Letters to the editor

Re: The Real Col. Tucker

Col. Tucker’s bequest of 400 acres is more than 5 times that of Rockwood, the former Fredericton estate of Reverend Jonathan Odell, the infamous Loyalist poet and physician.  The estate now contains a park, a botanical garden, and an arboretum.  The arboretum was built to mark Fredericton’s bicentennial as New Brunswick’s capital, as suggested by the late Senator Murial McQueen Fergusson.  Would not the honouring of the bequests of Col. Tucker and his sister by the City of Saint John and UNBSJ be an appropriate way to mark the 225th birthdays of the City of Saint John and UNB?

The first sentence doesn’t make sense. Rockwood is in Saint John The former Fredericton estate of Jonathan Odell, Odell Park is in Fredericton.

-       Bill Traer

First class bash: time for a change…

I never was one who liked change. I was always firmly against it. The 2010 UNBSJ first class bash showed me how wrong I could be. Let us start from the beginning. People would usually end up getting drunk at their own pre drinking sessions and end up getting buzzed or better yet drunk. They would then proceed to call a cab to take them to UNBSJ not caring about what they would see but instead just wanting to flail their arms and legs around as if performing some sort of a dance. Then you’d see the couples grinding to almost any song, which brings me to my next point.

I think the SRC wants to keep the bash as cheap as possible while looking to make the biggest profits. Any successful business would like to accomplish this but then the SRC isn’t a business. It’s the student representative council. Where’s the representation? After all they call some unknown DJ who probably doesn’t even play his own music. They just give him a CD with the same songs on it as every bash because though we’ve had different DJ’s I’ve just heard the same music every time. I don’t think this is the example UNB wants to set for internationals for when I go home I’m going to tell people this university may run by 2010 rules academically but is still ancient on the social scene.

Why is there no change? Do you people not get sick of it? I’m happy this time’s bash was so empty as I feel people don’t want to dance to some unknown guy playing the same music. I’m not saying get someone expensive, what I’m trying to say is get someone new who will experiment with his own music.

I may not be experienced in this segment of life but one thing is for sure, change is always for the better. Bring about change UNB. Is this really the way you want to start the new decade?

-      Darryl Sequeira

Plagiarism

Following several complaints from readers, the Baron editorial staff has discovered that two articles published in the last issue of the paper have portions of their content taken from other media sources without permission or citation (re: A bit off the beaten track, but still a smooth ride and Pfizer: Profiting off the needy since 1849). Subsequent investigation, in keeping with the Baron’s zero tolerance policy towards plagiarism, has uncovered similar problems with other articles by the writer in question. This writer has since been dismissed and more thorough screening processes put in place to counteract similar incidents in the future. The Baron editorial staff would like to apologize for this incident and sincerely thank the readers who brought it to our attention.

- The Baron editorial staff