Author: Graeme Gordon
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Prof Profile: Rick Gamble
There is a certain charismatic charm that Rick Gamble exudes as a lecturer at Laurier Brantford. In his widely popular Contemporary Studies and Journalism course, Media in a Global World, I remember…
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The job reality for Laurier
The ‘Careers in Criminology Fair’ took place last Thursday, November 15, in the RCW lobby with a high turnout of upper-year Criminology students, alongside a medley of senior students from other programs.…
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Tasty Grant for LB Professor
Brenda Murphy, Associate Professor of Geography and Contemporary Studies at Laurier Brantford, has secured a $380,100 research grant to study the effects of maple syrup production due to climate change. Murphy, a…
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Cold Case Society adds student sleuths from LB
Katy Rozad, a fourth year criminology student, is the newest research assistant added to professor Michael Arntfield’s Western-based Cold Case Society. The Cold Case Society is a university club that Dr. Arntfield…
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Commonplace: plagiarism and academic misconduct
On the website Essay Experts Inc., a slick salesman on a YouTube video pitches to customers “model papers” that are “completely customized and 100 per cent original, with no plagiarism!” A disclaimer…
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Brantford International Jazz Festival
Jazz is a music genre that encompasses the entire medium of music. There’s blues-jazz, jazz-rock, Cuban jazz, and, of course, smooth jazz. The abundance of sub-genres combined all together in to one…
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The Rodeo: the untold swingers’ story
For a year and half now, a private swingers club called Club 2250 has been operating at 20 Dalhousie St. at the corner of Brant. This establishment – better known to students…
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The Rodeo: the untold swingers story
For a year and half now, a private swingers club called Club 2250 has been operating at 20 Dalhousie St. at the corner of Brant. This establishment – better known to students…
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O-Week 2012
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Leading up to O-Week
On Monday, Sept. 3, over 600 first-year students moved into residence in Brantford and began their new life journey away from home. Welcoming them were volunteer upper-year students who gave them…
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A jubilee fit for coal
On June 3 I turned on my TV and changed the channel to the CBC to get my daily dose of international…
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Prometheus: a fallen titan
“Big things have small beginnings,” says Michael Fassbender’s robotic character, David, midway through Prometheus. Indeed, this line of dialogue may be the biggest lie in Ridley Scott’s lackluster blockbuster, with the stark…
