Last Word
Dying for it
November 17, 2014To be honest, I probably think about death too much. My continuously growing list of unreasonable fears — including sharks, sink holes, stray bullets, black holes, and death by accidentally tripping and hitting the pavement with my teeth in a way that they go up into my brain — all share the noticeable theme of being death-orientated. I’ll also be the first to admit that just talking about death terrifies me. Few things in life are as guaranteed as the fact that we’ll all one day be dead, and that fact is simultaneously unsettling and reassuring in equal measure. So why…
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A SUB of one’s own
November 10, 2014It’s official: after years of careful planning and budgeting, SFU’s Student Union Building (SUB) is going to happen. At the recent Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) Annual General Meeting, students gave Build SFU the green light to pursue a loan…
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Smothering Science
November 2, 2014“Everything here is important to me. This is my life.” This was the answer that Dr. Patricia Sutherland, a federal archaeologist working on a site in Baffin Island, gave to her employer after being asked if there was anything important…
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Why you should donate blood this season
October 27, 2014When was the last time you rolled up your sleeve and gave blood? Just recently? Back in high school? Never? Don’t feel badly if you’re not a regular donor — Canadian Blood Services reports that only about four per cent…
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The girl from Pakistan
October 20, 2014"I am sad watching my uniform, school bag and geometry box. I felt hurt on opening my wardrobe and seeing my uniform, school bag and geometry box. Boys’ schools are opening tomorrow.” Eleven-year-old Pakistani Malala Yousafzai wrote this in her…
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As time goes by
October 14, 2014(NUW) — During some grand bout of insomnia, I began to ponder my own concept of time; how I perceived it, and why I perceived it in that particular way. Attempting to logically analyze all of this at 4:00 a.m.…
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The Age of Anonymous
October 6, 2014The far reaching abilities of the internet have opened many doors for all of us, but they have also exposed us to a new racist, classist, homophobic, and (especially) misogynistic rhetoric that endangers the progressive ideals we’ve spent decades working…
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Life on the Pale Blue Dot
September 29, 2014As you are reading this, you are currently hurtling through space on a remote chunk of rock, covered mostly in water and protected by a thin layer of atmosphere, at a speed of about 460 metres per second. This tiny…
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Reimagining Terry
September 22, 2014“Terry” Fox is the closest thing our country has to a national hero. Think about that for a minute. Our folk hero isn’t a politician and reformer, like George Washington in the United States; nor the leader of a widespread…
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Stealing culture
September 15, 2014I don’t particularly like being told what to do, and I like having my intentions misinterpreted even less; it’s these predispositions that have made cultural appropriation a difficult issue for me to work through. Of course, it’s easy to look at…
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