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September 22, 2008
Features
Chasing the stage
By Shawn Thomas Erker
The boards
“I’m a performer, I just try to sell myself,” says Barry Smith as he cradles his guitar between shows. We face each ...
Forgotten: the hidden courtyards at SFU
By Adam Cristobal
The last time I decided to study in the AQ gardens, it was not at all like going to the beach. Thick woolly sweaters took the place of beach blankets, ...
Humour
Sage advice
By Ryan Hayes
Have you been noticing that as the sunny weeks of September flit by, social lives disappear as workloads build up? Want to know how to turn your ...
Arts
Film from the brain and heart
By Justin Mah
The Vancouver International Film Festival runs September 25 to October 10. For this year’s complete schedule, visit www.viff.org.
In its 27th ...
Cancer Bats
By Marie Elliot
The Cancer Bats play the Media Club on September 28.
Officially formed in 2004, Toronto-based band the Cancer Bats is making people rock out ...
Burn didn’t start the fire
By Cam Smith, Associate Staff Contributor
Burn After Reading opened in theatres September 12.
Hello all. If you don’t mind, I’d like to preface my review of Joel and Ethan Coen’s latest ...
Doubt goes both ways
By Brady Ehler
Doubt shows at the Arts Club Theatre’s Stanley Industrial Alliance Theatre from September 11 to October 12.
It seems a bit crazy to write a play ...
CD Reviews: Mother Mother & Kings of Leon
By Marie Elliot
Mother Mother
O My Heart
Last Gang Records
Mother Mother is a band that ...
Righteous Kill can’t get it right
By Cam Smith, Associate Staff Contributor
I’m pretty sure that director John Avnet is in leagues with the Dark Lord himself. Not the seductive, amiable type like Harvey Keitel in Little Nicky or ...
Artists fear Tory majority
By Dan Huyghebaert, The Uniter
WINNIPEG (CUP) – Jamis Paulson, associate publisher of Turnstone Press, thinks more cuts will come if the Conservatives earn a majority in the upcoming ...
Piano master visits SFU campus
By Tessa Perkins, Associate Staff Contributor
Rachel Iwaasa performs Thursday, September 25 at the SFU Theatre at 12:30 p.m., free.
With a doctorate of Musical Arts from UBC, a Master’s degree ...
News
Union attacks critic
By Sam Norris, News Editor
The Simon Fraser Student Society’s administrative employees’ union has launched a grievance against Anna Belkine, SFSS Treasurer and author of a recent ...
Health plan referendum set for this week
By Carolina Dubanik, Associate News Editor
SFU students will be making their voices heard this Tuesday and Wednesday, voting on a number of issues in the Simon Fraser Student Society’s fall ...
New ads draw ire of SFPIRG
By Kendra Wong, Associate Staff Contributor
Students walking from the AQ to West Mall have probably noticed the new billboard-sized advertisements occupying the walls of the Rotunda. These ads, along ...
SFU releases pay data
By Sam Norris, News Editor
The Peak has obtained a copy of the university’s schedule of remuneration for 2007-08, shedding light on the internal pay structure of the ...
GSS hires first staffer
By Carolina Dubanik, Associate News Editor
The Graduate Student Society has an Interim Executive Director, its first paid staff member outside of the employees dedicated to the graduate health plan. ...
Vancouver election guide
By Sam Norris, Jessica Todd
1) Burnaby-Douglas
Burnaby-Douglas has gone NDP every election since its creation in 1997. Both the 2004 and 2006 elections saw ...
Sports
Clan make Dinos look like fossils
By Chad Klassen, Sports Editor
The sudden transformation of the SFU football program is turning heads across Canadian university football and has undoubtedly been the feel-good story ...
Clan keep ball rolling with fifth straight
By Matt Lee, Associate Staff Contributor
The road hasn’t been easy by any stretch, but the Clan are set to play their first home game after riding a wave of momentum for the last month.
...SFU suffers setback with pair of losses
By Matt Lee, Associate Staff Contributor
Things have unraveled abruptly for the SFU women’s team after getting off to a fantastic 6-0 start. Their undefeated season came to an end when they lost ...
Both clubs off to hot starts
By Shaheed Devji
The SFU football program has garnered most, if not all, of the Clan Athletics’ limelight this season and rightfully so. The Clan gridiron gang ended a ...
0-2 Chargers victim of unfortunate calls
By Hasan Tahir
For an NFL team, starting the season 0-2 is like a death sentence, especially since only three teams have won the Super Bowl after starting the season 0-2 ...
Will surprise 0-2 teams return to playoffs?
By Chad Klassen, Sports Editor
Most know that there is a great deal of parity in the NFL — not so much from the top contenders that tend to be consistently competitive — but more from ...
Opinions
How you should vote this week
By J.J. McCullough, Opinions Editor
By far the stupidest thing about this week’s student referendum is that the SFU Student Society is paying a dozen people 15 dollars an hour to simply ...
Still waiting to hear why we need the SFSS
By Grant Petersen
I’ve been having trouble lately trying to justify the existence of the Simon Fraser Student Society. I’m admittedly very ignorant on these matters, but ...
The masculinity game
By Muhammad Amir, Columnist
You’re an animal. And, you can never deny your true nature.
We’re all very simple creatures: hardwired with visceral impulses to survive and ...
Editor's Voice: Don’t hate the high heels
By Carolina Dubanik, Associate News Editor
For the past two years, I have worn pumps to school almost every single day. I only own two pairs of ‘regular’ shoes, one being a pair of red flats I ...
Campus View: My life as a campus cameraman
By Andy Fang, Photo Editor
This September marked the beginning of my fifth consecutive semester as Peak photo editor. With one issue a week and 13 weeks in a semester, that comes to ...
There’s still a lot good about going organic
By Lindsey Parker
Every now and again, I’ll pick up a copy of The Peak to see what my peers have to say about current events and issues. Sometimes I’ll skim over some of the ...
The sad state of science education
By Graham Templeton
I took an impromptu survey of my Arts-major friends. How many of them knew the difference between xylem and phloem? About a quarter. How many knew the ...
Nothing wrong with “going negative”
By Cory Redekop
The Canadian federal election, after an agonizingly slow start, has now kicked into high gear. With the politicians crisscrossing the country campaigning, ...
Cool posters foretell an Obama victory
By Shaheed Devji
As we prepare to take part in a federal election here in Canada, down south in the United States of America a more glamorous, popularized, and ...