Elliott Marquis
SFU set to open its renovated swimming pool by fall 2077
March 30, 2026After 53 long years since SFU began renovations on the pool facilities on Burnaby campus, the university has finally announced that they are just six to eight months from completing them. These renovations, which are set to be completed by the fall 2077 semester with possible delays extending this to spring 2078, promise to bring a fresh new look to SFU’s recreational facilities. They will reportedly “modernize the facilities by scrapping the plans for a traditional swimming pool,” and will instead present swimmers with a revolutionary new concept, which is yet to be unveiled by the university. The Beep was…
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SFU debuts new Black Student Centre
March 9, 2026Content warning: brief mention of police brutality. Last month marked the opening of SFU’s Black Student Centre, a project more than four years in the making. Advocates such as Dr. June Francis first set out to create the space in…
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Mapping bicycle infrastructure across Canada
February 23, 2026How far can two wheels take you? For SFU health sciences professor Dr. Meghan Winters, this is a question worth exploring. Winters works in the cities, health & active transportation research lab, which focuses on “the intersection of population health,…
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Top three places to go on your first date at SFU
February 10, 2026Hello lovebirds. First, let me congratulate you on finally scoring yourself a date — and just in time for Valentine’s Day too! Go ahead, give yourself a pat on the back. You’ve almost graduated from the singles club. Looking to…
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SFU Residence Hall Association launches petition calling for affordable housing
February 3, 2026On January 14, the SFU Residence Hall Association (RHA) announced a petition calling on Residence and Housing to keep on-campus housing affordable. In the petition, the RHA highlights that “many students rely on campus housing” — especially first-year and international…
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SFU moves forward to leave the NCAA
January 26, 2026On September 17, SFU announced that the university was considering leaving the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the collegiate sports governing body of which Simon Fraser is the only non-American institution. The press release drew notable pushback, garnering opposition from…
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Three music platforms for a better listening experience
January 12, 2026The onset of the 2000s ushered in the birth of online streaming, driven by small tech startups who would become the exploitative media monopolies we have today. An unsettling prediction of this grim dystopia is Gillian Welch’s 2001 song “Everything…
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Student organizations hold strike for Palestine at SFU
December 18, 2025On October 23, chants echoed across convocation mall as SFU community members gathered for a campus strike in solidarity with Palestine. Organized by the climate justice organization SFU350 and the anti-Zionist group Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) SFU, the event featured…
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What we must confront: Living with Long COVID
December 18, 2025The first winter of the pandemic, I was in Shanghai visiting my family when the first news reports began circulating — something about a new pneumonia, a city in lockdown. Within days, my family and I had boarded a flight…
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SCARY STORIES: Vampire spotted at the Bennett Library
November 11, 2025It all went down before a history midterm, on the sixth floor of the library. I was going over my notes, double-fisting two coffees and an energy drink, when I felt a cold gust of wind . . . sending…
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