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Exposing Aboriginal culture
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Aboriginal Awareness Week kicked off its second year at the Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo campus this past Monday. Events will be running until Friday across campus and at the Aboriginal Student Centre located at 187 Albert Street. Aboriginal Awareness Week was implemented to generate awareness of the Office of Aboriginal Initiatives, and all of the…
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Charity Ball hopes for successful year
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Each year, Charity Ball throws an event that is different from anything else offered for students, but for the first time it was on campus. The semi-formal event, held this year on March 9 in the Turret, hosted “A Candy Coated Extravaganza”— a themed night of dinner and dancing for students while raising awareness and…
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Waterloo looks to the web
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The City of Waterloo has joined Facebook, Twitter and created its own channel on YouTube. Now Waterloo will go a step further as it opens a blog to the public. At the beginning of March the Waterloo opened a blog to spread city news and get citizens involved. The blog calls itself “hip” and “current”…
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Redemption on ice
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LONDON, Ont. – With yesteryear’s wringing of hands a thing of the past and after the rare taste of failure had washed out of their mouths, this had to feel good. Perched back atop the throne they’ve so mightily kept warm for the past nine years before they were thrown off by the Queen’s Gaels…
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Peer pressure can silence or empower society
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It was some years ago, teaching a class at Wilfrid Laurier University, when I asked students to tell me anonymously, their deepest values. Then I asked them to write down the values of university culture and wider Canadian society. It turned out that their deepest values differed greatly from what they had identified as the…
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Online identities oversimplify living
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Society’s fascination with social media is at an all-time high. Having become the be-all and end-all for determining social standing, social media continues to contribute to the fragmentation of the personalities of highly “e-vested” individuals. The avenue of Twitter, especially, affords individuals the opportunity to create an “avatar”; a heavily edited, assumedly idealized version of…
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Promoting Islam and diversity on campus
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Colourful fabrics, rich flavours, breathtaking artwork and henna. This week the Concourse at Wilfrid Laurier University is a cultural experience of the world of Islam. Sports, culture, arts and most importantly awareness are promoted this week by the WLU Muslim Students Association (MSA). “We’re here to celebrate the accomplishments of past and present Muslims, we…
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Kitchener Aud set to expand in Jan
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Kitchener city councillors are set to borrow approximately $9.6 million so the Kitchener Rangers Hockey Club can add 1,000 new seats to the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium. The debate and analysis of the expansion project has been going on for three years and it set to begin in January. Since the 2000-01 season, the Rangers have…
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Fostering a culture for innovation
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“Each of our countries has a long history of resilience, the world has not done well betting against our people,” began United States ambassador to Canada David Jacobson Feb. 29 at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) in Waterloo. People from across Waterloo, including notables such as former co-CEO of Research in Motion Jim…
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Leafs should drink their poison to obtain their tonic
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“Fight on my men,” Sir Andrew said. “A little I am hurt, but not yet slain. I’ll just lie down and bleed awhile, and then I’ll rise to fight again.” These lines from the Ballad of Sir Andrew Barton are often used as inspiration to pick your self up and continue to battle no matter…
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