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Truth and Consequences
| 12:00 am | 0 CommentBy David CrouchIn the former Soviet Union, teachers routinely taught revisionist history that left out key factors of an event, while simultaneously burnishing the elements that supported the communist dogma. Academics in the west sniffed haughtily at the sheer corruptness of the practice while everyone assumed that such an occurrence was impossible in a democratic more...
Murder and money at the end of the university
| 12:00 am | 0 CommentBy Doug SaundersMONTREAL (CUP) -- It must have been hard to admit that somewhere beyond his taunting, vengeance-plagued mind, Valery Fabrikant was right. Hard to look past that August afternoon in 1993 when the wiry engineering professor turned his threats into deeds, strolling though the ninth floor of Concordia University's main building, pistol in hand, killing four more...
Student Protest at SFU: A history worth knowing
| 12:00 am | 0 CommentBy Cheratra YaswenI call Ron at the Instructional Media Centre to see if he can develop some old photos from the sixties. "I'm working on a story about the history of student protest here on campus," I tell him, "and these are some great photos." Ron is not impressed; he was here in the sixties. "I don't think," he cautions me, "that is what we want to be remembered more...
Spies, Files and Videotape
| 12:00 am | 0 CommentBy Ron WhiteOn June 20th, Craig Shupe's bike was impounded by Campus Security. When he stormed into the Security office and asked why, he was told by Campus Security that it was impounded because it was a hazard "for visually impaired members of the campus community." But Campus Security didn't bother to move the bike so it would no longer be a hazard. Instead, they just more...
Reprinted with permission of the Ontarian
| 12:00 am | 0 CommentBy Kim StinsonCandida Royalle's presence on the agenda of the 1994 Sexuality Conference caused an outcry from some of those who disagree with her career choice. For those of you are not familiar with her name, Royalle is an intelligent and intriguing woman who happens to be a former adult film star. She now produces works of this genre, with a twist. Her productions more...
Courtesy of Daniel Vaillancourt
| 12:00 am | 0 CommentAuthor unknownPedro Zamora makes a bewitching first impression. It's the eyes, the smile, that accent. But delve beneath the charisma and you'll uncover the true treasure: a bright eloquent and passionate young man whose story succeeds in inspiring at virtually every turn. Diagnosed HIV-positive five years ago at the age of 17, Zamora has emerged as an incessant more...
Rainbow of Restroom Revulsions
| 12:00 am | 0 CommentBy Jeff MeszarosSome people write on the bathroom walls because, as children, they weren't allowed to play with wads of their own feces. Some people write on bathroom walls because they want to rebel and find that vandalizing a restroom is much cheaper than a tattoo and a motorbike. Others write on bathroom walls because they are just really, really mad and happen to have more...
Women and Condoms…
| 12:00 am | 0 CommentBy Cheratra YaswenIf you ride the bus, walk the streets, go to university, you've probably noticed a recent barrage of posters on which a young woman tells other women, "You're the most important reason for using condoms". If you went to the Pub here at SFU, or to bars downtown, or even for a stroll in Stanley Park, you may have been handed a neatly packaged condom, more...
Galleries of Women
| 12:00 am | 0 CommentBy Tara GreggSFU professor Sheila Delany recently won the prestigious Killam Research Fellowship for her project proposal, Galleries of Women: A Tradition in Western Literary Representation. Professor Delany spoke to the Peak about her project, myths about medieval women, and the dangers of simplification. PEAK: What exactly the "gallery tradition" that you are more...
Letters from Africa
| 12:00 am | 0 CommentBy Emily GonzalesImagine having a lecture in biology in the middle of the African savanna or in archaeology/anthropology in the Rift Valley. That is what happens in the `Study in Africa' program, a field school in East Africa offered jointly by SFU and Langara College. This program, centred mainly in Kenya, is designed to provide the opportunity for students to obtain more...
