Chantal Melanson loves driving her black Mazda 3 to and from campus – until she has to find a place to park it, that is. She’s one of the many students at St. Thomas University who are extremely frustrated with the university’s parking accommodations. “I leave STU to run a 20 minute errand and it [...]
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Profs want new literature session to help first years Matte Robinson welcomed students and alumni into St. Thomas University’s first English literature “club” last Tuesday. IntroMANIA is geared towards students in the introduction to English literature courses. Robinson says students can get out of the traditional classroom setting and not worry about being graded on [...]
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Short History of Progress author say all hope isn’t lost… yet Ronald Wright is the prophet of doom. His book A Short History of Progress says that we are progressing too fast for our own good and that it will ultimately lead to our destruction. Students filled the Kinsella Auditorium last Thursday afternoon to get [...]
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International correspondent moves crowd with stories from war-torn Africa Stephanie Nolen spoke about her five rules of journalism, each with a story. One was about elections in Zimbabwe, another about displaced people in Sudan. However, what had most of the audience holding back tears were her stories of sexually abused women of the Democratic Republic [...]
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Six laptops and two desktops reported missing since Aug. 23 FREDERICTON (CUP) — Several laptop computers and two desktop computers have been stolen from the University of New Brunswick in several instances. The first desktop was reported missing from a lab on Aug. 23; another desktop went missing shortly after. Both were secured to the [...]
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Bell Aliant takes over from Point of Presence Kassandra Mattice wasn’t impressed with the wake-up call she received after returning to St. Thomas University this September. Up until this year, she could c all home from her residence phone. However, since the university changed service providers, from Point of Presence to Bell Aliant, that perk [...]
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New crim prof says he owes accomplishments to life experiences Dr. Laurence French is probably one of the most accomplished men you’ll ever meet. He has 270 publications, 15 of them books. He is a licensed clinical psychiatrist, has a Ph.D in sociology, has worked with minorities for the past 40 years and he is [...]
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Editor Note: On Sept. 20, St. Thomas University officially welcomed Jan Wong, this year’s Irving Chair in Journalism, to campus. I had the privilege of meeting Ms. Wong last year in Edmonton. This report is made up of tape from her speech and interviews with both Ms. Wong and the Globe and Mail’s Phillip Crawley. [...]
Continue reading …STUSU wants more student involvement More chances for students to be involved in decision making on campus topped the STUSU agenda at the presidential search town hall meeting on Sept. 7. Led by Anna Stuart, a vice-president with the human resource company leading the search, the sessions gave students and faculty a chance to have [...]
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STU’s all girls residence wins the cheer off. Vanier Hall has won its first Welcome Week cheer-off in four years. After two consecutive wins back in 2005 and 2006, the all-girls’ residence lost the cheer-off three years in a row. On Sept. 3, hundreds of first-year on- and off-campus students gathered in the lower courtyard [...]
Continue reading …Campus police say they had no trouble keeping things under control Police, underage drinking, and inappropriate sexual behavior all showed up at Saturday’s wet-dry dance. However, “it wasn’t anything we couldn’t handle,” said campus police supervisor Lee Dalberg. Four campus police officers worked the dance and later a fifth officer was called in. Welcome Week [...]
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