campus safety

This is a photo of the Terry Fox statue in the AQ courtyard, adorned with a scarf and empty beer cans.
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Stop littering campus spaces

Yasmin Hassan March 20, 2025

Look, we can all joke about the fact that the SFU campus may literally be one of the most damaged and maintenance-prone places, with boarded doors and safety tape galore. But, to some degree, the responsibility of keeping our community clean falls into our hands. When I came to university, I thought people would be more attentive to keeping spaces tidy as we developed more skills and knowledge. Yet, my expectations have been nothing but undermined with the ridiculous and flat-out gross things I’ve seen around campus. One example I can’t ever forget was during one summer, I was sitting…

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This is an illustration featuring the large W of the Woodward’s building downtown, three custodial workers in blue looking unhappy, a bagpipe, grey laptop open with the words “OpenAI” on its screen, and the grey exterior of SFU’s academic quadrangle.
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2024 News Rewind

Mason Mattu and Lucaiah Smith-Miodownik January 9, 2025

Editor’s note: The ranking of these stories is roughly based on the number of articles written on each topic, whether these stories appeared on the cover of our weekly issues, and readership statistics from issuu.com. Multiple links under a single…

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19-year-old male with toy gun arrested at W.A.C. Bennett Library

Gurpreet Kambo October 8, 2019

Suspicions of a potential gun threat brought Burnaby RCMP to campus on October 8, though the object in question was later found to be a squirt gun and not a functioning firearm. The incident resulted in the arrest of a…

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Second assault reported at SFU within two weeks

Gurpreet Kambo August 2, 2019

For the second time in two weeks, a safety alert was sent out by security on Burnaby campus warning students that an assault had been reported.  According to an alert issued by Burnaby RCMP, on the morning of July 26…

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Board Shorts

Amneet Mann October 28, 2018

  Board discusses approach to SFU’s proposed tuition fee increases Vice-president student services Samer Rihani briefed the SFSS (Simon Fraser Student Society) board of directors on a meeting held with SFU administration about the university’s proposed tuition fee increases. Addressing…

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