All Posts Tagged With: "Simon Fraser Student Society"
SFU men’s centre has new critic
Communist League weighs in
The planned men’s centre at Simon Fraser University has a new critic. The Young Communist League of Canada told Nexus student newspaper at Camosun College that while women need a centre on campus because of “systemic barriers,” men should not have their own space.
Jeff McCann, university relations officer of the Simon Fraser Student Society, disagrees: “That attitude is part of the problem in society. I believe that this place should exist, and that it is nobody’s right to deny men of a service that many experts and students believe to be a valuable idea.”
Seed money for a man-only space was included in the April budget of the SFSS. To read Maclean’s columnist Emma Teitel’s take on the fervent opposition to the funding, click here.
A place just for men?
Simon Fraser students debate gender-exclusive spaces
Midgley (centre) Photo by Brian Howell
Keenan Midgley played basketball, soccer, baseball and football. But it isn’t his athletic skill that has made him well-known on campus in Burnaby, B.C. It’s the budget he’s written as treasurer of the Simon Fraser Student Society.
The fifth-year accounting student added funding that will carve out a special space on campus for guys. The men’s centre, assuming the budget passes a final vote, will get $30,000 next year. That’s the same amount that the women’s centre, started in 1974, will receive.
The pending creation of the men-only space is the source of much discussion at Simon Fraser University. Since the news broke in April, many students have questioned whether the men deserve funding. Along with that, a debate has emerged over whether women—who make up 55 per cent of undergraduate students at SFU—still need their own women-only space.
CFS and SFSS go to court
Since I’m extremely busy right now, I going to merely link to this article in the hope that I won’t have to deal with legal letters.
Since I’m extremely busy right now, I going to merely link to this article in the hope that I won’t have to deal with legal letters.
Simon Fraser student politics is always interesting
The Peak, Simon Fraser University’s student newspaper, printed its first summer issue last week. I have to admit I’m jealous of the paper, since SFU student politics always offer interesting stories. The new volume has a strong opinion editor, the one and only J.J.McCullough who has been Editor-in-Chief of Douglas College’s The Other Press and [...]
The Peak, Simon Fraser University’s student newspaper, printed its first summer issue last week. I have to admit I’m jealous of the paper, since SFU student politics always offer interesting stories.
The new volume has a strong opinion editor, the one and only J.J.McCullough who has been Editor-in-Chief of Douglas College’s The Other Press and CRO for the Simon Fraser Students’ Society. McCullough opens up with a column stating he will not publish any opinion articles about swearing. (Using the work “fuck” ten times in the process.)
CFS vs SFSS debate
The video from the CFS debate at Simon Fraser is online: http://www.lidc.sfu.ca/archive/sfss/cfs/ Also, this gives you an idea of just how strong the movement for independence is at SFSS. Other than one group (there are not officially slates at SFSS) of candidates, all candidates for SFSS executive are with pro-independence or did not attend debates. [...]
The video from the CFS debate at Simon Fraser is online:
http://www.lidc.sfu.ca/archive/sfss/cfs/
Also, this gives you an idea of just how strong the movement for independence is at SFSS. Other than one group (there are not officially slates at SFSS) of candidates, all candidates for SFSS executive are with pro-independence or did not attend debates.
(Of course, this may not be a reflection of pro-independence sentiment as much as a reflection of organization by the pro-CFS faction.)
