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Fashion ‘n’ Motion continues to improve
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Fashion ‘n’ Motion may not resemble a professional show – but it’s essentially about something different. For these dancers, every jeté, split and pirouette is a labour of love. The annual volunteer dance showcase, which was performed last weekend, is based around a charity, with proceeds from ticket sales as well as from supplementary charity…
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Wrapping up school in South America
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For most students, taking a course means just sitting in a classroom listening to a professor lecture. However, for the students of GS 410, the senior field course in global studies, it involves much more. This May, students of GS 410 will be going to the Bío Bío and Araucanía regions of Chile, visiting marginalized…
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Student inspires nude movement
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When twenty-year-old Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, a university student in Cairo, posted a nude photograph of herself on her blog, some stated that the photo served as a “scream against a society of violence, racism, sexism, sexual harassment and hypocrisy.” While some Egyptians commended her bravery, many feared that the pictures could affect the Egyptian liberal’s…
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Silent House delivers suspense, fails to payoff
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On a normal day, shelling out ten dollars to not have to endure a scary movie would seem like a small price to pay. So when I asked the teller at the movie theatre if the ticket I was purchasing was for “the movie with Denzel Washington,” I was largely unprepared for the two hours…
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Interactive stimuli in real time
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Jay Ferguson has taken interactive fiction to a new level. Ferguson, the creator of web series Guidestones, feels that he has revamped the viewing experience for the public, and not just through the gripping adventure in the story, which centres around two journalism students attempting to uncover details of an unsolved murder. “As they do…
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Laurier dancers show well in Guelph
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Anticipation ran high through the veins of the dancers donning the purple and gold on Saturday. The Wilfrid Laurier University competitive dance team kicked off their competition season at the Terpsichore Dance Celebration’s University Dance Challenge in Guelph. Competing against 20 other adult-level teams, mostly hailing from Ontario colleges and universities, Laurier entered ten numbers…
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Women’s basketball’s Shelby Kurt brings home the hardware
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It’s been a good year for Laurier’s hometown freshman females. After Waterloo’s Emily Brown was named the women’s soccer Ontario University Athletics’ (OUA) West Rookie of the Year in late 2011, Shelby Kurt has garnered the same distinction, though more for her work with a basketball. Kurt was named the league’s top freshman in late…
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Hawks finish in fourth at CIS tourney
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It was a team they were chomping at the bit to play, but a game they wanted nothing to do with. And it all equated to the finest display of moxie that the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks could muster. Though, the end result was tragically the same as last year’s. A fourth-place finish in the…
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A new space for local music
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Waterloo’s music scene leaves much to be desired in terms of a community. Paul Maxwell of Maxwell’s Music House is looking to reform this. “Being in a band at Laurier, I was always looking for somewhere to practice,” explained Maxwell. Maxwell’s Music House, located on King St. directly facing Wilfrid Laurier University’s campus, is a…
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Student protest ends in violence
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MONTREAL (CUP) — An impromptu and lively student protest against tuition hikes worked its way through Montreal’s busy downtown streets March 7. The protest started at Square-Victoria where urban studies students from the Université du Québec à Montréal wrapped trees and other objects in the park in red fabric, a symbol of the student movement…
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