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<p>Tyler MaGee &#8211; President Tyler MaGee, St. Thomas University Students’ Union current sexuality and gender diversity representative, is running for president because he said when he came to STU, he was going through a hard time in life and STU welcomed him with open arms. “Running for president and potentially heading the Students’ Union to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The St. Thomas University Students&#8217; Union hosted a vice-president student life and vice-president administration debates in advance of the spring election set for March 8. Alex Nguyen is the only candidate for STUSU&#8217;s vice-president administration position while Victoria Young is STUSU&#8217;s only candidate for the vice-president student life position. Vice-president administration Nguyen is a second-year [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Peru started their COVID-19 vaccination campaign in the middle of corruption scandals and distribution irregularities. The first batch of Sinopharm vaccines arrived on Feb. 8 to immunize healthcare personnel, but some government officials, including former president Martin Vizcarra, received the vaccine secretly last October. Camila Vásquez is a Peruvian graduate from St. Thomas University and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A new group at St. Thomas University hopes to create a sense of community for students who are Black, Indigenous and people of colour. Resiliency in Colour was created by Brittany Gray, a fifth-year Mi’kmaw student at STU, after working as an assistant for STU Mental Health last summer. After seeing support for Black Lives [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University’s Black Student Association hosted the second part of its Breaking the Stereotypes speaker series on Feb. 25 through Zoom, with 23 people attending the event.  STUBSA organized the event in recognition of Black History Month with a question-and-answer period, hosted by Emmanuella Idemudia, afterwards.  Sydona Chandon, vice-president of the STUBSA, said the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Giao Dang was in her home in Fredericton when she found out about her scholarship offer from Western University in Ontario. She didn&#8217;t expect to find out until the end of March because the website said the final results would be posted around then. But on Feb. 22, Dang screamed in her room when she [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Alexandre Silberman, a fourth-year St. Thomas University journalism student, was one of 12 students in Canada to receive the Joan Donaldson CBC News Scholarship for 2021. The last STU student who earned this recognition was Julia Whalen in 2013. Silberman was at his desk at CBC News Fredericton, in the middle of a work-related call, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Students’ Union election St. Thomas University Students’ Union president Sarah Kohut said nominations for STUSU’s spring election open today. The nomination period runs until Feb. 27 at 4:00 p.m. The open positions include, president, vice-president administration, vice-president education, vice-president student life, two board of governors representatives, two student senators, two at-large representatives, four off-campus representatives, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Around 30 people attended the Fredericton Region Museum&#8217;s live event via Zoom on Feb. 18 commemorating the life of Abraham Beverly Walker, the first Canadian-born Black lawyer. This was the fifth event in the York Sunbury Historical Society’s Speaker Series, with Peter Little as the presenter for this session. Little is an author and historian, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Since the beginning of St. Thomas University&#8217;s new era of remote delivery, fourth-year criminology student Kim Parker said the student workload has increased, which made her delay her graduation. &#8220;I want to get busy with my life and now I have to delay [graduation] for I don&#8217;t know how long,&#8221; she said. Parker said she [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When Reinaldo Cascante, a second-year St. Thomas University international student, learned that STU finalized an approach to plan for the next academic year, he was &#8220;thrown off&#8221; by what he read. Cascante, who plans to major in communications and public policy with an honours in sociology, said he was expecting more solid answers rather than [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Indigenous Student Reconciliation Committee at St. Thomas University is hosting a four-week seminar event beginning on Feb. 25. The event will introduce students to Indigenous-related topics, beginning with treaties and ending with missing and murdered Indigenous women, children and two-spirit people. Tiger Levi, student and chair of the committee from Elsipogtog First Nation, said [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Public not allowed to attend president’s report The president&#8217;s report, which usually happens at the beginning of Senate, will no happen at the end and in-camera, meaning in private, said St. Thomas University associate vice-president communications Jeffrey Carleton. He said the reason for the president’s report going in-camera is to allow the president to have [&hellip;]</p>

<p>This is the final part of a three-part series about the Mi’kmaq fishing dispute. Read part one here and part two here. Parliament held an emergency debate on Oct. 19 on the fishery dispute, days after the storage facility burned to the ground suspiciously in Middle West Pubnico, Nova Scotia, on Oct. 17. Nothing came [&hellip;]</p>

<p>International students could receive up to $1000 for the remainder of the winter semester because of the St. Thomas University Students&#8217; Union&#8217;s International Student COVID-19 Financial Aid Fund. Alex Nguyen, STUSU&#8217;s international student representative, came up with the idea for the fund when she saw international students using the GoFundMe platform to raise money for [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Fredericton’s upcoming election brought multiple women into the running for office, which has only seen one female councillor over the past four years. Current Fredericton Ward 11 council member Kate Rogers is running for mayor. Rogers addressed gender challenges within council nearly two years ago, where she said improvements have now been made or are [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The New Brunswick Association of Social Workers put out a statement after The Aquinian released an article about the Jan. 21 St. Thomas University Senate. In the article, President Dawn Russell exposed &#8220;slanderous comments&#8221; made by Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour Minister Trevor Holder. In an interview with The Aquinian, Miguel LeBlanc, executive director of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Bursaries St. Thomas University Students’ Union vice-president student life Kyle McNally said he received 17 international student relief fund applications this week and 10 have been approved. He said three emergency bursary applications were received and all three were approved. Valentine’s Day contest St. Thomas University Students’ Union vice-president student life Kyle McNally said on [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Black Lives Matter Fredericton, the University of New Brunswick’s faculty of education and St. Thomas University launched a website with teaching resources on Feb. 1.  The website is accessible to the public for teachers to incorporate Black history into their curriculums.  After working with Education Minister Dominic Cardy and his team, Black Lives Matter Fredericton [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Project AIR, an idea to teach Indigenous students about their ancestral Indigenous roots, is now being put in motion.  Brittany Gray, a fifth-year Mi’kmaw St. Thomas University student, said she hopes the project will become available on a Moodle page for Indigenous students in February. It will cover four subjects. “We have spirituality, we have [&hellip;]</p>