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<p>I was probably 10 when I witnessed my first sex scene. I was home alone and had turned on HBO – Sex and the City was on repeat that day. I was never allowed to watch the show, but I didn’t understand why. Okay, so the title has “sex” in it – big deal. What’s [&hellip;]</p>

<p>With the Penn State football scandal hanging over the world of elite sports, many are decrying the prominence put on athletics. At numerous institutions sport is raised high above the level playing field most mortals must be content with. Athletes are given special privileges on campuses and so, it seems, are coaches. This, however, is [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Last week, students at the University of California Davis participating in an Occupy UC Davis protest were pepper sprayed in the face by a campus police officer. The students weren’t only protesting the gross economic inequality that has been taken on by occupiers in cities across North America and around the world. Occupy UC Davis [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Check for smoke ALARMS It seems like a no-brainer, but sometimes when you’re actually looking at a place, you don’t always remember safety. Make sure the smoke alarms are strategically placed, and working. And while on the topic of fire safety, ask to check out the electrical breakers. Make sure there aren’t sparks every time [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The St. Thomas Tommies lost 3-2 in a heartbreaker against the Université de Moncton Aigles Bleus Friday night at the Lady Beaverbrook Arena. Moncton sniper Marc-Andre Cote stripped the puck from Tommies forward Steve Sanza and beat goaltender Charles Lavigne’s short side to take the lead with 1:23 left in the third period to give [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It’s safe to say that a lot of people wish they had a six-pack like ‘The Situation’ or a toned stomach like Megan Fox. But what a lot of people don’t know is that doing 100 crunches every day isn’t the best way to get one. Everyone has an eight-pack, but we all have different [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Political theatre returns to Fredericton this week with the re-opening of the New Brunswick Legislature. Local government reform, French immersion, fracking, health, the urban/rural divide, and the resilient provincial deficit will all be hotly debated, soliloquized, and maybe even sorted out by our esteemed MLAs this session. Although it won&#8217;t gain as much ink as [&hellip;]</p>

<p>There’s always something worse than your whole family forgetting your birthday or realizing in the bathroom mirror that you have corn wedged in between your front teeth, and no one cared to tell you. However, the absolute worst thing that can shatter your state of being or result in eternal doom contains three words: A closed profile. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Dear Editor, Is it just me, or is the sex column kind of boring this year? Yes, they have been raising some good points: it’s okay to show a little bit of PDA, and it’s really attractive to show some self confidence. Well that’s just great. Last year’s sex column, written by Diana Myers, was actually [&hellip;]</p>

<p>She told me it wasn’t safe for people to know she was depressed. A friend of hers had called people with mental illnesses “those people,” so she had proof that young adults still held on to a century-old stigma. I knew her name, but she wasn’t sure she wanted everyone else to know it simply [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Is it because there are too many of us, or too much going to too few? In a small province located in the northern hemisphere, there sits just over 750,000 people. For the most part, these people live a good life, with access to clean water, food, education and electricity. Most are English-speaking, but a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>This has been the year of the college football controversy in America. Thankfully, we&#8217;ve spent as much time discovering these &#8220;scandals&#8221; (The tattoo five at Ohio State, Jim Tressel, Reggie Bush, USC&#8217;s stripped national title, Nevin Shaprio, Cecil Newton, Stanley McClover, Josh Luchs, Willie Lyles) as deconstructing the silliness of them (Taylor Branch in The [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It was another busy journalism class and, once again, Jan Wong was running out of time. “And before I forget,” she said, with five minutes left in class, “We need to talk about poppies.” Everyone stopped in their tracks. I raised my eyebrows and looked towards our web editor Shane Magee, one of the few [&hellip;]</p>

<p>I fear there’s a mushroom cloud on the horizon, but we may be shocked by who drops the bomb. Last week, the International Atomic Energy Agency announced that Iran possesses the technology and material to build a nuclear weapon in a matter of months. It confirmed the fear that’s gripped Israel and others for years. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In the past week, I’ve taken the Acadian Lines bus twice, and each time I’ve thought about the possibility of an upcoming strike. The union representing Acadian bus drivers, mechanics and customer service representatives are set to go on strike Nov. 21 after voting 98 per cent in favour of a strike – a huge majority by any measurement. There’s no question that [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Donald Joseph Connolly, originally from Bathurst, graduated from St. Thomas University in 1941. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in July 1940 and was awarded his wings seven months later. He was the first man from Gloucester County to qualify in the Canadian Branch of the Empire&#8217;s Air Fighting Service, with rank of Flight [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Have you noticed the commercials of the sad African children on your TV lately? What about the people at the mall who stop you and just want a minute of your time? NGOs who raise money for international aid are everywhere. They try to make us all feel bad for that poor, dirty African child [&hellip;]</p>

<p>His name was Michael Ursel and I loved him. At the age of six I was captivated by his luscious red hair and glasses that came from Steve Urkel’s fashion line. I would do anything to catch his attention from skipping kindergarten to playing in the park to sacrificing my chocolate Dunkaroos at snack time [&hellip;]</p>

<p>“So, how can we piss people off this week, editors?” “Another Harrington story?” “No, that’s too easy a target. Besides, our reporters don’t like going in there. They’ve complained about slipping on all the blood in the halls.” I look across the story meeting table at an editor who’s sweating like a pig in a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>One area that we can all improve on is getting or staying motivated. And I don’t just mean at the gym. Whether its homework, eating well or learning an instrument, it’s important to have drive and intensity to help you out. Setting attainable goals rather than a huge lofty one is something you should keep [&hellip;]</p>