Melissa Roach
Campus Roadwork Update
February 21, 2014Starting Monday, Feb. 24, all buses leaving Burnaby Mountain will return to their usual routes.This means that buses will go down the mountain via University Drive West and the bus stop by residences will once again be in service. This alteration is due to recent feedback from the SFU community and will address the concerns of access to the residence bus stop as well as the increase in volume of traffic on University Drive East. The detour up the mountain is to remain the same for the duration of the project, but this change in route will only be in…
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SFU Bookstore sees decline in sales
February 17, 2014Sales at the SFU Bookstore have dropped by between eight and ten per cent annually over the past two years from $13 million in 2012/13 to an estimated $10.6 million this academic year. Projections show further decline over the years…
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Transit referendum gains momentum
February 3, 2014SFU students, along with the rest of Metro Vancouver, will be able to weigh in on improving transit in an upcoming November referendum. Although it is unclear exactly how the issue will be framed, the referendum will mean an opportunity…
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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
January 27, 2014God, dead at UofM? St. John’s College, affiliate of University of Manitoba, made the decision last year to temporarily shut down its theology department. Dropping numbers in theology students and church attendees forced the Anglican college to declare…
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Around Town
January 27, 2014Woodwards “When you try to picture the future what do you see? A world bursting with human potential, and the technology that liberates it? Or one defined by hard limits to growth, and the rural ideals of earlier generations?” This…
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Spiders twerk hard for the hunnies
January 27, 2014Pop stars and teenage girls no longer have a monopoly on twerking — male black widows have joined their ranks. Research in animal communication at SFU has led to the discovery of the importance of vibratory signals to the black…
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Campus roads get a makeover
January 20, 2014Update: Starting date for Roadway Improvement Project has been pushed to Feb. 10, during reading week, so as to minimize traffic disruption. Say goodbye and good riddance to that bumpy ride up the hill; SFU’s Burnaby campus roads will…
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PQ in Review
January 13, 2014Twerking twenty-year olds, crack-smoking politicians, retiring teenyboppers — 2013 brought a barrage of sensational headlines. But, unsurprisingly, the most important and influential news stories of this past year came from right here in the centre of the pop culture universe:…
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Supreme Court of Canada strikes down anti-prostitution laws
January 6, 2014On Dec. 20, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC), made the unanimous decision to strike down Canada’s anti-prostitution laws. The ruling was made on the case Canada v. Bedford, brought forward by Ontario sex workers Terri-Jean Bedford, Amy Lebovitch and…
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