opinion
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Don’t let education hinder self-reflection
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Albert Camus, a French author and philosopher who received a Novel Prize for Literature in 1957, once wrote that “beginning to think is beginning
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Trick-or-treat
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The Pros – Jaclyn Stief As a child, trick-or-treating was what made Halloween “Halloween” – to have a bag or pillowcase of candy, chips
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Religion has its merits
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Re: “Religion pointless,” Oct. 21, 2008 This article is a massive over-simplification of the theological debate and it provides no useful, or even insightful,
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Family counts at all ages
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Four years ago, when I was in high school, my grandmother moved in with my family. I remember the day clearly. Our basement, now
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News tainted by tabloids
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We live in a culture that is obsessed with celebrities. Everywhere we turn, we are constantly being bombarded with celebrity news. Because of this,
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Campus clubs hopeful
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Re: “Campus clubs still unable to access WLUSU money,” Oct. 21, 2009 In response to the article written about the newly developed Campus Clubs
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Crime is crime, regardless
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In a world in which people are divided into neat little categories like liberal and conservative, upper and lower class, criminal and law-abiding, it
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Student-to-professor ratios unknown
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It’s very obvious: Laurier’s enrollment has gone up. There are more students than ever before and professors haven’t been hired to account for this.
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University is a place of opportunity
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Post-secondary education, especially university, is highly valued in society; however, it seems that it is becoming more difficult every year to find a job
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Christianity: It’s all in the imagination
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I remember in the wake of Bill Maher’s film Religulous a few non-Christian colleagues said something of this sort to me: “I don’t like
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