David Proctor
How to Reform The Peak
January 27, 2014The Peak, as we never tire of reminding you, was founded in 1965. Specifically, the first proper issue — which ran under the banner “Name Your Student Newspaper,” offering a case of beer to the person with the best suggestion — was published on October 13 of that year. It should surprise no one that SFU’s campus life and student organizations were dominated by leftist political sentiment in those days. The first issue’s editorial, for instance, clearly considered the decision to accept advertising dollars to be the most controversial aspect of the paper’s founding. That editorial also included a quote…
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Summary of proposed changes to the Peak Constitution
January 7, 2014A legal document such as the Peak Publications Society can be a daunting thing to read, particularly when you're looking for differences between two versions. Here is a simple summary of the proposed changes. Your suggestions, objections, and other thoughts…
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Front-door-only boarding is the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard
April 7, 2013By David Proctor Photos by Vaikunthe Banerjee In a strange way, this is a difficult subject to tackle: how do you argue a plainly obvious point without coming off as condescending? This is a university newspaper; I would assume (and…
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CFS settlement gag order an insult to students
January 16, 2012By David Proctor I won’t bore you with a history of the legal dispute between the Simon Fraser Student Society and the Canadian Federation of Students; one of the foundational assumptions of this article is that you don’t care.…
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