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October 27, 2008
Features
7 Deadly Sins, #3: Greed
By Aman Bains
The deadly sin of greed (avarice). As Madonna loosely put it, we live in a material world. In our fast-paced and ever-growing economy, we constantly ...
The 7th Floor: The Peak Visits Special Collections
By Adam Cristobal
Why does The Peak want to do a feature on Special Collections?” asked Eric Swanick, the Head Librarian of W.A.C. Bennett Library at SFU Burnaby, as he looked ...
Humour
Rejected Halloween candy
By “Monster” Britt Odegaard, Copy Editor
Gummy razor blades
Candy corn on the cob
Low tar candy cigarettes
Footsie pops (the great taste of feet in a candy treat!)
...Trick-or-treat or turning tricks? (Am I right!?)
By Stacey “Eye Gouger” McLachlan, Humour Editor
Tired of the overdone “hot cop” and “French maid” costumes, but still want to add an erotic twist to your costume this year? Peak humour has plenty ...
Arts
A beautiful balance
By Adam “Count of” Cristobal, Associate Staff Contributor
Angela Cheng performs Beethoven at the Orpheum Theatre on November 1 and 3.
Even though Cheng currently lives in Cleveland and is an extremely ...
Rhinoceros a terror
By Boo-rady Ehler, Associate Staff Contributor
Rhinoceros shows at the SFU Theatre until November 1. For performance times, visit www.sfu.ca/sca.
The SFU School for Contemporary Arts is ...
Life Looks Good for Vancouver reggae band
By Jennifer “Lethal” Laidlaw
The Showgears played the Media Club in Vancouver on October 17.
Vancouver reggae band the Showgears, played to a packed house at the Media Club for ...
Not your average Metamorphosis
By Lea “Cobra” Cohodas
Montreal author Rawi Hage’s second book, Cockroach, has been hotly anticipated by many, following the breakout success of his first novel, De Niro’s ...
Digging the Arrogant Worms
By Marie Hell-iot
The Arrogant Worms perform at Capilano College on October 30.
At the moment, the well-known Canadian band, The Arrogant Worms, are touring across ...
Oysters with a side of celebrity
By Christine “Ghoulish” Louie, Jessica “Warewolf” Wong
Social is at Le Magasin building in Gastown.
Fall has arrived, and one can only anticipate the chilling effect the long, wet winter will have ...
News
Residents outraged over limits on internet use
By “Scarolina” Dubanik, “Shrieky” Shara Lee
When students living in Residence tried to use the internet Thursday afternoon they were greeted with an unpleasant surprise. Instead of their usual ...
Students give university poor marks
By “Scarolina” Dubanik, Associate News Editor
The report cards went home last week, and once again, SFU’s grades were nothing to be proud of. The Globe and Mail’s annual University Report Card, ...
Lyrics drive business for SFU entrepreneur
By Elias “Rawr” Rhajiak, Associate Staff Contributor
One of SFU’s own, Milun Tesovic, has brought home a prestigious Canadian business award for his Internet start-up.
The Red Herring Canada Top 50 ...
Bus drivers fight for expanded bus service
By “Frankensam” Norris, News Editor
With upcoming municipal and provincial elections, the union representing TransLink bus drivers has launched a campaign to drastically increase the number ...
Second-gen Canadians more educated than Canadian-born
By Kirsten “Gory” Goruk, CUP Alberta, Northern Bureau Chief
EDMONTON (CUP) – A new study shows that Canadian born citizens are taking an educational backseat to their second-generation immigrant ...
SFU prof brings home award
By Ariel “Zombie” Chiu
SFU biologist Bernard Roitberg, is the latest recipient of an award from the Entomological Society of Canada.
Roitberg received the prestigious ...
Sports
Can Clan bite Huskies back
By Chad “Corpsey” Klassen, Sports Editor
For a program that suffered through three agonizing seasons without a single win, merely making the playoffs with a five-win season is a ...
Struggling offense welcomes back two key players
By Chad “Corpsey” Klassen, Sports Editor
For a Clan offense that has suffered through inconsistencies moving the ball and putting up points, news that the formidable one-two punch of Gab Ephard ...
Can you say ‘dominant?’
By “Monster Mash” Lee, Associate Staff Contributor
The SFU men’s soccer team, carrying a three-game win streak under their belts, are heading into the final stages of the regular season and are aiming to ...
Seesaw ride continues for Clanswomen
By “Monster Mash” Lee, Associate Staff Contributor
Up and down go the SFU women’s team. After starting their 2008 campaign with six straight wins, the Clan proceeded to drop their next two games. Then, they ...
SFU players bond during victorious road trip
By Kamil “Koffins” Karamali
Bonding is commonly known as an experience in which people come together over a certain period of time. This act of unification between people is usually ...
Are we back in the 1980s?
By Maxwell “Serial Killer” Kelly
Since the conclusion of an eventful playoffs in June, with the Celtics winning a championship for the first time in 22 years, basketball has been more or ...
The unfortunate truth about team names
By Matthew Black “Cat”
With the NFL regular season nearing the midway point, yet another opportunity has been missed by the league and its supporters to address one of the ...
Sports Profile : From teacher to multiple CIS national champ
By Chad Klassen
For everybody involved in the world of sport in some capacity, whether it is athletes or coaches, the ultimate goal is to perform at the top of your game, ...
Opinions
Is Halloween getting too slutty?
By Susie “Haunted” Hill, Columnist
Earlier this week, while in the midst of altering my Halloween costume to fit even tighter, it occurred to me that I have not dressed up as anything ...
Why would anyone want to live in Rez?
By Ryan “Devilish” Daw
I think it’s clear to anyone who has ever dealt with Residence and Housing that it is easily one of the worst administered parts of our university. I say ...
Quebec still defines us
By “Jarring” J.J. McCullough, Opinions Editor
In this space last week I wrote an article of the sort I am fond of writing, a cynical piece analyzing what I believed to be the “four things we learned ...
A selfish man’s pointless election
By Siavash “The Ripper” Rokni
According to Elections Canada, every federal election costs the Canadian taxpayer around 300 million dollars. Considering the fact that this most recent ...
The end of politics as usual in Canada
By Cory “Candy Corn” Redekop
Although conventional wisdom holds that this recent federal election was an unnecessary, $300 million exercise in futility, I believe it was, in fact, ...
What went wrong with the Green Shift
By Eric “Werewolf” Wright
Stéphane Dion promised to be Canada’s greenest prime minister of all time. The timing seemed impeccable. Environmental issues are seeping into the ...
America’s chance to rejoin the world
By “Kreepy” Kim Shore
In July of this year Senator Barack Obama drew a crowd of over 200,000 to a speech in Berlin as he reiterated the importance of the historical, social, ...
Paling an “ally,” despite unfortunate comments
By The Out on Campus Collective
Once every semester or so, someone asks our volunteers an awkward but well-intentioned question: “Why are you still here?” Many feel we live in an ...
Paling is what he always was: an embarassment
By “Monster” Britt Odegaard, Peak Staff
When I was the opinions editor of The Peak during the Student Society election last spring I had the unpleasant job of sifting through all of the letters ...
Curiosity is its own reward
By “Howlin’” Graham Templeton, Associate Staff Contributor
My little cousin is going to be smart. She’s only young, but I know it already. I know it because she’s curious. I know that if you were to lock her in a ...
Rule for the people, not the rich
By “Bloody” Brady Elher, Associate Staff Contributors
Since the dawn of civilization, the wealth has been distributed unequally. For thousands of years, the redistribution in the form of giving tribute to ...