Serena Anagbe / Photo EditorThe women’s team player #9 on the ice The Wilfrid Laurier University hockey season is well underway with the second tournament of the year at Fanshawe College on Jan. 25. Both the men’s and women’s teams…
Serena Anagbe / Photo EditorHockey fans have mixed reactions to the new idea International hockey hasn’t seen a best-on-best men’s hockey tournament in almost a decade, but that may be changing next year. Not since the last World Cup of…
Bachir Miloudi / Sputnik PhotographyValentine’s Day is right around the corner Swipe right, swipe left. How tall are you? How much money do you make? How recently was this photo taken? Swipe, Swipe, Swipe. Today’s dating scene is flooded with…
Serena Anagbe / Photo EditorDifferent clubs host speeches for Black History Month As students attending Wilfrid Laurier University, we all want to feel welcome and encouraged by our school and the community that exists within it. There are so many…
Contributed Photo / Katie Bird What better books to read than the ones made into a TV series so you can binge the book and the show back-to-back? Here are some recommendations for you! An absolute must read is Daisy…
Bachir Miloudi / Sputnik Photography Romcoms are the type of movie that people may enjoy all year long, but with Valentine’s Day fast-approaching, it now becomes the season of love, meet cutes and stories of romance. Romcoms are warm feel-good…
Karen Savoy / Sputnik Photography The following anonymous submission has been modified to maintain subjects’ anonymity and for clarity. I was on a date with this guy, and we went to his place for dinner. It was very nice, he…
Serena Anagbe / Photo EditorFrom left, Jane Desmond and 2023 alum Trinity Wilson at the Laurier International Multicultural Gala Thomas Shipp. Abram Smith. Emmett Till. Rodney King. George Floyd. Philando Castile. Sandra Bland. History remembers these names, the countless videos,…
Serena Anagbe / Photo EditorAn anarchist “A” Conservatism can best be characterized as a socio-political ideology rooted in the belief that existing power dynamics should stay the same, with the Cambridge English Dictionary defining the ideology as “the quality of…
Bachir Miloudi / Sputnik Photography As everybody was losing their minds over the new Barbie movie, the feminist uproar from social media made me very excited to watch it. I cannot lie, it was a great movie and I don’t…
Olga Steblyk / Sputnik Photography In the life of Angelique, nothing was worse than losing the love of her life. Amber was everything to her. In life or death, she would be Angelique’s most precious person. Life isn’t meant to…
Thando Bhebhe / Lead Infinitum Writer What is morality, where do you draw the line and who’s stopping you from crossing it? I like to think that we all have a code, a nice little list of dos and don’ts,…
Serena Anagbe / Photo EditorA colour wheel. As he was always meant to do, Carter thought about love. This time, he was sitting in a dimly lit, warm café. Rain pattered against the windows, heavy enough that the claustrophobic street…
Editor’s Note: This page was updated on Feb. 7 to include two more platforms for student director. Thea Biallas – President, Publisher & Chair Photo unavailable. Hi, my name is Thea Biallas, and my passion is drawing psychedelic art. Outside…
Celina Shamon / Sports Editor A protest sign with a poem by Refaat Alareer. When I first accepted my offer into the digital media and journalism program four years ago, my uncle asked me what kind of jobs I could…
Serena Anagbe / Photo EditorThe emergency department at the Brantford General Hospital. A recent Ontario Health Coalition report says there have been 1,199 hospital service closures in the province alone last year up until November. The report was released in early…
Contributed Photo / Habs Eyes on the PrizeTeam Canada at the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. The World Junior Ice Hockey Championships are an annual tradition every hockey fan can look forward to. The games are action-packed and exciting every…
Serena Anagbe / Photo EditorA New Year’s resolution typed on a laptop. Out with the old and ringing in 2024, a new year and time again for New Year’s resolutions. While speaking with students and those who work with them,…
Bachir Miloudi / Sputnik Photography “I saw the ad on a newspaper.” “A newspaper?” “Yep, right in print during my morning coffee.” “Huh, she really did it.” “Yes, she did it, all for you!” “How about you, why did you…
Serena Anagbe / Photo EditorTwo girls, one leaning on the other. As I wake up, I look to my left and see the sight of beauty I stroke her hair tenderly, and the look in her eyes softens For when she looks…
Serena Anagbe / Photo EditorA person taking a picture of the sunrise. The sky is so blue, Filled with message of hope The beginning of me
Niyati Pancholi / Sputnik Photography Glitter and pompoms. A woman with long, silver hair walked towards him holding a globe with an eye in it. It was peering straight at the young man. The eye was dark and wouldn’t blink.…
Olga Steblyk / Sputnik PhotographyHistorical map of Brantford. A common denominator of any interaction I have had with any student on the Brantford campus is that the negative aspects of the city are always brought up. While some such concerns,…
Olga Steblyk / Sputnik Photography A society can be defined by how it shares stories of greatness, bravery and heroism. The stories we choose to champion as examples to aspire to, as a standard to live up to. These stories…
Niyati Pancholi / Sputnik Photography Language is the most important form of communication. Languages help build relationships with others by sharing ideas, beliefs, knowledge and feelings about our life experiences. Languages encompass the rich backgrounds, history and culture of the…
Serena Anagbe / Photo EditorGreen space, a leaf in a park. Imagine you are walking in a forest. The lush green leaves of a tree rustle as a gentle breeze blows. You can hear the animals off in the distance…
Niyati Pancholi / Sputnik PhotographyWe all need secure housing. Last year, I paid $850 in rent per month for a basement apartment. It was a 30-minute bus ride away from campus. It was unfurnished, so there was an added cost…
Serena Anagbe / Photo Editor The City of Brantford has created a new way for local artists of all kinds to share who they are and the work they do, called the Artist Database. What was once just an idea…
Contributed Photo / Katie Bird One of Wilfrid Laurier University’s Brantford Books It Up’s favourite tropes to talk about is grumpy/sunshine, which means we have endless recommendations to share! Grumpy/sunshine tropes are essentially when two characters with opposite personalities and…
Contributed Photo / David Neil LeeThe Great Outer Dark, the last book in the trilogy. David Neil Lee, a Wilfrid Laurier University creative writing professor on the Brantford campus and the author of The Midnight Games series, has finally finished…