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STU WebMail Reply Goes Crazy, and How to Stop It.

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Alex Solak – The Aquinian Update: Dan Hurley has just sent out an email saying the usergroup settings have been switched.  Replies will now go only to ITS. When Dan Hurley at ITS sent out an email to all students about the upcoming migration to gmail, one student replied. The problem was that they replied [...]


Where’s my STU paystub?

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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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Alex Solak - The Aquinian – 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 [...]


Students frustrated with WebAdvisor

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Colin Hodd – The Aquinian – WebAdvisor. There, I said it. For more than a few of you, that word probably seems strange without a few choice curses to go along with it. Love it or leave it, if you go to STU you’ve no choice but to use it. WebAdvisor is the one-stop destination [...]


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Flash Mob of the week: H&M Kids Fashion

- Alex Solak Here’s your nerd-word of the… week*. (*may not appear every week) Flashmobs A flash mob (or flashmob) is a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual and pointless act for a brief time, then quickly disperse. -(Wikipedia, yes it’s a real source sometimes) Flashmobs have [...]


ITS warns of WebAdvisor crashes Wednesday, Thursday mornings

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After 3rd year students overwhelmed the WebAdvisor system on Monday, STU’s IT Services department is warning the same thing could happen again this Wednesday and Thursday. The electronic registration system crashed minutes after it was opened up to students at 6:00 A.M. on Monday.  ITS estimates that it was down for 45 minutes, though it [...]


Facebook is adding location, so it knows where you are

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Alex Solak – The Aquinian – Everyone watching the web tech industry knew it had to happen eventually.  Facebook is finally going to become ‘location-aware.’ Following hot on the heels of Twitter’s push for location information, Facebook will soon give you the option of attaching your physical location (in the real world) to anything you [...]


Meet the candidates

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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 – [...]


Facebook celebrates birthday with redesign

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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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