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‘Boys will be boys’: A professor on bro culture, Cornell and the sign that wasn’t ‘just a sign’
Warning: sexual violence Demonstrators march during a protest against Cornell University’s handling of the 2024 fraternity-house gang rape allegations, on Monday, Oct. 5, 2026, in Ithaca, N.Y. (Photo credits: Adrian Kraus) Boys will be boys. It’s the line that has long let bad behaviour get filed under harmless. The allegations at Cornell University have people asking how far that logic stretches. A former student, identified as Jane Doe, filed a civil lawsuit in September a

Jennifer William
Oct 133 min read


Lights, camera, STU: Students bring stories to the big screen
The winners and judges of STU's short film festival. From left to right, André Loiselle, Alisa Los, Faith Vandermeer , Isabela Pacheco Rosales , Mariana Veneziani and John Muise. (Polina Pozlova/AQ) From intense board game battles to deeply personal stories about life as an international student, St. Thomas University’s second annual Short Film Festival brought a wide range of student voices to the big screen on March 18. Organized by the STU Production Society, the festival
Polina Kozlova
Mar 233 min read


The rise of looksmaxxing: Discipline or digital eugenics?
Clavicular framemogged meme (Credits: Google Images) Clavicular walks up to strangers on university campuses with a tape measure and a camera. He talks about framemogging, when someone simply looks better “in frame” than someone else. To mog is to dominate visually or to win genetically. For some viewers, it’s simply meme culture, but the language is sticking. Looksmaxxing, a term born in online male forums, refers to optimizing one’s physical appearance to its highe

Jennifer William
Mar 23 min read


STU premieres student work in first ever short film festival
After months of preparation, the STU Production Society and the St. Thomas University Student Union joined forces to bring a short film festival to life on campus.

Fernanda Sanchez
Mar 31, 20254 min read
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