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<p>Some social work students at STU have turned lessons in the classroom into action. Last Thursday, the second-year students held the “Making happy childhood memories” march to raise awareness about family violence and the importance of letting kids be kids. About 45 turned out to walk from the Beaverbrook Art Gallery to city hall, said [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Each person who lives at York Manor has a whole life of experiences behind them. St. Thomas University students Leigh Estey, Kate Bugden, Denise McClure and Kimberly Russell have learned about these experiences and are using “narrative care” to improve the lives of the nursing home residents. “The quality of care increases when the staff [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Annual university rankings are out and St. Thomas University is scoring well on class size and campus atmosphere and low on research opportunities, environmental commitment and course registration. The Globe and Mail compiles the grades each year through results of a survey students are asked to fill out. STU&#8217;s grades this year aren&#8217;t much different [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas students crowded James Dunn Hall dressed as Furbies, Hogwarts students, superheroes and a devilled egg on Halloween night. STU students’ union members Craig Mazerolle and Mary-Dan Johnston directed the students with enthusiasm. “Hello everyone, happy Halloween. The buses are in the Vanier parking lot ready to be loaded up. Everyone get into your [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Some say party, others say spirit. But one thing Harrington Hall doesn’t lack is reputation. And it didn’t take long for the house’s reputation to be called into question this year, after a fight broke out in a second floor lounge on Oct. 15. It was Harrington’s first house party of the year. Former house [&hellip;]</p>

<p>From far away, it looks like another bench, one of many scattered across the St. Thomas University campus. But this bench, on the left hand side of the Brian Mulroney Hall main entrance, is different. The first thing you notice is the beautiful woodwork, all completed without nails. It was built as a place of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Talks between Acadian Lines and the union representing the bus line’s drivers, maintenance workers, customer service representatives and mechanics have broken down. The 59 workers, who have been without a contract since Dec. 31, voted 98 per cent in favour of going on strike last month. They could be in legal strike position as early [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Candace Mooers, the executive director of Gallery Connexion, believes that it&#8217;s the artist&#8217;s job to push the boundaries of how people think. Last week, Dusty Green, president’s of the university’s Fine Arts Society, was arrested for painting over graffiti on two water towers in Odell Park. Although Mooers wouldn’t speak on Green’s case, she believes [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Slide over St. Thomas, the University of New Brunswick wants to give its 8,246 students a chance to sit next to you on the bus. The campus is trying to put together a universal bus pass proposal that will allow its undergraduate students access to Fredericton&#8217;s transit system year-round. The University of New Brunswick’s students’ [&hellip;]</p>

<p>I came out in the middle of debates around legalizing same-sex marriage in Canada. There were no shortage of Conservative MP’s spewing homophobic rhetoric and opposing same-sex marriage legislation. So, I found it a bit odd that a group of Conservative politicians and staffers put together an “It gets better” video a couple of weeks [&hellip;]</p>

<p>By the end of this month, Shaunessy McKay is hoping the St. Thomas University community will have a better understanding of native land issues. November is Native Awareness Days at STU and McKay, the native student council’s president, has designed a series of events centred around land. Called “Our home on native land,” the events include [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Social norming technique used to shift perception of binge drinking on campus FREDERICTON (CUP) — Trashed Tuesdays, Wasted Wednesdays, and Thirsty Thursdays. For Nicole Pozer, a third-year student at St. Thomas University (STU), one thing was clear when she moved into Rigby Hall residence in 2009: alcohol is going to be a big part of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Friday prayer had just ended. Taher Shanta, a mature University of New Brunswick computer science student, sat on his prayer mat, still praying with the remaining few. Shanta&#8217;s country, Libya, has been in turmoil for the past nine months. The peaceful protests demanding leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi to step down turned into armed conflict. But [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Thirty seconds can change everything. Over time, Dianne Sheehan has pieced together what happened to her son Nick before he fell to his death from a residence window at St. Francis Xavier University. She knows it was shortly after 9 p.m. on March 8, 2009 when he fell. She remembers, three hours later, receiving the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University has increased its first-year enrolment for the second year in a row. Numbers from the Association for Atlantic Universities show first-year enrolment is up by 9.2 per cent this year, with 675 full-time, first-year students at STU. While the university is happy with the modest increase, STU spokesman Jeffrey Carleton said they’ve [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Acadian Lines could go on strike after Nov. 21. The bus line’s drivers, maintenance workers, customer services representatives and mechanics have been without a contract since Dec. 31. Last week, 98 per cent of the workers &#8211; who are members of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1229 in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island – [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When St. Thomas University international students association president Maite Cristina first set foot on campus, the first thing that struck her was the social and cultural diversity that is so widely appreciated on campus. Cristina is a second-year human rights major hailing from San José, Costa Rica. Her passion for human rights and cultural diversity [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Chantel Whitman is defending SafeRide. The University of New Brunswick students’ union vice-president of student services was upset with comments made about the service in The Aquinian last week. Reporters were unable to reach her for comment then. Two students said they were worried about their safety, the reliability of the service and drivers not [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Harrington Hall’s first house party finished with a bang. The office-themed party on Oct. 15 was shut down at 10:30 p.m. because of a fist fight in the second floor lounge. Harrington’s president Caitlin Doiron could not explain the events from the night and was hesitant about giving an interview. “We as a house committee [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Dusty Green, president of the university&#8217;s Fine Arts Society, was arrested earlier Sunday after painting on two water towers in Odell Park. As an artist, you always hope your work will grab peoples&#8217; attention. But Green didn&#8217;t expect the reaction some of his art got. Green and a friend were drawing a tree and a [&hellip;]</p>