Belzberg Library

Interior lobby of the Belzberg Library at SFU’s Habour Centre campus.
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Students occupy library to demand SFU’s divestment from Israel

Hannah Fraser June 10, 2024

Content warning: mentions of genocide and violence. On May 23, SFU students occupied the downtown campus’ Belzberg Library to demand the university divest from military assets supplied to Israel and call for an immediate ceasefire. A broad coalition of SFU groups organized the protest, which was intended to coincide with SFU’s Board of Governors meeting. A rally was also held outside campus for over four hours, and there was a teach-in about “building community resistance.”  In March, students protested at the Board meeting in-person with the same demands. Since then, the Board has moved their monthly meetings online.  In an…

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Corporate woman sitting at desk looking overwhelmed by the business papers two men are trying to show her.
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Joy Johnson realizes she took her guard down too soon

Freida Watermelon June 3, 2024

Content warning: mentions of genocide. Joy Johnson is exasperated because she does not know what more she could’ve done! The Board of Governors meeting was moved online to prevent any more annoying disruptions, but that did not stop those little…

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Photo of the exterior of Vancouver Public Library on Homer street on a sunny day with many pedestrians outside. The building’s architecture is a brown “rectangular box surrounded by a free-standing, elliptical, colonnaded wall.”
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Little-known library resources at your fingertips

Izzy Cheung May 31, 2023

Books, articles, and study spaces are the things that come to mind when saying the word “library.” However, the libraries around us have many more resources that often get buried beneath the piles of books. From board games to courses…

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SFU celebrates Black womanhood through art

Linda Kanyamuna March 13, 2021

Since November of 2020, Vancouverites have been consuming the resilience, energy, and beauty of Black womanhood through visual art in the form of a 240 foot photo-poetic art installation un/settled. The piece, which resides at the intersection of West Hastings…

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