Mohammed Ali Akhtar waits at a slippery Fredericton bus stop as winter conditions slow public transit across the city. (Suzanne Shah/AQ) Winter has long shaped life in New Brunswick, but for students without access to a car, the season increasingly dictates how their days are planned. Those concerns intensified after a Fredericton Transit bus slid into a ditch on Hilton Road last December during icy conditions. “I used to catch [a bus] but now … I’d be late, so I have to go o

Henry Nadeau poses with a cast member from Frogs at the Theatre of Dionysus during the Greece Travel Study trip. (Submitted by: Henry Nadeau) When Henry Nadeau stood in the ancient Theatre of Dionysus in Athens, he couldn’t help but smile. Just two months earlier, the fourth-year great books honours student had performed Aristophanes’ The Frogs , the same comedy that premiered on that very stage over 2,400 years ago. “It was kind of mind-blowing,” said Nadeau. “Standing wher