News

<p>Volunteers needed Matthew Oram, vice president administration of the St. Thomas University Students&#8217; Union, said the student advisory committee is looking for volunteers. The committee helps students understand university policies and procedures. Interested applicants can contact him at su_vpadmin@stu.ca. The Help Desk still needs volunteers for the year. Students who are interested can reach out [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Three second-year students have started a new mental health club at St. Thomas University. The club&#8217;s co-president, Patrice Cammarano, said STU is doing a great job regarding mental health, but feels they&#8217;re missing an important point. He wants students to share their stories about mental health, something the club plans to do through social media among [&hellip;]</p>

<p>After five years of traveling to moot court competitions and winning national and international awards, St. Thomas University will be the first Canadian public university to host a regional moot court competition. Elizabeth Tuck, a fourth-year student, is taking STU&#8217;s moot court class for the third-year in a row. She&#8217;s one of four co-captains who [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When Jessica Correa was a child, she would refuse to eat lunch until everyone got up from the table and turned off lights that didn’t need to be on. “Even at a young age I was environmentally conscious,” said Correa. Correa, now 27, founded Random Acts of Green in Dec. 2015. It&#8217;s an organization that [&hellip;]</p>

<p>UPDATE: After hearing back from the lawyers representing the St. Thomas University Students&#8217; Union workers&#8217; union, STUSU president Husoni Raymond said the STUSU employee salaries will be made public tonight. A follow-up story is available here: http://theaquinian.netstusu-introduces-employee-salary-ranges/  Increased St. Thomas University Students’ Union employee salaries have been censored from the STUSU 2019-20 budget and within [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Fredericton Police and fire crews were called to the University of New Brunswick&#8217;s Head Hall building in the afternoon of Sept. 12 upon reports of a small explosion in the downstairs acid lab. Assistant deputy chief for emergency operations with the Fredericton Fire Department, Steven Fraser, said the call came in ‪around 3:45 p.m.‬ Fraser [&hellip;]</p>

<p>After consecutive years of increases, St. Thomas University&#8217;s tuition has risen again. Incoming and returning Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Social Work students will see an increase of 5.5 per cent in their tuition and Bachelor of Education students will see a 6.5 per cent increase. This translates into $372.68 and $837.65 for domestic and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Five years after leaving his alma mater, St. Thomas University alumnus Ryan Sullivan is back where he spent 16 years of his life. Sullivan, who graduated in 2000 with a Bachelor of Arts in economics, is returning as associate vice president for enrolment management. &#8220;I&#8217;m excited to be back on campus,&#8221; Sullivan said. &#8220;There&#8217;s just [&hellip;]</p>

<p>According to Jennifer Brennan, reconciliation starts with listening and understanding.  Brennan, a nationally recognized policy advisor, spoke to a packed auditorium filled with Bachelor of Education students on Aug. 28 about Canada&#8217;s long history of racism, colonialism, genocide and the potential problems Indigenous people face in the education system as a result..  “Residential schools have [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University grad Jennifer Crawford started cooking when they were in the fourth grade. Now, they are the winner of the most recent season of MasterChef Canada. Crawford and 17 other amateur chefs competed for the title of MasterChef Canada and a $100,000 prize last December. “I always loved eating, more than anything. And [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University students will now have to use their bus pass on their phones and it&#8217;s receiving mixed reactions from students. The St. Thomas University Students’ Union, in partnership with Fredericton Transit and HotSpot Parking, launched a new bus pass on Aug. 23. In order to use it, students have to access to the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University&#8217;s 2019 Welcome Week ran from Aug. 30 to Sept. 7. This year, students participated in activities such as Shine Day, inflatable activities, the STU Commencement Ceremony and a paint fight. The Aquinian documented some of its best moments. Photos taken by Alex Dascalu/AQ. &nbsp;</p>

<p>UPass fee change A new agreement on increasing the fee for student UPasses, the bus pass, has been reached as part of the city&#8217;s 10-year transit plan. At the March 31 student representative council meeting, 11 councillors voted in favour of raising the UPass fee from $85.96 to $90.56 for the next academic year. St. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>I remember the first class I took with Patrick Malcolmson at St. Thomas University. The political science professor stood at the front of the classroom, a friendly smile beneath his white mustache. He was dressed in one of his iconic button-up dress shirt and tan dress pants combinations. I don’t remember exactly what he said [&hellip;]</p>

<p>I was the kid who read the newspaper when I was 10.   And when I started at St. Thomas University in fall 2016, I knew I wanted to see my name in The Aquinian, not because I was doing something cool, but because I wrote a 500-word article that made a difference.   At the time, I didn’t know how many hours I would [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When I became Editor-in-Chief, someone told me, “If you’re not pissing people off then you’re not doing your job.” I thought, surely, I, a quiet and nice young journalist, won’t piss that many people off. Flash forward to March 2019. I’m talking to a senior administrator at the university. He says something like this: “As [&hellip;]</p>

<p>There aren&#8217;t any guidelines or plans to place a cap on tuition fees at St. Thomas University and &#8220;there&#8217;s a financial need&#8221; for tuition to increase, according to Lily Fraser, the university&#8217;s vice-president finance and administration. On March. 25, STU hosted a budget town hall as part of the consultation process for the 2019-20 Budget Development [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The political science department at St. Thomas University has hired a new professor. Laura Levick was hired in February and will be starting on July 1. She is teaching an introductory course, comparative politics courses and a Latin American politics course. Levick did her master&#8217;s degree in voting systems at Mansfield College in Oxford University [&hellip;]</p>

<p>About 30 pounds of food was wasted in the St. Thomas University meal hall each day between 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. from March 13 to 29, totalling 510 pounds of wasted food. Students in the Environmental Praxis course at STU decided to weigh food waste to prove how much students throw away, as part [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In the wake of New Zealand’s deadliest mass shooting in recent history, people gathered for a vigil on March 16 at Fredericton&#8217;s City Hall. After a gunman opened fire on the Al-Noor mosque and the Linwood Islamic Centre, killing 50 and injuring dozens, communities around the world held vigils to honour the victims and support [&hellip;]</p>