University Briefs

Recruitment company sues University of Windsor for $24M A company hired by the University of Windsor to recruit international students is suing the school for...

SFU Recreation hosts 9th annual RECognition Night

The SFU Recreation Department hosted its 9th annual RECognition Night last week to celebrate and honour the department’s student staff with a classy evening...

Spring Sendoff concert “made considerable profit”

Following in the wake of the SFSS’ first concert at Simon Fraser University’s Burnaby campus last September, the year-end Spring Sendoff concert welcomed 1400...

No ruffled feathers at Vancouver’s mass pillow fight

Pillows were fluffed and feathers flew at 3:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 5 as hundreds of Vancouverites gathered in the rain outside the Vancouver...

University Briefs

      Police break up student protest in Montreal Thousands gathered in the streets of Montreal last Thursday, April 3 to protest austerity in Quebec’s economic policies....

FaceFries app sparks life in virtual communication

Step aside, Snapchat: A new social media phenomenon is on the horizon. The recently launched app, FaceFries, developed by SFU professor Steve DiPaola and...

Satellite Signals

Surrey Last week was election season for the Surrey Campus Committee (SCC), a branch of the SFSS based out of SFU’s Surrey campus. An online...

Ancient clam gardens mean mollusks thrive

Thanks to a three-year study conducted by a research team from SFU, the number of clams found along BC’s coastline has the opportunity to...

Landslide that took 30 lives in Washington could happen here

An SFU professor claims that a series of devastating landslides that struck the town of Oso, WA on March 22, causing numerous fatalities and...

Burnaby prepares for quidditch world championships

To most, quidditch is a game confined to fiction, played solely in J.K. Rowling’s popular Harry Potter series; however, in Burnaby, BC, quidditch is...