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Monday Music: Songs to accompany your valiant fight against inner demons
January 10, 2022By: Sherine Jeevakumar, SFU Student Ever get so inside your head that you feel like you’re the main character with a tragic backstory? Even if it’s a little melodramatic, so what? These tracks are a perfect accompaniment to any emotional rollercoaster you’re going through. “Hurts Like Hell” by Fleurie, Tommee Profitt [caption id="attachment_120276" align="alignnone" width="300"] Image credit: Courtesy of Fleurie[/caption] This track opens with hypnotic, angelic strings that quickly give way to indulgent harmonies. Fleurie’s voice begins to breathe gently into the song while soft piano chords accompany her. The music swells to a peak as vocals and instruments come…
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SFU’s Gries Labs looks for green solutions to pest control
November 29, 2018Written by: Chris Baxter, SFU Student SFU grad student Andreas Fischer keeps his lab stocked with around 100 specimens of Canada’s most poisonous spider, the black widow, as he works to find environmentally friendly solutions to pest control. These…
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New student support program for mental health to be launched online
May 15, 2018By: Srijani Datta, Assistant News Editor A joint effort by SFU and the Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) has led to the development of a two-year pilot program extending a new student support service for mental health. …
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COLUMN | TIM’S BIT: Age simply doesn’t matter
March 4, 2016Tim’s Bit: Tirades on our stupidest things. . . is a new web-exclusive column featuring Tim Mottishaw’s comedic tirades on some of our humanity’s dumbest problems, with regards to culture, society and politics. Read more Tim’s Bit here! [dropcap]M[/dropcap]y birthday…
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COLUMN | SOCIAL STIRRUPS: Daaaamn Daniel! Are you getting paid to advertise for Vans?
March 4, 2016Social Stirrups — Analyzing our online social world is a web-exclusive column, in which Kendra Nelson delves into the hidden meanings of our online social media world. Read more of this column here. And check back soon for more bi-weekly content!…
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Breaking down the problems with SFU’s National Sweater Day video
February 12, 2016[dropcap]Y[/dropcap]ou may have thought that the recent controversy surrounding the video produced for SFU to promote National Sweater Day was overblown, or as one online commenter charmingly said, that the reaction was “feminism run amok,” but there is so much…
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Click with compassion
March 30, 2015[caption id="attachment_1940" align="alignnone" width="940"] Photo courtesy of James Fox (Flickr)[/caption] Monica Lewinsky returned to the public stage to speak about her very public scandal at the TED Conference Truth and Dare on March 19. “At 22, I fell in love…
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