opinion
SFU’s Health and Counselling Services need to provide better service
February 1, 2016[dropcap]M[/dropcap]y story with mental health officially begins in my senior year of high school, when I was diagnosed with anxiety. My doctor discovered that my intestines were literally empty — I had stopped eating — and were digesting themselves because there wasn’t any food to digest instead. Given a prescription for therapy and antacids to combat the physical symptoms, I was sent on my way. It took me six months to actually go to therapy. It was August, and I was leaving for my freshman year of university in three weeks. According to my therapist, I should’ve been having two…
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Universities shouldn’t teach discrimination
January 25, 2016[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he BC Supreme Court recently overturned the Law Society of BC’s decision to exclude graduates of Trinity Western University (TWU) from reaching the provincial bar. The original decision came on the heels of controversy over TWU’s community covenant, a document…
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Yoga belongs to India, so hands off
January 25, 2016[dropcap]A[/dropcap]t the University of Ottawa last November, a yoga class was cancelled due to concerns that it was culturally appropriated from India — a culture that “experienced oppression, cultural genocide and diasporas due to colonialism and western supremacy.” At first,…
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Whitewashing the 2016 Oscars
January 25, 2016[dropcap]I[/dropcap]f 2015 ended a little bit more hopeful with regards to media representation for minorities, given the release of a Star Wars sequel featuring a black man and a woman as the main characters, as well as Viola Davis’s Emmy,…
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Why we need more LGBTQ+ transitional shelters in Canada
January 25, 2016[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen we think of someone who is homeless, we tend to have this image of a scraggly man with an unkempt beard, pushing his belongings in a shopping cart. While this image may certainly be a reality on Vancouver’s streets,…
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WEB EXCLUSIVE: Social Stirrups — When did hashtag movements become more important than the stories they represent?
January 19, 2016Social Stirrups — Analyzing our online social world is a brand new web exclusive column, in which Kendra Nelson delves into the hidden meanings of our online social media world. Check back soon for more bi-weekly content! [dropcap]R[/dropcap]inging in every…
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WEB EXCLUSIVE: Tim’s Bit — BC Liberals, stop asking and starting doing!
January 19, 2016Tim’s Bit is a new web-exclusive column featuring Tim Mottishaw’s comedic tirades on some of our humanity’s dumbest problems, with regards to culture, society and politics. Read more Tim's Bit here! [dropcap]R[/dropcap]ecently I was asked my opinion on whether the…
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Letter to the Editor
January 18, 2016Dear editor, Re: “SFU’s men’s rights activists protest new ‘friend zone’ bench unveiling” The Hi-F.I.V.E Movement for Mental Health Executive Committee was disheartened by your “humour” article, dated November 9, 2015, regarding The Friendship Bench (the Bench). We acknowledge that…
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Woohoo, Boohoo
January 18, 2016Woohoo: Hershey's Kisses First sold in 1907 by North America’s biggest chocolate company, I present to all of you the most deliciously infectious confection ever put on the chocolate conveyor belt: the Hershey’s Kiss. Wrapped in an eye-catching array of…
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I am committed to not committing
January 18, 2016[dropcap]W[/dropcap]e’ve got Jeremih cranked as loud as our petty laptop speakers will go, and we shout, “commit to not committing!” and high-five each other a little too hard. We’re half-kidding. After all, it has a ring to it and we’re…
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