The University’s first anti-racism conference will take place next Wednesday, with a panel of experts
examining the theme of race in Canada and discussing how issues of race inform the university experience. The conference is entitled “Breaking the Mould: The Pedagogy of Anti-racism,” and is
free to attend. The Committee Against Racial and Ethnic Discrimination (CAR ED) is organizing the
conference.

The AMS’s Annual General Meeting failed to meet quorum Tuesday, when only approximately
65 of the 100 people needed were in attendance.
Adam Rose, AMS speaker, said the AMS constitution sets quorum for general meetings at 100 members.

Principal Karen Hitchcock redeemed herself in the eyes of Queen’s arm-wrestling aficionados earlier this week by defeating Rector Johsa Manzanilla in the main event of a Queen’s Control Arms
fundraiser at The Grad Club.
The club held its second annual arm-wrestling tournament on Tuesday, raising $260, half of which
will go to the Rachele Rehabilitation Centre in northern Uganda. In last year’s competition, Hitchcock competed against a Golden Words editor and lost the match.

When the puck drops at 6:30 p.m. tonight at Jock Harty Arena to kick off the annual Commerce Charity Cup, members of the Queen’s commerce hockey team will be hoping to beat the defending
champions from Western and hoping to raise money for cancer research as well. The hockey tournament, now in its third year, invites students from Queen’s Commerce, McGill University Management, the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario and the Schulich School of Business at York University to compete with the ultimate goal of raising money for the Cancer Centre of Southeastern Ontario at Kingston General Hospital.

Stephen Greenblatt and George Logan started working together 10 years ago, but met face-to-face for the first time last Sunday at Kingston’s airport.
These names may not immediately strike a chord with you but if you’ve taken first-year English, you will undoubtedly remember the weighty, 6,000-plus page books that make up the Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volumes 1 and 2. Greenblatt and Logan both edit the 16th-century section of the Norton, and Greenblatt is the book’s general editor, and the editor of the Norton Shakespeare.

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.