MICHAEL PIRILLO / THE SPUTNIK PHOTOGRAPHY As we make our way through another online midterm season, I’m realizing just how little I have learned since last March. This time last year, I was fully engaged in most of…
GRAPHIC BY NATASHA O’NEILL / THE SPUTNIK PHOTOGRAPHY In honour of International Women’s day, a day to embrace and appreciate femininity’s beauty, The Sputnik interviewed Izabella Corniel. Corniel is a fourth-year Laurier Brantford student from London, Ont., who…
PHOTO BY SARA SHEIKH / THE SPUTNIK PHOTOGRAPHY Many students find it hard to keep their sanity in the middle of all the chaos COVID-19 has caused, and continues to cause. According to the Centers for Disease…
GRAPHIC BY NATASHA O’NEILL / THE SPUTNIK PHOTOGRAPHY A year ago, on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global pandemic. Students remember hearing their email notifications going off later that week on the…
Procrastination is my greatest vice. I love getting by. I hate advice. Some of our most genuine inspiration comes from the fire. The fire being a burning sensation from under your ass the night or two before your term papers…
The new school year brings another wave of freshmen into residence, and with it the uneasy mumble of the “Freshman 15”. Leaving home without any real experience in living without parents is naturally daunting. With it comes responsibilities, one of…
Something interesting happened in Quebec City. This actually shocked me. Something I never knew could possibly happen in today’s society with all Canada’s policies and legislations that protect us. At Neufchatel High School, a fifteen-year-old student was strip-searched by teachers…
#Halfahawknomore is the popular hashtag swirling around social media after Luc Daviau, Aryan Arvandi and Victoria Wong’s effort to promote the idea of an academic library on the Laurier Brantford campus. With the recent purchase of Market Square, many students…
Ontario’s health curriculum has not been updated since 1998. Guess what else happened in 1998? Google. One of the biggest online search engines. It put the whole wide world in hands reach, and that could be a child’s hands, and…
With the recent job cuts and contract academic staff speaking out about unfairness, Laurier’s finances are under a microscope. But as staff, students and the community are trying to understand the decisions Laurier has recently made, it is important to…
On Friday Feb. 27, Assumption College School debuted this year’s production, a stage musical adaptation of Tarzan, based on both the Disney film of the same name and Edgar Rice Burroughs’ story, Tarzan of the Apes. With pre-production beginning in June 2014…
After the family dinners, expensive gifts and steady consumption of alcohol – you are back for the Winter semester and classes are about to start. Before you know it, the summer will be here and you will hopefully have plans…
Believe it or not, fall semester is coming to an end. For many students, this means it is time to start planning where to go next year. We have compiled some tips based on the opportunities and resources available to…
What do you picture when you hear the word bully? I guess the image is going to differ between each individual and their personal experiences. I personally see a young, insecure individual that lacks attention in some area of their…
Laurier Brantford’s Student Food Bank cracked out their grills on Tuesday for the first time this year, to hand out free grilled cheese sandwiches to eager students. Kathleen Bee, Laurier Brantford’s Student Food Bank coordinator, says the group anticipated anywhere…
With the temperature rapidly dropping, the chaos of classes, and the complexity of human relationships, it is no surprise students are feeling a bit high-strung. Fourth-year student Miranda Small has been “overwhelmed with stress” lately. Small, 21, is trying to…
You will never make it to university! Why can’t you just be happier? I don’t understand why you’re like this! Just snap out of it! Sometimes, people do not have a wide understanding about mental health. This misunderstanding of mental…
It’s time for midterms. Workloads are mounting. You just finished eight hours of class, and no, you cannot go have a beer with your friends because you have so many readings to do just to get through the next two…
I had set out on an adventure over the past month or so trying to answer the question: Is Laurier’s enrolment down this year? At the time, I did not fully understand the difficulty in answering this question. But I…
Constable Chris Button visited Laurier Brantford today on behalf of the Hamilton Police Service to give hope to students pursuing the competitive industry of police servicing. Const. Button outlined the detailed hiring process and all of the steps one…
Imagine waking up one morning and following through with what you’ve been dreaming about doing, whether it’s going on that special vacation, finally pushing for that career you’ve always wanted or just packing everything you own into a suitcase and…
Starting next year, a new fall reading week will be introduced as a three-year pilot program. Students will receive a full week off following Thanksgiving weekend in addition to the existing winter reading week. As registrar Ray Darling explains, the…
There is something you should know about me before you start reading this article, for a bit of context. I am one of those students who sits in the front of the classroom with their hand glued to the ceiling,…
There are lots of stories around our campus, and others, about students returning to school at a later date to either finish their degree or start anew. There are many different reasons for coming back, and it is often inspiring…
Because money is not in abundance for the average student, he/she will do what is possible to save here and there. What better way to make a little pocket change than sell used course textbooks that will likely never be…
For the second time since the October fire safety session, Laurier Brantford has experienced another fire incident, this time in Grand River Hall. Special constables and the fire department arrived on the scene immediately, but the fire had already been…
With this past Monday and Tuesday’s frigid temperatures that dropped below -15 Celsius, many Laurier Brantford students were expecting the campus to be closed. However, regardless of weather conditions, the campus chose to run classes and remain open. “I feel…
Many students find themselves buried in stress as exams and the threat of paying off sky-high holiday bills become ever-closer. This could just be stress, or, to some who may not know, this may be the beginning of seasonal depression.…
Laurier Brantford opened its doors to showcase the school to prospective students on Friday, Nov. 8. Students came to tour the campus’ facilities and decide whether Laurier is the right fit for them. “It was amazing. There were so many…
Following a guest lecture from accomplished freelance investigative journalist Alison Motluk, we had a chance to catch up with her and get her thoughts on the journalism industry and a little advice about how to get started. Motluk has a…
