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SFU professor under fire

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Advocates respond to supportive housing cuts in Vancouver

Everyone suffers when we prioritize profit over products

Fours years later, Myanmar still resists

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Inside a secret Blusson Hall operation

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In last week’s issue, “Peace for Ukraine,” there was a printing error in one of our articles that caused part of the text to be unreadable in the Features article “SFYou: Get to know SOCA’s new student support coordinator.” We didn’t anticipate this to cover the text and apologize for the inconvenience to our readers, as well as Muna Mavhima, who we interviewed for the piece. The text can be read in the digital issue at issuu.com/peaksfu.

NEWS

March 17, 2025

COMPUTER SCIENCE QUALMS

If anybody puts me on social media, I will go after you legally and destroy your future.

STEV E N PEARC E · LE CT U R E R , S F U

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NEWS

News Editor Hannah Fraser · News Writers Mason Mattu and Lucaiah Smith-Miodownik · news@the-peak.ca

HOUSING HALT

A massive gap in knowledge and empathy between those in power and the general public, especially those with less power, and those who are struggling and vulnerable.

F I O NA YO R K A DVO CAT E FO R U N H O U S E D IN D IV ID UA LS

Summer 2025 Courses GSWS 101-3 Gender Talk (Online)

Should sex work be legalized? Is pornography sexist? How is gender and sexuality portrayed in popular culture? If you are interested in the ways we live as gendered beings in Canadian society, then GSWS 101 will be of interest to you. This introductory survey course examines the historical and cultural meanings of gender and sexuality, examines how ideas about gender shape institutions, popular culture, and social policies, studies the intersections of gender with race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality, and debates the history and future of feminist activism.

GSWS 333-4 ST: The Sexual and Gendered Relations of Property

Mondays & Wednesdays 10:30 – 12:20 AJ Withers Property impacts every aspect of our lives and how we live them. Myriad social practices and relations inform its design and distribution. Sexual and gender politics are ever present in relation to property yet often rendered invisible. Beginning from the imposition of private property as central to the Canadian process of colonization, this course examines major themes in relation to the ownership of people, animals, land and things within the Canadian settler state.

OPINIONS

March 17, 2025

SFSS EVENTS

The Peak previously reported that “total expenses were $194,388.”

CAMPUS CLEANLINESS

With all the stressors that already exist in a university and academic setting, why reinforce it with the physical surroundings that you have control over?

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Opinions Editor Sofia Chassomeris · opinions@the-peak.ca

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IMMIGRATION CONTROVERSIES

The government is perpetuating neocolonialism by introducing immigrant labour only when they need it.

DEATH BY INDUSTRY

March 17, 2025

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Protests do not always have to be violent or even physical.

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Arts & Culture Editor Izzy Cheung · arts@the-peak.ca

ARTS & CULTURE

ADD OIL

The loud moments of the performance were loud, but the quiet moments were even louder.

March 17, 2025

SPORTS

BUDGET-FRIENDLY FITNESS

MARCH 1 — A BUSY DAY March 1 was a busy day for the Red Leafs, who took part in five different events. The men’s wrestling team placed 12th in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) DII Men’s Wrestling Championships, with this being their last tournament of the season. SFU softball played Western Washington twice, starting the day with a 1–0 win and ending it with a 7–1 loss. Red Leafs women’s basketball took home an 88–79 win against Seattle Pacific, while the men’s team was defeated 73–70 by Central Washington. With the win and the loss, SFU’s basketball season is officially over.

MARCH 2 — LAST CHANCES AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY The Last Chance Indoor National Qualifier occurred on March 2 at Boston University, where members of SFU track & field competed for a spot at the NCAA DII Indoor Track and Field Championships. The 4x400m women’s relay team of Emma Cannan, Elizabeth Vanderput, Claire Bosma, and Marie-Éloïse Leclair broke a Great Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC) record in order to punch their ticket to the championships, finishing their race in 3:39.78. As well, senior Andrew Thomson ran a 4:07.91 mile, breaking a personal record. In distance medley relays (DMR), performances by Aiden Good, Tyson Carr, Colton Plummer, and Jose Castro clocked the team in at 9:47.71.

MARCH 6 AND 7 — HOME MATCHES FOR THE SOFTBALL TEAM SFU softball hosted two afternoon matches on Thursday, March 6, both against Northwest Nazarene. The first match, which started at 2:00 p.m., went to SFU with a final score of 8–4. Neither team had to wait very long for a rematch, as the next game commenced at 4:42 p.m. SFU took a 5–3 loss to round out the day. On March 7, the softball team picked up from where they left off the day before, hosting another two games against Nazarene. This time, SFU took both matches decisively, winning 10–2 and 8–0 to wrap up their homestand.

MARCH 7 AND 8 — WRAPPING UP THE WRESTLING SEASON Meanwhile, in Iowa, the SFU women’s wrestling team took part in their final tournament of the season — the National Collegiate Women’s Wrestling Championships (NCWWC). They placed 21st out of 64 participating teams.

MARCH 10 AND 11 — A SWING FOR FIFTH Both of SFU’s men’s and women’s golf teams travelled to California for tournaments on March 10 and 11. The men’s team took part in the East Bay Tim Tierney Pioneer Shootout, placing seventh of 17 after both tournament days concluded. The women’s team, participating in the San Marcos Fujikura Invitational, placed fifth out of 14 other schools.

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HUMOUR

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Mason Mattu

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