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January 25, 2010
Features
What really happened in Copenhagen?
By Graham Anderson
Copenhagen was a failure. Few would contest that the non-binding “Copenhagen Accord” is anywhere close to sufficient in confronting the problem of ...
Tips for teachers
By Gary Lim
While the majority of The Peak’s readership are the students here at SFU, it should be known that there remains a significant minority of people who ...
Humour
Staying Sharp: Tips for disguising your identity
By Colin Sharp
It’s time to focus. As a frequent law-breaker, you need to pay attention to what I have to say. I know things. I have it on good authority that you did not ...
Your guide to campus characters at SFU: part 2
By John Morrison III
Last week we learned about such stereotypes as Right-wing devil’s advocate and Sustainability guy. Continue saving time with seven more generalizations as ...
Arts
Band of brothers
By Adam Cristobal
Timothy will be performing at the Help for Haiti fundraiser on February 5 at SFU’s Highland Pub along with The Arbutus Collective and The Chase at 8:00 p.m. ...
Eclectic
By Leight Eldridge
The Zolas celebrate the release of their debut album Tic Toc Tic on January 27 at the Biltmore, with guests Henry & the Nightcrawlers and We Are the ...
Bee by bee
By Maia Britt Odegaard
The bees are disappearing, but no one is entirely sure why. Colony Collapse Disorder, as it is known, has several possible causes, but as of yet, those in ...
Not so lovely
By Cam Smith
Even the greatest film directors occasionally meet a cinematic nut they can’t crack; an ambitious tighwire walk of a project that ultimately culminates in ...
Vampire Weekend: Contra
By Jesse Wentzloff
Boy, did I ever want this album to suck.
After all the hype Vampire Weekend got prior to the release of their self-titled debut, they ended up ...
Stuff we like
By Various
Glengarry Glen Ross
The landmark David Mamet script brought together one of the most formidable casts of the last quarter century. ...
Quoth the state, Nevermore
By Julie Karey
I will be honest, for a play that claims to be about the “imaginary” life of Edgar Allen Poe, this Edmontonian production sticks rather unimaginatively close ...
News
Student service in dire need of continued funding
By Kendra Wong
At the Simon Fraser Student Society’s board of directors meeting last Wednesday, the board unanimously voted to pass a motion for continued financial support ...
Students warned about terrors of Eastern Israeli wars
By Jonathon Van Maren
Israeli journalist, Noam Bedein, spoke at the SFU Burnaby’s Hillel Club, last Monday to reinforce the fact that despite Canada’s status as a relatively ...
Former NDP cabinet minister tapped as new president of SFU
By Kendra Wong
With students entering a new decade, 2010 also marks the beginning of a new era for SFU. Come September, students, faculty, and staff will be welcoming ...
Research exchange program encourages community and student involvement
By Joselyne John, Cynthia Oka
The Simon Fraser Public Interest Research Group’s (SFPIRG) successful Action Research Exchange program promotes socially responsible research by ...
Surrey Engineering Student Union declares independence
By David Dyck
In a meeting on Tuesday, January 19, a new departmental student union was created for the engineering students at SFU’s Surrey campus. Although for the ...
Student Society Profile : Ali Godson
1) What do you consider your greatest achievement?
When I was in high school I was terrified to talk in public. I would turn bright ...
Sports
Men's basketball: Clan looking to shock T-Birds
By Simon Wilson
This Thursday and Saturday the SFU Clan will play their most anticipated games of the season as they take on rival UBC in the West Gym. While the ...
Women's basketball: Clan set to host the ‘breast game ever’
By Matt Lee
While the Simon Fraser University Clan women’s hoops team has been making the difference on the basketball court, the team is making a difference to ...
Football: Clan attempt to fill all the vacancies
By Matt Lee
As speculated for the last few months, Clan offensive coordinator Shawn Olson is exchanging the red and white for some gold and blue as he was ...
Track and field: Runners and jumpers impress at Seattle indoor meet
By Matt Lee
At their first indoor track and field meet of the season, the Simon Fraser University teams impressed two weekends ago at the Dempsey Indoor Preview hosted ...
Clan athlete of the week: Kuzminski leads the charge for SFU
By Matt Lee
If the Clan could play Trinity Western every night, Matt Kuzminski might be mistaken for Kobe Bryant. In two games against the Spartans last weekend, ...
Canucks commentary: Just how much is Alex Burrows worth?
By Richard Loat
When you look at Alex Burrows’ numbers there’s no denying that he’s been a huge success because of the Sedin twins. One can’t argue, though, that he’s not ...
NHL commentary: Let the Kovalchuk sweepstakes begin
By Matt Lee
I’m going to make this perfectly clear so every Canuck fan (both intelligent and ignorant) can get this right: Ilya Kovalchuk is not going to be traded to ...
Opinions
Fiona First-Year and the Quest for the Fabled Festivites
By Kelly Thoreson
Is it the case, as some claim, that Towers is the ideal place for first-year students to get jiggy and party like it’s 1999?
No. Absolutely ...
Co-op is a ripoff
By Jessica Yan
In the fall of last year a telecommunications company hired me. Life was good and working full-time was a new experience. Although it was tiring, at the end ...
Prorogation is not “time off”
By Chris Thomas
I must take exception to Erika Zell’s sensational and superficial view of the prorogation of Parliament [We pay for MPs’ days off, January ...
Hands off my Beaver
By Rob Holt
WINNIPEG (CUP) -— Canada’s second-oldest magazine, The Beaver, announced last week that it will be changing its name in an effort to connect with a ...
We are all to blame for bad classes
By Kendra Wong
After the all-too-short Christmas break, students returned to the dreary, concrete halls of the AQ to start a fresh semester with new classes. As a ...
Leave Pat Robertson alone
By Graham Templeton
“Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon III, ...
Profiling is not racist
By Juan Tolentino
I will admit that Robert Lutener’s letter [Racist profiling will not make us safer, January 18] has caused me to modify my position: perhaps racial profiling ...