CONTRIBUTED PHOTO / THE SPUTNIK PHOTOGRAPHY Group for equity WLUchangeisdue challenges Wilfrid Laurier University in a battle against racism. Students, staff, faculty and citizens of the Kitchener-Waterloo area of multiple different backgrounds band together to fight Laurier University…
GRAPHIC BY NATASHA O’NEILL / THE SPUTNIK PHOTOGRAPHY In honour of International Women’s day, a day to embrace and appreciate femininity’s beauty, The Sputnik interviewed Izabella Corniel. Corniel is a fourth-year Laurier Brantford student from London, Ont., who…
PHOTO BY SARA SHEIKH / THE SPUTNIK PHOTOGRAPHY With the lockdown ending for many regions in Ontario, students are eager to leave quarantine in the past. A lot of generation-defining trends came out through quarantine, like TikTok coffee,…
GRAPHIC BY NATASHA O’NEILL / THE SPUTNIK PHOTOGRAPHY A year ago, on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global pandemic. Students remember hearing their email notifications going off later that week on the…
Do you ever feel like 24 hours in a day are simply not enough? There’s just so much to do, and so little time. Whether you live at home or by yourself, there’s never enough time to get everything accomplished.…
Wilfrid Laurier University’s women’s softball team is heading into the national championships, with a new hunger for a national title, following an incredible 14-1 season this year. The championships will be hosted by Laurier University, from Oct. 11 to 13…
Attempting to find reconciliation in one of Canada’s darkest periods of its history has, in the past few decades, been a difficult and complex process of acknowledgement, confrontation and healing for Indigenous Canadians — especially those who have been most…
At first glance, the movie Hustlers looks like a movie about strippers — and who would not want to see that? After just two weeks in theatres, the star-studded movie received an 88 per cent positive review from Rotten Tomatoes…
From Monday, Sept. 23, to Tuesday, Sept. 24, students and scholars collected in the Carnegie building for the fifth-annual Social Justice Forum, listening to researchers discuss their thoughts and findings regarding social justice activism, the current state of racism and…
Last month marked a significant milestone in the history of Wilfrid Laurier University’s Brantford campus, as the community celebrated its twentieth anniversary with Laurier’s Homecoming on Sept. 21. The satellite campus, which was founded in 1999, kicked off its birthday…
Josh Adesina & Karly Rath Wilfrid Laurier University has made the recent decision to let go of 22 positions between both campuses. On Tuesday, March 10, Laurier students and faculty members received an email about the news of staffing cuts…
Josh Adesina & Melissa Weaver Emily Crump In the past year and a half, I have had many opportunities thanks to WLUSP. I have worked with Radio Laurier as a DJ, a street team member, a manager and now program…
Josh Adesina & Melissa Weaver Photos courtesy of Will Huang Colin Aitchison Over the past year, I have served as Vice Chair of the Board for your Students’ Union. This is my second term on the board, and it is…
Josh Adesina & Melissa Weaver Ryley Fletcher My name is Ryley Fletcher and I am in second year Concurrent Education at Laurier’s Brantford campus. I am currently seeking election for the Wilfrid Laurier Students’ Union’s Board of Directors. My colleagues…
For just over a year, Wilfrid Laurier University has been using a program called Respondus Lockdown Browser to ensure that students do not look up answers while writing online tests. In response to the need for new limitations around online…
Everyone can appreciate a good combination of softball, cold drinks and friends. Many workplaces are known to participate in such events by entering in leagues together or holding tournaments to promote team morale. A group of 500 students at Wilfrid…
