Amal Abdullah
SFU Quidditch offers an untraditional athletic outlet for SFU students
September 21, 2018By: Amal Javed Abdullah What do you do during these first few weeks of school when you’re slightly affronted that you still haven’t received your Hogwarts letter? You play quidditch. SFU Quidditch, an SFU sports team that has been around for five years, is “a very dumb game that we all love playing,” for “people [who] appreciate running around on a broom for fun,” says Nathan Ross, long-time member and president of the team. The official game differs from the one in the books by J. K. Rowling in a number of respects, the most obvious difference being that players…
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Sports clubs spotted at clubs day
September 18, 2018By: Amal Abdullah SFU Cricket Club SFU Cricket Club is a non-professional team sports interest club under the SFSS. They have four main objectives: Learning. Cricket isn’t a popular sport in North America, and the club focuses on allowing people…
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100 Days in Uranium City is a quiet, calm read that’ll leave you empathizing with the life of a 70s miner
September 15, 2018By: Amal Javed Abdullah If you’re looking for a short yet meaningful read, 100 Days in Uranium City by Canadian illustrator Ariane Dénommé is the perfect graphic novel to pick up. Best to read on a rainy day by a…
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AI summer camp aims to encourage high school girls to get involved in STEM
August 3, 2018By: Amal Javed Abdullah, Staff Writer The SFU Faculty of Applied Sciences held Invent the Future, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) summer camp, to encourage girls to pursue science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. During the two…
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goSFU has achieved consciousness!
August 1, 2018Written by: Amal Abdullah Researchers at UBC have discovered that SFU’s student services platform has achieved consciousness, and is now trying to conquer the world. In a new study published this summer, it has been found that the system has…
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Why are Vancouverites so afraid of homeless people?
August 1, 2018Written by: Amal Javed Abdullah, Staff Writer At the end of last year, the City of Vancouver faced backlash and protests when one of the locations for its temporary homeless housing project was claimed to be too close to an…
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Students who drive have no choice but to deal with SFU’s problematic parking policies
July 27, 2018Written by: Amal Javed Abdullah, Staff Writeparking SFU’s Burnaby campus is labeled as a commuter campus, as the majority of students live neither in residence nor at UniverCity. To get up this mountain, they either have to commute to and…
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Still figuring things out as a university student is OK
July 12, 2018Written by: Amal Abdullah, Staff Writer Here we are, in our 20s and in the midst of our university careers, ready to enter “the real world.” We emerge proudly sporting a cap and gown, a distinguished post-secondary degree in our…
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SFU smart jewellery start-up keeps wearers safe
June 18, 2018By: Amal Abdullah, Staff Writer SFU computing science and mathematics student Georgiy Sekretaryuk has co-founded a company that focuses on public safety. NERO, completely self-financed by Sekretaryuk, creates smart jewellery which, if tapped three times, sends the wearer’s GPS…
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Bringing colour and community to SFU Burnaby
June 12, 2018By: Amal Abdullah SFU Colour is a club dedicated to enhancing physical spaces with art and colour on Burnaby campus. Currently consisting of three club executives, it was launched as a club in January 2018, but has been running as…
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