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<p>The STUSU was able to balance their budget next year to prevent running a significant deficit due to low enrolment. Vice president administration Emily Sheen said she was able to do this by cutting funds in various areas and adding a $6.55 fee increase for both full-time students and $2.95 fee increase for part-time students. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Matthew DeCourcey told a small crowd at the Holy Cross House Conference Room during the inaugural STU Talks on Wednesday that his bachelor of arts degree from STU has increased in value. The 2005 graduate was one of four STU alumnae to stress the value of a BA at the event, which was geared towards [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas’ Students for Sustainability group has been collecting refundable bottles and cans across campus as a fundraiser for projects. The group began the bottle project last year after noticing that bottles weren’t being collected on a regular basis. Group president Frida Guerrero said they approached facilities management about addressing the situation. “We collect them [&hellip;]</p>

<p>New Brunswick will be receiving less money for health care for, at least, the immediate future. The federal health accord expired on March 31 and will not be renewed. The government will still increase funding by six per cent to the provinces each year until 2017-18, but it will focus more on population. “Transfers will [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Quebec general election this year is the first since the mass student protests of 2012. Students in Quebec secured their role as active participants in the province’s political landscape in 2012 when they flooded the streets in the thousands to protest tuition increases. Protesting and voting seems to be ingrained in the younger generation [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Former NB Youth Advocate Bernard Richard and the Sanctuary House leader Melanie Beaulieu discussed the role education has in improving living conditions for poor children in Canada last Friday evening at St. Thomas&#8217; Peace Café. “One of every 10 children in New Brunswick are in graving poverty,” said Beaulieu. “Last year 100 families came to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Janice Harvey has been an environmentalist for most of her life. She’s worked on the Conservation Council, is now an environmental science professor at St. Thomas and the wife of New Brunswick’s Green Party leader David Coon. “We’ve been doing this stuff together since the ‘80s.” Harvey said she and her husband worked on the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Low enrolment numbers appear to be the root of all issues with St. Thomas University’s budget. At the town hall meeting on Thursday, President Dawn Russell said the reality of the situation at STU leaves no choice but to make some difficult decisions. “We cannot avoid a difficult financial situation for the upcoming year,” Russell [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Saint John Ironworkers Local 842 forged her steel. Members of Tobique First Nation built her cabins. Dozens of pro bono woodworkers crafted her hull— clad in white New Brunswick pine— while 110 companies financed her birth. Today Saint John is a city saturated in quiescence, a defeated town spread too thin by interests other than [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Even with much opposition to the decision to not fill the drama coordinator position, it was made clear on Thursday’s town hall meeting that the decision is set in stone. After it was stressed that low enrollment was the biggest problem for next year, fourth-year student Julia Cann said during the question period that students [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University’s third annual Celebration of Faith in Diversity hosted over 100 members of various faiths in the Kinsella auditorium Saturday. The morning talk focused on what it is to be a neighbour, and after lunch, performances were put on by religious leaders and followers around Fredericton. Madhu Verma, a devotee of Maritime Geeta [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In reaction to a continuing drop in enrolment, St. Thomas President Dawn Russell announced the creation of a new position, associate vice-president of enrolment management. In ten years enrolment has dropped by 1,000 students at STU. This has caused problems budget-wise as shown during the town hall meeting on Thursday. The enrolment position was posted [&hellip;]</p>

<p>If you place a frog in a boiling pot of water, it will jump out immediately. If you place a frog in the same pot, and slowly heat the water until it’s boiling, the frog dies. But, if the frog manages to jump out before it dies, how do you make sure it recovers from [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Moving along two arms that operate like pistons, a nozel draws a square with molten plastic. The square is then filled in with a mesh pattern. It repeats, with slight variations, layering the plastic until a cube is formed. This is the basics of 3D printing, and Fredericton&#8217;s burgeoning techy class believes it is going [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The drama coordinator of Theatre St. Thomas will be retiring at the end of the semester. Her position will not be filled. Ilkay Silk has been teaching at St. Thomas for 36 years, technically in two jobs. She teaches drama classes to students and is the coordinator for drama activities on campus. Before the year [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Cyberbullies have grown up. And with them, ethical, moral and behavioural concerns. A new study from Simon Fraser University said the teenage online battlefield is carrying through to the arena of adults at Canadian universities. That wasn’t any news for the St. Thomas psychology department. In 2013, a group of professors and alumni addressed the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The New Brunswick Right to Life Association has launched an online counter-petition opposing one started by St. Thomas social work students calling on the government to fund the Morgentaler Clinic. The petition was started on Mar. 15 and, as of Mar. 23, the association was seven signatures away from their goal of 5,000. In a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Elections New Brunswick is working to make voting easier for students. Chief electoral officer Michael Quinn came to St. Thomas last week to talk with two first year political science classes about changes made to make voting as easy as possible for students. One of those changes is setting up polling stations on campus. Quinn [&hellip;]</p>

<p>John Staples, president of STU and UNB&#8217;s LGBTQ support group Spectrum, had been part of the church his whole life. He was raised in a Christian home and led his Evangelical church’s musical team. In July 2003, at age 30, he was banned from participating in his church when his pastor learned he “had a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas alumnus Greg Davis graduated in 1987 and was the president of the Student Representative Council. In 2008, he was the mayor of Campbellton, N.B.. After that, he went on to be the Progressive Conservative MLA of Campbellton-Restigouche Centre. Last week, Davis announced he was not going to run for re-election as MLA because [&hellip;]</p>