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Monthly Archive: November 2010

Sports Recap

By Andy Veilleux Male athletes of the week Voyageurs basketball player Isiah Pasquale has been named male athlete of the week ending on Nov. 21. Pasquale, a fourth year English student, had a game-high 32 points and eight rebounds Friday against Wilfrid Laurier, Pasquale also added twelve points and seven[…]

Review: HP and the Deathly Hallows is fun but flawed

By Rob Howell Lambda Film Critic If there’s anything to be said about Harry Potter’s fanbase of readers, it’s that they’re rabid. I spent an hour and a half of my Thursday night standing in line, waiting for the movie to start, and all the while being bombarded by people[…]

In the Nov. 25th issue of Lambda…

The new issue comes out tomorrow! Here’s what you can look forward to: Part I of Callam Rodya’s two-part profile on Margaret Atwood The new senate-approved undergraduate degree structure Plenty of sports coverage including the Wolves and the  Super Series A film review and new installment of It Came from[…]

Lambda to feature Margaret Atwood in next issue

Lambda’s Arts & Entertainment Editor, Callam Rodya, will be sitting down with Margaret Atwood tomorrow morning to discuss her birthday celebrations and the new documentary about her 2009 international book tour called In the Wake of the Flood, directed by Ron Mann. Do you have any questions for Ms. Atwood?[…]

Aramark food services found lacking: Globe study

By Callam Rodya This article appears in the Nov. 11th issue of Lambda Newspaper. For some time, prospective and current students, and administrations alike have turned to university rankings as a gauge of quality in institutions of higher education. In Canada, two major publications are generally considered the de facto[…]

Laurentian scores B- in Globe report

By Andy Veilleux There are several ways for the president of a Canadian university to gauge their school’s performance against their peers. There are KPIs, the Maclean’s rankings, the Gourman Report, and, of course, the Globe and Mail’s Canadian University Report.Laurentian University president Dominic Giroux finds the Globe and Mail’s[…]

Lambda Poll

In the newest issue of Lambda, we published a story on Laurentian’s on-campus food services and the low grade they received in the Globe & Mail’s 2010 Canadian University Report. Please take a moment to answer the new food services poll located in the far right column. Thank you, Callam[…]

New issue out now!

The new issue of Lambda is out now! We appologize for the delay and hope to avoid any press or distribution issues in the future. Callam Rodya Arts & Entertainment/Online Editor lambdaspotlight@gmail.com

NOSM strike comes to an end

By Callam Rodya It has finally come to an end – and this time, it’s for real. On Friday, Nov. 5, the striking Northern Ontario Medical School support workers of OPSEU Local 677 voted 78.2 per cent in favor of a new tentative agreement that had been reached with the[…]

Thorneloe presents new adaptation of Romeo & Juliet

By Nina Nesseth Thorneloe Theatre Arts’ fall mainstage production will capture audiences with an unconventional approach to William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Joe Calarco’s Shakespeare’s R & J takes us into The Bard’s most popular tragedy through the experiences of four male students at a Catholic boarding school in the[…]