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Kwadacha by the River screening: consent, consultation, and colonialism
July 1, 2019By: Alison Wick, Arts Editor Kendra Strauss, director of SFU’s labour studies program, described the W.A.C. Bennett Dam as one of many contemporary resource projects where “wealth [is] generated through dispossession.” In her introduction for the screening of Kwadacha by the River, Strauss talks about the realities of resource exploitation projects — of who benefits without loss, and who loses without benefit. Kwadacha by the River is a 20-minute documentary about the W.A.C. Bennett Dam project and its impacts on the Kwadacha nation and community. The dam was a massive energy engineering project in the 1960s in northern B.C. that…
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How mentors are building a sense of community in SFU’s largest faculty
October 12, 2018By: Michelle Gomez, Staff Writer SFU is notorious for being a commuter campus where sad students come to school, attend their lectures, and leave with their heads down. It can be especially daunting to find a place to fit in…
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Seven-Minute Majors: Find out what SFU students like about their majors (Part Two)
September 28, 2018By: Melanie Hiepler, Nicky Magas, Aaron Richardson (Humour Editor), Nicky Magas, Zach Siddiqui (Copy Editor), Henry Tran (Peak Associate), and Hillary Ta Behavioural neurosciences Behavioural neuroscience (BNS) is a unique combination of psychology and biomedical physiology courses. You learn about human…
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Badass women of SFU
March 7, 2018By Eva Zhu When SFU opened in 1965, only 37% of the student body was made up of women and only 16 of the 126 faculty staff were women (that’s about 12%). As of fall 2014, 13,000 of the 25,000…
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences roll out new courses for Canada’s 150th
January 23, 2017The SFU Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) has launched a unique line-up of courses and lectures for the occasion of Canada’s 150th anniversary. The semesterly three and four credit courses and speaker series aim to prepare students to…
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