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January 17, 2015SFSS board appoints new CEO By recommendation of council, the SFSS board of directors has appointed a new chief electoral officer (CEO) to head up their independent electoral commission (IEC). Oscar Sanchez was favoured by the council over opposing candidate Lindsay Shepherd in a vote of 23–4. He will serve in his position until November 30, 2015. As the only candidate present, Sanchez fielded questions from council and board members for over 40 minutes. During the question period, Sanchez shared his goals to double voter turnout from the previous election and to increase transparency in the electoral process. “I’ve seen…
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SFU hockey fall to first place Spartans on the road
January 16, 2015The SFU’s men’s hockey team scored the first goal in their Thursday night game against the Trinity Western Spartans at the Langley Event Center, but the game quickly went downhill from there. Clan defenceman Matthew Berry-Lamontagna opened up the scoring…
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Peak Speak: Sir John A. MacDonald Day?
January 12, 2015The Peak's humour editor Jacey Gibb's adventures out into the field to ask SFU students the tough questions.
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A place of knowledge: SFU Galleries celebrates the university’s 50th anniversary
January 12, 2015“Art tests things,” Melanie O’Brian, director of SFU Galleries and curator of its upcoming group exhibit, Geometry of Knowing, explained to The Peak. “It pushes on the unanswerable and unstable. It shifts, and it can make people uncomfortable with space.”…
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Meet the Clan: Brit Townsend
January 12, 2015“Everything has changed here over the years,” cross country and track head coach Brit Townsend reflects on her time at SFU. “The facilities have changed. I would even say the students have changed, the type of students.” Townsend has had…
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We Are The City succeed in both filmmaking and music
January 9, 2015“It feels like happiness. It feels like remembering faces and words. It feels like water. It feels like electricity. It sounds like a humming fridge.” What is the girl who utters these words after every chapter of Violent describing? In…
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How to make the most of your Sir John A. MacDonald Day party
January 9, 2015It creeps up faster every year. On January 11, Canadians everywhere will be coming together to celebrate the most magical holiday of the season: Sir John A. MacDonald Day. Since its inception in 2002, Sir John A. MacDonald Day has…
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Clan drops third straight game
January 9, 2015On Thursday, the men’s basketball team played a home game against the Great Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC) scoring defence leader, the Seattle Pacific Falcons — who have not allowed 100 points in a game since 2010. Unfortunately for the Clan, the…
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Series of quakes hits BC coastline
January 9, 2015A cluster of earthquakes that rattled BC’s coast last week has elicited renewed questions around the geological vulnerability of the region. Over the past few weeks, there have been at least eight quakes off the northern coast of the province,…
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SFU Transit Pet Peeves
January 6, 2015Schools back, and with it comes these annoying SFU transit pet peeves.
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