O-Week
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Campus frustrations continue to plague me
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Like most others, I returned to Laurier feeling excitement and nervousness. This will (hopefully) be my last year as a full-time Laurier student and being in my fifth year, I figured I knew what to expect. Unfortunately, some aspects of my first week of school have been rather lackluster, partly due to myself and partly…
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2023 Waterloo orientation line up
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As first-year students navigate settling into life on campus for the first time, deciding what orientation week events to attend may seem like a daunting task. However, with a vast number of events taking place from Sept. 4 to Sept. 9, there is an event for everyone. In addition to special events taking place each…
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Orientation Week events kick off new school year
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Orientation Week, a Laurier tradition, is returning to campuses this fall. Commonly referred toas O-Week, this time serves as an introduction period for first-year students – allowing them to familiarize themselves with the campus, their peers and the Laurier community. Taking place from Sept. 5 to Sept. 10, this year’s O-Week aims to integrate new…
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How COVID-19 will affect Laurier for the foreseeable future
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There’s no telling how COVID-19 will change university education for students in the long term. For the foreseeable future though, Laurier has undergone and will continue to undergo changes that align with the current public health standards. In doing this, the school has had to proactively adapt, explained Dan Dawson, chair of the Pandemic Recovery…
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What goes into making a great O-Week?
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Each year, Laurier welcomes all new first year students with Orientation Week: a week of various events to engage all new students and teach them about university life, safety when away from home, and Laurier-specific opportunities available to them. “I am very excited about O-week and I can’t wait to see all the new Golden…
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WRPS cracks down on distracted driving
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Waterloo Regional Police Service (WRPS) is putting forth enhanced efforts in order to reinforce distracted driving laws. The new initiatives and efforts to curve distracted driving come in correspondence with Ontario’s provincial distracted driving campaign which is taking place throughout this entire week. With distracted driving becoming an increasingly prevalent issue amongst drivers, traffic officer…
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Over 208 charges pressed during Waterloo St. Patrick’s Day festivities
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This year’s St. Patrick’s Day had crowds ranging from 12,000-15,000 people throughout the day. The surrounding corridors of Ezra Avenue, Bricker Avenue, Clayfield Avenue and Albert Street had the most traffic. The St. Patrick’s Day events that take place within the Wilfrid Laurier University community are notorious for their outlandish festivities and this year was…
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Students’ Union Board of Directors discuss plans for O-Week
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The Wilfrid Laurier University Students’ Union Board of Directors has begun preparing for the fast approaching beginning of fall semester. With training completed over the past weekend for the upcoming year’s cohort of O-Week ice breakers, attention at the July 9 Board of Directors meeting turned to the directors’ involvement with orientation activities. The primary…
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Knife-point robbery in Laurier area
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Early this morning, four people who were walking home from Phil’s nightclub in Waterloo were robbed by a group of people armed with a rock and a knife. “At around 1:00 a.m., police responded to the area of Regina Street and Lodge Street in Waterloo, where three men and a woman were walking from a bar…
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Reported sexual assault near Laurier campus
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A statement was issued today on Wilfrid Laurier University’s website regarding two reported cases of sexual assault that occurred this morning near Laurier’s Waterloo campus. The statement read, “Wilfrid Laurier University would like to alert the Laurier community to two similar sexual assaults that took place in the vicinity of the university’s Waterloo campus early…
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