§£!!!: - ,. r) CJ () 1 2 fJ () 2 2 [)() ! 2 • A DECADE IN REVIEW The Cord • Wednesday. December 9, 2009 CONTENTS How will we be remembered? A reflection on The making of an intelligent city How 3 popular culture throughout the 2000s 16 Waterloo has developed year by year The development of a university How student The decade in Laurier news The stories that 4 life has changed at Laurier in the past 10 years 18 have defined Laurier as a university The dawn of a new era Shifting technologies Students' union newsmakers 10 moments 5 and changes in entertainment consumption 20 that have impacted WLUSU Arts on campus A historical look at entertainers 10 years of tomfoolery A collection of 6 who have visited Laurier 21 hilarious illegal goings on of the past decade The good, the bad and the crazy Highlighting A decade of underreported news Stories that 7 the most memorable celebrity debacles 22 failed to garner international attention 10 years of success Chronicling the success of Best of the decade A panel decides on 2000 8 the women's hockey and lacrosse teams 24 to 2009's best in arts and entertainment The triumph of the decade Looking back at 9 Laurier's 2005 Vanier Cup victory In photos The past 10 years of Golden Hawks 10 athletics told through photography The changing face of Laurier An examination 11 of the university's expansion and growth What the future brings Investigating the plans 14 for continued expansion at Laurier 15 Finding identity in the 21st century How Facebook and globalization shape identity Cover design by Trina Schmidt rom the editor 10 years ago society was abuzz with the Y2K scare. Experts everywhere whatto make by combining them ( 2017), contact lenses that will project were predicting that when the calendar turned to the year 2000 comput­ images into the eye as well as allow you to download software to affect ers would crash and our dependence on technology would be our own dreams (2018), as well as the death of web 2.0 and amateur journalists and self-destruction. bloggers (2020). Interestingly, as we leave behind the first decade of the 21st century technol­ Regardless of whether these things actually materialize or not, one can be ogy is still the subject dominating popular discourse. It's amazing to think certain that within the next 10 years changes will take place that will have a that within the last 10 years we have witnessed inventions such as the iPod, significant impact on our lives. smartphones and Facebook. Technology has changed the way we consume entertainment, communicate with others and function as students. Reflect­ While it is fun to look ahead to the future and predict the direction our soci­ ing back on all of the changes that have taken place in the past 10 years it's ety may move in, it is equally important for us to look back and commemo­ hard to even conceive how technology will look 10 years in the future. rate the first decade of the 21st century. Our world and our campus have changed drastically in 10 years, and so The Cord pays tribute to what the An article published in April's U.K. edition of Wired contained predictions 2000s have brought us by chronicling the most important moments of the about future technological inventions. The expert panelists predicted that past decade and the impact they have will have on the future. in the next 10 years we will see the emergence of technologies such as care robots (2014), intelligent advertising posters that personally address con­ Laura Carlson sumers (2015), packages that talk to each other using RFID chips to suggest Cord Editor-in-Chief Contributing editors Volunteers Colophon Preamble to the constitution l,AI lA CARLSON Cool-....... .... ......... Adam t..uzuam 1M Cord Will lrftp W.th wath ~~ ruden by~ Dnn and a­ , U"Jrl ltheeord ca THE CORD """'......__ ..................c; ... .........w piHIIOnlofop!NoM~iwly,K'C.'W'lltdyandWrly . _..._, • •••••• ••• .JEREMY TRE MBLAY -C.,llo6- • • • • .. • • • • • .. .. • .. • • .. • Eou17 Slolocn 75 University Ave W jtrem~ayCUheCord ca c.,- .. .. .. .. .. ... KNtoo Rowatt !:n~"t':!~~=~o!::!; ~..._, ............... NICK LACHANCE · · · ··· · •• •• • •• ··• •• • •• Joc<l7ftS..,th ofcontloWr'ly . 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Skaten/Punb punk cultures with dark clothing, cling to decades brave enough to als as the next trend came and the The '6os were rock 'n' roll, the From the end of the '90s to the mid- dark hair and general expressions of forge their own identity. long boards were abandoned. '7os housed disco and funk 2000s, skate and punk culture be- grief. While the technologically ad- and the '8os and '9os were a tapes- came the epitome ofbadass attitude Short-lived and mostly reserved vanced gravitated toward BluRay, try of grunge, pop, conflict, progress as youth used their skateboards and for the young, instead of moving the iPhone and BlackBerrys, record As the decade progressed, art be- and technological boom. punk lyrics to rebel against social into the mainstream, emo culture players, typewriters and vintage came both lazier and darker as real- So what were the 2000s? An norms and mainstream lifestyles. (having already amalgamated as- clothing saw resurgence that not ity 1V replaced legitimate program- amalgamation of decades past? Though skate and punk culture pects of the '7os, '8os and '9os) be- only boasted good taste but street ming, and dramatic films began to Years dominated by a class of hip? have been around for decades, a new gan to adopt the hipster factor. credibility. shock and depress. The loss of creativity in lieu of generation attempting to grasp orig- Is it a longing for the good old For every Survivor there was a Saw, laziness? inality relentlessly took up the sport 3.Hipsten days or are we attempting to mimic for every Big Brother another inde- Grab your UGG boots, green tea while blaring the sounds of The Though believed to be a newer the success of the baby boomers? pendent film left audiences in tears and vinyl as we attempt to pay hom- Clash and NOFX - though failing movement trickling down from the Maybe we've finally realized that and dismay.