The AMS has no plans to bring back the After-hours Childcare service incoming AMS President Talia Radcliffe said.
Radcliffe said the AMS will discuss any revival of the childcare service during the summer with both the Society of Graduate and Professional Students (SGPS) and the University.

The Arts and Science Undergraduate Society (ASUS) wants money to start a new service. They just don’t know what the service will do yet.
On March 26, ASUS Assembly voted to set aside a portion of their optional student fee each year to invest in a new service at their Annual General Meeting.
The society’s $5 opt-outable fee will increase to $8.57 and the mandatory fee will increase from $20.24 to $22.29 per student.

Bottles of strangely named chemicals, green slime and exploding gummy bears aren’t common sights in Maria Kerby’s Grade Nine and 10 science class at Regiopolis Notre Dame Catholic Secondary School in Kingston.
On Feb. 25, a group of Queen’s volunteers changed that.
The volunteers belong to the Let’s Talk Science partnership program. Let’s Talk Science is a national organization committed to improving science literacy through leadership, educational programs, research and advocacy.

Clark Hall Pub is getting an $18,000 boost from the Commerce Society towards its reopening, but it’s not coming for free.
ComSoc passed a motion at its Annual General Meeting for ComSoc and the Engineering Society to sign a contract to give EngSoc $18,000 towards reopening Clark Hall Pub in exchange for benefits for ComSoc.
The contract still needs approval from EngSoc Council tonight.

The AMS Merchandise Service (TAMS), which operates Tricolour Outfitters and the Used Bookstore, is projecting a loss of $123,428 this year.
Last week, incoming AMS executive Radcliffe-Wang-St.Clair said Tricolour Outfitters will remain open next year, despite a campaign promise to close the service. Radcliffe told the Journal she and her executive team would have had to prepare a report for the AMS Board of Directors two weeks after they were elected in order to close the service.
AMS Vice-President (Operations) John Manning said the AMS doesn’t operate services to make money.

Not all of AMS executive team Chak, Manning and Mitchell’s campaign promises turned out as planned, but Vice-President (Operations) John Manning said the AMS executive’s focus on issues such as sustainability and mental health means the 150-year-old organization is maturing.
CMM’s promise to create a peer counselling service to promote mental health and alleviate pressure on Health, Counselling and Disability Services was a major part of last year’s election campaign.
The volunteer-run Peer Support Centre has seen one student since it began in February. HCDS still has a three-week waiting list to see a counsellor.

The provincial budget has good things for Queen’s but leaves out a vital factor, said Principal Karen Hitchcock. The Liberals’ fifth budget, released Tuesday, sets aside $1.5 billion to post-secondary education and training over three years. It includes a textbook and technology grant for all full-time students, a distance grant to help students in remote or rural areas with transportation costs, a strategy to attract international students, a program facilitating international work experience for Ontario students and $970 million over three years towards capital projects and infrastructure.

The University’s code of conduct was officially put under review two years ago, but students will have to wait at least another month before its revised version is finalized.

Last year, ThankQ raised a total of $20,998.44 in all faculties. Between 2004 and 2007, 1,432 students—seven per cent of graduates during those four years—participated in ThankQ. Wannemacher said she wants with expand the participation rate by raising awareness about ThankQ and the importance of donations to first- and second-year students. She also wants to expand the definition of “participation” to not just donating money, but also attending fundraiser events.

AMS Board of Directors will vote on a standardized honoraria grid next Thursday, April 3.
The AMS pays honoraria as compensation to all its volunteers
The honoraria review, conducted by an ad hoc committee of the Board of Directors’ Management Committee, has been in progress since November.

Tricolour Outfitters won’t close next year, after all.
Despite the prominent place team RWS’s promise to shut down AMS-run store took in election debates this year, AMS President-elect Talia Radcliffe and her team hired a new TAMS manager for the Used Book Store and Tricolour Outfitters next year.

When Associate Vice-Principal (Facilities) Ann Browne opened a tender for masonry work on the Queen’s Centre in December and saw a number $1.5 million over the proposed tender, she knew it was time to make some changes.
Browne said PCL Construction, the general contractor working on the project, thought the masonry tender would be $1 million overbid.
She said she couldn’t reveal the bid’s total cost because contract information is private.

Jamie Harshman, ArtSci ’10 and a Queen’s telefundraiser, is about to seal another deal—and she’s only an hour into her shift.
She’s on the phone with Leslie, a Queen’s alumna Harshman hopes will repeat a donation to the University she made last year.
(All calls are confidential and Queen’s Telefundraising Services wouldn’t release Leslie’s last name to the Journal.)
Harshman has been making calls for two years and barely needs to glance at her sheet.
She lists where the donation will go: bursaries, faculty equipment and health services.

Clark Hall Pub won’t reopen its doors until at least September.
Engineering Society President Jordan Black said the EngSoc executive and the new head manager will plan the opening over the summer. No concrete plans are in place.
A report on the pub’s future originally outlined plans for three soft openings to test new operational structures, the first of which was supposed to happen in March.
He said the executive is focusing mainly on hiring the rest of the staff. The application period for the head manager was extended until March 13. He doesn’t think the pub’s problems this year deterred people from applying.

If the University’s looking for its $4.5 million Queen’s Centre contribution from graduate students, it’s not coming anytime soon, Society of Graduate and Professional Students (SGPS) President Arash Farzam-Kia said.
Farzam-Kia said he’s heard the figure $4.5 million talked about and the SGPS is discussing it with Vice-Principal (Operations and Finance) Andrew Simpson’s office.
Any decision to introduce a student fee for the Queen’s Centre would have to pass at a graduate student referendum, he said.