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What Grinds Our Gears: Wet SFU seats
June 16, 2025SFU has completed multiple outdoor renovation projects over the last five years: updating the convocation mall, the top of the Rotunda, the applied science building, and the AQ gardens. You’ve spent millions of dollars to make bench-shaped art sculptures. So much money was spent redoing the tile, putting in new cement, stone, new lighting, and repairing the grass. Do you know what wasn’t installed anywhere? Fucking rain covers! What good is it to build, ship, and install these visually interesting and (generally) comfortable benches, when you can only use them when it’s dry out! You know, in a city that…
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Bright-er side: The rain
November 22, 2023When we enter the fall season, everyone starts grouching about the weather. It’s “too rainy,” it’s “too dark,” and it’s “too cold.” I, for one, have had enough of these complaints. I’ve always liked our gloomy, rainy city, and I’m…
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If the rain isn’t paying tuition, it needs to stay out of SFU classrooms
January 5, 2020As if the bitter cold, the constant rain, and the brutalist architecture of SFU Burnaby could not dampen (ha) the mood more, students are finding themselves standing off against yet another increasingly prominent enemy to public morale: leaking. In the…
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SFU needs to update its architecture to accommodate the rainy season
June 27, 2016[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he SFU Burnaby campus has a lot of green spaces, courtyards, fountains, and a triumphant aesthetic when the brilliant sunlight strikes the brutalist concrete. But our school becomes very gloomy during the rainy season, which can affect mood and overall…
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Fall: Expectations vs Reality
October 3, 2014With Fall in full swing, it's time to adjust your expectations.
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