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Laugh Track: Jessica Delisle and Alicia Tobin
October 19, 2015If you’ve ever worked in retail, you’ve had a retail nightmare. That’s the belief held by musician Jessica Delisle and comedian Alicia Tobin, two artists living in Vancouver and “co-ghosts” of one of the funniest podcasts around, Retail Nightmares. Join Delisle and Tobin each week as they invite a new guest onto the show to recall past retail-related miseries — to always-entertaining degrees. Read on to learn about how the the podcast got started, where the famous term ‘puppos’ comes from, and what makes retail woes such a relatable topic for comedy. How would you describe Retail Nightmares to someone…
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SFU drops a close one to Dixie State
October 19, 2015On Saturday, October 10, the SFU football team dropped a close one against Dixie State, losing 38–35. The game was the first in GNAC play, and the loss put the Clan 0–4 overall on the year. “They made more plays…
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Come at me, bros!
October 19, 2015A man’s ballsack is the perfect encapsulation of the incredibly sad irony that is conventional masculinity — it’s painfully sensitive, weak, and very easily crushed. Today, there are some fascinating characteristics ingrained in the typical male psyche. Along with a…
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Professors awarded for climate change activism
October 19, 2015SFU professors Lynne Quarmby and Stephen Collis have received the Nora and Ted Sterling Prize in Support of Controversy for their involvement in the protesting the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion. The prize, established in 1993, is awarded to…
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Why I will never be a card-carrier
October 13, 2015When I returned home for a couple weeks at the end of summer, I distinctly remember a conversation my parents and I shared over the dinner table. We mulled over our lives, cracked sarcastic jokes at each other’s expense, and…
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SFU students launch divestment campaign
October 13, 2015In light of SFU’s 50th anniversary, Embark (formerly Sustainable SFU), SFU 350, and Divest SFU believe it is the perfect time for the university to become a leader in the climate justice movement, starting with a divestment from the fossil…
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Bill Nye challenges SFU grads to “Change the world!”
October 13, 2015Bill Nye, more fondly known by many as the “Science Guy,” graced the stage at SFU’s fall convocation as he received an honorary degree in his signature bow tie and SFU regalia. “I don’t normally wear this,” he quipped. SFU…
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Laugh Track: Dan Code from Shit Harper Did
October 13, 2015Back in 2011, a website called Shit Harper Did (SHD) launched with a simple premise of presenting Harper- and Conservative-related facts, paired with one-off jokes. As we can all remember, Harper still won that election, but SHD is back and…
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Dickson’s marvelous hat trick
October 13, 2015On Thursday night, Saint Martin’s University rolled into town, and it looked like it could be the perfect medicine for an ailing Clan side. Saint Martin’s was the worst defensive team in the GNAC, conceding 19 goals in eight games…
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Stan Douglas at SFU Woodward’s
October 13, 2015Anyone who has passed by the atrium at Woodward’s is familiar with Stan Douglas, as his work Abbott & Cordova, 7 August 1971 forms an imposing part of the space. In the past couple of weeks, however, there was a…
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