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Cord Cross Canada: Couch surfing along the East coast
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Making plans At the beginning of the summer, I promised myself to stay away from a corporate office cubicle or a place where I would serve coffee to impatient caffeine addicts. I had been living in Ontario for the last five years and I desperately needed a break. I wanted to do something different; something…
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Thumbs up/Thumbs down: Sept. 30, 2009
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Thumbs Up: 1) Oktoberfest and Halloween are quickly approaching. 2) The new amphitheater and the renovations to the Terrace look great. Thumbs Down: 1) Papers, assignments and midterms are quickly approaching. 2) The rest of the campus is still falling apart.
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DJ Demers is on a quest for comedy
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“The only difference between those who do and those who don’t is that those who do, do,” DJ Demers explained in an interview with The Cord. These words, which he heard from Indigo Books owner Heather Reisman during last year’s commencement at Laurier, have helped shape his life philosophy. This is the mentality that has…
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Last-Ditch Effort: Sept. 30
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What’s the point? School spirit
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Pro When I think about how to describe Laurier, school spirit is the first thing that comes to mind. It’s essential to the atmosphere of our campus; it is something that I feel sets us apart from other universities. When students step onto campus for Orientation Week, they are immediately thrust into the centre of…
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Drinking days: Sept. 30, 2009
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Oct. 2: On this day in 1950, Charles Schulz first published the beloved cartoon “Peanuts”. It’s time to rent all the Charlie Brown movies and drink every time he misses kicking the football. Oct. 12: It is believed that on this day in 1999 the world’s population officially reached six billion people. Get hammered knowing…
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Chasing after “walking art”
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The front row seats at a New York fashion show are typically reserved for the editors of Vogue and Elle, for celebrities and for industry giants. But at the semi-annual Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York last week, one front row seat was saved for Nadia Masri, a second-year communications and psychology student at Laurier.…
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Poster purchasing pointers
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With the poster sale returning to WLU, making the concourse virtually impassable and making us all late for class, you may be asking yourself: with all of the choice available, how can a single person navigate through the endless maze to find the poster of their dreams? Well don’t fret, because despite all of the…
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Widsom disconnect: The week in pointless info – Sept. 23
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Table manners The European and American way of holding utensils have been established because of the significance of the knife. During the Middle Ages, knives were commonly used as both utensils and weapons. As such, the knife represented a threat of danger during dining experiences, causing Europeans to always keep the knife in their hand…
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Cord Cross Canada: Adventures in the Northern wild
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In the wild On my last morning in Inuvik I walked the 15 minutes from the Arctic Chalet to Grassy Lake. I didn’t have bear spray, but I did have a canoe paddle I could wave around or strike with – it was enough to keep the bears away, apparently. I also had a mosquito…
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