Of the 12 promises team MBT made during last year’s AMS election campaign, five are more or less complete, four are in progress and three have fallen by the wayside.
The AMS executive—President James Macmillan, Vice-President (Operations) Ian Black and Vice-President (University Affairs) Meghan Teuber—revealed a campaign featuring one promise for each month of their term in the AMS government should they be elected. Eight months into that term, the results of these promises have been hit and miss, but MBT say they wouldn’t have changed a thing.

With the theme, “Get Cold to Keep Others Warm,” the Queen’s Helping Hand Association’s
Polar Bear Dip Fundraiser for the Ryandale Shelter for the Homeless took place last Saturday at 2 p.m.

A professor is suing Queen’s for $1 million while still working for the University, the Journal has learned. Dr. David Strum is seeking damages from the University and Kingston General Hospital for continuing breach of contract; misrepresentation and/or negligent misstatement and/or deceit; constructive wrongful dismissal; defamation; breach of the duty of good faith; and punitive, exemplary and aggravated damages.

Queen’s uses a variety of animals for research in medicine, biology, neurosciences and other fields, but won’t disclose how many animals they have, what species they are or where exactly they’re kept.

The University Experience Program, which targets students who could be the first in their family to attend university and brings them to Queen’s to introduce them to university life. This program can target students from lower economic backgrounds, but that isn’t its primary motivation.

More than 25 students gathered outside Grant Hall Monday evening to mark the eighth annual Trans Day of Remembrance. Held on Nov. 20 of each year, the day is meant to commemorate those who were killed as a result of anti-transgender hate or prejudice.

Nathaniel Erskine-Smith wins first prize in the 66th Andrina McCulloch Public Speaking Competition.

Much of the discussion at an Aboriginal issues symposium held on Nov. 17 to 19 centered around
land claim issues—something that has been a hot button issue for Kingston since last week’s
confrontation between Tyendinaga Mohawks and Canadian military near Deseronto.

At first glance, Elie Wiesel looked like a tired, wrinkled old man as he apologized for not being able to
speak any louder. He couldn’t be more wrong.

According to Statistics Canada, the percentage of female graduates compared to the national total grew from 57.83 per cent in 1996 to 58.55 per cent in 2000 and approximately 60 per cent in 2004. In 1999, 55.77 per cent of the degrees granted were granted to women; in 2005, that number was 56.93 per cent.

Outbreaks of the Norwalk virus at Mount Allison University, St. Francis Xavier University and the University of Alberta have prompted Queen’s to take steps to prevent a similar outbreak here. “Most communities will see outbreaks of Norovirus every year,” said Mike Condra, director of Health, Counselling, Disability Services at Queen’s, adding that a few cases are not uncommon at Queen’s.