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Students whine about being ‘broke,’ yet they spend so frivolously
November 16, 2015To sport Nike shoes, a Bench jacket, and fine denim while holding an iPhone 6 and a Starbucks coffee, but exclaiming in a pouting voice, “I’m so poor,” strikes me as considerably misguided. Is it just me, or do students not understand the difference between true poverty and reckless spending? About a week ago I stood at the bus loop and overheard a surprising conversation between two students, one of whom complained to the other about his financial ‘crisis.’ While tuition, books, rent, food, and all the other necessities of city life are indeed hellishly expensive, I could not take…
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Air India (redacted) addresses 30th anniversary of Air India bombing
November 13, 2015Air India (redacted) is a 90-minute multidisciplinary performance commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Air India 182 bombing, the deadliest terrorist attack in Canadian history. Creating a work of this scale and scope is no easy task. Interdisciplinary approaches to…
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2016 NHL Draft Preview
November 9, 2015Introduction It’s the most wonderful time of the year. No, not Christmas, the NHL draft! It’s not until June, but I must confess that I love the NHL draft — so much so, it's probably my favourite day of the…
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Nimona is an uproariously heart-wrenching epic of friendship
November 9, 2015Contrary to popular belief, a sidekick is not a flamboyantly dressed crime-fighting assistant confidently sporting emerald fish-scale panties. Although I can see where you might have drawn that conclusion. No, a sidekick is much more than just embarrassing fashion choices…
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SFU loses championship opportunity
November 9, 2015Last Saturday was the most meaningful game the SFU women’s soccer team had played in a long time. After four straight years of finishing at the bottom of the GNAC standings, the Clan have fought their way back to the…
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HUMOUR: SFU’s men’s rights activists protest new “friend zone” bench unveiling
November 9, 2015The unveiling of a new mental health initiative is driving one group at Simon Fraser University out of their mind: the MaleMen, a men’s rights activist group on campus, is protesting the new Friendship Bench, saying that it is too…
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From Christian to godless
November 9, 2015Atheism is a word often made synonymous with evil and godlessness. However, only the godless half of that statement is true. It’s not godless in the sense that atheists are wicked and morally defunct, but godless in that atheism is…
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SFU professor explores sound in CBC documentary
November 9, 2015SFU Communications professor and renowned composer Barry Truax is one of the many experts featured in the upcoming documentary, Sonic Magic: The Wonder and Science of Sound, produced by CBC’s The Nature of Things, which will air on November 12.…
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Students throw pies for men’s health
November 9, 2015The SFU “Mo-tivators” and SFU’s chapter of sorority Alpha Pi Phi, in collaboration with the Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS), hosted the Movember Madness Kickoff last week on November 5 with a pie-a-thon and a hot shave to raise money…
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Michelle Nelson urbanizes homesteading in her new cookbook
November 2, 2015Michelle Nelson, author of The Urban Homesteading Cookbook, graduated from SFU with a PhD in conservation biology. While at SFU, she also wrote articles for this very section of The Peak. Her new book provides guidelines to create a better,…
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