What Grinds Our Gears
What Grinds Our Gears: UBC students are spoiled for bus choice while SFU only gets four routes
January 18, 2020By: Meera Eragoda, Staff Writer It seems from most places in Vancouver it’s possible to catch a direct bus to UBC. The same cannot be said about SFU, and that must be because all of TransLink’s executives graduated from UBC. How else do you explain UBC’s current 15 bus routes to SFU’s four? You can’t tell me there’s no bias in service. I understand this may be a niche concern, but there are at least a few East Vancouver folk who aren’t in the Renfrew-Hastings area who should be able to relate. To get to SFU, I currently take the 22,…
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What Grinds Our Gears: Logging into the SFU library catalogue . . . and then every journal under the sun
January 13, 2020By: Meera Eragoda, Staff Writer Have you ever been writing a paper last minute, desperately trying to find academic sources, only to have the SFU library require that you sign into every external website you click on? The process is then…
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What Grinds Our Gears: How holiday gifting has turned into a capitalist chore
January 5, 2020By: Madeleine Chan, Staff Writer I’ve noticed something alarming this past holiday season. People rushed to get last minute gifts. They didn’t know what to buy, and just settled for the most convenient item. Wash, rinse, repeat. It’s a loop where…
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What Grinds Our Gears: Sodium Podium
November 24, 2019By: Juztin Bello, Madeleine Chan, Kelly Chia, Gabrielle McLaren, Nicole Magas, Marco Ovies, Nathaniel Tok, Winona Young This first-year class cost you $500, the least you could do is pay attention! As a fourth year filling up her breadth courses with…
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What Grinds Our Gears: Students who don’t understand the etiquette of a shared laundry room
November 3, 2019By: Paige Riding, News Writer The shared laundry rooms in the Towers are graveyards for long-lost left socks and the hometown of bacteria colonies. The white-washed walls below fluorescent hospital ward lighting are unavoidable for those practicing basic hygiene — so…
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What Grinds Our Gears: Why does flavour innovation stop at the pumpkin patch?
October 26, 2019By: Gabrielle McLaren, Editor-in-Chief Before Starbucks takes me in the dead of night and disposes of my body with such corporate efficiency that it’s never found, hear me out. I get it, pumpkin spice is delicious. I hear you: I had…
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What grinds our gears: Do us all a favour and stay home if you’re sick
October 13, 2019By: Nicole Magas, Opinions Editor Dear Typhoid Mary, You know who you are. You’re the one who comes into class with a red nose and black-rimmed eyes, sits down, and immediately starts producing the deepest, wettest series of coughs that would…
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What grinds our gears: This shifting labyrinth of room changes and construction detours
October 7, 2019By: Carter Hemion, Staff Writer I’m SO lost in finding my classes. Why? Not only is SFU a maze of construction, but some of my classes just keep changing rooms. I expected to have some changes to my schedule because no…
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What Grinds Our Gears: Stop making us pay for access codes and broken web content
September 29, 2019By: Ahmed Ali, SFU Student As students, we already have a lot of expenses at SFU. Between just tuition and textbooks, we’re dropping over $2,000 per semester at least — more for international students. But another expense that you don’t expect…
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What Grinds Our Gears: Dorm showers are part science lab, part horror show
September 22, 2019By: Paige Riding, News Writer The Pauline Jewett Tower is where I get to call home this school year. I knew, in theory, that the Towers have shared washrooms for the entire floor to use. What I didn’t know was…
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