Mark Burnham
Counter-Point: Valentine's Day is for long-term lovers
February 3, 2013Single folk, get over your hate-on for V-day; you have every other day of the year By Rachel Braeuer Photos by Mark Burnham To see point, click here! I hate commercialization as much as the next person. I’m not happy that on Jan. 1 there’s already displays with heart-shaped boxes of chocolates and gorillas holding flowers and wiener-dogs magnetically making out with one another, nor am I pleased that the sweat-shop factory that undoubtedly made the randy wieners and love-struck silverbacks exists and is profiting from false facsimiles of love. But as a recently single person coming out of an…
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Counter-Point: Valentine’s Day is for long-term lovers
February 3, 2013Single folk, get over your hate-on for V-day; you have every other day of the year By Rachel Braeuer Photos by Mark Burnham To see point, click here! I hate commercialization as much as the next person. I’m not happy…
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Invisible Disabilities
January 28, 2013The divide between our conceptions of access and success By Rachel Braeuer Photos by Mark Burnham If you can read this, consider yourself lucky. Jeffrey Moore couldn’t have when he was eight years old. Finn Long is just four years…
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Shiraz Ramji: campus bard
January 28, 2013By Ljudmila Petrovic Photos by Mark Burnham Most people at SFU have at some point talked to Shiraz, the kind man with no qualms about stop ping people to give them his poetry. Even people that graduated from SFU several…
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SFU found guilty of bargaining in bad faith
January 27, 2013BC Labour Relations Board sides with CUPE 3338 in claim against the university By Alison Roach Photos by Mark Burnham Last Monday, the BC Labour Relations Board (LRB) ruled that SFU is guilty of bargaining in bad faith with local…
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LAST WORD: How Yoga came to the west and lost itself on the way
January 27, 2013By Ljudmila Petrovic Photos by Mark Burnham It seems like no matter where you go in Vancouver, you cannot escape the fresh-faced, mat-carrying yogis that dot the city’s sidewalks and studios. In fact, Vancouver’s 2011 designation as one of the…
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NHL hockey is back, but do you really care?
January 27, 2013By Travis Homenuck Photos by Mark Burnham The Sheaf (SASKATOON) —The NHL is back in business. Whoa, calm down! Is the excitement actually seeping out of every pore of your body, or are you nonchalantly shrugging your shoulders at the…
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Committing to the Clan
January 27, 2013Courtney Triano has worked hard throughout her time at SFU both in and out of the pool By Clay J. Gray Photos by Mark Burnham Meet Courtney Triano, a fifth year senior from Tsawwassen. This breaststroker races in the 100-…
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Build SFU moves forward
January 20, 2013The project has hired a manager, reopened the Think Tank, and is focusing on finding an architect By Alison Roach Photo by Mark Burnham Last Friday, the Build SFU Think Tank space on the MBC 2000 level was reopened in…
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SFSS hires new food and beverage services manager
January 20, 2013Newcomer John Flipse looks to improve the sustainability of their services By Alison Roach Photos by Mark Burnham The SFSS recently parted ways with former food and beverage service business manager John Laurin, hiring in his place a new John.…
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