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Cheese specialist arrives to judge record-breaking wheel
April 9, 2012Cameron Bere, a world-renowned cheese connoisseur hailing from Switzerland arrived at SFU last Friday to huge fanfare and applause. His reason for flying halfway around the world: to examine the authenticity of claims that the Cheese Whizzes, a campus club, had successfully created the world’s largest wheel of parmesan-reggiano cheese. The enormous cheese measures at over 50 feet across and weighs a muenster-ous 550 pounds. If the cheese meets all the standards and regulations of the European Dairy Union, it will officially be recognized as the world’s largest wheel. The Peak caught up with the Swiss cheese expert. “Let’s brie serious, the EDU gets…
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Pennies to be used to build new SUB building
April 9, 2012By Brad McLeod In light of the recent federal government decision to discontinue Canada’s one cent coin, Build SFU, the SFSS proposal for building a new student union building, has a new plan to use pennies to the school’s advantage.…
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Campus Updates: March 26th
March 26, 2012Mysterious ball of light appears over SFU Panicked and frightened students ran amok across the Burnaby campus last Wednesday, as what was described by several onlookers as “ a mysterious ball of light” rose from the horizon and suspended itself…
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Good to Know!: March 19th
March 19, 2012By Brad McLeod A 42-year-old man in Vernon, British Columbia has stumped the scientific community by growing a full beard made of bees. Tom Johnson, a school teacher, claims his bee beard only started to grow three months ago when…
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World of News!: March 19th
March 19, 2012By Sylvester Wallace Several reports are coming out of the Shell building in residence regarding the sighting of the rare and elusive seventh year student, a creature whose existence has long been speculated by prominent anthropology majors. The last sighting…
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Campus Update: March 12th
March 12, 2012SFU Lipdub to start filming, UBC on moon Excitement is high amongst all three campuses as the long-awaited SFU Lipdub is slated to finally begin filming, 11 months after the release of the UBC Lidub. UBC president Stephen Toope wished…
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SFU’s International Studies program to award degree to anyone that watched #KONY2012 film
March 12, 2012By Colin Sharp Due to the overnight success of the charity Invisible Children’s #KONY2012 campaign and their associated video, SFU’s international studies department has decided that anyone who watched the video should be awarded a full degree from the program.…
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Good to Know! March 5th
March 5, 2012By Brad McLeod After extensive research, experts in the field of communications are confident that by this time next year podcasts, not the radio, will be the number one form of media that no one pays attention to. The research…
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Campus Update: February 27th
February 27, 2012>>Burnaby Mountain reclassified The Society of Orographers recently revoked Burnaby Mountain’s status as an official mountain, instead reclassifying it as a large hillock. Spokesperson for the society, Alan Jackson, told The Peak that the decision to change the status of…
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Chess colour barrier broken
February 20, 2012By Brad McLeod Yesterday was a historic day in the world of chess as 25-year-old Ryan Whiteman, became the first player in a professional tournament to start a game with a black piece. Whiteman’s match in the first round of…
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