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April 4, 2018By: Alex Bloom Taking place on April 7, the SFU Concert Orchestra will be performing X Part II: Through Space and Time. This comes as the second and final instalment in a series of performances held by the orchestra to celebrate their 10-year anniversary. Held at the Leslie and Gordon Diamond Family Auditorium, doors open at 6:45 p.m. and music will be played from 7–9 p.m. There will be a short intermission, during which light refreshments will be offered. In addition to Mozart and Tchaikovsky, the programme for the night includes music from Hayao Miyazaki’s Castle in the Sky, as…
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SFU becomes wildlife reserve
April 3, 2018By: Alex Bloom In a recent bid to increase revenue, SFU has decided to transition into a wildlife reserve. Now called Simon Fraser Shelter for Endangered Students (SFSES), this new status allows the institution to save money on taxes due…
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Out on Campus reopens its doors and welcomes new coordinator
March 27, 2018Earlier this semester, Simon Fraser Student Society’s Out on Campus (OOC) — a centre that provides support services and learning space for LGBTQ+ individuals — had to temporarily halt its activities because its previous volunteer and program coordinator, Kyle McCloy,…
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SFPIRG launches petition for campus space
March 26, 2018In the face of its impending displacement from campus, the Simon Fraser Public Interest Research Group (SFPIRG) has launched a petition asking SFU and the Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) to lease them appropriate campus space. The petition,…
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Suya Life: bringing Nigerian street food to Vancouver
March 26, 2018By: Alex Bloom In March of 2017, Suya Life began. Now, as they celebrate their one-year anniversary, they have plans to expand their services. It started as a simple love of food, and that food was suya. What is suya?…
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SFU Fashion Week returns for fifth season
March 19, 2018By: Alex Bloom SFU Fashion Week is a yearly event aimed at promoting the work of emerging designers. With the fifth year of event around the corner, I sat down with Dio Wong, the creative director of SFU Fashion Week,…
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SFSS 2018–19 elections suffer from miscommunication and bullying allegations
March 8, 2018"Correction: a previous version of this article cited Amir Singh as a candidate for president for the SHIFT SFU slate. We have changed this name to Amar Singh." Despite the campaign period for the Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) Board…
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Local poet Shiraz Ramji talks about a life of activism and education
March 5, 2018By: Alex Bloom Shiraz Ramji is currently the director of the Edmonds Seniors Society, and has long been affiliated with SFU in several capacities. He was a student at the university, and has been a staff member, researcher, and guest…
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Stuff we like and don’t like
February 22, 2018By: Hannah Davis Stuff We Like: Re-watching The Office It is no brag when I say that I have watched the show three times through . . . because I have spoken to people who have achieved that number and…
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SFU professor provides free toolkit for detecting cancer-causing gas in household settings
February 12, 2018Simon Fraser University’s Citizen Scientist project is providing free radon-testing kits to households in the Greater Vancouver area. These testing kits are capable of detecting radon, a harmful gas known to cause lung cancer in humans. Radon is…
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