Alex Bloom
Paranormal Activity : SFU students tell us their real life scary stories
October 27, 2018By: Alex Bloom, Maxwell Gallick, Jennifer Low, Gabrielle McLaren, Zach Siddiqui, Lauren Wallace, and Winona Young It was too cold to play outside, and we weren’t yet addicted to video games, so somehow my best friend and I got the idea in our heads that playing in the basement by ourselves was the totally-not-creepy solution to our boredom. The room was filled with an assortment of oddities from my mom’s career as a set and costume designer, and we spent hours searching it for suitable material to use as capes and swords to fuel our fixation with knights. Once equipped…
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Exclusive interview with long-dead SFU dungeoneer
October 17, 2018Written by: Alex Bloom Sandra Swiftfoot is a third-year wizarding student with a minor in roguishness. She died exploring the labyrinthine corridors of SFU over 10 years ago. Thanks to the recent removal of the campus ban on necromancy, The…
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Board Shorts
August 28, 2018Written by: Amneet Mann, News Editor with files from Alex Bloom, Editor-in-Chief Board set date and appointed planning committee for AGM The Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) Board of Directors resolved to host their annual general meeting (AGM) on…
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SFU gives me hope
August 1, 2018By: Alex Bloom, K.A.U., Gabrielle McLaren, and Nathaniel Tok Editor’s note: If you were lurking around on the internet a long, long time ago, you might have come across a site called “Gives me hope,” filled with cute little reader-submitted…
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Amazon product reviews for SFU degrees
July 13, 2018Written by: Alex Bloom, Aaron Richardson, Iain Edgar, Maxwell Gawlick, Tiffany Chang Bachelor of business administration ✩✩✩✩ This degree was very expensive, but it works pretty well. I get decent returns on my investment. Because of the Co-Op Add-On, I got…
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Historical pretexts for ridiculous political sanctions
June 27, 2018By: Alex Bloom, Gabrielle McLaren, Aaron Richardson UK bans Danish imports in response to late 8th century Viking raids The island nation passed sanctions on the “Viking homeland,” as secretary of state for foreign affairs Boris Johnson put it, “until…
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Track-by-Track: Watching the Sky by Sheppard
June 8, 2018By: Alex Bloom, Courtney Miller, Zach Siddiqui, Natasha Tar "Watching the Sky" Alex Bloom: I feel like I’m listening to the soundtrack of some inspiring, feel-good Pixar film about an animal. Courtney Miller: I’m not a big believer in intro songs…
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Album versus Album: Logic
May 23, 2018By: Alex Bloom The Incredible True Story (2015) Logic is certainly a talented rapper, but what stands out to me is this album’s ability to tell a story. The opening track, “Contact,” sets the scene for the album with an…
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Arts events to look forward to this summer
May 14, 2018By: Alex Bloom, Melissa Campos, Gabrielle McLaren, Natasha Tar, and Eva Zhu Welcome to summer, the time of slacking off and generally being lazy. This may be your plan, but if you are thinking of venturing outside of your house in…
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Must-see event
April 4, 2018By: Alex Bloom Taking place on April 7, the SFU Concert Orchestra will be performing X Part II: Through Space and Time. This comes as the second and final instalment in a series of performances held by the orchestra to…
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