Ben Derochie
The Surrey stigma: The city we love to hate
EIC February 6, 2012By Kelly Thoreson “I heard that Surrey was not the nicest place. It wasn’t a place you wanted to go to,” said Ella Sargent, a sixth-year kinesiology major at SFU. “The ‘ghetto’ is a bad word for it, but it is something along those lines.” The legend of Surrey is common in the Lower Mainland, and SFU students are guilty of spreading the word: Surrey is not a nice place. Any number of reasons are given for this assumption, such as gang violence, shootings, ‘dirty’ girls, or ‘thug’ guys, to name a few. But is any of this true? Surrey…
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TransLink to offer new daily U-Pass program
EIC January 30, 2012Photo by Ben Derochie By Colin Sharp Humorist Emeritus Tag:“We’re getting really good at wasting money by changing the system,” says TransLink In response to continued complaints that the U-Pass program is still not vulnerable enough to fraud, TransLink…
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