SFU Scientists Discover Fossilized Ant the Size of Hummingbird
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May 16, 2011 • 138/2 • FREE www.the-peak.ca | Kind of like a pokémon since 1965 STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY ! SFU scientists discover fossilized ant the size of hummingbird NEWS 4 May 16, 2011 tVolume 138 Issue 2 2 FIRST PEEK THE PEAK THIS WEEK Maggie Benston Centre 2900 Simon Fraser University 8888 University Drive Burnaby, B.C., Canada V5A 1S6 The Peak offi ce is located on the second fl oor of the Maggie Benston Centre, underneath Higher Grounds coffee shop. 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What are its themes? How like accepting the idea of letting people do drugs. from here? much of it can we control? So I guess I’m against it.” I have observed a move to- wards a more moderate, tem- pered feminism that revisits Esther Tung its politically and socially pro- Elected Columnist gressive roots without pushing Caitlyn Mccoleman aside the importance of the MA candidate, psychology Feminism is dead, so they say. individual. Here is my pro- The label has become a bit of posed outline for the new age “It scares me that they’re in the news again and a taboo, while interest and ac- of feminism: they may not be available in the future. I think tivism have declined over the Rather than trying to beat they’re a great idea.” years. Questions have been men at their game by play- raised over its relevance, and I ing by their rules, we should have to agree with many of the reclaim spaces and redefine criticisms of the current femi- them with a female context. A nist establishment. mother cannot be held to the Feminism has had the priv- same standards for success as Amber Hay ilege of becoming well-devel- a single man. Children should MA candidate, public health oped in the West, though that become a part of her success, is only in comparison to, well, not outside of it. “I’m in the faculty of health science, so I think that the rest of the world. It cannot We should celebrate com- on a health basis alone, they’re very important. So, even begin to exist in poverty- plexity and holism, and return I‘m for them.” stricken places like sub-Saha- value to feminine qualities, in- ran Africa. Even in the affluent cluding sexuality. Saudi Arabia, women risk ar- We must begin to extend rest and beatings should they more helping hands towards attempt to vote. areas where feminism has not begun or is in its early stages. Emrah Gorgulu We should celebrate The fight for gender equality PhD candidate, linguistics is far from over; there is the complexity and rest of the world to go. On- “It’s good to have these institutions. If it doesn’t holism, and return line spaces have been a major promote drug use, so long as it’s under control, value to feminine component in this, at least in they seem OK to me.” connecting with more indus- qualities, including trialized nations such as Saudi sexuality. Arabia. Finally, total inclusion of all women is necessary to the First-wave feminism strove progress of feminism, as well to establish voting rights for as working closely with other Alvin Wong women. Second-wave activ- genders, as opposed to the cur- 2nd-year health science ism took place mostly between rent, prevailing ‘us versus the the ‘60s and ‘80s, and its prin- world’ mentality. While we now “I think I’m against it. It’s too close to legalizing ciples still exist, though often embrace women of all income drugs, it doesn’t help keep people from using.” disharmoniously, with third- classes, ethnicity, and gender wave feminism. The former orientation, there remains a stresses social activism, while deep divide between those of the latter movement focuses different political views. Con- on personal empowerment. servative and liberal-minded The pro-male, pro-sex sen- feminists constantly under- timents of third-wave femi- mine each other. nism, best characterized by I hope that feminism will the main cast of Sex and the evolve to have themes so uni- City and lifestyle magazines versal that the entire political such as Cosmopolitan, arose spectrum may come to agree WANT TO SAY MORE? in part to combat backlash on them fully, and that femi- from its predecessor that nism will be the vehicle for painted feminists as man- unity of all gender identities hating lesbians.