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undergraduate degree. Campbell said universities and government need to look at ways to lower student debt. “It seems like a big number to me, and it’s not a number that I’m happy with,”said Campbell.“But the real question is how do we approve this situation? What do we do in response?” Campbell said though he did not have the chance to read the study, he believes high tuition fees are a barrier for low income families in pursuing higher education. He said post-secondary institutions need to make sure potential students know of the opportunities they have to help pay for their education and how to access them, whether it is grants or bursaries, or co-op education programs. “There’s on the order of $7 billion worth of student aid in this country on an annual basis… That tells me that our governments by and large have understood the value of having people go off to post-secondary,” said Campbell. “Those programs are far from perfect, and there are people, including many
ranking fourth for the highest tuition in the country is not where the province wants to be. “I think the New Brunswick government definitely needs to take a look at this. And take a look also at what other provinces are doing, and see what they can do to become better on that list,” said Martel. He said the government needs to see post-secondary education in a different light. “I also think they need to start taking a look at post-secondary education in the bigger picture, and that involves financial aid and accessibility, but also how students in debt aren’t able to help society as much as a student who might be able to get out with no or low debt,” he said.
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Numbers below represent the estimated total tuition and compulsory fees for full time undergrads for the 2015-2016 academic year.
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Bronté James The Brunswickan Shooting stars, wishing wells and magic genies are no longer needed to make a wish come true. The Children’s Make A Wish Foundation is helping dreams become reality for children with high-risk, life threatening illnesses. Since 1997, the Children’s Make a Wish Foundation had granted the wishes of 770 children in New Brunswick, and 19,000 nationally, to children over the age of three and under the age of 18. “If you think about it, that’s an awful lot of children, and the wish itself impacts the child directly – they get to choose what their wish will be, so it’s pretty powerful when that wish also involves their family members and members of the community,” said Debbie Howard, event coordinator for the New Brunswick chapter. “Every wish is unique and individual, just like the children themselves, and every story is special.” Recognizing the f inancial and emotional burden that comes with a child being in the hospital, University of New Brunswick’s Harrison House partnered with The Children’s Make a Wish Foundation to help those in need. “Being a nursing student I know the costs and how difficult it can be for the families, because the wishes don’t just help out the child, they also help out the family,” said Harrison House charity representative, Nicole Deyarmond. “If the child has leukemia, you see them day in and day out, throwing up in the hospital, so if you can get them a trip to meet Harry Potter, that can just make their day so much better.”
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Exhibit curator Robert Dallison presents a display to students at the Harriet Irving Library. Liz Stanin / The Brunswickan Elizabeth Creelman Arts Reporter When one pictures New Brunswick, war doesn’t usually pop to mind; trees, perhaps, or snow, but not war. This is as it should be. War is not a particularly wonderful thing. However, as an exhibition currently residing in the Harriet Irving Library demonstrates, it can be significantly more interesting than trees. (Sorry, forestry students.) Archives & Special Collections is hosting the Fredericton Region Museum’s travelling exhibition entitled “War of 1812: A New Brunswick Perspective”. The exhibition is curated by Robert Dallison, veteran of 35 years in the army, ten years of running King`s Landing, and author of A Neighbourly War: New Brunswick and the War of 1812. “The museum asked me if I would do an exhibit for them on the war of 1812,” he said.
“Then... they asked us to do a second exhibit that would travel the province, so I’ve ended up with the book and two exhibits on the War of 1812 and suddenly, I find myself an expert. It’s a bit shocking.” The exhibition focuses on four main points: the start of the war, including the fear and defence which occupied the residents of the province at the time; the 104th New Brunswick regiment; the settlement which took place in the province resulting from the war; and the invasion of Maine. “I picked four points that I thought would attract attention, that would be interesting,” said Dallison. “Nothing has been written on what happened here in New Brunswick, and that’s the focus of the exhibit. It is not just the War of 1812, but what went on here in the province.” Dallison believes that students should be interested in the War of 1812 even two hundred years later, because it marks
an important turning point in our nation’s history. “For the very first time, we knew or determined who we were and developed a sense of nationalism,” he said. “It was a stepping stone to Confederation, I think. Prior to that, we knew who we weren’t – we weren’t part of the United States and we weren’t sure why we weren’t part of the United States. The War of 1812 focused it for us that we wanted to be separate and that sense of nationalism developed.” Dallison wanted to stress that by no means did he create this exhibition alone; it was a joint effort between him, Ruth Murgatroyd, executive director of Fredericton Regional Museum, and James Kitchen, a UNB student and intern. Kitchen, a fifth year student doing a joint honours in history and philosophy, worked on the exhibition from October 2011 until May 2012. After some initial discouragement at the dry nature of the
preliminary work, Kitchen said that he gained immensely from the experience and would highly recommend the internship program to arts students looking for “real world” experience. “I did most of the ‘behind-the-scenes’ work,” said Kitchen over email. “Admittedly, I was not very enthusiastic about the project at first… [but eventually] I did indeed get more excited about the project and more motivated to make the exhibits as amazing as possible.” So whether you`re an arts student who eats history for breakfast and understands that it`s figurative imagery, or an engineering student who needs a dose of history to get them balanced out (you know you secretly miss it from high school), check out the exhibit on your lunch break or after class. The display can be viewed in the H.R. Stewart Room on the fifth floor of the HIL, Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. until Oct. 31.