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<p>St. Thomas University president Dawn Russell announced on June 14 that 65 per cent of courses for the fall semester would be in-person. Since then, Jeffrey Carleton, STU&#8217;s associate vice-president of communications, began weekly discussions with public health and the provincial department of post-secondary education, training and labour, to make the return to campus as [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Paula Doucet, the president of the New Brunswick Nurses Union, says working nurses across the province are facing a pandemic of their own. Local nurses and supporters gathered in front of the New Brunswick Provincial Legislative Building Friday to rally for change surrounding poor working conditions and short staffing levels. It was part of a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Disclaimer: The Communist Party, the Conservative Party and the New Democratic Party candidates did not attend the debate. Of the three parties not in attendance, only the NDP platform points are included because they reached out to The Aquinian with an interview request.  The St. Thomas University Students&#8217; Union, the New Brunswick Students Association and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University Vanier Hall residence renovations are still in the works after almost two years. The plan was to have the residence open for students to move in last month, but COVID-19 and delayed products pushed back renovations. During this time, students who applied to live in Vanier Hall were placed in Holy Cross [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A bomb threat that affected St. Thomas University, the University of New Brunswick and the New Brunswick Community College on Friday required students across the province to evacuate or shelter in place in their residences.  Some students, like Maddy MacDonald, couldn’t get back to their dorms and sought safety in a local park, awaiting updates [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Around 1 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 10, St. Thomas University announced campus would be closing immediately. All students on campus were instructed to leave until further notice. Residence students were told to shelter in place and not leave until given the all-clear. This announcement came shortly after the Fredericton Police Force said it was investigating [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Over the past nine months, the editorial team at The Aquinian worked around the clock to bring students the stories that matter around the St. Thomas University and Greater Fredericton communities. Here are the 20 most important stories from the 2020-21 academic year. Progressive Conservatives win majority government: how election night went for each party [&hellip;]</p>

<p>This year was a trial by fire. Being a full-time online student and helping Diana Chávez, The Aquinian&#8217;s editor-in-chief, run the paper during a global pandemic almost killed me. There was a wave that knocked me down every time I tried to stand up, and I thought the stress and my anxiety would drown me, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>There is no proper way to say goodbye to the publication that has shaped me into the person I am today. I always dreaded writing this letter, but I never worried too much because it seemed so far away. But time doesn’t stop for anyone. I was terrified when I became editor-in-chief. I was scared [&hellip;]</p>

<p>I remember sitting on my friend’s bed at seven years old – I was filling out an application to journalism school and she was filling out one for medical school. Fourteen years later and I’m about to take over the role of editor-in-chief of The Aquinian. In 2018, I walked into my first ever Aquinian [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Asian Student Association at St. Thomas University was officially ratified by the STU Students’ Union last week. The idea for the ASA came to founder Sydona Chandon in her living room when talking to Manvi Walter, another founding member and the president of the organization. Both are already members of student government at STU. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University’s Indigenous Student Reconciliation Committee hosted the final part of their Indigenous Education and Awareness series last Thursday, where they talked about Missing and Murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people. Brandy Stanovich, the president of the board of directors for the Indigenous Women of the Wabanaki Territory, was the guest speaker. She [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Philip Lee, chair of the St. Thomas University journalism and communications department, was nominated for a New Brunswick Book Award for Restigouche: The Long Run of the Wild River. Lee said the book tells the story of the season he spent on the river, travelling from the headwaters to the head of tide.  “The Restigouche [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Caridad Guerrero, a second-year St. Thomas University student from Ecuador, said one of the things she misses most about in-person classes is hanging out with friends after class and meeting new people in James Dunn Hall. “I would get introduced to new people every day,” she said. “I think that having that close knit community [&hellip;]</p>

<p>This is the final part of a four-part series for Women’s History Month highlighting women in leadership roles at St. Thomas University. This week is about staff. Check out part three of this series about social science professors here. Cristi Flood (she/her) Cristi Flood is a St. Thomas University senior admissions counsellor, a part-time faculty [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As the St. Thomas University Students&#8217; Union two-year contract with Fredericton Transit for the bus pass ends, new plans were negotiated and sent to the city. Though the deal isn’t finalized, STUSU and the City of Fredericton reached a tentative agreement to maintain the current deal regarding bus passes for the next two years. Under [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Sydona Chandon ran unopposed and won the vice-president education seat on the St. Thomas University Students&#8217; Union executive board. She said her passion for advocacy and wanting to make a change motivated her to run. &#8220;I have learned to never give up on things that I&#8217;m passionate about,&#8221; Chandon said. &#8220;That&#8217;s where my true dedication [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University hosted its annual budget town hall over Microsoft Teams on March 25. Lily Fraser, STU&#8217;s vice-president finance and administration, presented a scenario where the university were to increase tuition fees by three to five per cent. She said for New Brunswick students who enrolled in the 2018-19 year or earlier would have [&hellip;]</p>

<p>CASA honorarium St. Thomas University Students’ Union vice-president education Megan Cormier proposed creating an honorarium for her work with the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations. She represented STU on the CASA board of directors, created a board action plan, chaired the CASA member relations committee meetings, created a committee action plan, attended conferences, updated the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Indigenous Student Reconciliation Committee met for a panel last Friday to speak about what reconciliation looks like at St. Thomas University.  It was the third-part of their four-part series on Indigenous education and awareness. Tanner Augustine, second-year student, hosted the panel of six current STU students and graduate speakers. Shelley Augustine graduated from STU [&hellip;]</p>