Mishaa Khan
How Dungeons & Dragons can help SFU student wellness
January 13, 2020By: Mishaa Khan, Peak Associate In a unique twist on therapy, SFU’s Health & Counselling services have combined group therapy with Dungeons & Dragons in the dungeon (or lower level) of Maggie Benston Centre. To learn more about the program, Dungeons & Worry Dragons, The Peak conducted an email interview with the clinical counsellor leading the group, David Lindskoog. Lindskoog explains that “the primary focus is on establishing and maintaining a safe atmosphere so participants can work towards their counselling goals effectively [ . . . ] The other aspects of the group are roleplaying and counsellor-facilitated social interaction —…
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Dispelling raccoons’ cute image with hard facts would make SFU safer for humans and animals
November 16, 2019By: Mishaa Khan, Peak Associate Burnaby campus raccoons must realize that they are on student territory while they willingly pose for Snapchat stories and nibble on dropped food left on the floor. Students forget that raccoons are wild animals with the…
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Health & Counselling talks seasonal affective disorder
November 12, 2019By: Mishaa Khan, Peak Associate Nobody likes the gloomy, rainy season or shorter days, but it impacts some people more than others. So be mindful of SAD, aka, seasonal affective disorder, a mood disorder which occurs due to changes…
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We shouldn’t be normalizing the ethnocide of Chinese Uyghurs
October 26, 2019By: Mishaa Khan, Peak Associate Genocides and ethnic cleansing are not a thing of the past, and clearly neither are internment camps. In the province of Xinjiang in China, officials are currently holding an estimated 3 million Uyghur, Kazakh, and other…
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Who’s that building named after? : Burnaby campus edition
October 22, 2019By: Juztin Bello, Mishaa Khan, Jennifer Low, Lubaba Mahmud, Gabrielle McLaren, and Olivia Roberts W.A.C. Bennett Library As a place that adheres to different student needs — whether that be as a spot for exam cramming, a trove for the…
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Month of Welcome is about more than just free stuff
September 30, 2019By: Mishaa Khan, Peak Associate Month of Welcome is an exciting time for students. With an abundance of resources, freebies, and activities being thrown their way, it’s one of the only times students can freely enjoy university without drowning in assignments,…
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SFU student fails
July 12, 2019By: Kitty Cheung (Staff Writer), Mishaa Khan, Vivien Ying Qi Li, Jennifer Low (Features Editor), Nathaniel Tok I fell into the Academic Quadrangle (AQ) Pond… and it’s kind of my fault Over my time here at SFU, it’s become something of…
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Henry Petter and the Horcruxes of SFU
July 9, 2019Written by: Mishaa Khan, Peak Associate Illustration by:Jarielle Lim Once upon a time, in a caring, construction-free land called SFU, there studied a miserable tenth-year student named Ted Misermort. After being unable to get into his required courses for the…
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Islamophobic acts on campuses show that SFU needs more cross-cultural awareness
July 5, 2019By: Mishaa Khan, Peak Associate Mishaa Khan is a student at SFU and the secretary of the SFU Muslim Student Association. Recently, two events took place at SFU targeting the Muslim community: a man urinated in the prayer area at…
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