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By Kayla Perry A new initiative has been launched for students in Sudbury: the Off-Campus Perks website. The website is geared towards students from Laurentian University, Cambrian College, and College Boreal, and showcases a number of deals and offers from local businesses. Chris Mercer, Chief of Staff at LU, was[…]
By Vanessa Difeo This season, film and television acting classes are being offered through the Sudbury Theatre Centre (STC). Aspiring adult actors of all levels are being encouraged to partake in this program instructed by award-winning film director and Laurentian University professor Benjamin Paquette. This course will take place on[…]
By Gabriel Rodrigues The Peer Health Education Team (PHET) at Laurentian University will hold its first annual bake sale, as it “creates cancer awareness,” according to the program coordinator. “This event is for breast cancer awareness but to round it all up, we will do testicular and cervical cancer since[…]
By Kayla Perry Charles Ramcharan, an LU biology professor, says he is “concerned that the students, and even most of the faculty (at LU), aren’t aware of all the environmental things that are going on in town.” His concern is the very reason he decided to organize Laurentian University’s first Green Day,[…]
By Kayla Perry Joshua Danduran, third-year French Communications Studies student, was elected SGA senator in a board by-election. The by-election, which took place during the Oct. 10 SGA board meeting, determined that Danduran would join Carolyn Lablanc and Casey Lalonde in the senate. Danduran said he ran for the position[…]
By Kayla Perry Can puppies really help reduce stress? Krystal Siebert, a fourth-year bio-med student, thinks so. “The puppies are great,” said Siebert, as young Cubby, a black lab mix, wriggles in her arms. “With midterms around the corner, playing with the care-free puppies really helps my stress levels.” Between[…]
By Rob Pollock Barrie, Ontario is the largest urban area in the province without a university – Laurentian University wants to change that fact. “Our students, faculty and staff in Barrie have asked for their own campus, and they deserve it,” says Dominic Giroux, the president of Laurentian University. The[…]
By Kayla Perry The SGA has decided it’s time to “revamp” the organization’s 20-year-old constitution. The constitutional reform was proposed at the first Students’ General Association board meeting of the year, on Sept. 25, and President Andy Rollins said the SGA executive put out a “call to board members” to[…]
By Kayla Perry The Laurentian University website is being updated, as recent site-viewers may have noticed by the yellow banner at the top of the page. Jean-Paul Rains, manager of digital strategy at Laurentian, says the website is getting an update in order to become more efficient for visitors and students alike. “The website is a recruitment[…]
By Vanessa Difeo The latest seminar to be offered at Laurentian University offers students a chance to collaborate with two professional, internationally renowned standup comedians, Darren Frost and Kenny Robinson. Essentially, the seminar will be four hours long. “The first half of the session will deal with over 50 points[…]