Nicole Magas
What SFU Needs: A dollar store that actually sells things for a dollar(ish)
January 25, 2020By: Jennifer Low, Peak Associate All too often I find myself in need of a random niche item, only to realize that the nearest dollar store is at the bottom of the mountain. The SFU community provides several convenience stores, grocery stores, and retail shops — but not a cheap variety store. What gives? Where’s our dollar store? What We Lack: A store on campus that sells inexpensive items. Not SFU branded. Not super high quality. Just dirt cheap and easily accessible. Things like: Cheap school supplies. No store on campus sells poster boards, glue, tape, etc. for less than extortion…
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Fossil fuel divestment is painful but necessary for universities
January 18, 2020Editor's Note: This piece has been updated to clarify SFU's actions in reducing the carbon footprint of its portfolio. By: Nicole Magas, Opinions Editor For the second winter in a row, I am staring out of my window in Burnaby at…
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Friendly customer service is not an invitation for physical contact
January 13, 2020By: Nicole Magas, Opinions Editor Between the low pay and dealing with entitled Karens, many of us with experience in the service industry have harboured the secret fantasy of being hit by a bus on the way to work, just to…
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Paying to cheat is a sign of laziness and immaturity
January 4, 2020By: Nicole Magas, Opinions Editor University is hard work. This is my fifth year flailing around on this mechanical bull of stress and self-imposed poverty, and with the current educational requirements of a tightening job market it likely won’t be my…
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The Peak Artist Rewind 2019: The best artists of the year
January 4, 2020By Kitty Cheung, Ben McGuinness, Madeleine Chan, Zach Siddiqui, Juztin Bello, Kim Regala, Nicole Magas, Kelly Chia, Lubaba Mahmud cehryl by Kitty Cheung [caption id="attachment_112556" align="alignnone" width="300"] Screenshot via Instagram[/caption] cehryl is a Hong Kong-born artist whose work is full…
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What Grinds Our Gears: Sodium Podium
November 24, 2019By: Juztin Bello, Madeleine Chan, Kelly Chia, Gabrielle McLaren, Nicole Magas, Marco Ovies, Nathaniel Tok, Winona Young This first-year class cost you $500, the least you could do is pay attention! As a fourth year filling up her breadth courses with…
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It’s the great pumpkin recipes, SFU!
October 27, 2019By: Nicole Magas, Gabrielle McLaren, Marco Ovies, and Dylan Webb Illustration by: Maple Sukontasukkul Sometimes, pumpkin-spice lattes and pumpkin TimBits are not enough. This Halloween season, The Peak compiled a recipe roundup of pumpkin-centric foods, both savoury and sweet, that will surely…
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Peak Sports Mailbag: Week 9
October 26, 2019By: Nicole Magas, Opinions Editor Hello readers of The Peak sports section, Welcome to the Peak Sports Mailbag. This week's host is Nicole Magas. Our topic this week is kendo. Nicole lived in Japan for six years, and practiced Kendo…
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What grinds our gears: Do us all a favour and stay home if you’re sick
October 13, 2019By: Nicole Magas, Opinions Editor Dear Typhoid Mary, You know who you are. You’re the one who comes into class with a red nose and black-rimmed eyes, sits down, and immediately starts producing the deepest, wettest series of coughs that would…
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Seven furious notebook scribbles from the SFSS federal election debate
October 11, 2019By: Nicole Magas, Opinions Editor Earlier this month the Simon Fraser Student Society hosted a debate for three of the candidates running in the Burnaby North-Seymour riding. I think it’s fair to say that the event was far more entertaining for…
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