The Journal was awarded one first-place finish and two second-place finishes at the 2006 Canadian Community Newspaper Awards on Monday, tying Wilfrid Laurier’s The Cord Weekly for the most top-three finishes by a Canadian campus newspaper.

Although the death of her mother has never been easy to accept, something helped Claudia Bello
cope with her loss. Bello has twice cut her hair for the cause, but that doesn’t mean she takes it lightly: Her mother had to have her head shaved for her chemotherapy treatment. “It’s still really hard,” Bello said. “But it’s important to talk about and share the story to raise awareness.”

Phil Lam will be awarded the dubious honour of two-time Golden Cockroach recipient at a press conference in the JDUC today at 1 p.m.
The Kingston landlord won the award for worst student landlord last year for 288 Earl St. and will
receive it again this afternoon for his property at 286 Queen St.

On Monday, students and community members celebrated women during International Women’s Week by remembering their grandmothers’ stories. Haifang Wang, international education intern at the International Centre, fondly remembers the stories her grandmother told her as a child.

At the Queen’s Pub on Sunday night, the outgoing AMS council serenaded the newly hired AMS
commissioners and directors with a barely melodic version of the Righteous Brothers’ “You’ve Lost that Loving Feeling.” “We spent five hours today deliberating and putting the team together,” AMS President-elect Kingsley Chak told the Journal. “We had about 24 applicants. It was a very tough decision,” he said, adding that he thinks they hired a very well-balanced team.

According to the 2005 Waste Audit, conducted by Queen’s Physical Plant Services, paper was the largest component at the University’s landfill site in Moose Creek, between Cornwall and Ottawa.
Paper takes up approximately 36 per cent of the total waste. This may not seem like an exceptionally high number, and it is an improvement on the previous 1994 waste audit, which found that paper took up 50 per cent of total waste. But consider this—the second largest component is food, which occupies 28 per cent.

The Green Ribbon Campaign is out to show people that beauty, strength and talent come in all
shapes and sizes.
The three-week-long campaign, which began this week, is run by Health, Counselling and Disability
Services (HCD S) and promotes healthy lifestyles by addressing issues of food, fitness and body image.

Professor Janice Deakin, dean of graduate studies at Queen’s, said the University is trying to stay
competitive by offering innovative and attractive programs. “We’re all about building strong programs that are engaging for students,” she said. “Right now, there is a lot of interest in interdisciplinary programs, and studying issues from a variety of angles.
According to the University graduate studies website, Queen’s currently offers graduate programs
in 43 different departments. Since 2001, enrolment in University graduate programs has increased by 35 per cent to 2,291 students in 2005.

In a small sample size, about 30 per cent of Queen’s students could be classified as heavy or frequent
drinkers; 50 per cent of students report harmful or hazardous levels of drinking; about 45 per cent of students report missing class because of a hangover.
Dean of Student Affairs Jason Laker cited these statistics—gathered in a survey of Queen’s students by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in 1994—to draw attention to the problem he’s addressing in a new working group: that of student drinking.

For the second consecutive year, Queen’s won the Central Canadian Debating Championships.
Queen’s Debating Union members Danny Saposnik, ArtSci ’07 and Jeremy Opolsky, ArtSci ’08, came away with the competition’s grand prize trophy.
In the final round, Saposnik and Opolsky debated a team from the University of Toronto on a resolution that proposed that military service should be mandatory in order to gain citizen’s benefits; Saposnik and Opolsky debated against the resolution.