By: Izzy Cheung, Staff Writer Content warning: mentions of colonialism, residential schools, and unmarked graves. Decolonizing SFU has to be about more than just taking a day off and wearing orange. While these are small steps in raising awareness, higher education institutions — not just SFU — have to commit to doing more. Think about the systems we have in place “Systems,” in this case, lumps a lot of things together. The education system, social systems, institutions that we encounter in our daily lives . . . we need to think about what systems we currently have in place, who…
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By: Olivia Sherman, News Writer As of June 12, the Teaching Support Staff Union (TSSU) has gone on strike, with an overwhelming 94% vote to take this action. Leading up to the strike, teaching assistants (TAs) began their labour action…
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By: Anthony Houston, SFU student As is the case with any Canadian union, SFU’s Teaching Support Staff Union (TSSU) has the right to strike in accordance with the British Columbia Labour Relations Board (LRB). Strikes are a type of job…
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By: Izzy Cheung, Staff Writer and Michelle Young, Opinions Editor SFU has a reputation for looking like a grey concrete prison. Many students argue the aesthetics on campus are demoralizing. However, in recent years, more conversations have emerged around SFU’s…
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By: Izzy Cheung, Staff Writer Books, articles, and study spaces are the things that come to mind when saying the word “library.” However, the libraries around us have many more resources that often get buried beneath the piles of books.…
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By: Eden Chipperfield, News Writer On April 22, 2023, Burnaby’s acting mayor, Sav Dhaliwal, announced $5-million of funding for constructing the First Peoples’ Gathering House at SFU Burnaby. The construction and funding of the First Peoples’ Gathering House at SFU…
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By: Hana Hoffman, Peak Associate If you missed out on last week’s episode of Cute Couples on Campus, you can read the main questions and answers from the interview below. We were honoured to have the opportunity to interview Sophie,…
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By: Safiya Shah, SFU Student In 2011, SFU students protested against the university accepting a $10-million donation from the mining company, Goldcorp. At the time, students and staff were concerned about accepting donations from a company that has had environmental…
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By: Ben McNallye, SFU Student Picture this: you need a quiet space for a quick Zoom meeting on campus. You fly through the AQ, WMC, or wherever, looking for an empty classroom. You find one! Go, you. But moments after…
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By: Nathan T. The Koi from the AQ pond have been removed After years of entertaining graduating students during convocation and disappearing during winter, the koi fish have been sold to the SFU biological sciences department to help raise money…
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