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Joy Johnson can’t save us
April 6, 2021by Madeleine Chan, Opinions Editor Last year when Joy Johnson was announced as SFU’s new president, leaving Andrew Petter to the dust, it seemed like a win. Petter, who preached self-important politics, had relative inaction on social and student issues, and staunch bureaucracy, was leaving, we were getting someone who said their first priority was students, and she’s a woman! Surely that girlboss power would deter at least some of the sexism-related and otherwise prejudiced problems that SFU has hosted over the past decade. At the time, anything seemed better than Petter. But over a year after she was announced…
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SFU’s pandemic promises have not been actualized
March 26, 2021by Dev Petrovic, Staff Writer It’s been just over a year since we put campus life on hold and transferred our school lives online. It’s also been just over a year since SFU promised to maintain a certain standard for…
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Discriminatory bans turn American dream into nightmare
February 10, 2017Any good newspaper is invested in the people behind the events they report on. The Peak is currently looking for sources who have been affected or know people who have been affected by the US travel ban. Please contact us…
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Tanks farms, pipelines, and the safety of the SFU community
November 29, 2016Hidden in plain sight Upon starting your post-secondary studies at Simon Fraser University’s Burnaby campus, you might not notice at first that it is located above a tank farm. It is tucked away just below the Gaglardi Way and Hastings…
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The SFU gondola is now Petter’s publicity gimmick
July 4, 2016[dropcap]S[/dropcap]FU President Andrew Petter recently reignited the idea that a Burnaby Mountain gondola should be constructed between Production Way–University Station and SFU. This weathered saga has been ongoing for nearly a decade now. The Peak has been reporting on the…
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Petter’s “neutrality” means disengagement
March 1, 2015[caption id="attachment_795" align="alignnone" width="940"] Image credit: Brandon Hillier[/caption] Academia is political. So is industry. But despite his focus on public-private partnerships, SFU President Andrew Petter strives to avoid acknowledging his — and SFU’s — place in Canada’s political landscape. Petter’s…
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SFU reclaims title as Canada’s top comprehensive university
November 10, 2014SFU has once again snagged the top spot as Maclean’s number one comprehensive university. Maclean’s compiles rankings of Canada’s best post-secondary institutions annually, and over the past 24 years, SFU has been awarded top comprehensive university 11 times. The category…
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