Browsing Tag Reaon Ford
Dear jerk
| 12:00 am | 0 CommentBy Reaon FordSomeone once said profanity is the last refuge of the inarticulate, and while I enjoy a well-placed f-bomb as much as the next guy, Muhammad Amirs Open letter to U.S. Homeland Security [January 8, 2007] reads more like the lyric sheet of some idiot, racist rap album than the well-reasoned argument of a (supposedly) educated university student. Im willing to more...
Insensitive, ill-timed
| 12:00 am | 0 CommentBy Reaon FordIm a former SFU student who still enjoys reading The Peak for both its generally well-reasoned, alternative take on many stories, as well as the clever satire that often appears in its pages, but I found Jen Hardwicks piece Facing the truth blogs cause homicide problematic on several levels. Its obviously supposed to be satirical, but it doesnt even satisfy more...
Look (closer), read (harder)
| 12:00 am | 0 CommentBy Reaon Ford and Cbc InternThe usual course of action for someone under fire from the media is to come out and make some kind of statement to either affirm, deny or justify whatever it is they're taking flack for. Sunera Thobani has not taken the usual course of action. Since she first came under media scrutiny for her comments, she has been extremely unwilling to speak more...
Park Wars
| 12:00 am | 0 CommentBy Reaon FordI would like to take this opportunity to ex tend, on behalf of all of us who lined the halls of the West Mall early Monday morning, a whole-hearted "kiss my hairy ass" to the brilliant person(s) who decided that matters concerning parking at SFU be dealt with as inefficiently as possible. At approximately 8:19 a.m., on Monday the 28, amidst a chorus of sighs, more...
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