How to be an SFU student

Buy Some Boots — Good Boots Getting ready for the fall at SFU can be an exciting time. There’s always an electric buzz in the...

Get caught in the Fringe

The shows are literally drawn out of a hat. With a “theatre for everyone” mentality and a truly fair and open-minded approach to programming...

Point/Counterpoint: The Compass Card

The new Compass Card will take some getting used to. It will be launched into our transit system in late fall of this year...

Lightning in a bottle

In celebration of Nikola Tesla’s birthday, students from the Physics Student Union gathered last Wednesday to construct a Tesla coil, which is an electrical...

Guide to Pride

Pride Week 2013 officially starts July 29 with the City of Vancouver proclamation, followed by a full week of official (and unofficial) events and...

Vanquished Vancouver

Despite never having a “Vancouver proper” postal code my whole life (unless you count fetal development), I’ve always considered Vancouver and not wherever I...

Privacy is a myth

There is no such thing as privacy on the internet. In light of recent news coverage of Edward Snowden and National Security Agency (NSA)...

Discovery may reveal climate change’s effect on biodiversity

A recent study published in the Journal of Paleontology has been making international headlines with the discovery of the fossils of four new families...

Let them eat, period.

Apologies to minorities on behalf of a nation don’t mean much when the nation’s leader contradicts them in public statements shortly after; they mean...

The spaces between stanzas

The idea for a writing project by members of Vancouver’s poorest neighbourhood was, oddly, borne many miles away at a conference a few years...