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Star netminder Daniels leaves big shoes to fill
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Fourth-year goaltender Ryan Daniels will not use up his final year of Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) player eligibility with the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks and signed a professional contract with the Central Hockey League’s (CHL) Missouri Mavericks. Laurier head coach Greg Puhalski will have his hands full recruiting this off-season to replace his Ontario University…
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Life beyond the screen
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“I remember a time when the Internet was just the Internet and real life was cooler,” reads a recent tweet from Hayley Williams, lead singer of Paramore. This brief memento of a thought sheds light on an important subject that concerns the majority of the student body at Wilfrid Laurier: technological dependence. Today, technology enters…
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Students taking more time to graduate
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With only a month of school left, many students who are near graduation are asking themselves the inevitable question: “What happens next?” For some, the following months will consist of relentless job hunting, while for others, it will be preparing for graduate school or some sort of college program. However, a large portion of fourth-year…
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The return of Woodstock
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On June 16 1967, the music world experienced a groundbreaking event and whether they knew it then or not, this event was going to be the single force behind the emergence and forever-changed outlet for how we experience live music. This event was The Monterey Pop Festival. The Monterey Pop Festival was a three day…
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Picking the right brew
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Heineken? Mill Street? Budweiser? When it comes to selecting the perfect beer for a night out, people often are stumped with the choices that they have to make. It all comes down to the price, the taste and overall mood that one is willing to invest when carefully selecting their beers for the night. With…
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Life panel: love and dating at university
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Pat Benatar once sang “Love is a battlefield.” With juggling work, school, and a social life, along with an understanding subjective rules and deciphering unreadable texts, dating at university appears to be a war zone we work through. I’m not going to pretend to be an expert, especially since over the weekend I walked around…
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Hawks invited to East West Bowl
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Despite a 3-5 regular season record and a first-round playoff exit in the 2012 season, the Laurier men’s football program will be represented by three players at the annual Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) East West Bowl in London, Ont. Third-year players Jeremy Deneau, Mike Massel and Tyrrel Wilson have been selected from WLU and will…
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International student count up
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Last year, Canada opened up its borders to a record number of international students – over 100,000, to be exact. According to the Government of Canada Department of Citizenship and Immigration, who issued a press release last week, this is the first time in Canadian history that a number this high has been reached. The…
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Liberal arts an important discipline
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Certainly no one needs to remind students that job hunting and employment opportunities are not exactly rich in these recession-prone times. And for me, a very outspoken advocate of liberal learning, such a state does not bode well for students of the humanities. Students feel that they must study a discipline that can lead rather…
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One love, one exhibit
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35 years ago, Bob Marley’s message of love and unity radiated through Jamaica during the One Love Peace Concert in Kingston. Mid-performance, he brought the Jamaican Prime Minister and the opposition leader on stage and joined their hands together over his head in a gesture of peace. This week, THEMUSEUM in downtown Kitchener will be…
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