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<p>There’s been a decrease in people staying at homeless shelters across the province, but that doesn’t necessarily mean a decrease in people living on the streets, said Tim Ross, coordinator of Fredericton’s Community Action Group on Homelessness. The group released the fourth-annual New Brunswick Report Card on Homelessness on March 19. It compared 2010 and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>This week, the St. Thomas University students’ union will vote on whether to increase the STUSU fees by three per cent. Last week, vice-president administration Mary-Dan Johnston proposed the idea at council but the vote was delayed until this week. If approved, the full-time student STUSU fee would go from $108 per year to $111.24. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Matthew Hayes won’t be quitting his day job anytime soon, even if he’s elected mayor. The St. Thomas University sociology professor and community activist said he’s vying for the top job on council because he wants to talk about “citywide” issues that are being ignored. “I was approached and I thought this would be a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Canada has been complicit with torture overseas and within its own borders, the secretary general of Amnesty International Canada says. Alex Neve was on campus to give his talk, “Clean hands? Canadian complicity in torture abroad,” as part of a torture symposium held last Wednesday and Thursday at St. Thomas University. The St. Andrew’s native [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A partnership with a university in Croatia is providing an opportunity for students to travel the Mediterranean and gain six credit hours this summer. Alexandra Bain, an associate professor in religious studies at St. Thomas University, can take up to 20 students to Croatia from July 16 to 27. “I think it’s important for every [&hellip;]</p>

<p>LONDON (CUP) — What started out as a St. Patrick&#8217;s Day party spiraled out of control on Fleming Drive in London, Ont. this past weekend. Fleming Drive, located near Fanshawe College, is a student enclave with a history of violent crimes and out-of-control parties — though none as large as this year’s incident, where around [&hellip;]</p>

<p>No one saw it coming. It was the third wheel for 51 years; the nagging younger brother who wouldn’t get out of your face. The maturity of Red and Blue seemed to leave him in the corner to bang his fists against the wall – until now, that is. For the first time in history, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As of press time, no decision has been made on David Anderson’s bid to operate a shuttle service in New Brunswick. Anderson will find out the status of his license application within the next 22 days. He’s applied to expand his 15-passenger shuttle service, Advanced Shuttle Services, to the province. The company now offers transportation [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Making Canadian university campuses more environmentally friendly has become a hot topic, and St. Thomas University is no exception. STU’s most recent effort is the water conservation challenge between the residence houses, but other changes are also visible around campus. Former student Marylynn Côté, along with the president’s advisory committee on campus environmental issues (PACCEI) [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When Sarah Bulman came to St. Thomas University, she could count the people she knew on one hand. But within a month, she went from counting friends to counting votes as the students’ union’s chief returning officer. Bulman studied at the University of Prince Edward Island, but halfway through her degree, decided it wasn’t the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The cases presented in two election appeals simply weren’t strong enough, the St. Thomas University students’ union appellate board said. The appeals by two candidates were rejected by the board last Friday and the result has left many involved thinking STUSU election bylaws need to be clarified. Frank Jr. Molley was appealing his disqualification for [&hellip;]</p>

<p>You might want to clean the dust out of your fall-out shelter because, according to Shreesh Juyal, it may not be long before the next nuclear disaster. Juyal came to St. Thomas University to give the annual Dr. Abdul Q. Lodhi Lecture in Human Rights. He’s the dean of the faculty of international studies at [&hellip;]</p>

<p>BURNABY, B.C. (CUP) — A research team at Simon Fraser University has created a treatment that may slow down or even prevent Alzheimer’s disease. David Vocadlo, a chemistry professor at SFU and Canada Research Chair in chemical glycobiology, led a team of seven researchers on the project. Vocadlo specializes in the structures and roles of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Some UNB proctors have decided to bring the It Gets Better Campaign to St. Thomas University and the University of New Brunswick. The popular online campaign, which began two years ago on YouTube by Dan Savage, offers support for youth and teens bullied for their sexual orientation. It includes video testimonials by high-profile people like [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Have you seen the missing CASA report? The St. Thomas University students’ union hasn’t. The report, examining STUSU membership in the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations, was supposed to be presented to council last week. It wasn’t. There was confusion before the regular Thursday STUSU meeting started about the status of the report. At least [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University students&#8217; union appellate board has unofficially rejected appeals by both Elizabeth Strange and Frank Jr. Molley. The results will be official once the board sends out emails to the appellants. Decisions of the board are final. Strange, a candidate for vice-president education, did not want to comment immediately after the decision. &#8220;I&#8217;m [&hellip;]</p>

<p>With cases of syphilis on the rise in New Brunswick, the executive director of AIDS Saint John is calling for more sexual health education in schools to combat a “frightening” outbreak. “It’s hit or miss, but we can’t afford for it to be hit or miss,” Julie Dingwell said about the sexual health education curriculum [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A vaccine protecting against a sexually transmitted infection said to affect 75 per cent of sexually active men and women at least once in their lifetime isn’t covered under St. Thomas University’s health plan. Human papillomavirus, better known as HPV, is the most common sexually transmitted infection, and is heavily linked to cervical cancer in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>John Hoben says he doesn’t want to get Lost in personality conflicts on the political island of the St. Thomas University students’ union. Hoben eked out a close, 24-vote victory over Emily Sheen to become the next STUSU president. The third-year international relations major, who described himself as a “nice guy who is easy to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Controversy has struck again. Two candidates in the recent St. Thomas University students’ union general election have filed appeals. And with only two other appeals in its four-year history, the STUSU appellate board is being called on to hear the appeals. Elizabeth Strange said Alex Driscoll, who defeated her for the position of vice-president education [&hellip;]</p>