Hailey Miller
SFU slang to unimpress your profs!
January 30, 2025By: Hailey Miller, Staff Writer If you want to be a successful scholar, you’ve got to speak like one. I, your local overly-seasoned scholarly chick who’s well-versed in degrees, dialogue, and drama, will cover all your slang-chatting needs! Look no further than SFU’s Scholarly Slang 101 dictionary. You’ll be using that literary lingo in no time! Coffee Zombie The Coffee Zombies arrive late to class after waiting in an absurdly long caffeine lineup. Literally every student who’s ever had to wake up at any hour of the day to drag their ass down to campus and take some course they…
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Studenthaus study examines SFU students’ housing decisions
January 27, 2025By: Hailey Miller, Staff Writer Studenthaus is an organization that conducts studies “about how young people make housing decisions to shape the future of housing in Canada.” So far, they’ve surveyed 850 students in five Canadian cities and are currently…
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Watching sports should be affordable
January 23, 2025By: Hailey Miller, Staff Writer Like everything these days, the cost of living has skyrocketed. As well, the expense of sports has gotten out of hand — what do you mean it costs a couple of hundred dollars to check…
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The PuSH for international arts
January 20, 2025By: Hailey Miller, Staff Writer The 2025 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival will be held from January 23 to February 9 across the Lower Mainland. This year is the 20th anniversary of the festival, and to celebrate, the program will…
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WGOG: Unpeelable oranges
January 20, 2025By: Hailey Miller, Staff Writer Nothing irks me more than sitting down for a nice juicy snack of mini oranges and attempting to peel the unpeelable. Have you ever had those oranges that seem like the peel and the flesh…
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Pretending to act surprised when another man is accused of sexual harassment is hard work!
January 17, 2025By: Hailey Miller, Staff Writer Nothing sparks my attention like seeing the latest “fill-in-the-blank celebrity accused of sexual harassment” headline every morning when I wake up and immediately reach for my phone before I have the chance to open my…
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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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SFU’s The Lyre makes ripples across campus
January 9, 2025By: Hailey Miller, Staff Writer The Lyre is SFU’s literary magazine produced through the university’s world languages and literatures program, publishing works from undergraduate students, artists, and SFU graduates, as well as students from other universities. The magazine includes poetry,…
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Brighter Side: Album releases
December 16, 2024By: Hailey Miller, Staff Writer As a huge music fan with an appreciation for every genre under the sun, there’s nothing more exciting than when one of my favourite artists announces the release of a new album. I’m just as…
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The Peak’s staff picks for album of the year
December 3, 2024Never Better and Better Now by Wild Rivers Hailey Miller, Staff Writer Toronto indie-rock trio Wild Rivers — comprised of Khalid Yassein, Devan Glover, and Andrew Oliver — released two back-to-back sister albums this year, followed by a world…
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