Laurentian University's English Student Newspaper
By Nicholas Durette *Trigger warning: mentions of mental health and cancer* “Mental health and suicide prevention, prostate cancer and testicular cancer – we’re taking them all on.” Since 2003, this has been the motto of “Movember”, the leading charity for men’s health worldwide. Seventeen years later, the idea of not[…]
By Lexey Burns, Editor in Chief In an attempt to make the return to university a little more optimistic, students on the popular app Tik Tok have created a bingo, called the COVID-19 at university edition. The premise of the game is to list different possible outcomes returning back to[…]
By Lexey Burns, Editor in Chief Laurentian University’s Senate has announced that the winter semester will be delayed one week to give professors time to grade essays and prepare their courses for remote delivery. Serge Demers, Registrar and Secretary of Senate, released a statement to students Thursday saying that “at[…]
By Lexey Burns, Editor in Chief A small electrical fire was ignited in Laurentian’s Science Ⅱ building late last week. Tracy Oost, the lab instructor for Forensic Anatomy of the Human Skeleton lab, said that “the fire occurred on Thursday morning at about 10:50 am.” She says that she was[…]
By Lexey Burns, Editor in Chief The Pub Downunder is offering a new event to students who needed a break during midterm season. Bachelorette nights! The popular reality T.V. series that has won the hearts of viewers across North America was brought to Laurentian’s campus by the SGA. The viewing[…]
By Lexey Burns, Editor in Chief “It basically started from that Instagram post,” second-year Political Science student Kristiina Räisänen said. At the end of July, the SGA announced on their Instagram that the Universal Buss Pass (UPass) would not be a part of the association’s student fees in the Fall[…]
by Lexey Burns, Editor in Chief The question many students and staff have been asking since the pandemic began, when will they be able return to an in-person learning experience? But despite hopes that classrooms would reopen, Laurentian students will not be returning to in-person learning for the 2021 winter[…]
by Lexey Burns, Editor in Chief Laurentian Residence is refunding unused flex dollars to students in residence. When the school reopened for the 2020/2021 school year following the COVID-19 pandemic, Chartwells and Laurentian’s residence abandoned regular mandatory meal plans in favour of $500 in flex dollars to spend at GHall,[…]
By Lexey Burns, Editor in Chief The battle between students and Chartwells’ continues. Fourth year Zoology student Colin Mar is asking students to sign a petition to bring awareness to the the lack of food choices on campus. Mar says he wants more local Sudbury businesses partnering with Chartwells to[…]
By Lexey Burns, Editor in Chief The Laurentian University Faculty Association [LUFA] says they have voted to reopen the admissions of programs suspended by the university in late July. In a media statement, LUFA said that the programs had been initially suspended incorrectly by Interim Vice-President Academic and Provost Serge[…]