FYLP & HAWK WEEKEND
This program, available to all first-year students, runs the six campus councils organizing the event you're at right now and offers over 400 leadership positions.
What is FYLP?
These upper-year, live-in student staff members serve as mentors and role models in every residence building.
What are Dons?
Home to Wilf's restaurant, the Turret, the Terrace Food Court, and a certain golden hawk you should never step on — this building's abbreviation is FNCC.
What is the Fred Nichols Campus Centre?
Hatched in 1962, this reigning OUA Mascot of the Year shares his name with a mythological king who had a golden touch.
Who is Midas?
This Students' Union–operated safe-walk program sends teams of two to escort students by foot or van every night — its office is in the FNCC, near the 24-hour study lounge.
What is HawkWalk?
All first-year Laurier students are expected to follow this code, which governs student behaviour both on and off campus.
What is the Non-Academic Student Code of Conduct?
Hawk Weekend 2026 has four cups up for grabs. This Hawk Weekend cup goes to the community with the strongest teamwork and peer connection - even during snacks and breaks.
What is the Collaboration Cup?
At 25 storeys, this apartment-style residence on King Street North is the tallest residence building on Laurier's Waterloo campus.
What is 308 King Street?
Midas the Golden Hawk's favourite food is also a Wilf's staple — this two-word appetizer name.
What is Spin Dip?
In the 2025 OUA football playoffs, Laurier reached the 117th Yates Cup but fell 30–27 to this team, ending their undefeated season.
Who are the Queen's Gaels?
Submitting the same paper for two different courses without your instructor's permission is this specific type of academic misconduct.
What is self-plagiarism?
EDI is a set of core values at Laurier that appears in everything from the student code of conduct to campus programming. The three words are Equity, Diversity, and this.
What is Inclusion?
This Hawk Weekend cup is calculated using event rankings from 1–12, averaged across the weekend to determine the winner.
What is the Activities Cup?
It's 13 floors tall, has 4 wings, houses 251 students — and despite all that, this dormitory-style residence has no elevator.
What is Conrad Hall?
Laurier's sacred campus tradition says that if you step on the golden hawk embedded in the FNCC floor, you must do this to be forgiven. (DAILY DOUBLE)
What is kiss it?
Finish this Laurier rallying cry: 'It's great to be a ___!'
What is a Golden Hawk?
This online learning platform is where all Laurier students access course content, submit assignments, and check their grades.
What is MyLearningSpace?
This shareable, validated record of experiences and competencies lives on Navigator and can be shared to LinkedIn as a verified listing.
What is the Laurier Experience Record (LER)?
Off-campus first-years join this group — and its mascot is a lynx named Levi.
What is LOCUS?
Students joining a Residence Learning Community or Learning Cluster pay this amount upon move-in for learning experiences.
What is $40?
Opened in 2016, this $103.7 million LEED Gold building features a 1,000-seat auditorium and houses Laurier's School of Business and Economics.
What is Lazaridis Hall?
Garnering up to 14,000 people in 2018, this residential street near campus became so famous for unsanctioned homecoming parties that it is now completely fenced off during major events.
What is Ezra Avenue?
If you're accused of academic misconduct at Laurier, you have this many working days to respond to the allegation — not calendar days, working days.
What is 5?
Laurier's Non-Academic Student Code of Conduct defines this as conduct that is humiliating for initiation and group membership — and says the consent of the person being harmed is NOT a defence.
What is hazing?
In Hawkopoly's six-room format, a team that wins every single activity room would earn this maximum total of Monopoly money.
What is $21,000?
In the Waterloo Campus, Residence Learning Communities put students together by theme on the same floor. Learning Clusters differ because they place students in the same building but on these.
What are different floors?
In the CI Financial Finance Lab in Lazaridis Hall, there are 50 computers — but only this many Bloomberg terminals.
What is 20?
Before they were the Golden Hawks, Laurier's teams went by this decidedly less majestic animal name — changed in 1961.
What are the Mules?
A first academic offence record is destroyed upon graduation, but if you have more than one offence, your record is kept for this many years after you graduate.
What is 5 years?
In the Maclean's university rankings, Laurier has been ranked number one in Canada in this category among comprehensive universities for four consecutive years.
What is student satisfaction?