While walking to class on Burnaby campus, it’s hard to miss the vibrant chalk drawings adorning the pillars of Freedom Square, remnants of SFU’s extravagant birthday bash earlier this semester. “Flower power,” reads one particularly colourful entry. “Happy birthday, SFU!” read a few others. Apart from these and a few other decorations, you would hardly …
How much did you spend on textbooks this semester? You don’t have to answer that. We all know that feeling of disappointment that comes with shelling out more than $100 on a textbook you’ll probably never use again. For decades, academic publishers and university bookstores have charged students hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dollars for textbooks, …
“You know, Mr. Bennett, I want to have something really outstanding in the way of architecture, and I’d like to have a competition for the design of the university.” Dr. Gordon Shrum, a 65-year old former physics professor and recently retired Dean of Graduate Studies at the University of British Columbia, was sitting down with …