Clickers help create community in the classroom
Some St. Thomas University students are being introduced to a new way of learning this semester – and it’s all thanks to the touch of a button. ‘Clickers’ are remote controls that allow students to anonymously have their say in a classroom, while allowing professors to translate complicated lecture material in more digestible ways. By [...]
Fredericton university students and professors urged the provincial government not to make cuts to post-secondary education at the budget consultation meeting last week. “The returns on education are phenomenal,” said Joey O’Kane, president of the New Brunswick Student Alliance and vice-president external of the University of New Brunswick student union. “If we want to see [...]
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Nesha Bertin has wanted to be a lawyer since she was eight years old. But her dream changed when she became pregnant at 16. “As much as I love my son, it was devastating,” she said. “I didn’t think I would go to school on scholarship, I didn’t think I would finish high school, period, [...]
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Tim Hortons has introduced a new, even bigger, 24-ounce extra large cup, which will offer even more coffee for all those coffee lovers. But not everyone at St. Thomas University is happy about the change. Because there is a new extra large, the old extra large is now just a large, the old large a [...]
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Questions about pedestrian safety at the Montgomery-Windsor street crosswalk have come to light after a woman was struck by a car earlier this month. The 26-year-old woman was hit on the busy street on Jan. 22 at about 6 p.m. by a blue or black Ford Focus. She sustained minor injuries as a result of [...]
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Susan Machum grew up on a farm near Oak Point, N.B., one she felt she would be happy to leave behind. And so she did, travelling, studying and researching. But the farm refused to leave Machum and with each successive experience, she found herself ever more drawn into the serious problems facing the state of [...]
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First-year student Andrew Nice doesn’t just worry about his grades — but where his next meal comes from too. “When my groceries first got drastically low, I found myself eating three peanut butter sandwiches a day and dry cereal. I started to get sick and had to get something else to eat.” Halfway through first [...]
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It isn’t just the students’ union that’s left in the dark about funding changes to post-secondary education in New Brunswick. The St. Thomas University administration also knows little about the details of the four-year funding agreement that will be part of the upcoming provincial budget expected in late March. Earlier this month, STU students’ union [...]
Continue reading …St. Thomas University may be one of the region’s smallest universities, but that hasn’t stopped its students from making big waves. While STU’s enrolment accounts for less than one per cent of all Canadian university students, STU students have accounted for more than three per cent of Canadian Rhodes Scholars in the past eight years. [...]
Continue reading …It’s been almost exactly two years since Chris George began his three-year term as St. Thomas University’s director of aboriginal initiatives. Since then, George has familiarized himself with some of the university’s aboriginal students and made contacts with aboriginal communities and organizations around the province. But many of the fruits of the 1999 STU graduate’s [...]
Continue reading …Bernie Lucht was 16 when he first watched the production of a television program. He was hooked. “I was impressed by the nature of the event, by the professionalism,” he said in a phone interview. “I thought to myself, ‘I want to work in this medium.’” The rest, as they say, is history. Lucht is [...]
Continue reading …You can count on a celebration this weekend at Harrington Hall. After six weeks, the residence is no longer dry. A meeting was held Friday afternoon to discuss the future of the alcohol ban. The house committee submitted a proposal to dean of students, Larry Batt, suggesting alternatives to the prohibition. A compromise was reached [...]
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