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<p>The race for the top job is down to two candidates. Robb Larmer, a third-year political science and human rights student, decided to drop out of the race to become president of the St. Thomas University students’ union. “I felt that I wasn’t the most qualified candidate. I have no experience with this. Both of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Frank Jr. Molley’s name won’t be on the ballot next week when St. Thomas University students vote in the students’ union election. Molley was running for president but missed a mandatory candidates meeting. “It was my fault,” he said Tuesday. Molley said he was working cleaning floors at a store in Oromocto from 11 p.m. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The body of a woman discovered along the banks of the St. John River on Sunday belongs to a local missing woman. Police identified the body as that of 41-year-old Elisabeth (Beth) Ruth Fellows. She was last seen on Jan. 25 on video surveillance at the Devon Plaza. Police cordoned off an area behind the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In past years, the St. Thomas University students’ union has had a member with at least a year’s experience on the union executive. This year, vice-president education Craig Mazerolle served his second term in his post, while vice-president administration Mary-Dan Johnston was in her third term. But none of the four candidates vying for president [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Four years ago, Milton Scott remembers getting a call from his son, Jay. It was a stormy night and Jay’s girlfriend was pregnant. The doctor told the couple there was a possibility their child could be born with Down’s syndrome, but the tests came back fine. Jay was thrilled on the other end of the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The St. Thomas University students’ union has been told to shelve the idea of moving offices to a Windsor Street home, which is owned by the university. “From the way the university sees it now, the Windsor Street properties are completely off the table,” said STUSU president Mark Livingstone. The union is looking at options [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Fredericton city council isn’t the old boys club you may think it is, councillor and university student Jordan Graham says. As the University of New Brunswick student, and former St. Thomas University student, nears the end of his council term, he’s learned at school and around the council table, including how to manage his two [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The debate over membership in the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations is heating up again. Last week, St. Thomas University students’ union president Mark Livingstone tabled a surprise motion at the regular Thursday STUSU meeting. After 44 minutes of debate, the motion was approved. It created an ad hoc committee which will write a report [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Raymond Fraser first met Alden Nowlan in 1961. Fraser, a writer like Nowlan, said the two would often visit and chat. “He was not only a good friend as a person, but also as a fellow writer. He was very encouraging of my writing,” said Fraser. On Thursday at 7 p.m, Fraser and friends Jim [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A former St. Thomas University professor will be on campus today to talk about how to balance religion and liberal arts study, a controversial subject at STU, a traditionally Catholic university. Presented by the UNB/STU Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, Eli Diamond will speak at the Ted Daigle Auditorium in Edmund Casey Hall from 7-9 p.m. Diamond, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>New Brunswick’s shale gas protesters want the provincial government to listen to its citizens. Bill Parenteau, a history professor at the University of New Brunswick, and Stephanie Merrill, of the Conservation Council of New Brunswick, gave a speech on Saturday at Conserver House downtown about hydro-fracking in New Brunswick. The speech was part of the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Police have found an adult woman&#8217;s body on the Northside of Fredericton. A piece of land near the St. John River, behind a condominium complex and the Devon Plaza on Union Street was cordoned off by police on Sunday. Cst. Rick Mooney of the Fredericton Police Force said a citizen found the body Sunday while [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The list of candidates running in the St. Thomas University students&#8217; union election is now out. The list below has been provided by STUSU chief returning officer Sarah Bulman. President of the Students’ Union Emily Sheen Frank Jr. Molley John Hoben Robert Larmer Vice President Administration Megan Aiken Thomas Findlay Mckay-Boyce Vice President Education Alex [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Despite a drip by the skylight in James Dunn Hall at St. Thomas University, roof leaks aren’t nearly as bad as they’ve been in the past, according to facilities management. “No worse than usual. It’s been pretty good this year, actually,” said Bill MacLean, director of facilities management at STU. Two weeks ago, a blue [&hellip;]</p>

<p>If it wasn’t for the New Brunswick Student Alliance, St. Thomas University wouldn’t be able to get its message across to the provincial government, said STU students’ union president Mark Livingstone. That goes for every university in the province, he said, but STU’s size especially makes it difficult to have its voice heard. “To me [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Wires peek out through a hole along the floor of the brightly painted blue wall. Standing beside the hole, where a baseboard should be in his Student Union Building office, St. Thomas University students’ union president Mark Livingstone cracks a joke. “Here’s an example of our deferred maintenance.” And this is just one of the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The St. Thomas Union of Student Employees failed to become a union last year, but they’re going to try again, starting this week. The union certification application was withdrawn late last semester. STUSE started last winter as student employees of the university called for improved working conditions. St. Thomas University spokesman Jeffrey Carleton said STU [&hellip;]</p>

<p>After a career at St. Thomas University that has spanned parts of six decades, Larry Batt is leaving the university. The dean of students will retire on June 30. Batt, who went to high school in Chatham, N.B., began his career at STU in 1965, graduating with a bachelor of arts in 1969. Two years [&hellip;]</p>

<p>University of New Brunswick Counselling Services wants to gain a clearer picture of alcohol use on the UNB and St. Thomas University campuses. UNB Counselling director Rice Fuller said he hopes to send out an alcohol-use survey via email for students on both campuses. There’s a lack of local data about drinking habits on campus, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In March 2010, St. Thomas University signed an agreement with the National Centre for First Nations Governance that was lauded as being the first of its kind in Canada. The memorandum of understanding said the two parties would work together to create programming for first nations students to learn more about governance and management skills. [&hellip;]</p>