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Featured Stories
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Avoiding a ‘Killer Tan’
18 May 2012 by Phoebe Lim / No Comments
With so much pressure from the media to look a certain way, teens often succumb to the glamorous end result they expect to have after buying a certain product or getting a certain hairstyle. Trying to look our best isn’t a bad thing, but the line must be drawn, and probably one of the most detrimental things you can do is getting a tan.
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Look of the Week – Tangerine
10 May 2012 by sarah veness / No Comments
With beautiful summer-like weather finally upon us it’s time to break out those pieces you’ve been coveting. From tops to jackets, dresses, pants, nails and accessories, tangerine has been making an appearance any way it can.
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April 2012 #2: Devon Drumm
01 May 2012 by Zahra Premji / No Comments
At 22, Devon Drumm is a graduate of the Art Institute of Vancouver with a focus on graphic design, has created his own gaming start up called Pepperdev Studios, and is now working on Hungry Fins, a mobile game app that can be purchased in app stores once funded and produced. Let’s not forget that he can now add “Y57′s Youth of the Month” on to his list of accomplishments!
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Sam Alviar: Aspiring Local Talent
01 May 2012 by Sonia Sophia / No Comments
Sam Alviar is an aspiring local musician writing a handful of beautiful acoustic/folk numbers with a singer-songwriter approach, all taken from the heart.
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Sorry kids, Katimavik is on the chopping block again
01 May 2012 by sarah veness / No Comments
Apparently Canadian funding cuts aren’t just for the arts anymore. The Conservative party’s federal budget unveiling on April 19th, 2012 announced Canadian youth volunteer program Katimavik would no longer received government funding, ending the program altogether after 35 years.
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Look of the Week – Justine Brenneis
30 Apr 2012 by sarah veness / No Comments
Name: Justine Brenneis, Third Year Communication Student @ SFU
Spotted: North Burnaby
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Trayvon Martin: A Victim of Racial Profiling
17 Apr 2012 by Min Young Hwang / No Comments
Have you ever imagined being killed because of the colour of your skin and the clothes you choose to wear?
On February 26th, 2012, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot dead on his way home in Sanford, Florida. George Zimmerman, the 28-year-old watch captain of the neighbourhood, who had decided that the boy had looked “suspicious” in his dark hoodie and now claims that he had acted out of self-defense, has been charged with second-degree murder.
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12 New Food Carts and Salty Politics for the Young Entrepreneur
09 Apr 2012 by Emily / 1 Comment
Last week, the City of Vancouver approved 12 new food carts to add to the growing diversity of Vancouver’s food haven melting pot. Out of 59 applicants this time around, however, that’s an eighty percent rejection rate for non-approval of entering the market.
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AWEAR Charity Fashion Show
06 Apr 2012 by sarah veness / No Comments
I was lucky enough to score an invitation to The Langara Business Association’s (LBA) 3rd Annual AWEAR Charity Fashion Show on March 27th, 2012. The event was already in full swing when I arrived, and was quickly swept into the beautifully decorated show room.
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Look of the Week – Exam Gear
05 Apr 2012 by sarah veness / No Comments
Ladies and gentlemen, as we find ourselves coming to the end of another school year, we find ourselves (or at least I know I do) hovering towards the comfiest clothes in our closet. Your most fashionable friends start to downward spiral towards a uniform revolving around sweat pants, yoga pants, sweat shirts, unwashed hair and last week’s makeup. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, as I write this I find myself barely dressed, but incredibly comfortable in leggings, a tank and my room mates sweater, exam-time bliss.
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Grade 12′s, do you have senioritis?
02 Apr 2012 by Richelle Zheng / No Comments
Does this sound familiar? You’re studying for a calculus exam when you’d rather be stalking cats on the Internet. You’re stuck writing an in-class essay when you’d rather be outside playing tag. It’s not like you haven’t had these thoughts during the past four years of high school, but it seems different now.
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