“I think there will be
fewer of me around, more of you and youโll probably be more
frustrated than you are now.โ
โGeoff Stevens
Laurier political science professor describing how he sees the university environment in 2020
โNow everyone and their mother has seen Eat Pray Love which is kind of travel porn in a way and I think that does a lot of things to open women up to the possibility and opens them up to the strength [of travelling alone] but you have to have that passion there in the first place.โ
โAlison Schofield, Laurier alumnus on backpacking solo as a woman
โInstead of helping solve social problems, we attack the victims.โ
โHenry Giroux, professor of English and cultural studies at McMaster University
โSomebody said to me recently, theyโve carpet bombed Waterloo region.โ
โAthletics Director Peter Baxter re: the CCES testing the entire teams at both the University of Waterloo and Laurier
โThe primary goal of a restrictive government is clear: to make power invisible.โ
โHenri Giroux, addressing the invisible barriers surrounding race, age and socio-economic class
โI was joking with my colleague down the street [UW athletic director Bob Copeland] that knock on wood all our tests are clean, when we play them next year we call it the Clean Bowl instead of the Battle of Waterloo.โ
โAthletics Director Peter Baxter