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Lesser-known must-see movies
September 30, 2017By: Aaron Richardson, Staff Writer Man on the Moon (1999) — A story so strange, it’s hard to believe it’s true Based on a true story, Man on the Moon tells the story of the life of Andy Kaufman. In an astoundingly accurate performance — one that won him a Golden Globe — Jim Carrey brought Andy Kaufman back to life. Living his life for the joke, Kaufman, a comedian entertained (and enraged) a generation. With the constant stream of characters he played, personas he portrayed, and large-scale practical jokes, you could never tell what he would do next, or…
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The cutting edge of technology
September 28, 2017By: Aaron Richardson Simon Fraser University is at the cutting edge of research in advanced organic materials. The Williams Group, headed by Dr. Vance Williams in the chemistry department, is working on the development of organic materials with functions as semiconductors,…
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SFU women’s golf place 5th in first golf tournament of the year
September 21, 2017By: Aaron Richardson SFU’S women’s golf team just finished the opening tournament of the 2017–18 season. The Skyhawks West Regional Preview in Durango, Colorado began on September 18, and finished late afternoon the day after. The team ended the first…
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Book of the Week: André Alexis’ Fifteen Dogs is a beautiful exercise in the theory of consciousness
September 11, 2017By: Aaron Richardson Even with the plot of a movie we’ve all seen and hated, Fifteen Dogs is more than worth the read. The book follows a group of dogs who have been given the gift of intelligence by the gods…
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SFU architect myth false, but only technically
July 31, 2017Although it is true that SFU architect Arthur Erickson did design prisons, the prisons that he designed were not the typical prisons that one might commonly associate with the word. He did not design the prisons in which Jeremy, a…
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