Ahmed Ali
Chess boxing: a sport of two extremes
February 15, 2020By: Ahmed Ali, Peak Associate Imagine, if you will, a sport that simultaneously pushed its athletes to their physical and intellectual limits — a sport that requires an extreme amount of focus, restraint, and raw power. Well, imagine no longer, as the odd, but nevertheless impressive, new sport known as chess boxing has burst onto the scene. Chess boxing is a sport in which two athletes alternate between six rounds of chess and five rounds of boxing, lasting three minutes each. In chess boxing, the winner is whoever gets a checkmate or a knockout first. Athletes can also be disqualified…
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Choosing not to vaccinate even if you’re healthy is inexcusable
November 16, 2019By: Ahmed Ali, Peak Associate Like clockwork, with another Fall term comes another flu season. The stress of midterms and exams is accompanied by the sounds of coughing and sneezing in halls and classrooms alike. This is to say nothing of…
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What Grinds Our Gears: Stop making us pay for access codes and broken web content
September 29, 2019By: Ahmed Ali, SFU Student As students, we already have a lot of expenses at SFU. Between just tuition and textbooks, we’re dropping over $2,000 per semester at least — more for international students. But another expense that you don’t expect…
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Sponsor a Student
June 24, 2019Written by: Ahmed Ali, Peak Associate Illustration by: Momo, Lin Imagine if there was a university student in front of you. They are walking to class, notebook in one hand while sipping coffee with the other, smiling about maybe passing.…
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Welcome to the Antique Textbook Show!
June 10, 2019Written by: Ahmed Ali, Peak Associate Welcome to 14th annual SFU Antique Textbook Show! Every year, students gather to show off ancient, overpriced education supplies no longer usable in the classroom. These wonderful artifacts of the past have endured much,…
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Cryptids of SFU
May 28, 2019Written by: Ahmed Ali Exploratory Journal of Unconfirmed Science May 20th of the year 2019 I, Count Henry Hamilton Reginald III, embarked on a bone-chilling adventure into one of the world’s most isolated environments: The Mysterious Mountain of Simon Fraser.…
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Research Roundup – Investigating links
July 11, 2018Written by: Ahmed Ali, Peak Associate How the attractiveness of your server can affect the taste of your food A study done by UBC and SFU students looked at how the attractiveness of a server affected the taste perceptions of male…
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