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November 30, 2009
Features
Christmas on the Cheap
By Gary Lim
Well hot damn, if it isn’t Christmas barreling down on us like a freight train fulla fiscal responsibility. Now I’m no Scrooge, but it seems like ever ...
Big Man on Campus
By Clinton Hallahan
BBW (D + D Free)
Aretha Franklin was a fat, fat woman with the right idea, asking for a little respect years before obesity became ...
Royally mediated
By David Dyck
My adventure actually started on Friday, going downtown to pick up the press pass from a hotel conference room. Once I got there, the whole interaction was ...
Humour
Stuff we hate
1. Nazi graffiti
These losers seem to think that a viral political marketing campaign is best conducted where one is already in ...
Hagerman’s happy horoscopes
By Dan Hagerman, The Brunswickian (CUP)
Aries (March 21 — April 19)
You may feel that you’ve missed out on Talk Like a Pirate Day this year, dear Aries, but you’re wrong! ...
Arts
Doing Their Own Thing
By Adam Cristobal, Arts Editor
It’s a typical fall Sunday in Vancouver: overcast and damp, the once crisp leaves reduced to mush on the sidewalk. This is our city. Inside, I am in a small ...
Betty Crocker
By Kevin Corstorphine
Adaline’s first album, Famous for Fire, is available now. Please visit AdalineMusic.com for more information.
Local artist, and occasional purveyor ...
Not that bad
By Cam Smith
Lieutenant Terence McDonagh (Nicolas Cage) shuffles along with a stooped gait, one lop-sided shoulder blade jutting grotesquely skywards. Wearily fighting ...
School Bites: Dessert Issue
By Andrew Forsyth
Well student foodies, I’ve made it my mission throughout this semester to give you recipes that are awesome tasting and healthy. But, let’s face it: with ...
In full bloom
By Kevin Lee
Look for Sarah in Amalg@m next year, check out her website at SarahLouisJean.com, or learn more about the I <3 Van Art street festival at ...
Stuff we like
1. Glee
"True Colours," "Imagine," and "Don’t Stop Believing," if these are the names of songs you ...
News
2010/2011 budget not as dreary as originally anticipated
By Kendra Wong, News Editor
In a budget consultation during the Simon Fraser Student Society’s forum meeting last Wednesday, the VP of Finance and Administration Pat Hibbitts announced ...
Controversial motions debated at CFS AGM
By David Proctor, Associate News Editor
The 28th Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Federation of Students, which ran from Wednesday, November 25 to Saturday the 28th in Gatineau, Quebec, was ...
AIDS organization offers students venue to apply undergraduate skills
By Kendra Wong, News Editor
On December 1, the 21st annual World AIDS Day will commence, marking the worldwide fight against AIDS. SFU’s own AIDS Awareness Network (AAN) is responsible ...
Political science department leadership crisis still unresolved
By David Proctor, Associate News Editor
SFU’s troubled department of political science will likely remain without permanent leadership for several months, as the department has decided to keep ...
Lack of student space causes redirection of funding to Woodward’s
By David Dyck
In an emergency board meeting on Wednesday, November 25, the Simon Fraser Student Society’s board of directors passed a motion to fund a student space in ...
SFU takes a stand against transgender violence
By James Lim
Monday, November 16, marked the beginning of a weeklong event coorganized by SFU’s Out on Campus constituency group and Vancouver’s Transgender Day ...
Pro-life demonstration draws few supporters
By Sam Reynolds
Last Wednesday, the SFU Students for Life club hosted an abortion awareness seminar entitled “Echoes of the Holocaust.” Presented by the Canadian Centre ...
UBC students appeal to the UN for help with rising tuition fees
By Kendra Wong, David Proctor
Students are officially fed up with tuition fees that have continued to rise by two per cent over a solid eight-year period. In response to this, students ...
Sports
SFU claims first ever conference title
By Matt Lee, Sports Editor
When the Simon Fraser Clan set their sights on their first NAIA national championship since 1983, head coach Alan Koch and his crew knew that playing ...
Clan season ends in double overtime
By Matt Lee, Sports Editor
A heartbreaking goal in the 104th minute by Point Loma Nazarene’s Jennifer Tan dashed all hopes for Simon Fraser to advance to the second round of the ...
Clan opening eyes with hot start
By Simon Wilson
At the start of the season, coach Scott Clark was confident that he had the veteran core to put together a successful season. That confidence is now ...
41 straight victories for the women
By Matt Lee, Sports Editor
The Simon Fraser Clan are certainly the favourite to claim the CIS’ prestigious honour of national champion this season, and their 41 straight victories ...
DesLauriers steps aside from SFU
By Chad Klassen
A turbulent season on the field has been accompanied by off-season distress for the Clan football team that’s lost its starting quarterback. SFU now will ...
Clan family say final goodbyes to Bernd Dittrich
By Chad Klassen
The Clan family remembered the life of Bernd Dittrich for the final time last Monday at SFU’s West Gym before his body was returned home to Austria.
...SFU bumps the slump for first victory
By Matt Lee
It’s hard to believe the SFU volleyball team could do much worse than their 5-16 record from last season ,but unfortunately for the Clan they were heading ...
Clan flounder in the water against RedHawks
By Matt Lee
In the water, SFU archrival Seattle University RedHawks defeated the men’s and women’s swimming teams on November 21 by scores of 124-80 and ...
SFU sprints to second-place finish
By Matt Lee
In the 2009 NAIA Cross Country National Championships, the SFU men’s and women’s teams finished sixth and fourth overall, respectively, but finished second ...
Clan bodyslam their way to 3-1 record in duals
By Matt Lee
Competing in the 2009 Inland NW Collegiate Wrestling Tourney, the SFU Clan women’s wrestling team had the honour of having six wrestlers win their ...
Opinions
Generation naught
By Zorn Pink, Columnist
Writing this column and thinking about the last 10 years has made me wonder if there was some sort of overarching theme that I could point to, something ...
The “art” of unpacking
By Sarah Arboleda, Columnist
In a desperate attempt to wrap things up neatly here at the end of this much-beloved column, as my mother calls it, let me suggest that I cleverly and ...
Nobody has forgotten Afghanistan
By Sam Reynolds
In a recent article published in The Peak [Canada’s forgotten war, November 16], Matthew Steinbach erroneously argued that Canada’s role in Afghanistan ...
Apocalypse not
By Graham Templeton, Opinions Editor
A few days ago, I woke up with a question: “Self,” I said to myself, “what are you going to write about?” I pondered this, as I ate my breakfast and ...
Tales from Central Parking
By Stacey McLachlan, Features Editor
I have been conducting some parking experiments (and by that, I mean “not paying for parking”), and for the most part, they’ve gone very badly. For example, ...
Volunteer vacations
By Bradley Langman
The winter holidays are coming soon, and the Olympic break shortly after that, and many of us are starting to plan an escape from Mount Miserable. Knowing ...
E-voting fixes nothing
By Cédric Chen
Last week after The Peak published the unofficial result of the SFSS by-election, I noticed that, despite the application of electronic voting, there was ...
Living like the dead
By Maia Britt Odegaard, Copy Editor
What would you do if you knew today would be your last day on earth? I’m guessing that going to work or doing your homework wouldn’t make the cut, and ...