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by Lexey Burns, Editor-in-Chief Open food services on Laurentian’s campus have been limited due to the COVID-19 pandemic in September. But the shutdowns don’t seem to end. With the second lockdown being extended to January 23rd, one of the two remaining places to get food on campus is closing its[…]
by Lexey Burns, Editor-in-Chief First, there’s a difference between online learning and remote delivery. Online learning is a regular class that you would have taken online asynchronously, where students are given guidelines and are required to teach themselves the material. Remote delivery is either synchronous or asynchronous, but there are[…]
School says $10 million needed to repair Jeno Tihanyi Pool by Lexey Burns, Editor-in-Chief Laurentian University says that the Ben Avery Complex and the Jeno Tihanyi Pool will not be opening any time soon. Marie Josée Berger, Provost and Vice-President at Laurentian, says that the university estimates that the cost[…]
By Lexey Burns, Editor in Chief As Lambda’s editor-in-chief, it’s my job to continuously watch the transparency of the Students’ General Association. In 2020, this has been particularly difficult. To my knowledge, the SGA has not advertised any of their meetings this year. They have also neglected to post any[…]
By Lexey Burns, Editor in Chief Laurentian’s Students’ General Association has invited students to attend their December general meeting. This is the first time they have advertised a meeting in the 2020/2021 school year. But the SGA has not published board meeting minutes since their January meeting in 2019. This[…]
By Lexey Burns, Editor in Chief The COVID-19 pandemic has forced students to adapt to an entirely new style of learning for the 2020/2021 school year, resulting in some students’ grades to suffer. In the spring, Laurentian’s senate permitted students to opt for a pass/fail grade. Rather than receiving a[…]
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[…]