Quieting down April 6th Day
This year’s April 6th Day may be more like a kids’ birthday party than the alcohol-fuelled bashes of the past. The annual all-day party will feature bingo, video games and an evening barbecue, a toned-down celebration that happens to fall on Good Friday. “We’re trying to get people to see Harrington the way we see [...]
Looking back, house president Caitlin Doiron says the alcohol ban at Harrington Hall was about more than drinking. “It wasn’t about liquor, it was about respect.” When the alcohol ban ended at Harrington two weeks ago, it came with conditions. This included no glass bottles, no drinking in lounges and no guests after moderate quiet [...]
Continue reading …You can count on a celebration this weekend at Harrington Hall. After six weeks, the residence is no longer dry. A meeting was held Friday afternoon to discuss the future of the alcohol ban. The house committee submitted a proposal to dean of students, Larry Batt, suggesting alternatives to the prohibition. A compromise was reached [...]
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Caitlin Doiron wants people to walk through the halls of Harrington and be able to say “hi” to everyone they pass. She envisions a place that’s a home and a community more than just a place to live – a home where people feel comfortable with those around them. That’s why the house president and [...]
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David Townsend says history shows that prohibitions don’t really work. “They’re just about impossible to enforce,” he said. A professor of law and technical advisor to the student disciplinary process at the University of New Brunswick, Townsend has seen it all. But the alcohol ban at St. Thomas University’s Harrington Hall residence is a different [...]
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We thought it was just a rumour. Really? Alcohol banned in Harrington Hall, the party house of St. Thomas University? Someone heard it from someone else who told us Larry Batt said the ban would start at midnight that night. We had to find out if this was true because, after all, you don’t report [...]
Continue reading …When I was a resident in Harrington Hall, every Friday night I’d pour myself a rum and coke, a bowl of chips and wail away on my electric guitar. Believe it or not, my wing rep deemed me “most likely to form a garage band in her dorm room,” cranking the lead riffs to songs [...]
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Some say party, others say spirit. But one thing Harrington Hall doesn’t lack is reputation. And it didn’t take long for the house’s reputation to be called into question this year, after a fight broke out in a second floor lounge on Oct. 15. It was Harrington’s first house party of the year. Former house [...]
Continue reading …Harrington Hall’s first house party finished with a bang. The office-themed party on Oct. 15 was shut down at 10:30 p.m. because of a fist fight in the second floor lounge. Harrington’s president Caitlin Doiron could not explain the events from the night and was hesitant about giving an interview. “We as a house committee [...]
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Lead tests are wrapping up on the St. Thomas University campus and the university is now waiting for results from water samples taken at Rigby Hall. The university tested 24 locations two weeks ago after the detection of lead shut down eight water fountains on campus.
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