Macra-Mafia

I was making my boyfriend a knitted cap for his birthday when I ran out of the right colour of yarn. So I went...

Baby Shoes

I close the box and retie its pretty red ribbon. The box sits quietly on the table, the triumph being slowly sucked out of...

11th Wonder

I was watching Judge Judy on the TV or at least pretending to watch. Out of the corner of my eye, from the couch...

50 (of the) Greatest SFU People from the Past 50 Years

In the past 50 years, a lot of people have passed through this university’s halls. From students to teachers to administrators, athletes, mascots and...

Statue or Bust: A Look Behind the Human Sculptures of SFU

In March of 2001, sculptor Stephen Harman was driving down Boundary Road, when he suddenly got a phone call that would change his life....

Margaret Jones: SFU Charter Employee

By: Tessa Perkins Deneault When Simon Fraser University was being built in the summer of 1965, word spread about a new and exciting place full...

Why Should Anybody Go to University?

Why should anybody go to university? That’s not a rhetorical question. It’s a question I have been asking myself for the last two years of...

Piped Up: How a Small Student Club became SFU’s Voice Heard Around the World

It was the early 1980s — 1981 to be exact. Then-SFU president, George Pedersen, was in attendance at a Clan football game at Empire...

Animal Bowl

With eight seconds still on the clock, the fans are already on the field and they're taking the southern goal posts out of the...

The Only Escape: The Early Years of the SFU Theatre

By: Tessa Perkins Deneault Until 1976, SFU only offered non-credit programs in theatre, dance, film, music, and visual arts, which one might assume meant that...