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Think twice about posting your provocative Instagram photos

EIC June 8, 2015

When you post a picture on Instagram, your main concerns are most likely how sweet it looks with the brand new filters, and whether or not it’ll be ‘liked’ a coveted 11 times or more. You aren’t typically concerned with the fact that people could take these Instagram photos — which don’t actually belong to you — and do whatever they’d like with them. Most people do not recognize Instagram as an extension of the public sphere; it is, and it needs to be treated as such. Is an artist who takes a photo of you from Instagram really that…

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Awareness of climate change policy may not matter

EIC November 17, 2014

According to a new SFU study, the majority of British Columbians are uninformed about provincial climate policies — and that’s all right. Authored by Jonn Axsen and Mark Jaccard, SFU professors of resource and environmental management, along with PhD candidate…

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International study to address climate change in the workplace

EIC October 20, 2014

An SFU professor has joined a newly formed international research project to assess the impact of the workplace on climate change, and to make recommendations as to how certain sectors can improve their carbon footprints. John Calvert, an SFU adjunct…

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Community members advocate for preferred names on student IDs

EIC September 22, 2014

Two SFU community members, in collaboration with members from SFPIRG and Out on Campus, have started a campaign to create a university policy which would allow students to have their preferred names on their student ID cards. Lucas Crawford, Ruth…

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