Convocation Mall
What Grinds Our Gears: Wet SFU seats
June 16, 2025By: Corbett Gildersleve, News Writer SFU has completed multiple outdoor renovation projects over the last five years: updating the convocation mall, the top of the Rotunda, the applied science building, and the AQ gardens. You’ve spent millions of dollars to make bench-shaped art sculptures. So much money was spent redoing the tile, putting in new cement, stone, new lighting, and repairing the grass. Do you know what wasn’t installed anywhere? Fucking rain covers! What good is it to build, ship, and install these visually interesting and (generally) comfortable benches, when you can only use them when it’s dry out! You…
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Freedom Square plaque removed and engraved into new tiles
July 13, 2020Written by: Michelle Gomez, News Editor The plaque that once stood in SFU’s Freedom Square, in commemoration of protests that took place in 1967, has now been engraved into the new tiles in Freedom Square with different wording. According to…
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Construction in the AQ and Convocation Mall to be completed in Fall 2020
March 8, 2019SFU Burnaby is undergoing a Plaza Renewal Project. The Peak sat down for an interview with the project manager, James Bremner, to find out more about the ongoing construction. Bremner explained that there are two phases of the project, both…
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Board Shorts
March 19, 2018Written by Zach Siddiqui, Opinions Editor Truc Trat and Muhammad Abid appointed at-large members of the Surrey Campus Committee Funding approved for two Food Days at Surrey campus The SFSS’s Surrey Campus Committee will be manning self-serve snack stations…
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Holi bash brings an Indian tradition to SFU Burnaby
March 14, 2018On Saturday, March 3, SFU’s Convocation Mall was lit up with coloured powder, music, and dancing in celebration of the Holi Festival, an ancient Indian tradition. The celebration has deep religious and cultural roots, as explained by the vice-president of…
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SFSS fall kickoff concert sees impressive profit
January 10, 2018After finalizing its expenses and revenues, the fall kickoff concert hosted by the Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) in September 2017 saw no monetary losses. In fact, it had the highest attendance in the student society’s history, making it the…
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Board Shorts
September 15, 2014Convocation Mall renovations Professor of criminology Ehor Boyanowsky approached the board on Wednesday to discuss the possibility of making renovations to the open space in Convocation Mall. Referencing Burnaby campus’ lack of light during the fall and spring semesters and…
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