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Health and Dental plan for students to become more affordable, effective September 1
July 24, 2018Written by: Srijani Datta, Assistant News Editor As of September 1, 2018, student health and dental plan pricing will be effectively reduced. The enhanced plan and the basic plan, which cost $267.75 and $207.90 respectively, will be reduced to $254.36 for the enhanced plan and $197.51 for the basic plan. This fee reduction was finalized by the Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) Board of Directors through a motion passed on June 15. When asked why the coverage plan was revised, vice-president student services Samer Rihani explained that every school in Canada who is partnered with…
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Police warn residents in and around Vancouver about Canadian Revenue Agency scammers
July 5, 2018By: Srijani Datta, Assistant News Editor Residents of Metro Vancouver and adjoining areas, including SFU students, are being warned by police forces about Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) scams as people in different cities are being targeted. Earlier this month,…
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Board Shorts
June 23, 2018Board negotiates SFSS involvement in Student Experience Initiative with SFU Vice-president university relations Jackson Freedman presented an update to the Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) Board regarding the SFSS’s ongoing negotiations with the university on the Student Experience Initiative (SEI).…
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SFU students report incidents of serial harassment and trespassing
June 11, 2018By: Srijani Datta, Assistant News Editor On May 30, several SFU students took to the Facebook page “‘Must Knows’ for courses at SFU”, to spread awareness about a trespasser and alleged serial sexual harasser on the Burnaby campus. …
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SFU student raises money for cancer through athletic challenges
May 21, 2018By: Winona Young, Staff Writer Imre Mihalik is an SFU Beedie student who is running, paddling, cycling, and more to raise money for the BC Cancer Foundation. Mihalik hopes to raise $3,500 for his campaign, #EPICIMPACTYEAR, wherein he will…
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Board Shorts
April 30, 2018Motion passed to upload General Membership Student Survey 2017–8 results online After publicizing the 2016–7 General Membership Survey earlier this year, a motion was brought forward at the latest Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) Board meeting to do the same…
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Generation Screwed SFU hosts audit on SFSS spending
March 27, 2018By: Gabrielle McLaren, Features Editor On Thursday, March 15, the SFU chapter of Generation Screwed hosted an audit examining SFSS spending, titled “The Sad State of the SFSS: Students have had enough.” The event promised to gather experienced student…
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BC affordability crisis forcing students to work longer hours
October 11, 2017By: Nathaniel Tok SFU students are finding it harder to pay their bills than their peers across the country, a recent report suggests. The report released by Vancity found that the affordability crisis in the province is forcing BC students…
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TransLink bus services expansion leaves out SFU
September 18, 2017By: Aaron Richardson The largest expansion of bus service in Metro Vancouver did not result in more service to Simon Fraser University. TransLink introduced an additional 105,000 hours of bus service across the region earlier this month. In addition to the…
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SFU club to host sold-out sports analytics hackathon
June 26, 2017A student-run sports analytics club will be hosting the inaugural Vancouver Sports Analytics Symposium and Hackathon (VanSASH), a two-day event running from July 8–9 at Harbour Centre. The event is currently sold out as students from SFU, UBC, BCIT, the…
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