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The Takashi Murakami exhibit shocks and delights Metro Vancouver
February 18, 2018By: Yelin Gemma Lee Takashi Murakami’s The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg exhibition, which is running at the Vancouver Art Gallery from February 3–May 6, is extraordinary. It’s a loud anthem-like calling to all artists of any kind to go home and vicariously practice their craft, and throw all the passion and strangeness from inside their souls onto the canvas. Walking through the exhibit was unlike any other Vancouver Art Gallery experience I’ve had — I felt goosebumps wash over my skin in waves while viewing each piece. Although surrounded by a massive amount of people in a sweaty and…
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Rejected Tinder bio lines
February 14, 2018By: Winona Young Valentine's Day is right around the corner! For any of you unlucky souls still in Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hoes Club Band, have no fear! After an extensive trial period of being single for twenty-one years, I have…
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Holly Taylor explains track throwing sports and talks ‘balance’
February 13, 2018By: Victoria Lopatka Name: Holly Taylor Year: Freshman (first-year) Hometown: Brantford, Ontario Major: Criminology Sport(s) you play at SFU: Track and field (shot put, hammer throw, weight throw, discus) GPA: 3.3 Part A (Miscellaneous) The Peak: What’s your…
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Must-see events: Black History Month
February 12, 2018By: Alex Bloom Vancouver International Film Festival VIFF will be offering a Black History Month three-ticket pass for $30 that will allow you to see any combination of the following films: Black Cop, Brown Girl Begins, Quest, or Tell Them…
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BC moves to block Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion, provinces square off
February 12, 2018British Columbia moved to block the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion through the announcement of its new plan to limit any diluted bitumen, or dilbit, from entering the province via the pipeline. The announcement prompted a domestic trade war…
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The Good, the Alright, and the Just Plain Bad of sex work in media
February 7, 2018By: Victoria Lopatka Sex work has been featured openly in the media since at least the 1950s, but we haven’t necessarily gotten better at portraying it in the last seventy or so years. Some shows and movies still feed into…
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Meet Paola Quirós, new co-ordinator of the Women’s Centre
February 7, 2018Fast Facts on Paola Quirós Name: Paola Quirós (pronounced: p ah-OH-l ah) Preferred pronouns: she/her Position: Co-ordinator of the SFSS Women’s Centre since November 2017 Education: BA in Social Communication and Journalism from University of La Sabana in Colombia and…
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A short biology lesson for dumb idiots who ask “is your pussy tight?”
February 7, 2018With Google searches such as “my girlfriend feels loose is she cheating” and “how to make your vag tighter with vinegar,” I feel that it is absolutely necessary that I make this public announcement for all of you whom have…
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Community program to launch for LGBTQ+ refugees
February 7, 2018Two SFU professors are teaming up with DIVERSEcity, a not-for-profit agency located in Surrey dedicated to offering services to the city’s multicultural population, to create more inclusive spaces for refugees identifying as LGBTQ+. DIVERSEcity has been playing a leading role…
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Safer sex is sexy sex
February 5, 2018Written and photographed by Winona Young Whether you’re short on cash and condoms or in a sex-health conundrum, students need to look no further than SFU’s resource centres for all of the above and more. So save the frantic Google…
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