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<p>Remote classes have shifted the way students learn and some students with ADHD are finding classes harder to adjust to.  Michelle Chisholm, St. Thomas University&#8217;s accessibility advisor, said the students’ accessibility centre caters to each individual, such as those with ADHD, and treats them on a case-by-case basis. “When working with clients at STU, we take [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When Kim Parker, a fourth-year criminology student at St. Thomas University, heard that United States President Donald Trump tested positive for COVID-19, she said she &#8220;hopes he suffers long and hard.&#8221; Parker, an international student from California, said she wasn&#8217;t surprised about Trump&#8217;s diagnosis on Oct. 2 considering more than 200,000 Americans died from COVID-19 [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Flu season has arrived and the debate over vaccinations has begun. In the current COVID-19 era, the push for vaccinations is stronger than ever. Rachel de Molitor, a fourth-year St. Thomas University sociology student, said she gets vaccinated every year. “You need to take personal precautions to protect those around you. COVID-19 is a great representation [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Students are not the only ones struggling with online learning. St. Thomas University professors are also trying to adjust to the new normal.  Karen Robert is the chair of the history department and the remote teaching coordinator. The new position was created to help set priorities, translate faculty needs and help with communications for the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Kathleen Jones, a St. Thomas University Bachelor of Education student, said when she starts teaching, she won’t be covering up her tattoos because they are mainstream and kids won’t care. “Their parents probably have a bunch of tattoos as well,” said Jones. But she is nervous about the interview process. “If it&#8217;s somebody of the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Celebrities line magazine shelves and tabloid stands around the world. From print publications to the social media stratosphere, celebrity gossip is thriving, but why is everyone so interested in their private relationships? Isis Lucchesi, a fourth-year St. Thomas University communications student, said she&#8217;s followed the Kardashians since she was 11. She said she respects how [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University will celebrate its 110 anniversary on Oct. 5 and STU is more than a century old, but this is the first time in its long history that a celebration will be mostly online because of COVID-19.  Sarah Kohut, St. Thomas University Students&#8217; Union president and a member of the anniversary planning committee, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When I heard of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, my heart stopped with fear. She fought for so long to hold the United States Supreme Court seat and keep Donald Trump at bay. What now? How much more turmoil is my country going to be in?  As an American, the last four years have been hell, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Readers accused Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling of being transphobic after the release of her latest novel, Troubled Blood, on Sept. 15. Her novel, written under the pen name Robert Galbraith sparked outrage over one of its characters, a cisgender male who disguises himself as a woman and murders women.  Fourth-year sociology major Ethan Babineau, a transgender man, said [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Between August and September companies in Fredericton, like Walmart, Starbucks and American Eagle made masks mandatory when entering and shopping in their stores. There is no mandatory mask law in New Brunswick, though the province&#8217;s emergency order says New Brunswickers must wear masks if the business requires them and are recommended in public settings. The [&hellip;]</p>

<p>For Tanner Augustine, a St. Thomas University Mi’kmaq student from Elsipogtog First Nation, the current conflict between commercial and Indigenous fishermen in St. Marys Bay, Nova Scotia, hits close to home.   Since late August, tensions have arisen between commercial and Indigenous fishermen in regards to lobster fishing. Treaty 1752 grants Indigenous Peoples the right to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University&#8217;s clubs and societies have been forced to think of creative ways to engage with students in wake of the university offering the fall semester online. Enactus STU and Venezuela180 are two new clubs on campus, both with the same goal of creating lasting change in their community. Enactus is a global non-profit [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Cellar Pub and Grill reopened its doors on Sept. 18 after approval from the University of New Brunswick. The pub was allowed to reopen as long as they follow COVID-19 guidelines. The operations manager, Patrick Hanson, said he is worried about the business.   “Given the rules and guidelines that we have to follow, I [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University&#8217;s first semester is online due to COVID-19 and some students are taking the opportunity to take a gap year. Gillian Little, who would have been entering her fourth year as an English and French major, is taking time off due to remote learning. “I knew that I would lack the necessary motivation [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Hundreds of protesters knelt for nine minutes in front of Fredericton City Hall on June 2 for the Black Lives Matter march. They knelt in memory of George Floyd, a Black man who was murdered in broad daylight when a Minneapolis police officer knelt on Floyd&#8217;s neck for nine minutes. Former president of the St. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A group of students at St.Thomas University made packages for people living in seniors homes. The packages contained handwritten notes from students and were titled ‘Little Boxes of Love.&#8217; The STU Gerontology Society placed travel-sized hand sanitizers, a disposable mask, cookies, candy, chocolate, tea and notes in a box before sealing it with a forget-me-not [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Warning: This commentary contains graphic and abusive content and derogatory and misogynistic language. From late 2018 until early 2020, up to 260,000 people entered a fee-based chat room called Nth room on a messaging application, Telegram. They would pay up to $1,200 USD in Bitcoins to access abusive and sexual content and the more you [&hellip;]</p>

<p>I want you to think back to the last time you went somewhere without your phone. I don’t mean the “Oh shit I drove to the grocery store and forgot it at home” type of thing. I mean, when did you last go out the door and leave it sitting on the counter?  Can you [&hellip;]</p>

<p>If you told me in my first year at St. Thomas University that when I graduated, I would be managing the student newspaper during a world-wide pandemic, I wouldn’t have believed you. Since STU announced they were cancelling in-person classes on March 13, everything changed, and not just at STU. We had to move The [&hellip;]</p>

<p>My love story with The Aquinian started as one of those love-at-first-sight moments you see in movies. I went to my first story meeting not knowing what to expect. I felt intimidated to be in the presence of these upper years that looked so knowledgeable and put together (eventually, when I became one, I realized they [&hellip;]</p>