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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[…]
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[…]
Halloween this year is very different from ones in the past. Without being able to get together or go trick-or-treating, it’s hard to get into that spooky season mood. Thankfully, film and T.V. are great escapes from the horrors of reality into the mess of someone else’s! For that, here[…]
By Shanleigh Brosseau, Editor-in-Chief This is my first editorial of this year, so let me introduce myself – I’m Shanleigh, current Editor-in-Chief of the Lambda. I’ll be graduating this upcoming year with a degree in Communication Studies. Contributing to the Lambda has been one of the most important aspects of my time[…]
By Alice Lunakova, Columnist My stay at Laurentian is rapidly coming to an end, and so it is time to look back and evaluate. Since September, I’ve shared with you my points of view on several experiences in Sudbury, which gave you insight into the life of an international student.[…]
By Alyssa Boudreau, Contributor I have suffered from anxiety and depression since high school. Last year, my first year of university, I struggled hard, but was too nervous to get help. Fast forward to last semester, the beginning of November: I sat at a table in the middle of Fraser, sobbing[…]
UPDATE: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 By Jessica Robinson, Editor-in-Chief Following the publication of the opinion editorial regarding the recent SGA emergency senator elections, the SGA Chairman of the board, Andrew Bradley, reached out to the Lambda to clarify and correct certain factual errors. The initial claim that the senator by-elections[…]
By Dane Sauve, for the Lambda While most students hit the books on the afternoon of November 14, the Brenda Wallace Reading room was filled with an anxious crowd, listening intently to the Minister of Employment, Patricia Hajdu, and the Sudbury MP, Paul Lefebvre. Advertised as a Town Hall, the[…]
By Alice Lunáková, international columnist When the first rumours about the possibility of a faculty strike started to go around, I did not pay much attention to it. I considered it empty talk based on my experience from my homeland, Czech Republic. It happens from time to time that teachers, bus[…]
By: Riley Brooks, Columnist Originally published in print, November 2016. As we all know, tuition prices across the country are skyrocketing. This isn’t a plea for free tuition–I’m not sure that people who call to “fight the fees” have thought about the quality of educators and education that free tuition will[…]