Rachel Braeuer
Join the Club!
March 31, 2013By Rachel Braeuer and Gary Lim New to SFU? Missed clubs day? Finding it hard to make friends? Tired of sitting alone on Friday and Saturday night writing Link/Ganon slash-fiction? Well I’ll bet there’s a club that can take your mind off those dirty, nerdy thoughts! JOIN THE CLUB is a feature that showcases some of SFU’s lesser known clubs! This week we highlight... The Creepy Uncle Mentorship Club! Although a relatively new addition to the SFSS clubs roster, the creepy uncle mentorship club (CUM . . . well, that’s unfortunate) has quickly become the premier campus organization in after-school…
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If we don’t wise up, our concerns will get U-Pass’d over
March 18, 2013By Rachel Braeuer Photos by Mark Burnham Of course students want a cheap U-Pass. Of course students want more buses. Of course students want buses to run at more convenient times and until the wee hours of the morning. Most…
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Music videos that are out of this world
March 10, 2013By Rachel Braeuer Or maybe the people who made them are just out of their minds 1. “E.T.” – Katy Perry I’m still confused by this one. At face value, it’s fairly simple. Katy Perry is an alien searching…
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Residential School Awareness Week at SFU
March 5, 2013By Rachel Braeuer and Ljudmila Petrovic Photo by Rachel Braeuer Feb. 27 marked the end of Residential School Education Week at SFU, which consisted of a three-part speaker series featuring Commissioner for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Marie…
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Can I get a side of gentrifries with that?
March 5, 2013Restaurants aren’t the cause of gentrification, they’re a symptom By Rachel Braeuer Photos by Jonathan Dry Gentrification talk is hard. On one side, the people getting put down are more often than not small business owners. It’s hard for me…
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Serena Ryder “Stompas” off the beaten path with Harmony
March 5, 2013By Rachel Braeuer Image courtesy of Mary Rozzi I do not envy Canadian musicians. Well, no, I do. It’s just hard to imagine having actual talent and working as hard as they do only to achieve a small modicum of…
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French, Canadians, do you speak it?
February 24, 2013If you don't live in Quebec, probably not, nor should you have to By Rachel Braeuer Photos by Mark Burnham Memo to the Parti Quebecois: Bill-14 can reduce English-speaking Quebecers’ rights all it wants; it’s not going to add legitimacy…
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Who’s afraid of feminism?
February 17, 2013The masculist movement seems to think it has girl cooties at any rate By Rachel Braeuer Photos by Mark Burnham There was a point in my life where I thought being a feminist was abhorrent. If you’ve read anything I’ve…
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Surprise! Homophobia still exists
February 17, 2013Even in a marketably queer-friendly city like Vancouver, people are still sipping the gay haterade By Rachel Braeuer Photos by Mark Burnham Over drinks last week, a friend was shocked to hear that I’d experienced homophobia in Vancouver. She was…
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Dance your ass off
February 17, 2013SFU rec’s burlesque classes are a great alternative to your typical fitness class By Rachel Braeuer Photos by Vaikunthe Banerjee Hesitating to sign up for a Burlesque fitness class because you don’t want to get pasties-and-thong-naked in public? Hesitate no…
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