horror Show Collective’s Scary Movie Challenge
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When I think of scary movies, the first thing that comes to mind is horror, fake blood and graphic scenes with nothing real about them. On October 27, The Scary Movie Challenge, hosted by the Horror Show Collective was held at the Princess Cinemas in uptown Waterloo. The movie that was being showed was kept…
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Loss against the Mustangs marks the end of a hard fought season for WLU men’s soccer
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On a cold and windy fall night, the Laurier men’s soccer team played their first playoff match at home against the Western Mustangs. Heading into the game, everything was looking up for the Golden Hawks, having won three of their last four matches heading into the OUA playoffs and finishing the regular season as the…
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Laurier grad finds solace in songwriting
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As a 2013 master’s in music therapy graduate, Sarah Pearson left Laurier with a drive to pursue music therapy at the Grand River Hospital. Now, after a few self-recorded EPs, Pearson is back with Circles We Live Inside, her first studio album. “My goal is always [to] create something that feels as meaningful to me…
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Unsigned: What are our students satisfied about to make us No. 1?
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Laurier was recently ranked the number one school in Canada for student satisfaction in Maclean’s annual university rankings. The article has been shared numerous times by proud Golden Hawks, but it made us wonder how many of these students actually understand the university rankings and how they work. What really is student satisfaction? Looking at…
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Uptown Waterloo said to re-open to two-way traffic by end of November
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Uptown Waterloo has been under construction for the LRT since September 2014. King Street, the main street running through uptown, has now been under construction and closed to traffic since February 2016. Despite many re-openings around uptown Waterloo, such as the intersection of Erb Street and Caroline Street, which reopened this past September, and King…
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Take a deep breath: Plot spoilers aren’t everything
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Do you hate spoilers? Do you think a movie is ruined once you know what happens? If you do, you are holding the rest of society back and should have your popular media privileges restricted. Why? Because the best movies, TV shows, books, plays and other forms of narrative media get better once you know…
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Exploring when booing an artist is appropriate
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Think back to the last time you were at a local show and the quaint intimate atmosphere turned sour. Either the performer wasn’t what the collective audience had pictured or some obvious mistakes were being made. Try to recall the inevitable reaction of a hostile crowd and focus in on the dull droning sound of…
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