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The end of textbooks
September 15, 2014How much did you spend on textbooks this semester? You don’t have to answer that. We all know that feeling of disappointment that comes with shelling out more than $100 on a textbook you’ll probably never use again. For decades, academic publishers and university bookstores have charged students hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dollars for textbooks, adding to already high tuition costs and ballooning student debt in Canada. For the most part, post-secondary students are encouraged to accept this as a hard truth of university life: if you want to go to school, you’ll have to pay. It’s this dominant ideology…
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MFA Students show off their final projects at the Audain Gallery
September 8, 2014Enjoy an evening of art, cheese, wine, and mingling with our MFA Graduate students during their opening reception of Lossless on September 10 in the Audain Gallery at the Woodward's campus! Lossless is an exhibition featuring final projects by the…
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Shuttle to take SFU students to Clan games for free
September 8, 2014Now for all Clan home football games, SFU students can take a free shuttle from the Burnaby campus to Swangard stadium, a stadium near Metrotown, where SFU will play in order to make way for BuildSFU’s construction plans. The Pepsi…
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Clan de-claw the Bearcats
September 8, 2014Thursday night, the women’s volleyball team played a one-sided game against their non-conference opponents, the Columbia Bible College Bearcats, sweeping them in three sets, and improving over their 3-1 victory against them last year. Although the Clan opened up scoring,…
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The Clan aim for a national championship
September 8, 2014Both the men’s and women’s cross country teams had successful seasons last year. The women’s team made the national championships, and ended up in seventh place “out of probably 350 teams total,” according to coach Brit Townsend. The men’s team…
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Meet the Clan: Miryam Bassett
September 8, 2014Entering your first year of university can be quite a challenge. From the size of lecture halls, to the fact that you have to buy all of your textbooks, it’s an intimidating step up from high school. To top it…
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Welcome Back SFU
September 5, 2014As a new school year begins, so does the common struggles and triumphs of SFU students.
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Five sure signs it’s almost fall at SFU
September 2, 20141. The levels of chlorophyll in a deciduous tree’s organs begin to drop, in response to lower temperatures and reduced hours of daylight. 2. Following the summer solstice, the Earth has begun to shift its rotation so that the Northern…
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Community involvement at SFU is invaluable
September 2, 2014Congratulations on making it in, or making it back to SFU! As an SFU student, you have amazing extra-curricular options available to you, and your time here will be greatly improved if you capitalize on the many opportunities to get…
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Point/Counterpoint: Does Greek life belong at SFU?
September 2, 2014No, it doesn't! By Katrina Trask Pranks, panty raids, hazing, and parties are the first images that come to mind when one mentions Greek life at a university. These images have been around since fraternities and sororities were introduced in…
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Simon Fraser University’s independent student newspaper since 1965.
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