opinion
SFU should become a smoke-free campus
April 4, 2016[dropcap]T[/dropcap]here is a growing trend among university and college campuses in North America to ban cigarette smoking completely, and as far as I’m concerned, SFU should follow suit. About a dozen Canadian campuses, such as Memorial University in St. John’s, Dalhousie in Halifax, and the University of Alberta in Edmonton, have already implemented bans on smoking, and according to the American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation, at least 1,475 campuses in the United States are now smoke-free. So why hasn’t SFU joined them? From 2013–2014, a campaign was underway on campus, Tobacco-Free SFU, supported by the Faculty of Health Sciences. Over the…
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Prank YouTubers need to stop
April 4, 2016[dropcap]T[/dropcap]his January, I was in Toronto with a friend, walking down Yonge street at 1 a.m. We wanted to explore the city and get some fresh air, but instead our calm stroll became an uncomfortable run-in with a wannabe prank…
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Sorry, trigger warnings do not hinder free speech
April 4, 2016[dropcap]T[/dropcap]yler Knoll’s article entitled, “Trigger warnings are not an excuse to censor free speech” could not have gotten it more wrong. Trigger warnings don’t censor or stifle free speech. They’re simply warnings — like online pieces of courtesy to the…
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Point / Counterpoint: The Ghomeshi Verdict
April 4, 2016OPPOSE IT: The verdict proves rape culture is still alive and well By Laura Scheck [dropcap]A[/dropcap]ccording to Statistics Canada’s crime victimization survey from 2004, approximately 460,000 Canadian women were sexually assaulted in 2004. Out of all of those incidences, only…
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Cherish your grandparents while they’re around
April 4, 2016[dropcap]N[/dropcap]owadays, even your grandpa can get picked up as an Internet sensation overnight, and then turned into an online meme. Yes, Sad Papaw, I’m talking about you and your disgraceful grandchildren. But all hilarity and memes aside, the minute that…
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12 lessons this semester has (almost literally) shoved down my throat
April 3, 20161) Don’t google your symptoms. Ever. Or watch House. And for the love of God, do not do both simultaneously unless you want to end up in the ER at three a.m. with some erroneous phantom disease. 2) If someone hurts your…
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All hail the iPhone SE
April 1, 2016[dropcap]I[/dropcap]’ve heard some comments from people who are dissatisfied with the new iPhone SE release. “Nothing new,” and “can’t tell it apart from the iPhone 5S,” are just a couple of the things I’ve heard since Apple’s keynote event unveiling…
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SFU library’s overdue fees are too expensive for students
March 29, 2016[dropcap]F[/dropcap]or those of you who don’t know me very well, I like to read a lot. Like, a lot. I don’t brag when I claim that picking up a good novel is my equivalent to your solid Netflix all-nighter, or…
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Western travellers, beware!
March 29, 2016[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen news headlines around the world broke out that Otto Warmbier, 21-year-old American student from Ohio, was sentenced to 15 years of hard labour in North Korea because of “crimes against the state,” I could not feel sorry for him…
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How I stopped giving a fuck about swearing
March 29, 2016[dropcap]I[/dropcap]magine a good little girl who always kept her head buried in a book. Throw in frameless glasses and plastic braces, and you’ve pretty much got a picture of what I looked like in high school. Along with that pious…
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