Austin Cozicar
Canucks face a season of change
April 7, 2014It has been an interesting season for the Canucks, to say the least. Right now, the Canucks have a less than one per cent chance of making the playoffs. By the time you read this, they’ll be out, officially. That being said, I still look forward to the remaining games. Even though they cannot make the playoffs, I still want to see them win every game left. I would like to see them fight for a ninth spot. Tanking for draft picks is shameful, even if they are knocked out of the playoffs, and there are still so many questions…
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Burnaby prepares for quidditch world championships
April 7, 2014To most, quidditch is a game confined to fiction, played solely in J.K. Rowling’s popular Harry Potter series; however, in Burnaby, BC, quidditch is very real and currently thriving. Not only has SFU managed to field a competitive team in…
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Tanking is for losers
March 28, 2014Despite losing in overtime to the Colorado Avalanche, the Canucks have shown that this late-season resurgence was not just taking advantage of weak teams like Buffalo and Florida. Rather, the Canucks have shown that they can still hold their own…
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On the bright side
March 24, 2014Although the Canucks are still realistically out of the playoff picture, they have shown marked improvement as of late. Scoring, which was hard to come by even in December when the Canucks were winning, has not been the issue recently,…
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SFU hockey upset in semis
March 17, 2014After opening the BCIHL semifinals with a loss to the Trinity Western Spartans by a score of 3–2 at the Langley Events Centre, the Clan hoped to bounce back Friday when they faced them again at the Bill Copeland Centre.…
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Students duke it out in Three Minute Thesis finals
March 15, 2014[caption id="attachment_75527" align="aligncenter" width="360"] Last year's winner of the 3MT, Mike Henrey, wrote his thesis on gecko-inspired robots.[/caption] In just three short, action-packed minutes, SFU grad students were challenged to present the sum of their graduate work — no easy…
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Conference discusses becoming a living wage university
March 10, 2014In a conference on Feb. 27, Living Wage SFU called for Simon Fraser to become the first living wage university in Canada, following the example of Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). Living wage refers to the salary that one…
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Canucks stumble, again, at trade deadline
March 6, 2014Time to restart First, a confession: hearing that Roberto Luongo had been traded had me quite excited. Not because I dislike him—to the contrary, he’s been one of my favourite Canucks since his arrival, and when it was trendy to…
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Go Gold or go home
March 3, 2014If you are anything like the members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), then you will probably say that the Olympics are not about winning or losing, or the number of medals a given country has won. And you may…
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Clan win on Senior’s Day
February 21, 2014It was Senior’s Day for the Clan women’s basketball team and the final home game for seniors Chelsea Reist, Kia van Laare, Rebecca Langmead, and Marie-Line Petit, as well as senior team manager Alex Mackenzie. In a proper send-off, the…
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