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Response to feminist blog threats
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Dear colleagues at the University of Toronto, In the days since the posting of the kill feminist blog threats at your university, we have walked into our classrooms differently. Perhaps others would suspect we’ve allowed fear to dominate but what in fact we have been given is heightened purpose and commitment to what we teach…
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Wait, Justin Trudeau was here?
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Apparently, the Liberal party leader Justin Trudeau visited our school on October the 5th in order to present his platform to the student body. However, this was publicized so poorly (some might even say it was mismanaged) that many people, staff, students and myself included, learned of the event after he had concluded his visit.…
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The hierarchy of statues
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For starts, Laurier (the statue) has now lost his uniqueness on campus.
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Letter to the Editor: Gendered Violence
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Witnessing the ignorance of sexual violence
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Dear Life – September 6 2015
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Dear Life, Nothing says the start of school is approaching like people selling textbooks via Facebook posts. Sincerely, Ugh Another School Year Dear Cord, Thank you for submitting my Dear Life saying you guys suck monkey balls. Maybe you guys aren`t as sensitive as I thought Sincerely, You still suck monkey balls though …
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Letters to the Editor Re: A case against abortion
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The Cord’s opinion column sparked controversy last week, here is the response
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Letters to the Editor Re: Poor voter turnout is a non-issue
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To the Editor: In the 1980s I came to Waterloo to attend university, and I recall the excitement of being able to vote for the first time. Information on municipal candidates was largely dependent upon their pamphlets and some news articles. I became informed, made a choice and voted. In 2014, that information is at…
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Letters to the editor: March 26
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RE: Hypersensitivity impedes on collective development The Diversity and Equity Office houses three student-run services: the Association of Black Students, the Centre for Women and Trans People and the Rainbow Centre. On a daily basis, these spaces are filled with engaged students applying their learning, discussing social justice issues and challenging the injustices they witness…
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Letters to the editor: March 12
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RE: ‘Archaeology a form of grave robbing,’ Feb. 26 As an WLU Archaeology graduate who has worked in archaeology I am extremely disappointed in this article. Firstly, it may seem like semantics but the pyramids were not ‘robbed’ by archaeologists, they were actually looted in antiquity and during the invasion of Napoleon along with the…
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Letters to the editor
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RE: Academic Misconduct I received an e-mail on Oct. 31 from Mike Carroll, the Dean of Arts, concerning students sharing copyrighted textbook material online. Now, putting aside my philosophical qualms with the institution of copyright and the ridiculousness of the uncompetitive scam that is academic publishing, I was particularly bothered by one quote: “Students need…
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