Anthony Liao
Current grading systems don’t reflect student’s abilities
January 18, 2021It’s believed that rewarding students’ hard work with letter grades can promote more effective learning. However, rather than prioritizing learning, this system induces pressure on students to focus solely on grades. The SFU Senate recently approved a compassionate grading pilot that would allow students to take a pass, credit, or no credit mark for electives. While this move is a great start for reforming the letter grade system, discrepancies remain. A permanent, alternative grading scheme should be implemented to ensure a focus on learning. Without external pressures from the letter grade system, students can adopt mastery-approach goals. These would have…
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The next step in women’s sexual freedom is access to free contraceptives
February 10, 2020As someone who has had the experience of having my birth control switched up about seven times due to side effects, I’m well aware of the cost of prescription birth control. Each switch has increased the cost until it went…
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What Grinds Our Gears: Dorm showers are part science lab, part horror show
September 22, 2019The Pauline Jewett Tower is where I get to call home this school year. I knew, in theory, that the Towers have shared washrooms for the entire floor to use. What I didn’t know was that, while the co-op showers…
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Vancouver’s QS World University Ranking isn’t all that it seems
September 16, 2019Vancouver’s grades are in and it has been given a mark of 71.6% as a student city by the QS World University Ranking system, which is an annual publication of global university rankings. That’s a solid B- by the standard…
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What Grinds Our Gears: Respect thy neighbour, noisy dorm residents
September 9, 2019Dear rude neighbour: of course we all love our music, buddy. But while we’re at it, can we show our neighbours in the cramped dorms some respect by loving our headphones, too? Living in these tiny concrete jails is a…
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