Alex Bloom

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Paranormal Activity : SFU students tell us their real life scary stories

Alex Bloom, Maxwell Gallick, Jennifer Low, Gabrielle McLaren, Zach Siddiqui, Lauren Wallace, and Winona Young October 27, 2018

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 with scrounged bolts of cloth and small bamboo rods, we needed a fortress. The room obliged.…

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Exclusive interview with long-dead SFU dungeoneer

Alex Bloom October 17, 2018

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 Peak was able to…

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Board Shorts

Amneet Mann August 28, 2018

  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 Monday, September 24 at the Leslie and Gordon Diamond Family Auditorium at…

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SFU gives me hope

Alex Bloom, Gabrielle McLaren, and Nathaniel Tok August 1, 2018

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 stories about the uplifting things human beings do for…

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Amazon product reviews for SFU degrees

Alex Bloom, Aaron Richardson, Iain Edgar, Maxwell Gawlick, and Tiffany Chang July 13, 2018

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 several job offers right after graduation. Would be five stars but…

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Historical pretexts for ridiculous political sanctions

Alex Bloom, Gabrielle McLaren, and Aaron Richardson June 27, 2018

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 Denmark returns all the gold they stole.”…

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Track-by-Track: Watching the Sky by Sheppard

Alex Bloom, Courtney Miller, Zach Siddiqui, and Natasha Tar June 8, 2018

"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 to begin with, but I guess as intro…

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Album versus Album: Logic

Alex Bloom May 23, 2018

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 epic sound, culminating…

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Arts events to look forward to this summer

Alex Bloom, Melissa Campos, Gabrielle McLaren, Natasha Tar, and Eva Zhu May 14, 2018

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 the next few months, consider checking out these incredible arts events…

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Must-see event

Alex Bloom April 4, 2018

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 celebrate their 10-year…

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