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What Grinds Our Gears: Campus maps are aesthetically pleasing but useless for navigation

Tiffany Chang February 2, 2020

I think most people — if not everyone — has noticed how the maps of the SFU campuses all lack sufficient detail. It’s no secret that sparsely-labelled geometric shapes don’t actually help people navigate the many mazes making up our academic institutions. Instead of leading us to our appropriate classrooms, they only lead us to even more confusion.  As someone who already isn’t great with directions, if it weren’t for additional resources like signs and the SFU Snap’s “room finder” function, I would’ve constantly been getting lost during my freshman year. The first time I saw a map of the…

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SFU needs to find better ways to update students on construction changes

Jennifer Low October 5, 2019

Campus-wide construction has made SFU a maze of public walkway signs and blue fences. In addition, the beginning of the fall semester also brings about a whole new set of challenges with increases in student foot traffic and poor weather…

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