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Clan gets lumberjacked in Humbolt State
September 24, 2012By Bryan Scott SFU football loses second straight, fall to 1–2 The Simon Fraser Clan football team traveled to Arcata, CA on Sept. 15 to take on the Humbolt State Lumberjacks. The Lumberjacks are the defending champions of the Great Northwest Athletic Conference, and are currently ranked 11th in all of Division II football. After conceding the game’s first touchdown at 9:27 of the first quarter, and then another at 13:58 of the second quarter, it didn’t look good for the clan. Clan quarterback Trey Wheeler connected with tight end Jamal Kett less than two minutes later to pull…
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Queer or not?
September 23, 2012Is there such a thing as “gaydar”? By Ljudmila Petrovic A few weeks back, my close friend Saul* and I were standing in a packed bar, cocktails in hand, bonding over our favorite activity: people-watching. Our target of the evening…
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Bieber on ice
September 17, 2012The Bakersfield Condor's look to singing sensation Justin Bieber for help By Bryan Scott Well, if a looming NHL lockout wasn’t enough to give you hockey related nightmares, this surely will. Justin Bieber (the singer) has been offered a contract…
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SFU women’s soccer is back!
September 10, 2012By Bryan Scott SFU splits first two games of the season despite missing players The Simon Fraser University Women’s Soccer team opened their season with a 3–0 loss to the 25th ranked Cal State Stanislaus Warriors. After the game, Clan…
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Petter Watch: Sept 10
September 10, 2012Petter somberly packs away Hawaiian shirt for next summer.
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Lions on top at halfway point
September 3, 2012By Bryan Scott Lions (6–2) look to continue their success as second half of the season rolls The BC Lions look like a team that knows what they’re doing as they sit on top of the Western Conference and the…
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Smells Like Mediocrity: Yeasayer’s Fragrant World
September 3, 2012After two years Yeasayer releases a new album, miles from their folksy debut. By Navneet Nagra Yeasayer debuted in 2007 with All Hour Cymbals, an album of tribal drum beats and genre-shifting vocal rhythms. Next came Odd Blood; a shift…
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Word on the Street: July 30th
July 30, 2012Q:So, the Summer Olympics officially kicked off last Friday with opening ceremonies in London. Thoughts? “You yanks must have a couple roos loose in the paddock. Else why’d you be holding the Summer Olympics in the middle of bleedin’…
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Solders of the new frontier: the global hacker culture
July 9, 2012By Esther Tung Photos by Mark Burnham Along the alley just off of Hastings and Abbott, I find the doorbell hidden in one of the murals on the wall. The signboard overhead reads “VHS”, and the doorbell setsoff lights flashing…
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Musical spoof of Xanadu delivers a silly summer spectacle
July 9, 2012By Monica Miller Photo by David Cooper And it just might inspire you to dust off those quad skates from your childhood The Arts Club’s parody of the 1980 camp-cult movie Xanadu is a roaring good time. A musical comedy…
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