Author: The Sputnik
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Golden Hawks Charge Into Playoffs With Home Field
The Laurier Golden Hawks football team removed any doubts about not making the playoffs this weekend, clinching not just a spot in the post-season but home field advantage for the quarterfinals. The…
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Cold Reception or Normal Process?
The Young New Democrats of Brantford, for all of their vigor, enthusiasm and star power in the form of a popular MP candidate, haven’t been able to penetrate Laurier Brantford’s club life.…
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Montoya Ruling Still Up In The Air
Laurier’s football team is still waiting to hear an ineligibility decision that could cost Laurier their victory over the Toronto Varsity Blues earlier this season. Following that game, it became known that…
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Blood: It’s in you to give?
Giving blood is an experience that can be both fulfilling and terrifying. The truth though, is that no matter the emotion you feel, that little donated bag has the potential to save…
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Hawks Fall To Sinopli, Tough Gee-Gees Squad
In this past weekend’s matchup, the Golden Hawks traveled to the national capital to face the highly rated Ottawa Gee-Gees, and Brad Sinopli, considered one of the best quarterbacks in all of…
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Blasting through excuses
I don’t have time to exercise. I make time. Balancing one’s schedule is a constantly evolving art. Working out tends to be easy to de-prioritize, coming second to the un-negotiables: things like…
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Ravens Hopeful For Return to Football
Students at Carleton University may not have to go without a football team for much longer, with some slating the possible return of Ravens football as early as the 2012 season. There…
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Human Rights Tribunal Under Fire
Canada’s Human Rights Tribunal is under public scrutiny again when its Ontario Tribunal (HRTO) interceded on a human rights complaint. Professor Emily Carasco, one of the two candidates shortlisted for the post…
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Pope Benedict XVI: You’ve Been Served
For the first time in history, the Pope may be going to court. Pope Benedict XVI has been named as a defendant in a lawsuit leveled against the Catholic Church by, you…
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Is the oil spill in the Gulf really over?
It had been gushing black goo for months, but the well that has spilled millions of liters of oil into the Gulf of Mexico was finally capped on September 19 2010. The…
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Happy hour at the cop shop
What can I get you to drink? It’s a question most university students have heard before. From a waitress through the murmuring chatter of a pub, or from a bartender screaming over…
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“Victims” bloodied for mock plane crash at Brantford airport
Complete with a wrecked airplane, fireworks and smoke, and plenty of fake gory wounds and blood, Brantford Emergency Services staged a mock plane crash at the Brantford airport last Thursday. The event…
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Study: texting bans ineffective
A recent study by the Highway Safety Data Institute (HSDI) in the U.S. has revealed some alarming trends in states that have banned texting while driving. The study began in 2007 and…
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The Future is -friendly- Expensive
Tarot card readings, astrology, clairvoyance and windows to the future. From fellow human beings who have tapped into another plane of existence come these wonderful gifts – all for a price. Brantford’s…
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Famous Psychics: Chip Coffey
Perhaps best known for his on-camera work on A&E’s Paranormal State, Chip Coffey is quickly becoming one of the best-known contemporary examples of a psychic. During his career, which began in early…
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Johnson’s Rules
If her fans haven’t forgotten her, by the time she gets to Brantford, Carolyn Dawn Johnson will have some songs to play for them. Johnson, who released her fourth album Love Rules…
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DWW hits the stage in Brantford
The red drink cups were flying and the music was pumping as pop/hip hop infusion group, Down With Webster, brought their electrifying energy to the Sanderson Centre on September 30. The night…
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Sex – it does a body good
I’ve been taking some heat lately for the things I write in Sex 101. Mainly, it’s from over-eager guys who add me to Facebook with the hopes of hooking up. It’s also…
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Vinyl turning the tables on CDs, MP3s
The 20th-century – parent era to the vinyl record. A place in time where a record collection helped you build your inner identity and determined to your peers whether you were “hip”…
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“Ongoing History of New Music” creator speaks at Laurier Waterloo
One would be hard-pressed to find someone with more musical minutia crammed into their head than Alan Cross. And when it comes to music history lessons like the one that was given…
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The Long-Gun Registry Stays, Bill C-391 Given the Kill Shot.
Conservative MP Candice Hoeppner’s private bill to abolish the long-gun registry was defeated in a vote of 153 to 151at the House of Commons last week. The controversial registry, which costs between…
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Laurier Mayoral Debate
Laurier hosted it’s second mayoral debate last night where seven of the nine candidates currently running for mayor appeared to answer two predetermined questions and face inquiries from an audience of citizens…
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HAWKBLOCKED! Laurier Stifles Guelph’s Offense, Wins Big at Homecoming
In arguably their most important game of the season to date, Laurier’s football Golden Hawks kept the No. 10 Guelph Gryphons out of the endzone on the way to a 36-2 victory.…
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Row, Row, Row Your Raft
Ripping down treacherous waters, holding on for dear life as waves splash in your face, great falls so steep and wonderful your heart flutters into your esophagus – these are the thrills…
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Life after Laurier: A tale for optimists
Economic stagnation and an influx of BA students to the job market hasn’t exactly inspired faith in expensive degrees and university as a launching pad for a successful career. But some Laurier…
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A sweeter fellow you could not meet
Marc Perez-Abergel was cautious of how he was dressed. His sweater always matched both his shirt and his hat, and on his fingers were always the same two sparkling gold rings. His…
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Profiling the Profs: Aaron Goodman
May, 2008: CBC Radio reports live on anti-government protests in Bangkok. Rebels take over the international airport for two weeks. Violence culminates in May when clashes with Thai security forces leave 80…
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Laurier Brantford Gets Technical
Thanks to a federal government grant, nearly half a million dollars will be spent on installing video conferencing equipment in various spaces inside Laurier Brantford’s newest campus building. The $466,145 grant from…
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Ethics Committee eyeing Journalism students
Four Laurier Brantford Professors have moved this year to create an ethics committee that would oversee student-proposed interviews for Journalism program courses. Professors Sue Ferguson, Thomas Rose, Ian MacRae and Bruce Gillespie…
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Student-Run Peace Festival Sheds Light on Local and Global Peace Concerns; Not Students
Organizers are calling Brantford’s second annual Local/Global Peace Festival a success, while wishing more students attended. The festival, held in Victoria Park on September 18, brought together a variety of campus, local,…
