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March 08, 2010
Features
In the Mix: One student’s Olympic media adventure
By Kaylin Metchie
While some of you stayed at home or went to Mexico or Cuba or some other tropical destination, I was right here, wearing a bright blue shirt, volunteering ...
Survivor SFU
By David Proctor, John Morrison III
What started as a drunken challenge evolved into what was simultaneously one of the best and worst weeks of our lives. The three of us — John Morrison ...
Humour
Mystic Hall’s horoscopes
By Stephanie Hall (CUP)
Aquarius (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18)
There’s nothing logical about love. But if you put on the algoRHYTHM (that’s to say don’t be so ...
Staying Sharp: Tips for your concert experience
By Colin Sharp
Music keeps me going. Not a day goes by that I don’t peruse my CDs, selectively pick the one that best fits my mood, carefully remove it from its ...
Arts
Tales of an Herbivore: Eat your art out
By Jenny Shutek
Location: 1046 Hamilton Street, Vancouver Vegetarian and vegan options: Yes. Omnivore options: ...
Copping out The Crazies
By Cam Smith
In Hollywood, where reputation largely lives or dies on the box-office strength of your last endeavour, industry redemption is a highly sensationalized ...
Introducing the lame-o-meter
By Adam Cristobal
The Burning Hotels – Novels
MySpace.com/TheBurningHotels
Release date: April 27, ...
News
World Cultures Day creates club cohesion
By Carime Bohr
On Wednesday, March 3, students were invited to taste sweet Columbian coffee, sip Taiwanese bubble tea, and try on a traditional Korean costume, along with ...
Students still not a priority for government
By Kendra Wong
“In this budget, our government is keeping another promise. We are taking steps to reduce the deficit, to return to balanced budgets in the medium ...
Fee increases and housekeeping in upcoming referenda
By Carolina Dubanik
From March 16 to 18, SFU undergraduates will be voting in the annual Simon Fraser Student Society general elections, and along with voting in candidates, ...
Few candidates to run in SFSS election
By David Proctor
A startlingly low turnout of candidates for this year’s Simon Fraser Student Society general election has generated fears that voter turnout in the ...
Sports
Clan’s trip to Ottawa put on immediate hold
By Simon Wilson
SFU had an opportunity Friday night to advance to the CIS national championship tournament but fell to the Calgary Dinos 82-69 at UBC.
The Clan ...
SFU claims Canada West title
By Matt Lee
The Simon Fraser women’s basketball team was looking to re-affirm their Canada West dominance during the division finals, hosting the Final Four tournament ...
Clan add Barnes to coaching staff
By Matt Lee
The search for the SFU football team’s new offensive coordinator is finally over.
After a month of interviews, and poring over applicatons, head ...
Most entertaining hockey, ever!
By Justin Isaacs
The men’s ice hockey tournament was an amazing spectacle to witness over the last few weeks; the story was so perfect that George Orwell couldn’t have ...
Opinions
Fiona First-Year . . . and the case of the collegiate classes
By Kelly Thoreson
Let’s go back in time, friends — way back to the beginning of September — back to the first day of school.
My first day of school at SFU, I woke up ...
It’s not my fault!
By Anna Belkine
I’ve been disappointed with The Peak’s recent coverage of the Student Society’s supposed “DSU funding crisis” coverage which has often characterized me as ...
Conservatives are eroding Canadian values
By Ian Bushfield
Stephen Harper hates Canada, or at least he has indicated as much. He and his brand of Reform Party theo-cons have every intention of tearing down ...
What SFPIRG does
By Graham Templeton
Last week, The Peak published no fewer than four articles on the Simon Fraser Public Interest Research Group, and the most common piece of feedback was, ...
Support Relay For Life
By Kory Black
As a cancer patient in the last leg of treatment, I was asked to write this article to raise awareness for the SFU Relay For Life coming up on March 19, 2010. ...
Nuclear power is the bomb
By David Proctor
I’m a big fan of science fiction — including shitty science fiction. I know in my brain that Battlestar Galactica 1980, the spin-off that followed Apollo ...