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To ring in the new semester, SFU Surrey students feasted on free pancakes last Wednesday, January 7. The SFSS Surrey Campus Committee hosted the annual free breakfast to welcome students back to school for the spring semester.

Surrey Council Chambers

While most SFU students have returned to lecture halls this semester, the students of Business 361 are now attending class in the Surrey City Hall council chambers, which neighbour the Surrey campus. The popular project management course will be taught by business professor Kamal Masri.

Woodward’s

Last Saturday, January 10, SFU Woodward’s hosted the 130th annual Modern Language Association convention. The event included an evening of presentations from various artists and academics in the field of Asian diaspora studies. Among the speakers were several authors, including Lydia Kwa, past SFU writer-in-residence Madeleine Thien and incumbent Rawi Hage.

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