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September 01, 2008
Features
How to save (a lot) of money
By Mason Surlier
Sometimes, we all wish we had a few extra thousand dollars. In the spirit of late-night hucksters and their new-fangled internet compatriots, I’m here to ...
A short history of fraternities and sororities at SFU
By Shara Lee, Features Editor
Alpha: The beginning
In 1966, 11 male students entered Madge Hogarth House, the all female dormitory in Simon Fraser ...
Humour
Horoscope hoe-down!
By Stacey McLachlan, Peak Astrology
Virgo (August 23 - September 22) September will find you filled with the unexpected urge to drop out of school and join the circus. Ignore ...
Arts
Piper Davis is addicting
By Deanne Beattie, Arts Editor
Piper Davis is addicting. I mean, her music is pretty catchy — electronic funk beats infected with her old soul voice bounce and swing, having the effect on ...
I spied a pied piper
By Caitlin MacDonald, Associate Staff Contributor
We all walk past them countless times during a semester, but do we really notice them? The posters of the SFU pipe band in the AQ give us little pause ...
Elegy is elegant, truthful
By Tessa Perkins, Associate Staff Contributor
After the number for the sexual harassment hotline was posted down the hall from his classroom, David Kepesh (Ben Kingsley) refrained from contacting ...
Death Race is idiotic summer film at its finest
By Cam Smith, Associate Staff Contributor
Well, here we are again: sifting through the pathetic remains of summer movie season in search of something (anything!) to take our minds off the ...
CD Reviews
By Ryan Woodland, Marie Elliot, Deanne Beattie
The Pack A.D.
Funeral Mixtape
Mint Records
A funeral is a suitable environment for ...
News
20 questions with Ravi Patel
By Kendra Wong
1) What is your greatest achievement?
Winning a scholarship when I came to SFU.
2) Your greatest ...
Pub to students: beer’s gotten a whole lot cheaper
By Sam Norris, News Editor
The Highland Pub will open its doors this week with a revamped menu, fresh décor, and a new schedule of events.
The centerpiece of the new schedule ...
RHA president leaves post
By Carolina Dubanik, Associate News Editor
The Residence Hall Association is once again in search of a new president. Gurjeet Singh resigned as RHA President on Wednesday August 13 due to, among ...
SFSS board shorts
By Carolina Dubanik, Associate News Editor
* Bookswap website adopted by student society*
A bookswap website created by 5th-year Computing Science Student Dustin Thomson has been ...
Health plan put to referendum
By Sam Norris, News Editor
In just three weeks, students will vote in a referendum that could bring a health plan to undergrads at SFU.
The September 23 vote was provoked by ...
Annual Week of Welcome returns to SFU campuses
By Carolina Dubanik, Associate News Editor
New and returning students coming to campus this week will be greeted by a dizzying array of activities during the Student Development and Programming ...
Sports
Austrian pulls SFU out of abyss
By Chad Klassen, Sports Editor
With Jason Marshall, Aaron Hargreaves, and Chris Passaglia all graduating from the program last year, the Clan football team had to move forward with a new ...
Is this Johnson’s make or break season with Clan?
By Chad Klassen, Sports Editor
If you didn’t think there was a little pressure on the Clan football team to perform, since the school entered 2008 with the 25-game losing streak hanging ...
SFU hopes Murphy’s Law can bring fortune
By Chad Klassen, Sports Editor
Through a decade of mediocrity, the last thing the football team needs is for Murphy’s Law to take center stage and ruin yet another season.
But ...
Lads are back with vengeance to finish the job, win NAIA championship
By Chad Klassen, Sports Editor
After coasting through the regular season with a 13-1-1 mark, last season’s edition of the Clan men’s soccer team made some noise in the ...
Clan prospects get ready to take ice for tryouts
By Andrew Grant
Looking ahead one month, Simon Fraser University’s men’s ice hockey team will open their 2008 season on home ice against Trinity Western University. But ...
Regional loss has SFU motivated to make nationals
By Chad Klassen, Sports Editor
A disappointing end to an otherwise successful season for the women’s soccer team, losing in the NAIA Region I Finals after a scoreless tie into penalty ...
Clan among Canadian Olympians in Beijing
By Chad Klassen, Sports Editor
As you were watching the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, you may not have noticed, but there were athletes with SFU connections competing on the world stage, with ...
Opinions
Just another expensive boondoggle for the student politicians
By John LaRusic
When it comes to the subject of having their very own student union building (SUB), the wisdom of our two student societies appears to be, “if we build it, ...
A “much-needed lift” for social life at SFU
By Sarah Cawston-Stewart
It’s about bloody time that our student society puts into action a real plan to build a real Student Union Building on campus. SFU has been slagged for years ...
Editor’s Voice: No English skills? SFU doesn’t care
By J.J. McCullough, Opinions Editor
Two months ago, amid considerable hand-wringing and harrumphing, SFU’s Senate pushed through a motion to relax the university’s general admission standards. ...
Campus View: Cheer up! School can be fun!
By Stacey McLachlan, Humour Editor
As you may have noticed, school is back in session. Perhaps some of you have been brave enough to enrol in the summer semester, but for the majority of ...
Where's the Beef? Give Hillary a break
By Susie Hill, Columnist
Beggars cannot be choosers, but sometimes the political world demands that those who were once choosers must now become beggars. Once upon a time, the ...