Jeff McCann leaves the presidency a winner

As orange leaves in autumn, the posters that currently adorn the walls of SFU show that the campus has moved into another election cycle....

Residence needs more robust composting

Behind the residence dining hall there is a solitary green wheelie bin into which a handful of eager students dispose of their compost. This...

Fraser International College’s creeping boundaries

Since 2006, a spectre has haunted SFU. No, it isn’t the spectre of international communism, it’s actually the opposite — creeping privatization, as exemplified...

Board unqualified to make SUB plans

The proposed SFSS student union building is an extravagant $65-million luxury that students ought to critically inquire, and despite an ongoing period of fiscal...

Hockey fans are brainwashed

  I’m sorry to start an off with a piece of such unsavory news, but it’s best to say quickly, like tearing off a Band-Aid....

To be Woo-ed and not made to Woo

When it comes to approaches to filmmaking, it’s difficult to think of more dissimilar approaches than those of Alfred Hitchcock and John Woo. Hitchcock...

SUB is the future of SFU

We have spent the better part of this term of office talking about student space. We know we don’t have enough of this, that,...

A long, bumpy road to democracy

For those of us living in a country such as Canada, with guarantees of civil liberties, freedom, and a liberal democratic process, the idea...

Schools Building Schools levy unfairly maligned

In last week’s issue of The Peak¸ regular contributor Cedric Chen wrote an opinions piece discussing an unnamed SFU club’s upcoming campaign to receive...

Ideology discourse empty, distracting

  In last week’s opinions piece , author Joel Warren refers to the current SFSS board as “self-interested and ideologically-aligned”. This is not the first...