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<p>&#8220;STUdent&#8221; is a pun you’ve probably heard throughout your time at St. Thomas University. Whether it was Mission STUpossible, Across the STUniverse, STUfari or STUpendously Ever After, the university is no stranger to clever word-play when it comes to it&#8217;s marketing, especially for welcome week. From the second you step onto campus until you receive [&hellip;]</p>

<p>We all have a badass female political leader we look up to. Margaret Thatcher, Cleopatra, Catherine the Great, Angela Merkel, Hillary Clinton or even Leslie Knope — you name it. Nevertheless, if Beyoncé asked in 2018 who runs the world, the answer would not be girls. According to the United Nations Women website, only 11 [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University Irish studies professor Ian Smith remembers celebrating St. Patrick’s Day with his family in Ireland as a child. Wearing their finest green attire with shamrocks painted on their faces, the whole family would go into Dublin to watch the parade to celebrate among their Irish community. It was a day about family, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In our fast-paced, post-industrial society, it&#8217;s effortless to pay no attention to food production, consumption and waste. Since becoming educated on these issues and problems, I have been able to analyze my own situation and view how much food I waste on a weekly basis. As a married mother of three young children, our weekly [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Frederictonians have been bombarded with snapshots of mouth-watering frozen treats ever since a new ice cream shop opened downtown last summer. For me, it had almost become painful when I saw the temptation that had not yet graced my taste buds.  So when the opportunity to review Fredericton’s Delish Gourmet Rolled Ice Cream came up, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Heather MacDonald, learning strategist at St. Thomas University, is looking forward to the third-annual Long Night Against Procrastination. She loves creating a caring and supportive environment for students, while also providing activities and food to let them decompress from the study grind. The goal is to raise awareness for academic support on campus and provide [&hellip;]</p>

<p>On Feb. 22, students and professors gathered to celebrate the 200th birthday of a widely known social, historical, political and economic revolutionary. If you haven’t guessed it from the headline already, that revolutionary is Karl Marx. It was a typical birthday party, filled with games, goodie bags, Play-Doh, colouring pages, the Young Communist League Fredericton [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As a child of the 1970s, St. Thomas University psychology professor Ian Nicholson remembers having a strong urge to get on his bike and explore with friends, something he doesn’t see in his 15-year-old son today. “Initially, I was thinking ‘Well, maybe it’s just his own nature, everybody has their own sort of comfort level. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When I entered university, my thoughts on sex was that it didn&#8217;t happen unless you were in a relationship. I wasn’t interested in hookups and I’d had no experience with them. That changed quickly. I was working on an assignment with a classmate in his dorm room when he asked me if I wanted to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Maybe if we teach 13-year-old boys to act like adults, then we won’t have adults acting like 13-year-old boys. The first time a teacher ever noticed my clothes was in ninth grade. It was a 30-degree day in September. The heat was unbearable. In my best efforts to stay cool, I was wearing a tank [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Young Communist League Fredericton hopes to become an official club under the Young Communist League of Canada in the next few weeks. The five to seven core organizers have been meeting bi-weekly since August, discussing current events, local progress of the group and engagement in local activism. They tackle patriarchy, sexism, homophobia, racism, colonialism and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Being called Métis is plain to me, a representation of the hypocrisy hidden in Canadian democracy ever since 1763. This is why I represent my grievance poetically in order to represent it in the same language&#8217;s valency that justified this colony. Because we need new transparency in the constituency that is upheld by Canadian constitutional [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A young Egyptian girl named Susan is just getting used to Canadian winters, but she is learning to love the season with the help of the Wostawea Learn to Ski Outreach program. Equipped with 30 sets of skis, poles and boots, the Wostawea Ski Club has been partnering with the Multicultural Association of Fredericton to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The AQ&#8216;s Caitlin Dutt talked to student couples about the dumbest fights they&#8217;ve had with their significant other.  Rebecca Kingston and Sam Titus Rebecca: &#8220;I like specifically Northumberland brand, preferably salted but also unsalted butter and he thinks it’s acceptable to use margarine, oil-based spread, usually from Victory Meat Market.” Rebecca: “We must have been [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In this day and age of social media dating apps such as Tinder and Bumble, it’s hard to fathom meeting the love of your life the old-fashioned way. However, sometimes happy endings and picturesque relationships can start in the unlikeliest of places — say, a St. Thomas University introductory class. This was the case for [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The AQ&#8216;s Sarah Morin shares the story of her first ever date with a pro-life Christian boy — all in the name of free books and chocolate. I accidentally threatened to break my first date&#8217;s arm.  I didn&#8217;t actually end up breaking it. His heart, on the other hand, is another story.  I was shy and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>At a school with no more than 2,000 students, professors of St. Thomas University are bound to rely on one another, and that sometimes means team-teaching courses. Philip Lee of STU’s journalism and communications department first met Great Books&#8217; Alan Hall 10 years ago, when they were scheduled to teach an Aquinas course together. They [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Before noon on the weekend, St. Thomas University&#8217;s campus is generally deserted. But during campus traditions like April 6th Day, an energetic sense of comradery brings people out of their dorm rooms ready to kickstart the day among fellow students. “We got up. We ate together. We laughed together. There would be music playing all day.” [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When I got my first iPhone two years ago, I was ecstatic to join the Apple club. I was intrigued by the innovative features like Siri feeding me all the answers I needed, and the convenient Touch ID, which let me unlock my phone with my fingerprint. Considering technology and surveillance are advancing so quickly, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>My roommate and I find solace in our living room every Tuesday night between the hours of 9 p.m. and 12 a.m. It’s not that it’s cozy or well-decorated to disguise our reality as students in the midst of an existential crisis (because, believe me, it is and we are), but it gives us a [&hellip;]</p>