On a scale of open to closed door, search committees are padlocked.

This year, Kingston smashed its new housing targets by a whopping 250 per cent with 1465 new housing projects starting in the city. But as the demand for housing becomes fiercer and more competitive, Queen’s isn’t doing enough to support their students in finding a place to call home.

Exactly one year ago, I laid out four things I learned from four years at Queen’s. Now that I’ve made it through another year and another degree, I thought I would keep the tradition going.

Over the next six years, $6.1 billion will be allocated to create a Canada Disability Benefit (CDB) to provide support to Canadians with disabilities.

Every June, the LGBTQ+ community and allies come together to celebrate Pride month. The month is dedicated to celebrating love, being who you are, and being around an accepting community.

While there is less hustle and bustle than the rest of the year, I am team Kingston summer.

Speaking of, hello, my name is Niki, and I’m your Rector.

Weeks after the rest of the world set up encampments in solidarity with Palestine, the Queen’s University Apartheid Divest (QUAD) and Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) Queen’s groups gathered in front of Richardson Hall. Among other demands, protestors have called for Queen’s divestment from corporations profiting from human rights violations in Palestine.

Once hailed as the vanguard of student governance and representation, the AMS finds itself at a crossroads.

The adaption of the “survival of the fittest” strategy in registering for a family doctor, as seen in Kingston, represents the ways in which the Ontario government continues to break the public’s trust.

Mondays are usually the hardest day of the week when you’re a graduate student worker—it’s when emails, assignments, and phone calls start coming in. March 4, however, was different.

Coupled with the ongoing threat against the humanities, these changes could potentially go unnoticed at a school like Queen’s, which is dominated by more “practical” programs like commerce and engineering. The path to a high-paying career may be more obvious with these degrees (not to mention the potential to produce more generous donors), but the humanities are about far more than money.

Queen’s University isn’t the postsecondary institution I remember it to be.

Queen’s University is a diverse mosaic of identities. It’s time we embrace learning from each other when pushing for greater change on campus.