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Council Chats: Software Systems Student Society requests funding for upcoming hackathon
March 18, 2025By: Lucaiah Smith-Miodownik, News Writer On March 5, the Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) convened for their bi-weekly Council meeting. The most recent iteration saw a presentation from SFU Software Systems Student Society (SSSS), discussions on SFU’s decision to close the Office of Community Engagement, the SFSS’ investment policy, and more. The Peak attended the event to report on the current happenings of the SFU community and all things student government. Software Systems Student Society requests funding The SSSS is “one of the few student societies based at the Surrey campus.” With upwards of 1,600 students in its community, the…
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A list of perks university students can get in Canada
May 24, 2021by Kelly Chia, Staff Writer Now that I’m in the last portion of my degree, I find there are many services that SFU provides that I didn’t know about as a first-year student. I wanted to compile some of the…
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Proctorio faces backlash after CEO breaches privacy of UBC student
July 14, 2020Written by: Paige Riding, News Writer Online invigilation software company Proctorio sparked public privacy concerns when their CEO released chat logs between a student and a customer service representative. On June 26, a UBC student posted a portion of a…
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The burden of the subscription payment model is bleeding young people dry
March 1, 2020By: Nicole Magas, Opinions Editor Just last month my computer did the thing that I hate the most: it updated. I had been dreading this particular update for a while as it locked me out of all of the programs that…
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World News Beat
October 5, 2018By: Nathaniel Tok, Peak Associate HIV-AIDS infection rates on the rise in China HIV-AIDS rates have increased around 14% in China since last year. Over 820,000 people were reported to have HIV or AIDS in June in the country. This marks…
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Student invents software to improve Tinder tactics
September 2, 2014Joel Zhang, a second-year SFU software systems student, has coded a program to mass-like thousands of women on the widely used dating app Tinder. When discussing how he came up with the idea to write the program, Zhang explained, “I…
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