What Grinds our Gears: Icebreaker activities in lectures and tutorials
Written by: Tiffany Chang, SFU Student
I’m pretty sure that all SFU students have endured the painfully awkward icebreakers forced upon us by TAs or...
Formula One deserves more credit
Formula One (F1) racing may look just like another motorsport with a bunch of cars driving in a circle making loud noises, but it’s...
The rich classhole
Unless you're footing the bill for your entire lecture, shut up about your parents paying for a victory lap
By Alison Roach
Photos by Mark Burnham
It’s...
Woohoo, Boohoo
Woohoo: Writers
There is nothing more precious in this world than an imaginative writer (except for maybe a dancing carnival bear). Filled to brim with...
S-Turing up social media controversy
If you haven’t heard of “America’s most hated man” by now, his name is Martin Shkreli and he is the chief executive of Turing...
Female genital mutilation procedures do not deserve any respect
The argument on behalf of female genital mutilation (FGM) has been happening for thousands of years, as the procedure has been practiced for centuries...
New gene editing technology must proceed with caution
As seems to happen regularly these days, scientific developments have turned science fiction into science fact.
It is now feasible for humans to ‘edit’...
Trick and treat
Faking an accident is not the way to win big
By Paul Hurst
There are those that believe that a car accident = jackpot! Well, despite...
Simon Fraser Brew-niversity
Beer and university go together. They just do. Who hasn’t stayed up late, pint in hand, cramming for a physics final or a history...
Bull$#!+: China treating Internet addiction ‘disorder’ at militant style facilities; eating
China treating Internet addiction ‘disorder’ at militant style facilities
By David Ly
It’s been highly debated in the psychological associations, but Internet addiction disorder (IAD) isn’t...
