September 19, 2008

Save our Neighbourhood Action Group (SONAG) launched a website last week, posting pictures of parties that recently took place in the student neighbourhood.

September 16, 2008

It has been a strong year so far for Queen’s interuniversity sports teams.

September 16, 2008

Strangers are increasingly able to discover people’s personal details from public websites, the Globe and Mail reported Sept. 12.

September 16, 2008

Queen’s athletes’ new uniforms are no longer made by Russell Athletic, the Journal reported Sept. 12.

September 12, 2008

Next year will mark 200 years since the birth of Charles Darwin and 150 years since the publication of On the Origins of Species. Biologists have since discovered DNA and mapped the human genome, yet Darwin’s theory of evolution is still under attack. Creationism, or Intelligent Design if you wish to delude yourself, argues that life is too complex to have developed through natural processes, leaving God as the obvious designer.

September 12, 2008

The student Ghetto has been renamed the Village in all institutional references, AMS Municipal Affairs Commissioner Paul Tye said Sept. 9. The change means AMS initiatives such as the Key to the Ghetto awards will remove references to the term.

September 12, 2008

Some McMaster University students have allegedly been selling their seats in courses to fellow students, McMaster’s student newspaper, the Silhouette, reported in April.

September 9, 2008

In first year, whenever I took the three-hour bus ride from Kingston to visit my family, I tried my hardest to avoid sitting with someone else.

September 9, 2008

Queen’s Athletics teams have dropped their ‘golden’ designation and become simply the Queen’s Gaels, Athletics and Recreation Director Leslie Dal Cin said in a Journal interview Sept. 5. Athletics teams have been known as the ‘Golden Gaels’ since 1947.

September 9, 2008

Frosh Week festivities perked up this week when thousands of sober Gaels and ArtSci frosh danced to this year’s song, “Jerk It Out,” by The Caesars. The song choice raises the question of how the Orientation Round Table (ORT) perceives its responsibility to make Orientation more inclusive.

September 5, 2008

Last week, I had the opportunity to pick up a copy of US Airways’ “SkyMall” magazine. With excitement that could only have been induced by altitude, I found a voice-activated replica of R2-D2 for only $169.95! Also tempting was “The Marshmallow Shooter”—a mere $24.95 for what would surely be hours of fun, complete with “pinpoint accuracy.” But upon further perusal, I decided that “The Hollywood Cookie Diet” most definitely takes the cake. Four boxes for $59.99 and cookie dieters can (atypically) lose five pounds in just three days?

September 5, 2008

A 16-page spread in the August edition of Vogue India—which includes a photo of a toothless woman carrying a baby wearing a Fendi bib—has garnered criticism for its portrayal of the poor wearing designer items, the New York Times reported Aug. 31.

September 5, 2008

Ontario university presidents receive expensive perks, such as cars and monthly allowances, along with their six-figure salaries, the Hamilton Spectator reported July 12.

July 29, 2008

Queen’s is like a small town. There’s no such thing as anonymity.

July 29, 2008

According to BBC News, South Africa might legalize prostitution when it hosts the World Cup in 2010.

July 29, 2008

An OPP officer posed as a journalist
during last year’s Aboriginal Day of Action protests to get to the front lines, courts heard last week.

June 24, 2008

This is the summer of my discontent.

Senator Barack Obama’s campaign volunteers prevented two of his supporters from sitting behind him during a rally June 16 because the women were wearing Islamic head scarves, the New York Times reported. The volunteer was worried the women, who would be on camera, would link the candidate to Islam.

June 24, 2008

This fall, the AMS Social Issues Commission will introduce a religious issues committee.

May 27, 2008

I turn nineteen this week. Anyone who hears that immediately asks me where I will be going to celebrate
that night, and no one’s expecting me to say the name of a restaurant or that I have the party room booked at the local bowling alley or laser-tag joint—they’re waiting to hear which bar I’ve chosen.

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