Gabrielle McLaren
Valentines to give your favourite plagiarizers
February 10, 2020Written by Gabrielle McLaren, Editor-in-Chief [caption id="attachment_113230" align="alignnone" width="300"] Siloam Yeung[/caption] "Are you on exchange from Tennessee? Because you’re definitely not getting a 10/10 from me" [caption id="attachment_113227" align="alignnone" width="300"] Siloam Yeung[/caption] "On a scale from 1 to 10, you’re the 1 I need to teach about citations" [caption id="attachment_113229" align="alignnone" width="300"] Siloam Yeung[/caption] "Nothing could be sweeter than getting you expelled, Valentine" [caption id="attachment_113228" align="alignnone" width="300"] Siloam Yeung[/caption] "Cupid called. He saw you copy-pasting." [caption id="attachment_113226" align="alignnone" width="300"] Siloam Yeung[/caption] "Roses are red, Violets are blue, You didn’t change the font colour, How fucking dumb are you?"
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SFU textbooks shouldn’t be inaccurate about sex, sexuality, and gender
February 9, 2020By: Gabrielle McLaren, Editor-in-Chief I know that waiting until your last year to hit your Q/B-Sci requirements is the ultimate Arts-student crime, but I paid for it dearly by ending up in BPK140 C200: Contemporary Health Issues. I thought this online…
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Informed voting is the absolute least we can ask of our Board
February 3, 2020By: Gabrielle McLaren, Editor-in-Chief Note: The views expressed in the following article are solely my own and do not represent the views or politics of The Peak as a publication or a society. If I have time or if the agenda…
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Mount Burnabus: Rise of the SFU Olympians
February 3, 2020Written by Juztin Bello, Madeleine Chan, Kelly Chia, Gabrielle McLaren, and Zach Siddiqui If you read the Percy Jackson books, then you know that the twelve Olympian gods of Greek lore travel wherever the flame of civilization goes. The flame…
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Six things that make a good class syllabus
January 13, 2020By: Gabrielle McLaren, Editor-in-Chief Syllabus week brings up this primal, inescapable anxiety in me. Maybe it’s my fight-or-flight response activating when faced with a list of incoming shenanigans. Maybe it’s the undeniable excitement of breaking out my coloured pens and annotating…
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“Death of the author” doesn’t negate the need for critical readings and re-readings
January 4, 2020By: Gabrielle McLaren, Editor-in-Chief When I was in fourth grade I had to do a presentation on “my hero,” which is a pretty standard assignment for a kid’s first foray into PowerPoint. I picked J.K. Rowling, who was my absolute favourite…
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Silent protest takes over SFSS Meet and Greet event
December 1, 2019Written by: Gabrielle McLaren, Editor-in-Chief and Gurpreet Kambo, News Editor Photo: Chris Ho // The Peak On Friday November 22, the Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) hosted a Meet and Greet event for Club executives. Silent protesters arrived in reaction…
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What Grinds Our Gears: Sodium Podium
November 24, 2019By: Juztin Bello, Madeleine Chan, Kelly Chia, Gabrielle McLaren, Nicole Magas, Marco Ovies, Nathaniel Tok, Winona Young This first-year class cost you $500, the least you could do is pay attention! As a fourth year filling up her breadth courses with…
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Football’s footprints: the carbon cost of playing in the NCAA
November 16, 2019By: Gabrielle McLaren, Editor-in-Chief SFU Athletics’ new branding makes it loud and clear: SFU is the one and only Canadian university in the NCAA. This year marks the tenth anniversary of the university’s jump into this brave new athletic world,…
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Board rejects motion to house CJSF, Embark, SFPIRG, and SOCA in the SUB 7–5
November 6, 2019By: Gabrielle McLaren, Editor-In-Chief Editor’s note: this piece will be followed by more in-depth coverage on the discussions surrounding both motions and concerns voiced about accessibility, feasibility, and financial responsibility. Other business from this meeting will be discussed in a…
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