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The Bright-er Side: Back to School
March 12, 2024By: Jin Song, SFU Student It’s that time again! My alarm goes off before the sun is up. Bleary-eyed, I crawl out of bed to wait in the cold, dark morning for the bus that’s running late. At my lecture, I realized that I really should’ve studied more during reading week while frantically scribbling down the lecturer’s trigonometric integral solution. It’s easy to take our careers as students for granted and forget that for most of history, most people were illiterate. Even today, education is out of reach for some 244 million children globally. That we can devote so much…
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Cloverley Park to be paved into parking lot for new elementary school
January 16, 2024By: Olivia Sherman, News Writer Nestled in North Vancouver’s Calverhall neighbourhood for over 40 years, Cloverley Park has provided green space, a playground, a tennis court, and sledding hills for its residents. However, the park will soon be paved over…
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Meaningful participation is more important than attendance
July 18, 2023By: Saije Rusimovici, Staff Writer Have you ever woken up physically or mentally incapable of going to class that day? Mental illness, physical disability, and chronic illness may make it difficult for students to attend classes regularly. Even students with…
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Opinions in Dialogue: How Christian institutions can traumatize
July 11, 2023By: Fern Ridley, SFU Student and Valeria Gomez, SFU Student Content warning: mentions of child sexualization, rape culture, abortion, purity culture, and queerphobia. Fern: The extent of my religious trauma wasn’t apparent to me until a few years after my…
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Opinions in Dialogue: The intersections of education
June 21, 2023By: Cameron Palmer, SFU Student and Charlie Ruiz, SFU Student Meritocracy is the age-old myth that everyone has a fair chance at success in life, and those who try the hardest will achieve their dreams. In reality, our society is…
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The Peak’s special curriculum
November 24, 2022By: Petra Chase, Arts and Culture Editor, Kelly Chia, Humour Editor, Hannah Kazemi, Staff Writer, Olivia Visser, Opinions Editor Professors, You’ve kindly taken your time to study and deconstruct theory after theory, assigning us only the best — or most…
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What Grinds Our Gears: Two+ midterms
July 7, 2022By: Jerrica Zabala, SFU Student Course selection week! The best time of the semester — when we’re all absolutely drowning in school work. I gloss over prospective course syllabi and suddenly find myself in the shits; I’ve just found out the…
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Flawed solutions: Hybrid learning advocacy needs to take professor labour into account
April 30, 2022By Meera Eragoda, Editor-in-Chief If you’re in the SFU student groups on Facebook, you may have seen a petition calling for SFU to implement hybrid learning. Its two main demands are to mandate the recording of lectures and tutorials and for…
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World News Beat
November 20, 2018Written by: Sakina Nazarali, SFU Student New drug proves itself a 99% effective cure for HIV/AIDS After the first clinical trial of the drug Gammora, results indicate that in four weeks, it can destroy up to 90% of the…
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Dress for school however you please
October 10, 2018Written by: Zach Siddiqui, Copy Editor As Miranda Priestly told her dismissive new assistant in The Devil Wears Prada, it’s comical how people think they can stay out of the fashion world when they have no choice but to wear…
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