Browsing Tag Sfss
FASC recommends 30k for men’s centre
| 4:21 pm | 8 CommentsBy David Dyck Last Wednesday, the financial and administrative services committee for the Simon Fraser Student Society unanimously passed a recommendation that approximately $30,000 be put aside for the creation of a men’s centre. Treasurer Keenan Midgley initiated the project. He told The Peak that the proposed center is meant to be a space where men can discuss more...
Highland Pub deficit
| 4:31 pm | 0 Comment
SFSS owned and operated Highland Pub has been losing student money for years By Jennifer Bednard Photo By Mark Burnham Running a chronic deficit, SFSS Food and Beverage Services continues to soak up hundreds of thousands of dollars of student funds with no solution in sight. It will come as a surprise to few who have come in during the day or on Monday or more...
Collective action starts at home
| 12:00 am | 0 CommentBy Joe Paling, Member Services Officer, and SfssCollective action is the main issue in the campaign to leave the CFS, now spreading through campuses all over B.C. Over the years the CFS has shut out and alienated vocal advocates for student rights and collective action. Many of the students who are now leading disaffiliation petition campaigns are intelligent, talented more...
Un-radical Campus
| 12:00 am | 0 CommentBy Glyn Lewis, Member Services Officer, and SfssToday, SFU is anything but a radical campus. On the day after the opening of SFU, September 10, 1965, some 500 students gathered in Freedom Square, which led to the creation of the Simon Fraser Student Society. There was an aura of determination, commitment, and passion on the faces of the attendees that is seldom if ever more...
Dont waste compost
| 12:00 am | 0 CommentBy Sean Magee, Senator, Sfu Senate Science Representative, and SfssIn response to the letter of the week for October 24 entitledOn wasting Food,I am encouraging Denisa I. Gavan and all other members of SFU to start taking an active part in the mitigation of wasting food at SFU. Composting is a simple, inexpensive, and effective method to eliminate wasted food. Currently more...
On AGMs and carnivals
| 12:00 am | 0 CommentBy Sarah Caufield, Sfss, and Member Services OfficerLast week david fleming-saraceno wrote about the upcoming SFSS AGM. [Annual General Sadness, September 19, 2005.] He said there would be a poetry reading. He's right, but he failed to mention everything else: dancing, bands, a spelling bee, zombies, unicycles - a full-out carnival! Contrary to what David wrote, we do more...
letter of the week: SFSS and the CFS
| 12:00 am | 0 CommentBy Jagdeep Singh Mangat, External Relations Officer, and SfssMany of us who are trying to re-establish the autonomy and independence of the Simon Fraser Student Society from control by the CFS certainly appreciate the input of one of SFU's alumni and the former Treasurer of SFSS, Scott Newman. However, a friendly correction must be made with regards to something he more...
Warren: Peace!
| 12:00 am | 0 CommentBy Joel Warren, University Relations Officer, and SfssIn response to last week's Peak letter Warren piece [Opinions, June 18], I must admit that I did gain something from Sean Tucker's opinion letter. Thank you Sean for broaching an issue which I believe is very important. Sometimes, like in the midst of a crises like the bus strike, quick decisions must be made by my more...
SFU’s ignoble action smacks everybody’s faces
| 12:00 am | 0 CommentBy Joel Warren, University Relations Officer, and SfssSomething happened at SFU quite recently which has simultaneously tarnished our university's academic reputation and embarrassed me as a member of the SFU community. If I am to become a professional academic one day, I would certainly leave here and pursue future degrees elsewhere as I am afraid that, should my more...
