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Meet the Clan: Ryan Stanford

EIC October 6, 2014

Now entering his second year with the Clan, Ryan Stanford has finally found a home. A star quarterback on his high school team, the Horizon Huskies, Stanford initially chose to play for the North Dakota State Bison, an NCAA Division I FCS team. During his time there, the team won the first of its three national championships. However, he was fourth on the quarterback depth chart, and did not see much playing time his freshman year; the team’s contender status made it unlikely that he would see any playing time in the near future. So, in a bold move, he…

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Volleyball team lose back and forth affair

EIC October 6, 2014

The Clan went head-to-head with a giant and lost on Thursday night, as they fell in four sets to the Great Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC) leader, the Northwest Nazarene Crusaders (NNU). Despite strong performances at home by key players including…

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Clan seal first conference victory

EIC October 6, 2014

The SFU men’s soccer team got back to its winning ways on the road Thursday, with a decisive 4-0 result against the Saint Martin’s University Saints (SMU). With that, the Clan snapped a four match winless run and achieved their…

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Clan split season openers

EIC October 6, 2014

For the season opening series, the men’s hockey team hit the road, travelling to face the Eastern Washington University Eagles (EWU) in back to back games. The Clan were able to achieve a win on Friday night, but not on…

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Portrait of the Undergrad as a Young Man

EIC October 6, 2014

Think of the average college man: what does he look like? Is he the boozy, womanizing frat boy of films like Old School and Animal House? Is he the brazen college football star, whose ego is as artificially inflated as…

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Survey tracks pass-ups at Burnaby campus

EIC October 6, 2014

Next time the 145 passes you by, you can air your grievances online using the SFU Student Mobility Advisory Committee’s (SMAC) bus pass-up report form, meant to track transit troubles on the mountain. SMAC, along with representatives from the SFSS,…

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Forum fosters dialogue around “Education Behind Bars”

EIC October 6, 2014

While students often joke about SFU looking like a prison, many real inmates desire access to post-secondary education. SFPIRG’s forum “Breaking the Cycle: Education Behind Bars” on October 1 sought to address this issue; students, teachers, and former inmates came…

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Council commentary

EIC October 6, 2014

Behavioural neuroscience DSU established Lukas Grajauskas brought a proposal to council to establish the behavioural neuroscience student society (BNSS) as a departmental student union (DSU). He explained that, currently, behavioural neuroscience is represented by the psychology and biomedical physiology and…

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SFU drives on its brand new roads

EIC October 6, 2014

SFU Burnaby will now have full use of its new campus roads as construction comes to a close. On Monday, October 6, transit routes will return to what they were last year, before the beginning of the roadway improvement project.…

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Researchers join Canadian team to study dementia

Peak Web October 6, 2014

Three SFU researchers have joined a new Canadian initiative to address the problems posed to the individual and society by disorders such as dementia. Over 340 experts in the field of neurodegenerative disease research across the country are involved in…

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