Tonight was the last night the STU Tommies would play the UNB Varsity Reds in a Battle of the Hill at the Lady Beaverbrook Rink. With the construction of the Grant-Harvey Centre, this game marks the last time the Tommies will host UNB in the old rink. However, the last true Battle of the Hill [...]
Part I: History The paint is faded from years of use, and the boards are sprinkled with marks from pucks which smashed into it both days and decades ago. There’s no netting between the fans and the players benches, and you can see across one side of the ice to the other. The small confined nature [...]
This week, hosted by Kyle Douglas, Tony Peter-Paul & Kevin Stewart, The Basement Tapes was shot on location at Senator Noel Kinsella Hall. You can watch previous shows by clicking here.
Troy Ryan used to hate St. Thomas University. When he played for the University of New Brunswick men’s hockey team, from 1993 until 1997, Ryan was a part of the rivalry on the hill. As the rivalry dictates, for a UNB player, STU was the enemy. During his last battle of the hill game, Ryan [...]
Only one student attended St. Thomas University’s town hall meeting on Wednesday. The meeting was held in hopes that students would voice their questions and concerns about the new code of conduct put in place by the University. But it was only advertised the day before it took place. The notice was sent to each [...]
For Naz Ali, Canada only meant Toronto. But when he stepped off a small plane at the Fredericton airport, he had no idea where he was. “After just one week, I loved it,” he said. That was seven-and-a-half years ago. Today, Ali co-owns downtown Fredericton restaurant Caribbean Flavas, has a radio show on Capital FM [...]
Although the new code of conduct at St. Thomas University has been raising a few questions on campus, it isn’t going to change much. The new code will take policies already existing at the University and meld them into one document. It will be easier to find the rules, but for the most part, they’ll [...]
St. Thomas University women’s cross-country team placed fifth in Atlantic University Sport (AUS) championships during the women’s five-kilometre race this past weekend at Odell Park, in their first-year of AUS competition. Until this year, STU has competed in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) level of play for university sport, and after five seasons with [...]
The University of New Brunswick Engineering faculty will be making some adjustments. In a note to students, staff and faculty, the dean of students, David Coleman, presented two options to “re-organize” the faculty. The first option would see UNB Engineering change from five-departments to one; the second option is a three-department faculty. UNB currently offers [...]
Note: *Names have been changed to protect the livelihood of those speaking. John* wakes up every morning at 5:30. He turns on his computer, logs on to Aesop and hopes for a job. Aesop stands for the “Automated substitute placement and absence management.” It allows full-time teachers to log on to the Aesop website through [...]
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