Opinions
School spirit at SFU needs a doctor
| 8:00 am | 0 CommentBy Jeff McCann Let me tell you a story about Dr. Milt Richards. He was hired on November 1st as SFU’s new senior director of athletics. His first day working at SFU was a long one. He showed up from the airport, spent half the day figuring out his visa and the other half getting his bearings in the office. There was also a gala dinner in Surrey that evening, which more...
Human settlements in space: a primer
| 8:00 am | 0 CommentBy Alexander Howlett To understand the recent moon colony discourse in the United States requires understanding the historical trajectory of the country’s space program, not just the current political calculus embodied by Newt Gingrich’s pontifications to the “space coast”, regarding employment for the space industry or Obama’s endorsement of the Mars-Direct more...
Dan Savage undeserving of protester savagery
| 8:00 am | 0 CommentBy Esther Tung “Please read this on the man you’re about to go and listen to,” said a young woman, as she held out a bright pink pamphlet with Dan Savage’s face Xeroxed on the front, and then moved onto the next person in line to enter the Vogue. The pamphlet detailed the Savage Love sex columnist’s various phobias, denounced his attitudes towards more...
Alien parasites and perestroika
| 8:00 am | 0 CommentBy Will Ross Few things are more fertile to distrust than paranoia, and few eras were less paranoid than the Cold War. In the face of literal annihilation, both East and West responded with fervent political condemnations. Never before in history was so much of the world delineated as ‘us’, and the rest as ‘them’. By the time the Berlin Wall came down and more...
Roadmap for a new SFU needs student voices
| 8:00 am | 0 CommentBy Jeff McCann I have an idea. A dream really, but that introduction has been used before. I believe in SFU. I believe there is a future where students are so engaged as part of their university experience that Clan pride oozes from them. What do we need at SFU? Where is the void that creates a barrier of interest for students to leave the commuter campus attitude more...
University education is not a right
| 8:00 am | 1 CommentsBy Gordon Hawkes KELOWNA (CUP) — If only university tuition were free. I, for one, would like that very much. Not only that — I’d enjoy my university experience even more if the textbooks were free as well. And if I’m completely honest, I’d prefer not paying for my food either. Free lunch in the caf, anyone? Unfortunately, as they say, there’s no such more...
Don’t be a part of partisanism
| 8:00 am | 0 CommentBy Gustavo Destro The term ‘partisan politics’ has been a staple of the public lexicon for several decades now; it refers to people who would rather have the government screech to a halt than budge from the beliefs they championed. For a long time such men and women were few and far between. They were the radicals, the fringe of every party, ultimately drowned out by more...
Pro-life group got all the free speech it deserved
| 8:00 am | 1 CommentsBy Brendan Prost Mary-Claire Turner’s Opinions piece two weeks ago is a pertinent reminder that the conservatives who screech loudly about free speech usually have the least to say. Any fair-minded person agrees that the morality of abortion is, at the very least, clouded. There is absolutely room in the academic community to have a discussion more...
Gondola delay ignores danger, inefficiency
| 8:00 am | 0 CommentBy Clinton Hallahan I think humanity took a major downturn when we started paying for things before delivery. At least when the producer of goods has to prove their product is real and worth paying for I have the option to back out. Once they have my money, what motivation is there to make me satisfied? Such as it is with TransLink, it seems. With revenue guaranteed more...
Kill retail rudeness with smiles
| 8:00 am | 0 CommentBy Michelle Seo In the retail industry, employers constantly emphasize the importance of customer service. No, scratch that: they want ‘above-and-beyond’ customer service. With so many competitors selling similar goods and services, companies now spend considerable money and effort to train their employees to not only sell, but to make the customer experience more...
