The Peak (newspaper)
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The Peak is the independent student newspaper at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, a suburb of Vancouver. It was founded in 1965 shortly after the university was established through the merger of the Tartan and the SF View, and became a fully autonomous student newspaper in 1995. The Peak is published by the Peak Publications Society and funded by student fees and advertising. The print edition is ISSN 1710-0674, while the online edition is ISSN 1710-0682. The newspaper is a member of Canadian University Press.
The Peak is run by a collective of interested students, and has no editor-in-chief. Rather, it has a group of elected section "co-ordinators" who run the paper on a day-to-day basis and a number of volunteer contributors, often called Peakies.
The Peak has been online since 1994, when contributor and communications student Gordon Ross created a website for the newspaper, complete with archiving, as a class project.
Notable Peak alumni include well-known author and interviewing expert John Sawatsky, who was editor of the newspaper in the early 1970s. Some former Peakies keep in touch through the Peak Alumni Group.
The Peak is a weekly newspaper with a press run of 10,000 copies and is distributed throughout the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. Thirteen issues are published each semester for a total of 39 per year. Currently, it is (one of?) the only student newspaper that runs weekly issues during the summer.
The Peak is a member of the Canadian University Press, and has had three editors move on to the CUP National Office. Maureen McEvoy as President in CUP 42, Stephen Hui as National Bureau Chief in CUP 67, and Amanda McCuaig as President in CUP 70 (2007-08).
[edit] See also
- Simon Fraser University
- Canadian University Press
- Student newspaper
- List of Canadian student newspapers
[edit] External links
- The Peak
- "The tumultuous history of SFU's student press," by Mike Hingston
