The Tartan
Macra-Mafia
September 8, 2015[dropcap]I[/dropcap] was making my boyfriend a knitted cap for his birthday when I ran out of the right colour of yarn. So I went to a supply store downtown to find more — they didn’t have any. So the proprietor, a woman named Lisa, told me she’d order it in. A few days later she called, said it had arrived. I went in, but turns out she’d ordered the wrong…
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Baby Shoes
September 7, 2015[dropcap]I[/dropcap] close the box and retie its pretty red ribbon. The box sits quietly on the table, the triumph being slowly sucked out of it. I lean back and place my hands upon my belly. I still feel as if…
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11th Wonder
September 7, 2015[dropcap]I[/dropcap] was watching Judge Judy on the TV or at least pretending to watch. Out of the corner of my eye, from the couch and through the fake wooden door, Bradford was standing in front of the mirror, trying to…
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50 (of the) Greatest SFU People from the Past 50 Years
September 7, 2015In the past 50 years, a lot of people have passed through this university’s halls. From students to teachers to administrators, athletes, mascots and more, so many people with strong connections to SFU led fascinating lives. While we wanted to…
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Statue or Bust: A Look Behind the Human Sculptures of SFU
September 7, 2015In March of 2001, sculptor Stephen Harman was driving down Boundary Road, when he suddenly got a phone call that would change his life. He immediately pulled over to the side of the road and answered with bated breath. It…
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Margaret Jones: SFU Charter Employee
September 7, 2015By: Tessa Perkins Deneault When Simon Fraser University was being built in the summer of 1965, word spread about a new and exciting place full of possibilities on Burnaby Mountain. For many people, the new university was an opportunity not…
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Why Should Anybody Go to University?
September 7, 2015Why 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 my degree. Recently, I have begun to wonder whether I've made the right choice in…
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Piped Up: How a Small Student Club became SFU’s Voice Heard Around the World
September 7, 2015It was the early 1980s — 1981 to be exact. Then-SFU president, George Pedersen, was in attendance at a Clan football game at Empire Stadium on what John Buchanan describes as a miserable rainy night. The stadium, which usually held…
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Animal Bowl
September 7, 2015With eight seconds still on the clock, the fans are already on the field and they're taking the southern goal posts out of the ground. The northern goal posts — away from the play — are already gone, taken out…
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The Only Escape: The Early Years of the SFU Theatre
September 7, 2015By: 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 the school cared little about the fine arts. To the contrary, unlike UBC — which…
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