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Touring Africa for change

Water Cycle’s logo courtesy of Acacia Betancourt                       By Ron Guillet Does traveling across the barren, potentially dangerous African landscape on a bicycle with no bottled water sound exciting to you? To Water Cycle, a non-profit organization, it is a[…]

The Free Store impacts student lives

By Ron Guillet The Free Store is unique to others stores for one central reason: Thieves can obtain any item they wish, for free, without getting tackled by security moments thereafter. That’s because The Free Store prides itself on delivering quality items to money-deprived university students free of charge. While[…]

SGA election results (official, from the CRO)

FINAL RESULTS FROM SGA/AGE GENERAL RE-ELECTION 2011-2012: (869 VOTES OBTAINED) aka QUORUM MET -PRESIDENT: Charlie Andrews: 469 votes Keygan Ricketts: 388 votes -VICE PRESIDENT STUDENT ISSUES: Tim Campbell: 507 votes Casey Lalonde: 346 votes -VICE PRESIDENT SERVICES: Iain Park: 495 votes James Sylvestre: 355 votes -SENATORS: Zachary Courtemanche: 660 yes /[…]

Meet Sudbury’s candidates: Thursday, 12pm

CBC/Northern Life Election Round Table Come and meet your Sudbury riding candidates at Laurentian University on Thursday. Markus Schwabe from Morning North with moderate a discussion with the candidates followed by questions from the audience. Laurentian University — library rotunda 12pm, Thursday, April 7th Everyone welcome.

Air Farce’s Roger Abbott dead at 64

By Callam Rodya One of Canada’s most prolific and recognizable television personalities has died. Roger Abbott, long-time cast member of the popular CBC sketch comedy program Royal Canadian Air Farce, passed away Saturday night at Toronto General Hospital. He was 64. Abbott was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia 14 years[…]

REVIEW: The Adjustment Bureau has something for everyone

By Rob Howell Lambda Film Critic Bringing the viewer questions about God, free will, and a possible answer to why Fedoras are trendy, The Adjustment Bureau is Hollywood’s third adaptation of the works of Phillip K. Dick, and, once again, we get a great piece of cinema. Bureau is the[…]

Students okay with tuition increases, budget cuts: study

By Tannara Yelland CUP Prairies & Northern Bureau Chief SASKATOON (CUP) — When students know their university is facing a budget crisis they are willing to accept both tuition increases and budget cuts, according to a new study. Higher Education Strategy Associates found that when asked to consider a university’s[…]

Results of the Mar. 23/24 SGA Election

By Callam Rodya Here are the results of the Mar. 23/24 SGA-AGE Election for the 2011-2012 school year. These results have now been deemed invalid by the election’s Chief Returning Officer due to a failure to reach quorum. For more details, read SGA election invalid, re-ballot scheduled for April. SGA[…]

UPDATED: SGA election invalid, re-ballot scheduled for April

By Callam Rodya Updated @ 7:32 p.m. on Mar. 27 The results of last week’s 2011-2012 SGA-AGE elections have been deemed invalid. The election’s Chief Returning Officer, Alexander Bourdon, made the call late Friday morning after the set quorum of 15 per cent of members, as outlined in the SGA[…]

Lambda Election Guide

It’s election time and Lambda has done some of the leg work for you. We’ve compiled profiles on the candidates for SGA 2011-2012 office. Click the link bellow to download the official Lambda Election Guide. LambdaElectionPamphlet lambda@laurentian.ca