End impaired driving by overcoming a fear to confront
Earlier this month, five individuals in the Waterloo Region were charged with impaired driving in the span of six hours The police department acknowledges that despite general...
The Cord’s endorsements for the 2014 student elections
Presidential endorsement: Chandler Jolliffe There was no clear choice when The Cord’s editorial board first sat down to chat about its presidential candidate endorsement...
Letters to the Editor: February 5
RE: Life’s good and only getting better In the last edition of the Cord, Spencer Gibara’s opinion piece made numerous generalizations and assumptions about the...
Free speech a key Canadian value
On January 30th, the Laurier Students For Liberty club put up a Free Speech Wall in the Concourse The purpose of this wall was for any student to come up and write whatever they...
Faith depends on context
The other day, I was watching a documentary about Sam Berns called Life According to Sam Now, for those who don’t know who this young man was, Sam Berns was one of only about...
Bullying and self-worth
“Human beings as well as society are born out of both violence and gentle cooperation” This is a quotation from the late Bruno Bettelheim and defines the somewhat paradoxical...
Real understanding through fiction
Political junkies and academics take in news, journal articles, op-eds and non-fiction in alarming amounts, ingesting as much information as possible to inform their worldview and...
Life’s good and only getting better
Last week, a new study emerged that has reignited the already vicious debate regarding income inequality According to Oxfam International, the richest 85 people on the planet...
You control what’s next
When you’re in the final months of your undergrad, the most — I repeat the most — frustrating question you will receive is also going to be the most repetitive “What...
Funding cuts reveal impact deficit has on students
Due to the potential budget cuts that could impact the faculty of arts, as a result of Laurier’s projected $123 million deficit at the end of 2015, departments are beginning to...