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Chancellor Eileen Mercier donates $1.4 million
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Earlier in June, Wilfrid Laurier University announced in a news release that chancellor Eileen Mercier donated $1.4 million dollars to the university’s music program for the new Eileen Mercier Endowed Professorship in Voice and Choral Music Education. The professorship will involve hiring a faculty member who will work with Voice and Choral Music students in…
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The benefit of interdisciplinary study: What we can learn about metabolism from music and rats
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News Director Madalyn Mostacci explores a study detailing the role rodents can play when considering studies for metabolism. The Mozart Effect claims that listening to Mozart or classical music more generally can make someone more intelligent, but researchers and student composers at Laurier and the University of Alberta have asked the questions: “What if it’s…
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Laurier Community laments the loss of Lorin Shalanko
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Wilfrid Laurier University laments the loss of Lorin Shalanko, valued Coach Accompanist in the Faculty of Music. Since 1999, Shalanko contributed to the music department as a collaborative pianist. Prior to this, he gained an honours degree in performance from Laurier. As stated by Shalanko’s family, those wishing to contribute to his memory can donate directly…
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Suspect arrested for allegedly stealing $24,000 worth of electronics from WLU
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Two thefts occurred at Wilfrid Laurier University’s Waterloo campus resulting in a loss of $24,000 worth of electronics which was allegedly stolen by two suspects. Police said that the suspects broke into a building on the Laurier campus, the name of which is yet to be released, on Feb. 21 and again on Feb. 25. stealing…
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Bookstore theft loses the fight to exclude found evidence
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In 2014, Breanna Flynn, a former financial operations assistant at the Wilfrid Laurier University bookstore, was charged when $31,000 was found missing from the store’s safe. According to The Record, Flynn has recently lost a fight to exclude evidence that was found in a search of her residence in Elmira. In September 2014, Flynn was…
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Piano donated to concourse for student use
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This past week, Wilfrid Laurier University’s faculty of music hosted an event in the Concourse to inaugurate the newly donated piano for all students to use. The piano is located in the Fred Nichols Campus Centre beside the Starbucks on the Waterloo campus. The concert took place on, the afternoon of Thursday, Nov. 17. The…
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