Surrey

The Surrey Campus Committee, an offshoot of the SFSS, held the first Campus Wide Ideas Exchange event on SFU’s Surrey campus last Thursday.

Open to representatives from all faculties, clubs, departments, and student unions, the event’s purpose was to foster a vibrant campus community by inspiring communication and collaboration between all groups.Main initiatives that emerged were plans for a formal Winter Gala and a commitment to providing more student networking events.

Woodward’s

Artistic displays for the enjoyment of all were abound this week. A series called Blackbox held on March 20 and 21 showcased a number of plays written and directed by students. Described as “a bi-weekly stew of blood and guts, and too many tears,” Blackbox demands film students create, rehearse, and perform a show all in just a few weeks. This week’s theme was “We’ll Sleep When We’re Dead.” Students took inspiration from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem to create their mini masterpieces.

Vancouver

SFU’s downtown campus hosted a two-day workshop on March 17 and 18 that invited forty BC First Nations representatives to give input on the development of an app that will teach users how to speak a First Nations language.

In attendance were SFU linguists such as Marianne Ignace, who has spearheaded the project with the help of her fellow professors. The app will include data recorded from some of the remaining native speakers of indigenous languages found in BC and the Yukon.