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<p>In today’s global economy, studying abroad can be a defining element for a professional career. Companies are increasingly looking for leaders with the ability to adapt easily in a different culture and possible employees coming from different backgrounds. But is STU opening the international doors for all its students? How hard is it to get into the exchange program? Shauna Foote, academic [&hellip;]</p>

<p>For most of us, midterm exams have come and gone. I wrote one two weeks ago and I’ll write another this week. Going into my first university midterm, the pressure and stress I felt cannot be described in mere words. The course was Law, Power and Politics, the only course where I have been experiencing difficulty. Students are [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It was the Friday morning before Thanksgiving. Sandy Beecroft was running a bit late for work. She rushed outside and ran to her car without taking a look at her front garden that, the garden gnomes&#8217; home. When she read her boyfriend&#8217;s text message just before lunch and found out somebody stole 10 of the 20 gnomes outside, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>People are weird- there&#8217;s all this interacting you have to do with them all the time. We&#8217;ve all had those awkward hellos, eye-contact dysfunctions, those &#8220;do I smell bad?&#8221; days and that whole small-talk problem. It would be nice to ditch society for a bit and forget all of humanity&#8217;s little quirks, but after a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Over the holiday weekend, many of you were likely eating turkey, since it&#8217;s a tradition for occasions such as Thanksgiving and Christmas. I&#8217;m the odd one out. At times, my family can be quite traditional in terms of their ideologies, beliefs and behaviours. But the one custom we no longer practice regularly is eating turkey at festivities. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Embracing the future STU has a new sociology professor and she’s jumping in the technology craze. Gül Çalışkan started at STU in July and signed up for a clicker to use in her classes. Two and a half years ago, James Whitehead brought a new technology to STU for professors to use in their classes. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>His hair is dirty blond, with one trailing dreadlock thrown over his right shoulder reaching halfway down his chest. His facial hair is dark and unkempt around his face. He lights a cigarette and takes a sip of his coffee, before his pale green eyes catch mine and he politely inquires, “Would you care to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>We’ve all seen them, straggling home the next morning, after the bars close. Their hair is a mess, their clothing in various states of disarray. Whatever make-up was on is now smeared across their faces. Some are walking as if one of their legs pains them. (Chafing or over-abuse.) That’s right. I’m talking about the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Paris is the city of lovers, the home of the Eiffel Tower and the reason for a new revolution fought with words. “French cultural imperialism discriminates against writers who are not from France,” said Cécilia Francis, the STU chair of the department of romance languages. “France refuses to identify itself with what we call La [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Stacks of video games sit under the coffee table I turned into a TV stand. There&#8217;s got to be 100 of them, and more in random spots around my apartment. Some days, I try to guess how much I&#8217;ve spent on all this stuff. There have been games I got for cheap. For others, I [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Over a tossed salad with broccoli and medium-cooked steak bits, Talin Vartanian sits down for the interview. Breaking up her ciabatta bun, she says she loves cooking. Another of her loves is radio. “Radio to me has a magic about it. It always has,” she said. As this year&#8217;s Irving Chair in journalism, long-time CBC [&hellip;]</p>

<p>To one-up Hunter S. Thompson, I considered coke for my 19th birthday and writing about the experience. The night could start like it normally does with me slipping into my tight leather jeans and doing my black eyeliner. Maybe snort the coke off something punk rock, like an album by the Sex Pistols or Taylor [&hellip;]</p>

<p>If there&#8217;s one thing everyone loves, it&#8217;s food that tastes good. But how do you find the hidden delicious wonder deep in the depths of various menus across Fredericton? We know a lot of people don&#8217;t have the time (or the funds) to do that themselves so the drooling mouths and rumbling stomachs belonging to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In a string of independent efforts, three STU residences have chosen to sponsor children from impoverished regions of the world for the first time this year. Through the organization Plan Canada and its chapter Because I am a Girl, Chatham, Rigby and Vanier house committees have organized ways of sending monthly donations to children and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Before beginning university, I had never drank alcohol. I only attended one party in high school, and that was after our class banquet in grade 12. We had school the next day and I had to drive home, so, I couldn&#8217;t drink. I had spent two weeks in my new home as a university student [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Megan Cooke has an exciting year ahead of her. It&#8217;s her final year at St. Thomas University, the time to think about getting a real job with the English and psychology degree she worked on for four years. Graduation approaches – and with it the reunion with her boyfriend Liam McGuire. Since the end of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Last year, North America was horrified when 20 children died in a mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. A month ago, an Australian student on a sports scholarship was murdered in Oklahoma. That prompted a prominent Australian politician to accuse Americans of fostering a gun culture that “is corrupting the world.” [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In the cafeteria, squeezed in the corner of the overcrowded Holy Cross table, Denis Boulet holds court. House members sit around him, taking in his thoughts on politics, religion and history like disciples at the Last Supper. His speech is soft, well paced and articulate. It has an air of deep reflection as he searches [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Finding a parking spot at St. Thomas University gives many students and staff members headaches. They say more parking permissions are sold than there are parking spots. UNB Campus Security and Traffic supervisor Bob MacLean denies this. “We have enough spaces for people to park here. We don’t oversell permits. We just don’t offer convenient [&hellip;]</p>

<p>&#8220;This one time, at band camp&#8230;&#8221; has to be one of the most popular movie phrases of all time. Why am I bringing up pop culture in a sexuality column? Well, this quote touches on (sorry, poor choice of words) a topic that is still uncomfortably looked down upon. Masturbation. We are taught by society [&hellip;]</p>