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<p>St. Thomas University students and community members hung up shirts with painted messages on them around lower campus on Nov. 15 and 16 in an effort to bring awareness to domestic and sexual violence. It’s an initiative called The Clothesline Project brought to campus by STUSU’s sexual assault prevention committee. Amy Baldwin, a co-chair of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Brazil recently proposed a bill that could change the lives of women in the country. The bill’s proposal is to make abortion illegal in all cases. Currently, abortion is not completely illegal in Brazil. Women can interrupt their pregnancies if it falls into one of three categories: if the pregnancy is the result of a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>This year’s New Brunswick Student Alliance advocacy week focused on systemic barriers and was the busiest year yet with a total of 25 meetings. Student leaders from across the province met with university presidents, senior civil servants and the business community from Nov. 6 to 10 as part of the NBSA’s fifth advocacy week. “This is [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A small table adorned with flameless candles sat in the middle of the off-campus lounge on Thursday, illuminating a canvas painting adorned with the transgender symbol. St. Thomas University students, professors and faculty quietly surrounded black leather chairs draped with lists tallying more than 300 names of slain transgender people across the world. Approximately 50 [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Rebecca Lane, a hip-hop activist, uses her music to promote feminist, anti-violence and anti-racist narratives in Guatemala. She brought her performances and advocacy to St. Thomas University. She hosted a hip-hop performance for students on Wednesday and held a public talk the following day. Lane was born and lives in Guatemala. It was there, on [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Aquinian has learned St. Thomas University’s online recruitment portal for Grade 10 and 11 prospective students was compromised and the service was interrupted on April 1, 2017. The university doesn’t know the exact number of prospective students whose data was compromised, but “it did have an impact,” said associate vice-president communications Jeffrey Carleton. Carleton [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Justin Brake recalled the moment when the gate broke open. Protesters demonstrating in central Labrador against the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project passed through and marched towards the worksite. Several reporters from the CBC and other mainstream media outlets joined them briefly to conduct interviews before turning back. Brake, an independent journalist, was the exception. He [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When Christina Szurlej saw the dumpster outside of her apartment overflowing with waste that could have been recycled, she’d had enough. Szurlej, a professor at St. Thomas University, decided to use her frustration with the lack of curbside recycling at apartment buildings in Fredericton to create a project for her human rights capstone seminar class. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Alex Rodriquez, fourth-year University of New Brunswick student and native of Granada, Spain, said that if Catalonia gains its independence from Spain, it will result in economic disaster. Catalonia separating from Spain would mean the region would sever their ties with the European Union (EU). Unlike Great Britain, Rodriguez doesn’t believe that Catalonia would be [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Pam Palmater spoke powerfully to the crowd in Kinsella Auditorium, calling for the national inquiry on missing and murdered Indigenous women to be based on a human rights framework. “The reason we have murdered and missing Indigenous women is because of Canada’s continued failure to implement, recognize, protect and enforce human rights of Indigenous women [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University Students’ Union’s Indigenous and Reconciliation Committee held its first panel discussion about Canada 150 on Oct. 25. The three panelists were Graydon Nicholas, former lieutenant governor of New Brunswick and the endowed chair in native studies at STU; Amanda LeBlanc, operational director of Under One Sky Friendship Centre, an Aboriginal social services [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Lawyer Dennis Edney recalled his first time meeting a young Omar Khadr in a concrete, windowless and freezing cold cell at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre. Khadr was sitting on the edge of the bed, shackled to the floor, partially blind and paralyzed with his whole body suffering from extensive shrapnel injuries. “He reminded me [&hellip;]</p>

<p>First-year student Jared Durelle suffered an allergic reaction to peanuts while eating in the school’s cafeteria on Oct. 18. Durelle has a severe allergy to peanuts which he said makes him careful about what he eats. “I nearly died. If it was another student, they would’ve been dead,” he said. “I’ve been doing this for [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Students at St. Thomas University say they&#8217;re tired of waiting to have access to all-gender housing. Fourth-year students Elijah Matheson and Olivier Hébert have been waiting for all-gender housing since starting their degree. With the creation of the Queer and Allied People’s Society a few years ago came talks of making STU more gender-neutral. This [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Former New Brunswick premier Frank McKenna and his wife will donate $300,000 to St. Thomas University’s moot court program. In an announcement at STU on Oct. 24, McKenna said the personal donation is in the name of his long-time assistant Ruth McCrea, who died this summer. “We worked together for some 35 years and I [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Help desk coordinator needed External hiring has been opened for a new help desk coordinator. Vice-president student life Jimy Beltran said the successful candidate will be someone who has high organization skills, as well as good communications and interpersonal skills. The deadline to apply is Oct. 24 at 4 p.m. Applications are available at the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Workshop was held on St. Thomas University and University of New Brunswick campuses on Oct. 21. The workshop was one of 50 youth training events to be held across Canada this year by the UN. The event was spearheaded by Jimy Beltran, a fourth-year student and vice-president student life [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University’s overall student population has declined slightly, with a significant increase in international students, according to the latest enrolment data. The number of full time students is down 17 from last fall, or a 0.9 per cent decline, for a total population of 1,934. The overall number of university students in the Maritimes [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A man opened fire on a crowd gathered at a Las Vegas country music concert on Oct. 1, killing 58 people and injuring nearly 500, making it the deadliest mass shooting in modern United States history. Julia Howe, a first-year St. Thomas University student from Dedham, Maine, said it’s sad to see another tragedy in her [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Most people didn’t think Donald Trump would win the 2016 United States presidential election when he ran, but communications and public policy professor Jamie Gillies predicted the outcome. Now Gillies is publishing his book, Political Marketing in the 2016 Presidential Election, in which he and his co-authors discuss the lead up to Trump’s win and [&hellip;]</p>