HUMOUR
Art Exhibit Reviews Of This Random Person’s Line-Up of Half-Emptied Water Bottles
March 26, 2020By: Zach Siddiqui, Humour Editor “The diversity in water level between each clear, carefully crinkled bottle reflects the exposure of hidden privilege, the invisible becoming visible through shared, systemically inflicted pain. Like these bottles, the modern individual is filled, packaged en masse, circulated, and sucked dry once more by the hungering consumer. Power in society as a shaper of economics and the human experience transubstantiates through this display.” - Malissa Jocey, The Abstraconomist “This exhibit iconicizes the transition of the site of art from the constructed material to the body. The subject exists in a daily power struggle with the…
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Meet Bryan, the hero who watched your stuff for two minutes
March 23, 2020By: Rodolfo Boskovic, Peak Associate In life, it’s hard to find the extraordinary. Some of us go through life without seeing anything that makes us believe in a higher power or that anything that we do really matters. If we…
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STEM students complain that variables still won’t self-isolate
March 23, 2020By: Zach Siddiqui, Humour Editor Classes have only been cancelled for a few days, but hundreds of SFU students have already emailed complaints to the school about possible COVID-19 exposure caused by math assignments. “It’s like, every single equation, the…
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“I’m from Vancouver,” says Port Coquitlam resident
March 23, 2020By: Terrence Rivers, SFU Student Yet another Port Coquitlam resident has been caught lying about their sordid roots, witnesses report. Summer Bowers, 23, has told at least 200 different people by now that she lives in Vancouver, BC, despite having…
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CONFESSIONALS: I’m a third-year English major with no clue what a thesis is
March 23, 2020By: Paige Riding, News Writer I have something to confess that I’m really upset about, SFU. I’m finishing up my third year under your roof and, in all honesty, I don’t really know how I got here in the first…
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DEAR PEAKIE: Parting is such sweet sorrow
March 17, 2020Written by Zach Siddiqui, Humour Editor Dear Peakie, You’ve basically raised me this semester. I’ve done everything you’ve prescribed in your column! I left the Red Backpack Cult because of you. All my eyelashes fell out after I started my…
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CONFESSIONALS: I went vegan to save myself from family dinners
March 17, 2020Written by Kim Regala, Staff Writer Forgive me, for I have sinned. For years, I have been burdened by the torturous small talk and dad jokes that occur at every family dinner. But tonight, I have chosen to end the…
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SFU history department shuts down because “who cares, what’s done is done”
March 16, 2020Written by Marco Ovies, Arts Editor On Friday, SFU’s incoming president Joy Johnson announced her plans to shut down SFU’s Department of History. The university hosted a Town Hall in Images Theatre for students to discuss the future of the…
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Your weekly SFU horoscopes: March 16–22
March 16, 2020Written by Zach Siddiqui, Humour Editor Aries — March 21–April 19 Oh, did you hear that on the grapevine? It’s an earwig, and she wants you. Taurus — April 20–May 20 This week, you run this town. That comes with…
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Lonely first-year fed up that no one has saved him from his inner darkness yet
March 10, 2020Written by Jennifer Low, Peak Associate A first year SFU student is threatening to sue the university for false advertising: namely, their failure to provide the happiness and friendship he expected to finally receive after high school. “I don’t understand…
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