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 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 …This week, the St. Thomas University students’ union will vote on whether to increase the STUSU fees by three per cent. Last week, vice-president administration Mary-Dan Johnston proposed the idea at council but the vote was delayed until this week. If approved, the full-time student STUSU fee would go from $108 per year to $111.24. [...]
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When Sarah Bulman came to St. Thomas University, she could count the people she knew on one hand. But within a month, she went from counting friends to counting votes as the students’ union’s chief returning officer. Bulman studied at the University of Prince Edward Island, but halfway through her degree, decided it wasn’t the [...]
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St. Thomas University students’ union appellate board has unofficially rejected appeals by both Elizabeth Strange and Frank Jr. Molley. The results will be official once the board sends out emails to the appellants. Decisions of the board are final. Strange, a candidate for vice-president education, did not want to comment immediately after the decision. “I’m [...]
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John Hoben says he doesn’t want to get Lost in personality conflicts on the political island of the St. Thomas University students’ union. Hoben eked out a close, 24-vote victory over Emily Sheen to become the next STUSU president. The third-year international relations major, who described himself as a “nice guy who is easy to [...]
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Elizabeth Strange is appealing the results of the St. Thomas University students’ union election and wants a by-election. She was a candidate for vice-president education during the vote on Tuesday and Wednesday last week. Strange said Alex Driscoll, who defeated her by 99 votes or almost 18 per cent, was standing near polling stations “excessively.” [...]
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John Hoben, a third year international relations major from Saint John, N.B. has been elected as the next St. Thomas University students’ union president. Hoben defeated Emily Sheen. Before the election Hoben served as an off-campus representative. During the campaign he said wanted STUSU to remain a member of the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations, [...]
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I’ve spent the last two years covering the St. Thomas University students’ union and there are a few things voters should know going into the election, especially when they’re listening to promises to change the atmosphere of the union. First, there’s a lack of student engagement. Barely 20 per cent of students vote and often [...]
Continue reading …Findlay McKay-Boyce Year: Third Major: Honours in history, minor in political science Hometown: Rothesay, N.B. STUSU experience: N/A Students first, money second Findlay McKay-Boyce is running for vice-president administration and says if he is elected, he will cut the STUSU deficit. “We have been having a deficit for the last few years,” he said. “We [...]
Continue reading …The basics: John Hoben Year: Third Major: International relations Hometown: Saint John, N.B. STUSU experience: Current off-campus representative Emily Sheen Year: Second Major: Religious studies and history Hometown: Beaver Bank, N.S. STUSU experience: Current vice-president external, Chatham Hall The Aquinian: If you could change one thing about this year’s union, what would it be? [...]
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