Fossil fuel divestment is painful but necessary for universities

Editor's Note: This piece has been updated to clarify SFU's actions in reducing the carbon footprint of its portfolio. By: Nicole Magas, Opinions Editor For the second...

What Grinds Our Gears: UBC students are spoiled for bus choice while SFU only gets four routes

By: Meera Eragoda, Staff Writer It seems from most places in Vancouver it’s possible to catch a direct bus to UBC. The same cannot be said...

Political Corner: Canada’s stance on the Rohingya genocide is all talk

By: Kelly Grounds, Peak Associate In late August 2017, a genocide began against the Rohingya Muslim minority living in Myanmar. The catalyst for the genocide was...

Six things that make a good class syllabus

By: Gabrielle McLaren, Editor-in-Chief Syllabus week brings up this primal, inescapable anxiety in me. Maybe it’s my fight-or-flight response activating when faced with a list of...

Friendly customer service is not an invitation for physical contact

By: Nicole Magas, Opinions Editor Between the low pay and dealing with entitled Karens, many of us with experience in the service industry have harboured the...

What Grinds Our Gears: Logging into the SFU library catalogue . . . and then every journal under the sun

By: Meera Eragoda, Staff Writer Have you ever been writing a paper last minute, desperately trying to find academic sources, only to have the SFU library...

Schedules and programs don’t determine the worth of a degree

By: Encina Roh, Peak Associate In the words of Kermit the Frog, it’s not easy being green. And it’s definitely not easy coming from a family...

Political Corner: India’s Citizenship Amendment Bill is a horrific case of Islamophobia

By: Lubaba Mahmud, Staff Writer Under Prime Minister Modi’s leadership, the Hindu nationalist group Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has undergone a tremendous effort to institutionalise...

What Grinds Our Gears: How holiday gifting has turned into a capitalist chore

By: Madeleine Chan, Staff Writer I’ve noticed something alarming this past holiday season. People rushed to get last minute gifts. They didn’t know what to buy,...

If the rain isn’t paying tuition, it needs to stay out of SFU classrooms

By: Encina Roh, Peak Associate As if the bitter cold, the constant rain, and the brutalist architecture of SFU Burnaby could not dampen (ha) the mood...