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Lambda Social December 12, 2020 – Posted in Opinion By Lexey Burns, Editor in Chief As Lambda’s editor-in-chief, it’s my job to continuously watch the transparency of the Students’ General Association. In 2020, this has been particularly difficult. To my knowledge, the SGA has not advertised any of their meetings this year. They have also neglected to post any minutes from prior meetings, dating back to 2019. My first email from the SGA in September was for “frosh kits.” Minutes can be found on the SGA’s website “Governance” and “Meeting Minutes”. There...

Lambda Social December 11, 2020 – Posted in News By Lexey Burns, Editor in Chief Laurentian’s Students’ General Association has invited students to attend their December general meeting. This is the first time they have advertised a meeting in the 2020/2021 school year.  But the SGA has not published board meeting minutes since their January meeting in 2019. This means that they have not shared the content of their meetings in a year and a half.  They did, however, live-stream an SGA meeting on their Facebook page in April of 2019.  Eric Chappell, President of the S...

Lambda Social December 10, 2020 – Posted in News By Lexey Burns, Editor in Chief The COVID-19 pandemic has forced students to adapt to an entirely new style of learning for the 2020/2021 school year, resulting in some students’ grades to suffer.  In the spring, Laurentian’s senate permitted students to opt for a pass/fail grade. Rather than receiving a letter grade on their transcript, students who decided to opt into the pass/fail would receive an S instead.  Malek Abou-Rabia, SGA Vice President of Education, presented the option of pass/fail grading to Senate for t...

outlook for most of the world, especially america. this morning what shook everyone and has everyone petrified right now is the notion that china may be falling apart, their manufacturing data contracted for the third consecutive month. in europe the euro zone contracted for the first time in two years. they are at a two and a half year low and it's a very frightening situation and it's one where i think also in addition to the worry that people should naturally have is that we don't know where th the answers are. where are the solutions, where is the leadership? jenna: let's talk a ...

americans falling for unemployment benefits. let's talk to charles payne. charles, why the sell off today? >> you guys talked about ben bernanke. yesterday he did a lot of things, he used the word significant and when he talked about the downside risk to the economy that came a day after the imf lowered the economic outlook for most of the world, especially america. this morning what shook everyone and has everyone petrified right now is the notion that china may be falling apart, their manufacturing data contracted for the third consecutive month. in europe the euro zone contracted ...