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Teaching staff are human too
November 24, 2020by Gurpreet Kambo, Peak Associate SFU’s sessional instructors and teaching assistants are underpaid, have a huge workload, and are often treated poorly by some students. While SFU students have been vocal about needing leniency and understanding from professors and TAs, given how radically everyone’s lives have changed since the onset of COVID-19, SFU’s teaching staff deserve just as much care and understanding from us. We, as students, need to start treating our teaching staff like they are humans worthy of respect, rather than adding to their challenges and dehumanizing them. Most instructors at SFU are sessional and are often also…
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World News Beats
November 5, 2018Written by: Nathaniel Tok, Peak Associate China unveils massive sea bridge Chinese President Xi Jinping opened the longest sea-crossing bridge in the world, connecting Hong Kong and Macau to Zhuhai in southern China. The bridge, spanning over 54 kilometers…
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I support Apple’s decision to maintain user privacy
February 29, 2016[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he FBI and Apple Inc. have been locked in a heated legal dispute for the past several days over the iPhone 5c of San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook. The FBI wants to gather intel from Farook’s phone that could aid…
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