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January 19, 2009
Features
The Joy of Student Cooking
Mexican Surprise
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Ingredients:
3-4 Tortillas
1 can refried ...
Welcome to the Fat House
By Aman Bains
A Brief History
Yes, the Fat House, that old, somewhat rundown house at the base of the Hill on the corner of Napier and ...
Humour
Arts
Flicker illuminates audiences
By Deanne Beattie, Arts Editor
Flicker opened January 16 at the VanCity theatre.
Drug culture is the stuff of everyday conversation in Vancouver. For a city that has been visited ...
Jon & Roy
By Josli Rockafella
Jon and Roy played at Richard’s on Richards on January 16
Even as the band grows, Jon and Roy have no intentions of becoming Jon and Roy and Ryan ...
Unborn a stillborn mess
By Cam Smith, Associate Staff Contributor
Unborn opened in theatres Jan 9.
When reviewing a truly stupid and clunky film, it’s often tempting to avoid critical thought and instead simply hurl ...
Wrestler brings home gold
By Cam Smith, Associate Staff Contributor
The Wrestler opened in theatres January 9.
While very few memories of my early childhood still remain present in my increasingly over-taxed ...
Stuff we like
1. Converse celebrates its 100th anniversary with a limited edition commemorative shoe and book set. The Chuck Taylor High Top comes cased in ...
Nicole's Notes
By Nicole Kornelson
Narrow Focus: Glimpses of Life in Dhaka Friday, Jan 16 to Saturday, Jan 31 SFU Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings Street Vancouver — ...
News
Iggy flexes policy muscles
By Sam Norris, News Editor
In an appearance before supporters in Vancouver last Wednesday, interim Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff laid out a muscular vision for Canadian ...
New club aims to fund sustainable village
By Kendra Wong, Associate Staff Contributor
Club Days at SFU is no longer the exclusive domain of the typical sports, department, and nationality-specific clubs; recently, a small group of ...
Academic amnesty motion sets stage for Feb. 4 protest
By Shara Lee, Associate News Editor
Academic amnesty has been granted for SFU students for February 4. A rally has been planned for this day to create media awareness for the underfunding of ...
Prof raises privacy concerns with new health plan
By Shara Lee, Associate News Editor
After intensive negotiations with various national student health care providers, a series of non-binding and binding referendum questions, and ...
Cost of education actually holding constant (except here)
By Sam Norris, News Editor
A new report indicates that the average cost of post-secondary education in Canada has not budged over the last 10 years, despite an average tuition ...
Clubs Daze
By Susie Hill, Associate Staff Contributor
Last week, hundreds of students gathered to ring in the spring semester as SFU Clubs Days exploded into the AQ like a great ball of confetti.
It ...
Academics urge action against Israel
By Elias Rhajak, Associate Staff Contributor
On Thursday, January 8, hundreds of scholars and professors from across Canada demanded that the federal government impose sanctions upon Israel to halt ...
Senate approves use of turnitin.com
By Sam Norris, News Editor
The Senate approved the use of turnitin.com at SFU last week.
The service, which compares uploaded essays against a bank of academic literature, ...
Sports
Women's Basketball: Clan eye another division crown
By Chad Klassen, Sports Editor
The magic number is now down to three to clinch the Pacific Division.
The Clan women’s basketball team put more distance between them and ...
Men's Basketball: Key losses have SFU fighting for final spot
By Brian Barazzuol, Associate Staff Contributor
The Clan’s four game win streak was put to a halt this past weekend, as they dropped back-to-back decisions against the Victoria Vikes and the ...
Volleyball: Cougars quickly dash SFU’s playoff hopes
By Chad Klassen, Sports Editor
The Clan women’s volleyball program, despite making great strides this season with two more wins than a year ago, finds itself in the same predicament — ...
Hockey: Close one-goal win launches SFU into 2009
By Kamil Karamali, Associate Staff Contributor
The SFU hockey team has picked up right where they left off in 2008, as they were able to continue notching wins against teams below them in the ...
NHL: The ‘code’ in hockey must be cracked
By Matthew Black, Associate Staff Contributor
A commonality for professional hockey players is the expansive, unwritten, informal, and typically self-enforced set of guidelines known ambiguously as ...
NHL: Are Coyotes becoming endangered?
By Chad Klassen, Sports Editor
It seems the crippling economy could finally force the NHL to deal with struggling hockey markets in the U.S.
The current situation in Phoenix — ...
Lecavalier’s future in Tampa Bay uncertain
By Matt Lee, Associate Staff Contributor
If you look up the word “disaster” in the dictionary, you’ll see a picture of the Tampa Bay Lightning logo.
With the early NHL trade speculation ...
Hockey: TSN has tainted Canada’s treasured tune
By Matthew Black, Associate Staff Contributor
Most Canadians, let alone sports fans, will recall the night of June 6 when it was announced that CTV had outbid the CBC for the rights to the Hockey Night ...
Opinions
Public Enemy: Killa Season
By Chelsey Armstrong, Columnist
The snowboard industry is a capricious and trendy entity. There are all kinds of riders that rep all kinds of styles.
There are those who are happy ...
Editor's Voice: Undeclared forever
By Stacey McLachlan, Features Editor
As we head vaguely in the direction of that light at the end of this dark post-secondary tunnel, many of us start to panic. The question asked of us ...
Arts students respond en masse
By Graham Templeton, Opinions Editor
There was a tremendous amount of feedback for Conor Meade’s gleefully inflammatory article, [“Reader response,” January 5] in which he argues that Arts ...
Abortion display still polarizing
By Graham Templeton, Opinions Editor
Unsurprisingly, the demonstration by SFU Pro-Life group Students for Life has been a lightning rod for student response. The opinions submission by ...
Nuclear power has its problems
By Stefan Krecsy
If one wished to inquire when the nuclear age began in earnest, the date of August 6, 1945 would jump to the mind of most individuals, and conjure up an ...
Missing that maddening J.J. fix
By Reagan Belan
The new year is a time of new beginnings. We reflect upon ourselves, find the trouble spots and resolve to work harder, be more active in our ...
Windows 7 shows promise
By Chen Shen, Web Editor
On January 5, Steve Ballmer announced that the public beta for Microsoft’s next version of Windows was coming on Friday, January 9. The blogosphere had ...