St. Thomas University (New Brunswick)

St. Thomas University (STU) is a Catholic liberal arts university located in Fredericton, New Brunswick. It offers degrees exclusively at the undergraduate level for approximately 3,000 students in liberal arts, humanities, education and social work.

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Catholic - Liberal arts - Fredericton, New Brunswick - Humanities - Education - Social work

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The university was founded by the Roman Catholic Church in 1910 in Chatham, New Brunswick, but moved to a new campus in Fredericton's "College Hill" neighbourhood, adjacent to the University of New Brunswick in 1964. The two institutions now share facilities for their student unions, libraries, and athletics, and they have a common heating plant. This move was controversial at the time, since it was made by the Bishop of Saint John without consulting the Catholics of the Miramichi River valley, who had contributed heavily to the university's construction and had financially supported it for many years.

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Roman Catholic Church - 1910 - Chatham, New Brunswick - University of New Brunswick - 1964 - Miramichi River

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The university gained international headlines in the fall of 2004 when it's newspaper, the Aquinian, published a photo of several nude rugby players streaking across the field.. The incident generated huge interest in the paper for the remainder of the semester.

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2004 - Nude - Rugby - Streaking

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