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Where did all my money go?
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Money is a strange thing. Perhaps this is because everyone wants it in order to feel secure or that everything in the world revolves around it or the fact that even our most simple tasks revolve around the products we have to purchase. I find it strange because I don’t see the dividing line of…
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A shift in finding sources
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For the first time in my four years at Laurier, I signed out a book from the library. I was unable to find the online version of a specific book and was left with no choice but to obtain the soon-to-be obsolete physical copy. This quest for knowledge was no simple feat. In addition to…
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Police looking for man seen peering into windows
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Waterloo Regional Police are once again looking for a suspect caught peering into windows in the Noecker Street area in Uptown Waterloo. According to a police report, officers saw the man looking into windows in the Noecker area around 4 a.m. Friday morning. When the man noticed the officers, he fled. The suspect is described…
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Multiple accidents close University Ave.
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University Avenue saw two separate car accidents within four hours of each other Thursday morning. The two collisions caused the street to close between Regina and Weber Streets. According to police on the scene, the first collision took place around 5 a.m. and involved a single vehicle. This accident saw the driver of a white…
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Staying motivated
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Academic motivation reaches an all-time low during the last two months of the semester. The clocks move forward, the weather starts to warm up and thoughts of soon-to-be-summer flood your head. That mischievous little voice inside your head whispers “freedom is near.” Amid it becomes easy to let school priorities sit on the back burner.…
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Dating patterns
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While most of us like to think of dating rituals as a game, I prefer to see it as a closet full of patterned shirts. The thing is, dating isn’t so much a game of snakes and ladders or RISK; it’s more like a pattern that keeps repeating. This metaphor can be easily compared to…
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In case you’ve missed out
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Justin Timberlake – The 20/20 Experience Seven years after taking us on an innovative-pop journey with his ground-breaking album FutureSex/LoveSounds, Justin Timberlake made his return this week with the release of his third solo album, The 20/20 Experience. Linking up once again with his long-time collaborator Timbaland, the former boy band heart throb has delivered another ensemble of mid-tempo…
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OCD is more than a control issue
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Misconceptions are everywhere. Every day we are interacting and engaging with things we, admittedly or not, know nothing about. A case where this happens too often is with the mental illness, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Not everyone who suffers from a mental health issue is the “crazed lunatic” from Rain Man and OCD is not…
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WLU Relay for Life raises $15,000
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Last Saturday, Laurier’s Paul Martin Centre played host to WLU’s annual Relay for Life event. Over 100 participants took part in the 12-hour fundraising, staying up all night, from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. In the end generated a donation of over $15,000 for the Canadian Cancer Society. Relay for Life has become a global…
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