Racism
SFU researchers investigate the biological effects of doping and the medical implications of racism
July 26, 2018SFU BPK professor looking at ways to prevent cheating in sports SFU biomedical physiology and kinesiology (BPK) professor David Clarke and his team are creating new ways to catch athletes who are doping. Current doping detection methods look at athletes’ blood and urine for substances and increased levels of hormones and blood markers. Clarke’s team is looking at how additional data from athlete monitoring devices, such as power meters, can create more robust tests for detecting doping. Power meters are training tools that measure an athlete’s critical power, which is the level of physical intensity an…
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POLITICAL CORNER: It’s time to abandon attack ads, Canada
July 26, 2018The 2019 Canadian federal election is still 15 months away, but already it seems that the major political parties are spinning up their campaign machines and starting to churn out everybody’s favourite piece of political propaganda: attack ads. Attack ads…
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SFU public square lecture takes on the idea of a “Brown New World”
July 6, 2018As a means of exploring the brown perspective, Kamal Al-Solaylee presented the 2018 Milton K. Wong Multiculturalism Lecture titled “It’s a Brown New World. Now What?” on Wednesday, July 27 at the BMO Theatre Centre in downtown Vancouver. This event…
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Hire faculty that represent the student body. . . it’s that simple.
August 1, 2016Blind to the problem When I was younger, I never thought about representation in media, in academia, or in politics. If you’re white, you probably didn’t, either. I didn’t really start thinking critically about how gender and race are portrayed…
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Ghost in the Shell: The sad truth about Hollywood ‘racism’
May 9, 2016The latest Hollywood ‘racism’ scandal that has ethnically minded moviegoers filling up their skivvies is a photo of a stoned-looking Scarlett Johansson gazing at what appears to be a wall of glass. The still-shot from the upcoming Hollywood remake of…
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Seeing colour isn’t the problem. Racism is.
January 18, 2016[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen I was in the eighth grade, I read The Giver. The novel was centred around a 12-year-old boy who lived in a society that could only see black and white, devoid of all emotion, passion, and colour. I remember…
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Unveiling Canada’s Islamophobia
November 23, 2015[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t’s late Monday evening. Two white men, one with a beard and one without, stand a few persons ahead of me in a Starbucks line on campus. Eyes flashing, lips curled into smirks, hushed voices speaking through stifled laughter. “Dude,…
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Racism is still a prominent issue in Vancouver
January 26, 2015“Is today a black day or something?” asked a cashier at a downtown convenience store. The man directed the question to my girlfriend and I as we checked out our items one summer day. It was hard to hide the…
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Mystic Gary: Weight Loss
January 23, 2012Dear Mystic Gary, I hate myself for this, but over the Christmas break, I might have overindulged just a teensy bit too much. An extra piece of shortbread here, a warm mug of festive spiced rum there. Who really even…
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