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<strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> Today<br />
<strong>St</strong>. <strong>Francis</strong> Xavier University’s monthly newsletter WWW.<strong>St</strong>fx.ca/today<br />
caNada’S Premier UNdergradUate exPerieNce<br />
Coady<br />
International<br />
Institute News<br />
Coady-FX<br />
Society<br />
Supports<br />
Scholarship<br />
Three <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> students<br />
received a well-deserved<br />
round of applause at<br />
the Coady Institute Farewell<br />
Social on Dec. 7 th , when they<br />
announced that the Coady-<br />
FX Society had raised $2,700<br />
to support a scholarship <strong>for</strong> a<br />
future participant.<br />
Society co-chairs Ben Flood,<br />
Meaghan McNeil, and Keiller<br />
Zed expressed their thanks<br />
to the 37 participants in the<br />
Diploma in Development<br />
<strong>Leadership</strong> program, who were<br />
about to graduate and head back<br />
to their home countries.<br />
“Our coffee house fundraiser<br />
[in November] was a great<br />
success,” said Mr. Zed. “We<br />
had over 100 people come in,<br />
and it was awesome to see<br />
the local community, Coady<br />
participants, staff, friends, and<br />
<strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> students.” He told the<br />
audience in Dennis Hall that it<br />
was inspiring to see the different<br />
development projects that<br />
the Coady participants plan to<br />
implement in their communities<br />
and organizations.<br />
Meaghan McNeil said <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong><br />
students appreciated the chance<br />
to get to know the diploma<br />
participants, <strong>for</strong>mally in the<br />
classroom, and in<strong>for</strong>mally<br />
during events on campus. “You<br />
bring so much to our campus,”<br />
she said. “We get so much from<br />
you, and we don’t always get the<br />
opportunity to say thank you. We<br />
wish you the best of luck in your<br />
future endeavours and hope to<br />
see you again.”<br />
The Coady-FX Society was<br />
<strong>for</strong>med to foster relationships<br />
and understanding between<br />
the <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> student body and the<br />
Coady International Institute<br />
and to plan events that would<br />
bring the groups together.<br />
It decided to host a coffee<br />
house fundraiser featuring<br />
cross-cultural entertainment,<br />
after similar events by Coady<br />
Institute participants the<br />
past two years and personal<br />
donations by Institute staff.<br />
To support the Coady<br />
Institute scholarship, or to<br />
learn of other opportunities,<br />
please contact Erika Gunn at<br />
egunn@stfx.ca or by phone at<br />
(902) 867-5264.<br />
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Former PM<br />
Brian Mulroney<br />
on <strong>Leadership</strong><br />
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Kwanzaa celebrated<br />
at <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong><br />
Magic marks X-Ring ceremony 2012<br />
Zero hours. Zero minutes. Zero seconds. The countdown is over. Happy students<br />
celebrate at the X-Ring ceremony.<br />
Infectious enthusiasm, excitement,<br />
and a touch of magic marked the<br />
scene in the Keating Centre on<br />
Dec. 3, 2012, <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> Day, as over 900<br />
senior students received their muchcoveted<br />
X-Ring.<br />
The countdown – often started<br />
years in advance as students eagerly<br />
anticipate this day – was finally over<br />
as the black-robed students proceeded<br />
to the stage to receive their rings.<br />
“I want to cry and laugh and scream<br />
and jump up and down. This feeling is<br />
incredible,” one student said moments<br />
after receiving the long-awaited piece of<br />
golden jewellery with the raised black X.<br />
No. 225, december 15, 2012<br />
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<strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> hosts<br />
public health<br />
discussions<br />
Achievement celebrated at <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> Fall Convocation 2012<br />
Dr. Paul Bélanger and Gérald J. Doucet receive honorary degrees<br />
Dr. Riley delivers his opening remarks at Fall Convocation 2012 Valedictorian, Afida Safriani<br />
Achievement and accomplishments<br />
were celebrated and<br />
lauded as <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> marked one<br />
of the milestones of the academic year,<br />
holding Fall Convocation 2012 on Dec.<br />
8 at the Charles V. Keating Centre.<br />
Receiving the degree Doctor of Laws<br />
honoris causa were Dr. Paul Bélanger,<br />
a giant in the field of adult education,<br />
and Gérald J. Doucet, a pioneer in<br />
Canadian government business relations,<br />
<strong>for</strong>mer member of the Nova<br />
Scotia Legislative Assembly, and <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong><br />
alumnus.<br />
It was an exciting day <strong>for</strong> graduates.<br />
Over 200 degrees and diplomas<br />
in course were conferred, in addition<br />
to 37 diplomas awarded to graduates<br />
of the Coady International Institute.<br />
“Convocation is one of the great<br />
moments in university life, a gathering<br />
that brings together so many<br />
individual stories,” <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> President Dr.<br />
Sean Riley said in opening remarks.<br />
You can feel an air of transition as<br />
graduates move <strong>for</strong>ward with excite-<br />
ment into a new stage of life, he said.<br />
“We celebrate your achievements and<br />
thank you.”<br />
Dr. Riley also made mention of the<br />
89 master of education graduates, the<br />
majority of whom are full-time teachers<br />
who pursued graduate studies<br />
part-time while working.<br />
He also saluted the Diploma in Development<br />
<strong>Leadership</strong> graduates of the<br />
Coady International Institute.<br />
“A special joy of Fall Convocation is<br />
to share this moment with graduates of<br />
the Coady International Institute. They<br />
have come together in a unique and<br />
powerful learning experience,” he said.<br />
“I feel confidence, I feel energy,<br />
I feel a sense of awe and humility<br />
be<strong>for</strong>e this great adventure in the<br />
human spirit.”<br />
“LONG LIVE <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong>”<br />
“Today is a day of celebration, a day<br />
of recollections, and a day of gratitude,”<br />
Dr. Doucet told convocation moments<br />
after receiving his honorary degree.<br />
“(Those here) need not be sold on how<br />
special <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> continues to be… I’m here<br />
to thank <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> <strong>for</strong> all it’s done <strong>for</strong> me<br />
and my family,” he said in a short, but<br />
poignant speech.<br />
“Long live <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong>. Thank you.”<br />
Dr. Bélanger had a similar message.<br />
“I’m deeply honoured to receive a<br />
degree honoris causa from <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> because<br />
of what your university has come to<br />
represent in the world today,” he said.<br />
“Your university has become a<br />
world reference <strong>for</strong> community-based<br />
development.”<br />
This is far from being accidental, he<br />
said, noting the Antigonish Movement<br />
and the Coady International Institute<br />
as two shining examples.<br />
“I am proud to be here today. Long<br />
live <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong>.”<br />
Coady participant Afida Safriani of<br />
Indonesia delivered the acknowledgement<br />
on behalf of the graduating class.<br />
“It is indeed a wonderful moment,” she<br />
said as she dedicated her address to her<br />
late mother and to all those who have<br />
supported the graduates over the years.<br />
“It is a milestone we are proud of,<br />
knowing it is the reward <strong>for</strong> our hard<br />
work.”<br />
But graduation is not the end, she<br />
said, but rather the beginning of their<br />
professional lives. She encouraged all<br />
graduates to keep moving <strong>for</strong>ward<br />
with the belief in the possible, with<br />
the responsibility of sharing their<br />
knowledge with others, especially<br />
those without access to education.<br />
“We have to reach out to them. We<br />
can’t be content and silent. Let us<br />
share the knowledge and power,”<br />
she said.<br />
She also gave thanks to her fellow<br />
Coady participants, and to the <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong><br />
and Antigonish communities <strong>for</strong> their<br />
support. “I will also remember you. I<br />
will always remember you. I will remember<br />
you like the moon remembers<br />
the sun. You will always have a place<br />
in my heart.”<br />
OUTREACH AWARD<br />
Also receiving major honours during<br />
the ceremony were <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> adult<br />
education professor Dr. Carole Roy,<br />
who was presented with this year’s<br />
Outreach Award.<br />
The Community Partner Recognition<br />
Award went to two recipients<br />
this year, the Antigonish Women’s<br />
Resource Centre & Sexual Assault<br />
Services Association, and to the Nova<br />
Scotia College of Pharmacists.<br />
Alumni Association president<br />
Shawn Monahan congratulated the<br />
Class of 2012 and welcomed all to<br />
the Xaverian Family. He encouraged<br />
graduates to make a difference, big<br />
and small, in their communities as<br />
they start this new chapter in life. He<br />
also encouraged them to always look<br />
<strong>for</strong> the X-Ring and stay connected<br />
with the <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> alumni network.<br />
continued on page 2…<br />
“<br />
I want to cry and laugh and scream and jump<br />
up and down. This feeling is incredible.<br />
”<br />
X-Ring recipient<br />
As parents and family watched<br />
from the Oland Centre, and others<br />
tuned in to the live stream from<br />
Poland and France, Ottawa, Vancouver,<br />
and across the world, the<br />
students, with smiles of joy – and the<br />
occasional fist pump – looked down<br />
with pride on the 2013 X-Ring on<br />
their finger.<br />
“Twelve years out and Dec. 3 still<br />
gets me excited every year,” one<br />
graduate tweeted.<br />
Enthusiastic alumni and friends<br />
helped X-Ring trend in Canada on<br />
Twitter.<br />
continued on page 3…
A <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> <strong>McKenna</strong> <strong>Center</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Leadership</strong> <strong>Encounter</strong><br />
Former PM Brian Mulroney delights<br />
capacity crowd at alma mater, <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong>,<br />
with inspired talk on political leadership<br />
Former PM Brian Mulroney, pictured here with <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> student Javier Macaya<br />
from Madrid, and <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> President Dr. Sean Riley.<br />
Affable and engaged, <strong>for</strong>mer<br />
Canadian Prime Minister, the<br />
Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney, was<br />
back at <strong>St</strong>. <strong>Francis</strong> Xavier University,<br />
his alma mater, on Nov. 14, 2012,<br />
where he delighted a capacity crowd<br />
gathered at the Gerald Schwartz<br />
School of Business Auditorium with<br />
an inspired keynote address focusing<br />
on <strong>Leadership</strong> and the Role of the<br />
Prime Minister in Public Policy.<br />
Over 400 people, including many<br />
students, filled the main auditorium,<br />
while hundreds more tuned in to the<br />
talk via an overflow room and a live<br />
broadcast on stfx.ca, <strong>for</strong> the <strong>McKenna</strong><br />
Centre <strong>for</strong> <strong>Leadership</strong> <strong>Encounter</strong>. The<br />
event was also presented by the <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong><br />
<strong>St</strong>udents’ Union Alumni Speakers<br />
Series.<br />
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“(I’m) back at the place where it all<br />
started <strong>for</strong> me, and I just hope I’m<br />
around <strong>for</strong> a long time to see one of<br />
you fulfill the job I had…and to do it<br />
even better, in helping to build our<br />
beloved Canada,” Mr. Mulroney told<br />
the many students in the audience to<br />
a standing ovation.<br />
“I’m delighted to be back on campus.<br />
It has long played a disproportionate<br />
role in Canadian politics,” Mr.<br />
Mulroney told the crowd, citing the<br />
1980s example of when three of the<br />
top four positions in Canadian government<br />
were filled by <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> alumni.<br />
In an animated talk that ranged<br />
from policy matters to dreams <strong>for</strong><br />
the future, Mr. Mulroney spoke about<br />
political leadership, the role of the<br />
prime minister, and also the crucial<br />
role of leaders in society.<br />
He also took time to pay tribute to<br />
the leadership of <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> President Dr.<br />
Sean Riley, who delivered the event’s<br />
closing remarks.<br />
“We’ve been blessed, absolutely<br />
blessed to have him as president,”<br />
Mr. Mulroney said.<br />
That <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> is recognized as a top<br />
national university is due to “the magnificent<br />
professors, the top students,<br />
the traditions we value so much, and<br />
the remarkable and inspired leadership<br />
of Sean Riley.”<br />
The Hon. Peter MacKay, Minister<br />
of National Defence and Central<br />
Nova MP, was on hand to introduce<br />
Mr. Mulroney.<br />
“It’s a distinct honour <strong>for</strong> me to<br />
introduce arguably the university’s<br />
most distinguished alumni, and we<br />
have many at <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong>,” Mr. MacKay said<br />
as he spoke about Mr. Mulroney’s<br />
broad influence in the halls of power,<br />
his astute leadership, and his many<br />
accomplishments in areas such as<br />
national unity, the environment,<br />
economics, to helping end apartheid<br />
in South Africa.<br />
Mr. MacKay’s father, the Hon.<br />
Elmer MacKay, who served with Mr.<br />
Mulroney in government, was in attendance,<br />
along with several current<br />
and <strong>for</strong>mer political leaders.<br />
Dr. Doug Brown, chair of <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong>’s<br />
Department of Political Science,<br />
provided the welcome. <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> VP<br />
Advancement Tim Lang emceed<br />
the event.<br />
<strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> commemorates National Day of<br />
Remembrance and Action on Violence<br />
against Women<br />
Marie Brunelle lighting a candle. Dr. Robert van den Hoogen and Kira<br />
Nicole Dube.<br />
A<br />
call to end violence against<br />
women was the message that<br />
came through from a poignant<br />
commemoration ceremony held at<br />
<strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> on Dec. 6, the National Day of<br />
Remembrance and Action on Violence<br />
against Women.<br />
Members of the <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> and Antigonish<br />
community came together at the<br />
Schwartz Auditorium as student leaders,<br />
the <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> Equity Office, and community<br />
partners including the Naomi<br />
Society and the Antigonish Women’s<br />
Resource Centre presented the ceremony<br />
featuring speakers talking about<br />
why violence against women is still a<br />
relevant problem and how people can<br />
work toward its eradication.<br />
The ceremony remembers the 14<br />
young women murdered in 1989 at<br />
l’Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal.<br />
<strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> annually presents a Memorial<br />
Scholarship <strong>for</strong> Women in Engineering<br />
to a first-year female engineering student.<br />
<strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> Dean of Science Dr. Robert<br />
van den Hoogen made the presentation<br />
this year to Kira Nicole Dube.<br />
<strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> students and co-emcees Josie<br />
Brewer and Alex Gass said December<br />
6 represents an opportunity <strong>for</strong> Canadians<br />
to reflect. It is a day of mourning,<br />
but it can also bring a ray of hope, to<br />
remember, to educate, and to help<br />
create a catalyst <strong>for</strong> change, they said.<br />
“The responsibilities <strong>for</strong> change<br />
rests with all of us,” Academic Vice-<br />
President & Provost Dr. Mary McGillivray<br />
said in her remarks.<br />
“We are all part of the movement <strong>for</strong><br />
change <strong>for</strong> the better.”<br />
It was a call to action repeated by<br />
numerous speakers who took to the<br />
podium.<br />
Coady participant Sister Ranjita Kindo<br />
shared sobering issues facing women<br />
in her home community of India.<br />
<strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> Human Rights & Equity<br />
Advisor Marie Brunelle spoke about<br />
initiatives happening on campus<br />
including a major 26-month project<br />
Silence the Violence – which brings<br />
together the Antigonish Women’s<br />
Resource Centre, the RCMP, the<br />
Naomi Society, and many <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong><br />
partners – with a goal to develop a<br />
major comprehensive campus plan, “a<br />
violence prevention project that could<br />
have a major impact,” she said.<br />
<strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> football player Charlton Elliott<br />
spoke about how male athletes can<br />
help; Cst. Jennifer Arnold of the<br />
Antigonish RCMP talked about what<br />
it’s like to respond to a domestic<br />
violence call through the eyes of the<br />
police officer: and Lori Castle of the<br />
Naomi Society spoke about the society<br />
and its role.<br />
<strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> Aboriginal <strong>St</strong>udent Advisor<br />
Molly Peters also spoke and introduced<br />
the Honor Song in memory<br />
of missing and murdered Aboriginal<br />
women.<br />
The ceremony concluded with<br />
speakers and guests lighting 17 candles<br />
and placing 17 roses in memory<br />
of the 14 women killed at l’Ecole<br />
Polytechnique, <strong>for</strong> Aboriginal women<br />
murdered or missing, <strong>for</strong> all women<br />
who have been murdered, and in<br />
memory of <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> education professor<br />
Ottilia Chareka.<br />
<strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> welcomes Rashida<br />
Symonds as Black <strong>St</strong>udent<br />
Advisor<br />
<strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> is pleased to announce<br />
that Rashida Symonds has been<br />
appointed the new Black <strong>St</strong>udent<br />
Advisor.<br />
<strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong>’s <strong>St</strong>udent Life Office hosted<br />
a meet and greet Nov. 23 to welcome<br />
Ms. Symonds to campus.<br />
Ms. Symonds comes to <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> from<br />
the Halifax, NS area where she was<br />
most recently employed as a teacher<br />
with the Halifax Regional School<br />
Board. She has primarily taught<br />
high school students and specialized<br />
in courses such as English, Black<br />
literature, global studies, and African<br />
Canadian studies.<br />
Ms. Symonds has also spent time<br />
working as a youth counselor and<br />
support worker <strong>for</strong> children and<br />
women in the Halifax-Dartmouth<br />
area.<br />
She received her Bachelor of Arts<br />
degree from Saint Mary’s University<br />
be<strong>for</strong>e going on to Mount Saint<br />
Vincent <strong>for</strong> her education degree.<br />
Currently, Ms. Symonds is working<br />
on her masters of education degree in<br />
counseling from Acadia University.<br />
Scholarly achievements<br />
continue <strong>for</strong> Dr. Burton<br />
MacDonald<br />
Dr. Burton MacDonald,<br />
Senior Research Professor,<br />
Department of Religious<br />
<strong>St</strong>udies, and colleagues have just<br />
published The Ayl to Ras an-Naqab<br />
Archaeological Survey, Southern<br />
Jordan 2005-2007 (2 volumes with<br />
DVD). Archaeological Reports 16.<br />
Boston, MA: American Schools of<br />
Oriental Research, 2012. Moreover, he<br />
and the same colleagues are working<br />
on a final report on The Shammakh to<br />
Ayl Archaeological Survey, Southern<br />
Jordan, 2010-2012.<br />
He has just completed the infield<br />
segment of the project. In addition,<br />
he is completing a book on Jordan and<br />
the Bible. It is tentatively entitled The<br />
Bible and “Beyond the Jordan toward<br />
the East”: The People and the Events.<br />
Finally, this January-April 2013,<br />
Dr. MacDonald has a Publication<br />
In her role as Black <strong>St</strong>udent Advisor,<br />
she will act as an advocate <strong>for</strong> Black<br />
students and a resource person <strong>for</strong><br />
transition issues such as academics,<br />
anti-racism, housing and other student<br />
concerns. She will work collaboratively<br />
with other advisors and community<br />
partners to develop and implement<br />
transitional programs <strong>for</strong> students as<br />
a part of an overall advising strategy.<br />
Fellowship at the American <strong>Center</strong> of<br />
Oriental Research, Amman, Jordan.<br />
He will work on an “Archaeological<br />
History of the Southern Transjordanian/Edomite<br />
Plateau.” The area of<br />
interest is the territory in which he<br />
has carried out excavations and survey<br />
work <strong>for</strong> the past 30 years.<br />
Fall Convocation 2012<br />
continued from page 1<br />
The honorary degree candidates<br />
include:<br />
Dr. Paul Bélanger<br />
Dr. Paul Bélanger is a giant in the<br />
adult education field with an over<br />
40-year career as an academic, leader,<br />
and activist, A professor at Université<br />
du Québec à Montréal, he’s also director<br />
of the Interdisciplinary Research<br />
<strong>Center</strong> on Lifelong Learning, and,<br />
since 2009 director of the Observatory<br />
on skill and work related to adult<br />
learning policies. He is DAAD guest<br />
professor at the European Master in<br />
Adult Education in Essen, Germany.<br />
He was the director of the UNESCO<br />
Institute <strong>for</strong> Education (1989-2000).<br />
From 2000-11, he was president of<br />
ICAE, the International Council <strong>for</strong><br />
Adult Education. He’s received the<br />
Ruby Kidd Medal, Canadian Association<br />
<strong>for</strong> Adult Education, the<br />
International Development Research<br />
Centre scholarship on education and<br />
development, the Comenius Prize, and<br />
two honorary degrees. He is also life<br />
Member of the National Institute <strong>for</strong><br />
Adult and Continuing Education in<br />
Great Britain, and the author of many<br />
publications and papers.<br />
Gérald (Gerry) Doucet<br />
Gérald (Gerry) Doucet is a Canadian<br />
pioneer in government business<br />
relations consulting <strong>for</strong> corporate clients.<br />
He has over 30 years experience,<br />
representing numerous national and<br />
international companies. A graduate<br />
of <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> and Dalhousie Law School,<br />
he’s made substantial contributions<br />
to public service as a member of the<br />
Nova Scotia Legislative Assembly,<br />
and as chair of the Atlantic Provinces<br />
Economic Council. At age 26, he was<br />
elected in the 1963 Nova Scotia general<br />
election, and in 1964, became the<br />
first Acadian cabinet minister. He was<br />
re-elected in 1967 and 1970. He did<br />
not re-offer in 1974. Ministerial posts<br />
included education; youth; emergency<br />
measures; and provincial secretary.<br />
He was vice-chair of the Canadian<br />
Council of Ministers of Education,<br />
and chaired the first official Canadian<br />
delegation on education to the Soviet<br />
Union in 1969. He also practiced law<br />
and was appointed a Queen’s Counsel<br />
in 1975. In 2004, he published his autobiography:<br />
Acadian Footprints: the<br />
roots & reflections of Gérald (Gerry)<br />
Doucet.
continued from page 1<br />
The X-Ring ceremony, held every<br />
Dec. 3, the Feast Day of <strong>St</strong>. <strong>Francis</strong><br />
Xavier, represents many fond memories<br />
and years of hard work. It’s also<br />
recognized around the world as a<br />
symbol of success, excellence, and<br />
community.<br />
“Welcome to the X-Ring ceremony,”<br />
<strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> President Dr. Sean Riley told<br />
the students in his opening remarks.<br />
“Now it’s down to the moment, zero<br />
hours, zero minutes, zero seconds.<br />
“Each of you is a unique person<br />
with a unique story,” he said, “and<br />
now you have something in common<br />
<strong>for</strong> life, the 2013 X-Ring.”<br />
The ring represents a whole universe<br />
of personal memories, and when you<br />
look at your ring, translate that joy and<br />
achievement into a sense of courage,<br />
and community to inspire, help others,<br />
and be a <strong>for</strong>ce <strong>for</strong> good, he said.<br />
“Congratulations and best wishes.”<br />
X-Ring ceremony guest speaker<br />
Rodger Cuzner, MP <strong>for</strong> Cape Breton-<br />
Canso and a <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> alumnus, talked<br />
about the significance and responsibilities<br />
of the ring, telling the crowd about<br />
his own journey and lessons learned.<br />
“Today’s about the ring. It’s about<br />
what it symbolizes, a simple black<br />
X mark that symbolizes your time<br />
at a place that has shaped you as an<br />
individual.”<br />
He told the graduating class that<br />
it creates an inherent bond, and provides<br />
opportunity.<br />
“As an X grad, your responsibility<br />
is to lead by example, your responsibility<br />
is to have a positive impact.”<br />
Mr. Cuzner told the students the<br />
plan they have in place is not always<br />
the one that will unfold, but be<br />
assured that their experience at<br />
<strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> will have prepared them <strong>for</strong><br />
challenges they will face.<br />
Celebrating the X-Ring!<br />
Kwanzaa celebrated at <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong><br />
Members of the <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong><br />
community came together<br />
to celebrate Kwanzaa on<br />
Nov. 25, 2012, with an evening of<br />
African heritage, culture, song, and<br />
dance held in the Bloomfield Café.<br />
“Kwanzaa is a very community, family-<br />
oriented celebration, and <strong>for</strong> students<br />
that are far from home, it’s a great way<br />
<strong>for</strong> them to feel that family atmosphere<br />
around the holidays,” says Morgan Gero,<br />
BLAC <strong>St</strong>udent Society president, who<br />
helped organize the event.<br />
“We were very excited to have our<br />
new Black <strong>St</strong>udent advisor, Rashida<br />
Symonds, lighting a candle, and celebrating<br />
with us!”<br />
Ms. Gero says this year’s celebration<br />
is reaching out to more students and<br />
the community. “This year, we not only<br />
have students lighting the candles, but<br />
we have community members as well.”<br />
Putting the ring on <strong>for</strong> the first time<br />
is a pretty cool experience, he said,<br />
feeling pride and accomplishment.<br />
“Take that feeling and get com<strong>for</strong>table<br />
with it, because you know it’s<br />
something that never, ever goes away.<br />
Congratulations.”<br />
“To me, the day is to celebrate our<br />
accomplishments and experiences,”<br />
Senior Class president and emcee<br />
Matt LeMoine said.<br />
“The ring will stay with you <strong>for</strong>ever.<br />
Congratulations Class of 2013. Today<br />
really is our day. I couldn’t be happier<br />
to join this Xaverian family.”<br />
Kathleen Johnston, vice-president<br />
of the Senior Class, read from Moses<br />
Coady’s writings, and students led a<br />
candle procession to <strong>for</strong>m a candle-lit<br />
‘X.’ <strong>St</strong>udent Keiller Zed, in thanking<br />
the guest speaker, noted that he would<br />
receive his grandfather’s X-Ring of over<br />
60 years ago, during the ceremony.<br />
The honorary X-Ring, always one<br />
of the most touching aspects of the<br />
ceremony, was presented this year to<br />
Ramsay Duff, <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> VP Finance & Operations<br />
and interim VP Recruitment<br />
and <strong>St</strong>udent Experience. The honorary<br />
X-Ring is chosen by a committee comprised<br />
of students and alumni.<br />
In making the presentation,<br />
<strong>St</strong>udents’ Union president Nick<br />
Head-Peterson called Mr. Duff “an<br />
extremely deserving recipient” whose<br />
“leadership is a true inspiration.”<br />
Alumni Association president Shawn<br />
Monahan welcomed the senior students<br />
to the Xaverian Family, telling them the<br />
X-Ring brings many opportunities and<br />
many responsibilities, and always a connection<br />
to the alumni network.<br />
“Well, we have our rings. Now it’s<br />
time to celebrate. Thank you everyone,”<br />
Mr. LeMoine said as the senior<br />
class filed out of the Keating Centre,<br />
tapping their X-Rings on a piece of<br />
chapel wood at the entrance, a longstanding<br />
ceremony tradition.<br />
Guest speaker Rodger Cuzner.<br />
Kwanzaa, Swahili <strong>for</strong> first fruits of<br />
the harvest, was started by Dr. Maulana<br />
Karenga in the 1960s, who essentially<br />
wanted to see African Americans<br />
centered in their own history, their<br />
African roots, she says.<br />
“So he started this holiday that<br />
celebrates and recognizes the Nguzu<br />
Saba principles, which stand <strong>for</strong> unity,<br />
self-determination, faith, creativity,<br />
collective work and responsibility,<br />
cooperative economics, and purpose;<br />
all principles that African Americans<br />
live on a day-to-day basis.<br />
“It was adopted here in Canada,<br />
and the society here at X has adopted<br />
it as well. It’s a chance <strong>for</strong> all of us,<br />
African Canadian, African, African<br />
Nova Scotian, to celebrate our roots<br />
and history. And of course, come<br />
together around a good, home<br />
cooked meal!”<br />
Invest-X Society welcomes prestigious<br />
guest speaker Neil Kell<br />
The Invest-X Society welcomed<br />
their fourth guest speaker <strong>for</strong> the<br />
term on Friday November 30th,<br />
hosting Neil A. Kell, CFA, managing<br />
director, Investment Banking, Head of<br />
Financial Institutions Equity Capital<br />
Markets <strong>for</strong> Europe, Middle East and<br />
Africa, Deutsche Bank.<br />
Mr. Kell spoke to the group about<br />
investment banking, the euro crisis,<br />
and career planning.<br />
“The opportunity to meet a successful<br />
investment banker was interesting,<br />
in<strong>for</strong>mative and inspiring,” said society<br />
president Hilary Muth.<br />
Both the society’s portfolio manager,<br />
Jake Baker, and vice-president,<br />
Real Business, Real Learning, Real Growth<br />
Direct Exchange Case Competition: J.D. Irving, Limited<br />
Partners with <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong><br />
J.D. Irving, Limited (JDI) has<br />
partnered with <strong>St</strong>. <strong>Francis</strong> Xavier<br />
University to give students an<br />
opportunity to solve a real-life business<br />
case.<br />
At the Direct Exchange Case Competition,<br />
teams of students are presented<br />
with a real-life supply chain<br />
scenario at JDI, including the relevant<br />
data and conditions that the JDI<br />
manager was facing at the time. After<br />
research and analysis, the teams suggest<br />
a solution, complete with the logic<br />
to support their decision. On Nov. 28,<br />
2012, individual team solutions were<br />
judged based on content completeness,<br />
presentation skills, and responses to<br />
specific questions posed by the judges.<br />
The winning team of Erin Chisholm,<br />
Jane McTague and Justin Gallant was<br />
presented with a cash prize.<br />
“This case gave students the opportunity<br />
to work with a real scenario and<br />
use real data,” said <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> business student<br />
Erin Chisholm, a member of the<br />
winning team. “This is not a made-up<br />
company with one right answer; instead<br />
you need to consider all the possibilities<br />
and scenarios in order to come up with<br />
the best recommendation. The case<br />
causes you to consider all possibilities<br />
that you otherwise might not consider.”<br />
Jane McTague, another member of<br />
the winning team, agrees that there<br />
were many variables to consider. “In<br />
this case we debated nine options <strong>for</strong><br />
many hours and knew that there was<br />
more than one right answer. In school<br />
cases there is typically a right and<br />
a wrong answer. With this case you<br />
Post-graduate nursing student is<br />
inaugural recipient of the Katherine<br />
MacGillivray Maloney Nursing Award<br />
Thanks to the generosity of the<br />
late Katherine MacGillivray<br />
Maloney, a graduate of the<br />
<strong>for</strong>mer <strong>St</strong>. Martha’s School of Nursing,<br />
nursing students at <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> – throughout<br />
all years – are now eligible <strong>for</strong> new<br />
awards and bursaries.<br />
A sizeable fund was established<br />
in spring 2012 from the Estate of<br />
Katherine MacGillivray Maloney,<br />
originally from Antigonish County,<br />
who had lived many years in the U.S.<br />
be<strong>for</strong>e returning to Antigonish.<br />
One of these awards was presented<br />
Dec. 8, 2012, following Fall Convocation<br />
to <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> post-graduate nursing<br />
student Marie Hélène Bond, the<br />
inaugural recipient of the Katherine<br />
MacGillivray Maloney Nursing Award.<br />
“Marie embodies the nursing qualities<br />
that are at the core of the School of<br />
Nursing at <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong>. She has demonstrated<br />
excellence in clinical practice, dedication<br />
to learning, and consistently pro-<br />
Austin Carter, agreed that Mr. Kell’s<br />
presentation was insightful and<br />
practical about career options in the<br />
capital markets.<br />
Invest-X is <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong>’s student investment<br />
society. The purpose of the investment<br />
society is to provide its members with<br />
a <strong>for</strong>um <strong>for</strong> exchanging ideas and<br />
in<strong>for</strong>mation about investing, analyzing<br />
financial in<strong>for</strong>mation, executing<br />
investment transactions, and managing<br />
portfolios.<br />
Mr. Kell is responsible <strong>for</strong> the<br />
origination and execution of equity<br />
and equity related transactions<br />
with a particular focus on financial<br />
institutions throughout Europe, the<br />
needed to consider every option and<br />
apply all of your learning knowledge.”<br />
In the end, the students appreciated<br />
the opportunity to present to the JDI<br />
executives who were involved in the<br />
actual case. “In this case you are not<br />
only applying your class knowledge,<br />
but also using your knowledge from<br />
all classes and applying it to a real-life<br />
business. You are analyzing a real business<br />
experience and presenting to real<br />
executives,” said Justin Gallant, also<br />
from the winning team.<br />
<strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> business professor Randy Delorey<br />
says case studies in general are<br />
a terrific learning tool, but the Direct<br />
Exchange Case Competition is an added<br />
bonus because it gives students an experience<br />
they don’t get in class. “The Direct<br />
Exchange Case Competition offers a<br />
final debrief of the case. This allows students<br />
to see how the real-life executives<br />
handled the decision making, and it<br />
gives students the chance to ask follow-<br />
vides compassionate and competent<br />
care to clients,” a spokesperson from<br />
the School of Nursing said.<br />
Ms. Bond, a resident of Antigonish<br />
County, NS, is also an active volunteer<br />
in her community and has maintained<br />
Dean’s list status throughout her nursing<br />
program.<br />
The Katherine MacGillivray Maloney<br />
Nursing Award provides awards<br />
and bursaries to students in the <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong><br />
Bachelor of Science in Nursing. Preference<br />
is given to students from<br />
Antigonish town or county and Guysborough<br />
and <strong>St</strong>. Mary’s municipalities.<br />
The award funds annual renewable<br />
entrance awards of $4,000 to firstyear<br />
students, as well as bursaries to<br />
a continuing student at each level of<br />
the program who meets the criteria. .<br />
Recipients must demonstrate<br />
financial need, be enrolled full-time<br />
in the B.Sc. Nursing program and be<br />
a Canadian citizen. Award applicants<br />
Middle East and Africa. Having worked<br />
in Toronto, New York and currently in<br />
London he has helped corporations,<br />
domestic and international, raise over<br />
$75 billion of public and private equity<br />
capital.<br />
With 15 years of investment banking<br />
experience he has extensive knowledge<br />
regarding the origination and execution<br />
of initial public offering, subsidiary<br />
public offerings, rights offerings, followon<br />
and add-on offerings, convertible<br />
and other equity-linked products and<br />
domestic and cross-border acquisition<br />
financing. His roots and parents are<br />
in Antigonish and his wife, Susan<br />
Johnson, is a <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> graduate of 1987.<br />
Jim Jordan, VP Supply Chain, J.D. Irving Ltd., addresses the competition participants.<br />
up questions to the executives,” he said.<br />
“We are very proud to have been<br />
able to partner with <strong>St</strong>. <strong>Francis</strong> Xavier<br />
University this year,” said Jim Jordan,<br />
Vice President, Supply Chain, J.D.<br />
Irving, Limited. “The partnership<br />
established with <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> Professor Randy<br />
Delorey is one built with a foundation<br />
of exponential learning in mind. In<br />
the end, it was his willingness that allowed<br />
the Direct Exchange Program<br />
to succeed. The program’s slogan “Real<br />
Business, Real Learning, Real Growth”<br />
continues to hold true in describing<br />
what our case competition <strong>for</strong>mat is<br />
all about,” Jordan said.<br />
This year, Supply Chain Direct Exchange<br />
Case Competitions were held at<br />
Dalhousie, Acadia, Mount Allison, and<br />
<strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong>. Dalhousie also held an Accounting<br />
Direct Exchange Case Competition<br />
in March. To date, more than 1,400<br />
students have participated in Direct<br />
Exchange Case Competitions.<br />
Peter (r) and Mary Anne MacGillivray<br />
(l) make the presentation to award<br />
recipient Marie Hélène Bond.<br />
must have an entrance average of<br />
80 and maintain a strong academic<br />
standing to be eligible to receive the<br />
award in second, third, fourth years.<br />
All applicants must demonstrate a<br />
commitment to the values of nursing<br />
including qualities of caring, kindness,<br />
respect <strong>for</strong> diversity, compassion and<br />
excellence in clinical practice.<br />
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Ocean acidification will<br />
impact Atlantic lobster<br />
larvae, <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> Marine<br />
Ecology Lab study finds<br />
Increased global CO 2 production<br />
from anthropogenic sources is<br />
causing a slow, but sustained,<br />
acidification of ocean waters. Elise<br />
Keppel, a recent M.Sc. student at<br />
the <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> Marine Ecology Lab of<br />
Dr. Ricardo Scrosati, Canada Research<br />
Chair in Marine Ecology, has<br />
found that Atlantic lobster larvae<br />
grow smaller and take more time to<br />
molt throughout larval stages due to<br />
ocean acidification.<br />
“These results suggest that, by being<br />
smaller and spending more time<br />
in the water column be<strong>for</strong>e settling<br />
in the sea bottom as juveniles, lobster<br />
larvae may suffer a higher predation<br />
from pelagic organisms under the<br />
ocean conditions predicted <strong>for</strong> the<br />
future,” Dr. Scrosati says. “Investigating<br />
effects on the survival and<br />
reproduction of adult lobsters would<br />
further clarify possible outcomes due<br />
to climate change.”<br />
<strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> business professor<br />
Mary Oxner named<br />
CA of the Year<br />
Congratulations to <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong><br />
business professor Dr. Mary<br />
Oxner who has been named<br />
the 2012 CA of the Year Award by The<br />
Institute of Chartered Accountants of<br />
Nova Scotia (ICANS).<br />
Dr. Oxner receives the 2012 Ross L.<br />
Towler CA of the Year Award.<br />
Named after Ross L. Towler, FCA,<br />
upon his retirement in 1997, after<br />
28 years of service as the Institute’s<br />
executive director, this coveted<br />
award is presented annually to<br />
a CA who embodies the spirit of<br />
community volunteerism. “And,<br />
while volunteerism is a proud and<br />
renowned characteristic of our Nova<br />
Scotia culture, what might be less<br />
well known is the how many CAs<br />
graciously donate their time and<br />
expertise to making a difference<br />
in communities throughout the<br />
province and beyond,” in<strong>for</strong>mation<br />
from ICANS states.<br />
“It’s really an honour to be<br />
recognized by your profession,” Dr.<br />
Oxner says. “This is really in terms of<br />
community support and I very much<br />
appreciate it. I really learn a lot from<br />
our community and get more out of<br />
than I give.”<br />
Dr. Oxner’s community<br />
involvements have been extensive.<br />
Recipient of <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong>’s Outreach<br />
Award, she has a long history of<br />
giving back to the community. Her<br />
wide-reaching involvements include<br />
chairing the Antigonish Diocese<br />
Financial Council, past chair of<br />
the Antigonish Guysborough Early<br />
Childhood board of directors,<br />
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Dr. Ricardo Scrosati and Elise Keppel.<br />
The study has just been published<br />
in the Journal of Northwest Atlantic<br />
Fishery Science.<br />
Ms. Keppel is now starting a PhD<br />
program at Dalhousie University,<br />
where she will deepen her studies<br />
about climate change effects on<br />
coastal marine fisheries in Atlantic<br />
Canada, including lobster.<br />
treasurer of the VON Charitable<br />
Foundation and board member<br />
of the Creative Wellness Project<br />
which organizes the Friendship<br />
Corner and mental health workshops<br />
and peer groups in Antigonish.<br />
Along with numerous professional<br />
organizations, she gives extensively<br />
of her time at <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong>, serving on<br />
University Senate, acting as faculty<br />
advisor <strong>for</strong> the <strong>St</strong>udent Investment<br />
Society, coordinating the Dr. Trudy<br />
Eagan Women in Business Speakers’<br />
Series, and as treasurer of the <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong><br />
Association of University Teachers.<br />
She attributes her strong volunteer<br />
ethic to her parents and family<br />
members. “I grew up with the thought<br />
it’s an important part of your life.”<br />
The importance of community also<br />
finds its way into her classroom, where<br />
she offers a Service Learning option.<br />
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A <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> <strong>McKenna</strong> <strong>Center</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Leadership</strong> <strong>Encounter</strong><br />
Hundreds of participants converge on<br />
<strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> to discuss public health<br />
More than 550 people converged<br />
on <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> Nov. 19-<br />
20, 2012, to attend a Frank<br />
<strong>McKenna</strong> <strong>Leadership</strong> <strong>Encounter</strong>, about<br />
public health, which included six student-focused<br />
seminars, a book launch,<br />
and two interactive public <strong>for</strong>ums.<br />
The events brought local public<br />
health practitioners and <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> and<br />
community members together with<br />
public health leaders from across<br />
Canada in conversations about health<br />
<strong>for</strong> everyone.<br />
“We were very pleased to see the<br />
mixture of participants who came to<br />
these events, students, faculty, community<br />
leaders, and public health staff<br />
from at least four counties. People<br />
told us that the seminars and <strong>for</strong>ums<br />
validated their belief that community<br />
work, work that enriches people’s lives,<br />
is health work,” said Karen Fish of the<br />
National Collaborating Centre <strong>for</strong><br />
Determinants of Health, one of the<br />
event organizers.<br />
The event drew student participants<br />
from all disciplines. And reaction was<br />
good.<br />
“You can read it in a book, but when<br />
you hear it in real life it just means<br />
so much more,” one <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> nursing<br />
student said.<br />
Highlights from the two days included<br />
six well-attended studentfocused<br />
seminars presented by wellknown<br />
researchers and health professionals<br />
from across Canada on topics<br />
ranging from feminization of poverty,<br />
to housing, chronic disease prevention,<br />
marginalized populations, and<br />
sexuality.<br />
Carol Timmings, director, Chronic<br />
Disease and Injury Prevention, and<br />
Chief Nursing Officer, Toronto Public<br />
Health kicked-off the series on Monday<br />
with “River Deep, Mountain High<br />
- Determinants of Health and Chronic<br />
Disease Prevention,” which 150 people<br />
attended.<br />
Other presenters throughout Monday<br />
included faculty from the Uni-<br />
Athletics & Recreation News<br />
Heading into the holiday<br />
break, the X-Women hockey<br />
team is currently ranked<br />
sixth in the country. With a 10-1-0<br />
record they currently sit in first place<br />
atop the AUS standings. They will<br />
host Windsor in a pair of exhibition<br />
games on December 28 th and 29 th at<br />
the <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> Keating Centre, with AUS<br />
games taking place January 5 th and<br />
6 th also at the Keating Centre.<br />
The X-Men hockey team closed<br />
out the first half of the season with a<br />
9-5-2 record and are fourth overall in<br />
the tight AUS conference, as only five<br />
points separate first through fourth<br />
places. The X-Men are idle over the<br />
holiday break but will resume regular<br />
season action at home on January 4 th<br />
and 5 th .<br />
On the volleyball court, the<br />
X-Women sit in the middle of the<br />
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versity of Prince Edward Island,<br />
Université de Montréal, and University<br />
of British Columbia, and the executive<br />
director of the REACH Community<br />
Health Centre in Vancouver.<br />
Monday night’s presentation on the<br />
determinants of Aboriginal health and<br />
education with Don Fiddler, District<br />
Principal <strong>for</strong> Aboriginal Education,<br />
Vancouver School Board; Elders<br />
Murdena and Albert Marshall; and<br />
Cheryl Bartlett, Canada Research<br />
Chair in Integrative Science was<br />
attended by more than 70 people.<br />
Mr. Fiddler spoke about the unique<br />
determinants that affect Indigenous<br />
youth’s health and education.<br />
The Tuesday evening began with<br />
the launch of the book “Oppression: A<br />
Social Determinant of Health,” edited<br />
by <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> nursing professor Elizabeth<br />
McGibbon.<br />
The finale event, Let’s talk about<br />
health… <strong>for</strong> everyone filled the Frank<br />
<strong>McKenna</strong> Centre <strong>for</strong> <strong>Leadership</strong> with<br />
more than 90 people. A participant<br />
from the community was overheard<br />
to remark, “This is the right room<br />
<strong>for</strong> these conversations. It will take<br />
leadership to bring partners together<br />
to improve people’s health.”<br />
GASHA premiered its video “Let’s<br />
start a conversation about health and<br />
not talk about healthcare at all,” which<br />
Daniela Falconio in action.<br />
shows the impact of the social determinants<br />
on the health of people in the<br />
GASHA area.<br />
Dr. Robert <strong>St</strong>rang, Nova Scotia’s<br />
Chief Medical Officer of Health, chair<br />
of the NCCDH advisory board, spoke<br />
about the province’s incorporation of<br />
health equity practices in its public<br />
health renewal process. He spoke<br />
of the need to resist the pressure to<br />
spend more on health care, but rather<br />
to invest in the social and economic<br />
conditions that keep people healthy.<br />
Dr. Lynn McIntyre from Community<br />
Health Sciences, University<br />
of Calgary described how Canadian<br />
food insecurity has increased with<br />
an increase in energy prices. She also<br />
noted that the coming increase in the<br />
age at which Canadians are eligible <strong>for</strong><br />
Old Age Security and Canada Pension<br />
will have a serious impact on food<br />
security <strong>for</strong> seniors.<br />
Louise Potvin from the Department<br />
of Social and Preventive Medicine,<br />
Université de Montréal argued that<br />
vibrant communities have a pivotal<br />
role in promoting health.<br />
Dr. Watson-Creed, Medical Officer<br />
of Health, Capital District Health Authority,<br />
told the story of how Capital<br />
Health in Halifax has been working<br />
to advance health equity through<br />
community engagement. She referred<br />
to their community engagement and<br />
intersectoral work as “primordial”<br />
prevention, coming even be<strong>for</strong>e public<br />
health’s traditional primary health<br />
care focus.<br />
This encounter was organized by<br />
the National Collaborating Centre <strong>for</strong><br />
Determinants of Health and co-sponsored<br />
by the Guysborough Antigonish<br />
<strong>St</strong>rait District Health Authority (GA-<br />
SHA), the Public Health Association<br />
of Nova Scotia, and <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> University.<br />
For more, visit www.nccdh.ca <strong>for</strong><br />
resources on the social determinants<br />
of health and health equity. You can<br />
also check out the conversations from<br />
the two days on Twitter at #ns<strong>for</strong>um.<br />
<strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong> teams wind down AUS action<br />
pack in fourth place with a 3-6 record<br />
in AUS competition. They will be off<br />
until AUS regular season action resumes<br />
in 2013. The X-Women will be<br />
on the road to Memorial on January<br />
12 th and 13 th .<br />
In basketball action, the X-Women<br />
are enjoying a 4-3 record as they are<br />
currently tied <strong>for</strong> second place in the<br />
AUS conference. They will be participating<br />
in the Saint Mary’s Holiday<br />
Classic December 28-30 th in Halifax<br />
then begin regular season action<br />
January 5 th at Dalhousie.<br />
The X-Men basketball squad is in<br />
third place in the AUS conference, also<br />
with a 4-3 record to start the first half of<br />
the season. They will be competing at<br />
the annual Rod Shoveller tournament<br />
at Dalhousie University December<br />
29 th -31 st in Halifax and will be back<br />
at Dalhousie on January 5 th to resume<br />
AUS regular season play.<br />
The X-Women and X-Men track<br />
and field teams begin their indoor<br />
season in the new year. The first<br />
meet is scheduled <strong>for</strong> January 12 th in<br />
Moncton.<br />
For completes schedules of all <strong><strong>St</strong>FX</strong><br />
varsity teams, visit www.goxgo.ca. For<br />
all the latest news and scores, fans can<br />
like our Facebook page or follow us on<br />
Twitter (stfxathletics).<br />
sports@stfx<br />
MEN’S HOCKEy<br />
jan. 4 vs moncton 7 pm<br />
jan. 5 vs <strong>St</strong>. Thomas 7 pm<br />
WOMEN’S HOCKEy<br />
Dec. 28 vs Windsor 7 pm<br />
Dec. 29 vs Windsor 2 pm<br />
jan. 5 vs moncton 2 pm<br />
MEN’S BASKETBALL<br />
Dec. 29-31 rod Shoveller Tourn.<br />
jan 5. vs Dalhousie 8 pm<br />
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL<br />
Dec. 28 vs Acadia 4 pm<br />
Dec. 29 vs Lakehead 4 pm<br />
Dec. 30 vs manitoba 12 pm<br />
jan. 5 vs Dalhousie 2 pm