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Student entrepreneur launches swim gear site

EIC January 12, 2015

Fourth year SFU business student Viktor Holicek is making a splash with his startup distribution website for swimming sports watches. The site, Swimovate Canada, connects students with unique fitness equipment, provides details as to how the equipment can be best utilized, and links users to blogs related to fitness and swimming. Holicek’s website eventually emerged from an idea he had for a device that would help swimmers track their workouts. “During my exchange in China, some friends and I were brainstorming ideas for swimming products,” he explained. “I knew enough about swimming to see [. . .] a business opportunity…

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Simon Fraser vs. Louis Riel

EIC January 6, 2015

While most SFU students probably have at least a basic knowledge of Louis Riel, the controversial Métis-Canadian who led two rebellions against the government in the 19th century, his name holds a very different meaning at our school than anywhere…

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Dance team to perform at the Grey Cup

EIC November 24, 2014

You may not have heard of them, but SFU’s dance team is already making waves. They are poised to represent SFU at the Canadian Football League’s (CFL) 102nd Grey Cup hosted in Vancouver on Sunday, November 30. Despite the fact…

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Gorillas and terriers and bears, oh my!
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The costumed campus

EIC November 17, 2014

“I think the mascot is dead.” That’s all the opposition’s radio announcer could say about what he had just witnessed. It was a timeout in the first half of a Clan basketball game in the spring of 1996, and the…

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