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<p>With each step through Carleton Street in the heart of downtown Fredericton, the crowd got larger and the jumpy swing music got louder. A band played on stage while couples danced dizzyingly in front, twirling each other with smiles on their faces while the crowd stood around them. Beside the stage, an older man held [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Meeting new people, getting familiar with campus and starting a new chapter in life – all of it begins with Welcome Week – one week at the beginning of the school year jam-packed with a wide variety of activities for students to take part in and enjoy. From Sept. 1 to Sept. 14, new and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>By: Evert Lindquist, The Charlatan OTTAWA (CUP) — A team of international researchers has projected most Western Canadian glaciers will melt away in less than 80 years, based on a study using new modelling techniques and a supercomputer at the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC). The study, published in January in the Science journal, notes that a projected global [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In the wake of a CBC investigation from last fall, universities across Canada are revoking honorary degrees bestowed upon Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, citing her allegedly false claims to Indigenous identity. Turpel-Lafond is a Canadian lawyer, former judge and former legislative advocate for children&#8217;s rights who claims Cree ancestry, but a CBC investigation found that her [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Promise of Home highlights not only the difficulties that newcomers face — discrimination, navigating a new country — but also a sense of belonging since coming to Fredericton.&nbsp; As a community-based research project, led by St. Thomas University sociology professor Gül Çalışkan, it allows immigrants to share their stories about whether or not Fredericton feels [&hellip;]</p>

<p>By: Isaac Phan Nay, The Charlatan OTTAWA (CUP) — It’s June 28, 2020, and Sarah Sharp is on the long strip of beaches near Sandy Hook, N.J., examining the carcass of a North Atlantic right whale calf. The calf is the son of North Atlantic right whale #3560, a female known as Snow Cone. The [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Kevin McMurray doesn’t understand why people love him so much. Since he started working at St. Thomas University’s Java Moose kiosk about four years ago, every so often, someone would approach him and thank him for helping them, for being kind or simply supplying their daily caffeine fix.  He finds it a little strange that [&hellip;]</p>

<p>If you ask students at St. Thomas University how they feel about the new school president and vice-chancellor, they will tell you they don’t know what to feel — mainly because they don’t know who the president is. Dawn Russell, who served in the role since 2011, is officially set to retire on June 30. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Milly Squires&#8217;s father taught her to hunt at a young age but also how to pay respect to animals. “I continue to practice gratefulness and thankfulness for the animals that sacrifice their lives so that I may feed my family, and I&#8217;m teaching my daughter the same tradition that I grew up with,” she said. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>India Mosca, The McGill Daily MONTREAL (CUP) — On Friday, Feb. 10, family, friends, and supporters gathered in front of Roddick Gates for the Justice for Nicous March and Rally, organized by the Justice for Nicous Action Committee. “We are here today to ask justice for Nicous because the system failed him!” These were the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Tim Fox’s passion for fundraising to support homeless people is contagious, according to Erin Cunningham, a third-year social work student at St. Thomas University.  When Fox spoke to Cunningham’s class, he was only supposed to present for 15 minutes, but he was so engaging, he kept the conversation going for an extra hour. “I feel [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Walking into the studio to get graduation pictures taken felt like walking into an old friend’s house. A relaxed Lizzy McAlpine song played in the background as Trevor and Karen Morris  welcomed me inside a bright, polished studio. The pair have been the people behind the camera of many St. Thomas University graduation photos for [&hellip;]</p>

<p>HALIFAX (CUP) — Everyone with TikTok knows about body counts — the number of individuals that you’ve had sex with. For a lot of us, this exact number is available in our brains at all times. Body counts are paired with another recent phenomenon: body lists, also called kill lists or hit lists. Again, pretty [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In a groundbreaking move that is set to shake up the world of higher education, ChatGPT, the AI language model developed by OpenAI, is set to replace traditional university essay writing. That sentence wasn’t written by a human; it was written by artificial intelligence, ChatGPT itself. I told the program to write an article about [&hellip;]</p>

<p>I didn’t come to properly understand racism until just last year when I read White Tears/Brown Scars by journalist and researcher Ruby Hamad. In a nutshell, the book details the history of colonization and how its success depended on violating women of colour. Hamad makes the gore of mass subjugation unmissable. There are pages upon [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Nestled near Otnabog Lake, between Saint John and Fredericton, lies the historic community of Elm Hill, one of Canada&#8217;s first Black settlements. Previously known as Otnabog, Upper Otnabog and Pleasant Villa, Elm Hill was established by Black loyalists in the early 1800s, with immigrant settlers coming from the United States, mainly from Virginia.   One of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Karim Fagir helped his parents, Mohamed Fagir and Iqbal Abdel-Karim, with the family business since he was in the sixth grade.  Yummy Samosas, which was just sold to another owner, has been very successful in its 15 years. “Our faith was always kind of intertwined with the business and making sure we always did right [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Tishe and Tife Oduntan want to create cosmetics for every person&#8217;s skin colour. The twin sisters from Nigeria started Tidan Beauty, a cruelty-free cosmetic business, in 2019. The pair will release their new set of products on Feb. 22 — their birthday. “I feel anxious,” said Tishe Oduntan. “But at the same time I feel [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The St. Thomas University International Students Association hosted a Valentine&#8217;s bingo night on Feb. 7 at the off-campus lounge in James Dunn Hall, where students played for a chance to win a dinner for two at a restaurant in downtown Fredericton. The Aquinian&#8217;s photo editor, Daniel Salas, got some photos &#8220;B4&#8221; it got too chaotic.</p>

<p>Editor’s note: this article is a piece of satire based on a long-held, good-natured rivalry between The Aquinian and The Brunswickan. Its content and caricatures are over-exaggerated and are not intended as malice. In a stunning — and slightly romantic — turn of events, The Aquinian and The Brunswickan are coming together as one.  And [&hellip;]</p>