Queen’s Board of Trustees deferred to the principal a proposal to name a building on campus after alumnus and benefactor Robert Sutherland, the Globe and Mail reported Jan. 19.
Reflecting on the fall term, I realize that my university experience has involved considerable hours of chewing and barely any swallowing.
Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, is under review by a Toronto District School Board (TDSB) committee after a parent filed a complaint that the book was anti-religious fundamentalism and anti-women, the Toronto Star reported Jan. 14.
Long-term consumption of Sodexo cafeteria food is unhealthy for students.
In March 2008, one year after students successfully convinced the University to divest from PetroChina and China Petroleum, companies complicit in the ongoing genocide in Darfur, the administration told the Journal it would bring a draft statement on ethical investing to the May 2008 Board of Trustees meeting. May came and went, however, without the appearance of any such draft.
Vancouver city council is asking the province for permission to borrow up to $458 million to finish building the Olympic Village, CBC News reported Monday.
The Arts and Science Undergraduate Society (ASUS) is hiring a diversity and equity advisor to fulfill part of its three-point Leading Action on Diversity plan.
Over the winter break, I became one of many people worldwide who can walk into a room and pretend to be important.
Fighting continues in Gaza as both Israel and Hamas, the militant Palestinian political party that controls the region, ignored a United Nations resolution calling for a ceasefire last Friday, the Globe and Mail reported.
A group of students taking the course NURS 403 have filed academic grievance complaints with the AMS over inconsistent evaluation.
This week, people around the world celebrate the 200th anniversary of Louis Braille’s birth.
After more than 60 days out of school, the York Federation of Students (YFS) handed copies of a 4,000-signature petition to the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) 3903 and York University’s administration, asking for a quick end to CUPE’s strike, the Toronto Star reported Wednesday.
This month Education Students’ Society (ESS) members will vote on whether to leave the AMS and join the Society of Graduate and Professional Students (SGPS).
There’s a bookshelf at the Journal house that stores decades’ worth of previous volumes of this newspaper in bound copies.
Queen’s Intergroup Dialogue Program has garnered national criticism since it was reported in the Queen’s Gazette Nov. 10.
Last week, Principal Tom Williams announced that a 15 per cent budget cut will be applied to all faculties and units of the University, including the administration, over the next three years.
This week, Queen’s was featured on the front page of multiple national newspapers.
A proposed law targeting Ontario’s young drivers could put more restrictions on their licences, the Toronto Star reported Nov. 17.
Homecoming weekend will be cancelled and replaced with a Spring Reunion for at least the next two years, Principal Tom Williams announced earlier this week.
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