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September 21, 2009
Features
Hatin'
By Chelsea Armstrong
I’ve always been a hater, it’s my manner and my method, but I can’t tell y’all how much I hate the first week of school. I would like to begin by rippin’ ...
Luxury & Survival
By Susie Hill
All-inclusive resorts aim to drown your nine-to-five sorrows in a veritable orgy of entertainment, food, and — most importantly — drink. They have become ...
Food, Glorious Food
By Rachel Hughes
As I approach my fourth and nowhere near final year at SFU, I have come to realize a true certainty in life: Studying equals starving! After countless ...
Humour
Sharp sucks
By Kenny Sharp (Dalhousie University)
I write you today regarding a piece that appeared in last week’s Peak by Colin Sharp, who happens to be my brother. His article was both articulate ...
Psychic Advice Column
By Mystic Davina
Yesterday, as I was shopping for CDs and DVDs at the Pigeon Park Outdoor Market, a friend asked me why the prediction I had made for her a couple of weeks ...
Arts
Consumed on Canvas
By Tessa Perkins
An art exhibit is rarely associated with the term “ready-to-wear,” but with the atmosphere of a clothing store (complete with a rack of hanging canvases ...
Goodbye, Mac’n’Cheese
By Andrew Forsyth
While SFU has finally managed to tear away from the overpriced, heat-lamp drudgery that is Chartwells, our much beloved Timmy’s still comes up shy of being ...
Screaming for their supper
By Cam Smith
Considering the limited opportunities offered to young actresses working under the current youth-oriented Hollywood paradigm, it’s no wonder so many ...
Parlour Steps: The Hidden Names
By Kaylin Metchie
Parlour Steps, an indie band from right here in Vancouver, just released a new album entitled The Hidden Names. From a first impression, The Hidden Names is ...
News
Success of recent events echo the success of the SFSS Board
By Kendra Wong, News Editor
It has been four and a half months since the Simon Fraser Student Society board members took office and many of them have been laying low, politically ...
Burnaby begins outreach to Surrey campus through Clubs Days
By David Dyck
Bright banners and decorated booths crowded the centre of SFU’s Burnaby campus as Clubs Days occupied Convocation Mall from Tuesday to Thursday last ...
False promises over U-Pass frustrates student unions
By Elias Rhajiak
Last Tuesday, Rachel Simpson, spokesperson for the Emily Carr Students’ Union, spoke in response to Transportation Minister Shirley Bond’s recent comments ...
Post-secondary news shorts
By David Proctor, Associate News Editor
Carleton, McGill petition for CFS defederation
OTTAWA, MONTREAL — Petitions are underway at Carleton University in Ottawa and ...
Breathing Second Life into education
By Danielle Webb, Ontario Bureau Chief
TORONTO (CUP) — Imagine studying ancient Egypt while exploring the Great Pyramids, or reading Shakespeare’s Hamlet while touring the Globe Theatre to see ...
Sports
Athlete of the Week: Sensational Hanne scores six in one game
By Matt Lee, Sports Editor
One of the main questions going into the men’s soccer season surrounded the issue of who was going to supply the offence after some key departures. Although ...
Football: Golden Bears hand Clan first loss
By Chad Klassen
What a difference a week makes. After slaughtering the Bisons 41-7 without a fight from the visitors, a hungry University of Alberta (1-2) team came into ...
Clan have big challenges ahead
By Chad Klassen
The Clan are still a formidable team with a 2-1 mark in the Canada West after falling to Alberta at home. But SFU has breezed through the easiest part of ...
Men's Soccer: Clan depth and defence paying dividends
By Matt Lee, Sports Editor
At this point in the soccer season, it’s normal for a team to have injuries to key players or for some offensive players to be going through a funk. And ...
Women's Soccer: Injured Clan return for homestand
By Matt Lee, Sports Editor
The women started their season with a loss and a tie, which is uncharacteristic given the long history of competitiveness the soccer team has put forward ...
Hockey: Clansmen seeking redemption
By Kamil Karamali
It’s almost been six months since the University of Victoria Vikes upset the SFU Clan in the 2008/2009 British Columbia Intercollegiate League (BCIHL) ...
Opinions
Instant Classic: The Great Hipsteritis Outbreak
By Zorn Pinke, Columnist
Forget Swine Flu, this generation’s pandemic was dressed ironically and in flannel.
It swept the cultural landscape like a vintage clothing wildfire ...
Editor's Voice: The value of hardship
By Maia Britt Odegaard, Copy Editor
It is said that Plato believed a perfect society would contain no poets (read: writers) and he thought that tragedy was not a valuable thing to write or ...
Give the SFSS a break
By David Dyck
Although I enjoyed Graham Templeton’s relevant critique of the SFSS in last week’s issue of The Peak [“A Citizen’s Guide to the SFSS,” September 14], I’d ...
The wisdom of grads
By Reagan Belan
Over the past summer, I took a departure from my regular summer activities of showing up still-drunk to a large, corporate retail outlet/café, to learn a ...
This fall is destined for greatness
By John Morrison III, Humour Editor
Campus life gets a bad rap at SFU and I have to say: for a while there, it was well deserved. There wasn’t really that much to do up on the Hill, and it ...
The dangers of misinformation
By Ashleigh Mattern (The Sheaf)
SASKATOON (CUP) – Whooping cough, properly known as pertussis, is one of the worldwide leading causes of vaccinepreventable deaths, and it is reemerging ...