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SFU PARODY POEMS: “Shall I Compare Thee to a Cloudy Day?”
January 7, 2020Written by Ben McGuinness, Peak Associate Shall I compare thee to a cloudy day? Thou art more dreary and more concrete: Rough weather does slow the bus to the bay, And its capacity is short of seats; Sometime too long the staircases are to climb, And often the long readings we do skim; And every career fair seems to decline, The chance, for students taking courses, slim; But thy operating costs shall be paid, Nor lose possession of the debts we ow’st; Co-ops and TA-ships art available in spades, When steady employment we need’st most: So long as…
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Students still can’t name their Fall 2019 classes, know only the course numbers
January 6, 2020Written by Zach Siddiqui, Humour Editor Though the Spring 2020 semester has just started, most of SFU’s student body reportedly cannot name their courses from last semester when asked. Students all over SFU’s three campuses engaged this morning in their…
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“Go.re.miSFU”: SFU opts for invasive singing telegrams over grade email notifications
January 6, 2020Written by Madeleine Chan, Staff Writer Students at SFU will get notified about their final grades in a melodic way at the end of this semester. The university has employed a fleet of five human singing telegrams to inform the…
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Your weekly SFU horoscopes: January 6–12
January 6, 2020Written by Zach Siddiqui, Humour Editor Aries — March 21–April 19 You’ve made your New Years’ resolutions. And you’ll break them all this week. But don’t feel guilty. It’s hard, committing to stop buying Nutella at the grocer’s when you…
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What are SFU students looking forward to in 2020?
January 3, 2020By: Kelly Chia, Meera Eragoda, Victoria Lopatka, Nicky Magas, Lubaba Mahmud, Kim Regala I want to live my twenties without guilt about taking time to rest. Hi there, 2020. 2019 was a year of many firsts for me: it was the…
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CONFESSIONALS: I was the student who reminded the teacher of a deadline
November 27, 2019Written by James Conn, SFU Student Before coming to SFU, I attended Douglas College. On one fateful day, in a political science lecture, our class was eerily awaiting the professor to spring a quiz on us. However, he seemed to…
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SFU Pangrams to Test your Fonts
November 25, 2019Written by Lubaba Mahmud, Staff Writer We all know the classic sentence which uses all 26 letters of the alphabet: “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” But this is too damn generic. Sure, there are several other…
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Your weekly SFU horoscopes: November 25–30
November 24, 2019Aries — March 21–April 19 Well, you did it. You got through the semester without (being arrested for?) arson. So spend this week reminding yourself that pyromania is not a Christmas gift you give yourself — nor is it a Christmas…
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‘Tis the season to hail Mariah
November 24, 2019Written by Juztin Bello, Copy Editor For most, November is just another ordinary month, because their lives are meaningless and boring. For some, it’s the month to celebrate the first reported instance of white privilege. But one thing the world…
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SFU GOTHIC: The school creeps on . . .
November 22, 2019Written by Kelly Chia, Staff Writer You are in C9000 and you hear wheels. Everyone stops talking to listen to the wheels. The sound is anywhere and everywhere. The lecture hall starts quivering. You hear people talk about being trapped…
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