Browsing Month July, 2011
Editorial Cartoon (August 1, 2011)
| 5:00 pm | 0 CommentBy Graham Templeton and Rachel more...
Graham Templeton , Opinions , Rachel Hughes , Vol. 138, Issue 13
Norway killer was a garden variety racist
| 5:00 pm | 0 CommentBy Cory JanssonAnders Breivik is no madman. He does not adhere to a form of Nazi ideology. Instead, he is the product of a particular form of right wing cultural xenophobia, which has become a sizeable and growing political movement in Scandinavia over the past 15 years.The difference between neo-Nazi groups and Scandinavian xenophobic parties is subtle, but significant more...
Private prisons are an assault on freedom
| 5:00 pm | 0 CommentBy David ProctorI almost never have time for people who say that Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party are “attacking Canadian values”. If that was the case, you would think that the people that hold these values wouldn’t have freely chosen to give them a majority government.Canada is a horrendously flawed society, but it’s a Western liberal democracy, and more...
SFPIRG serves nobody but itself
| 5:00 pm | 0 CommentBy Robert LutenerThe relocation of the Simon Fraser Public Interest Research Group is not the dire existential threat that its supporters and Graham Templeton have made it out to be. Reading last week’s Peak, you would think that SFPIRG had been placed on a death march, about to be extinguished forever. This is not true.SFPIRG is an independent society under the Society more...
The harsh economics of love and dating
| 5:00 pm | 0 CommentBy Ms. XIs love the antithesis of rationality? Why must that only-need-one-another-to-survive phase eventually fade? Why do arranged marriages statistically last longer than non-arranged marriages?These questions seem puzzling, unless you examine them through the lens of economics. True, it is not possible to quantify affection, but that’s okay. The human mind is more...
SFU economists take aim at Fraser Institute study
| 5:00 pm | 0 CommentBy Kyaelim KwonTwo SFU professors have taken issue with a Fraser Institute report claiming that immigration is a net financial drain on Canadian society.On May 17, the Fraser Institute released a study on immigration and refugee policy conducted by Herbert Grubel, a Fraser Institute senior fellow and professor emeritus at SFU, and Patrick Grady, an economic consultant more...
SFU Pipe Band seeks eighth world title
| 5:00 pm | 0 CommentBy David ProctorThe seven-time world champion SFU Pipe Band is making every effort to prepare for a potential eighth title this August.“We’re working very hard,” said pipe sergeant Jack Lee. “We’re having practices with lots of attention to detail, and we’re going to smaller local competitions as part of our preparation.”SFU’s pipe band was created in the more...
Cancer-sequencing study leads to genetic breakthroughs
| 5:00 pm | 0 CommentBy Kendra WongScientists at the B.C. Cancer Agency have made a groundbreaking discovery using genome sequencing that could potentially lead to specially targeted diagnostics and treatments of lymphoma. A team of 50 scientists, including several researchers from SFU, have released a study in Nature detailing the use of genome and transcriptome sequencing, a process more...
SFU prof Vancouver’s ninth homicide victim of 2011
| 5:00 pm | 0 CommentBy Kendra WongThe Vancouver Police Department has identified the victim of the city’s ninth homicide of 2011 as 37-year-old Melanie Alexis O’Neill, an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry at SFU. Police officers were called to O’Neill’s home on the 100-block of West 13th Avenue around 10:30 p.m. last Tuesday, after a concerned acquaintance asked the more...
University news briefs
| 5:00 pm | 0 CommentBy Esther Tung and David ProctorNo alcohol for Queen’s FROSH weekQueen’s University is banning alcohol from residence during FROSH week, reports Maclean’s. The rule is being implemented after two alcohol-related deaths last year, including one student who fell out of a sixth-floor window. Ninety-two per cent of incoming students will be under the legal drinking more...
