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September 29, 2008
Features
Poli “sigh”
By Susie Hill
There is no doubt that we live in a difficult era plagued by violence and economic crisis. That is why it is vital for the political elite in society to ...
Humour
Ask Aunt Sassafrass!
Dear Aunt Sassy,
I’m in a tight financial spot right now, but I still would like to head out for a night of fun every once in a while. Do you have ...
Words the Adobe InDesign spell-check believes my last name is a misspelling of
By J.J. McCullough, Opinions Editor
Mukluk
Mukluks
Macula
Mucous
Mock-up
Moscow
Module
Mogul
...Arts
The Smokes stack fans for keeps
By Maia Britt Odegaard, Copy EditorPhoto
The Smokes play at the Media Club on Friday, October 3.
I am by no means a dedicated follower of indie music fashion, but there is one band ...
Alison Norlen takes us to sensational places
By Maegan Thomas, Associate Staff Contributor
Alison Norlen’s exhibit, Roller Coaster, shows at the SFU Gallery until October 25.
“Roller Coaster — it’s a great symbol for this ...
Spore infectiously boring
By Emilly Gera
Spore was released September 7.
It takes a perverse labour of love to keep producing clutches of simulation games, but Will Wright has ...
Fancy feet are spanish dancing
By Tessa Perkins, Associate Staff Contributor
Alma de España performs at the SFU Gallery Thursday October 2 at 12:30 p.m., free.
This Spanish dance company from Victoria is gaining ...
Gastown deli reinvents the sandwich
By Christine G. Louie, Associate Staff Contributor
So.Cial is at 1911 Le Magasin Building, 332 Water Street, Vancouver.
Over-the-top eateries fascinate me. To give a few examples, the hot chocolate ...
VIFF a trip around the world in 16 days
By Tessa Perkins, Christine Lee, Kaylin Metchie
The Vancouver International Film Festival runs from September 25 to October 10 at various theatres. For show times, visit www.viff.org.
...Choke filled with creepy talent
By Cam Smith, Associate Staff Contributor
Choke opened in theatres on September 26.
I’ve met many on-screen weirdoes in my time, but Victor Mancini is a true original. Get this: Victor, ...
Lakeview a well played, predictable thriller
By Cam Smith, Associate Staff Contributor
Lakeview Terrace opened in theatres on September 19.
Call me crazy, but nobody plays frustrated emasculation like Patrick Wilson. Over the past ...
News
Frats, health plan approved
By Carolina Dubanik, Associate News Editor
SFU Students went to the polls last week, voting in the Simon Fraser Student Society’s Fall Referendum. Of the five questions on the voting block, the ...
SFSS down $80,000 for ‘08
By Sam Norris, News Editor
The Simon Fraser Student Society lost almost $80,000 in financial year 2007-08, according to audit documents obtained by The Peak.
The losses are ...
Terry Fox run raises money for cancer research
By Carolina Dubanik, Associate News Editor
On Thursday September 25, both students and staff alike weathered the blistering cold and torrential rain to participate in SFU’s annual Terry Fox Run. The ...
Sustainability Festival returns
By Elias Rahjiak
Last Wednesday’s Sustainability Festival was the biggest one yet, according to Sustainable SFU, who organized the event. The festival featured over 80 ...
This Week in Peak History
By Kendra Wong
1969 — The departments of Political Science, and Sociology and Anthropology set up picket lines outside of classes after President ...
20 Questions with Kevin Harding
1) Superman or Batman?
Oh, Batman. He’s got way more cool things to play with.
2) You just got back from South ...
Sports
Clan butt heads with Rams
By Chad Klassen, Sports Editor
Despite coming off a high of beating both Calgary and Saskatchewan at home, there was the feeling that the Clan could travel to Regina and return home ...
Big-play defense has SFU in first place
By Chad Klassen, Sports Editor
There’s an old — and quite clichéd — saying in sports that ‘defense wins championships.’ That motto by which great teams live couldn’t be more true for ...
Clan drop home-opener to Seattle
By Matt Lee, Associate Staff Contributor
The SFU men had a week to prepare for their first home game of the season against Seattle University on Saturday afternoon, but came up shy at Fox Field, ...
Clan pummels Carroll with 2nd half flurry
By Matt Lee, Associate Staff Contributor
The SFU ladies have begun the second half of their season the same way they started the first: putting results in the win column.
After beginning ...
Dolphins trick Pats, not enough to swim free
By Chad Klassen, Sports Editor
After the Miami Dolphins went into Foxboro and handed the defending AFC champs a 38-13 home loss, the casual football fan might have looked at that game ...
SFU continues to prepare for home-opener
By Kamil Karamali
The scene at the Burnaby Winterclub has been pretty consistent over the past couple weeks: the coaching staff and management team looking down from the ...
Clan enjoy pair of third-place finishes at Sundodger
The annual Sundodger Invitational at Western Washington unfolded last weekend and resulted in third-place ribbons for the both the men’s and ...
15 players to bolster your fantasy lineup
By Matt Lee, Associate Staff Contributor
Last year, we put together a list of 15 players who would make a splash, and for the most part, we were right. The Peak predicted ex-Flames sniper ...
Opinions
In Defense of Subway
By Maxwell Kelly
As I walk by the new Subway in Cornerstone, I encounter a lineup that makes the campus bookstore in early September seem like a trip to the park. In fact, I ...
Pity the political children
By Susie Hill, Columnist
Oscar Wilde once said that children begin life loving their parents, as they grow older they judge them, and later in life they forgive them. Growing up, ...
Editor’s Voice: My law of social-dynamics
By Maia Britt Odegaard, Copy Editor
The second law of thermodynamics states that every energy transfer or transformation increases the entropy of the universe. In other words, every time ...
Let’s give our campus food heros some credit
By Kasey Couric
I like to stay on top of what goes on at SFU, and with no offense to The Peak, there’s a lot more to this school than just friends and politics. As ...
The voice of right-wing intolerance
By Sean Wilkinson
I was surprised to see that J.J. McCullough’s dual diatribes against Asian students (“No English skills? SFU doesn’t care” [September 1] and “Enough with ...
A worthy foe of far-left lunacy
By Graham Templeton
As a political nomad, someone who truly belongs nowhere and wholly agrees with no party, I quite presumptuously see myself as a kind of referee. I have no ...
Why are SFSS staff silencing their critics?
By Adam Lein
I was very disappointed to hear that the Student Society’s staff union has decided to grieve SFSS Treasurer Anna Belkine (my wife), for authoring an ...
Those pointlessly saccharine Tory commericals
By Jonathan Dick
Walking to the nearest bus stop, eager to spend an uncomfortable duration of time pressed up against complete strangers on the way to SFU, I became fully ...
Vote Democrat if you want to eat
By Brady Elher
If I were an American, I’d have several reasons to vote for Barak Obama. Barack’s grandmother still lives in a grass hut in Africa. John McCain’s father ...
Cynical voters doomed SFSS reform
By J.J. McCullough, Opinions Editor
When it comes to analyzing election outcomes, most of us tend to interpret the results in whatever way best jives with our pre-existing beliefs. Being ...