In the fall of 2004, the editorial staff scaled the paper down to tabloid format, which made it financially feasible to print on a weekly basis.
It was also a controversy among UNB students and administration as the four players captured in the photo were suspended from playing in the Maritime men's university rugby championship, which the team went on to lose.
[2][usurped] [3] The paper's content came under fire in the 2005–06 academic year after it published an opinion piece on student apathy towards the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
The writer of said articles had been accused of prying into the personal life of the vice-president, reporting rumours and speculation as fact and citing unprofessional sources.
When asked for an apology by the Students' Representative Council, its Editor-in-Chief at the time, Liam McGuire, refused and maintained that the writer had done nothing wrong.