Gene Cole
Unfriend and block your loose connections on social media
February 14, 2019Written by: Gene Cole, Opinions Editor Primary and secondary school can be socially painful. You’re growing, learning, and — most importantly — spending almost every day surrounded by peers going through the shared social experiences of school and youth. Unless you’re somehow popular with every circle, there’s always going to be problem people regularly seated with you, disrupting your day like clockwork. So why would you make the same kind of environment on your social media? Our online world is a very personal space that a lot of people are often afraid to clean and tidy. Even though we’re spending…
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Kirby Reanimated is a beautiful mix of indie animation
February 10, 2019By: Gene Cole, Opinions Editor It shouldn’t be hard to make a pink ball of sweetness like Kirby even more adorable than he already is. You’d think the video games would be enough, but from 2001–03, there were a few…
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Game devs and publishers need to just make us gay in open-world games
February 3, 2019Written by: Gene Cole, Opinions Editor Ubisoft’s recent open-world game, Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey, recently got nominated for a GLAAD media award for Outstanding Video Game for letting you romance any character, regardless of whether you choose a male or female…
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What a positive masculinity looks like
February 2, 2019By: Gene Cole, Opinions Editor Gillette recently put out a commercial about their old slogan,“the best a man can get.” The ad talks about how there’s a lot of problems specific to men and traditional masculinity, and how they have…
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Opinions of the Hour
January 26, 2019Written by: Gene Cole, Opinions Editor A sobering amendment - Meera Ulysses, The Varsity Back in December, Canada’s impaired driving laws changed to let officers give breathalyzer tests more liberally, fines for being overly intoxicated within two hours of driving, and higher maximum penalties.…
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Failure shouldn’t be how you learn to be a good student
January 19, 2019Written by: Gene Cole, Opinions Editor When I first got to SFU, one of the first jokes I heard was that the most relieving thing you could hear from a peer is “I haven’t started either.” It’s not exactly an extreme statement, but it’s…
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After the SFSS Executive Director consultation, there’s room for hope
January 12, 2019Written by: Gene Cole, Opinions Editor On January 8, the SFSS held an open consultation for students regarding the hiring of the new Executive Director (ED), a newer variant of the old CEO role. For those who don’t know about this particular odd role,…
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Looking back and forward at SFU’s 2018
January 8, 2019Written by: Gene Cole, Opinions Editor As we look back at the huge list of ridiculous things that happened at SFU in 2018, their contexts and future implications are worth keeping in mind. Jas Randhawa is elected . . .…
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What if . . . SFU Burnaby campus was flat
November 29, 2018Written by: Gene Cole, Opinions Editor I can’t say I’m sure how mechanically this would happen; either the campus would shrink down, or the rest of the world’s landmass would rise up. It would be a geological nightmare that would…
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Jewish holidays and what they mean to SFU students
November 26, 2018By: Gene Cole, Martha D, and Ruth Leavitt. Compiled by Gabrielle McLaren, Features editor. Editor’s note: Beliefs about whether or not the full name of G-d should be spelled completely vary throughout the Jewish community. This piece has respected the spellings…
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