Student Magazine at Wilfrid Laurier University

Articles by Chris Clemens

UR Addicted

UR Addicted

“I think I’m addicted to MSN,” she admitted limply. “I have dreams about my contact list expanding to fill the entire world, a monolith of names all decrying their insignificant plans for the night. And I like it.” I nodded, distracted. “When I was in Peru, one of the Incan ruins looked like a text [...]


Dear Writers, Stop Writing Bad Novels

The world of writers is just too cramped, I’ve decided. Underneath the big names, the franchise players, there’s a whole jungle of would-be authors: news-gathering automatons, crybaby goth poets and the cream of the crop, the aspiring novelist. More than 85% of all works of fiction are stunning economic failures, each loseWeight Exerciser falling underfoot [...]


Moral Issues at University

Sometimes, on rare nights when hazy clouds obstruct a thick autumn moon and the corpses of leaves skitter across Wilfrid Laurier’s well-trodden pathways, you can witness a fascinating primeval struggle, if you know where to look. Watch the masses, swallowed sober and regurgitated drunk, spill out across University Avenue after last call. Watch the patios [...]