Mitch Messom and Greg Rodger – The Aquinian So the STUSU election is upon us all and there are some nice issues to choose from, including the ever-present buzz word “accountability.” Many of the candidates would like us to believe that accountability means openness, responsibility and fairness. For the most part the STUSU meets all [...]
Continue reading …Corben McLean – The Aquinian Ever since the spring 2007 STUSU general election, the question has hung in the air: what is “campaigning?” What does it include? What does it exclude? Where does discretion come into the mix? Or plain old common sense? In 2007, then-chief electoral officer Caitlin Mahoney kicked a presidential candidate out [...]
Continue reading …
This column was intended to be a series of discussions on how to be a poor student with as low an environmental impact as possible. With the upcoming referendum, this kind of discussion seems to have exploded on campus. Being sustainable is not all about giving things up, or dedicating your life to activism. It’s [...]
Continue reading …Chelsey Nicholson – The Aquinian One year ago, January 27, a fourth-year university student was found dead in his car. He had shot himself. He was “the guy,” everyone’s friend, and wherever he was is where everyone else wanted to be. He was a son and a brother, and was very close to his family. [...]
Continue reading …Mitchell Messom & Greg Rodger - The Aquinian Unless your brain has been sealed in a vat for the last couple of weeks, you are now aware that the NB Liberal Government tends to sell of NB Power to Hydro-Quebec. Our intention is not to talk about the deal directly in its specifics, but rather how [...]
Continue reading …
These letters are in reference to the article, ‘An open letter to Halloween Skanks:‘ Dear Bailey, We’ve been friends for a long time. So I was pretty surprised by some of the things you said last week in your letter to “skanks,” as you call them. How is it, Bailey, that you can tell women to [...]
Continue reading …Letters to the editor (x4) regarding “An open letter to Halloween Skanks.”
November 12, 2009 6 CommentsThese letters are in reference to the article, ‘An open letter to Halloween Skanks:‘ You can read Bailey White’s response here: ‘An open letter to Bailey White:’ You can also read the Editor-in-Chief’s response here: ‘Don’t Panic‘ Letter 1 Dear Editor, I am pretty disappointed in the paper for publishing the story “An open letter to [...]
Continue reading …Matt McCann – The Aquinian So, can we talk about satire for a minute? Last week, we printed an opinion piece written by Bailey White, about a certain trend in Halloween costumes, and her purported moral outrage with it. A few hours after the newspapers hit the stands on Tuesday morning, the letters started coming, [...]
Continue reading …
All letters in reference to: Bottled water the eco-fad Letter 1 The Coalition for Bottled-Water-Free Campuses is thrilled to take this opportunity to inform the STU community of our loftiest aspirations. We are fighting to provide universally accessible, safe, clean, locally sourced Champagne. It is, after all, a “human right,” and we feel that it [...]
Continue reading …
Dear Skanks, Sweet Mary mother of Jesus, I am so glad Halloween is over. There are a lot of problems with Halloween, the first of which is its inherent Pagan-y qualities that just don’t sit right in my Catholic mind. The second is trick-or-treating, a ritual which romanticizes begging and teaches kids that they need [...]
Continue reading …We want to hear from you.
Continue reading …Greg Rodger & Mitch Messom - The Aquinian The newest eco-fad to hit campus is the crusade against bottle water. Organizations and community groups (we use community loosely) such as the Council of Canadians, Students for Sustainability and NB Media Coop, among others, are more than ready to battle the real and imaginary problems with bottled [...]
Continue reading …
Loading ...
