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News

Michelle Gomez News Team Member

Henry Tran / Coordinating News Editor Michelle Gomez, Youeal Abera / News Team

March 18, 2019 news@the-peak.ca

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Henry Tran / Coordinating News Editor Michelle Gomez, Youeal Abera / News Team

News

news@the-peak.ca

Henry Tran Coordinating News Editor

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Opinions

Zach Siddiqui Copy Editor

Gene Cole / Opinions Editor

March 18, 2019 opinions@the-peak.ca

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Opinions

Gene Cole / Opinions Editor

opinions@the-peak.ca

Giovanni HoSang SFU Student

Summer 2019 Courses GSWS 205-3 Gender and Popular Culture: Showgirls: Performance, Embodiment and Sexuality Tuesdays: 14:30 – 17:20

Mary Shearman

Are erotic dancers shrewd workers or exploited by a patriarchal society? If femininity is a performance and not a ‘natural’ disposition, why is it still employed by so may people even though its history is sometimes conceived as synonymous with being oppressed? Can a feminist go-go dancer subversively use her performance to challenge the objectification of her body?

This course is designed to aid students in developing analytical skills by investigating and critiquing the formal and mundane performance of femininity. This will be achieved through gaining exposure to, and comprehension of performance studies and feminist theories that address the potential of the sexualized female performer. We will look at examples from venues such as burlesque dancing, performance art, punk music, and drag culture. By the end of this course, students will be able to identify ways in which people who seek to subvert gendered power relations can utilize the prescription of femininity.

GSWS 319-4 Islamic Feminism Thursdays: 13:30 – 17:20

Itrath Syed

The idea of being at once Muslim and feminist continues to be constructed as an ontological impossibility by all sides. The combination of a hegemonic discourse that racializes Muslims as the irredeemable civilizational other, on the one hand, and the dominant patriarchal readings of Islam within Muslim discourses, on the other, threaten to render obsolete the resistant voices of Muslim women. Added to this mix is a western feminist tradition that has often objectified Muslim women as passive, infantilized and in need of being saved. And yet, Muslim women’s feminisms and their activism for social change continues to thrive despite this most inhospitable context.

This course will explore the voices of contemporary Muslim feminists and examine the strategies they have employed to create a viable third space – one that is neither apologetic to patriarchy nor a pawn in shifting global political realities.

GSWS 398W-4 Feminist Currents On-line/Distance Education This course examines major ideas in post-third wave feminist writing while exploring various forms of critical and creative expression. We will focus on the following themes: third wave and postfeminist debates; activism and creativity; men, masculinity and feminism; gender variance and trans issues; critical thinking in the classroom. The writing intensive component of the course helps students develop analytical, writing, and research skills through a variety of writing assignments including blogging, exploratory writing, a group ’zine project, and a sequence of short assignments that build up to a final writing project. We will also use writing as a vehicle for reading comprehension, ideas generation, creative expression, and group communication.

Students are encouraged to contribute actively to the learning environment with ideas from their own experience, practices, and visions of feminism.

All GSWS course outlines available at: www.sfu.ca/gsws

SFU PRESIDENTIAL SEARCH SFU is beginning the process to find the University’s next President.

You’re invited to share your thoughts on what experience, leadership, and personal qualities are important in the selection of our next President.

Your input will help shape the position description.

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PARTICIPATE BETWEEN MARCH 15 - APRIL 14 Online survey: surveymonkey.ca/r/sfu-pres-search-survey Written submission: pres_search@sfu.ca All campus forum: April 3, 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

• Burnaby campus - Halpern 126 • Surrey campus - SUR5380 • Vancouver campus - Joseph & Rosalie Segal Centre The all campus forum will also be livestreamed Drop-in events: • SFU Surrey campus, Mezzanine, March 25, 3:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

• SFU Vancouver campus, Concourse, March 27, 3:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

• SFU Burnaby campus, Saywell Hall Atrium, March 28, 11:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.

For more information visit: sfu.ca/bog/PSC2019-2020

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—— Instructor Shaun Sinclair meets with BCIT Business students at the Downtown Campus.

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Winona Young / Arts Editor

arts@the-peak.ca

Marco Ovies SFU Student

LET’S DO THIS TOGETHER: It’s time to listen, talk and reflect

Wendy Harbour

JOIN IN THE CONVERSATION ON BELONGING, INCLUSION, FAIRNESS AND RESPECT AT SFU As an advocate and powerful voice around

Ableism and Disability in Higher Education: Possibilities for Radical Inclusion

disability in higher education and universal

Wednesday, April 3

studies lens. As director of the National

2:30 PM – 4:30 PM Thompson Room, Diamond Alumni Centre, Burnaby campus

Center for College Students with Disabilities in the US, Wendy will be presenting:

The event is FREE but registration is required: www.sfu.ca/edi **This event will be livestreamed to Surrey & Vancouver campuses

Possibilities for Radical Inclusion.

Participate in the It’s Time to Listen, Talk and Reflect community conversation taking place at SFU now through April 2019 by attending this event and by sharing your thoughts and insights at any of our open dialogue forums.

design, Wendy Harbour teaches in policy and communication equity through a disability

Ableism and Disability in Higher Education: Wendy is an Obama appointee to the National Council on Disability and a lecturer at Saint Catherine University who holds a Master’s degree from the University of Minnesota, and a Master’s degree and doctorate from Harvard University.

CANADA’S ENGAGED UNIVERSITY sfu.ca

Arts

Winona Young Arts Editor

March 18, 2019

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Dylan Webb Peak Associate

Andrew Ringer / Sports Editor

sports@the-peak.ca

Sports

March 18, 2019

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LAYOUT BY TIMOTHY CHOW

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Zoe Vedova / Humour Editor

humour@the-peak.ca

Humour

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Yuri Zhou / Business Manager

business@the-peak.ca

PEAK SPEAKS PODCAST

NOTICE

is hiring We’ll publish newspapers in the summer, and we need people to help put them together! Get paid to work for the newspaper in a fun, flexible work environment!

Production Editor Copy Editor Coordinating News Editor

APPLICATIONS DUE:

MAR 31

You could f ill any one of these amazing positions!

News Team Member (2) Arts Editor Opinions Editor Multimedia Edior Humour Editor Features Editor Photo Editor Promotions Coordinator Assistant Production Editor (2) Multimedia Assistant Staf f Writer (2)

APPLICATIONS DUE:

MAR 31, 2019

Send resume and cover letter to jobs@the-peak.ca Visit the-peak.ca/ jobs for the details.