Devanne O’Brien - The Xaverian Weekly -
ANTIGONISH, N.S. (CUP) — The St. Francis Xavier Association of University Teachers voted to accept the their administration’s most recent contract offer, quashing the worries of 4,000 students who might have had to deal with a strike or lockout at the end of the winter semester.
Over sixty per cent of [...]

Alex Solak – The Aquinian -
We’re still waiting for the official ratified email from the Student Union’s returning officer, but the initial report puts Ella Henry as the next president of the St. Thomas University Students’ Union.
The Chief Returning Officer has confirmed everything, and here are the official results:
The results of the run-off are:
Melissa Bastarache…………245
Ella [...]

STU is getting ready for next year’s course registrations.  WebAdvisor has already been loaded with all the available course for the 2010-2011 school year.
As with every year, students entering their 4th year get first choice.  That starts on March 25 at 6:00 A.M.
Here’s full list of start dates:

Thursday, March 25 at 6:00 am, for [...]

East Side Board Supply hosted a Shovel-Off at Kimble skate park over the weekend. With the help of 25 local skateboarders the park was snow free within a hour and half. After the snow was cleared East Side owner Brain Muir provided food and drinks for anyone who came out to help.

Bastarache and Henry battle for union supremacy
Jamie Ross – The Aquinian -
When the ballots were finally tallied, Sean Thompson could hardly believe his eyes. So he counted again, and the result was the same: the race for president of the students’ union had resulted in a tie.
“It was freaky,” said Thompson, Chief Returning Officer [...]

Matt McCann- The Aquinian-
Rick Myers had a peculiar introduction to the world of St. Thomas.
A young political science student, Myers was just finishing his PhD at the University of Toronto when he noticed an advertisement on the wall of the political science department.
A small, East-Coast liberal arts university was looking for a part-time instructor.
Intrigued, Myers called [...]

By Jamie Ross-The Aquinian
Chief Returning Officer Sean Thompson says he hasn’t ruled out fining candidates who left their Facebook groups online after campaigning for the general elections closed.
But he won’t disqualify the candidates who broke St. Thomas University Students’ Union  bylaws.
“But I have a feeling there’ll be an appeal about that,” said Thompson.
He received notice Tuesday night that [...]

Social justice campaigner reinforces bottled-water ban option
Jamie Ross – The Aquinian
Bottled water is bad, a Polaris Institute campaigner told an audience of about 12 people last week.
“It’s an issue people are talking about, and people are wondering, ‘what’s the big deal,’” said Elly Adeland. “There’s the environmental aspect, the social economic aspect.”
Adeland, a speaker [...]

(CUP)–The faculty union at UNB won’t strike for the time being.
A conciliation board has been formed to settle the contract dispute between the university administration and approximately 600 full times teachers, researchers and librarians, represented by Association of University of New Brunswick Teachers (AUNBT), post-secondary education Minister Donald Arsenault announced last week.
UNB’s full-time faculty has [...]

Jamie Ross – The Aquinian
Issues of identity, land claims and the repatriation of ancestral remains will be at the heart of Native Awareness Days –a week-long event to be held at STU later this month.
“We have to stand up and speak out, and native awareness days gives us that opportunity,” said Frank Jr. Molley, [...]