Leah Bjornson
University consults students over proposed recreation facility
February 24, 2014The Board of Governors is asking SFU students for their feedback regarding a proposal for a new recreational facility at SFU Burnaby. A private company has offered to build the 50,000 square foot facility free of charge, the value of which is estimated at between $20 and $25 million. In return, SFU would give the company a 65-year lease of land adjacent to Discovery Park, on which they would build BC’s first school of chiropractic. The recreation building would be built west of Terry Fox Field and would include a pool, a gym, and a racquetball court, among other services.…
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University Briefs
February 24, 201415-year old admitted to U of A Marcela Louie, 15, is set to attend the University of Alberta next fall. With an IQ of 145 by age seven, she was above 99.9 per cent of other children of the same…
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Board Shorts
February 17, 2014New recreational facilities on the mountain President Humza Khan brought to the board’s attention that SFU is planning for an off-campus organization to build a recreational facility on Burnaby campus which would include a pool, a gym, a racquetball court,…
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Board Shorts
February 16, 2014Funding request reaches SFSS exec. The Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA) requested $4,000 from Funding and Grants for their annual Lantern Festival Event, to be held on Feb. 15, $2,000 of which was allotted for prizes, including two iPads…
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Election Results
February 9, 2014The results are in! Here are the students you elected as your representatives to the Senate, the Board of Governors, and the Senate Graduate Studies Committee. Those elected will serve from June 1, 2014 to May 31, 2015. Board of…
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Fair Trade learning day brews dialogue
February 3, 2014Just a few months after the opening of a predominantly fair trade Starbucks at SFU Burnaby, Sustainable SFU, Engineers Without Borders and Dining Services invited students to attend a Fair Trade learning day at Canada’s first of its kind location.…
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Satellite Signals
February 3, 2014Surrey Surrey campus executive director Stephen Dooley blogged about his recent initiative, Dialogue with Dooley, which launched on Jan. 16. Each month, Dooley will reserve a table in the Mezzanine — “with coffee, tea and snacks” — to chat with…
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University Briefs
February 3, 2014TRU students support sweatshop-free campus The TRU student union is moving forward with their lobbying campaign for the university to join the Worker Rights Consortium, an NGO investigating working conditions in factories around the globe. Having reached the 3,000 signature…
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BoG-GLED
February 3, 2014Environment program changes The University Relations Committee brought proposed program changes related to the Faculties of Environment and Earth Sciences from Senate to board for approval. Changes include the dissolution of the Forestry Geoscience Certificate in the Department of Earth…
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SFU Surrey student shortlisted for national award
January 31, 2014A SFU Surrey student has been shortlisted for a national award as a result of his advocacy for democratic participation in his community. Selected from over 200 applicants, Japreet Lehal is among 13 fellow Canadians shortlisted for the Everyday Political…
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