Emily Le
I’m forever haunted by Harbour Centre Mall
July 7, 2025Look, there’s nothing better than waking up at the crack of dawn to attend a lecture. I don’t expect anything remotely interesting to happen at 8:00 a.m. as I commute and question my life decisions. Plus, I feel rejuvenated after a micro-nap on the SkyTrain. Slowly regaining consciousness, I have potentially 15 minutes of semi-functional brain activity left before facing my worst enemy — that damn mall. Do you know the small mall tucked under SFU’s Vancouver Harbour Centre Campus? The creepy place where haunted mall music (muzak) echoes through the deserted hallways and pension-receiving escalators plead for help like…
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Peak Speaks: If the walls could talk
July 1, 2025We asked our friends on the SFU subreddit: If the walls at SFU could talk, what would they say? u/dash101: “Let’s stick together, or this place might fall apart!” u/YoManWTFIsThisShit: “Can someone tell the undergrads to stop crying outside the…
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What Grinds Our Gears: Friend who guesses the movie’s plot
June 24, 2025Never have I ever had a friend guess the plot twist of the movie I was showing them in the first 20 minutes. Oh wait, yes I have. And I’m guessing you have too. There’s always that one person in…
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Brighter Side: When a song finds you
June 18, 2025Imagine you’re on a road trip wi your playlist on shuffle. Then, that song comes on. Yes, the one that seems like it was made for this exact moment on the road. The windows are down, the wind’s flowing in…
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JOB AD: AQ Accident Control Officer
June 4, 2025Feel an urge to make a difference in the world? Do you have big muscles and are built like a Greek god? Are you ready to block student hooligans who dare walk on the wrong side of the hallway? We…
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Out on Campus hosts Australian drag film screening
June 3, 2025On May 20, Out on Campus (OOC) screened their first movie of the summer with The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. OOC is a student organization “dedicated to supporting SFU’s 2SLGBTQIA+ students and allies.” This 1994 road trip…
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SFU installs naloxone cabinets around all campuses
May 22, 2025On March 11, SFU announced that naloxone kit cabinets are now available across the Burnaby, Surrey, and Vancouver campuses. Naloxone is a medication that works within two minutes to “temporarily reverse the effects of an opioid overdose, also called an…
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Need to Know, Need to Go: May Events
May 12, 2025[caption id="attachment_131334" align="alignnone" width="179"] PHOTO: Screenshot courtesy of @soumakboutique / Instagram[/caption] Turkish/Syrian Coffee on Hot Sand & Boardgames Kids Market, 1496 Cartwright Street, Vancouver May 17, 11:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m. Free registration via Eventbrite Soumak Boutique’s Turkish Coffee on Hot Sand…
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Travel the world through these local restaurants
January 13, 2025Amay’s House (Burmese) 3293 Kingsway, Vancouver Wednesday–Monday 11:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m.–8:30 p.m. [caption id="attachment_130391" align="alignnone" width="696"] PHOTO: Emily Le / The Peak[/caption] Amay’s House is one of the only restaurants in the Vancouver area that serves Burmese food, a…
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Student advocacy coordinator discusses AI and academic integrity at SFU
November 21, 2024The Peak recently spoke with Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) student advocacy coordinator Trish Everett on how SFU has approached the issue of inappropriate artificial intelligence (AI) usage in classes. As advocacy coordinator, Everett helps students maneuver withdrawals from extenuating…
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