Activism
SFU too often takes credit for achievements by progressive student movements
June 2, 2022Here’s something that never fails to be a crowd-pleaser: powerful institutions claiming to be progressive after being shamed into progressive action. And what’s even better? When that same institution fakes good cheer when thanking the activists that held its feet to the fire. Many thanks for double-dipping on all that, SFU. Last year, SFU350 got the school to fully divest itself of investments into planet-warming, emissions-intensive industries. That’s great! After eight years of protesting, and after having been threatened for an inoffensive mural on Convocation Mall, a student-advocated policy change was underway. Except you wouldn’t know it from the school’s…
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SFU Board of Governors declares climate emergency
February 28, 2022After years of lobbying from climate advocacy group SFU350, the Board of Governors (BOG) formally declared a climate emergency on January 28. The Board’s vote approved most elements from the student group’s 2021 Climate Emergency Declaration (CED) open letter. In…
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Eternity Martis is SFU’s 2022 Non-Fiction Writer in Residence
February 23, 2022On January 20, 2022, the SFU Library and SFU Public Square hosted a virtual reading and Q&A event with award-winning authors and journalists, Eternity Martis and Kamal Al-Solaylee, to launch the non-fiction Writer-In-Residence program. The program began last year and…
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What Grinds Our Gears: Un-radicalized old people
December 1, 2021Old people — the ones that aren’t outright critical of any change — are often renowned for their mellow nature. For this reason, they are entirely deserving of the flak I’m about to throw at them. Either they have lived…
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Climate Justice Mural removed from Convocation Mall
November 22, 2021A group of SFU students from SFU350, along with supporters, painted a mural at the Burnaby Campus in Convocation Mall on September 12, 2021. The mural has now been removed from the space by SFU. SFU vice-provost students and international…
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Organizers and allies respond to SFU decision to hire 15 more Black faculty
November 20, 2021SFU Senate voted on September 13, 2021 to hire at least 15 Black tenured faculty. The new hires are to be made across various faculties to promote inclusivity and diversity of perspectives. Dr. June Francis, special advisor to the president…
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Political Corner: What is BDS and what does it have to do with me?
September 10, 2021By Anonymous Jewish Student BDS stands for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions and was an international call made by the Palestinian Civil Society organization in 2005. BDS calls for non-violent pressure on the state of Israel to comply with international law by…
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Slacktivism is not an effective approach to online activism
June 8, 2021As someone who has organized an online educational resource on the Downtown Eastside overdose crisis, I’m familiar with the pros and cons of using social media as an activism tool. Based on my experience, there are essentially two types of…
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Freedom Square plaque removed and engraved into new tiles
July 13, 2020The plaque that once stood in SFU’s Freedom Square, in commemoration of protests that took place in 1967, has now been engraved into the new tiles in Freedom Square with different wording. According to SFU’s Chief Facilities Officer Larry Waddell,…
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It took far too long for complaints about SFU Athletics’ team name to be heard
July 12, 2020It’s no secret to the SFU community that our athletics teams are represented by an embarrassing and dangerously misleading name: “The Clan.” Meant as an homage to SFU’s Scottish roots, the name is more ubiquitously associated these days with the…
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