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<p>You may notice Prospect Street looking a little busier after the opening of Sobeys Extra. The new location, only a few feet down the road, isn&#8217;t that different from the last. But there are a few, you guessed it, extra features. On Nov. 22, the store welcomed over 400 customers. Eager shoppers flocked to check out [&hellip;]</p>

<p>One morning in early November, I was sitting in bed with my guinea pig, Elle, and a cup of coffee. I was browsing social media when a notification appeared on Facebook informing me they had launched Facebook Dating, a new feature that allows you to explore new romantic conquests. A CBC article said the website [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University alumnae Rebecca Tremblay and Anne Lebans have received development funding from the TELUS Fund to produce a youth empowerment web series called It’s OK to be Awesome. “The series itself is aiming to be a cross between TED Talks and The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” said Lebans. The series formed out of the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Following the 2016 American presidential election, New Hampshire native Ashley Riley felt like she became a go-to person on campus to discuss American politics. “It was a very rare opportunity being in Canada at that time because all of a sudden I became this ambassador for Americans, specifically young middle class Americans,” said Riley. The [&hellip;]</p>

<p>During the first semester of her fourth year, St. Thomas University student Amanda Kennedy went to South Korea as part of an exchange. Kennedy, who is studying English language and literature said it was a once in a lifetime chance to make amazing memories. She said she decided to travel there since she has an [&hellip;]</p>

<p>“I have a bit of an emergency . . . there’s only $41 in my account.” That’s how the panicked call to my mother began when I discovered my bank account had been hacked. Poof, gone. On Sept. 27, seconds after closing my banking app, a text rolled in. It said it was from Scotiabank, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Ah, Halloween. A spooky celebration of candy, jack-o-lanterns, haunted houses and slut-shaming. In arguably the most quotable movie of all time, Mean Girls, Cady Heron says, “In Girl World, Halloween is the one day a year when a girl can dress up like a total slut and no other girls can say anything else about it.” [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Many students have fond childhood memories of Halloween. Dressing up, going door-to-door for candy, finding the houses that give out the full-sized chocolate bars. While some students outgrow the tradition, others embrace the night with no shame. At what age is one supposed to stop trick-or-treating? Are you ever truly too old? St. Thomas University [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Animated films, pop culture depictions and sixteenth century poets have all distorted the image of witches. In practice, many witches trace their roots back to the shamanistic religions of early Wales, Ireland, Britain and Scotland, among other countries. These places each hold separate deities and traditions. The Greater Fredericton Area Witches (GFAW) follow the Tradition [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Gathered outside Fredericton City Hall, more than 50 people stood side-by-side to participate in the Walk a Mile in Her Moccasins healing walk on Oct. 19. The march was a part of the Red Shawl Campaign’s week-long event to raise awareness of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls across the country. “We’re walking today in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Mackenzie Acheson has a tattoo on her wrist that reads “Keep Moving Forward.” The quote from the film Rocky Balboa serves as a reminder to Acheson to keep going during hard times. Acheson was bullied as a child from Grades 3 to 8. Now a first-year student at St. Thomas University, she still feels the effects of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Clive Baldwin hasn’t always been a dog person. But 11 years ago, he adopted a six-month-old border collie named Jagger from a local shelter for his wife’s birthday. And then he fell in love. “It was probably the first day [Jagger] came home. I took him for a walk around the block and he pissed [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Class, practice, work, gym, volunteer, study . . . wait, where does sleep and food fit? Classes alone can feel overwhelming. Tack on jobs, sports and a social life and things go from overwhelming to overloaded. Students are often told the best thing they can do for themselves is get involved. But where do students [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A simple Google search will tell you the best university to attend if you’re interested in spending your weekends partying. With the stress of assignments, exams, jobs and extracurriculars, young adults with their first taste of freedom might find themselves turning to alcohol. This mentality can cause health and grades to plunge, but universities are [&hellip;]</p>

<p>André Loiselle said the position of dean of humanities at St. Thomas University is “absolutely perfect” for him, explaining that STU is one of the only universities that separates humanities and social sciences. Holding four degrees from two universities, Loiselle said humanities is a world he knows well. This is why he turned down the position [&hellip;]</p>

<p>At a time when the news media is under attack, The Aquinian&#8217;s Caitlin Dutt discusses what it&#8217;s really like to be in a newsroom when an event like the Fredericton shooting occurs.  While brushing my teeth the morning of Aug. 10, I heard sirens. At the time, it barely registered. And shortly after I read [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Through the surges of trendy young adults, stylish clothes of decades past return with a vengeance. The &#8217;90s are back, with trendy mom jeans and baggy bomber jackets. These clothes were once widely scorned, but it’s clear in this flashback moment, ‘mom jeans’ and dusty Nike sneakers are a symbol of style. Students wearing them [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Shannon Blackmore and Katrina Amos said their used clothing business began as a joke. A simple laugh in the parking lot of Value Village turned into ReFind Clothing. Along with Blackmore’s boyfriend, Kian Drew, the team is making sales all over Fredericton, and they&#8217;re barely two weeks old. “It kind of just hit us all [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When first-year St. Thomas University student Emma Van Horne realized she couldn’t enjoy Jell-O from meal hall, she was frustrated. Van Horne is allergic to acetaminophen, dust, grass and strawberries. “There was Jell-O the other day and it was red, and I was assuming it was strawberry, so I went up and asked and they [&hellip;]</p>

<p>To acknowledge the 50th anniversary of the Strax affair, managing editor Cassidy Chisholm examines the period of unrest on the University of New Brunswick campus in 1968. Graduate student Ken Moore was working as an Aitken House proctor in 1968 when he witnessed students causing a disturbance outside the biology building on the University of New [&hellip;]</p>