Since 1995, the group of 12-year-olds has grown into an international organization—Free the Children—that has built 450 primary schools in more than 40 countries in an attempt to give every child the opportunity to get an education.

After opting out of the Maclean’s rankings this summer, the University will standardize information about its enrollment, class sizes and other variables for current and prospective students. Queen’s was one of 22 universities to opt out of the Maclean’s annual university survey in August.
Principal Karen Hitchcock said the University will continue to offer a detailed source of information about Queen’s, and students can make their own judgments about the universities based on the information given.

In the event of an influenza pandemic, the University has a planned strategy, which includes providing adequate resources for campus services, prioritizing patients at the health centre, and communicating with students, staff and faculty about how to deal with influenza.

The AMS has about 50 rooms within the JDUC, Macgillivray-Brown Hall and the Grey House, but there’s no “air-tight” way to keep track of who has keys to what. There is also no way to guarantee that individuals are not making copies of their keys before returning them.

Wendy Spiegel, spokesperson for Pearson Education, a textbook publisher, said textbook prices vary reatly according to the book and the discipline it covers. “Textbook pricing … [depends] upon what the ultimate deliverable is,” she said. Costs relating to raw materials, intellectual property, art and design ll are factored into a textbook’s price, Spiegel said, and different types of textbooks have very different cost breakdowns.

Leo Jonker is out to change the way Queen’s students learn. Appointed the university’s first chair of teaching and learning in May, Jonker has a budget of $20,000 to develop initiatives meant to help students get more out of their formal education.

The Queen’s rugby team raised about $12,000 for breast cancer research research. The team was among 1,841 participants in the 15th annual Canadian Breast Councer Foundation CIBC Run for the Cure.
Korin Flindall, co-director of Kingston’s Run for the Cure, said their preliminary fundraising figure was about $210,000.

When English professor robert Morrison is teaching, he likes to know the names of all the students in his class. This year, because of increased class sizes and the popularity of certain courses, such as Morrison’s romantic literature course, that’s just not possible. “I like to know everyone’s names because I think that’s respectful,” Morrison said. “With ninety-three people in a class, I can’t do it.”
Morrison said the classes he’s teaching this year are very full, something he said is becomingmore common.

Students walking by the unassuming grey side door of Carruthers Hall may not realize it, but the door with the crackling loudspeaker beside it is home to over eighty years of tradition at Queen’s.
Radio broadcasting at CFRC 101.9FM, located in the basement of Carruthers Hall, has a long history behind it.

Today is the last day candidates can file their nomination papers for the Nov. 13 municipal election, and there are already three students in the race.
Despite running on similar platforms, Nathaniel Erksine-Smith, ArtSci ’07, and Alex Huntley, ArtSci ’08, have registered to run in the same riding: Sydenham Ward, the area encompassing most of the Ghetto.

Lillian Allen, Queen’s University’s first ever writer-in-residence, performed to a packed room in Watson Hall on tuesday in the first event associated with her appointment to the position.
Writer-in-residence programs are operated through shared funding between the host university and the Canada Council. Writers are expected to spend 60 per cent of their time on their own work and 40 per cent working with the university and community.