Kitty Cheung
Students shouldn’t need to be policed into respecting quiet study spaces
June 30, 2019Last week, a fellow student sat beside me in the sixth-floor computer lab of the library and proceeded to watch a sports commentary video on YouTube. With the noise leaking from their earbuds, I couldn’t help but look up from my screen, distracted. This person then pulled out a family-sized bag of potato chips from their backpack and munched, loudly. They weren’t pulling out single chips to snack on discreetly, either. These were face-stuffing handfuls that left their entire palm encrusted with chip dust. Aside from the obnoxious crunching of both the chips themselves and the crinkly bag that contained…
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Comic – But Mom, I’m a Liberated woman!
June 18, 2019Comic by: Kitty Cheung
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Being Asian: SFU Students reflect post-Asian Heritage Month
June 14, 2019By: Kitty Cheung (Staff Writer), Kelly Chia (Staff Writer), Karina Danielle Lim de León, Winona Young (Head Staff Writer) When I was five, my birthday wish was to get a Yoga Barbie. When I was six, my birthday wish was a…
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What grinds our gears: high sodium mega compilation
June 7, 2019Byline: Kitty Cheung, Kelly Chia, Jennifer Low, Gabrielle McLaren, Nicole Magas, Onosholema Ogoigbe, Winona Young The NASTY future of the SUB’s napping room People are gonna jerk off in the new napping room. There! I said it! That reality is…
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Ranking Outdoor Study Spaces
June 7, 2019#1: Outside of Maggie Benston Centre (MBC) Food Court Available seating and table space - 3.5/5 notebooks Access to gendered washrooms - 4/5 notebooks Access to gender-inclusive washrooms - 4/5 notebooks Traffic and construction noise - 4/5 notebooks Comfort -…
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Ranking Indoor Study Spaces
May 27, 2019#1: WAC Bennett Library, sixth floor Available seating and table space - 4/5 notebooks Access to gendered washrooms - 4/5 notebooks Access to gender inclusive washrooms - 3/5 notebooks Traffic and construction noise - 5/5 notebooks Comfort - 4/5 notebooks…
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Lot 21 graduate housing governance brought to GSS Council’s attention
May 27, 2019Sibo Chen, graduate student and former SFU UniverCity Community Trust board member, presented a briefing on Lot 21, a graduate student housing project to be built in UniverCity to the Graduate Student Society (GSS) during their May 14 council meeting.…
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Andrew Petter unable to leave SFU after becoming trapped in construction labyrinth of his own making
May 27, 2019BURNABY, B.C. — After announcing his intent to step down from presidency in December 2018, SFU president Andrew Petter, 66, became unable to vacate his position after becoming trapped in the construction labyrinth that is Burnaby campus. Having slated Petter…
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Catch it before it’s gone: Spaces for Reading at the SFU Gallery has less than a month left
May 26, 2019Hurrying through the AQ hallways between classes, you may have passed by a room with what seems like a large white block, dotted with books and pillows. The SFU Gallery’s current exhibit, Spaces for Reading, combines the work of artists…
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Women* supporting women* is the key to our success and identity in STEM
May 24, 2019Author’s Note: The asterisks (*) have been included by the writer, as organizers of nwPlus UBC have, in order to “specifically and intentionally include cis and trans women, as well as non-binary, agender and intersex people” in their definition of…
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