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<p>Nick Levesque tried to board his plane to Santiago at the Fredericton airport on July 31, but they told him he was a day late. “Turns out the day I wrote in my calendar was the day I was suppose to arrive in Chile,” said the St. Thomas volleyball player. He spent the rest of that [&hellip;]</p>

<p>From where the Lance of Langinus struck Bono, he plucked out a new album. Our saviour. People woke one morning last week to find this musical gospel sitting in their iTunes library. You 2 can have it for free. A good thing, since the Joshua Tree bears rotten fruit these days. If we can afford [&hellip;]</p>

<p>I thought Yu-Gi-Oh was dead, like ancient Egyptian dead, but God-Cards-damn it I was wrong. It’s totally a thing now, and when I say it’s a thing, I don’t just mean a couple of acne covered Star War nerds play it in their basement in between masturbation sessions and arguing over whether Solo shot Greedo [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Michaila McGee’s hair is bright pink like electric neon. She is wearing a jean jacket covered in punk bands. The Clash, the Dead Kennedy’s – you name it.  One of the patches has become unstitched on one side and hangs down; I can’t quite see it what it is. When I ask about her patches, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>One day in the summer of 1992, Linda Casey stepped outside the Moncton SPCA and discovered a small cage on the steps. She called out to the other volunteers. When they saw what was in the cage, they backed away. “All the volunteers were terrified to pick up the cage because rats have such a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>So Scotland’s independence movement has come and gone, and this time it didn’t take a series of bloody wars fought by a skirt­clad Mel Gibson. Granted, the Mel Gibson version of Scottish independence is far sexier than talk of secessional jurisprudence and devolutionary decentralization. But unlike medieval treaties signed by the illiterate, and unlike Mel [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It may not have had a camera or a touch screen, but did it ever hold a ton of tunes. When introducing the revolutionary music player in October of 2001, Steve Jobs said in this keynote address that “the coolest thing about the iPod is that your whole music library fits in your pocket.” This [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When St. Thomas student Sawyer Hannay lived in Salzburg, Austria to play hockey, he had a lot of time on his hands. The 19-year-old pro hockey player was getting paid to do what he loved most. But when his gray Bauer ice skates came off, his mind would wonder back home. His mind wandered across the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Brian Gallant. That’s cool, I guess. Is that it? Anything else to say about the Liberal leader with an alarming resemblance to two-faced Harvey Dent? Oh, and he has good hair. That too. Good, I’m glad we covered all the bases. So, um… did you see the Jay’s game last night? I’m sorry if I [&hellip;]</p>

<p>How a collision with a car introduced Corey Robichaud to a cast and the ‘kindness of others.&#8217; I remember as a child, still in elementary school, being hit by a small car driven by an attentive driver crawling across slick mid-winter road, wary of inattentive little boys yet to contemplate their own mortality. You see, the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>“Is there a candidate that doesn&#8217;t suck?” I didn&#8217;t know. “Is there one that sucks less than the others?” I still didn&#8217;t know. Not a problem. What did it matter? Prime directive: Get drunk, fuck up signs. Sign me up. I&#8217;ll bring my own camo. Any real partisan statement? No. No political statement. Hard to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When Santiago Chavez was growing up, he was usually the shortest and newest kid in class. As the son of Ecuadorean diplomats, he was also, more often than not, a foreigner. “But one thing that always made me friends everywhere was being a good student and being polite. Everywhere you would go just saying ‘hi’ [&hellip;]</p>

<p>&#8220;Surely some revelation is at hand; surely the Second Coming is at hand.&#8221; William Butler Yeats penned these words in 1919, asking: &#8220;what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?&#8221; Well Bill, after the events of this summer, I think we finally found the answer. It’s been a year with [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Joseph Tunney and Oscar Baker have known their share of shitty jobs; they’re student journalists. But who exactly had the shittiest summer job? These two workaholics hit the streets of St. Thomas to find out (despite Joe complaining his hands were still sore from dish washing). &nbsp; Stephen Guyette, Second year Worked as: lifeguard in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>So, you’re here – fresh out of high school, now at university, with a burning desire to conquer the world. You’ve said goodbye to your parents, unpacked your suitcases and are now just hoping your roommate doesn&#8217;t ask why you have an extra vibrating toothbrush beneath your mattress.* It’s a brave new world for you, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>For second-year student Hadeel Ibrahim, the rise of ISIS and the Balkanization of Iraq only confirm that she is stranded in &#8220;mid-leap.&#8221; Drop Quote: “My experiences as I matured were a mixture of Western and Middle Eastern, and that created unique characteristics that made me an outlier. I am a product of war and globalization, and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In Holy Cross, the absolute best place is this comfy little area on the second floor. They have a few couches around a small table. It’s good for studying alone, and if you’re quiet enough, you can go here to socialize and take a break. If you go down the stairs, there’s vending machines nearby [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Maybe having a first meeting at the STU cafeteria was a bad idea. Nana Akitaya knew her conversation partner, Sarah Doucet, was waiting somewhere for her. Akitaya never met her before. She scanned the hall trying to recognize her when a petite woman asked, “Are you Nana?” Akitaya and Doucet participated in the STU Conversation [&hellip;]</p>

<p>If you ask people what the next big trend in video games could be, a common answer is virtual reality. After all, what could be better than taking the concepts we already enjoy and realizing them in a way that can actually insert us into the game? In 2012, Palmer Luckey founded Oculus VR, a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Allow me to describe a situation to you. Last term, I was laboriously going for my political science exam when my phone vibrated, &#8220;My study buddy is getting booty called as stress relief for before the exam haha.” My partner sent it to me, joking that he suspected he’d be on his own studying soon, [&hellip;]</p>