STU Connections Magazine Spring 2013

Rediscover what’s important

Make a list of the things that are important to you. That’s the life you can live here. Come home to New Brunswick. www.welcomenb.ca

Redécouvrez ce qui importe vraiment

Dressez la liste des choses que vous jugez importantes.

C’est ce que vous pouvez vivre ici.

Revenez chez vous au Nouveau-Brunswick.

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While compiling this issue, I was struck by a comment by Dr. Gayle MacDonald. In addition to her academic leadership duties, MacDonald is a noted scholar. She has been awarded STU’s Merit Award for Scholarship and is the author of many publications including the co-authored book Sex Workers of the Maritimes Talk Back.

Her answers to my questions about research (p. 11) at STU are passionate and insightful. She says that research is knowledge with discipline and without the method and training required for research, simple information is the product. Beyond furthering our collective knowledge, she sees the strong link between research, the classroom and society.

You also see this perspective in our new Strategic Plan (p. 14).

The plan acknowledges STU’s very high propor-tion of faculty with PhDs or equivalent cre-dentials. It sees them being uniquely placed to design and carry out research and artistic activi-ties that create knowledge and address issues of importance to the community.

As our research profiles show, our faculty’s contribution to enhanced understanding and creative work is significant. I expect STU will become better known for the quality of its research and for its engagement in addressing issues confronting society.

Future Alumni 2035 During this issue, Cédric and Lucie joined our STU community! They were with me as I planned, interviewed and edited these stories.

At birth, Cédric (l) weighed 6lbs. 2oz. and Lucie (r) weighed 6lbs. 3 oz. Both are doing fine and Matt and I are planning for them to join the Class of ’35!

All the best.

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During my time at St. Thomas University, my studies consisted of reading the works of Shakespeare and Alden Nowlan, as well as learning about conflicts around the world over land and water. While I learned a great deal about these topics, my greatest research project during my time at St. Thomas was life. It happened during class discussions, conversations with classmates over coffee and getting involved in extra-curricular activities.

Since my time at St. Thomas, the university has been granted Canada Research Chairs in such areas as New Brunswick Studies, Social Justice, Narrative Studies and Qualitative Analysis. Great accomplishments for our little university and much else has changed.

While I haven’t taken a course at St. Thomas University since I graduated in 2005, thanks to the alumni network, I feel like I have never really left the STU community.

During my five years in the workforce and now at law school, I am continuously meeting STU alumni in various fields. It is truly amazing how a little university can create such a feeling of belonging long after one stops attending classes. It is an added bonus to a St. Thomas education.

It would be an oversight to conclude without thanking Matt DeCourcey, BA ‘05, for all of the work he did as president of STU Alumni & Friends for the past couple of years. A friend, former classmate and co-worker, as always, it is a pleasure to work with you, Matt.

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Hailing from Riverview, NB, Victoria Blakely majored in international relations and communications. She served as a residence advisor, a tour ambassador and a telecounsellor for the recruitment office. In her third year, she worked in the academic advising office. She was also a member of the STU Young Conservatives, serving as secretary for the year, and was one of two conference coordinators at the 2012 John Peters Humphrey Model United Nations conference. She was the secretary general at this year’s conference.

“St. Thomas has been my home for the past four years, and I am thrilled that I was chosen to win a T-Ring. To me, a T-Ring is more than the symbolic prestige; it’s about being able to identify myself with other Tommies and it’s about showing my love for STU.”

Bobby Gaudet from Moncton, NB, is a criminology student who has been very active during his time at STU. He was a residence advisor in both Holy Cross and Rigby Hall. He also worked in

various departments on campus, such as the admissions office and facilities management. He served as a student representative on the Endowed Chair of Criminology and was an active member of St. Thomas Youth Matters, The Eastern Hub of the Student Commission Canada.

“My experiences at STU have truly shaped who I am today,” Gaudet said. “I will wear this ring with pride, respect and continued love for St. Thomas University and the people who make experiences like mine possible.”

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The Gala Dinner was a wonderful gathering of our friends in support of the Millennium Bursary Fund. These bursaries, valued from $500 to $2,000, are essential to students who might not be able to continue their education without assistance.

The Gala Dinner has been the largest contributor to the Millennium Bursary Fund which includes the Dan and Valerie O’Brien Millennium Bursary Fund, the George Martin Millennium Bursary Fund and the Dawn Russell Millennium Bursary Fund. These donations are partially matched by the Provincial Government. With the Millennium Bursary Fund Endowment at $2.4 million, more than 130 bursaries will be awarded this year.

STU Gala Dinner January25,2013

Thanks to Our Sponsors

Presenting: CIBC Wood Gundy, McCain Foods

Gold: Aramark Canada, Cyril and Helen Ross, Cox & Palmer

Green: Stewart McKelvey, Bird Holdings

Table: BMO Bank of Montreal, Kiers Marketing Group, Lawson

Creamer, Summa Strategies, Taylor Printing Group

(L-R) Anne Woodside, Fredericton Mayor Brad Woodside, Richard Wade, Cheryl Wade, David Wade, Astrid Wade and the Hon. Douglas Young.

Left to right Victoria Blakely, Colton Kalynuik, Sarah Chaisson, Maggie Edwards, Katie Cornelius, Elizabeth Baker, Kathy Simon, Anastasia Ghizas and Bobby Gaudet.

Senator Noël Kinsella, President Dawn Russell, John Bragg and Post Secondary Education, Labour and Training Minister Danny Soucey.

The procession was led by Angee Acquin.

New Brunswick’s Lieutenant Governor Graydon Nicholas and his wife Beth were special guests.

Nova Scotia entrepreneur John Bragg announced a $250,000 endowment by his family’s foundation of the President Dawn Russell Entering Bursaries and Upper-Year Bursaries.


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TheHonourableNoëlA.Kinsella,SpeakeroftheSenate,hostedareceptionin honourofSt.ThomasUniversityalumnionParliamentHillinOttawa.

Bahamas 3. International Recruiter Angela Roy, BA ‘10, connected with alumna Yasmin Glinton, BA ‘10, BEd ‘11, while on a recruiting trip in Marsh Harbour, Bahamas.

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AlumniReception,Beijing,China–October19,2012AlumniandfriendsgatheredattheKro’sNestinBeijing,China,foranalumnireception.

11. Sandy Lugar, BA ‘07; Kelly Lapointe, BA ‘07; Christine Martell, BA ‘08, BEd ‘09; President and Vice- Chancellor, Dawn Russell, BA ‘77; Carlos Game, BA ‘08; Sheri Strickland, BA ‘07; Lauren Earl, BA ‘07; Bryan Sparks, BA ‘08.2. Mark Giberson, BA ‘76; Gay O’Leary, BA ‘76, BEd ‘77; Gerry Goodine, STU ‘77-78; Peter Wilson, BA ‘77.

Left to Right: Amanda Nearing, Michael Garcia; Katrina McDonnell, BA ‘05, BEd ‘08; Jason Wilson, BA ‘09, BEd ‘12; Amanda MacDonald, BA ‘09, BEd ‘10; Amanda Greer, BA ‘11, BEd ‘12; Ashley Scott, BA ‘11; Lucas Liu, BA ‘11; Andrew Holmes, BA ‘09, BEd ‘11

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During prom season, more and more underage girls will be adding tanned skin to their list of accessories. But not if Dr. Suzanne Prior and Dr. Kim Fenwick have something to say about it.

The psychologists’ research on underage tanning is being used by the New Bruns-wick Division of the Canadian Cancer Soci-ety in schools to encourage a tan-free prom.

“The media makes adolescents feel like beautiful people are tanned people,” Fen-wick said. “That’s the images that they see all the time. Vulnerable young girls will tan because they think it’ll make them more attractive.”

“Our strategy is to get them to love the skin they’re in,” Prior said. “We want to tell them that they’re beautiful the way they are and it’s not worth jeopardizing their health for something someone else is telling them is beautiful.”

Despite guidelines in New Brunswick that

prohibit youth under the age of 18 tanning in salons, Prior and Fenwick have found that many teen girls are finding ways into tanning beds.

“I think there’s a huge misconception that tanning is safe,” Prior said. “People know that sunburns are dangerous but they don’t believe that tanning in a tanning salon is dangerous when it can be more dangerous than the exposure you get from the sun. UV radiation is a group-one carcinogen. It’s in the same cancer risk category as tobacco. It’s a really serious risk for melanoma.”

Surveying High School Students

During their research, Fenwick and Prior surveyed nearly 1,000 high school students from grades 10 to 12 in the Fredericton area and found that 16 per cent of the girls are tanning artificially. “This is in context with government guidelines when they’re not supposed to

be in there at all,” Prior said. “But these are just guidelines, not legislation. There is no enforcement.”

Their research found that seven per cent of grade 10 girls, 13 per cent of grade 11 girls, and 26 per cent of grade 12 girls used artifi-cial tanning equipment. About 86 per cent reported tanning at a tanning salon.

They collected their data during winter months. Had they done their research closer to the prom, they said the numbers would be even higher.

“It’s a really serious health issue,” Prior said. “If you are exposed to UV exposure before the age of 30, you have a 75 per cent higher risk of developing melanoma.”

Tan-Free Proms

This year, with the help of Prior and Fenwick’s research, student-run “tan-free prom” programs are popping up in schools. Student leaders will educate their peers about the risk of UV exposure and artificial tanning. They’ll also show them that the media is manipulating them into thinking they have to tan to look beautiful.

“With adolescents, it can be quite effec-tive if you help them realize they’re being manipulated because they don’t like that,” Prior said.

As part of the program, students commit to not tanning for prom by signing a card at a booth set up in the high school.

New Bill in the Legislature

Although Prior and Fenwick are happy their research is getting back to the adolescents, they hope they can convince the govern-ment to switch the underage tanning guideline to a ban like some provinces have adopted.

In fact, Bill 54 - the Artificial Tanning Act, was recently introduced in the Legislature of New Brunswick. It seeks to prohibit persons under 19 years of age from using tanning equipment in a commercial tanning operation.

“If a ban comes, that would be the proudest moment in my research,” Prior said.

“We’re psychologists. We’re concerned with people’s well-being and when that happens, I will be extremely happy… in my dream world, there would be no artificial tanning whatsoever, but a ban on underage tanning would be a great start.”

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When Dr. Michael Dawson looks at Jell-O, he sees more than a wig-gly dessert. He sees a way of explaining the history of industrializa-tion of food in America.

Dawson is a historian who explores larger historical themes by focusing on popular culture. Taking this approach, he’s researched the Canadian Mountie as a national symbol, tourism in British Columbia, and the history of the Commonwealth Games, among other topics. He’s also determined to write a scholarly study of the Australian TV program Skippy the Bush Kangaroo.

He is currently researching the history of junk food, hoping to eventually culminate his research into a book he will co-author with fellow St. Thomas University historian, Catherine Gidney. He is focusing on food like Jell-O, Coca Cola, Twinkies and pizza. “You can take Jell-O, for instance, and you can talk about the his-tory of the industrialization of food. You can look at all of the stuff that’s in the gelatin and then see how it gets marketed and the way it changes over time,” he said.

During the Great Depression, Jell-O helped families extend what was in their cupboard. They could mix it with some fruit and sud-denly have a meal. In the 1950s and 1960s, more women started

working, and the market for Jell-O changed again. Jell-O became about convenience.

“I can teach my students and a broader audience about key social transformations in the 20th century, but I need a hook. And my hook is Jell-O,” Dawson said. “It’s a little wacky, but people will listen.” Dawson hopes to create a course that will focus on the history of junk food. He said his lectures will be first drafts for his book chapters. “It strikes me that there’s a lot of overlap in terms of the strategies to get my students engaged in the classroom and strategies to get an average Canadian reader engaged. The whole point is you have to have a hook. You have to have Jell-O and say, ‘here’s something you didn’t know about pop culture’ and then say, ‘I’m going to use pop culture to teach you a lesson about X, Y, or Z.’”

Jean-Philippe Ranger hopes to discover a better way to mediate controversial moral debates by studying ancient philosophy.

“I’m interested in how you can have a moral debate between two people who fundamentally disagree. Can they still have a dialogue instead of a fight to win at all cost?” explains Dr. Ranger.

“Very often, the reason why people can’t agree morally is because each is appealing to different fundamental values. It’s as if they can’t understand each other because what each thinks is ‘good’ is different from what the other thinks is ‘good.’ That has been pre-sented as a contemporary problem, but it’s something that’s gone on all the way through the history of ethics.”

Ranger points to Plato’s Gorgias, in which Socrates debates the no-tion of ‘good’ with a character named Callicles. The two characters have very different ideas on what is ‘good.’

“Callicles’ position is very scary,” Ranger says. “He believes the strong should have more than the weak. For him, the stronger should always have everything and dominate the weaker. Callicles

advocates a deeply in-egalitarian position. But at the same time, Socrates is unable to argue against him. He ultimately can’t show Callicles that he’s wrong.”

Ranger says studying these philosophers and ancient debates will benefit society. “We’re constantly meeting people who have different values than we do, but we have to learn to live togeth-er. Understanding why it is so difficult to argue with someone who holds funda-mental values is crucial.”

“By and by, we do a good job of getting along, but it’s difficult to adjudicate between different systems of values,” he continues.

“The point is that if I appeal to some values to say that something is ‘right’ and you appeal to other values, then it is very hard to find a meeting point. By studying these ancient philosophers and study-ing the way they’re approaching the problem, we might be able to make some headway into the issue.”

Ranger plans to write a book that will look at whether there is a middle ground between dialogue and polemics.

Social Transformations and Jell-ODr. Michael Dawson on the Industrialization of Food


Why Is It Difficult to Change Minds?Dr. Jean-Philippe Ranger on Philosophy and Moral Debates


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Psychology professor Ian Fraser recently found out his research made it all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada. In their decision on a high-profile case involving a Muslim woman refusing to remove her niqab during testimony, the justices referred to an article he had co-authored. A niqab is a veil worn by some Muslim women that covers all of the face except the eyes. Fraser’s article, which he co-authored with lawyers Barry Morrison and Laura Porter, dealt with the role of demeanour when assessing a witness’s credibility. The justices cited the article while attempting to determine whether hiding one’s face during testimony would affect the ability to observe demeanour.

Fraser said psychology and law should go hand in hand, and he was pleased to hear his research was cited in their decision.

“Psychology is all about the study of hu-man behaviour,” Fraser said. “And law is all about governing human behaviour. So it looks like the two of them should actually be very close. The information that is found through the studies conducted by psycholo-gists should be used quite extensively in the law courts, but that connection isn’t really happening as often as it should.”

He says the information is often overlooked because it is published in psychology journals and therefore isn’t read by lawyers. Last year, five St. Thomas professors and a lawyer tried to bridge the gap with their book Witnesses and the Law. It was writ-ten for lawyers and others involved in the judicial system and published by Canada Law Book.

“We put together information that has been researched by psychologists over the last 30 or 40 years but we wrote it for the players in the judicial system and placed it in the appropriate format and forum.”

The book examines topics such as the fallibility of memory, post-traumatic stress

disorder, repressed memory, body language, mug shots, police line-ups, ‘Generation Y,” children as eyewitnesses and police inter-view techniques.

Dr. Csilla Dallos believes we can learn a lot from hunter-gatherer groups. Dallos is an anthropologist. Most of her research has been on the Lanoh hunter-gatherer group in Malaysia, where she spent 14 months observing them and participat-ing in their daily life. Hunter-gatherer groups get most or all of their food from wild plants and animals and don’t rely on agriculture. Until recently, the Lanoh were considered nomadic hunter-gatherers. They are now newly sedentary and Dallos studied the impact of sedentism on the hunter-gatherers’ social organization, especially how inequality develops in a previously egalitarian society. She says there is much society can learn from hunter-gatherer groups.

“Humans lived throughout most of their history as hunter-gatherers, so the study of modern hunter-gatherers can be quite relevant for understanding what it means to be human,” Dallos said. “Our fundamental social institutions, psychological makeup and cultural uniqueness developed in con-nection to hunter-gatherer lifestyle.” Dallos noted that the conditions of human life have changed considerably during the past 10,000 years. “We now live in large, complex and seden-tary societies where life circumstances are very different from those throughout most of human history,” she said. “Though modern hunter-gatherers are also incorporated in modern states and are part of the larger world system, many anthro-pologists remain convinced that research among the few remaining hunter-gatherer peoples still gives us unparalleled insight into the kinds of social relations in which our species had been shaped. This is a unique opportunity to understand our-selves better.” She is working on an article-chapter on the impact of contact between hunter-gatherers and farmers in Peninsular Malaysia.

“Modern hunter-gatherers have been in contact with neighbouring farmers for hun-dreds (in some cases thousands) of years. What is the implication of this contact for these hunter-gatherers sociality, value system and livelihood?”

“Given this contact is it still reasonable to use modern hunter-gatherers in discussions of prehistoric societies and human evolu-tion, or does this contact mean that many of the attributes of the social organization of contemporary hunter-gatherers is actually an outcome of this contact with farmers? Answers to these questions have important implications for how we view our species and its past.”

Learning From Hunter-Gatherer GroupsAnthropologist Dr. Csilla Dallos


Connecting Law and PsychologyDr. Ian Fraser’s Research Cited by Supreme Court


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What are some of the research projects underway on campus?

There isn’t a faculty member doing funded research who couldn’t stand up to anyone in the country. Even some of those who don’t do funded research are some of the best in the country. Alumni are reading about exciting research projects in this magazine. To name a few others, I think Robin Vose’s work in history on the Spanish Inquisition is second-to-none. He’s the only academic that we know of who has access at Notre Dame to the In-quisition documents. And he draws current analogies to inquisition issues; Who are the “evil people” now? Who are those that are haunted by the devil? Who gets demonized in current culture? He brings history alive. Samira Farhoud in Romance Languages has just published a book on the Arab Spring or, as she calls it, the Arab Renaissance. She researches how women are viewed in Arab cultures. That is extremely useful information.

The more global we get, the more impor-tant it is for faculty to have understandings that we can teach our students. When the students see a Muslim woman, they’re not going to make a judgment. They’re going to have an understanding of why she wears the burka or the hijab so it won’t be as foreign, so to speak. Research brings the world closer.

Aamir Jamal in Social Work is doing incred-ibly important and timely research on the education of girls in Afghanistan. It’s very timely research. It’s the only dissertation I’ve ever read that has been interrupted by war and flooding! Why is it important for universi-ties to invest in research?

Research answers the questions of the past, those that arise today and discerns which questions will arise tomorrow, both in a basic and in an applied sense. It fulfills the noble role of the life of the mind and the equally important role of expanding the minds of others through teaching. If research is absent, then training rather than education becomes the focal purpose of the university. How can research in the humanities and social sciences help society?

Research helps train the critical mind, the critical reader, the thoughtful writer. Basic research in the humanities and social sci-ences can help answer the wide and deep questions around human purpose, as well as the focused and applied questions of how to do something better, how to address real needs in communities and how to assess the tools that are currently used in working with human beings.

The humanities and social sciences help us to solve the social problems and issues within most communities and can help communities plan better their resources, their political structures, their contributions to culture and literature, and to assess their educational, health and social development needs. Research can create both the knowl-edge and the tools with which to make the world a better place to live, as well as to enhance our ability to communicate and to understand each other

It is knowledge with discipline, without the method and training required for research, simple information is the product.

Where do you see research at STU in five years?

I can answer this by looking at the last five years. We have more and better funding grants. We have more actively engaged researchers and funded research. We have more researchers interested in doing publi-cations. We have researchers that are going to most parts of the world to present their work.

I see it as being more of the same, but even better.

Q&As with Dr. Gayle MacDonald, Assistant Vice President (Research)

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1. Alice Allain – Montreal, Québec Pour un enseignement efficace du fran-çais langue seconde aux autochtones

2. Mary Lou Babineau – Waterloo, ON Las cuentistas puertorriquenas y el arte de contar el nuevo milenio

3. Tom Bateman – Sackville, NB Some Thoughts on Liberalism: Modus Vivendi or Comprehensive Culture?

4. Tom Bateman – Wisconsin, USA Guilt and Innocence in Koestler’s “Dark-ness at Noon”

5. Paul Burnett – Cleveland, OH Scantrons, Statistics and School-teachers: Science, Technology and Performance Assessment in US Public Schools

6. Linda Caissie – St. John’s, NL Celebrating the Ideal Older Woman: How the images in “More Magazine” Construct Gender and Aging

7. John Coates – Thunder Bay, ON A New CSWE Initiative: The Religion and Spirituality Clearinghouse

8. Brad Cross – France Land Rehabilitation Schemes on Former Bauxite Mines: Global and Local ten-sions in Australia and Jamaica

9. Michael Dawson – Vancouver, BC There is nothing more inclusive than “O Canada”: New Brunswick Bellisle Elem.School Anthem Debate in Historical and Comparative Perspective

10. Stewart Donovan – London, UK Pound, John McRae and the Triumph of the Cenotaphs; or, Amnesia and Empire: re-writing the “battered books” for Nationhood

11. Suzanne Dudziak – Sweden Fighting for Clean Water

12. Samira Farhoud – Leicester University, UK Identité algerienne entre frustration et revolte

13. Cecilia Francis – France La ville, entre espaces d’accueil et d’exclusion. Vers une cartographie de la transculture chez Abla Farhoud

14. James Gilbert-Walsh – Sackville, NB Taking Intersubjectivity Seriously: Heidegger’s “We” in Being and Time

15. Matthew Hayes – Madrid, Spain The Business Cycle & Capitalist Social Regulation: Visions of Liberal Industrial Society in the Early 20th century

16. Linnet Humble – Victoria, BC Ebook Production at Canadian UP’s: Problems and Possible Solutions

17. Jane Jenkins – Cleveland, OH Pathways to Purity: The Techno- Scientific Invention of Pure Milk

18. Dave Korotkov – Poland How are humor and laughter related to stress and heath?

19. Michelle Lafrance – Paris, France Women re-storying the self through suffering: the obstacles of hegemonic discourses of femininity

20. Jennifer Lofkrantz – Chicago, USA Intellectual Discourse in the Early Sokoto Caliphate: The Dan Fodio Debate on Ransoming

21. Christian Mbarga – Pusan, South Korea Emile Zola: Just Well Known Figure of the Naturalist Movement or an overlooked Historian?

22. Kathleen McConnell – Toronto, ON Producing an Online Archive of Atlantic Canadian Poets

23. Sue McKenzie-Mohr – Paris, France Counterstorying Rape: Women’s strate-gies for narrative repair

24. Mikhail Molchanov – San Diego, USA Russia, Central Asia and Afghanistan/Regionalism in Eurasia/Geopolitics of Energy/Russian foreign policy

25. Shaun Narine – California, USA 1) The Impact of Human Rights Norms on the Evolution of ASEAN and 2) Conflict Within ASEAN: The Thailand/Cambodia Dispute and its Implications

26. Jean-Philippe Ranger – Fordham University, New York, USA Is Hedonism Immoral or Inconsistent? Cicero’s Critical Response to Epicurian Ethics

27. Matte Robinson – San Francisco, California The Echoing Spell of Ezra Pound in H.D.’s Prose

28. Josephine Savarese – Waterloo, ON Revisiting the Disappearance of “a Daughter X”: Analyzing Access to Jus-tice Issues in the Child Welfare Context

29. Scott Stapleford – Sackville, NB Epistemic Duties and Failure to Under-stand One’s Evidence

30. Monika Stelzl – Paris, France Damned if you do, damned if you don’t: Women’s narratives of moral dilemma in feigning sexual pleasure

31. Jasmina Terzioska – Greece Education, under France’s Regime in Spain

32. Peter Toner – St. John’s, NL Hybridity, Revivalism, and the Second Life of Irish Music in New Brunswick

33. Peter Toner – Derry, Ireland Mediation, Hybridity, and Fiddling in New Brunswick

34. Robin Vose – New Mexico, USA Crusade, Jihad, Film: The Encryption of Despair

35. Robin Whittaker – Waterloo, ON In an uncertain world “Only an expert can deal with the problem”: Perfor-mance and protest, professionals and the rest

36. Grant Williams – Indiana, USA Supporting Students’ Conceptual Change in Physics: Utilizing Teaching Strategies from the O.G.E.M. Cycle

37. Megan Woodworth – Hamilton, ON Political Prejudice and the Finest Human Affections: Translating the American Revolutionary War and the Discourse of Liberty into English Domestic Fiction

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Clive Baldwin Canada Research Chair in Narrative Studies

Dr. Clive Baldwin is researching the role of narrative in social and health care as a way to improve professional practice and care quality. His work touches on organizational structures, communication, leadership, power, control and surveillance.

Baldwin has been the keynote speaker at a conference on ethics and demen-tia in Dublin, delivered papers at the Narrative Matters conference in Paris, the ‘Qualitatives’ conference in St. John’s and at a confer-ence on university teaching and learning at Dalhousie University.

His current work includes a project on narrative, resilience and mental health with St. Thomas University colleagues Bill Ran-dall (Gerontology), Sue McKenzie-Mohr (Gerontology), Michelle Lafrance (Psychology) and Elizabeth McKim (English); a project on storytelling in social and health care organizations; and a project exploring the experience of transableism, individuals who express a desire to become disabled.

Susan Machum Canada Research Chair in Rural Social Justice

Dr. Susan Machum is studying how rural farm communities are respond-ing to opportunities and challenges as they adapt to meet local needs rather than export markets. She is examin-ing the impacts of policies on farm household incomes and livelihoods and how local food movement initia-tives are transforming production practices.

Over the first phase of her research, Machum has drawn greater public attention to sustainability and the value of locally produced goods. She has supported initiatives promoting sustainability and socially-just economic practices and established partnerships with community leaders and activists.

Machum has delivered papers on agriculture and sustainability, and the production-consumptions cycle. She organized the interna-tional Conference of the Rural Women’s Studies Association at St. Thomas last summer. She has also served on a task force and contributed to several development policy initiatives.

Tony Tremblay Canada Research Chair in New Brunswick Studies

Dr. Tony Tremblay’s research is on the cultural and literary dimensions of New Brunswick modernism.

He is continuing his study of the pre-eminent cultural workers in New Brunswick’s post-war modernist renaissance. The first part of that work – the book Fred Cogswell: The Many-Dimensioned Self – was recently launched (http://vre.lib.unb.ca/cogswell/). The second part is also a book, The New Brunswick Literary Modernists, that will focus on A.G. Bailey, Desmond Pacey and Elizabeth Brewster.

He is also studying the historical precedents of New Brunswick modernism in key periods of literary ferment in the Anglophone and Acadian literatures. Supported by SSHRC funding, he has assembled a team of literary scholars from each of the province’s five universities. They are working on the book New Brunswick at the Crossroads of the Nation: Literary Ferment and Social Change in the East.

Deborah van den Hoonaard Canada Research Chair in Qualitative Research and Analysis

Dr. Deborah van den Hoonaard uses qualitative research methods to ex-plore the life experiences of members of socially marginal groups such as widows and widowers.

She is currently working on two projects. The first, “Older Women’s Experiences as Widows: Eighteen Years Later,” involves interviews with widows over 60 whose hus-bands have died in the last decade. The study will explore what has changed in the nearly two decades since van den Hoonaard carried out her original study on widows.

A second study, “Baby Boomer Women and Retirement,” will use interviews to explore women’s process of leaving the paid work force. She will explore what retirement means to them and how their life has changed. Baby boomers are the first generation of women to have spent the major portion of their lives in the paid workforce in large numbers and are pioneers in the area of women and retirement.

Canada Research Chairs at STUSt. Thomas University currently holds four Canada Research Chairs, a Government of Canada program to establish research professorships at universities. The project aims to make Canada one of the world’s top five countries for research and development.


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Our Strategic Plan was completed earlier this year. During the consultation process, clear themes about our future emerged.

St. Thomas University is a special place for those who study and work here. Our small size, strong sense of community and focus on social justice make us unique. There are many features that make us distinct including our singular focus on undergraduate liberal arts education, the quality of our faculty, select and high-quality programs, the informal and friendly culture on campus, and the beauty and accessibility of our campus.

We are more than an institution. We are a living body of students, scholars, administrators and stewards. We are a vibrant and diverse community of people, each with their individual goals. Our new plan seeks to nurture those diverse interests, which work together to form a common vision.

As we begin our second century, we intend to build on our strengths. Doing so will be critical to achieving our vision of being the premier liberal arts undergraduate university in Canada.

Five strategic priorities will guide our activities for the next five years:

•Excellence in Undergraduate Liberal Arts Education

•A Meaningful and Memorable Student Experience

•A Commitment to Research and Societal Engagement

•A Welcoming, Diverse and Inclusive Community

•Financial Sustainability

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Achieving these goals will enhance our capacity to

•Provide students with an exceptional educational experience

•Offer our faculty and staff a professional, healthy and respectful workplace that encourages personal and collective achievements

•Sustain an alma mater of which our alumni can be proud and supportive

•Foster greater societal engagement based on the scholarly research of our faculty and the contributions and achievements of well-educated and engaged students and graduates

We are just getting started on the initiatives that will fulfill these aspirations. It is going to be an exciting time in our second century.

To learn more, please see http://bit.ly/11oUrbF.

Dawn Russell President and Vice Chancellor

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St. Thomas University plans to educate the next generation of Canada’s communications and public policy leaders. Part of that plan involves the new Frank McKenna Centre for Communications and Public Policy.

The McKenna Centre will organize symposiums, conduct policy forums, and bring speakers to campus as part of a Distinguished Speaker Series. The first speaker was former Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Paul Martin.

The centre is named after Frank McKenna, who was Premier of New Brunswick between 1987 and 1997.

“The modern study of communications now demands an understanding of the complex ways of engaging citizens rather than simply informing them,” said Dawn Russell, President and Vice-Chancellor.

“As an institution of higher learning, we want to educate our students to excel in this profession, for whatever cause inspires them.”

“As Premier, Frank McKenna understood the important role of leading-edged public policy,” Russell said.

McKenna said he is honoured that STU is naming the centre after him.

“There has never been a greater need in this country to have this marriage that we’re seeing developed on this campus, because the public policy issues today are extraordinarily complex.” McKenna said.

Following the announcement, Martin delivered the inaugural Distinguished Speaker Series address. He spoke about the relationship between public policy and communications.

“Sound public policy is very hard work based on the evidence and the analysis that one can bring. But unless it can be communicated well, sound public policy will go nowhere.”

McKenna Endowment A $1 million pledge from Frank and Julie McKenna to create an endowment for the new centre will enrich the student experience.

The Maritimes Provinces Higher Education

Commission has approved a new academic major in Communications and Public Policy and courses will begin in September.

“This generous gift is a great start on our ambition to become a leader in educating students in communications and public policy. With the centre, this gift and the new academic program, we are ready to go,” said Russell.

“Julie and I are fortunate to be in a position where we can make a difference in the lives of St. Thomas University students, and support them as they pursue a desire to work with complex public policy issues,” said McKenna.

“Educating leaders capable of addressing complex public policy issues”The Frank McKenna Centre for Communications and Public Policy

Brian Mulroney spoke to a packed room of students, faculty and the public during a recent visit to his alma mater.

Canada’s eighteenth prime minister touched on topics ranging from his political career, to the power of the prime minister, to his experi-ence attending St. Thomas in the 1950s.

“I can tell the students here today, you are so very fortunate by coming to St. Thomas. You’re going to get a place where you can have big dreams and you can achieve great things because of the foundational aspects of what you’re being taught here. It transformed my life. I think the same thing can happen to you.”

Mulroney was the first Canadian prime minister

in 35 years to win successive majority govern-ments and the first Progressive Conservative prime minister to do so in 100 years. He served almost nine years as prime minister.

One of Mulroney’s defining achievements was the free trade agreement with the United States. “There was more trade across the bridge between Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michi-gan than all of America’s trade with Japan.”

Mulroney also worked closely with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. He reflected on the one issue for which they were on op-posing sides — apartheid in South Africa and whether to free Nelson Mandela from prison.

“I love Margaret Thatcher, but we fought in a formidable fashion on this issue. Let me tell you, when you have Margaret Thatcher on the other side of a major issue, you better get up early in the morning. But I did, you know why?”

“Because I was from Baie-Comeau and I had gone to St. Thomas.”

A life changing opportunityFormer Prime Minister Brian Mulroney on his start at St. Thomas

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literature, and language is a passion for Dr. Jasmina Terzioska.

Terzioska holds a tenure-track appointment in Romance Languages. She had been teach-ing at St. Thomas on a limited-term appoint-ment for the last two years.

Her academic expertise is in medieval, Golden Age, and 20th Century Spanish litera-ture. Her research focuses on how literature from those periods was used during the Franco era in Spain in order to manipulate the masses and fit the dogma of the national-ist regime.

Terzioska has been teaching for 12 years and holds an undergraduate degree from Purdue University (International Studies – in Span-ish), a master’s from Loyola University in Chicago, and a PhD from the University of Cincinnati.

“I’ve studied and taught at universities with 30,000 students but when I came to St. Thomas, the atmosphere made me feel as if I were at home,” says Terzioska.

“I come from a very small place in Mace-donia. Here, people recog-nize me; ev-eryone wanted to get to know me. I’m seen as an individual and that’s how I see my stu-dents.”

Terzioska moved with her family from Macedonia to the United States when she was 12 years old.

She developed a love for the Spanish lan-guage by accident in high school and found it easier to learn than English. The phonet-ics and some words in Spanish are closer to Macedonian than English.

“I try to put myself in the students’ shoes because I know what it’s like to learn a different language. I ask myself ‘what did I really want to know when I was learning Spanish?’”

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As St. Thomas University’s first elder-in-residence, Miigam’agan provides support to students from First Nations and is an important link with First Nations communities.

“My role is to offer support, drawing from our cultural values and working to create a sense of community for First Nations students,” she said.

Miigam’agan also acts as a source of advice to the president, senior administration, and fac-ulty and staff on the development of services and subjects such as First Nations cultural practices, traditions, and protocol.

Originally from Esgenoôpetitj, New Bruns-wick, Miigam’agan’s life work has been in cultural revival and community development. She is a member of the Mi’kmaq Nation and

Wabanaki Confederacy and is a practitio-ner of Wabanaki Spirituality and teacher of Mi’kmaq Grandmother Longhouse tradi-tions. She holds an associate degree in liberal studies from the University of Maine and has extensive education and work experience in substance and behaviour counseling, commu-nity wellness planning, group facilitating, and community development.

The elder-in-residence program is part of the university’s Aboriginal Education Initiatives, which is meant to increase the recruitment and retention rate of First Nations students by implementing services specifically tailored to meet their needs.

Chris George, Director of Aboriginal Educa-tion Initiatives, says the elder-in-residence program will assist students in finding success in their educational paths. It will also bring awareness of Wabanaki knowledge and tradi-tions to the greater community.

“Our students have daily contact with the elder and other student services. In our new centre, we have a fridge and stove which gives us an opportunity to provide home cooked soup and other traditional foods for our students. We will be able to host pot luck socials when we can share our foods, culture, ceremony and traditions.”

A passion for being a professor Dr. Jasmina Terzioska joins Romance Languages

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Public Lectures and Faculty Book Launches

Jeff Wright Named Vice President (Advancement and Alumni)Following a national search, Jeff Wright has been named Vice President (Advancement and Alumni) at St. Thomas University.

Wright has a 12-year career in university advancement that dates back to his undergradu-ate Bachelor of Arts when he worked for the Acadia University Alumni Office. Since that time, he has held several positions including Director of Donor Services at Grant MacEwan University and Campaign Manager and Associate Director in the Office of Advancement at the University of Alberta.

He is also an active volunteer with the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, holding the executive position of treasurer for CASE District VIII, and has been a member of the associated alumni of Acadia University board of directors for several years. He may be contacted at [email protected]

Public lectures

The Hon. Stéphane Dion delivered the key-note address at the 2012 Atlantic Provinces Political Science Association Conference at St. Thomas University. He spoke about “Improv-ing Democracy in Canada,” arguing that the current government’s plan to reform the Sen-ate is ill-conceived. He presented his own pro-posal for an electoral system which he calls ‘P-3: Proportional, Preferential, Personalized.’

Rick MacInnes-Rae believes that we should “Learn History Now, So You Won’t Have To During The War: How Understanding His-tory Helps us in the Global Present.” That was the topic of the Annual History Lecture. MacInnes-Rae is an award-winning Canadian journalist whose international reporting has taken him to more than 60 countries.

Who ends up in prison and why? What should Canadians expect from their cor-rectional system? How should offenders be treated in federal penitentiaries? Howard Sapers, Canada’s Correctional Investigator, spoke to these questions when he delivered the criminology lecture, “Federal Corrections in Canada: An Ombudsman’s Perspective.”

One of the world’s foremost UFO-logists, Stanton Friedman, spoke about, “Flying Saucers and Science” as part of the New Brunswick Distinguished Lecture Series.

Professor Jeffrey Webster, Visiting Chair in Gerontology spoke about, “Wisdom of Narratives and Narratives of Wisdom” at the Annual Creamer Lecture. In his talk, he pro-vided an overview of the benefits or wisdom of telling stories and explored the types of stories that wise persons are likely to tell.

Nazanin Afshin-Jam spoke about “The Power of One” at the Dr. Bernie Vigod Memorial Lecture in Human Rights. Afshin-Jam is an award-winning in-ternational human rights activist with an accomplished background as a Red Cross Global Youth Educator, author, singer/songwriter, actor and model.

Deborah Rogers delivered the lecture “The Economics of Shale Gas: The Promise and the Evidence.” She brought a critical analyti-cal perspective to the public discussion of the shale gas industry based on her extensive background in finance as an economist, consultant, and resident of North Texas in the Barnett shale gas formation.

During the annual Irving Chair in Journalism Lecture, “Quebec: the good, the bad and the ugly,” Francine Pelletier spoke about becom-ing a journalist in Quebec at the best of times, and sticking it out at the worst of times.

Dr. Deidre McCloskey spoke about “Institu-tions Are the Stories We Tell” for the Annual John McKendy Memorial Lecture. McCloskey is a prolific economist and historian whose written work has ranged from economics and statistics to transgender advocacy and the ethics of bourgeois virtues.

Faculty book launchesFred Cogswell, one of New Brunswick’s most important and beloved editors, publishers, poets, translators, and professors, is the subject of a new digital book by Dr. Tony Tremblay, Canada Research Chair in New Brunswick Studies and profes-sor of English. Tremblay’s book, Fred Cogswell: The Many-Dimensioned Self, is available at http://vre.lib.unb.ca/cogswell/.

Why does Bella lie so much in Twilight? Why was Catwoman such a bad movie? What was the reason Dark Angel was so short-lived? Poet and scholar Dr. Kath-leen McConnell tackles these and other subjects in her new collection of essays, Pain, Porn and Complicity: Women Heroes from Pygmalion to Twilight.


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When I was 15 years old, I read a book that changed my life. Nelson Mandela’s autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, taught me about perseverance and fighting for peace and freedom.

After the book, I became keenly interested in peace studies, politics and human rights. Mandela’s descriptions of the beauty of South Africa sparked my desire to learn more about his country’s history. It also left me yearning to visit South Africa.

After high school, I studied at St. Thomas University and complet-ed a Bachelor of Arts with a double major in sociology and human rights. From 2010-2011, I completed my masters in human rights at Sydney University in Australia. Afterwards, I returned to Glace Bay where I worked as a youth worker at Alternative Suspension.

Then, ten years after I first dreamed about visiting South Africa, the dream was realized.

I was selected to join the Canadian International Development Agency’s International Youth Internship program. The internship was coordinated by Canada’s Human Rights Internet which is dedi-cated to social justice, good governance and conflict prevention. I was placed with the Parliamentary Monitoring Group, an organiza-tion that keeps records of meetings at Parliament in Cape Town.

Prior to PMG’s formation, there was no record keeping of parliamen-tary meetings. Now summaries of meetings are uploaded to the PMG website where they are available to lobby groups and activists.

I acted as a monitor where I attended meetings and wrote pub-lished reports. While parliament was on recess, I assisted with a conference on the participation of civil society in Parliament.

The conference was streamed live and during the sessions, I was a live blogger. I was nervous because I could not edit what I wrote, but would have to immediately publish my work. Despite my nerves, it was exhilarating.

The University of Western Cape’s Community Law Centre, one of the organizers of the conference, then asked me to work with them on the Traditional Courts Bill.

The bill aimed to establish traditional forms of resolution as a separate legal system, which was controversial because it concen-trated power to the hands of a small number of traditional leaders. It also denied the 17 million rural citizens the opportunity to opt out of the bill thereby binding them to the traditional leaders’ rule

of law rather than the constitution. Moreover, the voices of women are often not allowed in traditional forms of courts and those who identify as LGBT are not recognized.

My responsibility was to summarize written submissions by rural delegates who opposed the bill, as well as those who participated in a workshop.

After my work on this bill, I worked with UWC’s Disability Law and Policy Programme on a research project related to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. I interviewed disability organizations and the results will be used in a shadow report to South Africa’s position on the convention.

Cape Town exceeded all my expectations. Living in a city encircled by a mountain range, working with parliament, civil society orga-nizations, rural freedom fighters, and being immersed with vibrant South Africans showed me firsthand how special South Africa is and why continuing to fight for its freedom is imperative.

Putting Peace Studies, Politics and Human Rights into Practice

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Women`s Volleyball Teams (2000-2007)

The tremendous run the women’s volleyball program put together from 2000-2007 is an amazing feat. The team won six Atlantic Collegiate Athletic Association championships under the guidance of Ed Welch putting together an incredible streak of 138 consecutive victories. These students were members of at least one of the championship teams: Shylah Elliot, Robin Bewer, Kathryn Caiger, Amanda Camp-bell, Jennifer Edmonds, Amanda Fitzpatick, Kim Gale, Madonna Hurley, Launa Gauthier, Tiana Hicks, Madonna Hurley, Christine Lemon, Crystal MacFarlane, Kim McMorran, Theresa Moore, Mary Dawn Shea, Amy Welch, Amanda Wood, Evie Arseneau, Robin Brewer, Liz Gilbert, Allison Hilder, Stephanie Keating, Amy Yuill, Amanda Campbell, Margo MacGregor, Amy Murray, Evie Arseneau, Dan McMorran, Angela Nichols, Jeannie Seidel, Katie-Jo Pollock, Elynie Arseneau, Kate Flanagan, Mindy Goodine, Erica Megarity, Jennifer Doyle, Jennifer Leighton, Sarah Maguire, Andrea McAnany, Emilie Arseneau, Stephanie McAnany, Kelsey McNamara, Mary Elizabeth Moran, Morgan Roherty, Tara Thibault, Rébeka Frazer-Chiasson, and Jayne Erickson.

Sports Wall of Fame InducteesThe ‘Class of 2013’ will be inducted into the Sports Wall of Fame this summer.

Bernie Keating (Football 1956-59, Hockey 1955-62)

A key member of the 1960-61 Maritime Intercollegiate hockey champion Tommies, Keating played left wing on the top line. He was an offensive force, notching 21 points in the first six games of his sophomore year. In his third year, he played an effective offensive and defensive role helping propel the Tommies to the Maritime championship. A native of Mi-ramichi, Bernie also played on the football team.

Patrick Glancy (Football, Hockey 1962-65)

Making an impact defensively in both football and hockey, Glancy was a well-respected Tommie, spending three years at St. Thomas. From Toronto, he made the football team upon his arrival in 1962 and later that year earned a spot on the hockey team. He was a solid de-fenseman and quickly became a pillar of the team. He was captain in his final two seasons.

Bob Reid (Hockey 1958-1960)

He wasn’t at St. Thomas long, but he made an impact on the school and surrounding com-munity. From Montreal, Reid traveled to Chatham to head the Recreation Council but decided to enrol at STU. The defense-man became team captain in 1958 and he helped younger Tommies through his leadership on the ice and in the dressing room. His later contribution to the community was significant as he helped build the minor hockey program.

Emily Hobbs (Hockey 2003-2007)

The first women’s hockey player to be inducted to the Wall of Fame, Hobbs played four outstanding seasons in goal for the Tommies. She earned the team’s most valuable player honours in each season and was named an Atlantic University Sport first-team all-star in three seasons and a second-team all-star once. In 2006, she was female athlete of the year and was a CIS second team all-star. She boast a career 0.916 save percentage, and a 2.86 goals against average.


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Seamus Gregory, BA ‘04, is head coach of men’s hockey at Williston State College in Williston, ND. His Tetons edged Monroe Community College 3-2 in the National Junior College Athletic Association Ice Hockey Championship. It is the first nation-al championship for the Tetons (18-12-2).

Meaghan Balzer, BA ‘06, Bed ‘09, has been teaching in Haiti for four years and is now running a leadership program at the Haitian Education and Leadership Program (www.uhelp.net).

Kathleen Butler, BA ‘08, is a Miramichi na-tive who worked as a singer-piano player in Europe and on cruise ships before attend-ing STU. She moved to New York to attend graduate school at NYU and is now working as an ESOL teacher at the Bronx Academy of Promise Charter School, a K-6 school in the South Bronx. This is her fourth year at the school and most of her students are from Western Africa, Mexico, and Domini-can Republic. [email protected]

25 Years of Service ProfessorsMarileeReimer(Sociology)andGaryIrwin-Kenyon(Gerontology)celebrated25yearsofserviceatSt.ThomasUniversity.lefttoright:BarryCraig,vice-President(Academic),MarileeReimer,GaryIrwin-Kenyon,andDawnRussell,Presidentandvice-Chancellor.

An Essential Guide (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2012); see http://bit.ly/11lqNF7. He is associate professor of Old Testament/He-brew Bible in the department of theology, University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto.

Don Kitchen, BA ‘85, has taken early retirement from Service Employees Inter-national Union (SEIU-West), managed one last election campaign and now works for Saskatchewan Union of Nurses (SUN). He lives in Saskatoon.

2000sNatalie Roy, BA ‘04 returned to Freder-icton twice recently, once to launch her book 30 at Westminster Books and once to appear in Theatre New Brunswick’s Next Stage production of Oleanna. The book is available at amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com and balboapress.com. In September, she will appear in Theatre New Brunswick’s musical “The Last Five Years” at STU’s Black Box Theatre.

1960sPatricia Ellsworth, BA ‘69, was honoured with the YMCA Peace Medal for her inter-est in global issues and devotion to raising awareness about international social justice. Congratulations, Patricia!

1970sPeter D. Clark, BA ‘78, Bed ‘83, received a Diamond Jubilee Award for his commit-ment to preserving New Brunswick’s history and promoting literacy. He has visited over 75,000 school children and given away over 2500 books. Five of his nine books have received bestseller status (www.peterclark.ca).

1980sJohn L. McLaughlin, BA ‘82, has pub-lished his fifth book: The Ancient Near East:


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Jack A. MacLennan, BA ‘09 married Samantha Malecki last summer in Chicago. Shown (l-r) are Shawn P.M. Taylor, Nathan McFarlane, Tyler MacLennan BA ‘12, BEd ‘13, Jack MacLennan, James R. Horncas-tle, BA ‘09, Samantha Malecki-MacLennan, Natasha Suleman, Magda Olszewska, Rachelle Elsiufi and Agnes Blachut. Jack is a PhD student in political Science at Carleton University.

Kalin McCluskey, BA ‘09, has recently been promoted from policy advisor to the Federal Minister of State (Seniors) to the Minister’s new director of policy.

Naomi Osborne, BA ‘09, has moved to Newfoundland and Labrador to work as the public relations and communications officer for Memorial University’s Fisheries and Marine Institute.

Christine Martell, BA ‘08, BEd ‘09 has returned to New Brunswick after spending three years in Toronto teaching high school. She has loved receiving Connections to stay in touch with people from STU and “Boy it is great to be back!”

2010sKatelin Cummings, BA ‘11, graduated in October 2012 with an MA in political sci-ence from Memorial University. Her thesis discussed factors contributing to federal-provincial relations on fishery policy. She has completed an internship with Fisheries and Oceans Canada in St. John’s and re-cently accepted a position with the Legisla-tive Assembly of New Brunswick.

Heather Burns Mann, BA ‘10, BSW ‘12, was recently awarded a clinical social work-er position with the Extra-Mural Program within the Horizon Health Network for St. Stephen and surrounding regions.

Danielle J. Dube, BA ‘11, is teaching in South Korea and loving every minute of it, especially the impromptu reunions for STU alumni.

Haley Ryan, BA ‘12, was in Ireland thanks to STU and the Ireland-Canada University Foundation which helps bring Canadians to Ireland to visit and study Irish Gaelic for a month (http://haleyirishtimes.blogspot.ie).

DelilahEvelynElmswasbornonNovember19,2012toproudparentsKate (Fletcher) Elms, BA ‘03,andMike Elms BA ‘03.Delilahisabeau-tifulsisterforBridgetandherfurbroth-ersChuck(shown)andBuddy.KateandMikearelivinginResoluteBay,NunavutwhereMikeworksfortheRCMP.

JaxenKentJeffreywasbornonSeptember22,2012attheMonctonCityHospitaltoproudparents Spencer, BA ‘00, Bed ’01andAndreaJeffrey.AbrotherforAlyssaandagrandsonforGale Jeffrey, BT ’70, BA ‘71andCarolJeffrey.

Catherine Brosha, BA ‘04andStephen Brosha, BA ‘06visitedcampuswiththeirchildrenAbraham(age4)andGrace(age6).

Robert Clayton Casto Poetry Prize 2013For the second year, Patrick O’Reilly, BA’13 from Renews, Newfoundland, has been awarded the Robert Clayton Casto Prize for Poetry. He says “Leg-end” stemmed from a piece of family folklore about a great-great cousin, while “The Offer” explores the term “husband” in its most literal meaning.

Legend

Roots twist his ankle, spilling the young man out, out to the open air.

His blue coat billows, the shotgun skittering down the rocks. His brother,

too, is changed: his shout threads the branches, but the boy is gone.

The Offer

I’m sitting on a rock, throwing rocks at the harbour, chewing the work husband.

Love is a corset word, snug on a girl, makes her prettier if she’d just hold her breath.

But husband – that’s a word about a house, and I’ll be good god-damned before I’m hitched to three rooms and seven youngsters.


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I’ve been a teacher for long enough to know that I learn more from my students than they learn from me. This was particu-larly true of an extraordinary young man named Adam Wright, who died January 17 at the age of 24.

I met Adam six years ago when he appeared in my introductory journalism class accom-panied by his indefatigable helper, Mike Jardine, a retired teacher. Adam needed Mike to help him navigate the campus be-cause of his physical challenges. He was in a wheelchair equipped with an oxygen tank connected to a breathing apparatus that he had to wear all the time. The picture of him I hold in my mind is of a tiny man in a big Colorado Avalanche ball cap holding an extra-large Tim Horton’s cup and wearing the biggest smile in the room. He needed Mike to help him get where he needed to go and to take notes. He didn’t need help to navigate the intellectual life of a univer-sity student.

Speaking was difficult for Adam, but that didn’t stop him from participating in class discussions. He was often first out of the gate when I tossed out questions. We developed a system where he would signal to me and I would walk over and tilt my head close to his so I could hear what he was saying, and then I would repeat his words to the class. More often than not I was telling the class how Adam thought that I was dead wrong in my interpretation of the subject of the day, or he would make a joke that would cause the class to erupt in laughter, often at my expense. He was an ideal student.

Remarkably, I never heard him complain about anything. And he had a lot to com-plain about. He just refused to submit to the kind of negativity that most of us can’t resist in a world that refuses to live up to our expectations. Maybe it was because Adam understood that he was living his whole life on borrowed time. He didn’t suf-fer from the illusions of immortality that we all have, particularly when we’re young. He was born with a confounding collection of

physical abnormalities, a singular syndrome that eventually was named after him, at his request. Doctors told his mother after he was born that she was taking her son home to die. But he survived, and by the time he came to us he had lived through dozens of surgeries and cheated death countless times.

He must have felt an urgency to get things done, but he never asked for a short cut or special treatment. He did all his assign-ments, attended classes and was prepared when he arrived. He tolerated my shortcom-ings and allowed me to coach him as he de-veloped as a writer. I told him it would take some time for him to get where he wanted to be. He told me he was patient.

One year, I held a class at 9 am, and I al-ways regretted the time slot because it was difficult for Adam to make it to campus that early. Mike sometimes came alone to take notes. He told me that Adam had to over-come more adversity to get to the campus in a single morning than most of us have to overcome in a lifetime. That semester Mike was worried because Adam seemed to be slipping and the struggle against his failing body was becoming more difficult. One day he told me that Adam was the most coura-geous man he had ever known. He looked me in the eye when he said it the way New Brunswickers do when they want to make sure you understand what they mean.

The lessons I learned from Adam were many. Among other things, he taught me how the world of new media operated, and how a man writing in New Brunswick could reach people around the world through the internet if what he wrote was interesting and funny and true. I was a proud coach when after graduation he sent me his first television critic column that appeared on The Huffington Post website where it was read by tens of thousands. He had done it. The Adam Wright franchise was a reality.

When he died he was writing a television series about a man living life in a wheel-chair. I have no doubt that what he had in

mind was funny and gritty and more honest than most of the ideas passing across the desks of television producers today. The title of the series was, “This is How I Roll.”

There are many lessons in all of this. But for me, the lasting lesson from Adam Wright’s remarkable journey was more fundamental, about the nature of life itself. Adam’s little body was a wreck, but his big soul was beautiful and strong, the light that kept him alive for 24 years. That light was what was real, and all he demanded of us was that we look past the body to see it.

Yes, Adam, we saw it shine. And for that my friend, we are grateful.

AdamWright,BA‘121988-2013

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