Kids camp gets funding for new lodge

Winning contest extra special for Sheriko
Amy MacKenzie - The Aquinian
Camp Triumph has been named a winner of the national Aviva Community Fund Competition and will get a new lodge for its efforts.
Selected by voters to move to the December finals, many of its votes can be attributed to St. Thomas students, thanks to the efforts [...]

Facebook celebrates birthday with redesign

Alex Solak – The Aquinian

Well Facebook celebrated it’s 6th birthday today with their favourite activity: Redesigning your homepage.
The new homepage will put a higher emphasis on the search bar, and allows you do more right from the homepage.
Now you’ll be able to read previews of messages, and send messages without opening the facebook mail page.
A [...]

Speculating on Native identity

Greetings readers.
I’d like to start off by saying that the Native Student Council is currently in the planning stages for Native Awareness Week, which is set to be in late February. We met to do some brainstorming and are eager to finalize ideas and make this upcoming Native Awareness Week the best yet.
This semester, I [...]

STU’s Olympian

Jason Cassidy – The Aquinian
When you meet Lucrece Nussbaum, her calm presence and soft voice is comforting. Some people say she’s shy, others think she’s reserved, but most agree it’s an inner confidence.
It’s that confidence that’s made her the rock patrolling the blue line for the St. Thomas Tommie’s women’s hockey team. Lukie—as her friends [...]

All Grown Up

I decided that I was going to buy a sugary breakfast cereal.
I said to myself  “Yep. I’m a grownup now. If I want to start my day with a colorful bowl of sogging, sugar coated styrofoam – by golly you know I’m going to do it.” And I jumped and thrust my fist into the [...]