Volume 11, No. 7April 2, 1998

Rite of spring

Art student Jennifer Evers' project, For You, seems timely with Easter approaching, but her goal was to create a crucifix that would "speak" on a personal level, and not just represent religion. The body's purple color symbolizes royalty and does not imply any particular race, says Evers, whose work hangs near the women's centre on the way to the west mall centre. The artwork is one of 30 projects temporarily installed around campus by two classes of first-year art students in the school for the contemporary arts. The creations have become a traditional sign of spring on the Burnaby campus.

Note: This is the last issue of Simon Fraser News for the spring '98 semester. Watch for the first edition of the summer semester on May 7.

Contents

News

• First-ever grad student survey reveals strengths -- and weaknesses
• Campus housing plans win support, construction should start in 2000
• Budget provides 2.5% hike to postsecondary sector
• Women's basketball: Team makes final four, loses in a squeaker
• R.H. Wright award: Researcher studies lobster sense of smell
• 1998 plant sale promises to be bigger and better
• New board members elected
• SFU is funding partner in new national NMR research centre
• Posters stir 30-year-old memories of tumultuous times in City of Lights
• United Way: Donors down in '97, hopes high for '98
• United Way: Thank you, all

Features

• Study sounds alarm over video game use
• The Voice -- SFU's first Chinese student newspaper gains momentum
• "The work is out there," says staff at SFU's busy employment centre
• New artificial intelligence software draws rave reviews
• Diet holds clues to a Viking mystery

In Memoriam

In Brief

Opinion

• Please loiter...by Norman Swartz

Spotlight

Dateline

Art & Theatre

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