Urging students to take precaution
Precautions for student safety don’t just remain within the Wilfrid Laurier University campus The Waterloo Region Police Services (WRSP) are urging that all students who live...
New dining hall system continues to be ‘divisive’
While many students at Wilfrid Laurier University have continued to rally against both the new dining hall’s physical appearance and overall operational system, they have...
CIGI hosts former US agent
Last Thursday, as part of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) signature lecture series, Washington insider, former CIA analyst and Brookings Institution...
U of W cheating scandal
Academic integrity and honesty, two of the University of Waterloo’s (UW) most defining values, are being called into question amid a plagiarism scandal that has plagued the...
Starlight to host benefit
A fire that engulfed and destroyed a building in Uptown Waterloo in August containing independent business Ish and Chips, has hit close to home for other local entrepreneurs,...
Laurier ‘maxed out’ on study space
Looking around Laurier’s Waterloo campus, one thing is clear: there are students everywhere — and the university is quite aware of this “We know we are maxed out on...
Field course allows cultural experiences
Graduate students from the Aboriginal field of study at Wilfrid Laurier University spent last week in the bush as part of the program’s culture camp Spanning from Sept 9-14,...
Admissions up, arts down
Similarly to last year, the faculty of arts at Wilfrid Laurier University suffered a slight dip in enrolment for first-year students for 2012-13 While the drop isn’t alarming...
Impact of technology at WLU
An article recently published by the CBC entitled “How Texting is Putting the Squeeze on Academic Writing” examined the question of whether texting is negatively impacting the...
The Cord partners with CTV
The Cord has started a partnership with CTV Kitchener, which will give our staff an opportunity to report for the local news To kick things off, we are producing a four-part...