Features - The Aquinian

New year, new clubs, new outreach

Features Rebecca Dykeman - September 20, 2020 0

St. Thomas University's clubs and societies have been forced to think of creative ways to engage with students in wake of the university offering...

The Cellar Pub and Grill opens under COVID-19 restrictions

Features Brooklyn Wilkins - September 20, 2020 0

The Cellar Pub and Grill reopened its doors on Sept. 18 after approval from the University of New Brunswick. The pub was allowed to...

STU predicts enrolment to go down by 3 per cent, attendance still strong

Features Laura MacDonald - September 13, 2020 0

St. Thomas University's first semester is online due to COVID-19 and some students are taking the opportunity to take a gap year. Gillian Little, who...

The ongoing fight against systemic racism

Features Roxanne Knight - September 13, 2020 0

Hundreds of protesters knelt for nine minutes in front of Fredericton City Hall on June 2 for the Black Lives Matter march. They knelt...

Gerontology Society spreads kindness

Features Brooklyn Wilkins - September 13, 2020 0

A group of students at St.Thomas University made packages for people living in seniors homes. The packages contained handwritten notes from students and were...

Commentary: South Korea needs to face their not-so-hidden sexual abuse problems

Commentary Young Joo Jun - April 8, 2020 0

Warning: This commentary contains graphic and abusive content and derogatory and misogynistic language. From late 2018 until early 2020, up to 260,000 people entered a...

Commentary: Why you should leave your phone at home

Commentary Fiona Steele - April 7, 2020 0

I want you to think back to the last time you went somewhere without your phone. I don’t mean the “Oh shit I drove...

A letter from the outgoing 2019-20 Managing Editor

Commentary Jerry-Faye Flatt - April 7, 2020 0

If you told me in my first year at St. Thomas University that when I graduated, I would be managing the student newspaper during...

A letter from the incoming 2020-21 Editor-in-Chief

Commentary Diana Chávez - April 7, 2020 0

My love story with The Aquinian started as one of those love-at-first-sight moments you see in movies. I went to my first story meeting not...

A letter from the incoming 2020-21 Managing Editor

Commentary Jasmine Gidney - April 6, 2020 0

I'm the student who sits in the front of the class but never says a word. It's like an invisible hand wraps around my throat...

A letter from the outgoing 2019-20 Editor-in-Chief

Commentary Caitlin Dutt - April 4, 2020 0

Being Editor-in-Chief of The Aquinian during the federal election, rising Indigenous tensions in Canada and a global pandemic hasn’t been easy but it’s been...

Commentary: You don’t need to eat less because you’re stuck inside

Commentary Jerry-Faye Flatt - April 3, 2020 0

Content warning: This story discusses an eating disorder. After months of removing all weight-loss-related content from my Instagram, it started appearing on my news feed...