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Where’s my STU paystub?

The Aquinian As of the June 11 pay, the St. Thomas University payroll office is no longer distributing paper paystubs (also known as ‘payroll advice’). Information on your pay can instead be found through WebAdvisor, using your regular login information. Once you log in, select the new purple employees button… …and select the link on [...]

What is a gamer? What is a game?

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John Solak comes home with with two friends in tow. They’re loaded down with snacks and drinks from the convenience store around the corner. Energy to keep them alert well into the night. With a short ‘Hey’ to whoever’s sitting in the living room, he heads straight for the door to the basement, and towards [...]

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Tron: Legacy trailer

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Now what would any self-respecting nerd do when the a new Trailer for Tron 2 drops?  Not show it? (It’s even awesome-r in HD and fullscreen.)

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Keeping students engaged in STUSU elections is always a challenge. So this year, to facilitate discussion, why don’t you contact the candidates themselves? Here’s a hand-dandy list of contact info.  If we’ve forgotten anything just let us know in the comment section, and we’ll add it as soon as possible. For President: Melissa Bastarache – [...]

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The rumour-mill surrounding Telus is working overtime this week. It seems Canada will be getting it’s own version of the famed Droid phone this week. Thanks to a pile of leaks, we can be pretty certain Telus will debut the Canadian Droid on Feb. 18.  And I have to say it looks pretty cool. The [...]

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Alex Solak – The Aquinian Well Facebook celebrated it’s 6th birthday today with their favourite activity: Redesigning your homepage. The new homepage will put a higher emphasis on the search bar, and allows you do more right from the homepage. Now you’ll be able to read previews of messages, and send messages without opening the [...]

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New year welcomes new Journalism course.

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Well I’m back from vacation and ready for a much busier new year. I fully admit this little blog hasn’t been getting the attention it deserves, but that’s going to change. Expect a lot more updates this semester. We’ll kick things off with some interesting news for journalism students. St. Thomas University has finally added [...]

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The best tech you’ve never heard of. #1

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It’s hard to keep up with technology on a regular basis.  Advances come quickly and often target what the tech industry calls ‘early adopters’ (otherwise known, affectionately, as geeks).  Most new products that come out these days never even make it to the regular public, and the ones that do often aren’t well understood. That’s [...]

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STUSU VP Admin by-election speeches -Video-

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STU internet fail

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STUfail Tried to get on the STU page today at 1:50pm.  Fail. We’re looking into why it’s down. Could it possibly be the new website that’s been ‘on it’s way’ for about 2 years now?  We can only hope. -Update- 1:53pm:  Nope, looks like it was just down for some other reason.  Oh well.

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Alex Solak – The Aquinian Larger, more secure network launching right now Thanks to a $500,000 grant from the federal Knowledge Infrastructure Program, STU’s Information Technology Services department has upgraded the wireless internet system for the entire campus. The new wireless internet is just one of the planned projects. ITS is also working on an [...]

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Alex Solak – The Aquinian We students are all part of a union.  It’s a pretty big operation. We (well some of us) elect a group of 19-20 people every year.  Those people are somehow responsible for the hiring of at least a dozen other staff members.  Some of those staff members deal with even [...]

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