CASA debate put to rest – for now
After all the heated debates, emotions, meetings, reports and recommendations, the multi-year effort to move to associate membership status in the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations has failed. Faces became red and voices became louder than normal at times in back-and-forth exchanges, but the debate remained civil and focused on substance, unlike those of the [...]
The expected budget-day bomb was a dud. Student leaders feared cuts to university funding and tuition increases before the 2012-13 New Brunswick budget was released last week. But the budget gave almost no indication of government plans. The only thing confirmed is that universities will be able to increase tuition for Canadian students by $175 [...]
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The vote to increase fees St. Thomas University students pay for STUSU membership has been delayed – again. STU students’ union vice-president administration Mary-Dan Johnston introduced the idea of raising the full- and part-time students’ union fee by three per cent two weeks ago. It would, if approved, increase the full-time student STUSU fee to [...]
Continue reading …The St. Thomas University students’ union has been told to shelve the idea of moving offices to a Windsor Street home, which is owned by the university. “From the way the university sees it now, the Windsor Street properties are completely off the table,” said STUSU president Mark Livingstone. The union is looking at options [...]
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The debate over membership in the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations is heating up again. Last week, St. Thomas University students’ union president Mark Livingstone tabled a surprise motion at the regular Thursday STUSU meeting. After 44 minutes of debate, the motion was approved. It created an ad hoc committee which will write a report [...]
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If it wasn’t for the New Brunswick Student Alliance, St. Thomas University wouldn’t be able to get its message across to the provincial government, said STU students’ union president Mark Livingstone. That goes for every university in the province, he said, but STU’s size especially makes it difficult to have its voice heard. “To me [...]
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Wires peek out through a hole along the floor of the brightly painted blue wall. Standing beside the hole, where a baseboard should be in his Student Union Building office, St. Thomas University students’ union president Mark Livingstone cracks a joke. “Here’s an example of our deferred maintenance.” And this is just one of the [...]
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Elections bring promises. Some are kept, some broken. With three weeks until a new St. Thomas University students’ union executive is elected, it is time to examine the performance of the current executive on their promises before new promises are made. Finances The 2011 spring election had three main issues, all closely tied to money. [...]
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It isn’t just the students’ union that’s left in the dark about funding changes to post-secondary education in New Brunswick. The St. Thomas University administration also knows little about the details of the four-year funding agreement that will be part of the upcoming provincial budget expected in late March. Earlier this month, STU students’ union [...]
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Students will have to wait for a “budget day bomb” to find out about changes to post-secondary education funding, St. Thomas University students’ union president Mark Livingstone said. Livingstone attended a meeting last Friday with officials from the New Brunswick department of post-secondary education, training, and labour to discuss changes to funding and student financial [...]
Continue reading …The St. Thomas University students’ union has chartered a bus to bring students back to campus as the second month of the Acadian Lines lockout begins. A 32-seat bus has been booked leaving Amherst on Sunday. The bus will stop in Moncton to pick up more students before continuing to Fredericton. The service [...]
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