‘Issue 5’
The Surrey stigma: The city we love to hate
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 a nice place. Any number of reasons are given for this assumption, such as gang violence, shootings, ‘dirty’ girls, or ‘...
“I don’t know how to use a condom” & other tales of how sex education failed me
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 mysterious maroon streak in my underwear? After a day of walking around with my underwear packed full of toilet paper and...
The frat facts
By Sam Reynolds Music blares loudly from a stereo hastily set up in the centre of a room. From the speakers drone the usual assortment of Top 40 songs, the volume so loud that the tune is barely recognizable. Beside the nimbly engineered sound system is a keg of beer, the contents of which have mostly been consumed by the partygoers. Four males stand in the corner of the room, clad only in their boxers and a white shirt with Pledge scrawled across it in permanent marker. In each of their righ...