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What Grinds Our Gears: SFU’s useless emails
December 1, 2021By: Michelle Young, Copy Editor SFU’s emails and updates are a running joke among students and it’s not hard to see why. Our inboxes become flooded with useless emails every time the administration attempts to give us information. I choose my words carefully — SFU attempts to send us meaningful updates, but rarely succeeds. Their emails are a convoluted mess of unclear, vague words stamped with an official email signature to make them look important. Their recent “what to expect for the spring term” update is filled with fluffy words that contain no real specifics. After stating self-declared vaccination rates,…
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SFU Student Updates: September 13–19
September 12, 2021By: Sara Brinkac, Peak Associate and taken for granted Key Updates None of this means anything According to recent email metrics, 99.5% of SFU students either automatically delete or don’t even open Student Updates emails. Of the remaining 0.5%, half of…
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Five emails we’ll probably receive over the course of the semester
June 5, 2021By: Kyla Dowling, Humour Editor Subject line: The Reflecting Pond incident Joy Johnson wants you to know that she is so very sorry about the koi pond incident. No, really. It’s not her fault that she draws her powers…
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What Grinds Our Gears: Email formalities
April 6, 2021by Nancy La, Peak Associate To Whom It May Concern, I hope this email finds you well. I am writing to propose the elimination of formalities in everyday correspondence via electronic mail. Allow me to preface this argument by acknowledging…
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