A year after being elected on a promise to “Make it happen,” members of Team MBT—AMS President James Macmillan, Vice-President (Operations) Ian Black and Vice-President (University Affairs) Meghan Teuber—agreed it’s hard to put a finger on their year’s defining issue.

When the 2006-07 budget was drawn up last summer, AMS services were expected to lose $63,469. Vice-President (Operations) Ian Black said he now expects the AMS to end the year with a surplus.

Michele Romanow, Sci ’07 and this year’s Agnes Benidickson Tricolour Award recipient, has a list of accomplishments that runs from volunteering with the AMS Kaleidoscope program, to being chief FREC during Frosh Week 2004, to serving as vice-president (communications) of the Engineering Student Societies Council of Ontario.

Queen’s University Faculty Association (QUFA) President John Holmes said a widening gap between student and faculty populations is eroding the quality of education at Queen’s.

On Monday, women’s studies professor Dina Georgis and music professor Olga Malyshko won the AMS Frank Knox Awards for excellence in teaching.

Organized by the Canadian Federation of Students, the task force was formed in January 2006 to address the needs of Muslim students at Canadian post-secondary institutions. They released their findings on March 21.

On April 14, after 85 years and three incarnations, countless triumphs and sorrows, one provincial hockey championship and a literal trial by fire, Jock Harty Arena will see its last hockey game. The athletics department will host Rock the Jock, on last chance to enjoy the arena featuring a game between the women’s hockey team and an alumni team and public skating.

At last weekend’s Sustainability Conference organized by Queen’s Sustainability Network (QSN), photographer and keynote speaker Edward Burtynsky presented a slideshow of his photographs showing pictures of our intrusion into nature all over the world: railroads cutting through forests in British Columbia, spirals of highways in Los Angeles and construction on the Three Gorges Dam in China.

The WearFair fashion show features ethically made clothing and a subversive agenda that gives students the opportunity to learn more about fair-trade clothing.

The University hires a co-ordinator to act as a link between professors and agencies students can volunteer for in the community.

A new training and programming model for residence dons will allow them to tailor their programming to the individual needs of the students on their floors.

Agnes Benidickson, Queen’s first female chancellor, died last friday at the age of 86. Benidickson served as chancellor from 1980 to 1996 and graduated from Queen’s with a BA in 1941.