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In light of the 2015 Pan Am games in Toronto, the town of Milton — a community within the Greater Toronto Area — has come up with a business plan that will commit to the development of a new velodrome in their proposed education village. Since Wilfrid Laurier University has been eyeing that spot as a potential new campus, the school has agreed to contribute approximately $2.5 million to the construction of the facility.
“[Milton] put together a business plan... Read more
Last week, the Project Laurier boards in Wilfrid Laurier University’s Concourse were wiped clean and painted back over due to offensive and inappropriate material being written on them.
Wil Schreiber, a second-year student at WLU who started Project Laurier, explained the boards were wiped clean in order to appease the WLU Bookstore. The boards technically belong to the Bookstore for advertising purposes while construction is happening, but Deborah Da Costa, the director of retail and printing services, gave Project Laurier... Read more
Whether you want to finish early, broaden your academic scope, or just want to pick up an extra credit over the spring and summer, some students feel limited by the availability of senior-level courses in the spring or summer terms.
The Cord spoke with the director of teaching support services, Sandy Hughes, in order to find out how courses offered online and in class over the May to August period are chosen.
It turns out certain faculties only dictate what... Read more
Changes are coming to the Wilfrid Laurier University Students’ Union hiring process in an attempt to allow for more students to have an equal shot at being hired for a position. This includes any general and executive hired or volunteer positions at the organization, most notably an orientation week icebreaker.
“Essentially the new process is to make the hiring process for us a little bit more open, a lot more accessible for students and try to break down the perception... Read more
Cristina Rucchetta
The board of directors-elect had their first training session this past weekend, not long after chair-elect Jon Pryce and vice chair-elect Jordan Epstein were elected. Last Wednesday, the Wilfrid Laurier University Students Union (WLUSU) board of directors-elect voted who would serve as chair and vice chair for the 2012-13 academic year.
Jon Pryce was acclaimed to his role as chair of the board of directors, after placing first in his re-election as director.
“[The feeling is] incredible, we’re going to... Read more
Laurier’s Association of Black Students (ABS) celebrated Black History Month during the first two weeks of February with events that commemorate the achievements of influential actors throughout the history of inequality of people of African descent.
“It is our vision that by informing the community, the efforts and contributions of Black individuals as well as Black culture will be recognized and celebrated by those of all cultures; not only within February, but throughout the year,” Keneesh Mckenzie, president of the Association... Read more
On Mar. 19, 2008, approximately 365 part-time contract academic staff (CAS) walked off the job at WLU. This resulted in the cancellation of numerous classes.
After the collective agreement expired in August of 2007, the univesity and the Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty Association (WLUFA) embarked on seven months of bargaining. Once a conciliator could not solve any issues, the CAS filed a ‘no board’ report and went on strike two weeks later. Students expressed their dissatisifaction by conducting protests and... Read more
The phrase ‘what was he thinking?’ was undoubtedly uttered many times during George W. Bush’s presidency. Dan McAdams took this question a step further.
McAdams, the chair of the psychology department at Northwestern University, recently published a book entitled, George W. Bush and the Redemptive Dream: A Psychological Portrait, which examines the psychological factors that affected the polarizing president’s controversial decision to invade Iraq in March of 2003.
On Friday afternoon, McAdams was at Laurier discussing the method behind his... Read more
For the third year in a row, a director has stepped down from the Wilfrid Laurier University Students’ Union board.
Bill Papanastasiou, a first-time director handed in his resignation to board chair and chief governance officer (CGO) Chris Walker last week, with the decision being made final at last Friday’s WLUSU board meeting in Brantford.
In January, Papanastasiou, a second-year double-degree student in Laurier’s BBA program, started a co-op term at professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in Toronto. This meant... Read more
The City of Waterloo continues to show its excellence in not only advanced technology but advanced thinking when it comes to green initiatives and long term sustainability goals.
Last week, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) unveiled the winners of the 2012 Sustainable Communities Awards. This program recognizes municipal projects across Canada that demonstrate excellence in environmental responsibility. The Awards were announced at a ceremony during the FCM’s Sustainable Communities Conference and Trade Show (SCC) in Ottawa.
Waterloo received the... Read more
Despite the cold, dozens gathered at Waterloo Public Square on Friday evening for the Shake-n-Skate event, hosted by kdub.ca.
Featuring the musical talents of DJ Ampz and Eric Hoshooley, people of all ages were able to skate to the latest beats and enjoy the first... Read more
Doctor suspected of over-prescribing
A Waterloo pain specialist is under investigation for over-prescribing narcotics, and, according to the Record, is reluctantly resigning from the practice of medicine.
The Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons accepted Dr. Frank Loy’s resignation Monday. In return, the college withdrew allegations of professional misconduct.
A hearing into the allegations had been scheduled to start Tuesday in Toronto. However, the allegations were withdrawn before the college’s discipline committee Monday. Last April, the college barred Loy from... Read more
Just like many other students at Wilfrid Laurier University, Claire Charness, a first-year psychology student who set up an online petition, doesn’t want a full-time faculty strike and encourages that they and the administration promptly settle on an agreement.
“I know for a lot of... Read more
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Labour negotiations between faculty and Wilfrid Laurier University broke down late last night, as the Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty Association (WLUFA), the union that represents the faculty members, filed for a “no board” report to the Ontario ministry of labour.
According to Kevin Crowley, the... Read more
This evening, the recently elected Wilfrid Laurier University Students' Union board of directors voted as to who would serve as chair and vice chair for the coming year.
Jon Pryce was acclaimed to his role as chair of the board of directors, after placing first in his re-election as director.
"[The feeling is] incredible, we're going to do a fantastic job this year and I'm looking forward to hearing any new ideas that the director-elects have, and working with them... Read more
Wilfrid Laurier University professor Christopher Alcantara recently received a standard research grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, which will allow him to conduct research in his field of political science for the next two years.
Alcantara explained that this research project, which is being done with his colleague, Jen Nelles, concerns governmental relations between First Nations and municipalities, and indigenous and non-indigenous peoples.
“Everyone has ignored the relationship between First Nations and municipalities,” stated Alcantara. “No one... Read more
The constant ebb of students flowing through the Wilfrid Laurier University Concourse on a daily basis made it a prime location for the WLU Accessible Learning team to station themselves on Feb. 1 and 2 for their Accessibility Awareness Week event.
Held annually, the event is meant to promote disability awareness on campus.
“We want to educate the community about the supports that we provide from within the [Accessible Learning] Centre, but we invite a number of community providers to... Read more
Last semester, 17 Wilfrid Laurier University social work students took part in the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program — an innovative experiential learning project allowing university students and incarcerated peoples to take university-level classes together.
Each week the “outside,” or university students, would travel to the Grand Valley Institute for Women, a federal correctional facility located in Kitchener, to complete one of their required courses (Diversity, Marginalization and Oppression) with incarcerated, or “insider” students.
“Almost immediately it would disappear from my... Read more
During the 2010 troop surge in Afghanistan, the number of international forces in the southern regions of the country grew from 70 to 100,000. In Kandahar and Helmand provinces, where the heaviest fighting with the Taliban was taking place, the numbers of available soldiers shifted from 15, 000 to almost 60,000 troops.
“What does that allow you to do?” Colonel David Patterson, of the Canadian forces, proposed last Thursday evening at the Laurier Center for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies... Read more
