Security
The SFSS Council emphasized security changes for the upcoming year
March 21, 2023By: Natalie Cooke, News Writer On March 8, The Peak attended the Simon Fraser Student Society’s (SFSS) bi-weekly Council meeting. The highlights from the meeting include discussing the new student health care committee and the approved funding for the 2023 Faculty of Applied Science Winter Formal. Data Privacy and Security Rastko Koprivica, who was the vice-president of finances and services, at the time of the meeting, addressed the issue of data privacy and security in the most recent SFSS Council meeting. It was noted, “The society relies heavily on non-domestic data storage mediums [ . . . ] The storage…
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Vancouver city council discusses increased surveillance to deter crime
May 17, 2022By: Chloë Arneson, News Writer A new motion was brought forward in Vancouver’s city council to increase the use of CCTV surveillance technology in areas around Metro Vancouver. It suggested cameras should be installed in partnership with the Vancouver Police Department…
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Council receives presentation from No Cops on Campus
March 28, 2022By: Karissa Ketter, News Writer Content warning: this article mentions anti-Black and anti-Indigenous topics. Council receives a presentation from No Cops on Campus At the March 16 meeting, Graduate Student Society director of access and equity, Hafsa Sadiq, and Chantelle Spicer,…
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SFU security guard can’t tell if person entering building is a student or raccoon
March 30, 2021By: Dev Petrovic, Staff Writer That’s the best you can do, SFU? You gave me a plastic folding table to sit at while ensuring the university’s security? I’m in the AQ, a building once infested by students but now abandoned.…
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Captcha test, I promise I’m not a robot
February 21, 2021By: Emma Jean, Staff Writer Another day, another incognito window opened because I’m too ashamed to have Tumblr in my browser history in 2021. As the homepage of my favourite New Yorker magazine stan blog loads, I rapidly dash off…
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We aren’t safe with SFU’s security
January 8, 2021by Madeleine Chan, Opinions Editor CW: Discussion of sexual assault, police brutality, death. Over the years, there have been increasing concerns about the response of SFU Safety & Risk Services (SRS) to campus incidents. Most recently, the RCMP…
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Students informed of SFU community data security breach
March 2, 2020By: Gurpreet Kambo, News Editor A security breach caused SFU’s Chief Information Officer Mark Roman to send out an email to SFU students on the morning of March 2, 2020. According to the email, all SFU community members who joined…
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Board Shorts
November 27, 2018Written by: Amneet Mann, News Editor Board approves motion to extend subleases with CJSF and SFPIRG on a month-to-month basis The original expiry date on the subleases allocating the Simon Fraser Campus Radio Society (CJSF) and the Simon Fraser…
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SFU’s safety and security services: what we can change and what we can’t
November 12, 2018Written by: Gene Cole, Opinions Editor Recently, SFU students got an email reminding them of proper procedure in an emergency, providing the phone numbers for security on each campus. This came after two separate safety and security crises on Burnaby…
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Board Shorts
October 28, 2018Written by: Amneet Mann, News Editor Board discusses approach to SFU’s proposed tuition fee increases Vice-president student services Samer Rihani briefed the SFSS (Simon Fraser Student Society) board of directors on a meeting held with SFU administration about the…
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