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<p>For 18-year-old Chloe Bieber, getting to Lahore, Pakistan wasn’t easy. To enter, she needed permission from the Government of Pakistan, a travel visa, and a personal invitation from the family she was staying with. She traveled with her best friend, Ayesha Raza, who has family in Lahore. While in Pakistan, she went to a small [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Oil. It’s the nectar of the progress, the fireworks of the gods. Black gold, Texas tea as the ballad of Jed Clampett from the Beverly Hillbillies put it. It may be crude, like a fat uncle’s jokes, but it warms our hearts. It connects us all like a big bonfire. Well, at least, until some [&hellip;]</p>

<p>I walk towards the front room wiping my palms against my pants. I can feel the butterflies beating around in my stomach and my hands are shaking. My dad is sitting on the couch engrossed in the hockey game and my mom has just walked in with me and sat on the couch too. He has [&hellip;]</p>

<p>What’s the big deal about the Pope? People talk about the guy like he’s managed to single-handedly abolish poverty, prevent a third world war0 and reunite the original Guns N’ Roses lineup all within his two year career. Sure, his papacy has introduced some “progressive” shakeups in the Catholic church, the most apparent of which are [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Third-year University of New Brunswick student Leslie-Marie Britt used to starve herself, drinking only green tea to boost her metabolism and an almond or two when she was about to faint. “[Anorexia] was more of a control thing for me, I think,” Britt said. “It was something to obsess over. Something I could manage.” When she [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It was wintertime and I was sitting in front of our old wood stove, trying to keep warm. I was 10. We lived without power and heat that winter and dad was cooking our supper on the only thing we had available. Thank goodness for the wood stove though, because without it, I honestly don’t [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Jan Wong began her fourth-year journalism class Wednesday afternoon with a minute of silence for the 12 people who died in the Charlie Hebdo office shooting. She’s never held a minute of silence before. Not for the recent Australia hostage situation or the Parliament Hill shooting. But this was different. It’s not that those other [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Do you think the chapel moving to Holy Cross is too big of a change for St. Thomas University? Well, you ain’t seen nothing. I’ve been here since the beginning, the very beginning. There’s been lots of remodeling over the years. I was there when God made the chapel on the first day. I was [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It was a scene from any missing persons movie ever made: the mother of the missing in tears on television pleading for whoever took her child to return them safely to her arms. Cameras flashing, microphones in her face, journalists standing around eagerly with their clipboards – it was as cliché as it gets. “I&#8217;m [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Ask somebody sitting close to you if they have a Tinder horror story. You may be terrified by what you hear. Unlike other dating apps which are centered on dating, Tinder has developed a strange sexual emphasis. Matty Cripps is a St. Thomas student who uses the app. “I mainly use Tinder as a confidence [&hellip;]</p>

<p>David Gallant is writing an eight page history essay. His books are sprawled out in front of him on the kitchen table. There are empty beer cans neatly grouped near the current beer he is drinking. This is exam period for Gallant. “It’s important to find ways to relieve stress,” he said. Gallant has four [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It’s been a busy month in the news with no shortage of things to talk about. Some of us have been taken by the disappointing but unsurprising verdict from the grand jury in Ferguson and the disappointing but unsurprising response to it. Others are reliving the news of Jian Ghomeshi’s sexual misadventures in the land of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Madeleine MacPhail was hiking a mountain with her family in Puerto Rico in the summer after her first year at St. Thomas. This normally wouldn’t be a big deal for her. She played both ice and field hockey. But when she came off that mountain she was sore. Her knees were swollen. Mid-way through that [&hellip;]</p>

<p>I was around six or seven and my friend and I were playing Lord of the Rings in their back yard. My two friends were the brave and heroic Aragorn and Legolas while I was Gimli, the comic relief fat slow dwarf. We had already fought Orcs, dragons and spiders and decided to go deeper [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Clickbait media sites such as Upworthy, Gawker and Buzzfeed are causing credible news sources to imitate their headline style. The lust for likes has news outlets torqueing stories to peak curiosity with an end-goal of getting clicked. Clickbait headlines can be characterized by something that is so vague and kind of interesting that one simply must click to find out [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Walking into Christine Cornell’s office is like walking through the wardrobe into Narnia. Her room is littered with detail. The more you look the more you discover. Gandalf and Frodo are on the wall beside her desk; they’re on the bookcase behind you too. The killer rabbit from Monty Python’s Holy Grail stands guard. Beside [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It is April. The spring is finally beginning to pull Prince Edward Island out of the worst winter it has seen in years. The temperatures are slightly above freezing during the day and drop back down below zero once the sun goes down. My friends and I decide to go for a drive on one [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Hadeel Ibrahim has experienced street harassment and cat calling regularly. The second-year STU student was born in Iraq, raised in Dubai and has been going to school in Canada for the last year and a half. She witness and experiences harassment everywhere she goes, but Canada is a bit of a relief from Dubai – [&hellip;]</p>

<p>What happened to DZ? The hip-hop artist from Fredericton moved to Toronto last May to pursue a music career after releasing his debut album in January — The Beach. Daniel Zebarth planned to come back in September to finish his business degree at the University of New Brunswick. Instead, he enrolled at Recording Arts Canada, a digital [&hellip;]</p>

<p>You’ve seen him everywhere – on television, at conventions and book signings, watching Dazed and Confused on your drug dealer’s couch – but who is this Justin Trudeau fellow? Will he be the messiah who leads Canada out of the Harper Valley P.T.A., or is he just another smooth talker with Ken-doll hair and the [&hellip;]</p>