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July 28, 2008
Features
Hidden in plain sight: Vancouver's poster wars
By Jason Sunder
They’re everywhere. A kaleidoscope of competitive rectangles, in fonts of purple on pink or maybe reddish-blue photocopy, they hug our green lampposts next ...
Humour
Arts
Lost and found
By Adam Christobal
Sometimes we get pretty bored of our own lives and make the wild assumption that looking into other people’s lives will keep us entertained. That is the ...
Kokoro dances history
By Heather Forbes
Summer in Vancouver just isn’t complete without a sunny day spent at a street festival, strolling past merchants hawking dream catchers and scarves, munching ...
Books : Pretty fly for a white guy
By J.J. McCullough, Opinions Editor
There was a poll taken a few years back that asked Americans to name their most-favourite television show. Seinfeld came in first place, which may ...
CD Reviews, July 28, 2008
1. Octoberman Run From Safety White Whale Records
What hits you first when Run from Safety starts spinning is the Bob Dylan-esque vocals on ...
Film : *Brideshead* should be visited
By Cam Smith, Associate Staff Contributor
Brideshead Revisited opened in theatres on July 24.
Hello. My name is Cam and I have not read Brideshead Revisited, the ...
Film : Batman flies again
By Cam Smith, Associate Staff Contributor
The Dark Knight opened in theatres on July 18.
Childhood heroes are a funny business. Many wide-eyed innocents find comfort in idolizing ...
Belgian music sounds sweet
By David O'Neill
Spending the summer in Belgium, I have had many opportunities to see some amazing sights and hear some unique sounds. In fact, I experienced one of the ...
News
Campus : Student union building planned for SFU
By Shara Lee, News Editor
Conceptual plans to build a student union building at Simon Fraser University’s Burnaby campus have been signed by the Simon Fraser Student Society, ...
Campus : Grads rename lounge to honour "best friend"
By Shara Lee, News Editor
Notables from across the University came together to honour and remember Laurine Harrison, the former ombudsperson of the Simon Fraser Student Society who ...
Residence gets its own committee within the Student Society
By Shara Lee, News Editor
Student housing residents at SFU now have one more avenue of funding. The newly formed Residence Committee formed through the Simon Fraser Student Society ...
Campus : SFSS president eyes sweeping changes
By Shara Lee, News Editor
Simon Fraser Student Society President Joe Paling presented a list of amendments most notably abolishing the six faculty representatives of the SFSS Board ...
The best of 20 questions
So what’s the deal with the motorcycle poster?
It was my boyfriend’s idea because it was his bike. He took it and he said, “I want ...
Opinions
Campus View : Who's the worst student politician? Hell, who isn't?
By J.J. McCullough, Opinions Editor
As a follow-up to last week’s article, in which I breezily summarized the careers of SFU’s “three best” student politicians in the Simon Fraser Student ...
Reader Response : We children are not monsters!
By Li'l Thomaz, Li'l Elvira, Li'l Teghan
Lil’ Thomaz (age not given) The Peak
I’m Thomaz, from Tamwood Summer Camps in SFU, and I think the comment you gave us in this ...
A prof's sloppy math can ruin your future
By Ian Reeve, Associate Staff Contributor
Students face an increasing number of roadblocks to success these days. Even if you manage to qualify for the ever-decreasing amount of student aid, come from ...
Editor's View : Want a good interview? Don't ask me
By Jason Sunder, Web Editor
Maybe I’ve become too much of a university drone, pontificating at high levels of abstraction and splitting hairs over split hairs, because I can’t ask ...
Woohoo! Boohoo!
By Bryn Hewko, Production Editor
Woohoo! Science!
I don’t care what anyone says. Science is cool. Science gives us the power to predict the weather, save lives with medicine, ...
American hero vs. messiah
By David O'Neill
Advertising. Is it not what Americans do best? Advertisements in America have been perfected to an art. They can be uplifting. (Coca-Cola’s I’d like to ...