The Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) is the students' union of Simon Fraser University in Metro Vancouver, Canada. It was founded after the opening of Simon Fraser University in 1967.
The SFSS consists of over 26,000 students, with an annual budget of over one million dollars. Membership is mandatory, and all SFU students as members are charged fees collected by the university on behalf of the SFSS. The organization employs both permanent and student staff, and is located on the second level of the Maggie Benston Centre on SFU's Burnaby Campus. The student society also has an office and provides services at the satellite campus of SFU Surrey with Ed Deeks as the sole staff operating there. The SFSS does not own a student union building but there has been ongoing debates and discussion with the University pertaining to the possibility of including a Student Union Building (SUB) in future reconstruction on the Burnaby Campus.
The SFSS operates a copy centre where printing services are provided. Other services also include a soup bar, a coffee shop, a pub, a Women's Centre, and a LGBT Centre on the Burnaby campus. It distributes dayplanners, and provides legal clinics and funding for departmental student unions, campus clubs, social events, academic events and political groups.
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