Sara Brinkac
Joy Johnson: undercover student
February 7, 2022By: Sara Brinkac, Humour Editor In the Fall 2021 semester, SFU president and vice-chancellor Joy Johnson undertook a disastrous “undercover student” marketing campaign. Originally, the campaign plan was that she spend a month as an undergraduate student while keeping a journal of her positive experiences in order to share quotes on bus benches across Canada. The outcome however, was much different. What SFU marketing expected to be a triumphant success quickly lost focus — after just 17 days the campaign degraded into what some might consider a psychological disaster parallel to the Stanford Prison Experiment. This failure prompted SFU marketing…
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Humour is an overlooked tool in creating social change
February 2, 2022By: Sara Brinkac, Humour Editor Ah humour, a beauty of a concept and a wonderful spice to life. What’s there to say about humour that hasn’t already been said? It shows intelligence (sometimes), it diffuses tense situations (most of the time),…
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Horoscopes January 24–28
January 25, 2022By: Sara Brinkac, Star-whisperer in training ARIES: One day this semester — when you least expect it — a tall dark stranger will come to you with grave news. Be nice to them, the cemetery industry is pretty dead nowadays, and…
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Horoscopes January 17–21
January 19, 2022By: Sara Brinkac, Cosmic mailman ARIES: Sorry I haven’t gotten out of retrograde. I accidentally had caffeinated tea at 8:00 p.m. last night and my orbital schedule has been a nightmare. — Mercury TAURUS: I get that you’re really into…
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Top Ten Vancouver indie bands
January 19, 2022By: Sara Brinkac, Humour Editor The Tiny Hat Trio Hailing from Commercial Drive, this 2010–14 indie folk cover band is a staple of the Vancouver indie scene. While some critique the band for having no original songs, we believe their…
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Top Ten loopholes for your New Year’s resolutions
January 12, 2022By: Sara Brinkac, Humour Editor “Save more money” People are always so stressed about money. Saving this, spending that, “there’s no room in the budget for a 16 ft statue of you sir.” But our problem lies not in our…
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Dining with sophistication: The worst dining experience of my career
January 12, 2022Restaurant: Chilcotin 16 Rating: ★☆☆☆☆ Location: Lower East Campus in the Townhouse District Appetizer: Eastern fusion noodles with chicken flavour Entrée: Crusted Pork with winter vegetables Dessert: House cheesecake I would like to precede this review by assuring all…
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What Grinds Our Gears: Confusing satire and parody
December 1, 2021By: Sara Brinkac, Peak Associate For centuries people have carelessly thrown the word “satire” around to describe everything and I can’t take it anymore. Satire and parody are not the same thing! It seems modern humanity’s definitions are as loose…
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