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SFU Fashion Week Presents Season 3 Line Up
March 30, 2016For many, fashion is sometimes thought of as expensive, eccentric, or simply not meant for everyday wear. But the people behind SFU Fashion Week hope to revolutionize the way we think about fashion through their 3-day event. Currently in its third season, SFU Fashion Week (SFUXFW) was originally created by Kayode Fatoba, an SFU student. Fatoba works with a team of students to bring the event to SFU to make fashion more meaningful and accessible to all students. The Peak spoke to Pooja Patel, SFUXFW’s Creative Director, about what students can expect from this year’s Fashion Week. “[SFU’s Fashion Week’s]…
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February 1, 2015Woodward's SFU Woodward’s Reel Causes hosted a screening of Dr. Cabbie on the night of Sunday, February 1. The film is the story of an Indian doctor who immigrates to Canada, only to end up driving a cab. Audience members…
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January 25, 2015Surrey SFU welcomed 42 computing science students from across the nation to its 2015 Undergraduate Capstone Open Source Projects (UCOSP) code sprint on January 15–18. Five students from SFU participated, working with mentors on open-source software projects in teams of…
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January 11, 2015Surrey To ring in the new semester, SFU Surrey students feasted on free pancakes last Wednesday, January 7. The SFSS Surrey Campus Committee hosted the annual free breakfast to welcome students back to school for the spring semester. Surrey Council…
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November 15, 2014Woodward's In anticipation of United Nations Climate Change Conference in France in December 2015, the French embassies in both Canada and the United States are organizing a series of events called “FACTS” standing for French Ameri-Can Climate TalkS. Held at…
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Poll Party
November 10, 2014This coming Saturday, November 15, voters across British Columbia will head to the polls to elect their next municipal governments. Sadly, if past statistics are any indicator, very few people will actually exercise this right, which is even more tragic…
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November 10, 2014Woodward's This past Wednesday, November 5, the Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema showcased Miners Shot Down, a documentary film about the mineworker strike in South Africa last August. The film followed the low-paid workers in their fight against the mining company and…
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October 27, 2014Woodward's Last Wednesday, October 22, SFU Woodward’s hosted a panel discussion on the book, Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition, written by Glen Sean Coulthard, an assistant professor in the First Nations Studies Program and the…
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October 13, 2014Vancouver A free book signing at the Chapters on Robson Street on the evening of Thursday, Oct. 9 featured SFU professor of biology and author Mark Winston. He signed copies of his new book, Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive,…
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SFU explores opportunity for satellite campus residences
October 6, 2014The possibilities for life in residence at SFU are about to increase significantly. The university is currently considering a new residence building, valued between $15 million and $20 million, near its downtown campuses. SFU has been in conversations with the…
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