The World of Sam Reynolds

For the past two weeks Community Advisors in SFU’s residences have been holding meetings reminding residents about the changes to the rules during the two week Olympic break. These changes were outlined in an addendum to the licence (SFU doesn’t offer housing under the BC Tenant act) agreement signed by students when they moved into (…)

In 1985 Media Ecologist Neil Postman wrote a book, Amusing Ourselves to Death,  that forewarned of Huxleyan future where the public was oppressed through pleasure, delivered through the medium of Television. Postman viewed Television as a “soma” for the world; as a result mankind would exchange his intellect for entertainment. Because of the proliferation of television, everything has (…)

On Wednesday, December 30, Calgary Herald journalist Michelle Lang and four Canadian soldiers were killed when an improvised explosive device destroyed the armoured vehicle they were traveling in near Kandahar. Last Sunday afternoon, the bodies of Lang and the four soldiers killed arrived at the Canadian Forces Base in Trenton, Ontario. A repatriation ceremony was (…)