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Lack of spring classes frustrates students
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Whether you want to finish early, broaden your academic scope, or just want to pick up an extra credit over the spring and summer, some students feel limited by the availability of senior-level courses in the spring or summer terms. The Cord spoke with the director of teaching support services, Sandy Hughes, in order to…
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UK government ignores Turing’s “moral innocence”
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Alan Turing, an English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist, is considered by many to be the father of computer science and artificial intelligence. Turing has been credited for his substantial contributions during the Second World War, in which he was instrumental in deciphering the Enigma Code for the Allied forces. He also is largely…
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Human contact lost in a digital world
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You’ve heard the cliché over and over, “everyone’s texting but no one’s communicating!” We are communicating, and we are connected. In fact, we are more connected to world news and current events than ever before. With a click of a button we can check the weather in Bangladesh, update our status or on occasion speak…
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Hawks shocked
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Saturday afternoon at the Athletic Complex, the nationally sixth-ranked Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks men’s basketball squad hosted the McMaster Marauders in what should have been another routine victory for the Hawks. Instead, Laurier struggled to match the Marauders intensity and after falling into foul trouble, struggled tremendously on the boards in a 92-82 loss, just…
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Mazerolle out but Laurier still victorious
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With the season winding down, it’s crunch time. The Wilfrid Laurier University women’s basketball team is currently tied for second in the Ontario University Athletics’ (OUA) west division after a tight, physical battle against the fourth place McMaster Marauders Saturday afternoon. Despite only shooting 40 per cent, the Hawks took the game 81-71 and improved…
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Women’s health debated
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On Feb. 6 Kitchener Centre MP Stephen Woodworth filed a motion with the clerk of the House of Commons asking Parliament to look over the Canadian definition of what it means to be a human being in an attempt to reignite the abortion debate and change abortion regulations in Canada. Also recently, Ontario’s health minister…
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Research profile: Dr. Alcantara
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Wilfrid Laurier University professor Christopher Alcantara recently received a standard research grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, which will allow him to conduct research in his field of political science for the next two years. Alcantara explained that this research project, which is being done with his colleague, Jen Nelles, concerns governmental…
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Promoting disability awareness on campus
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The constant ebb of students flowing through the Wilfrid Laurier University Concourse on a daily basis made it a prime location for the WLU Accessible Learning team to station themselves on Feb. 1 and 2 for their Accessibility Awareness Week event. Held annually, the event is meant to promote disability awareness on campus. “We want…
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Going to prison
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Last semester, 17 Wilfrid Laurier University social work students took part in the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program — an innovative experiential learning project allowing university students and incarcerated peoples to take university-level classes together. Each week the “outside,” or university students, would travel to the Grand Valley Institute for Women, a federal correctional facility located…
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‘Into the surge’: Colonel shares story
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During the 2010 troop surge in Afghanistan, the number of international forces in the southern regions of the country grew from 70 to 100,000. In Kandahar and Helmand provinces, where the heaviest fighting with the Taliban was taking place, the numbers of available soldiers shifted from 15, 000 to almost 60,000 troops. “What does that…
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