This week in quotes

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“I think there will be
fewer of me around, more of you and youโ€™ll probably be more
frustrated than you are now.โ€

โ€”Geoff Stevens
Laurier political science professor describing how he sees the university environment in 2020

โ€œNow 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€

โ€”Alison Schofield, Laurier alumnus on backpacking solo as a woman

โ€œInstead of helping solve social problems, we attack the victims.โ€

โ€”Henry Giroux, professor of English and cultural studies at McMaster University

โ€œSomebody said to me recently, theyโ€™ve carpet bombed Waterloo region.โ€

โ€”Athletics Director Peter Baxter re: the CCES testing the entire teams at both the University of Waterloo and Laurier

โ€œThe primary goal of a restrictive government is clear: to make power invisible.โ€

โ€”Henri Giroux, addressing the invisible barriers surrounding race, age and socio-economic class

โ€œI 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€

โ€”Athletics Director Peter Baxter


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