Laurentian University's English Student Newspaper
by Lexey Burns, Editor-in-Chief Robert Haché, President of Laurentian University, says the school is “taking the additional step to require all persons attending campus to be vaccinated against COVID-19” just days after announcing that only students living in residence and varsity athletes would need to be vaccinated. “With increasing infection[…]
by Lexey Burns, Editor-in-Chief Laurentian’s bookstore will be closing for good. On August 3rd, Laurentian announced the closure of the bookstore’s location in the Parker Building. “Many changes have taken place on campus during the time we’ve been away,” an email sent from Laurentian’s Communications team said. “An increasing number[…]
by Lexey Burns, Editor-in-Chief Students returning to Laurentian University will be required to have their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine by September 4th and the second dose by October 15th. On August 11th, 2021, Robert Haché released a President’s Update saying “Laurentian University will require COVID-19 vaccinations for students[…]
by Lexey Burns, Editor-in-Chief Luc Roy, Chief Information Officer at Laurentian University said that “nothing was misbehaving” in IT after allegations that course material over a variety of different programs were suddenly deleted last week. “I remember there was a tweet over last weekend about access being removed or something[…]
by Lexey Burns, Editor-in-Chief Kristen Lavallee is completing her first year at Laurentian University in the Indigenous Social Work (ISWK) program. She was one of several students whose course material suddenly disappeared from D2L, a learning software used by Laurentian professors across programs. Lavallee said that online content was deleted[…]
by Lexey Burns, Editor-in-Chief Robert Haché, President of Laurentian University, says in a CCAA update that the cutting of almost 70 undergraduate and graduate programs and the firing of over 100 faculty and staff members were “major milestones in the first phase of Laurentian’s CCAA process.” “To accomplish these milestones,[…]
by Lexey Burns, Editor-in-Chief Former SGA vice-president Katlyn Kotila is calling out the Students’ General Association (SGA), asking “what they can do to better support students.” In a Facebook post, Kotila said: “As a student, the silence coming from my own association… in addition to those from other associations who[…]
by Lexey Burns, Editor-in-Chief Laurentian will be taking over Huntington’s Gerontology program and placing it into the Faculty of Arts. Laurentian made the announcement following an emergency, in camera Senate meeting to determine the fate of the school as it goes through CCAA proceedings. The announcement said that “The program[…]
by Lexey Burns, Editor-in-Chief After a meeting on Friday April 2nd, many faculty members are concerned about the outcome of Tuesday’s emergency “in camera” Senate meeting. Reuben Roth, a Workplace and Labour studies professor explained in the meeting that “ ’In camera’ = behind closed doors.” It is not open to[…]
by Lexey Burns, Editor-in-Chief As Laurentian University began its Companies’ Creditor Arrangement Act (CCAA) the community was warned that there would be cuts ahead, but the separation between Laurentian and the federated universities came as a shock to many. Dr. Aven McMaster has been teaching at Thorneloe University for 14[…]