Laurentian University's English Student Newspaper
By Jessica Robinson, Staff Reporter The energy in the Fraser auditorium was palpable, the excitement creating a veritable buzz, on the evening of Oct. 9. While waiting for the headlining speaker to take the stage at the Glencore Memorial Lecture Series, many audience member were pouring over pre-purchased copies of[…]
By Julia Nowicki, for the Lambda Laurentian University, along with Capital Projects, is expecting a new edition to the already growing campus. The School of Education will be the home of a new laboratory, built for Laurentian University’s Cardiovascular and Metabolic Research Unit (CMRU). Construction on the lab began in[…]
By Tina Siegel, CKLU for the Lambda It’s been a busy two years for Madeline Merlo. The young British Columbia native released her debut EP – called Madeline Merlo – in 2014, spent the summer doing a video series for CMT, and is now wrapping up a tour. Merlo calls[…]
By Kayla Perry, Editor-in-Chief As many students have learned by now, university is a balancing act. Often, we’re juggling social commitments and academic goals, all the while managing to fit in part-time work, volunteering, or extracurricular actives. Now that we’ve officially passed the halfway point of the semester, it’s clear[…]
By Kayla Perry, Editor-in-Chief The week of Oct. 5-11 brought National Tutor Appreciation week to the Centre for Academic Excellence (CAE) at Laurentian University. Tatiana Khapaeva works as an E-Learning programmer at Laurentian, and also acts as one of the 19 tutors who work with the CAE. “I love to[…]
By Emmalie Tomini, for the Lambda Does your main source of income come from digging change out from between couch cushions? Do you eat almost exclusively from the McDonalds dollar menu? As a starving student it can be hard to find the time, let alone the funds, to have an[…]
By Timothy Kraft, for the Lambda On Oct. 11, the Laurentian women’s Voyageurs soccer team defeated the UOIT Ridgebacks 1-0 to complete a successful double-header home weekend. Before game play, Richel Greenwood (goalkeeper), Kate Grant (trainer), Megan Ferguson (forward), Amanda Norrie (midfielder), and Gabrielle Conrad (center back), were honored, as[…]
By Emmalie Tomini, for the Lambda Although we’re only two months into the school year, Laurentian students seem to be settling into the fall term in style. For many students, this may even be the first time free of the knee-high stockings and sweater vests that school uniforms require – now,[…]
By Kayla Perry, Editor-in-Chief Among the typical memes and food-hack videos that are constantly flooding my Facebook newsfeed, one particular picture has stood out in the month leading up to the federal election. The picture features Rick Mercer, host of the Mercer Report and a relatively popular Canadian comedian and[…]
