Gudrun Wai-Gunnarsson
The Cranium Clay Test confirms humanity’s deepest divide
April 1, 2025By: Yasmin Hassan, Board Game Psychology Reporter A new study from the Institute of Board Game Psychology (IBGP) has identified the only personality classification that truly matters: whether or not a person is willing to touch the Cranium clay. Cranium allows players to show off their drawing and spelling skills, factual knowledge, and performing abilities. “For years, we thought the greatest human divide was nature versus nurture or introverts versus extroverts,” said Dr. Datahead, lead researcher. “But no, it turns out, all of humanity can be split into three categories: those who recognize the Cranium clay as a biohazard, those…
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Mattel CEO to fly to SFU to settle UNO card debate
April 1, 2025By: C Icart, President of the Superior Players Against Sore Losers Society Four SFU students have found themselves in a peculiar situation — they need to win a game of UNO against their professor to pass their class. This unorthodox…
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Vancouver mayor Ken Sim freezes construction of supportive housing
March 18, 2025By: Lucaiah Smith-Miodownik, News Writer Content warning: Mentions of racism, Indigenous displacement, and substance use. On February 26, Vancouver City Council voted “yes” on mayor Ken Sim’s motion to freeze the construction of new supportive housing units in the city.…
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What the SFSS presidential candidates are fighting for this election
February 23, 2025By: Phone Min Thant, Staff Writer, and Hannah Fraser, News Editor Every year, the Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) elects student representatives to its executive committee. This year, 23 candidates are campaigning for the seven positions: SFSS president and six…
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Student alleges scam recruitment at SFU
February 3, 2025By: Mason Mattu, News Writer Editor’s note: The featured photo does not feature the people or locations involved in the incident described in this article. This photo was set up by the photographer without any intention of resembling the incident.…
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Facial recognition technology has gone too far
January 17, 2025By: Hailey Miller, Staff Writer Facial recognition technology (FRT) is a type of artificial intelligence that identifies people by their unique facial features. It’s being used for everything from unlocking your phone, making purchases, and boarding passes. Our province uses…
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Burnaby Mountain isn’t the only SFU campus
November 6, 2024By: Hailey Miller, Staff Writer Although Burnaby Mountain is SFU’s main campus, it isn’t the only one. Most people are aware of the Surrey Central City campus and Harbour Centre in Vancouver, but the lesser-known satellite campuses are often forgotten…
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Red Leafs track and field star Marie-Éloïse Leclair on her Olympic experiences
October 17, 2024By: Kaja Antic, Sports Writer Some of us take the summer semester off, preferring to work or go on vacation. Others take classes to fill the time, sweating the whole way to campus. If you’re Marie-Éloïse Leclair, you go to…
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SFU master’s student pushes for bird-friendly windows on campus
October 9, 2024By: Caitlin Kingsmill, News Writer SFU master’s of biological sciences student Vanessa Hum has been working to make the Burnaby campus more bird-friendly. Over nearly half a year, Hum recorded bird-window collisions and estimated over 2,000 collisions occurred during this…
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Anti-SOGI protests outnumbered by counter-protests
October 5, 2024By: Sofia Chassomeris, News Writer On September 20, parents against the addition of the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) program to public schools organized “1 Million March 4 Children” protests across BC. Global News reported that the turnout for…
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