Gabrielle McLaren
SFU’s “Sharing of Textbook PDFs Fact Sheet” fails to consider students’ constraints
May 25, 2019By: Gabrielle McLaren, Editor-in-Chief I want to preface my crankiness over SFU Library’s “Sharing of Textbook PDFs Fact Sheet” by stating that I understand intellectual property laws. I understand why they’re so important to protect the work of academics and other content producers. Is it crazy for a university to discourage students from pirating textbooks? No. I’ve been lucky enough to borrow textbooks from friends who’ve taken classes previously as well. I’m also lucky to be in a discipline with few $250 textbooks. Otherwise, I buy my textbooks legally and manage to do so through a lot of price-shopping, and by…
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Long story short: if you are lost, drunk, and alone, I am your mother now
May 24, 2019By: Gabrielle McLaren, Editor-in-Chief One of the unexpected outcomes of working at The Peak is that you spend a lot of time on campus late at night, notably on Fridays when we make the paper. Burnaby Mountain is actually quite…
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10 reasons why Alyssa Milano’s #SexStrike reminds us that not all activism is created equal
May 19, 2019By: Gabrielle McLaren, Editor-in-Chief Content warnings for this piece include: abortion, pregnancy, and sexual violence. In May, the state of Georgia passed House Bill 481, nicknamed the “heartbeat bill.” Business Insider sums it up nicely: “While the bill's main goal is…
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Staying In: Tuca & Bertie
May 17, 2019By: Gabrielle McLaren, Editor-in-Chief Tuca (Tiffany Haddish) is a loud, easygoing, unemployed toucan whose best friend 5ever is a socially anxious, bakeaholic songbird, Bertie (Ali Wong). They have little in common other than that they’re both scrambling to pretend they’re…
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The reflecting pond is not your trash can
May 17, 2019By: Gabrielle McLaren, Editor-in-Chief After I wrote my last exam, I figured I needed some sunshine and fresh air to feel alive again, so I cut through the AQ’s courtyard. You know, the pretty one on all the promotional materials that…
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11 Ways Not to be “That Tourist” This Summer
May 7, 2019By: Aiya Bowman, Peak Associate, and Gabrielle McLaren, Editor-in-Chief “Hi! How may we help you?” You’ve heard it before, and if you’re travelling this summer, then you will absolutely hear it again. On the flip side of that, working in tourism…
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“Impactful, open, compassionate”: Giovanni HoSang’s vision for his SFSS presidency
May 6, 2019By: Gabrielle McLaren, Editor-in-Chief Fast Facts Name: Giovanni HoSang Pronouns: He / him / his Departmental affiliation: Computing science, fourth year Hometown: Spanish Town, Jamaica Hobbies: Cricket, dancing (specifically to Jamaican music), keeping up with politics, and being active in the…
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Local third-year drops out of summer classes for lack of summer wardrobe
May 6, 2019Written by: Gabrielle McLaren, Editor-in-chief BURNABY, B.C. — Alice Fitzgerald, a third-year SFU student, announced to friends, family, professors, classmates, and SFU administration that she was dropping out of summer classes this semester because of creative fashion difference with the…
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Opinions in Dialogue: Should anti-vax parents pay fines?
May 6, 2019By: Nicole Magas, Opinions Editor and Gabrielle McLaren, Editor-in-Chief On April 30, The Washington Post published the op-ed, “Anti-vaxxers are dangerous. Make them face isolation, fines, arrests” by Juliette Kayyem, suggesting that fines be implemented for parents who refuse to vaccinate…
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What if being a student paid minimum wage?
April 1, 2019By: Gabrielle McLaren, Features Editor Participants: Hannah Davis, Mishaa Khan, Gabrielle McLaren, Sakina Nazarali, and Amena Salman. Have you ever filled in a form and listed your occupation as “student”? The irony of this hit me last semester: an occupation…
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