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Student organizers lead demand for changing SFU’s sports team name
July 8, 2020Written by: Paige Riding, News Writer SFU Athletics expressed their support for a name change of the athletics team name, the Simon Fraser Clan, last Thursday, July 2. The SFU Athletics website says that, “In response to student athletes' concerns about the nickname, SFU initiated a review process that has been ongoing since the beginning of 2020. SFU Athletics will provide a report to the president in August and a decision will be shared before the fall term begins.” The demand for change began back in 2017 through the efforts of various activists, including SFU philosophy professor Holly Andersen and…
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Board Shorts: June 26, 2020
July 7, 2020Editors note: This article initially stated that the Emergency Response and Student Engagement Group (ERSE) was created by the University's administration. This was a error, as the group was created by the SFSS's University and Academic Affairs Committee. The article…
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Professor petitions SFU Clan to abandon team name
September 5, 2017A Simon Fraser University professor has launched a petition calling on the university to change the name of its sports team because of the apparent similarity to the name of an American hate group. The petition asserts that the athletics…
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