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Students rally for Palestine in the quad
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Unified Unidentified brings together students and inspires community for victims of war in Gaza On Feb. 13, students gathered in the quad on Laurier’s Waterloo campus for a rally for Palestine, which was organized by student coalition, Unified Undefined. Unified Undefined is a volunteer group that is focused on “building bridges between local post-secondary institutions…
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Laurier extending mandatory mask policy until May 31
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Wilfrid Laurier University announced on April 12 that they would be keeping their face covering policy in effect until at least May 31. Originally, Laurier intended to lift the multi-campus mask mandate on May 1, but they have since retracted that decision based on rising COVID-19 numbers. The policy will be revisited at the end…
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A guide to signing leases and avoiding housing hiccups
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After meticulous research, investigations into unfortunate living experiences and personally managing to move into a new living situation every year of my four-year university-career, I have finally cracked the code. Listen up folks. Before you are the four rules of signing leases that will hopefully avoid epic screw-overs, financial detriment and shitty situations. Why? Because…
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Don’t send that “it’s over” through text
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I have a friend here at school — let’s call him Harrison — who was dating a girl we’ll call Brittney. The relationship was pretty serious and they looked really happy together. One day, Harrison got a break-up text from Brittney out of the blue. They were together for almost two years and it ended…
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Delving into Waterloo’s housing crisis
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There’s a new trend in the Kitchener-Waterloo Region and no, it doesn’t involve fashion, food or phone apps. Rather, it’s undeveloped student apartments. Over the past two years, four condominium buildings have failed to be completed on time for the beginning of the fall term. The first building was 1 Columbia in 2014. The second…
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