Brantford commuters guide: Parking 101

In the first year of my undergrad I spent more money paying off parking tickets than I did on books. Easily. As it turns out, it would have been more financially beneficial for me to just buy a parking pass,…

Categories: Features

The hipster paradox

For some reason the word hipster often brings up disdain when brought into a conversation – especially when that conversation is with a hipster. Don’t get me wrong, hearing the word hipster in a sentence with my name used to…

Categories: Opinion

Smartphones add new dimensions to dating

If you’re settling down for the night by yourself, chances are pretty high that you are going to be on your phone. We all get lonely, right? It’s something we try to hide for fear of being needy or bothersome,…

Categories: Features

‘I was abducted by aliens’

“I’ve seen the X-Files…” he quips as he paces the room and ponders my question. I ask him if the following event confirms his belief and he nods in agreement. Sadat is a criminology student at Laurier. He also strongly…

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#NASH79 in review

Members from various student publications recently gathered in Fredericton for the 79th annual NASH conference, organized by the Canadian University Press (CUP). Representatives from Laurier included various editors and photographers from its respective student publications, including ten from The Cord,…

Categories: News

The final upset of 2016

Five to one odds, a 48 second fight that saw about 24 clean punches to the face, a relatively divided crowd (excited nonetheless), and a fallen champion with a bruised ego… Doesn’t it always seem like the most happens in…

Categories: Sports

2016: the year of the ‘L’

I think we should all take a post-game knee as 2016 comes to a close and reflect on what has been one of the most eventful and exhausting years of the 2010s – we all took the ‘L’ on this…

Categories: Opinion

Celeb deaths 2k16

It seems like we go through the same cycle of celebrity mourning every year; aging icons pass away and we all act dumbfounded, like death isn’t some essential of being alive or anything… But man, this year was different… right?…

Categories: Arts & Culture

Clown lives matter?

Now that the clown thing has finally blown over and we are worried about a different clown, I thought it might be a good time to deposit my two cents on the issue. There is no doubt in my mind…

Categories: Opinion

The Catfish Experience

With their profile pictures curated from Google images, their short contact list which might have one or two common friends, and a wall completely devoid of any actual social interaction, it’s almost as if they made the account yesterday just…

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