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CJSF shows how integral independent societies are to the SFU experience
February 23, 2020By: Leslie Wang, SFU Student In the spring of my third year at SFU, I was living with a horrible case of lizard brain — I doubted all of my actions, words, and thoughts. It was an extremely difficult couple of months on my mental health. Tired, I decided to fight back and take a risk: I joined the on-campus radio station, CJSF. There, I found that I had little to worry about. I was welcomed warmly and offered a myriad of activities through which I could participate. At first, I just wanted a change of pace and wanted to tap…
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Shell House resident shares their experience with bedbugs to The Peak
February 6, 2020By: Sarah Russo, SFU Student Picture this: you move into a new dorm room, excited for a new start in a place all your own (or, at least, you think it’s all your own). You crawl into bed for the first night…
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Informed voting is the absolute least we can ask of our Board
February 3, 2020By: Gabrielle McLaren, Editor-in-Chief Note: The views expressed in the following article are solely my own and do not represent the views or politics of The Peak as a publication or a society. If I have time or if the agenda…
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Giovanni HoSang can’t pretend Fall Kickoff’s deficit doesn’t involve him
February 2, 2020By: Lily Fontaine, SFU Student I scream, you scream, we all scream because the Fall Kickoff deficit was $105,995. Like another Peak article stated, “the SFSS will have spent more to cover the losses for the concert than they did last…
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A new corona virus is no excuse to break out the racism
February 1, 2020Update (April 23, 2020): The headline and sections of this article have been updated from their original version in order to clarify information that was inconclusive or partial at the time of writing. By: Nicole Magas, Opinions Editor By now, “coronavirus”…
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Six things that make a good class syllabus
January 13, 2020By: Gabrielle McLaren, Editor-in-Chief Syllabus week brings up this primal, inescapable anxiety in me. Maybe it’s my fight-or-flight response activating when faced with a list of incoming shenanigans. Maybe it’s the undeniable excitement of breaking out my coloured pens and annotating…
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What Grinds Our Gears: Logging into the SFU library catalogue . . . and then every journal under the sun
January 13, 2020By: Meera Eragoda, Staff Writer Have you ever been writing a paper last minute, desperately trying to find academic sources, only to have the SFU library require that you sign into every external website you click on? The process is then…
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“Death of the author” doesn’t negate the need for critical readings and re-readings
January 4, 2020By: Gabrielle McLaren, Editor-in-Chief When I was in fourth grade I had to do a presentation on “my hero,” which is a pretty standard assignment for a kid’s first foray into PowerPoint. I picked J.K. Rowling, who was my absolute favourite…
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Affordable housing, not gaudy art, is what Vancouver residents need
January 4, 2020By: Meera Eragoda, Staff Writer Picture this: a 3,400 kilogram chandelier shining brightly on the faces of those peering through the lenses of their newest iPhones, attempting to capture the best picture for the gram. On the periphery, homeless folk who…
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Be angry at the bosses not the striking bus drivers
November 15, 2019By: Dylan Webb, Sports Editor On October 31, contract negotiations between the Coast Mountain Bus Company (CMBC) and Unifor, the union representing approximately 5,000 bus drivers and maintenance workers, broke off. The resulting job action began with a uniform ban and…
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