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<p>The women’s locker room in the J.B. O’Keefe Fitness Centre on St. Thomas University’s campus has been the site of multiple thefts over the past few weeks. Victims have reported bags, kept in unlocked lockers, had been sifted through and they were missing everything from clothing to electronics. Sarah Hickman is one of many women [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Election season is here again at St. Thomas University and talk of platforms and passions are ringing through the air. For many, it’s the desire to make a difference in the lives of fellow students that encourages them to campaign for executive positions or otherwise, but what about the money? Do they even know there’s [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A motion made to remove two St. Thomas University Students’ Union minority representatives last December was deemed invalid Thursday night during STUSU’s council meeting. According to bylaws in STUSU’s constitution, the council did not follow the rules of the removal process. Off-campus representative Brandon LeBlanc noticed the mistake on Wednesday while reviewing STUSU’s constitution. He [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The provincial government will cover healthcare costs for all international students studying at New Brunswick universities. Premier Brian Gallant announced this and a new Tuition Relief for the Middle Class program allowing families making more than $60,000 to receive tuition coverage at St. Thomas University on Feb. 23. Esteban Rivera, president of the St. Thomas University [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Premier Brian Gallant announced a tuition relief program for students who don&#8217;t qualify for the Tuition Access Bursary on Feb. 23. At a press conference in the Sir James Dunn Hall Off-Campus lounge on St. Thomas University&#8217;s campus, Gallant said the Tuition Relief for the Middle Class program will provide a non-repayable provincial bursary of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>William Schabas, professor of international law at Middlesex University London, swore he’d never return to Canada during the winter when he moved to Ireland 17 years ago. He was back in Canada, however, on Thursday, Feb. 16 to deliver the Lodhi Memorial Lecture in Human Rights. The lecture focused on the history of the International [&hellip;]</p>

<p>President, vice-chancellor and chair of senate Dawn Russell was not present on the Feb. 16 meeting. Vice-president academic and research Kim Fenwick chaired this meeting. Provincial budget reaction On Jan. 27 a government press release indicated general pieces of information: Four years of predictability in tuition for students and funding for universities but there were [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University has not recognized Black History Month, and one student in particular says he is let down by the university&#8217;s silence. Husoni Raymond is a first-year student from Jamaica. He said Black History Month is important to him because it battles stereotypes. &#8220;You don&#8217;t see a lot of black role models and people [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Professor emeritus Andrea Bear Nicholas has taken part in the creation of a book called Glooskap and Other Old Stories Told by Maliseet Elders. While you might be interested in reading it, the book is all told in the Maliseet language in an attempt to preserve the stories in their original format. The release of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Even though St. Thomas University no longer has a men&#8217;s hockey team, it still leases the squad&#8217;s former dressing room at Grant-Harvey Centre. At a cost of $60,000 per year, STU continues to use 6,000 square feet of space at the state-of-the-art arena on Knowledge Park Drive, which opened in 2012. STU will owe that [&hellip;]</p>

<p>While some students are looking forward to summer vacations filled with trips to the beach and lazy afternoons on the couch, Professor Andrea Schutz’s advanced Old English students are fundraising for a three-week trip to England in the spring. While there, students will be translating poems and stories at the actual sites where they were [&hellip;]</p>

<p>New development and humanitarian opportunities are popping up for students, starting with a campaign to close the gap between genders in the global south and across the world. Third-year student Jimy Beltran is New Brunswick’s youth ambassador for Development and Peace, the official international development organization of the Catholic Church in Canada. He said this [&hellip;]</p>

<p>With three storms in the last week, New Brunswick is seeing it’s most Canadian winter in a long time. Many are cheering for snow days on end, but road conditions and the unpredictability of cancellations are causing headaches for students outside the city limits. Fourth-year student Paige Kynock travels from Oromocto every day. She said [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University cancelled its men&#8217;s hockey team late in the 2015-16 school year. At the time, the move was expected to save $245,000 as STU had to start reducing a deficit of approximately $1.3-million in its operating fund. The money recouped from dissolving men&#8217;s hockey includes the team&#8217;s budget of roughly $120,000 and another [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Fredericton Transit will renegotiate terms of the Collective Agreement with the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) to offer Sunday bus services in 2019. Under Article 14.08, the Collective Agreement states any scheduled runs worked on Sunday shall be paid at the rate of 2.039 times the regular hourly rate. Darren Charters, Fredericton transit and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University’s Human Rights Week took place Feb. 6 to 10 with a focus on diversity and inclusion, coinciding with the announcement of the 50th anniversary celebrations of the New Brunswick Human Rights Act. Third-year student Rachel Slipp studies human rights at STU. She said she thinks it’s great the university’s Human Rights Group [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Michael McDonald, Executive Director of Canadian Alliance of Student Association (CASA) and Robert Burroughs, Executive Director of the New Brunswick Student Alliance (NBSA) paid the St. Thomas University Students&#8217; Union members a visit last week for a two-hour question-and-answer session. Since the STUSU meeting was cancelled because of the weather The Aquinian has highlights from this session in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Last Friday, a group of students and staff gathered at city hall at noon to start their 3-hour-long march toward heightened awareness for eating disorders. What started downtown moved to the University of New Brunswick campus and ended up at St. Thomas University at 3 p.m, to hold a rally with several guest speakers. &#8220;One [&hellip;]</p>

<p>During the past decade and a half I have attended more meetings of the St. Thomas University Senate than I care to remember. Therefore, I think I speak with some measure of authority when I say the meetings are often mind-numbingly boring, yet still address issues of great importance to the university community. The student [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Andrea Guevara&#8217;s comment in a previous version of this story was deleted because it misrepresented her views The new abortion pill Mifegymiso will now be covered by the student health care plan, following changes approved by Campus Trust, the university&#8217;s health insurance provider. Changes to the plan were approved by the board of trustees late [&hellip;]</p>