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Get to know your 2020 SFSS candidates – VP External Relations
March 15, 2020Compiled by: Kelly Chia, Features Editor It’s election season for the Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS)! The Peak has reached out to candidates to ask three questions based on their positions and compiled the results to help you navigate this election period. Voting this year will take place March 17–19 through SFU Mail. The SFSS is SFU’s student-led society, representing the entire undergraduate population of the university. Headed by 16 Board of Directors, SFSS members are elected every spring by the student body to hold a one-year term. During this term they manage day-to-day society work, manage large-scale finances, execute university-wide…
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Get to know your SFSS 2020 candidates – Faculty Representatives
March 15, 2020Compiled by: Kelly Chia, Features Editor It’s election season for the Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS)! The Peak has reached out to candidates to ask three questions based on their positions and compiled the results to help you navigate this election…
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Get to know your 2020 SFSS candidates – VP Student Life
March 15, 2020Compiled by: Kelly Chia, Features Editor It’s election season for the Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS)! The Peak has reached out to candidates to ask three questions based on their positions and compiled the results to help you navigate this election…
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Changes in the SFSS’ food sale policy lacked clarity and transparency
March 13, 2020By: Naomi Torres, SFU Student As a student union executive, I’m used to dealing with the day-to-day workings of SFSS policy. Recently, the SFSS sent an email to all student union executive members stating: “Effective immediately, groups will no longer be…
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Board Shorts: February 26
March 3, 2020Written by: Michelle Gomez, Assistant News Editor MNP presentation on audit options The Board passed a motion to have a presentation from an independent auditing firm to inform the Board and the Council regarding potential audit options. The Board allocated…
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Rotunda groups will be offered space in the new Student Union Building
March 2, 2020Written by: Michelle Gomez, Assistant News Editor and Gurpreet Kambo, News Editor At their Wednesday, February 26 Board meeting, the Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) Board of Directors resolved to enter into formal agreements that offer the Rotunda groups space…
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CJSF shows how integral independent societies are to the SFU experience
February 23, 2020By: Leslie Wang, SFU Student In the spring of my third year at SFU, I was living with a horrible case of lizard brain — I doubted all of my actions, words, and thoughts. It was an extremely difficult couple of…
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SFSS adopts new reproductive rights policy, causes SFU Lifeline to no longer be recognized as a club
February 11, 2020Written by: Michelle Gomez, Assistant News Writer As of December 2019, the Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) has decided to adopt a reproductive rights policy. This policy has caused SFU Lifeline to no longer be recognized as an SFSS club. …
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SFSS hires this year’s IEC chief, a loaf of banana chocolate chip bread
February 5, 2020Written by Zach Siddiqui, Humour Editor As the SFSS election season draws near, the Board of Directors has appointed this year’s chief independent electoral commissioner (IEC): a loaf of banana chocolate chip bread. The independent electoral commission is appointed every…
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Informed voting is the absolute least we can ask of our Board
February 3, 2020By: Gabrielle McLaren, Editor-in-Chief Note: The views expressed in the following article are solely my own and do not represent the views or politics of The Peak as a publication or a society. If I have time or if the agenda…
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