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<p>AIDS New Brunswick is working with University of New Brunswick nursing students to make testing more accessible. The testing began last Wednesday and is available bi-weekly at 65 Brunswick St. between 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. “Were hoping to make testing available to people who are finding it difficult,” said Matt Smith, prevention programs manager [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The establishment of a free Ukrainian state is more complicated than the Western world acknowledges, Mikhail Molchanov told an audience of political science students Tuesday. “The main issue is the Cold War mentality which unfortunately existed in the West through this last 25 years. Despite assurances to the contrary, Russia was never taken seriously as [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Moncton mountie murderer Justin Bourque&#8217;s sentence to 75 years in prison without parole was good news to many Canadians Friday, but St. Thomas University criminology professor Karla O&#8217;Regan said the legal community is concerned by the “vengeance-based” sentence. Borque, 24, pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder of RCMP officers [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Year after year, the Globe and Mail&#8217;s Canadian University Report profile of St. Thomas University simplifies and distorts the school&#8217;s student experience. The 2015 STU profile was so misleading that the university&#8217;s head spokesman Jeffrey Carleton wrote a letter to the editor requesting changes to the online version. As of deadline, the Globe and Mail [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Ebola outbreak could have been prevented, said Janice Graham, a medical anthropologist. The outbreak which has been going on for months in West Africa has been on everyone’s minds and in the media causing panic even in North America as public health doctors are coming back home infected. There have been almost 5,000 deaths [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Four St. Thomas University students are proving that you don&#8217;t need to be a business major to become an entrepreneur. The students flew to Boston last week to learn about start-up communities and meet entrepreneurs after being selected as ambassadors for the University of New Brunswick’s start-up incubator, the Pond-Deshpande Centre. Tiffany Brown and Robery [&hellip;]</p>

<p>New campaigns in the works STUSU president Santiago Chavez announced three charity events coming to campus at Thursday&#8217;s Student Representative Council meeting. Member at large Robert McMichael has taken control of Movember fundraising at the school, which begins Nov. 1. STUSU is also looking for donations for a charity auction coming to St. Thomas campus [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Moving to a new school can be very stressful. Phil Belanger, Director of the New Brunswick Council of Articulations and Transfer (NBCAT), says having more information at hand will relieve some of that stress. The  has signed a memorandum with the intent to ease the transfer process for students. New Brunswick joins British Colombia, Ontario [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Fredericton&#8217;s iRock nightclub will close on Nov. 1. The announcement was made to the surprise of their patrons last Wednesday on their Facebook page. There was a flood of support and regret on the page, along with some less supportive posts. There were some suggestions on how to stay open, including harsh criticism of the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>English professor Dennis Desroches said declining enrolments at liberal arts universities like St. Thomas University is getting scary. “The liberal arts university will survive…as a zombie. And zombies eat the thing liberal arts universities are supposed to nourish.” Earlier this month, St. Thomas’s enrolment numbers were released by the Association of Atlantic Universities. STU’s enrolment [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Ongoing research has found the common critique that the New Brunswick Energy Institute pays lip-service to the provincial government&#8217;s desire to proceed with shale gas fracking doesn&#8217;t hold weight. It does offer a look at why the two say the same things anyway. St. Thomas University professor Kelly Bronson spoke of her experience observing the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A new course on atheism is being brought in to help rebuild St. Thomas University&#8217;s Catholic Studies department next semester. Matt Dinan, the  2006 STU graduate recently appointed to the St. John XXIII chair in Catholic studies, said he is attempting to talk about the things students are interested in with the new atheism and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University&#8217;s students&#8217; union election voter turnout took a dramatic downturn this year when nearly half as many voters turned out to this month&#8217;s by-election than the year before. All told, 271 ballots were cast representing 12.2 per cent of the student body, down from 22.8 per cent at last years by-election. STUSU president [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Third-year St. Thomas University student Caden Bass noticed he was paying a lot more than he expected for his cafeteria meals a few weeks ago. After checking the math, the fan of upsized drinks realized the school doesn&#8217;t have an upsized drink option at all. Rather, it breaks the meal up into fries, drink and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Danielle MacDonald was working in the Justice Building getting ready to brief the Liberal caucus on bill C-42, the Common Sense Firearms Act when it all began. As the Liberal staffer was about to get into the elevator, her boss, Malpeque MP Wayne Easter, was coming back up the elevator and sent her back towards the office. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University student Mitchell Syvret-Caplin appeared anxious as he awaited guests to the first tea ceremony of the school year at the Wabanaki Resource Centre Wednesday. Fidgeting and adjusting his button-up shirt before a camera and two journalism students before the event, he took a deep breath and settled into the conversation. Syvret-Caplin has [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Many St. Thomas University students anticipate the first pub crawls after the school&#8217;s dry welcome week like children anticipate Christmas. Headlining this year&#8217;s alcohol-fueled tours was The Hangover Games, the first 2015 graduate class pub crawl of the year, which saw about 100 students turn out on Friday night and caught the attention of a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Miramichi native David Adams Richards is this year’s Irving journalism chair at St. Thomas University. The award-winning author and STU alumnus is the first native New Brunswicker to hold the position. Michael Camp, the chair of STU’s journalism department, said many of STU’s previous Irving journalism chairs have practiced ordinary, day-to-day journalism. Camp expects Richards’s [&hellip;]</p>

<p>By-election voter turnout cut in half Voter turnout at last week’s by-elections was down more than half from last year. Voter turnout for the by-election was 271 compared to last year’s 587. There were also a lot of students running unopposed for positions. Students were able to vote online again this year. Off-campus committee will [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University graduate, videographer and journalist Alex Vietinghoff has recently found his niche as a satirist. While the co-founder of Fredericton-based The Manatee hasn&#8217;t made a cent after two weeks of operation, the website&#8217;s audience and accolades have already begun to pile up. Already, The Manatee has over 70,000 views, with one story surpassing [&hellip;]</p>