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Parents, are those social media accounts really for your kids?
June 8, 2019By: Encina Roh, Peak Associate In recent years, Instagram has seen an influx of parent-run accounts for young children. Such accounts have become immensely popular, each one prolifically documenting a child’s everyday life. As such, parents should reflect on whether they are putting their own selfish desires ahead of their children’s well-being. While this seems benign, the issue is that social media is a level playing field: content is equally accessible to family, friends, fans, trolls, and predators. Parents can’t control who screenshots their posted pictures, nor can they control what’s done with them. By making public accounts, parents are opening…
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What grinds our gears: high sodium mega compilation
June 7, 2019Byline: Kitty Cheung, Kelly Chia, Jennifer Low, Gabrielle McLaren, Nicole Magas, Onosholema Ogoigbe, Winona Young The NASTY future of the SUB’s napping room People are gonna jerk off in the new napping room. There! I said it! That reality is…
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Political Corner: Liberals left holding the bag in breach-of-trust trial
June 2, 2019By: Kelly Grounds, SFU Student On May 8, Crown prosecutors announced that they were going to stay the breach-of-trust charge against vice-admiral Mark Norman. This appeared to put an end to the legal drama which has been with Norman since…
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What SFU Needs: An actual central cafeteria
June 2, 2019By: Winona Young, Head Staff Writer Let's face it, every cafeteria at Burnaby campus looks sad. Aside from The Study, there’s no place that’s Insta-worthy, or somewhere you'd want to hang out. It's hard to ignore the major flaws that every…
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What Grinds Our Gears: There’s no excuse for people who still don’t know how to recycle
June 1, 2019By: Mishaa Khan, Peak Associate I’m a strong believer in taking steps to save the environment. Not everybody is so proactive and I get that — we all have different life circumstances and beliefs. However, I do believe that if…
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Distance education classes deliver subpar instruction for additional fees
June 1, 2019By: Mishaa Khan, Peak Associate I have taken two classes through the Centre for Online and Distance Education (CODE) over the course of my degree, and I don’t intend on taking any more. The quality of instruction was poor, there…
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SFSS presidents should be focused on their presidencies
May 31, 2019By: Nicole Magas, Opinions Editor Giovanni HoSang’s decision to take a summer co-op at Microsoft’s Seattle office fresh into his first term as the president of the SFSS is a disappointment, sure, but at this point it’s hardly a surprise.…
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SFSS directors need to be prepared to answer for how they vote
May 26, 2019By: Nicole Magas, Opinions Editor New SFSS president Giovanni HoSang said it best when he called the April 18 outgoing board’s decision to stop publishing voting decisions a “slap in the face.” The decision makes it such that SFSS board…
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Women* supporting women* is the key to our success and identity in STEM
May 24, 2019By: Kitty Cheung, Staff Writer Author’s Note: The asterisks (*) have been included by the writer, as organizers of nwPlus UBC have, in order to “specifically and intentionally include cis and trans women, as well as non-binary, agender and intersex people”…
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10 reasons why Alyssa Milano’s #SexStrike reminds us that not all activism is created equal
May 19, 2019By: Gabrielle McLaren, Editor-in-Chief Content warnings for this piece include: abortion, pregnancy, and sexual violence. In May, the state of Georgia passed House Bill 481, nicknamed the “heartbeat bill.” Business Insider sums it up nicely: “While the bill's main goal is…
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