I would walk 30,000 km

“I still have four more years to reach 40,080 kilometres,” says Rawicz, an engineering science professor at SFU. He doesn’t say this with any...

The end of textbooks

How much did you spend on textbooks this semester? You don’t have to answer that. We all know that feeling of disappointment that comes with...

Stealing culture

I don’t particularly like being told what to do, and I like having my intentions misinterpreted even less; it’s these predispositions that have made cultural...

Fear of a yellow planet

Back in those halcyon days when I had home-recorded VHS tapes and late-night cartoon marathons in lieu of summer jobs and print deadlines, my...

Why I’m siding with BC teachers

On June 5, 2001, when I was just seven years old, Christy Clark began her reign as BC’s Education Minister. The BC Liberals, a...

The SFU survival guide

Alison Roach, Editor-in-Chief of The Peak Q. What do you wish you had known as a new student at SFU? When I was first starting, I wish...

Making the Grade

What do you think the average GPA of a student in your department will be this fall? The graph above displays the mean grades by...

Justice is Blind

By: Leah Bjornson On July 11, SFU student Anthony Janolino tripped over a discarded hose in the Shrum Science Centre. Now, he’s making it his...

No, #NotAllMen

Oftentimes, the best course of action when faced with a topic that explodes in social or traditional media circles is to step back and...

The Underground Sound

What are some of my favourite music venues in Vancouver? I’d love to tell you, but I can’t. If I published their names and...