Concert Update

The STUSU is expecting to break even on the Hey Rosetta concert Oct 15. STUSU president John Hoben said the concert will cost $27,000. If the show sells out, the actual cost to the union will be just over $10,000. This money will come from the Welcome Week surplus. If the union is able to get more sponsors for the show, they will make money on it. “Businesses aren’t seeming to budge, they’re not home, they’re not returning phone calls or emails,” vice-president education, Alex Driscoll, said. Negotiations to make the show a wet/dry event are ongoing.

NBSA to discuss opening participa-tion to other students

The New Brunswick Student Alli-ance discussed the possibility of cre-ating places on some committees for non-executive students on councils at member schools. Alex Driscoll, STUSU vice-president education said “a prob-lem with the structure of the New Brunswick Student Alliance is that ev-eryone who sits as an officer also holds another position. … it makes it difficult to look at planning things and getting a definitive goal.” An ad-hoc com-mittee was struck during the retreat from September 22-23 to look at the fee structure of the NBSA. There has been talk for several years about hiring a staff member to do policy research. “We want to ensure there’s always something going on and we don’t just get together and bicker” Driscoll said.

Aramark does not recycle

Vice-president of administration, Fin Mackay-Boyce, suggested the sus-tainability coordinator hired by the STUSU look in to the lack of recycling on campus. “President Russell wanted the university to look good when we held that conference last year so Ara-mark purchased these recycle, glass, trash bins. At the end of the day they all throw in the same place anyways,” Driscoll said. Nicole Pozer, vice-pres-ident student life, called the informa-tion “embarrassing.”

“That’s something a lot more peo-ple should know. I see people making a conscious effort to sort,” Mathieu Car-rier, representative for Chatham Hall said. Aramark could not be reached for comment.

STUSU briefsMeredith GillisThe Aquinian

David Alward announced on Wednesday that Martine Coulombe, the Post-Secondary Education Min-ister, was being replaced by Danny Soucy. Coulombe is the only minis-ter to be replaced. She was known for opposing a two-tier wage system

in New Brunswick, which never hap-pened. She also was a part of con-troversial discussions around em-ployment insurance reform.

Members of St. Thomas Univer-sity’s Students’ Union will meet with Soucy later this month. He has rep-resented Grand Falls-Drummond-Saint André since 2010.

“It’s most certainly too early to give a perspective on the new PETL minister. However, I have met Danny in person before, and I have no complaints as of yet,” vice presi-dent of education, Alex Driscoll said in an email.

The changes come into effect Oct. 9.

New post-secondary education ministerWhitney NeilsonThe Aquinian

The article “Take Back the Night: a male perspective” mistakenly described Kelly Jarman as ‘she’. Kelly is a male student and member of Students for Direct Democracy. The online version of the article has been changed to reflect this. We apologize for this error.

The article “Turning a negative into a positive” mistakenly stated that Jan Wong was fired because of controversial comments she made in an article. She was actually fired when The Globe didn’t believe she was sick after she was un-able to write after suffering from depression from backlash she received from the article. We apologize for this error.

Corrections

After almost a month of waiting, the St. Thomas University agendas arrived on Wednesday. Within an hour, the 500 shipment was all gone. Another shipment came on Friday, but students quickly snatched those up too. More are coming.

For weeks the help desk had signs reading “NO Agendas YET!”

STUSU help desk coordinator, Erika Hickey, says lately all she had been doing was telling students that the STUgendas still weren’t in. And even with the signs, volunteers say people were confused why they weren’t in, a month into the school year.

The vice-president of adminis-tration of the Students’ Union, Fin Mackay-Boyce, is responsible for the STU agendas.

Mackay-Boyce said the problem was between STU and the printing company, May Day Fine Print.

“[The agendas] are paid for through our student fees, and we have them because we can provide

them at a substantially discounted price compared to buying an agen-da from the bookstore or an alterna-tive location,” Mackay-Boyce said.

He acknowledges that it’s not fair to the students that the agendas ar-rived late.

“It was due to some miscom-munications between myself and sponsors.”

Mackay-Boyce said the compa-ny also took longer to coil-bind the agendas then they had estimated.”

The company is paying students to help bind the agendas together because they are understaffed. Shelby Ward, help desk volunteer, says when she went there to help there was only two other people there.

“They put the order in late…but also May Day Fine Print messed up a page which said 2012 instead of 2013,” Ward said.

When she was binding them she had to replace the sheet, making the process even longer.

Hickey said the STUgendas are appealing because they are free. She said so many people come to

ask about them and seem “lost without them.”

Katelyn Debouver is a first-year student. She was frustrated they hadn’t come in yet. “I have come to JDH five or six times…then the one

day they were here they sold out in like five minutes and unfortunately I wasn’t the one to get it,” Debou-ver said.

The STUgendas were late last year too because of printing issues.

MacKenzie RileyThe Aquinian

After waiting a month STUSU VP attributes tardiness to miscommunication

STUgendas here but going fast

The help desk now has agendas (Cara Smith/AQ)