Craig Allan
SFU Burnaby is doomed to always be a commuter campus
April 11, 2022By: Craig Allan, Peak Associate In 1963, after achieving formal assent in the BC Legislature, Dr. Gordon M. Shrum, first chancellor of SFU, decided that the best place for the new SFU would be atop Burnaby Mountain, ensuring two things: that we’d have beautiful views, and that that’s about all we’d ever get. Being built on a mountain guarantees no matter how hard student groups and administration try, SFU will always be a commuter campus. A commuter campus is one in which the majority of students live elsewhere. Though SFU offers student housing, it can only accommodate 1,500 students; much…
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What grinds our gears: A lack of campus study spaces
April 8, 2022By: Craig Allan, Peak Associate; Jacob Mattie, Opinions Editor As a student whose home has more distractions than it does workspace, I usually come to school to get my work done. My favourite place to work at the SFU Burnaby…
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Philanthropy isn’t the golden ideal we might picture it to be
April 7, 2022By: Craig Allan, Peak Associate; Jacob Mattie, Opinions Editor SFU’s business school goes by the name Beedie School of Business. It would be reasonable to assume Beedie is the name of a faculty member; similar to how the Maggie Benston…
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A class-ic mistake
April 2, 2022By: Craig Allan, Peak Associate First year SFU student Jerry Falogie has recently made a substantial impact on student discourse this March. While a campus-wide demand of course restructuring is in motion, not many are aware of what sparked it.…
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A letter from the back of your ears
March 2, 2022By: Craig Allan, Peak Associate Dear Rest of Body, We need to talk. I think you can agree I’ve been pretty good to you over the course of our lifetime. I’ve held up your glasses, kept your mask in place,…
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What Grinds Our gears: Campus vending machines
February 24, 2022By Craig Allan, Peak Associate Much ado has been made about the lackluster food offerings available on campus, but one area that does not receive its share of criticism are SFU’s vending machines. Too often I go to the vending…
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The SUB should not have been closed
February 11, 2022By: Craig Allan, Peak Associate On January 20, the Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) informed the student body the Student Union Building (SUB) will be closed from January 24 until further notice. After some debate, the SFSS agreed to re-open…
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Movies are better without the 3D
January 20, 2022By: Craig Allan, Peak Associate Imagine this: you’re going to see a movie that you’ve been looking forward to. You have your tickets paid and your seats reserved. As you walk to the theatre, your excitement growing by the step,…
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Professor set assignment due date time of 10:00 a.m.
November 25, 2021By: Craig Allan, Peak Associate Professor Backenangel in the anthropology department upset his students by setting a due date for 10:00 a.m. instead of 11:59 p.m. on October 26. Students panicked at this announcement, fearing the time would affect their…
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Student drops class for a serotonin boost
November 25, 2021By: Craig Allan, SFU Student It was 2:30 in the morning, and I stared at my class selections on goSFU. I picked three classes to ease myself into school, knowing I would drop one of them. What were those classes?…
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