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Magnitude 7.4 Harlem shake devastates Toronto

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Toe-tapping tune topples Toronto tectonically

By Gary Lim

TORONTO — A destructive 7.4 magnitude Harlem Shake has completely demolished the downtown southern Toronto. The 7.4 shake, which occurred at approximately 3:20 p.m. Sunday, was followed by three smaller aftershakes with magnitudes ranging 4.0 to 4.2

The Canadian Jive-eological Survey pinpointed the epicenter of the massive shake to University of Toronto where some student likely unwittingly triggered the shake.

The Harlem Shake, a phenomenon that only began occurring in 2013, happens when a single person dances to the tune from Harlem Shake by electronic artist Baauer. Following
30 seconds of chorus, the vicinity is immediately filled with dancers numbering dozens to thousands. Like mayflies, these dancers then proceed to rave themselves to death not stopping for food, rest or sleep. The ensuing dance party lasts for days, completely decimating the surroundings.

Although not every instance of playing the song triggers a Harlem Shake, every documented
Shake has begun with a lone person shaking their hips and the frantic beeping chorus of “Con los terroristas.” Maggie Thompson, a firstyear at U of T who was rescued from one of the collapsed buildings, recounts the horrifying experiment.

“I was in chem when it happened. The lecture hall doors were closed, but you could hear it through the doors. I don’t spend much time on the Internet. All of a sudden half-naked people were slamming into me. It was so loud and disorienting, someone in a full-body latex horse suit elbowed me in the head and I fell down. “I could see the professor, she was trying to shout something over the music. I think she was trying to — oh god, Professor Sahota. I saw her, crushed to death under a pile of gyrating torsos and pool toys. It was such carnage, raw gutwrenchingly catchy carnage. ”

Professor Jaspreet Sahota was just one of the hundreds of reportedcasualties so far, but numbers continue to climb as rescue teams are stilling pulling oddly costumed bodies from the wreckage. Such events mirror the tragedies suffered in Jakarta last month, when a massive rave-alanche demolished several villages located at the base of Mt. Wubadub. But the worst may be far from over, explains CJS seismologist, DJ Electrogoof McKruunkfresh PhD “Yo, checkkit, dis latest Harlem shake is part of a string we been tracking at the CJS. Look at the data from the latest shake,” said McKruunkfresh pointing to large seismological chart. “The correlation between our models and the measured data is mad linear. Look here the bass dropped 40 per cent in this Shake as predicted. Now I’ll be straight with you if this holds up, we could see something twice as worse in the next six months.”

Already efforts have gone out to prevent any further transmittance of the song. All YouTube videos containing the tune have been removed from the site, and electronic artist Baauer has been sentenced by the International Court of Justice at Hague to death by firing squad.

 

An interview with the Pope

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By Gary Lim

Pope Benedict XVI shocked the world last week when he announced that he would be stepping down as head of the Catholic Church, his reasons for doing so being a “lack of strength of the mind and body” to lead. Although since the announcement the pope has spent his time in quiet contemplation, The Peak was able to secure an interview with him through no small use of favor and grappling hooks.

Pope: So if I do this interview you agree not to publish the dark unholy secret of the
Pope-mobile.

Gary: Yeah, sure whatever.

P: Fine then, we may commence your
inter-view.

G: So Pope Benedict the XVI. . . .

P: Please just call me Benedict XVI.

G: So Benedict XVI, the question on the
world’s collective mind is “Dude, what
gives?”

P: I have told my children before; I no
longer have the strength to lead masses.
In order for the Catholic Church to stay
relevant in the modern age, we need
new blood. Someone in their young and
idealistic 60s.

G: But you yourself are only 85.

P: Yes, that is correct

G: But 85 in pope years is like being 35.
That would be like Justin Bieber retiring
now, instead of a decade from now when his
boyish good looks have been long eroded by
the sands of time and cocaine.

P: But I no longer have the strength —

G: How physically demanding could it
possibly be to be the pope? I can think of
like one workplace injury and that’s hatrelated
neck strain.

P:(Sighs) Look, can I tell you a secret”

G:I can think of no better avenue.

P: I just, I don’t want to be pope anymore,
okay? One day you’re a cardinal, the world
is your oyster. Then your “peers” elect you
pope, and at fi rst it’s great. Fast nights, days
hung-over muttering through your weekly
papal address in St. Peter’s, but then it sets
in that you’re the Pope. You spend nights
staring at the vaulted ceilings of your palace
bedroom thinking “Is this it, is this all I am?”
Look at Pope Pius XII, he was an amazing
drummer. But no one ever talks about that.
To the world he was just another pope,
another humanitarian leader. So that’s why I
cast off the hat. I didn’t want it to define me.

G: Speaking of the hat, do you get to keep it?

P: I wish. I have to return it dry cleaned
by the 15th or they keep my $300 deposit,
which I need because as I recently found
out they don’t actually pay you anything to
be the pope. I mean I noticed wasn’t getting
any paycheques, but I fi gured there were
just using direct deposit.

G: So what’s next for the papal father?

P: I was thinking of trying Judaism.

G: Oh, that’s an interesting choice.

P: Yeah I wanted to try something different
from Catholicism, but not too different, if
you get me. I’m not looking forward to the
circumcision, but the Bar Mitzvah looks like
a lot of fun. I’m just glad I’ll be fi ally able to
order a steak at TGI-Fridays.

G:Plus no more abstinence. I bet plenty
of shikshas would love to get with a former
pope.

P: You have no idea.
We high five.

Dance your ass off

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SFU rec’s burlesque classes are a great alternative to your typical fitness class

By Rachel Braeuer
Photos by Vaikunthe Banerjee

Hesitating to sign up for a Burlesque fitness class because you don’t want to get pasties-and-thong-naked in public? Hesitate no more. The only thing I took off for the class was my shoes and socks, and even that wasn’t mandatory.

The burlesque classes offered through SFU’s recreation programs are a variation on the iconic Burlesque performance style. Lana Friesen, the class instructor, likes to call silhouesque. “Silhouesque is less of a focus on strip and more of a focus on tease.” It’s a combination of tango, salsa and jazz moves that honour the classic coyness you’d expect from burlesque.

Friesen has been teaching burlesque classes using the silhouesque dance moves at SFU for two years now with lots of positive responses. A dancer since age four in a slough of forms, she’s been teaching classes around the lower mainland since starting at SFU. She has her own company, Joy of Dance productions, and started the burlesque troupe Glamourati, with some of her former students who now perform burlesque benefits around the lower mainland.

If performing is something you’re interested in, taking a class is a great way to test the water. She laughs remembering her first class at SFU rec, with about 50 people showing up in the small fitness studio for trial week, making some of the moves look more human centipede than sexy. Classes generally have about 20–25 people, so on a normal day personal space isn’t an issue.

The classes are a unique workout and a good time. I’ll level with you, though: if the only thing keeping your indebted-ass going through university is the thought that, if it came down to it, you’d pay off your student loans by stripping or some other such sexy parttime job, attending one of Friesen’s burlesque classes may come as an unwanted dose of reality. Looking “sexy” while going through choreographed moves isn’t easy — start attending classes like a mad person now. After taking one, you’ll probably want to anyway, though. I dragged two other Peakies with me and we spent the majority of the time laughing at ourselves and our general ineptitude.

Friesen makes it looks easy, and admittedly the warm-up may initially make you think you have it in the bag. There’s a lot of head and shoulder rolling and booty-shaking. You may feel awkward gyrating, but it’s not particularly demanding. Not until you attempt to set these steps or a body roll to music. What’s a body roll, you ask? Remember that clip of Jessica Alba dancing from Rodriguez’s Sin City? That’s a body roll — you’re welcome.

I doubt my heart rate increased very much while doing this class, so if you’re looking for something that’s going to incinerate calories, maybe run cardiac hill as a warm up and then attend the class. To be fair, most of us in attendance were beginners, and so we very slowly made our way through the steps.

By the end of the hour-long class, we had probably mastered (and by that I mean managed to bungle our way through without tripping over our own feet) about a minute of the song. I can see how, if you knew what you were doing, running through a few songs would work up a sweat and tone muscles with results similar to pilates. Friesen demonstrated the full dance afterward and a number of the moves were a cross between a burpee, a plank and the middle steps of a sun salutation.

The focus on this as fitness is moreso on stretching and moving your body in a way you wouldn’t normally as opposed to a bouncing cardio-bonanza. Some of the bending and arching we did left me feeling the way I’d expect to after having done weighted hyperextensions and I felt the stretches in my hamstrings for a few days afterwards which surprised me since flexibility is one of the few things I have going for me in the athletics department.

If you’re interested in trying burlesque out, Friesen tries to keep her classes as accessible as possible and offers free classes often. If you can’t wait until trial week or the next free offering, “you can always ask to do a drop in class,” Friesen explains, by contacting herself or the rec office. She reassures, “Don’t be afraid. No one is going to start out perfect.”

SFU lacrosse back on the field

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Lacrosse season is here, SFU starts with two wins

By Bryan Scott

The Simon Fraser men’s lacrosse team began their 2013 regular season over the last week with two home games. They battled Western Washington University Vikings, who are in the lower Pacific Northwest Collegiate Lacrosse League Div. II, and then Oregon State University Beavers who are in the PNCLL Div. I with SFU.

SFU has always dominated WWU, and have not lost their home-opener since the program began in 1996. This year would be no different. Freshman midfielder Alex Bohl led the way with two goals and his team high seven points. Ten goals were scored by the attack line of Colton Dow,
Ward Spencer, and Eric Ransom. Dow led the way with five, Ward had four and Ransom rounded it off.

On the defensive end, Mark Hilker used his jedi-like stick skills to keep the Vikings from getting too many good chances. When the ball did get through, more often than not Senior goaltender Kyle Middleton was there to make the save. He allowed seven goals but made 13 saves and had a .650 save percentage. He was a vacuum on loose balls, picking up a team high seven on the day.

The following day was a gorgeous, and it seemed like SFU was enjoying it too much in the first half. OSU’s goaltender made some crucial saves to keep the game scoreless early on. This allowed the Beaver’s to take advantage of some great cross field passing, and some brilliant shots to take the 2–0 lead after the first quarter.

To start the second quarter, Casey Fosters buried a great shot off the run to cut the lead to one. Dow and Ransom connected for more two goals after that to give SFU a 3–2 lead. Unfortunately, SFU sat back and let OSU score four unanswered goals to end the half, leaving them in a three-goal hole to start the second half.

Sam Clare was determined to start the half with a bang when he won the opening face-off and ran it down for the goal. The Beavers managed to respond with one of their own, but it was not enough for the barrage that was about to begin. SFU, led by Dow and Ransom, scored seven unanswered goals, to take a 11–7 lead. Some foul trouble late allowed the Beavers to score one more passed SFU goaltender Darren Zwack. Ransom racked up five points in the game, and Down followed with four.

Head coach Brent Hoskins was happy with his young team’s performance, “Today required a lot of patience in terms of relying on our systems to keep generating opportunities and ultimately finding a way to win, which is an experience that we feel will really benefit us moving forward.”

Clan struggles continue

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SFU loses twice with season winding down

By Bryan Scott

The Simon Fraser men’s basketball team were in tough last week but played two beatable teams who both have losing records on the year. They battled hard in their first game losing a close game to the Northwest Nazarene Crusaders. The second game was a forgettable one against the Western Oregon Wolves, who chewed up the Clan.

SFU kept things close for most of the first half of the game versus NNU, but things slowly fell apart after the 13-minute mark of the half. The Clan led 24–23 when everything came unglued, NNU went on a 20–2 run to end the half, and trailed 43–26. Anto Olah chipped in nine points for SFU in the first.

Like they so often do, SFU waited until late in the game to mount a comeback. With time running out, Dillon Hamilton nailed a shot from beyond the arc to bring the Crusader lead to only two. That is as close as they would get, losing the game 81–75. Olah finished the game with 20 points and four rebounds to lead SFU.

After the disappointing loss, SFU returned home to start their final home stand of the season. Despite the fact they have no postseason hopes; finishing the season on a winning note is important for next years confidence.

The Clan will be chalking this one up in the experience column as they were absolutely owned by the WOU Wolves. This game wasn’t even close from the get-go as the Wolves dominated every aspect of the court. In the first half alone, WOU outscored SFU 18–4 in the paint, were 10–1 on second chance points, and 16–0 off the bench. This led to a 23 point lead for Western Oregon at halftime.

The second half was much of the same; SFU could not hold a candle to WOU. The Clan were outscored 43–31 in the second half, and lost the game 89–54. They had one last game to end on a winning note which took place last Saturday. Check the results at athletics.sfu.ca.

SFU has roller coaster week

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Clan women’s basketball team sinks Vikings, can’t cage Falcons

By Bryan Scott

The Simon Fraser women’s basketball team was in action twice over the reading break, playing the first place Western Washington University Vikings, and the Seattle Pacific University Falcons.

The game between the Clan and Vikings had been highly anticipated since both teams are at the top of the league. SFU has not beaten WWU in any conference games since 2010. The first half was tight as expected. Both teams had something to prove, especially the Clan.

Unfortunately, it was the Vikings who found their footing first and took a small lead to start the game. SFU battled back to tie the game at five, but then found themselves behind once again.

The Vikings went on a 12–6 run over the next five minutes to take the lead by six points just over halfway into the first half. The Clan were still trailing with 5:43 left in the first, when they decided to go on a run of their own, and closed out the half with a three point, 35–32 lead. SFU exploded out of the locker rooms determined to keep their lead. They did more than that — pushing their lead to 18 points by the 10 minute mark. Erin Chambers had 11 points in the half to help the Clan demolish, WWU 74–59. Katie Lowen led the Clan with 17 points and four rebounds, but there were four other SFU athletes in the double-digits for scoring.

For their efforts, the Clan became the top-rated team in the West Region moving up to number eight on the USA Today Top 25 Coaches Poll rankings. They are ranked one ahead of the Vikings who are in ninth. They were also named the GNAC team of the week for ending the
Vikings 11-game win streak. Next, the Clan traveled down to Seattle, Washington to face another conference rival, the SPU Falcons. Both teams worked hard in the paint, and knocked down key shots in the first half. Nayo Raincock-Ekunwe was scored half of SFU’s points in the half, scoring 17 of their 34 in the first, but the game was tied at halftime.

Despite having an excellent second half against the Vikings, the Falcons were too much for the Clan. Raincock-Ekunwe was relatively silent in the remainder of the game but still finished with 21 points and 11 rebounds for yet another double-double on the season.

Head coach Bruce Langford credited SPU in the loss, “We faced a very determined team who competed very hard and shot the ball extremely well tonight,” he said in a press release. After that the Clan hit the road to Montana, to face the Yellowjackets of Montana Billings State.

SFU comes out on top

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Men’s hockey team wins once on the road, and once at home

By Andrew Jow
Photos by Vaikunthe Banerjee

For the second straight weekend, the Simon Fraser University men’s hockey team played back-to-back games. This weekend’s schedule pitted them against the Thompson River University Wolfpack and the Eastern Washington University Eagles.

The first game against the Wolfpack was an absolute thriller. SFU raced out to a quick 3–0 lead.
Nick Sandor, Christopher Hoe, and Jono Ceci all netted a goal within the first nine minutes of the period.

TRU clawed its way back into the game when Duncan Schultz took advantage of a turnover in the
SFU zone and roofed it. The tally was a shorthanded goal, which was a running theme throughout the rest of the game. In the last minute of the first period, TRU brought the SFU’s lead to one as Joshua MacDonald tapped in the puck into the open net on a 2-on-0 opportunity.

SFU dominated the first 10 minutes of the second period by flying through the neutral zone and utilizing the dump and chase effectively. Their efforts paid off when Tony Oak’s sharp angle shot from the left boards left the mesh rippling. Thompson River scored their second short-handed goal minutes after Oak’s marker. Curtis Tolleno picked SFU defenseman Taylor Mah’s pocket, broke in all alone, and roofed it on Graham Gordon. Brenden Silvester restored SFU’s two-goal lead by battling through a mad scramble in front of the Wolfpack’s goal and poking the puck home.

As the third period got underway, TRU began its comeback by scoring yet another short-handed goal. This time it was Tyler Jackson who benefited from an SFU turnover, and he made no mistake. TRU began to apply further pressure, eventually tying the game at five, thanks to a Alessio Tomassetti’s rocket.

TRU was hardly finished celebrating Tomassetti’s equalizer when Sandor took the puck off the face-off and buried the go-ahead goal. Sandor’s effort was also short lived because 42 seconds later, TRU Tyler Jackson’s wrist shot from the point tied things up once again.

Three goals were scored in one minute of play, exemplifying the hectic nature of the whole game. When the buzzer sounded to mark the end of regulation the game was tied 6 –6, which meant the teams headed into sudden death overtime.

The five-minute period featured odd-man chances for both teams, but it solved nothing, so the game went into the shootout to decide the victor. Since each goalie had surrendered six goals in regulation, common sense would dictate the shootout would end quickly, but SFU’s Gordon and TRU’s Shane Mainprize shut their respective doors, keeping the skills contest scoreless after eight rounds. SFU’s Kale Wild brought this thriller of a game to an end, scoring the only goal in the shootout to give SFU the 7–6 victory.

After the frenetic game Friday night, SFU headed home to Bill Copeland Arena to face the Eastern Washington Eagles on Saturday. Having played their four previous games on the road, a home game for Simon Fraser was a welcome change.

SFU took the lead very early thanks to Trevor Milner. All he had to do was tap the puck into the wide-open cage after great puck movement by defensemen Hoe and Mah. The deficit did not deter the visitors one bit as they began to pepper Gordon with shots, but he was up to the task. With a minute left in the opening period, Milner buried his second goal by putting pressure on the EWU defense, which led to a turnover that he capitalized on. It was a spirited opening 20 minutes with great end-to-end action.

The quick pace continued in the second period. EWU had some good chances to cut into the SFU lead, but Gordon turned them all away. He made a sprawling pad save to stymie an Eagle’s 2-on-1 and turned away a late breakaway attempt. SFU’s special teams came up big in the second, not allowing EWU to reach the score sheet on two straight powerplay opportunities.
Taylor Piller extended SFU’s lead to 3–0 with 2:32 to go in the frame by burying a great pass from Colton Graf.

After the Eagles’ Zach Maxwell scored on an incredible coast-tocoast rush to start the third, SFU dominated the period. They were by far the faster team, and this speed was on display for their final two goals. Mah sniped a shot from the left sidewall after a quick retrieval of the puck in the offensive zone. Then, Graf roofed it top shelf after Ceci out hustled his man to feed him. The two goals gave SFU a 5–1 lead, ending the game and sending the fans home happy.

Andrea Abrams: athlete in action

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Abrams hurdles life’s obstacles through her faith and does well on the track

By Clay J. Gray
Photos by Mark Burnham

Andrea Abrams is a fifth-year senior at SFU. She’s from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and like many children she grew up playing soccer and eating orange slices. As Andrea got older the number of sports she played multiplied to just about everything her community had to offer. Unlike many athletes, Abrams didn’t find her event until she was well into high school.

In the 10th grade while Andrea was at a track meet, her coach approached her during her warm-up to tell her what her list of events would be for the day. Until then, Andrea had typically run the 100-meter, 200-meter, and long jump but on that fateful day her coach decided to also enter her into the 100-meter hurdles. Andrea said, “I had never practiced hurdling, I was scared. I had seen people fall before and I didn’t want that to be me.” To Andrea’s delight she didn’t hit a single hurdle during her first race.

When Andrea was deciding where to attend university her biggest decision was whether to stay in Canada or go to the United States; she wanted to compete in the larger American leagues, but to remain in Canada. When asked about how she made her way to SFU Andrea said, “SFU didn’t contact me. I called them and emailed them. I thought SFU was a perfect fit, it was a Canadian School with good academics and it competed in the States.”

Andrea’s progress ion through university placed a few obstacles in her path other than the hurdles on the track. Andrea considers the biggest challenges to her track success to be herself; as with a lot of athletes, she is a perfectionist. For Abrams the desire to obtain perfection comes with incredible pressure that sometimes manifests in excessive self-criticisms about relatively small details.

When faced with the difficulties that come with being a perfectionist, Andrea turns towards her faith. During Andrea’s first year at SFU she let it fall to the wayside; however, in her second year, Andrea found an organization that made her feel at home, Athletes-in-Action.
Athletes-in-Action is a Christian organization that connects fellow Christian athletes and provides an outlet for their faith. Abrams said, “Athletes-in-Action is a great organization for me because it allowed me to connect to likeminded individuals.”

Andrea also expresses her faith through her tattoo of a tree, half of it withering while the other half is in bloom. Andrea said, “My tattoo expresses how I have felt in my life while living with and without God.” After spending five years at SFU, Andrea had many stories about trips she had gone on, races she had won, and races she had lost. What she recalled as one of her most exciting experiences at SFU actually came from a class taught by Kate Tairyan.

When speaking about the classes she took with Dr. Tairyan, Andrea went into detail on a project regarding mental health. Abrams said, “We designed a course focusing on mental health that will be studied, and that Dr. Tairyan has made available for people to access all over the world.” Abrams has made strides on and off the track, and will look to continue on her path while finishing her athletic career and degree at SFU.

Terrifying thing happens in Russia as usual

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 Meteor storm over Chelyabinsk sends citizens into a state of ennui, frantically go about their day.

By Gary Lim (Junior Cosmonaut)

CHELYABINSK — The incredible took place early morning today over the Ural mountains, when an unidentified flying object burned across the sky. The object, which left a smoldering scar hundreds of miles across before spectacularly exploding over the Chelyabinsk industrial district, was just one of multiple pieces of space debris that bombarded the region. The event lasted approximately 12 minutes and was witnessed by dozens of completely disinterested locals.

The Peak contacted administrative head of Chelyabinsk, Stalinslav Mosharo, to discuss the impacts of the devastating meteor shower, which include over 400 people injured. “Yes, there was meteors today. Yesterday was rain. What is it you want to be talking about?” He spent the remaining 45 minutes of the interview discussing the importance of work ethic.

Notable damage caused by the suborbital impact included damage to a local zinc factory, where all windows on the northern wall were blown out and 600 square meters of roofing had collapsed, much to the mild indifference of the workers inside at the time.

One of the factory workers Aleksei Furmanov, a zinc smelter, gave a statement to reporters, “What are you doing here, you are in my way, I am trying to smelt zinc.” First responders were also seen roaming the factory floor half-heartedly removing shrapnel and bandaging workers who were on their cigarette breaks.

Michelle Gagarin and her husband Robert, two Canadians visiting family in the region, were among to first the capture video footage of the meteor shower. She recounts the experience.
“It was indescribable. A falling star burning across the sky and not only could you see it, you could hear it. It was a high pitched scream that grew louder and louder, until you couldn’t stand it anymore. Windows were exploding, and — I kid you not — a piece the size of a tennis ball slammed into ground not 20 feet from where I was standing. It was like what I imagine a volcano going off must be like, something primal and all-powerful.”

In the hours following the event, a press release from sent out from the highest offices of the Russian government, to assuage the unfazed Russian people.

“We regret any damage to the Russian factories and people. All citizens of the Chelyabinsk region will work an extra day to offset the loss in productivity caused by meteor strike.” The speech was greeted well by crowds of Chelyabinskis nodding sternly in agreement.

As of press time, the sounding of air raid sirens has caused all outdoor Russians to look up at the sky, shrug and continue on with their day.

ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: SFU Student Elections

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Student Elections – Candidate Profiles
By Amara Janssens

Student elections take place Feb. 4-6 2013. Here is a snapshot of the candidates for the positions of Board of Governors (graduate and undergraduate), Senate (graduate and undergraduate), and SFU Community Trust.

 

Andrew Simard

Andrew Simard

Major: Masters of Business Administration
Year: 2nd year of graduate studies
Running for: Board of Governors (graduate)

“SFU transformed my life while doing my B.Sc and again now as an MBA. I’d like to give a little back by serving on the Board of Governors!”

 

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Caleb Kwon

Major: Economic (Honours)
Year: 2nd
Running for: Board of Governors (undergraduate), Senate (undergraduate)

“I am a current senator with strong academic promise and social responsibility looking for re-election. I am actively involved with school affairs and possess high achievements in academic work.”

 

 

 

Catherine Shaffer

Major: Not stated
Year: Not stated
Running for: Senate (graduate)

Unavailable for comment.

 

Eshan Jozaghi

Major: Not stated
Year: Not stated
Running for: Senate (graduate)

Unavailable for comment.

 

 

Forrest Wakarchuk

Major: Political Science and French (French Cohort Programme)
Year: 1st
Running for: Board of Governors (undergraduate), Senate (undergraduate)

“I am a suitable candidate as I have debate experience on the regional, provincial, and federal level in French and English. I am also extremely involved in the SFU community as a volunteer, student, and employee.”

 

Fred Haiderzada

Major: Business
Year: Not stated
Running for: Board of Governors (undergraduate)

Unavailable for comment.

 

Harvy Jawanda

Major: Business
Year: not stated
Running for: Senate (undergraduate)

“I am a firm believer in giving back to my community and would like to take up this opportunity to get involved at SFU so I can offer my time and effort to work for the betterment of the school. I feel that I am a strong candidate for this position as I am outspoken and possess a dedicated work ethic which will enable me to successfully advocate on behalf of the students.”

 

Humza Kwan

Major:
Year:
Running for: Senate (undergraduate), SFU Community Trust

Unavailable for comment.

 

 

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Japreet Lehal

Major: Health Sciences
Year: 2nd
Running for: Board of Governors (undergraduate), Senate (undergraduate), SFU Community Trust

“If elected, I would help contribute to making SFU even better for our students. I would especially like to see a greater focus on experiential education at the university.”

 

Kamaljeet Singh Aulakh

Major: Applied Sciences
Year: Not stated
Running for: Senate (undergraduate)

Unavailable for comment.

 

Karanvir

Karanvir Singh Thiara

Major: History
Year: 4th
Running for: Board of Governors (undergraduate), Senate (undergraduate), SFU Community Trust

“As a Board of Directors member on the SFSS this year, I gained a lot of experience with university policies. This, combined with my experience of being on a municipal level committee for the city of surrey and working with the federal government, makes me a candidate in this election who is experienced with policies and bylaws. I am also not afraid to speak out on topics that others often shy away from.”

 

Kyle Acierno

Major: International Studies
Year: 4th
Running for: Senate (undergraduate)

“Experienced, educated, and ready to go from day one.”

 

moeMoe Kopahi

Major: Mechatronic Systems Engineering
Year: 4th
Running for: Board of Governors (undergraduate), Senate (undergraduate), SFU Community Trust

“If you support me for these positions, I will put my main focus on getting more funding for our school from the federal government, transportation issues, road maintenance as well as better events within our school. I am very supportive of students and have been working very hard to improve the current and future student experience at SFU.”

 

Nimisha Parekh

Major: Business
Year: 3rd
Running for: Senate (undergraduate)

Unavailable for comment.

 

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Sarah-Sophia Flodr

Major: Faculty of Arts
Year: 2nd
Running for: Senate (undergraduate)

“I would like to remain part of the Senate because I know that my devotion, dedication, as well as my positive attitude make me a perfect candidate and most importantly because it would be my honour to represent you in the decision making processes of the SFU Senate!”

 

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Tessica Truong

Major: Environmental Science
Year: 1st
Running for: Senate (undergraduate)

“As part of the SFU Senate, I will create a greater sense of community through policy and governance.”

 

 

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Yasmine Norouzi

Major: Masters of Science (Biology)
Year: Not stated
Running for: Board of Governors (graduate)

“I have been serving the SFU community since 2008 in student organizations. I will serve on the Senate of Graduate Studies Committee and I am a member of the Senate. I am passionate to present the students’ voice on the board to make sure that students’ concerns will be heard. Please see my blog for further information at http://yasamannoroozi.wordpress.com/”

 

 

 

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Yoko Lu

Major: Environmental Science
Year: 5th
Running for: Senate (undergraduate)

“I want to be senate because I value education and students’ learning experience and I believe that by becoming a senate, it is important for the school to have a diversity of senates who have different background in order to achieve high level of education system function.”

 

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