[dropcap]A[/dropcap]ll over the world, and right here at SFU, this Humans-of-Somewhere style of storytelling has appeared, and made big waves in the way we look at people around us. Last week we went around talking to, and photographing, some of the students who form the residence community on the Burnaby campus — paying homage to the popular Humans of SFU Facebook groups. We are all just people. All too often we put ourselves down, and say that we’re not ‘interesting’ enough, ‘smart’ enough, ‘cool’ enough — but everyone has a story to tell. And there are some great ones right…
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Shinelle and Melanie were performing as a part of SFU’s International Festival on Friday. Shinelle: A lot of people don’t know about Sri Lanka. A lot of people don’t know that Sri Lanka exists. That’s something we continuously run into.…
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Why are we so obsessed with dehumanizing our inmates in prison if we expect them to come out of prison as changed people? As reported by CBC earlier this year, former inmate Haris Naraine and a group of…
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Don’t be alarmed. That group of students running around campus snapping photos is not the new paparazzi club; rather, four SFU undergraduates have taken it upon themselves to get to know their peers and gather tidbits of their daily lives…
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