There is a certain charismatic charm that Rick Gamble exudes as a lecturer at Laurier Brantford. In his widely popular Contemporary Studies and Journalism course, Media in a Global World, I remember Professor Gamble, in his signature blazer, pacing the…
The ‘Careers in Criminology Fair’ took place last Thursday, November 15, in the RCW lobby with a high turnout of upper-year Criminology students, alongside a medley of senior students from other programs. Information booths were set-up by employers ranging from…
Brenda Murphy, Associate Professor of Geography and Contemporary Studies at Laurier Brantford, has secured a $380,100 research grant to study the effects of maple syrup production due to climate change. Murphy, a faculty member of LB since its inception in…
Katy Rozad, a fourth year criminology student, is the newest research assistant added to professor Michael Arntfield’s Western-based Cold Case Society. The Cold Case Society is a university club that Dr. Arntfield founded in 2010 that branched from a criminology…
On the website Essay Experts Inc., a slick salesman on a YouTube video pitches to customers “model papers” that are “completely customized and 100 per cent original, with no plagiarism!” A disclaimer at the bottom of the page explains that…
Jazz is a music genre that encompasses the entire medium of music. There’s blues-jazz, jazz-rock, Cuban jazz, and, of course, smooth jazz. The abundance of sub-genres combined all together in to one allows for jazz to be accessible to many…
For a year and half now, a private swingers club called Club 2250 has been operating at 20 Dalhousie St. at the corner of Brant. This establishment – better known to students as the Rodeo Bar & Grill – is…
For a year and half now, a private swingers club called Club 2250 has been operating at 20 Dalhousie St. at the corner of Brant. This establishment – better known to students as the Rodeo Bar & Grill – is…
On Monday, Sept. 3, over 600 first-year students moved into residence in Brantford and began their new life journey away from home. Welcoming them were volunteer upper-year students who gave them a helping-hand moving into their rooms and showing…
On June 3 I turned on my TV and changed the channel to the CBC to get my daily dose of international news. To my chagrin, the CBC had ceased…
“Big things have small beginnings,” says Michael Fassbender’s robotic character, David, midway through Prometheus. Indeed, this line of dialogue may be the biggest lie in Ridley Scott’s lackluster blockbuster, with the stark transition from a science fiction film for the…
