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Laurier professor offers “plea deal” to students
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A screenshot of an email titled “Information about the final exam” posted to the Spotted at Laurier Twitter account on April 16 has garnered over 500 likes for offering a “plea deal” to students in EC-390-C-D classes. The email claimed to propose a generous reward for the first “whistleblower” to come forward with information about peers…
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Laurier names new acting dean of arts
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Laurier’s faculty of arts has announced that the current dean of arts, Richard Nemesvari, will end his five-year term and associate dean of student affairs and learning Gavin Brockett will replace him as acting dean for a one-year term starting on Jul. 1, 2020. Brockett, an associate professor in the department of history as well…
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Two Laurier professors to receive provincial funding for research
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Two associate professors and researchers at Wilfrid Laurier University will be receiving provincial funding from Ontario’s Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade. Bree Akesson, Associate Professor in the faculty of social work and social justice & community engagement at Laurier’s Brantford campus, will receive $140,000 for her research into the experiences of…
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Shop Sounds holds concert at Kitchener Market
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Not many people can say they’ve been to a concert in a grocery store, but on Sep . 5, the Kitchener Market hosted Shop Sounds: DTK’s grocery store concerts. Shop Sounds is a free intimate three-part concert series organized by the DTK team, Good Company Production and hosted at grocery stores across downtown…
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Not every family is Ohana: leave them behind
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There’s a commonly used phrase that always irks me whenever I hear it: “blood is thicker than water.” It’s thrown around in movies and on TV shows as a humbling way to teach values about familial bonds. In real life, it’s often utilized as a backhanded form of misplaced guilt. Proverbs like this tend to…
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What in collaboration? How to maneuver the dreaded task
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By far, the two scariest words in the English language are “group project.” The excuse I was always given in high school for making these collaborative nightmares mandatory was that it would give us preparation for the “real world” of employment, where we’d have to work with other people to reach a collective goal. That’s…
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