The extensive contributions of Jacquie Kiggundu, ArtSci ’06, to Queen’s and the greater Kingston community will leave a lasting impression for years to come.
After facing stiff competition from five other nominees, Kiggundu was announced as this year’s recipient of the Robert Sutherland Award at the AMS Volunteer Appreciation and Awards Night at Alfie’s on Tuesday.

A woman aspiring to be the next prime minister visited campus March 14 to talk about her passion for politics.
A crowd of around 20 students, mostly from the Queen’s University Liberal Association, gathered in a meeting room in the JDUC to meet Martha Hall Findlay, one of the three candidates who have so far announced their intent to run for the leadership of the federal Liberal Party.

After an unsuccessful first attempt last year, the University has appointed a new dean of student affairs.
Dr. Jason Laker, currently dean of campus life at St. John’s University in Minnesota, will begin his five-year term in July 2006.
Patrick Deane, vice-principal (academic), was chair of an Advisory Committee composed of faculty, administration and student leaders who made the appointment.

Everywhere he goes, Basil Hargrove manages to create a buzz. Last week, it was on campus.
Hargrove—more commonly known as “Buzz”—has built a reputation as the aggressive and confrontational president of the National Automobile, Aerospace, Transportation and General Workers’ Union of Canada (CAW – Canada). He visited Queen’s on March 16 to present a lecture entitled “The Current State and Future Prospects of Labour Relations.”

Student leaders lobbied together yesterday at a special meeting of the Senate Residence Committee’s (SRC) Budget Sub-committee, where the members unanimously reversed their position on the proposed residence fee structure beginning in the 2007-08 year.
Alexis Meyerman, Main Campus Residents’ Society (MCRS) president said she was happy with the outcome.

The Queen’s Centre is to be built in three phases and completed by 2015. The facility will also house the soon-to-be-renamed School of Physical and Health Education, athletic facilities and the services and groups currently housed in the JDUC.
Phase I will include a 2,000-seat basketball court, a swimming pool, a racquetball court, student club space, retail space and the Common Ground Coffeehouse, as well as large seating areas, Hirano added. It will be located between the JDUC and Earl Street.

If Kingston and the Islands MPP John Gerretsen had looked out his kitchen window on Friday, Mar. 10, he would have seen some uninvited guests.
The Kingston Coalition Against Poverty (KCAP) hosted a “Have-Not Hoedown” on Gerretsen’s front lawn in anticipation of the upcoming release of the Ontario provincial budget.
KCAP is lobbying Gerretsen to raise social assistance rates by 40 per cent, effectively restoring them to 1995 levels.

Behind all of the devastating statistics on HIV/AIDS, there are unique human experiences.
This is the concept behind “AIDS: Picture Change,” an exhibition of photographs depicting both the struggle and the hope of those in five developing countries battling the deadly disease.
The exhibit—which is traveling to universities and high schools throughout Canada—came to Queen’s Wednesday and Thursday in various locations, on campus.

Following a five-month “thorough and complex review” of the Queen’s non-academic discipline system, the AMS released its report and recommendations on the system at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) Tuesday night.

After searching across the globe to find someone to fill outgoing Dean Robert Silverman’s shoes, the University has appointed someone from close to home as the next dean of Arts and Science.
Alistair MacLean, the current vice-dean of Arts and Science will begin his role as dean of the University’s largest faculty starting in July 2006.

Students living in Waldron Tower may have to walk a bit further for their bacon and eggs next year, as the University is currently contemplating closing Ban Righ cafeteria for breakfast. Leonard cafeteria will continue to serve morning meals, but student and staff response to the plan has still been generally negative.
Alexis Meyerman, Main Campus Residents’ Society (MCRS) president, said the potential closure is a cost-cutting measure.

A pencil and felt pen drawing of a black panther that was on display in the Common Ground set off a firestorm of e-mails earlier this week. Following apologies, one student says she still feels slighted.
The untitled, anonymous piece of art, which featured the panther on a background of math equations, was part of the Committee Against Racial and Ethnic Discrimination’s (CARED) “Art in Colour” event, which brought together works produced by several student artists who self-identify as visible minorities.

The Lower Ceilidh of the JDUC was transformed into a cross between a makeshift salon and a live stage show on Wednesday as throngs of students gathered to see their peers shear off their hair to help cancer patients. The fifth annual Cuts for Cancer event was, to date, the most successful in Queen’s history, said Sadia Khandaker, the campaign’s public relations director. The event raised $34,313 for the Canadian Cancer Society.