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Have You Visited the Women’s Centre?
By Spencer Thorne Trigger Warning: Mentions of forced sex. The University Women’s Centre, located in Room 222 of the Student Union Building, provides a welcoming space where all students can feel safe and be their authentic selves. Established in the…
The Whitehead Report: Why the Brunswickan has Contracts
2006-2013 — Bill Traer, The Brunswickan Publishing. For seven years, Bill Traer was a fixture at The Brunswickan, selling ads, securing revenue, and ensuring the paper had the financial support to keep running. His position as sales manager wasn’t just…
UNB: Signaling Towards a Smoke-Free Campus
By Joel Rumson Smoking on UNB Campus has gone up in smoke, but why? Where once UNB smokers stood puffing their stresses away, now are nowhere to be seen, and, more stressed than ever. With New Brunswick having some of…
Is Sexual Violence Around Campus A Thing of the Past
By: Spencer Thorne As of 2025, how far have campuses come with the prevention of sexual assault? Ten years ago, in 2015, the Government of New Brunswick released “Now You Know” a website with information regarding all aspects of sexual…
What have they been doing at the Brunswickan Anyway?
What Has The Brunswickan Been up to? By Joel Rumson The Brunswickan Publishing Incorporated (BPI), a proud founding member of the Canadian University Press (CUP), holds the prestigious title as Canada’s Oldest Student Publication. Since its establishment in 1867, The…
Crabbe Mountain: Annual International Slalom Races
February 13 — 16, 2025 — Crabbe Mountain in Central Hainesville, New Brunswick, hosts some of the world’s top alpine athletes as Ski NB and Crabbe Mountain present the International Giant Slalom, along with the Men’s and Women’s Slalom races. …
The University of New Brunswick: Resolve(ing) Tabletop Games
Joel Rumson Fredericton, New Brunswick, 22 of January, 2025 — Resolve, an applied game design research group at UNB, releases their new game, Project AUDE: The UNB History Card Game. The game is set in the near future, when disaster…
The Art of Protest
Cyr begins the song by acknowledging that UNB students have been paying a large amount of tuition to attend classes and pursue their education, and that our ‘classrooms [are] built on stolen land.’ Despite UNB’s land acknowledgement — ‘We respectfully…
BREAKING: Student Practicing Parallel Parking Assaulted at Brookside Mall
On January 10, 2025, while practicing parking at Brookside Mall, MH Emad and Azizur Rahman Emon were harassed by another vehicle. The aggressors smashed Emad’s rear window, physically assaulted him, and then fled the scene. Emad has filed a police…
Decking the halls, or ripping up the deck? Renovations on the Student Union building (SUB) deck and Wheelchair Ramp
By: Thomas Lepper Here at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) Fredericton, there is the Student Union Building or, SUB for short. To quote from UNB’s website, you can find many things at the SUB: “The Student Union Building is…