Greetings, and congratulations on choosing Laurier Brantford for your post-secondary career. This special edition of The Sputnik is all yours, guided to help introduce you to both the City of Brantford as well as the Laurier Brantford campus. Using our experience and knowledge of life in the Laurier Brantford community, we have set out to honestly answer some of the burning questions you may have as you anxiously wait to begin your university career.

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Wilfrid Laurier University Student Publications, WLUSP, is Laurier's offical autonomous, student-run media organization. A non-profit corporation, WLUSP is best known for the publications it produces that serve both campuses. Over the past eighty years, Student Publications has been proud to produce award-winning, relevant media that...

“I want you to hit me as hard as you can.”

This, a line from the David Fincher film that influenced our front page, fully embodies what the issue you’re holding now is trying to achieve. In this issue of The Sputnik we are, as our themed title suggests, breaking the rules. The Sputnik has, for the majority of its life at Laurier Brantford, stuck to its basic mandate of providing a news-oriented publication to the campus and up until...

Tuition rates in Canada have been steadily increasing over the past decade. More accurately, it’s rising at four times the rate of inflation, according to the Consumer Price Index, and that figure is set to keep climbing

In Ontario alone, the average tuition rate for domestic students rose by 207%, from $1680 in 1990-91 to $5160 in 2006-07. And let’s not forget those pesky ancillary fees – extra charges that cover athletic programs, health services and student associations. When...

Greetings and welcome to Laurier Brantford! If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance that you’re an incoming student. This edition of the Sputnik has been designed especially for you, in the hopes that we can make some introductions and address some of the anxious questions you might have about (y)our school and (y)our city. We’ve dressed this issue as a survival guide, to give you the benefit of our experience and knowledge as current students of Laurier Brantford with...

The Students’ Union elections are upon us, and candidates for the Brantford Campus Council, Board of Directors and President and CEO of WLUSU are actively campaigning for the vote. The one position missing from the ballot the last few years is that of the head of WLUSU at our Brantford Campus: the executive vice presidentof Brantford operations. While this position was once elected by students, it is now hired internally by our elected president and a hiring committee. This brings...

In this article, the first in a series of unsigned editorials from the Sputnik, we’ll be taking a look at one of the most sensitive wartime issues: torture and specifically, what stance Canada should adopt on torture.

There is an immediate feeling that torture is somehow innately wrong, that it flies in the face of what it means to be a citizen of “the West.” It’s barbaric: human beings are put through the most physically and psychologically traumatic punishments imaginable...