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<p>When you finally take the plunge and start calling yourself an “illness advocate” (or something of the like), you’re automatically fighting an uphill battle. After all, there’s a reason we’re called “sick,” and it has nothing to do with our sick dance moves. We’re not normal, so we’re given the challenge of putting forth a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>José Arias had to take a document to a government office in Medellin, Colombia on Dec. 7, 1989. But the day before, Pablo Escobar, the richest and most feared drug lord in history, camouflaged 500 kilograms of dynamite in a bus parked in front. The detonation of the bus destroyed all 19 floors, killed 63 [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Samuel Titus had been warned of the dangers before he left home, but it did not deter him. He’d signed up for a study abroad program to spend a semester in Turkey. Still, it was surprising when just a few weeks after his arrival, a terrorist attack happened within walking distance of his campus. Titus [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Alex Vietinghoff fiddles with a piece of plastic wrap and a cough drop wrapper, as he talks about his journalism education at St. Thomas University. “I think they were unintentionally teaching us that we had to be working like daily news, breaking covering murders, covering drug rings, and that&#8217;s what we had to do.” He [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Having a meaningful summer job is probably on the top of your bucket list as a university student. But once you begin to reach the end of the academic year is, everyone around you will be applying for the same jobs as you. If you successfully cracked your way through the application process, you definitely [&hellip;]</p>

<p>For years, university professors have written and used their own textbooks. But some have questioned whether this method is beneficial to students or whether professors are using their positions to promote their own work. Marc Gosselin-Lavigne, a former UNB student said he supports using one’s own text provided it is actually the best book for [&hellip;]</p>

<p>For three straight nights, I sat glued to my couch, unable to peel my eyes off the screen as I watched re-enactment after re-enactment of grisly murders that had taken place in the United States since the 1980s. The show Your Worst Nightmare retold stories that were just too cinematic to be true… but they [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Mark Kilfoil is the program director of CHSR, the campus radio station shared by The University of New Brunswick and St. Thomas University. He has a radio voice, a metal head’s beard and a scholar’s thoughtful diction. He hosts three radio shows: The Lunchbox (current affairs and some music), Caffeen (music) and The Weird Show [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Once, there were jokes, memes and petitions on Facebook for a simple dislike button, but, in it&#8217;s most recent update, Facebook gave them a whole lot more than that. Now, you can react to other peoples&#8217; posts using emojis. The new options include love, haha, wow, sad, and angry. These options are confusing some people, and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Stepping into Mandarin Palace, you find yourself transported to an ancient palace across the Pacific Ocean right in the middle of China. Staff are neatly attired in traditional Chinese finery. There are antique pendant lamps, elegant wall scroll calendars, Chinese artwork and calligraphy adorning this establishment. “We put our heart into the decorations,” Tina Tu, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>About 28 years ago, the College Hill Social Club was close to going out of business. The manager was fired and a call was put out for a new one. A 25 year-old bartender named Matt Harris applied and got the job. “It was exciting and it was a challenge,” said Harris, who has been [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When was the last time you went to church? Last Sunday? Last month? When you were just a kid? Michael George is the chair of the religious studies department at St. Thomas. When he began teaching at STU, 28 years ago, many more students embraced religion within their daily lives. “When I first came here [&hellip;]</p>

<p>My first date was on Nov. 16, 2015, at 6:30pm. We went to dinner at Naru downtown. I threw up in the bathroom because I was nervous. Came back to the table and made a casual joke about texting my friend. I checked on my reflection in the window to make sure there wasn’t vomit [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Imagine if you could lay in bed all day, not have to talk to people, pick and choose what you want to learn, and still get an education at your own pace – for free. Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, are kind of like that. They are online university courses open to the masses [&hellip;]</p>

<p>I remember some of the first stories I ever wrote. My mother bought me a set of blank, hardcover books that I could write in when I was about seven or eight years old. Of course, I filled both of them with stories about Pokémon and an ob scure, sci-fi, CGI cartoon, ReBoot. In the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Stepping into room 120 in Edmund Casey Hall last Tuesday, an odd but satisfying playlist of jungle sounds and happy birthday songs could be heard through the classroom’s speakers. Balloons and banners were strewn across the room, tapped on the whiteboards, walls and windows. A feathered finch was tacked onto the wall. Students were presented [&hellip;]</p>

<p>So, we finally done did it. We killed Alberta. With a little help from our good friends the Saudis, we’ve plucked that wild rose and are now using its rotting petals to decorate the “Welcome to New Brunswick” sign people will inevitably ignore as they look for the road signs to Nova Scotia. Maybe “kill” [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Sitting alone at a Cellar table is 24-year-old Jessica Jones. As she sips her beer quietly, in the background pop and rap music rises and falls on schedule. A snowstorm rages outside. Her boyfriend sits at the bar counter a few feet away. “He likes to be alone,” she said. Jones is conflicted. She describes [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The words photographer and camera always go together, mainly because photographers spend so much time looking through their lenses to create art. But photography today is not just a relationship between a photographer and their camera. Most spend a lot of time with the “post-process” behind their computer screens. As technology has advanced, editing has [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In my senior year of high school, I met this girl. She was beautiful, smart, and one of the most down to earth people I had ever met. We ran in entirely different circles &#8211; I mean, I was kind of a geek and she was popular &#8211; but she never hid our friendship or [&hellip;]</p>