Christmas shopping on a budget: Tips on how to keep a positive bank balance during the most expensive time of year
With the holiday season just around the corner, (unless you work in retail, then it’s already here) the rush to get everyone on your list the perfect gift is set to begin.
If you’re on a university student’s budget, you know it’s going to be...
A sporting goodbye: The Baron’s sports columnist says a final farewell
I've been a student at UNBSJ for five years now, but it wasn't until my fourth year that I began working for The Baron. I started out small, only writing a residence column, but I was eventually asked to fill the open position of...
Campus Fashion — Formal Wear
The most prevalent feature noticed about on campus fashion this week has
been autumn formal wear. Leather boots, moccasins and a return of UGGS have
made their cowhide presence at UNBSJ. Amidst a sea of neutral tones, suit jackets
and sweater vests have been invading male fashion....
Disney Purchases Lucasfilm for $4 billion
In one of the biggest production deals of the last few years, The Walt Disney Company shocked people across the globe. At the end of October it was announced that the company had purchased George Lucas’ production company for a whopping $4 billion in...
A Tale of Two Nations: Social Progressives and Reserve Corruption (opinion)
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” – Albert Einstein.
Three years after the Harper government passed the First Nations Transparency Act into law, an act aimed at forcing Band Councils to account for every penny spent under their...
OPINION: Why do some stories get covered while others don’t?
With so much happening all over the world, how does the media pick which stories to cover? How come some small things get so much coverage, while other, larger issues are seemingly ignored? One media theory proposes eight different factors that influence a story’s...
Isn’t it time you did more than just commute? How being involved can change your university experience
As the school year comes to a close I can’t help but reflect on the year that’s passed and all of the great things that have come from my involvement on campus.
I’ve heard UNBSJ be referred to as a “commuter school” so many times...
Tips on how to succeed in online classes
Switching to an online university format will be a unique experience for most of us, staff and students alike. Knowing many students who have purposely avoided online courses throughout their time at UNB, we thought there might be many students feeling uncertain about how...
Us, them, or we?
What is a border? You know what I mean, that weird line on the map the denotes the place where one country, or province, or county, or town, ends and another begins.
It’s a simple concept. One that hardly ever gets a second thought. After...