opinions
Ridership increases stress the necessity of transit improvements
July 27, 2019By: Kelly Grounds, SFU Student Commutes from heck are a common experience in the Lower Mainland, especially for students like myself who don’t drive. We rely on TransLink services to help us get around, and so we need our transit system to do better than the subpar service it currently offers. Let me paint a picture for you. I started working at a co-op over winter semester that begins every day at 8:30 a.m. It took 25 minutes to get there from my nearest SkyTrain station. So one would naturally think that I left the house at 7:50 at the…
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Why do some students feel the need to disrespect other departments?
July 26, 2019By: Kitty Cheung, Staff Writer Beedie snobs. Snowflake GSWS students. Useless arts degrees. Why are these stereotypes and criticisms so familiar? These snap judgements are an indication of callousness between students of different departments. But university should be a place to…
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De Adder’s termination shows that corporate interests in media are a Canadian problem too
July 22, 2019By: Gabrielle McLaren, Editor-in-Chief After 17 years of drawing for Brunswick News Inc. (BNI), Michael de Adder was let go soon after sharing one of his cartoons on his personal social media. The cartoon drew mixed reactions for featuring Donald Trump…
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What SFU Needs: more services open on the weekends
July 21, 2019By: Winona Young, Head Staff Writer Do you like going to SFU on the weekends? Of course you don’t — it’s empty, nothing’s open, and you didn’t ask for a ghost campus when you paid your tuition. But students on…
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Addressing student well-being must account for the burdens of student life
July 20, 2019By: Nicole Magas, Opinions Editor It’s a common refrain, meant to be a balm on the stressed souls of university students: don’t forget to take some time for self-care. Public health campaigns urge students to make time for exercise, meditation,…
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Panhandling fines in Salmon Arm make things worse for B.C. homeless population
July 20, 2019By: Kelly Chia, Staff Writer Step a few blocks outside of SFU’s Vancouver or Surrey campuses, and Metro Vancouver’s homeless crisis becomes painfully obvious. The uncertainty of living day to day without stable housing is stressful enough. Yet by-laws have been…
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SFU students need to take earthquake preparedness seriously before an emergency situation
July 19, 2019By: Jamie Hill, SFU Student Recent tectonic activity has put emergency preparedness back on the minds of British Columbians — and that’s an important opportunity to revisit how prepared we are for earthquakes. Two major earthquakes hit southern California on…
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Start keeping track of candidates’ policies ahead of the election
July 16, 2019By: Naaz Sekhon, SFU Student The next Canadian federal election will be held this October, and the three major party leaders are preparing their campaigns. Only three months remain until an election that has voters uneasy about the future of…
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Museums need to be updated to reflect integrated rather than segmented histories
July 15, 2019By: Kelly Chia, Staff Writer Museums are crucial cultural depictions of history. To represent history responsibly, they should be updated to reflect a more inclusive history. Recently, Victoria’s Royal B.C. Museum has planned to modernize its building to address structural…
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Reserved seats at enrolment makes internal transfers frustrating
July 15, 2019Author: Kitty Cheung, Staff Writer As enrolment comes around, my love/hate relationship with the School of Computing Science rears its ugly head. I’ve had my fair share of enrolment difficulties as an intended internal transfer student. To give a bit…
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