The Peak

Beards are Best

By John Morrison III, Humour Editor

Michaelanglo said that he didn’t create anything. He believed that his sculptures lived inside their stone, and all he had to do was chip away at them ...

Liar Liar Pants on Fire

By Vanessa Woznow

Everybody lies.

At least so says the ever-enigmatic, and exceptionally surly Dr. Gregory House who both angers and titillates ...

Comics Jan 26, 2009

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Twinkle, Twinkle he’s a star

By Caitlin MacDonald

Billy Twinkle runs until February 8 at the Waterfront Theatre, Granville Island.

How many of you have seen or heard about Avenue Q? For those ...

This is your life

By Adam Cristobal

Say, hypothetically, that one day you come home only to discover that all of your furniture has been swapped with highly similar yet different pieces. ...

Three dimensions of horror

By Cam Smith, Associate Staff Contributor

Is there any filmmaking technology rife with more possibilities for cheesy excess than the 3-D format? While Hollywood has recently made multi-million ...

Thank God for Altar Boyz

By Tessa Perkins, Associate Staff Contributor

Altar Boyz performs at the Surrey Arts Centre until January 31.

This “sinfully funny” musical had me in fits of laughter for an hour and a ...

Stuff we like

1. Procrastination, ahoy! Take Me Back, a student-level web series produced by Montreal’s Joe Baron and Seth Mendelson, is as entertaining as it ...

Basket-bald!

By Shara Lee, Associate News Editor

Following their 88-64 win against the University of the Fraser Valley Cascades, four players on the Simon Fraser University Clan women’s basketball team ...

Privacy concerns addressed by health care provider

By Sam Norris, News Editor

At last Wednesday’s Simon Fraser Student Society Forum meeting, StudentCare representatives addressed privacy issues for students opting out of the new ...

School on the Hill raises sustainability concerns

By Kendra Wong, Associate Staff Contributor

Coming 2010, UniverCity hopes to unveil the completion of a brand new elementary school. But before plans are officially approved, issues are being raised ...

Solman appointed to ombuds office

By Corteney Span

SFU students now have someone to turn to who can run down the answers to their problems. Jay Solman, a former practicing clinical counsellor with a degree ...

Province appoints new BoG member

By Carol Thorbes

The provincial government has appointed SFU alum Lynda Brown-Gazert to the Board of Governors. Brown-Gazert is the former head of the New Media ...

Women's Basketball: Balding For Dollars huge success

By Chad Klassen, Sports Editor

The Clan witnessed the triumphed return of point guard Lisa Tindle last weekend, albeit in limited minutes, and earned their 15th and 16th wins of ...

Men's Basketball: Weekend sweep of UFV solidifies playoff spot

By Brian Barazzuol, Associate Staff Contributor

The Jekyll and Hyde characteristics of the SFU Clan continued this past weekend as they took on the UFV Cascades in back-to-back action. The Clan ...

Hockey: SFU keeps gliding along in the BCIHL

By Kamil Karamali, Associate Staff Contributor

The Saints came marching in, but the SFU Clan made sure they went limping back out.

Coming off of dominant wins against Selkirk during a tough ...

Super Bowl: Blackout of commercials dulls festivities

By Matthew Black, Associate Staff Contributor

Missing for Canadian viewers from the typical Super Bowl equation of eight hours of pre-game coverage, the inevitable over-the-top rendition of the ...

Idle Thoughts: Addiction is an escape

By Brady Ehler, Columnist

Recently, I went through a pretty bad break-up and it left me in a state of emotional turmoil. Even as the words left her lips, I felt the impending dread ...

Privileged profs should stop whining

By Maia Britt-Odegaard, Copy Editor

As an undergraduate student who is about to turn 25 (the age when a student is no longer covered under her parents’ medical plan) and who is still a couple ...

A contrarian’s fond fairwell

By J.J. McCullough, Former Opinions Editor

I was quite touched to read the sweet, though pointed letter from Reagan Belan in last week’s issue [“Missing that maddening J.J. fix,” January 19]. It’s ...

I hate Jenny McCarthy

By Graham Templeton, Opinions Editor

Model/actress/“mother-warrior” Jenny McCarthy has spent the past several years doing her level best to convince new parents not to have their ...

Olympics are a big fat waste

By Myka Tucker-Abramson, Sean Carleton

Since it was revealed that the city of Vancouver will be on the hook for the building of the Olympic Village, to the tune of an additional $458 million, ...

Games an unnecessary burden

By Steve Kwon

Extraordinary circumstances surrounding the construction of the 2010 Olympic Village has led the City of Vancouver to beg for $458 million from the ...

Canada’s still illiterate

By Deanne Beattie, Arts Editor

So, illiteracy is dead, huh? The National Endowment for the Arts in the U.S. declared this month that fiction reading is finally on the rise again after ...