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Your weekly SFU horoscopes: February 10–16
February 10, 2020Written by Zach Siddiqui, Humour Editor Aries — March 21–April 19 This week, tell your suitor that it’s French kisses or nothing — and you really do mean French kisses. If your date’s lips can’t whisper Jean de la Fontaine’s “Le corbeau et le renard” to you from memory, start to finish, then there’s just no future there. Taurus — April 20–May 20 You can’t go wrong with a nice romantic seafood dinner this week. The tanked lobster at Superstore scuttling away from the cashier’s tongs loves you almost as much as you love him . . . or so…
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QUIZ: What form of birth control are you?
February 10, 2020Written by Zoe Vedova, Peak Associate From gutting public school sex education classes to threatening to decrease access to abortions, our sexual health is constantly being policed by the government. Let’s turn the lens back on the institution that’s put…
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From dilDOs to dilDON’Ts: a look at Vancouver sex shops
February 9, 2020By: Agra Mikel, SFU Student A lot of fear goes into entering a sex shop, and I would know as a former sex shop virgin. Not once have I desired to venture into the depths of dildos and sex dolls. This…
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Shell House resident shares their experience with bedbugs to The Peak
February 6, 2020By: Sarah Russo, SFU Student Picture this: you move into a new dorm room, excited for a new start in a place all your own (or, at least, you think it’s all your own). You crawl into bed for the first night…
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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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Sick of sharing offices, sessional team up to rent abandoned WMC lunch kiosk
February 4, 2020Written by Maxwell Gawlick, Peak Associate Any student who has taken a course with a sessional instructor knows how awkward it is trying to squeeze into those shoebox-offices, how unhelpful those 10-minute appointment slots can be, and how sad it…
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DEAR PEAKIE: Talking washrooms, wash-outs, and narcissism
February 4, 2020Written by Zach Siddiqui, Humour Editor Dear Peakie, Do I absorb Jeff Bezos' worth if I eat him or does everything stay the same? From, Didn’t Get a Scholarship This Term • • • Dear Didn't Get a Scholarship This Term, I…
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CONFESSIONALS: I’m an abandoned microwave
February 4, 2020Written by Kelly Chia, Features Editor Life at SFU isn’t easy. It’s not the humdrum grey and red that gets you, but the illusion that you might be different. That you’re the cool one. Then year after year, you lose.…
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Health & Counselling executives discuss barriers to access, appointment procedures, and their mission to “make care about the client”
February 3, 2020By: Lubaba Mahmud, Staff Writer What might students expect when they make a mental health appointment with SFU Health & Counselling? The Peak had a chance to conduct an in-person interview with Martin Mroz, Director of SFU’s Health & Counselling Services,…
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ARThrive explores the magic of creative writing through Writing for Self-Care workshop
February 3, 2020by Lubaba Mahmud, Staff Writer Writing for Self-Care was one of the many workshops that was offered by ARThrive, which is a partnership program between SFU’s Sexual Violence Support & Prevention Office and the SFSS Women’s Centre. The workshop was led…
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