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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 Gabriel Rodrigues This weekend, the Laurentian University women’s hockey team earned a split in their first two home games of their inaugural season. On Saturday, Oct. 5, the Voyageurs played their first-ever season game at the CIS level when they lost 4-0 to an experienced Guelph Griffons team at[…]
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[…]
Column by Mark Mancini It’s an exciting year at Laurentian. Thanks to the leadership demonstrated by President Andy Rollins, Executive Director Charles Wilson, VP Services Iain Park, and the entire SGA staff team, things are moving forward in the Students’ General Association. The launch of the V-Desk is a seminal[…]
By Kallie Berens With just over two weeks shy of their album release party at the Townehouse Tavern, Carter and Clayton Drake of one of Sudbury’s “boy bands” The Almighty Rhombus took some time out of their busy schedule to talk to The Lambda about “Lucid Living,” balancing life and[…]
By Kayla Perry On Sept. 15, members of the SGA and Laurentian celebrated the V-Desk’s grand opening in the student lounge. The V-Desk acts as an SGA reception desk, where students can buy tickets to school and city events, get information on clubs and services such as the health care[…]
By Gabriel Rodrigues On Sunday, Sept. 22, the Laurentian Voyageurs men’s hockey team kicked off their preseason with a 7-3 victory against the Nipissing Lakers at the Gerry McCrory Countryside Sports Complex. The Voyageurs scored within the first two minutes of the game and continued their strong play by tallying[…]
By Gabriel Rodrigues Laurentian University’s Residence Life staff held a their second annual ball hockey tournament at the tennis courts on Sept. 20 to 22 in support of Easter Seals. “We thought it would be pretty cool to bring in a street hockey tournament,” said Ryan Hicks, program coodinator. In[…]