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<p>On Jan. 18, everyone woke up to a similar sight: Some of the most popular websites had nothing on them.Wikipedia, Reddit, the Cheezburger websites, XKCD and others were all replaced with information on a bill in the American House of Representatives. The sites went black in protest of SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act. The [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University may be one of the region’s smallest universities, but that hasn’t stopped its students from making big waves. While STU’s enrolment accounts for less than one per cent of all Canadian university students, STU students have accounted for more than three per cent of Canadian Rhodes Scholars in the past eight years. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It’s been almost exactly two years since Chris George began his three-year term as St. Thomas University’s director of aboriginal initiatives. Since then, George has familiarized himself with some of the university’s aboriginal students and made contacts with aboriginal communities and organizations around the province. But many of the fruits of the 1999 STU graduate’s [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A 26-year-old woman hit while crossing Windsor and Montgomery Streets Sunday evening escaped the collision with minor injuries, Cst. Rick Mooney of the Fredericton Police Force said. The woman, who was wearing dark clothing at the time, was hit by a blue or black Ford Focus just after 6 p.m. Sunday. The investigation is in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>If you live off-campus and worry about getting to the bus on time, there’s an app for that. Fredericton Transit and CGI Atlantic have created a free app, aptly titled goFred, that tells transit users on a minute-to-minute basis where their bus is. Although it is not equipped with a feature that will predict when [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Bernie Lucht was 16 when he first watched the production of a television program. He was hooked. “I was impressed by the nature of the event, by the professionalism,” he said in a phone interview. “I thought to myself, ‘I want to work in this medium.’” The rest, as they say, is history. Lucht is [&hellip;]</p>

<p>You can count on a celebration this weekend at Harrington Hall. After six weeks, the residence is no longer dry. A meeting was held Friday afternoon to discuss the future of the alcohol ban. The house committee submitted a proposal to dean of students, Larry Batt, suggesting alternatives to the prohibition. A compromise was reached [&hellip;]</p>

<p>With three degrees to her name, Lily Fraser has spent a big portion of her life at universities. This semester, she’s back on campus. But this time, it’s not as a student. Fraser is St. Thomas University’s new vice-president finance and administration. She took over for Lawrence Durling, who held the job for 20 years, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Residence advisors at St. Thomas University have added a new skill to their arsenal – social media awareness. As part of their regular training in January, RAs received a social media session from David Shipley, the University of New Brunswick’s senior web content developer. The session included Facebook and Twitter training. Kelly Hogg, one of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>With no end in sight to the Acadian Lines bus lockout, alternatives to the Orleans Express-owned service are starting to pop up for students. Mechanics, maintenance workers, customer service representatives and drivers of the bus line in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, members of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1229, were locked out on Dec. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Students will have to wait for a “budget day bomb” to find out about changes to post-secondary education funding, St. Thomas University students’ union president Mark Livingstone said. Livingstone attended a meeting last Friday with officials from the New Brunswick department of post-secondary education, training, and labour to discuss changes to funding and student financial [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When Jake Rose woke up at 3:30 a.m. on Boxing Day, he thought he heard his mother, Lise, fall down the stairs. He got up to see if she was alright and found his ceiling on fire. Pushing through burning debris, he found his mother, who was standing in the corner in shock, unsure of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>By the time Occupy Fredericton protesters posted on Facebook that their camp was being taken down early on Jan. 3, it was already too late. By that point, nothing could be done to save the camp, which was due to be taken down after Jan. 1 by order of city council. The camp had become [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Alan Clarke could have become a lawyer for banks and big corporations. While doing pro-bono work as a lawyer in Virginia, he realized his passion for social justice and human rights. “When I started practicing law, I became, not a conservative, but much more establishment-oriented,” Clarke said. But after a while, he began to realize [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Caitlin Doiron wants people to walk through the halls of Harrington and be able to say “hi” to everyone they pass. She envisions a place that’s a home and a community more than just a place to live – a home where people feel comfortable with those around them. That’s why the house president and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The St. Thomas University students’ union has chartered a bus to bring students back to campus as the second month of the Acadian Lines lockout begins.   A 32-seat bus has been booked leaving Amherst on Sunday. The bus will stop in Moncton to pick up more students before continuing to Fredericton.   The service [&hellip;]</p>

<p>If you live in Moncton or Nova Scotia, the St. Thomas University students&#8217; union can help you get home for the holidays. The STUSU has chartered a Trius bus to travel to Moncton on Sunday, leaving the Vanier Hall parking lot at 11 a.m. From there, it will stop in Amherst in time for students [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Monty Lewis was lying naked in a jail cell when he hit rock bottom. “A voice was telling me, ‘End it all, kill yourself, murder yourself, take your life.’” That’s when a volunteer from the Salvation Army told him about God. It’s been 35 years and he hasn’t looked back since. Lewis is the director [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University will be elevating a true Jane-of-all-trades to its top tiers in the new year. Lily Fraser, who is assistant deputy minister of New Brunswick&#8217;s Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour department, was announced last Thursday as STU&#8217;s new vice-president finance and administration. Fraser&#8217;s appointment means there are now two women within STU&#8217;s administration [&hellip;]</p>

<p>David Townsend says history shows that prohibitions don’t really work. “They’re just about impossible to enforce,” he said. A professor of law and technical advisor to the student disciplinary process at the University of New Brunswick, Townsend has seen it all. But the alcohol ban at St. Thomas University’s Harrington Hall residence is a different [&hellip;]</p>