What Grinds Our Gears: There’s no excuse for people who still don’t know how to recycle

By: Mishaa Khan, Peak Associate I’m a strong believer in taking steps to save the environment. Not everybody is so proactive and I get that...

Distance education classes deliver subpar instruction for additional fees

By: Mishaa Khan, Peak Associate I have taken two classes through the Centre for Online and Distance Education (CODE) over the course of my degree,...

SFSS presidents should be focused on their presidencies

By: Nicole Magas, Opinions Editor Giovanni HoSang’s decision to take a summer co-op at Microsoft’s Seattle office fresh into his first term as the president...

SFSS directors need to be prepared to answer for how they vote

By: Nicole Magas, Opinions Editor New SFSS president Giovanni HoSang said it best when he called the April 18 outgoing board’s decision to stop publishing...

Centennial College is addressing the lack of menstrual products in washrooms — it’s time for SFU to step up as well

By: Encina Roh, Peak Associate Mother Nature is wonderful. Except when she shows up on the day you have a four-hour long lecture, with only a...

SFU’s “Sharing of Textbook PDFs Fact Sheet” fails to consider students’ constraints

By: Gabrielle McLaren, Editor-in-Chief I want to preface my crankiness over SFU Library’s “Sharing of Textbook PDFs Fact Sheet” by stating that I understand intellectual property...

Women* supporting women* is the key to our success and identity in STEM

By: Kitty Cheung, Staff Writer Author’s Note: The asterisks (*) have been included by the writer, as organizers of nwPlus UBC have, in order to “specifically...

10 reasons why Alyssa Milano’s #SexStrike reminds us that not all activism is created equal

By: Gabrielle McLaren, Editor-in-Chief Content warnings for this piece include: abortion, pregnancy, and sexual violence. In May, the state of Georgia passed House Bill 481, nicknamed...

Group projects require everyone in one place — like in the classroom!

By: Nicole Magas, Opinions Editor Oh, the humble group project. We know how this will go: four students enter, two disappear on the second day, one...

Do Michael Phelps and Caster Semenya both share an unfair competitive advantage?

By: Ana Staskevich, Staff Writer; Alison Wick, Arts Editor Introduced and compiled by: Nicole Magas, Opinions Editor In a May 2 Washington Post article titled “We...