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Who killed McFogg?
April 11, 2025The search for McFogg has finally ended. After years of wondering what happened to our beloved Scottish mascot, the dog has finally turned up back at SFU . . . but not in the way anyone wanted him to. McFogg was found floating in the reflection pond holding an onion, with syllabi for economics courses floating around him. Five suspects have been apprehended for their possible involvement in McFogg’s demise — who do you think killed our beloved pookie? Avocado Anthony [caption id="attachment_131277" align="alignnone" width="244"] ILLUSTRATION: Yan Ting Leung / The Pawn[/caption] While he doesn’t have quite the history with…
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Message from the president: An update on the official SFU mascot shortlist
September 26, 2024Since McFogg the Dog was let go in 2018, the Board of Directors has been hard at work deciding who will replace him as SFU’s new official mascot. Finding a mascot worthy of representing our comprehensive university is a responsibility…
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Former SFU mascot candidate grilled by hiring manager
March 14, 2024I sit down at the table, its surface cold against my trembling hands. The smooth papers rustle beneath my palms, my fingers pressing deep wrinkles into the material. I shouldn’t be nervous — I’ve gone over every scenario in my…
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What happened to McFogg the Dog?
November 20, 2023Many know about SFU’s loss of the beloved mascot McFogg the Dog. It’s often controversially referred to as a harder loss than the dissolution of our own football team. But what happened to McFogg after he left SFU? What path…
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A heartfelt letter from SFU’s one and only
August 1, 2023Dear SFU, Why have you Mc-Forsaken me? I’ve been nothing but loyal to you . . . and in return, students no longer know who I am: my brawny arms and swaggy, athletic body, left to wade in the darkness…
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SFUnexplained: Finding McFogg
February 16, 2023My pen bristles as I try to write to you. No . . . I promised myself I wasn’t going to make this mistake again. I’m already paying off Joy Johnson to wipe my record clean of the incident with…
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Choose your own adventure: A date with McFogg
October 17, 2022INTRO: You came to Simon Fraser University to engage yourself in many different disciplines. You didn’t expect that you could possibly . . . get engaged. You admit, this brutalist building might capture your heart when it isn’t disappointing you…
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McFogg the Dog is actually a queer icon
July 1, 2022In honour of pride month, The Peak wanted to shine a spotlight on one of our favourite underrated LGBTQIA2S+ icons, McFogg the Dog. Any student within the community with at least a semi-functioning gay-dar could tell you that the burly,…
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Meet the team of scientists who believe that they can bring back McFogg the Dog
April 4, 2018Dr. Fredrick Brennan shows us the eclectic content of his backpack, which he believes contains everything that he needs on his 12-day expedition to track down McFogg the Dog in the wilderness of Burnaby Mountain. From state-of-the-art night goggles to…
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The costumed campus
November 17, 2014“I think the mascot is dead.” That’s all the opposition’s radio announcer could say about what he had just witnessed. It was a timeout in the first half of a Clan basketball game in the spring of 1996, and the…
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