Student Magazine at Wilfrid Laurier University

Articles by Judith Ellen Brunton

Alternate Religion and Culture Course Titles

Alternate Religion and Culture Course Titles
    Overstating Your Base Knowledge
    Barely Understandable Concepts
    Epiphany Over-Sharing
    Tiny Speeches Disguised as Questions

Letter From Post Secondary

Letter From Post Secondary

Dear intellectually cornered friend,

It feels like it’s been a long time. I guess it hasn’t, really. I saw you last summer, and the Christmas before that; I saw you in Montreal when we were both visiting. How is your novella coming? I loved that Haiku you messaged me on Facebook.


Roots for Growth

Roots for Growth

The work of anthropologist Maria Gimbutas, whose discoveries of certain characteristics from the Neolithic Period led to the construction of the ‘myth of feminist pre-history,’ has been continuously criticized in the anthropological community. She argues that a matriarchal society once existed in Neolithic Europe, where work division and rights were egalitarian and all deities worshipped were female or mother goddesses.


Evening on the Ground

Evening on the Ground

A man and his son are working in the woods when a woman of divine beauty appears before them. “I can grant you long and happy lives if you promise to never tell anyone of this encounter,” she says. The man decides this sounds like a good deal, agrees, and the woman disappears.


Name in Stone

Name in Stone

The southwest portion of Calgary, Alberta is defined by what looks to be a large wildlife area around the Glenmore Reservoir. The enormous size of this area nearly brings a stop to the urban sprawl, cleaving the city before the north portion circles down to collect the long column of suburbs that is the south.