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Board Shorts
April 15, 2018SFSS approves a motion to cease to restrict student groups to SFU catering The Meeting, Event, and Conference Services (MECS) monopoly on SFU student catering services is over. The Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) Board of Directors approved a motion to “remove all restrictions on student catering,” after a long period of back-and-forth with MECS about their high prices and depreciating food quality. SFSS president Hangue Kim stressed that the decision was made neither lightly nor swiftly. The concern about MECS had been germinating “over the course of the year,” and the catering survey the SFSS launched recently served as…
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Board Shorts
April 7, 2018Written by Zach Siddiqui, Opinions Editor Board approves a total of $56,500 over the course of three years for a new online platform In the interests of improving the SFSS’s current online infrastructure, the Board has moved to replace their…
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American Crime uses packed visuals to describe nuanced storylines
March 29, 2018By: Zach Siddiqui American Crime is a show that focuses on deconstructing and analyzing various social issues through esoteric lenses. The first season starts with the murder of a war veteran in California, and it uses the ongoing investigation and…
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Generation Screwed SFU hosts audit on SFSS spending
March 27, 2018By: Gabrielle McLaren, Features Editor On Thursday, March 15, the SFU chapter of Generation Screwed hosted an audit examining SFSS spending, titled “The Sad State of the SFSS: Students have had enough.” The event promised to gather experienced student…
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Opinions of the Hour
March 24, 2018Written by Zach Siddiqui, Opinions Editor “Trudeau government’s needless obsession with gender is exhausting” — Christie Blatchford, Vancouver Sun Here’s an example of an op-ed that is just begging to be dismantled. Blatchford is basically just another person complaining about…
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Board Shorts
March 19, 2018Written by Zach Siddiqui, Opinions Editor Truc Trat and Muhammad Abid appointed at-large members of the Surrey Campus Committee Funding approved for two Food Days at Surrey campus The SFSS’s Surrey Campus Committee will be manning self-serve snack stations…
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Stuff we like and don’t like
March 13, 2018By: Zach Siddiqui Stuff We Like: Gossip Girl’s Glorious Return Spotted: our timeless non-judging breakfast club making it back to screens big and small. That’s right—Gossip Girl is back in town, after a long hiatus from Canadian Netflix. Gossip…
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Board Shorts
February 13, 2018Written by Zach Siddiqui, Opinions Editor Could the Strategic Engagement Committee be dismantled? On February 2, the Board discussed and tabled a proposal to abolish the ad hoc Strategic Engagement Committee. The Committee, originally instituted in 2016 by former VP…
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Opinions of the Hour
January 26, 2018Written by Zach Siddiqui, Opinions Editor “How did the internet go from being a safe queer haven to a minefield of unchecked rage?” – Justin Saint, Daily Xtra This piece describes the Internet of 2008 as a sanctuary from the…
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Opinions of the Hour
January 16, 2018Written by Zach Siddiqui, Opinions Editor “Vogue’s ‘New Suffragettes’: where are the women with disabilities?” – Frances Ryan, The Guardian Written in response to British Vogue’s “decision to mark 100 years since women were granted the vote,” involving a feature…
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