New kids on the court
A million things are running through Francis Sirois’ mind when he jumps up in front of the net and prepares to smash the volleyball onto the opposing team’s side of the court. He needs to decide what he’s going to do with the ball almost instantly. He needs to see in front of him, to [...]
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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Keeping warm in winter can always be difficult, but for the second year in a row, the Shivering Songs music festival is looking forward to bringing “warm music to a cold Fredericton winter,” as described on their Facebook page. Shivering Songs is curated by Fredericton band The Olympic Symphonium, who released their third album – [...]
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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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Electronic textbooks may not be the cheap and light replacements to heavy and expensive ones you were hoping for Student book bags are due to get a lot lighter as those beefy textbooks get the shove into the 21st century. The electronic reader – or e-reader – has already proven people are willing to make [...]
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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 [...]
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If there’s anything Daniel O’Brien has learned over his career, it’s how to be diplomatic. Diplomacy has become O’Brien’s strong suit, given that wherever he goes, he seems to leave having made the organization better. During a 16-year term as president of St. Thomas University, he oversaw a massive campus expansion, adding seven new buildings [...]
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The Tommies’ lack of depth showed again Friday evening as they dropped their 10th straight regular season game, losing 4-3 to the University of Prince Edward Island in a shootout. The demise of the Tommies came on the powerplay. They went 0-7 on the man advantage and couldn’t muster up many goal scoring opportunities on [...]
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