Samaah Jaffer
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March 31, 2014Woodward’s The Walrus Magazine held an event on Tuesday, March 25 in the Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema during which seven different speakers were given seven minutes each to discuss an issue surrounding sustainable renewable energy. Topics included First Nations rights in relation to resource extraction, the political climate surrounding the Northern Gateway and Kinder Morgan pipelines, and the role for young people in mitigating climate change. Harbour Centre Each year, a public lecture is held in honour of the late SFU professor of communication, Dallas Smythe. This year’s memorial lecture, titled “Pulling Punches: Media Power, People…
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SFU Fashion Week makes it work
March 27, 2014Anyone who attended or heard about SFU Fashion Week will know that it was about a lot more than just glitz and glam. What began as one student’s vision to create a tangible SFU identity through fashion evolved into a…
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University Briefs
March 21, 2014Students vote “no” to all student government candidates The University of Windsor Students’ Alliance was recently faced with a peculiar problem — an election with absolutely no winners. On March 13 and 14, the majority of the University of Windsor…
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March 17, 2014Surrey On Saturday, March 8, SFU’s LOVE Club hosted a free event called “Why Don’t Vegans Eat Cheese?” The evening began with a presentation on cruelty in the dairy industry. Following the talk, guests were invited to sample various…
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”Great energy,” “good vibes” at Surrey open house
March 15, 2014SFU Surrey opened its doors on Mar. 6 to showcase some of SFU’s most prestigious programs and research projects; the event also featured entertainment and ethnic foods from around the globe. The annual open house was a crowd-pleaser for both…
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University Briefs
March 10, 2014Cuppa kindness: paying it forward The coffee-drinking student population of the Memorial University of Newfoundland has started a new trend — paying it forward by buying coffee for a complete stranger. The movement entails generous students spending a couple…
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Meet CLIVE: an environmental fortune teller
March 3, 2014Combining 3D game engines and spatial data, researchers from SFU and the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) have developed an interactive geo-visualization tool that illustrates the geographical past and predicts future impacts of rising sea levels and coastal erosion.…
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February 23, 2014Woodward's Over the weekend of Feb. 20, the Human Rights Watch Traveling Film Festival was held at the Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema. The event presented highlighted films from HRW’s annual festivals in London and New York. Through storytelling, the featured films…
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February 17, 2014Woodward's The Olympic Games are a time of global celebration and, inevitably, with celebration comes spending. Jules Boykoff of Pacific University, a former member of the US Olympic soccer team, spoke on Feb. 14 at the Djavad Mowafaghian World Art…
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