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<p>A new app was launched on March 16 with the aim of restoring Wolastoqey identity. The University of New Brunswick’s Mi&#8217;kmaq-Wolastoqey Centre launch of Wolastoqey Latuwewakon Language app was held in Marshall d&#8217;Avray Hall. George MacLean, UNB&#8217;s vice-president academic, offered a welcome to those in the audience. “We recognize that the University of New Brunswick is [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Budget town hall President Philippe Ferland reminded council that the town hall meeting on the university&#8217;s budget will take place March 22 at 4 p.m. in Brian Mulroney Hall 101. Collective agreement meeting Ferland said there would be a meeting on the Union&#8217;s collective agreement on March 23. STUSU has been bargaining on its collective [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Although the SafeRide contract between the St. Thomas University Students’ Union and the University of New Brunswick Student Union has been renegotiated, the only change is an improvement in communication. Jimy Beltran, STUSU vice-president student life, said he thinks a stronger relationship between STUSU’s vice-president student life and UNBSU’s vice-president student life will improve the service. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A quick Google search led first-year international student Ruth Hadgu to start fundraising to help bring relief to families in Syria and Iraq. Hadgu is rasing money for Preemptive Love Coalition, a non-governmental organization that brings food, water and medical care to people in disaster and conflict situations. After Hadgu’s Facebook feed was flooded on [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University human rights professor Christina Szurlej went to the House of Commons in Ottawa on Feb. 1 to testify against Bill C-59 in front of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security. Szurlej said the bill, meant to replace Canada’s Anti-terrorism Act of 2015, has both strengths and weaknesses. The bill would [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When Julienne Laurent first moved to Canada in 2014, she said she was greeted with cold weather and uptight people. Now that she has been living in Fredericton for four years, she notices it&#8217;s quite similar to where she grew up: Cape Town, South Africa. “It’s modern,” she says. “People don’t think [Cape Town is] [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University Students&#8217; Union at-large representative Sean Kenney officially resigned from his position at the March 15 STUSU meeting. Kenney&#8217;s resignation came pending the Union&#8217;s plans to impeach him at that same meeting, a motion that had been brought forth by president Philippe Ferland on March 1. On March 15, Ferland motioned to table [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Proposal for masters of social work program approved The academic planning committee’s proposal for a Masters of Social Work program was approved by the St. Thomas University senate on March 15. The proposal will be sent to the board of governors for consideration. This proposal would modify the current bachelor of social work program by [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University has reached 60 per cent of its minimum $10-million funding goal for it&#8217;s first &#8220;comprehensive&#8221; capital campaign. The capital campaign involves the university asking organizations and alumni for donations to fund scholarship endowments, residence renovations and mental health programs. The campaign has raised approximately $7.5 million to date, but interim vice-president advancement [&hellip;]</p>

<p>If students say yes, St. Thomas University could see an extra $300,000 go toward its mental health services and programming over the next four years. The STU Students&#8217; Union passed a motion to strike an ad hoc negotiations committee regarding the mental health fee referendum on Thursday. The committee would meet with STU president Dawn [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The St. Thomas University Students&#8217; Union will hold a referendum on installing a new mental health fee over the next four years through the university&#8217;s capital campaign. Vice-president administration Matt LeBlanc said students will vote on the idea March 28 and 29. &#8220;The mental health fee will be a donation to the capital campaign as [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A new group has sprung up at St. Thomas University to push for change on an age-old problem. Three students have started a STU chapter of Champions of Change, a group dedicated to championing girls&#8217; rights and gender equality. The president of the group, Rachel Slipp, has been involved with numerous women&#8217;s and girl&#8217;s rights [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Young Greens funding  St. Thomas University&#8217;s Students&#8217; Union voted to amend the financial policy to make funding for clubs non-partisan. The Fredericton Young Greens applied for $50 in funding at a Feb. 8 STUSU meeting for a talk given by environmental activist Tina Oh. The talk, &#8220;Another Feminist Killjoy on Climate Justice,&#8221; was held on [&hellip;]</p>

<p>New and exciting technological updates are on their way to St. Thomas University&#8217;s campus. Information technology services director Dan Crabbe said upgrades are in the works. The university is looking to increase the number of wi-fi hotspots on campus from the current 80 they have. They&#8217;re also looking at switching from the Google webmail service [&hellip;]</p>

<p>I grew up in a household where we had four to five guns per person. And no, none of them are semi-automatic assault rifles. In my house, guns were tools used for hunting, how my dad helped provide food for our family. I was raised in a pro-gun environment — copies of American Rifleman were stacked [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Christine Morris, the 2017-18 Irving Chair in Journalism, told the next generation of journalists she believes in them. Morris delivered a lecture on the state of the media industry in the Maritimes on Feb. 23 in Brian Mulroney Hall. She spoke about her time at STU, and the hope working alongside it’s students instilled in her. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Diana Chávez and Sarah Betts provide snapshots of the 2018-19 candidates for the St. Thomas University Students&#8217; Union executive positions. President Brianna Workman Brianna Workman is a third-year student double majoring in political science, communications and public policy, and is the current vice-president education. She immediately got involved with the community STU community after moving to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Around 150 Fredericton residents gathered outside City Hall to attend a vigil for justice for Colten Boushie following the non-guilty verdict on Feb. 9 of Gerald Stanley. Stanley had been accused, and recently acquitted of the second-degree murder of Colten Boushie, a 22-year-old Indigenous Saskatchewan man. The vigil on Feb. 12 condemned systemic discrimination in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A psychology professor at St. Thomas University decided to find out why human sexuality textbooks share only one point of view on human sexuality problems. So, she researched the topic and published an article on it. Monika Stelzl teaches two courses on human sexuality at STU and sexual problems is one of the topics she [&hellip;]</p>

<p>If you have a pile of clothes sitting in your closet unworn, St. Thomas University’s Criminology and Criminal Justice Department has the place for them. Criminology and criminal justice students are collecting gently-used clothing, shoes and purses to help reintegrate female inmates into society upon their release. The STUnningly Successful Campaign started as a project [&hellip;]</p>