#thecanoe

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You’ll never out paddle… THE CANOE. coming this October. #TheCanoe #ComingSoon#MoviesWe’dLikeToSee #Canoe2KillerKayak. (at Rogers Park, Chicago) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnXZqrtJjvE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Building a Better NSO

I attended the Student Union Society’s (SUS) New Student Orientation (NSO) in September and one of the UFV-lead, program-specific NSOs in March. The two NSOs were vastly different experiences. One provided me with the useful information I needed for my first year, and the other left me with a few familiar faces on campus.

At the SUS-lead NSO there were amiable leaders to help us along as we were separated into small groups. In the morning there was time dedicated to workshops. In the afternoon many students had left as the NSO shifted to a social atmosphere for the new students to get to know each other better.

The experience on a whole lacked information on the community activities offered at UFV and didn’t have much impact on us students. It was visible that roughly half the students that attended the morning sessions were gone by noon. I myself chose to stay because the afternoon schedule included a mini-carnival set-up for the students to socialize.

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The food service space in the recently closed Canoe restaurant has been opened up for student use this fall as a temporary lounge and study space. The lounge area will be accessible while the Student Union Building (SUB) is open, from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m., for general use.

According to Student Union Society (SUS) president Gurvir Gill, the area on the second floor of the SUB will remain mostly unchanged. The tables and chairs are there for anyone to use as a study or leisure space, and SUS has brought in a microwave and some board games for public use.

There have been discussions about bringing movie nights for students to the space, but there are no official plans for implementing this activity.

“SUS will be doing some programming throughout the year as it goes,” Gill said in an email.

According to Gill, there have not been many expenses associated with repurposing the restaurant space.

Gill said after the closure in September that SUS was in the process of reaching agreements with external stakeholders to launch a new franchise on campus, and no further updates have been announced. This amenity would serve as a food and beverage station in place of the Canoe restaurant.

“We have and will continue to do everything in our power to bring cost-effective food service back into our space,” Gurvir noted in the press release.

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Putting The SUB in Subway

“The closure of the Canoe restaurant was announced a couple weeks ago, and it has me thinking: are we FINALLY going to have a Subway restaurant in the Student Union Building? Back in 2015, when the building was near completed, there was a rumour that a Subway would be opening. It obviously never happened, and yet we still see their advertisements near one of the entrances. Who wouldn’t want a building smelling of freshly-baked cookies and bread? It’d be pretty enticing, and probably drive more sales if SUS leased the area to a well-known restaurant, rather than making us, the students, pay for another Canoe or Finnegan’s-type menu.” -Anjuman Grewal Image: Simer Haer/The Cascade

[susanmaries]

5th floor, going down? @heeda_palma @kristinstagramz #duckys #onetake #theelevator #thecanoe #bestIGever #journey #seperateways Shot by @vinniegramz (at Ducky's)