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A football sits on the armrest of a seat overlooking Terry Fox field.
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The epic highs and lows of SFU football

Peak Web February 25, 2025

By: Kaja Antic, Sports Writer For over 50 years, one of SFU’s shining athletic qualities was the school football team. For much of its history it was the only Canadian university to play in American gridiron football competition. That all came to a grinding halt on April 4, 2023, when SFU president Joy Johnson announced SFU’s football team would become a relic of the school’s past. The team was one of SFU’s inaugural athletic programs, starting play in 1965, the year the school opened. This was the second collegiate football program in BC, and the only to compete with American…

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A Black person with an afro is trying to prevent a white person from touching their hair. The white person is saying “OMG! How do you get your hair to do that!”
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The benefits of being Black in a mostly non-Black community

Peak Web February 18, 2025

By: C Icart, Humour Editor Kendrick performed at the Super Bowl last week, and while I didn’t watch the performance (I refuse to watch men crash into each other for fun), that didn’t mean I was exempt from seeing all…

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This is a photo of a Western Sahara flag with the blue sky in the background.
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The intersections of colonialism and the climate crisis in Western Sahara

Peak Web February 18, 2025

By: Kiana Montakhab, SFU Student On January 17, Embark Sustainability, the Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies, and Spheres of Influence e-zine hosted a presentation titled “Western Sahara is a Climate Justice Issue” on the Burnaby campus. The talk focused on…

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Love, intimacy, and more in The Peak’s February TV picks

Peak Web February 13, 2025

By: Karly Burns, Fact Checker; Mason Mattu, News Writer; Izzy Cheung, Arts & Culture Editor; Petra Chase, Editor-in-Chief A love letter to XO, Kitty — Karly Burns, Fact Checker  [caption id="attachment_130766" align="alignnone" width="300"] PHOTO: Courtesy of Awesomeness and ACE Entertainment[/caption]…

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Illustration of a phone with the OnlyFans logo.
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Sex work has never been for women

Peak Web February 11, 2025

By: AC, SFU Student Content warning: brief mention of child exploitation and descriptions of sex work. As society becomes more accepting of sex-positive narratives, it simultaneously created a new landscape of sex work for young girls. Platforms like OnlyFans have…

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Two phone screens with Hinge open. One shows a chat where the phone owner is responding to a picture with two men asking to be referred to the older one assuming it’s the father. The man responds saying that the man is his professor. In the second image, someone’s Hinge bio is displayed. It features a picture of a theatre play set. The set includes a giant hand.
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Hinge is a game, and I’m losing

Peak Web February 11, 2025

By: DILF Hunter, SFU Student From 2023 to 2024, I was a frequent user of dating apps out of boredom. I gained nothing from my experiences other than various ridiculous screenshots of jarring or hilarious interactions, and a somewhat deeper…

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ILLUSTRATION: Multiple bodies tangled together, but with eyes looking elsewhere
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Where’s the sexy in sex?

Peak Web February 10, 2025

By: Anthony Houston, SFU Student Not too long ago, right after hooking-up with a guy I met on Tinder, I thought to myself, “Man, that was such a boring interaction.” There were many factors influencing my perception: it was the…

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This is a photo of the SFU dining commons where food service workers are pictured interacting. The photo faces toward the ceiling and there’s a sign that says “breads.”
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New contract negotiations begin for dining staff on campus

Peak Web February 4, 2025

By: Lucaiah Smith-Miodownik, News Writer Editor’s note: in a news article published last week titled “CWJ hosts rally to continue pushing for in-house food and cleaning contracts,” we wrote that SFU contracts dining service workers through Chartwells Canada. Chartwells is…

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A group photo of the SFU kendo club wearing their uniform.
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Club Profile: SFU kendo and iaido Club

Peak Web February 3, 2025

By: Phone Min Thant, Staff Writer Editor’s note: The writer of this piece is a member of the SFU kendo club. Were you born too late to be a samurai and too early to experience lightsabers? Well, what if I…

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this picture is of a large group of students protesting in the street. A young man in the foreground holds the Indian flag up in front of him.
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Stop normalizing racism towards South Asians

Peak Web February 3, 2025

By: Yasmin Hassan, Staff Writer Content warning: descriptions of anti-South Asian rhetoric. Whether it’s “taking our jobs,” “ruining the economy,” or not “assimilating” to western norms, immigrants are increasingly being used as an excuse for our “crumbling” society. This is…

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