Yan Ting Leung
Quiz: Which broken SFU facility are you?
January 20, 2025By: Phone Min Thant, Staff Writer Welcome to Simon Fraser University. You are yet another facility students pay dearly for, only to find out that you are still recovering from the damages of your first year. Take this quiz to find out which of such facilities you are. Your professor assigned you a group project on the first day of class with a deadline set for the end of the semester. How would you prepare for the project? Tell your groupmates you’ll handle the most important parts of the project and put everything off until the last minute. Your procrastination…
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Still Living With My Parents? Why, yes, I am!
January 9, 2025By: Yasmin Hassan, Staff Writer Youth seems to keep slipping through my fingers the older I get, which is how I assume it works. Becoming a person of your own is no easy feat, and artist NIA NADURATA is no…
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Christmas in July
December 20, 2024By: Yasmin Hassan, Staff Writer In the winter of 2012, in a small elementary school in Burnaby, hallways are lined with handmade Christmas decorations, snowflakes, elves, Santa hats, Christmas trees, and multi-coloured lights on a string. It’s a cold December…
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The commercialisation and politicisation of Diwali, Bandi Chhor Divas, and other South Asian festivals
December 9, 2024By: Mason Mattu, Peak Associate If you were wondering why there were so many fireworks on October 31 and November 1, it’s because South Asians celebrated Diwali and Bandi Chhor Divas on those days respectively. Diwali is the celebration of…
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Stop with the Broccoli Heads! It’s bad!
November 21, 2024By: Sarah Sorochuk, Peak Associate There seems to be a trend among young people that seem to think bubbly perms are all the hype. Judging by the posters that have been put up around Burnaby Campus, urging people to “say…
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Bright-er Side: Early Christmas movie binges
November 15, 2024By: Mason Mattu, Peak Associate It’s November 1 at around midnight. You know it’s officially Christmas after seeing Mariah Carey “defrost” on her socials. Ah, what a feeling. Instead of celebrating Christmas starting in November, there is indeed a select…
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SFUnexplained: Do I see another “out of order” sign?
November 7, 2024By: Hana Hoffman, Peak Associate Can someone please tell me I’m not the only one who thinks it’s very odd that an increasing number of things at SFU are going out of order? I don’t know whether we’re getting closer…
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Ninan Auassat platforms the self-told stories of Indigenous youth
October 30, 2024By: Abigail Streifel, Peak Associate Content warning: mentions of genocide, racism, and suicide. Filmmaker Kim O’Bomsawin wants us all to learn from Indigenous children and young adults. Her documentary, Ninan Auassat: We, The Children, premiered at the Vancouver International Film…
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Centrism isn’t as neutral as you may think
October 22, 2024By: Yildiz Subuk, Staff Writer Content warning: brief mentions of genocide, residential school graves, and police brutality. Two years ago, I had a conversation with an Uber driver on the way home from Kendrick Lamar’s concert. “While I like Kendrick,…
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Build your perfect Dining Commons meal and we’ll tell you when you should start studying for your midterms
October 11, 2024By: Izzy Cheung, Arts & Culture and Sports Editor Hello friend! Welcome to SFU’s Dining Commons. Where are you coming from? I just finished back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back lectures. . . . I don’t actually know. I actually just came back from The…
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