Student Magazine at Wilfrid Laurier University

Articles by Mike Borrelli

Human Races

A modern racist’s wet-dream is fairly simple. It’s the dream that one day science, as opposed to unproven conjecture, will legitimize racist beliefs. The power that a scientific stamp of approval would lend to racists would be priceless, forever acting as the fuel for a rationalized conservative xenophobia. Luckily, attempts to legitimize racism with even [...]


Save Up, Kids: Now Even More So

Save Up, Kids: Now Even More So

A spectre is haunting post-secondary education: the spectre of deregulation. Although I wish I could continue on to say that all the Great Powers of Canada have joined together to exorcise this demon, I’d be lying, because students are essentially by themselves and isolated on this one. The fact that post-secondary education in Canada is financially wanting is not news.


King of the Robots: Double Cohort and the Two Towers

It’s spring. Most of you have probably seen the new Lord of the Rings movie by now, and if you haven’t, then just bear with me. You know that part where all the Orcs are about to storm the castle and all the humans are standing atop the walls, frightened because they’re about to be [...]