Terry Fox
39th Annual Terry Fox Run connects SFU community
October 11, 2019By: Paige Riding, News Writer At the 39th Annual Terry Fox Run at the SFU Burnaby campus, Convocation Mall hums with anticipation as a hefty group of runners and walkers stood together to fight against cancer. SFU hosts the event every year in honour of former student Terry Fox, the renowned athlete who became world-famous during his Marathon of Hope. Fox aimed to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research on a prosthetic leg that he was given after his leg was amputated. Though Fox didn’t make it all the way across Canada due to the recurrence of…
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SFU Surrey honours Terry Fox with Post-it Art
September 26, 2016Students at SFU’s Surrey campus were welcomed back to school this semester with some unique artwork. The Post-it Art Competition, hosted by the SFU Surrey Terry Fox Coordinating Committee, helped raise awareness for the Terry Fox Walk and Run, and…
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Six people who changed SFU forever
September 26, 2016SFU is the “instant university” that has been educating makers and movers since 1965. Its halls have seen some brilliant minds, but these six people in particular have helped shaped SFU as we know it today. There’s one question students…
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SFU honours Terry Fox in annual fundraiser
September 29, 2014Students, faculty, volunteers, friends, and family congregated at SFU’s three campuses on the morning of September 24 for the annual Terry Fox Day celebrations in order to raise funds for cancer research. Despite the uncertainty of the weather, participants demonstrated…
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Reimagining Terry
September 22, 2014“Terry” Fox is the closest thing our country has to a national hero. Think about that for a minute. Our folk hero isn’t a politician and reformer, like George Washington in the United States; nor the leader of a widespread…
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