respect
Teaching staff are human too
November 24, 2020by Gurpreet Kambo, Peak Associate SFU’s sessional instructors and teaching assistants are underpaid, have a huge workload, and are often treated poorly by some students. While SFU students have been vocal about needing leniency and understanding from professors and TAs, given how radically everyone’s lives have changed since the onset of COVID-19, SFU’s teaching staff deserve just as much care and understanding from us. We, as students, need to start treating our teaching staff like they are humans worthy of respect, rather than adding to their challenges and dehumanizing them. Most instructors at SFU are sessional and are often also…
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What Grinds Our Gears: I need more respect from my intrusive family
July 12, 2020By: Alex Masse, SFU Student I have a very specific study ritual, one that works with my painfully neurodivergent brain: I move all my distractions, set up my phone to play 30 minutes of rain noises, and essentially hyperfocus. It’s been…
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What Grinds Our Gears: Respect the people around you when you light up, even on 4/20
May 3, 2019By: Ruth Leavitt, SFU Student On 4/20, a group of teenagers lit up their weed on a SkyTrain car. It was late at night, so the car was full but not crowded. I had to flee to the next car…
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