These are not yet confirmed by the STUSU CRO, so for now these are un-official. We will update as we get more information For President: A TIE Melissa Bastarache – Facebook – Twitter – hcsrp@stu.ca TIED Ella Henry – Facebook – Twitter - hccvh@stu.ca TIED Mark Livingstone - Facebook – hbywn@stu.ca A [...]
(Adam rolls up to the podium with a somber look on his face. He places a written speech down and begins to read it.) Students, professors, and fans, thank you for joining me today. Many of you are my friends, many of you know me. Many of you have cheered for me, worked with me, [...]
By Jamie Ross-The Aquinian Chief Returning Officer Sean Thompson says he hasn’t ruled out fining candidates who left their Facebook groups online after campaigning for the general elections closed. But he won’t disqualify the candidates who broke St. Thomas University Students’ Union bylaws. “But I have a feeling there’ll be an appeal about that,” said Thompson. [...]
Stephanie Fauquier – The Aquinian The St. Thomas women’s volleyball team fought hard Sunday morning against Mount Saint Vincent, only to have come up a little short. The women were unable to win in five sets. Sunday’s game determined who would finish in either third or fourth place. St. Thomas is now in fourth place [...]
Tara Chislett – The Aquinian One of the last things Olivia Brayley Quackenbush ever thought she would do was play French horn in a Finnish Orchestra. The only Canadian, Quackenbush didn’t speak Finnish and couldn’t understand what the instructor was saying when they weren’t playing. But when the conductor lifted his hands and the musicians [...]
Eight students from STU will be making trips this summer Maiko Tanabe – The Aquinian Emily Smith, a third-year student at St. Thomas, spent three months in Ghana last summer. She was a teacher there, yet when she recalls the experience, she feels she learned more. Last summer, St. Thomas University partnered with Intercordia Canada [...]
Maiko Tanabe – The Aquinian Some international students are uninterested in the upcoming STUSU election, just like other students, but maybe for different reasons. Chiemi Sakai, a second-year international student, said she’s not even sure when the election is and if she’s going to vote, because she’s not sure her vote would affect her university [...]
Social justice campaigner reinforces bottled-water ban option Jamie Ross – The Aquinian Bottled water is bad, a Polaris Institute campaigner told an audience of about 12 people last week. “It’s an issue people are talking about, and people are wondering, ‘what’s the big deal,’” said Elly Adeland. “There’s the environmental aspect, the social economic aspect.” [...]
(CUP)–The faculty union at UNB won’t strike for the time being. A conciliation board has been formed to settle the contract dispute between the university administration and approximately 600 full times teachers, researchers and librarians, represented by Association of University of New Brunswick Teachers (AUNBT), post-secondary education Minister Donald Arsenault announced last week. UNB’s full-time [...]
When the day started there seemed to be some confusion among candidates about when the campaigning period ends, and what constitutes campaigning. In previous years all Facebook groups and ads had to be shut down on the midnight before voting begins. But this year many candidates were claiming they were unable to access their groups [...]
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