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WLU meets admission targets later in summer
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Wilfrid Laurier University admissions office appears to have met most of its targets for enrolment this coming year, but it took the whole summer to do so. The Waterloo campus, however, suffered a slight dip in admissions. “We met our target of 4,580 confirmations for Laurier overall,” Holly Cox, director of recruitment and admissions for…
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WLU enjoys a longer break
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Unlike the past few years, students, staff and faculty at Wilfrid Laurier University are returning back to campus later than in past years, as we had an unusually long break this year. Although scrutinized in previous years, the office of the registrar is still maintaining that the later start date in January of this year…
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Praising student peers
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Just over a week ago, Wilfrid Laurier University saw the creation of a Facebook page titled “WLU Compliments,” which allows students to anonymously submit compliments to their friends and classmates. The idea began as a social project at Queen’s University and eventually spread to Ryerson University where WLU’s page creator first heard of the idea.…
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Drinking at the movies
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Cineplex Entertainment will be starting construction next summer for their new 11-theatre cinema in Kitchener. Three of the theatres will include VIP auditoriums which will be for movie-goers 19 and older. This will be the first cinema to allow the sale and consumption of alcohol in the Waterloo Region. The theatre, which is being built…
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