Studio Q is changing its hiring structure this year so that instead of being elected by volunteers, Studio
Q’s executive producer will be hired by an AMS panel.
On Wednesday, the AMS board of directors unanimously passed a motion to change the hiring of the executive producer.

Next week, Queen’s will be showing its Pride for the very first time. The Education on Queer Issues
Project (EQuIP) is organizing Queen’s Pride Week, which will take place next Monday to Saturday.
“We’re not looking to forge an independent and insular queer community,” said Adam Morrison, EquIP member and Pride Week co-ordinator

Tonight will mark the official groundbreaking ceremony of the $230-million Queen’s Centre, a project already estimated to be $16.1 million to $20 million over budget.
Vice-Principal (Operations and Finance) Andrew Simpson said the University is doing its best to keep
the project on budget. “We were advised by cost consultants that because of the level of escalation and inflation in the construction industry, the overall project looked like it would go over budget,” he said.

Dave Waugh squeaked by Sean Roberts in Wednesday’s ComSoc election, winning by 15 votes.
Waugh, Comm ’08, had a total of 256 votes or 46 per cent of the total vote, and Roberts had 241 votes or 44 per cent of the vote.

Last summer, John White was living on Kingston’s streets struggling with cocaine and ecstasy addictions.
The 18-year-old didn’t know about the city’s youth shelter until a friend suggested that he look into it. Now, White is going to school while looking for a summer job and a place of his own to live. He said having already lived on the street takes away the stress of wondering if he will be able to maintain an apartment and a job.

Emily Longworth, a former Queen’s student, died in an electric fire in a Chilean hostel. The Santiago Times reported that the fire broke out in the Blue House II hostel in Punta Arenas, Chile, at 2:30 a.m. Feb. 3. Within 30 minutes, the two-storey structure had partially collapsed.

Concerned about the labour practices of Russell Athletic—the University’s exclusive athletic
apparel supplier—students from Queen’s No Sweat met with Principal Karen Hitchcock and Dean of Student Affairs Jason Laker last November. During the meeting, they discussed the possibility of
Queen’s signing on to a designated suppliers program.

The Centre for Teaching and Learning, along with the Queen’s Coalition for Racial and Ethnic Diversity and the Dean of Student Affairs, are developing a faculty mentorship program that would pair students with faculty members.

Kristen Read, contact centre representative in the office of advancement, said there are 8,000 married couples who are Queen’s alumni. And an article in the September/October 1996 issue of the Queen’s Alumni Review reported that 31 per cent of Queen’s alumni are married to Queen’s alumni.

On Feb. 9, Patrick Deane, vice-principal (academic), announced the appointment of Kimberly Woodhouse as the new Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science. I am very excited and looking forward to joining Queen’s University,” Woodhouse said. “I think it’s a fabulous faculty with an energetic staff. There are so many opportunities with a strong faculty.”

An interim report on the Fair Labor Association’s website states that in December of 2005, Christliche Initiative Romero, a non-governmental organization based in Germany, filed a third-party complaint with the Fair Labor Association regarding Hermosa Manufacturing, a factory located in Apopa, El Salvador. Several manufacturing companies, including Russell Athletic, outsourced their production to the El Salvador factory. The complaint alleged the factory closed suddenly in May 2005, leaving about 320 workers without employment.

For Carolyn Roche, the stress of finding a job after graduation is always on her mind. “I’m constantly aware of it, I’m always thinking about it,” she said. “But more in a way of excitement than stress. Maybe closer to the time it will stress me out more.”