SFU grad launches Vancouver’s first affordable 3D printer

Lego pieces, forks, guns, medical models, and makeup; with capabilities to create everyday items, 3D printers are poised to disrupt mass production and the...

SFU Faculty Association votes to unionize

SFU faculty members and library staff have officially voted to unionize. The results of the vote, which were made public on Thursday, May 15, showed...

SFU robotics club gives competition the gears

SFU phasers were set to win at the 2014 VEX Robotics World Championship in Anaheim, California earlier this month, which invited top robotics teams...

Trend shows students return to nest

Recent statistics have shown that almost half of Metro Vancouverites in their 20s still live at home — the second-highest rate in Canada. Barbara Mitchell,...

Province shifts funding from liberal arts to trades training

Last month, SFU President Andrew Petter addressed the Vancouver Board of Trade regarding the value of traditional university education — specifically, liberal arts degrees...

SFU Burnaby road construction enters Phase 2

As construction began on the second half of Phase 1 of SFU’s 2014 Roadway Improvement Project, the plan to replace SFU Burnaby’s 50-year old...

Canadians react to Fair Elections Act

Opposition to the Conservatives’ Fair Elections Act, which was created to make it more difficult to break elections laws, has resulted in the proposal...

BC Law Society rejects motion to disapprove Trinity Western law school

In mid-April, the BC Law Society rejected a motion that would have barred graduates of Trinity Western University’s (TWU) new law school from practising...

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...

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...