May 05, 2008


Features

Gay love on the fly

By Giovanna Di Sauro

We have known about gay fly males for quite a while. In fact, the <i>fruitless</i>, or <i>fru</i>, mutants were initially created ...

News Feature: Who is Joe Paling?

By Shara Lee, J.J. McCullough

Joseph Alexander Paling was formally sworn in as president of the Simon Fraser Student Society last week in a simple ceremony on the Highland Pub patio. ...

Humour

Haiku Circus

By Ken Sakamoto

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Bronx Cheer presents: Grind it out

By Connor Holler

So you think you know how to grind? You think you can dance that forbidden dance? That sinuous delight? Wait, lemme guess: your friends told you you’ve ...

Arts

Literature: From leaves to pages

By Carlie Thauvette

In a world filled with an ever increasing amount of information and textual material, innovative writers from B.C. were celebrated and awarded for their ...

CD Review: Veda Hille

By Kirsten Grant

Truthfully, the first time I listened to this album I wasn’t all that impressed. But then I decided to give it another chance and suddenly it clicked. ...

Food: Good deals on great meals

By Christine Louie, Associate Staff Contributor

The summer months on the hill are pleasant enough to make one forget all about the past winter’s chilly rain, mystic fog, and blizzards. Even the memory ...

Film: Fumbling in the dark

By Cam Smith

It’s a telling sign when a major star vehicle is dumped into a busy box-office weekend with little advertising or buzz. Occasionally it’s due to a ...

DVD: Sweeney Todd a bloody good show

By David Kobylanski

It took 28 bloody years for <i>Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street</i> to shave his way from Stephen Sondheim’s Broadway as one of ...

News

Campus: Sparks fly at final SFSS board meetings

By Shara Lee, News Editor

At the final board meeting of the 2007-2008 Simon Fraser Student Society Board of Directors, former university relations officer Andrea Sandau presented ...

Provincial: Kwantlen students vote "yes" to CFS

By J.J.McCullough, Peak Staff

Ending a string of recent defeats, the Canadian Federation of Students scored a major victory last month when students at B.C.’s Kwantlen University ...

Campus: High hopes for Hargreaves's CFL success

By Dave Roberts, Associate Staff Contributor

Although the current Clan football team is a work in progress, it has historically been a great program for aspiring professional football players to gain ...

Campus: Students against funding cuts

By Dave Roberts, Associate Staff Contributor

When the British Columbia government recently tabled their budget, it contained bad news for post-secondary institutions all over the province as it ...

SFSS Profile: Mona Law

<b> 1. What do you consider your greatest achievement? </b>

Being able to meet people that I stay attached with — people who will always ...

Opinions

Enough with the articles about swearing

By J.J.McCullough, Opinions Editor

I’ve been in the student journalism game for a while now. Before getting this current post, I drew and wrote for The Peak off-and-on for several years, ...

Campus View: Good Reads - in class?

By Maia Britt Odegaard, Features Editor

It is easy to criticize the assigned reading for a class you don’t enjoy, especially if you are the type of student who doesn’t bother to do any. I ...

Editor's Voice: The warm embrace of electricity

By Stacey McLachlan, Humour Editor

Now that May is upon us, I suppose it’s time to pack away my electric blanket for the season. It’s also a good time to reflect on just how much I adore having ...

Speak Out: Forget spiders, it's balloons that are really scary

By Irina Kosoric

As a world-famous procrastinator, anything beats writing that billion-page paper sitting before me. So I figure I may as well use this opportunity, the ...

Woohoo/Boohoo

By Jason Sunder, Web Editor

Woohoo: Emperor penguins

Emperor penguins aren’t just super cute, they’re also tough. Males protect their eggs through -40 degree Celsius winters ...

The Fool on the Hill: Politics gets personal for Bocking

By Dave Roberts, Columnist

The month of March was one of much news for our glorious school on the hill. The student society held their annual elections, and the result was probably ...