Winona Young
What grinds our gears: high sodium mega compilation
June 7, 2019Byline: Kitty Cheung, Kelly Chia, Jennifer Low, Gabrielle McLaren, Nicole Magas, Onosholema Ogoigbe, Winona Young The NASTY future of the SUB’s napping room People are gonna jerk off in the new napping room. There! I said it! That reality is one of the few horrors to come from the Student Union Building (SUB) — that is, if it opens “soon,” anyway. The SFSS promises that the napping room will have “comfortable furniture” and even “small lockers” for students to keep their belongings in. But what if people hog the furniture? What if an understandably sleep-deprived student stays there for over…
Continue reading
At… the Revel Room
June 3, 2019By: Winona Young, Head Staff Writer The Revel Room is going to make you like Southern music. No, seriously. Tucked away in Gastown, the 2008-opened Southern bar features booze, food, and lots of live music, jazz to rockabilly to blues.…
Continue reading
What SFU Needs: An actual central cafeteria
June 2, 2019By: Winona Young, Head Staff Writer Let's face it, every cafeteria at Burnaby campus looks sad. Aside from The Study, there’s no place that’s Insta-worthy, or somewhere you'd want to hang out. It's hard to ignore the major flaws that every…
Continue reading
SOCA’s proposal for tier 2 constituency postponed
May 27, 2019By: Winona Young, Staff Writer On Thursday, May 16, SFU Students of Caribbean and African Ancestry (SOCA) delivered a presentation to the SFSS Board proposing that SOCA receive status as a tier 2 constituency group. According to the SFSS, any…
Continue reading
Need to Know, Need to Go: May 27-31
May 26, 2019By: Marco Ovies, Peak Associate, Winona Young, Head Staff Writer, and Alison Wick, Arts Editor Trottier Observatory Starry Nights If you ever wanted to learn more about space, look no further than Starry Nights at the SFU Trottier Observatory on…
Continue reading
SFU student is “like, pissed” nobody is applauding them for taking one (1) summer course
May 18, 2019Written by: Winona Young, Head Staff Writer Local SFU student Ivanna Trancefer is outraged at the lack of recognition from the academic community after she enrolled in one (1) course this summer 2019 term. “Like, I don’t get why I’m…
Continue reading
Need to Know, Need to Go: May 20–24
May 17, 2019By: Winona Young, Head Staff Writer Judy Radul’s This is Television book launch SFU School of Contemporary Arts’ visual arts professor, Judy Radul, is launching her new work, This is Television. The book is based on her art exhibition of…
Continue reading
Love Letters to SFU #4 (To an SFU Prof)
May 7, 2019By: Winona Young, Staff Writer Dear SFU prof, When I walked into my prof’s office hours, he recited Dr. Seuss to me. Mid-sentence. With no prologue at all. Now I know for a fact that reciting children’s literature is not in…
Continue reading
It wasn’t a phase, mom: Emo Nite LA brings teen angst back to Vancouver
March 20, 2019Written by: Winona Young, Arts Editor Let’s face it, anyone who was a nerd in 2009 was emo. That group, of course, includes myself and just about all of the 300 or so Vancouverites who were with me dancing their…
Continue reading
