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Fat happiness: Is it wrong to be fat?
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By Ljudmila Petrovic As a child, Kalamity Hildebrandt was put on diet pills by her doctor in order to lose weight. By age nine she was bulimic, which progressed to the point where she was throwing up blood in her teenage years. By 19, she could barely function emotionally in the world because of her overwhelming fear of harassment. What changed her view of being fat more...
Blood on our hands: How the international community has failed the Syrian people
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By Gustavo Destro In February, 1982, Hafez al-Assad ordered his army to besiege and shell the city of Hama in order to quell an uprising so strong that it threatened to overrun his regime. The army followed the orders to a tee and effectively destroyed the city, using a scorched earth tactic that left much of the city lying in rubble and as many as 40,000 dead. The more...
The Surrey stigma: The city we love to hate
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By Kelly Thoreson “I heard that Surrey was not the nicest place. It wasn’t a place you wanted to go to,” said Ella Sargent, a sixth-year kinesiology major at SFU. “The ‘ghetto’ is a bad word for it, but it is something along those lines.” The legend of Surrey is common in the Lower Mainland, and SFU students are guilty of spreading the word: Surrey is not more...
“I don’t know how to use a condom” & other tales of how sex education failed me
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I thought I had pooped my pants, but who poops their pants in the fifth grade? I didn’t remember going to the bathroom that day, but I guessed I must have — in my pants. Maybe it was ‘anal leakage’ — a word that I had recently heard a family friend use in reference to what happens after eating too many greasy chips. It must be that. What else would explain this more...
How do you bus?
| 4:39 pm | 0 CommentBy Gary Lim Everything you’ve ever needed to know about someone can be learned from how they sit on the bus. A great man said this once. It was me, and though I may not have any fancy credentials in the field of psychology or even be completely sober right now, I have the utmost confidence in the my statement. Let’s begin. Before we even get inside the more...
Sweat it: Why you should be worried about your lack of exercise
| 4:28 pm | 0 CommentAre you one of those people who ceased all attempts at physical exertion the moment your university career began? If yes, withhold panic: you are not alone. But panic, because forgoing exercise is (as you may have already guessed) a very very bad life decision with lasting damages. Instead of bombarding you with boring stats that you could probably find in a textbook more...
Being better: Where did our empathy go?
| 5:00 am | 0 CommentBy Denise Wong In late October, the story of Yue Yue went viral. The surveillance footage from Foshan, China was posted online and depicted two cars that drove over Yue Yue’s tiny body in the marketplace where her parents worked; neither driver did so much as stop to see what they had run over. Eighteen civilians walked right past Yue Yue, who was bleeding to death more...
Penny for your thoughts
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What to consider before giving change to the homeless in Vancouver By Kelly Thoreson “Panhandling isn’t a very lucrative career,” Thomas explained as we sipped warm coffees outside the entrance to Insite, the Downtown Eastside’s supervised injection site. “Well, for me it wasn’t very lucrative — probably because I was never very good at more...
Ditching disposables: Reusable chopsticks should be a no-brainer for sushi diners
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By Larissa Ardis When our graduate class in resource and environmental management was given an assignment by Dr. Anne Salomon to undertake a conservation action informed by science and report to back to the class about it, we were excited by the opportunity to take on some worthwhile local issue and actually get credit for it. After batting around some ideas, our more...
First-year unaware entire university mocking him.
| 12:01 am | 0 CommentBy Gary Lim Tag:Freshman still totally in the dark on how universally loathed he is by university BURNABY (B.C.) — First-year student Jeremy Richardson is reportedly still unaware of the fact that he has been made a laughing stock by the entire student population and faculty of the university several times since the beginning of the semester. Miriam Cunningham more...
