The Tartan
Hollywood North Burnaby
January 4, 2016[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t’s been a top secret government laboratory, an evil corporation, NASA, the headquarters of the CIA and the FBI, a military academy, a military academy in space, the planet Caprica and a portal from a Stargate to another universe. It’s where Keanu Reeves was interrogated about an Alien invasion, where Ryan Phillippe cracked a worldwide computer conspiracy, and where a hockey-playing chimpanzee once mopped floors on rollerskates. It’s been dressed…
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Oh, Maggie
January 4, 2016By: Tessa Perkins Deneault “I think of her often still,” says local author Helen Potrebenko as she thumbs through her 1998 book, Letters to Maggie, an ode to her dear friend, sitting in the cafeteria of the building named after…
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SFU’s Box in the Attic
January 4, 2016[dropcap]S[/dropcap]FU stands steadfast at the literal peak of a mountain, blessed with rain, wind, and occasional snowstorm. Despite having only just celebrated its 50th anniversary this academic year, it has grown well beyond its expected capacity, went through immense growing…
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A Culture of Detachment
January 4, 2016[dropcap]H[/dropcap]alfway through this past fall semester, there was one morning where I shuffled into class a few minutes late. I literally had to climb over my classmates to get a seat, in what can only be described as a shoebox…
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Renaissance Man: Parminder Parhar
January 4, 2016If you’re like most students, a morning’s cup of coffee is as much a necessity for functioning as going to bed the night before. For 19 years — since opening the first Renaissance Coffee location in February 1996, initially as…
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History of Art
January 4, 2016[dropcap]H[/dropcap]alfway down the South Concourse of the Academic Quadrangle, there are a pair of indescript glass doors distinct from the sea of wood paneling. Over it, a sign says SFU Gallery — admittedly not a particularly imposing entrance. A relatively…
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“I Can’t Get Into My Classes Again!?”
January 4, 2016[dropcap]“[/dropcap][dropcap]C[/dropcap]ourse enrolment pisses me off. If seats are full we should have the option to either stand or bring our own stool to class,” read a recent comment posted on the SFU Confessions Facebook page. After 20 minutes, the…
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The Best and Worst Movies EVER Filmed at SFU Burnaby
January 4, 2016THE BEST: The Fly 2 The film tells the story of Martin Brundle, a young man whose life changes when he mutates into a human-fly hybrid, a condition inherited from his father. The Burnaby campus shined as the…
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An Artwalk to Remember
January 4, 2016Aside from the breathtaking mountain views, and the occasional flourishes of nature, beauty and Simon Fraser are two words that people generally don’t put side by side. Most people have probably heard an SFU prison joke — with the brutalist,…
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Get with the Program!
January 4, 2016[dropcap]E[/dropcap]ver wonder what life would be like if you had chosen to study a different subject — maybe business instead of communications, or even visual arts instead of molecular biology? Well, we interviewed some students and tried to get a…
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