STU Lunchbox 2025 04: Grand Finale
The students all gather with professor Mark Tunney for a live show send-off, both for their own individual efforts and for the their retiring teacher.
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STU Lunchbox 2025 EP03: “Virgin Voters”
Hosts Fernanda Sanchez and Caleb Desjardins look at the upcoming federal election through the lens of young people suffering from information and disinformation overload.
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STU Lunchbox 2025 EP02: “The Making of Gen Zed”
On the STU Lunchbox this week, hosts Willem Haines-Lacey and Rachael Ilupeju explore how young Canadians are reacting to American threats to our sovereignty.
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STU Lunchbox 2025 EP01: “Open Mic”
On the STU Lunchbox this week, hosts Sarah Desmond and Willem Haines-Lacey bring you Open Mic. They introduce you to some of the up-and-coming songwriters of Fredericton — and those songwriters will introduce you to the stories behind the songs.
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STU Lunchbox 2024 EP07: “TikTok Boom”
If the U.S. Congress has its way, TikTok will be dragged into your desktop trash bin along with Netscape and My Space. Hosts Charlie Khosravi and Trevor Walker wonder how a social media app aimed at entertaining attention-span-lacking Gen Zers with dancing and lip-syncing become a threat to the free world.
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STU Lunchbox 2024 EP06: “Legends of Newfoundland & Labrador”
Hosts Jonas May and Frey Blake-Pijogge visit the folklore and mythologies of their home province, exploring not only those passed down from the English and Irish, but discovering how the Inuit and Innu draw strength from beliefs that connect the spirit and animal worlds to our own.
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STU Lunchbox 2024 EP05: “AI in the workplace”
So how does a generation known for a letter synonymous with sleeping adapt to technology that learns 24-7? Hosts Xaviar Johnson and Sean Cunningham examine how artificial intelligence is changing the workplace for the class of 2024.
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STU Lunchbox 2024 EP04: “Anatomy of a Champion”
With his team primed for the ACAA championship tournament on the weekend, Ben Dool talked to his Tommie teammates, coaches, fans, and trainers to find out what separates a collection of good players from a championship team. (The Tommies lost in overtime to Mount St. Vincent in the final Sunday, March 3.)
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STU Lunchbox 2024 EP03: Car culture: 1950-2050
Can EVs really replace the roar of the gas engine by 2035 and be off the roads completely by 2050? Hosts Ben Ford and Wilfred Fraser look at what we might gain, but also what we might lose.
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STU Lunchbox 2024 EP02: International students or scapegoats?
Is the honeymoon over between international students and Canada? On today’s STU Lunch Box, hosts Katherine Del Salto and June Horvath talk to students, recruiters and housing advocates about what needs to be done to ensure that Canada and Fredericton remain a magnet for multiculturalism.
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STU Lunchbox 2024-EP01: “Reading” Blaine Higgs
“Reading” Blaine Higgs Reading someone is drag queen slang for pointing out someone’s flaws. And this week’s show, hosted and produced by Erin Hurley and Jasmin LaPointe, gets the lowdown on the premier from everyone from drag performers like Amore Love and Justin Toodeep to politicians like Susan Holt, David Coon, and Dominic Cardy. Music Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | More
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STU Lunchbox: “Generation Rejection”
If you feel you might be missing out on true romance and the great middle-class dream, left with nothing but your participation ribbons, hosts Oliver Pearson, James McPhee and Daniel Salas have a show for you.
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STU Lunchbox: The Future of STU
The future of STU Graduating students Kaitlynne Benjamin, Samantha Stordy and Isabella Mehlitz have some advice for both incoming students and the incoming president of St. Thomas University. Music Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | More
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STU Lunchbox: Ghost Stories
Hosts Lindsay Graham and Madison Currie explore the enduring attraction of apparitions in the age of algorithms.
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STU Lunchbox: The AI Revolution
With the release of the Chat GPT late last year, AI went from the convenience of music algorithms to the usefulness of writing term papers and being a creative assistant.
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STU Lunchbox: The Shape of the Student Body
Hosts Koan Walker-Titus and Calum MacDonald explore the fitness of a generation that spends its time in front of screens and its money on Skip the Dishes.
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STU Lunchbox: Voices of Experience
Hosts Miles Bergquist and Corey Kelly explore what advice seniors – the boomers and the Silent Generation – would give to Generation Z as they take baby steps into adulthood.
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STU Lunchbox: Peru Perspectives
Hosts Giuliana Grillo de Lambarri and Camila Gomez explore the social, political and economic issues that have pushed democracy in their native land to the brink.
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STU Lunchbox: Blame it on the Alcohol
With the recent Health Canada recommendation that we limit our alcohol consumption to no more than two drinks week, hosts Simon Grant and Brandon Salick take a deep dive on whether students are getting the message, and explore why Generation Z is turning to non-alcohol alternatives that better agree with their mental health.
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STU Lunchbox 2022 EP04: The End of the World
The End of the World… as we know it, but students graduating into this new reality don’t exactly feel fine. Hosts Jessica Gioccone and Guinevere Santaguida try to put The Ukraine, climate change and the pandemic in perspective for Generation Z.
STU Lunchbox 2022 EP04: A Pandemic Balance Sheet
With most of us hoping we’re on the off-ramp of this pandemic, hosts Rachel Laforge and Pierina Riva Robbiano take an audit: What did we end up losing, and what did we gain?
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STU Lunchbox 2022 EP02: Two Years For COVID
Alex Compton and Keaghan Keddy explore how young athletic prospects have been penalized with lost development, and how that frustration sometimes manifests itself with racism on the ice.
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STU Lunchbox 2022 EP01: “The Immigrant Song”
Hosts Guinevere Santaguida and Meelahn Scott-Weabury explore how new voices are reshaping the culture, commerce and cuisine of New Brunswick.
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STU Lunchbox 2021-04-07: Online Learning Graded
With the year of remote courses coming to an end, hosts Jayme Humphrey and Jessica Saulnier talk to students and professors to give it a final grade.
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STU Lunchbox 2021-03-31: Goodbye to Hollywood?
Hosts Juandie Correa and Zachary Russell explore how streaming and the pandemic have put the theatre-going experience on life-support.
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