CBC staff may be locked out of work, but that hasn’t stopped employees from coming to Kingston to do what they do best.
More than 100 network employees are expected to visit the University today for a radio broadcast and rally.

Six engineers out to break a record are asking the public to dig through their childhood toy chests.
The team is working to accumulate enough Lego blocks to build a bridge spanning up to six metres—surpassing efforts of a previous team who built a three-metre bridge.
But that’s not their only goal.

Both first-year and returning students will be greeted with new documents to sign and a package of information to read upon their first visit to Health Services this school year.
Health, Counselling and Disability Services, located in the LaSalle Building, made the decision to adopt a ‘Family Health Group’ (FHG) model over the summer.

A sharp increase in Nalgene water bottle sales heralds the return of students, according to staff working at downtown camping and wilderness store Trailhead. It’s one of many notable signs that almost 15,000 students are once again descending upon Kingston eager to fill their bellies, furnish their homes and clothe their bodies.

Students continued to get ticketed by the police the weekend before school started, raking in a total of 35 charges from Thursday to Sunday nights.
Kingston police spokesperson Mike Weaver said the number was a marked decrease from the 77 tickets handed out over the course of three nights at the start of Orientation Week.

When a father in need called out to the community last week, students from the class of 2009 answered with $26,000 in donations from Shinerama.
Brian Childerhose, vice-president of the Kingston chapter of the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, made an emotional appeal Saturday morning to the large group.

A campus and community bracing for an X-rated film company’s visit to Kingston can put its mind at ease.
Mantra Films Inc., the producers of Girls Gone Wild, completed a Canadian tour this month without making an anticipated stop in the city.

As a tired but undefeated crowd broiled under Sunday’s hot sun, Matt Stanyon, Sci ’09, scaled the human tower, stretching his lanky frame to grasp a tightly-nailed-on tam. Getting a good grip, Stanyon dangled from the top of the Grease Pole, using his body weight as leverage to yank it from side to side. At the last moment, he secured some necessary support under his feet, successfully ripping off a large piece and ending the faculty of applied science’s annual challenge.

One of the last major hurdles in the construction of the Queen’s Centre was cleared in August, when the University and the Royal Kingston Curling Club struck a deal to relocate the club to a new facility on Days Road.

One of the first things Christine Moreland, ArtSci ’09, did when she arrived in residence Sunday was to arrange the furniture in her res room so she and her two roommates would each have their own corner.
Moreland is one of 250 students living in “temporary space” in residences this year due to overcrowding. Her triple room in Victoria Hall was once a common room.
Moreland said she’s glad she’s not living in one of the two economy doubles on her floor.

Students looking to get fit or pick up some groceries further afield now have a new bus route to help them get to popular downtown destinations.
A special bus on Route #18, named the Student Circuit, will start transporting students from various areas in the Ghetto towards Kingston’s downtown core on Monday, Sept. 12.

In an effort to stem the popularity of large-scale Saturday night street parties this Homecoming, the University has teamed up with the AMS to throw a new, first-time event that aims to move partying back on campus.

Students needing evening and weekend childcare will be without any form of service or funding on campus this fall, after the AMS Board of Directors cancelled the AMS After-Hours Childcare (AHC) service during the Board’s July 23 to 24 meeting.

David Radler, MBA ’67, is due to appear in an Illinois court on Sept. 15 to enter a plea on seven counts of fraud for allegedly fraudulently diverting more than $32 million from the U.S.-based Hollinger newspaper holding company. Radler authorized the U.S. government to disclose in a statement that he is cooperating with the investigation and expects to enter a guilty plea.