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The SFU survival guide

EIC September 2, 2014

Alison Roach, Editor-in-Chief of The Peak Q. What do you wish you had known as a new student at SFU? When I was first starting, I wish that I had known that it was okay to not know exactly what I was doing. A lot of my high school friends went to university with a strict four- or five-year plan ending in the degree of their dreams, and all of their course decisions and scheduling was based around that. I came to SFU as an undeclared arts major, and I remember the anxiety to figure out what I wanted to do…

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Satellite Signals

EIC September 2, 2014

Vancouver The Vancouver Queer Film Festival, which was co-presented by SFU and SFU Woodward’s Cultural Programs, wrapped up on August 24. The festival saw 80 films from 11 countries, as well as other events such as a panel with Sundance…

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The Surrey stigma: The city we love to hate

Kelly Thoreson February 6, 2012

“I heard that Surrey was not the nicest place. It wasn’t a place you wanted to go to,” said Ella Sargent, a sixth-year kinesiology major at SFU. “The ‘ghetto’ is a bad word for it, but it is something along…

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