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SFU obtains poster collection covering 40 years of Vancouver culture
November 13, 2018Written by: Michelle Gomez, Staff Writer SFU has received a poster collection which documents the past 40 years of Vancouver history, mainly through event promotion posters. The poster collection belonged to Perry Giguere, a Vancouverite who spent the past four decades putting up posters for different organizations across the city. Each time Giguere put up a poster, he kept a copy to add to his collection. Over time, Giguere collected what he claimed was 150,000 posters. In an interview with The Peak, SFU special collections archivist Melanie Hardbattle explained that Giguere came to Vancouver in the mid-70s. He volunteered for…
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Conversations around cultural appropriation sparked at SFU
November 2, 2018Written by: Amneet Mann, News Editor This Halloween season, SFU’s intercultural engagement team is working alongside other university departments, such as Residence and Housing, to prompt conversations around cultural appropriation. The intercultural engagement team is promoting a #notacostume campaign…
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Competition gives undergraduates opportunity to present research to the SFU community
October 9, 2018rWritten by: Nathaniel Tok, Peak Associate Undergraduate students presented their original research findings to colleagues, graduate students, faculty members, and other members of the SFU community during the second annual poster competition of the SFU Science Undergraduate Research Journal (SURJ). Around…
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Unsanctioned posters with SFSS logo taken down, but fate of Redeemed Christian Fellowship still unclear
July 3, 2018Written by: Gabrielle McLaren, Features Editor Last week, The Peak reported that the Redeemed Christian Fellowship (RCF), a club recognised by the Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS), had used the society’s logo without permission to advertise an event that…
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SFSS logo used to promote event without the society’s knowledge
June 22, 2018By: Gabrielle McLaren, Features Editor On June 21, students noticed posters going up around the Burnaby Campus advertising “Get-a-Grip 2018: A ground-breaking youth conference.” This year’s theme “LGBT: Let God Be True” concerned students as the posters had been…
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