Why do we binge drink? How else could university students tell each other ‘I love you, man!’
It’s 10 o’clock on a Friday night. The room is dark and the music, loud. You feel excited and nervous at the same time. There could be shots, drinking games – whatever it takes to get as high as you can as fast as you can. You’re aware of your surroundings, yet there’s a [...]
We live in a world that boasts exhibitionism. Movies, magazines, celebrities — everyone talks about sex. Yet, public displays of affection remain taboo. Is it jealously of others’ happiness or fear of an uncomfortable, yet intriguing topic? In my opinion, the dislike of PDA is deeply rooted in our Christian heritage; a remainder of a [...]
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A university source has confirmed that Jan Wong has joined the staff of St. Thomas University’s journalism programme. The former Globe and Mail columnist was the school’s Irving Chair in Journalism last year, acting as a resource to students throughout the first semester and giving workshops and lectures. As a foreign correspondent for the Globe, [...]
Continue reading …Trevor Nichols – The Aquinian Documentary viewing Tuesday night Twenty years ago, the government of Canada made a colossal promise. On Nov. 24, 1989, the House of Commons passed a resolution promising to completely eliminate child poverty by the year 2000. Twenty years later, the number of Canadian children living in poverty has not changed. [...]
Continue reading …Steve Graham - The Aquinian Community organizer Joel Berg told an audience at St. Thomas last week that the best way to invoke change in society is to understand how the system works. On Friday morning, The Rural Social Justice Center for Research hosted Berg, a former employee of the Clinton administration’s Department of Agriculture, and [...]
Continue reading …Coordinator disappointed in participation Alyssa Mosher – The Aquinian Earth Hour was a success in Fredericton, but it was a letdown on the St. Thomas campus, according to the students’ union sustainability coordinator. Bethany Knox said the university’s low participation in Earth Hour is disappointing because STU has a lot of environmental issues that Earth [...]
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