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<p>I’m lying on one of those hospital beds with the fake plastic mattress that you would stick to in the heat of summer. It’s winter though. Five heavy heated blankets are stacked on top of me, but I’m still shivering. Voices, beeping monitors, whispers, cries of pain and ringing phones fill the world beyond the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Students enjoy not being broke, and the student health care plan does a very good job of this. But there are many services the health plan covers and students today aren’t even aware of most of them. That’s why Andrea Guevara, a fourth-year international student at St. Thomas University, decided to do some research and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>While parking on campus has been a student struggle for years, taking a chance on getting a scuff or a broken bumper is worrying students now more than ever. University of New Brunswick student Haley Layne Ward experienced this firsthand. She said she needed repairs to her car after parking at the Student Union Building. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Award ceremony planned St. Thomas University Students&#8217; Union President Fernanda Damiani met with university administrators to co-ordinate an academic award ceremony to take place a day before convocation. She said if it works out, this event will happen every year to give out awards to students who have high academic standing, honours and other achievements. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Despite subzero temperatures, approximately 250 people gathered in front of Fredericton City Hall on Feb. 4 for the March Against Islamophobia and Deportations. The event was organized after the Jan. 29 shooting in a Quebec mosque that killed six people. “It was a wake-up call, but it was an expensive wake-up call, because people lost [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Last Monday, mourners and allies of all ethnicities, religions and ages gathered together to pay their respects and share their feelings of the Quebec mosque shooting that hit too close to home. “We hear about these things almost every week, but this one’s different because it’s close,” said Vivien Zelazny, campus minister at a vigil held in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Consistent and reliable wireless Internet has been a persistent issue at St. Thomas University. It is common for the Wi-Fi to work fine one day, slow another or inaccessible the next. Bryanna MacNeil, a student at STU, said the Internet problem is preventing her from getting her work done. “The Internet usually shuts off when [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Five years ago, McGill University began live streaming its senate meetings to the university community. Students and staff use their McGill IDs and passwords to access the stream and archives. No one really cared &#8211; the university reported a peak viewership of 50 people in 2014 &#8211; but it was there, on the record, for people who [&hellip;]</p>

<p>For students going into their third year of university or graduating, there are plenty of new opportunities to travel and even get a job in the process. St. Thomas University is offering their usual international exchange program for those who want to take their degree to another country. “The criteria is pretty basic for what [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University Students’ Union has passed a motion to create an ad-hoc food services committee, mandated to explore current food services on campus and look at potential alternatives. Vice-president education Sam Titus said at the Jan. 26 meeting the idea for the committee arose out of the general dissatisfaction from students regarding the cafeteria [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When you start university, people say you will find a class or prof that changes your life. This is my last semester of my last year, and up until now, I didn’t believe it. It wasn’t until I sat down in Michelle Lafrance’s Abnormal Psychology course, which I am admittedly taking for the credits, that [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Premier Brian Gallant&#8217;s announcement of a $7-million investment in a literacy fund, $230 million towards mental health and health care and a pledge to lower taxes for small businesses dominated the State of the Province Address Thursday, leaving the post-secondary education topic behind. At the Fredericton Convention Centre, Gallant told around 200 attendees the economy, education and healthcare [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Health plan update Vice-president administration Philippe Ferland said changes to St. Thomas University&#8217;s student health plan were discussed at a conference last weekend. A new abortion pill, Mifegymiso, has been approved to be covered on STU’s health plan as soon as it becomes available to the public. An increase in coverage options for students is [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The provincial government announced it will be seeking agreements with universities to limit tuition increases and set out a four-year tuition schedule to help students plan their post-secondary education on Friday. In addition, their press release said &#8220;significant funding&#8221; will be set aside in its upcoming budget towards pilot projects and modest funding increases for [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was met with a pressing question during his town hall stop in Fredericton last Tuesday: What is the federal government doing to protect Canadian citizens from sexual assault? Laura Shaw, a University of New Brunswick student, appealed to the prime minister with a shaky voice, reminding him of the recent Maclean’s [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University’s smokers may not need to fear possible changes to the University of New Brunswick’s smoking policy affecting their campus, at least for now. Jeffrey Carleton, STU’s communications director, said the decision would take deliberation, and STU isn’t set to review its smoking policy until 2020. It was reported in November that UNB [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Therapy dogs coming back to campus Vice-president student life Brianna Matchett said the therapy dogs will be back on campus three more times this semester: Jan. 25 for Bell Let’s Talk Day, Feb. 14 for Valentine’s Day and again on April 10. ABCD curriculum group add-ons Student senator Noah Turner said certain departments previously absent [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Weekly documentary screening group, Cinema Politica, is back on campus and ready to educate. Cinema Politica is a group that screens documentaries weekly to inform the public about political, social, cultural and environmental issues around the world.  “I’m very excited that Cinema Politica is back,” said Alexandra Woodworth, who helps run the screenings at St. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Newly-created minority group representative positions are now empty after two students were impeached by the St. Thomas University Students’ Union late last semester. Sexual and gender diversity representative Kris Foreman and aboriginal representative Keyaira Gruben are no longer part of STUSU because they missed too many consecutive council meetings. Philippe Ferland, STUSU vice-president administration, said council members [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In solidarity with hundreds of thousands around the world, several St. Thomas University students participated in the Fredericton Women’s March on Saturday to promote women’s rights following the election of Donald Trump. “[The election of Donald Trump] reminds us that gender equality has not been achieved,” said Nelly Dennene, executive director of Régroupement Féministe du [&hellip;]</p>