Rental increase leaves Queen’s graduate students out in the cold

Queen’s Community Housing rental increases disavow responsibility towards graduate students.
March 15, 2024

Art criticism isn’t hateful; it’s necessary

Regardless of who produces artwork, or at what stage performers are in their career, art criticism is a well-established, expected response. If the public’s criticism isn’t welcomed, neither should be their attendance.
March 15, 2024

Standardized testing could combat rising grade inflation

Without standardized tests, universities may struggle to differentiate between students from schools with rigorous grading standards and those with more lenient ones.
March 8, 2024

Hockey Barbie: she’s everything

Barbie should promote diverse expressions of femininity to young girls, including athleticism.
It would be difficult to conceive of an image that better justifies the allegations of unprofessionalism and cliquiness within the AMS than the tableaus of its latest Assembly.
Despite its potential for positive change, paid plasma donation has negative ethical implications.
Making Quebecois language and culture a punishment won’t encourage engagement with them.
Embracing reusable water bottles emerged as a commendable eco-conscious consumer trend during the mid-2000s, particularly among university students. Yet in today’s digital age, reusable water bottles are morphing into trendy status symbols.
Before their exit from this year’s AMS executive election, Team JNN was running uncontested. Their campaign sparked a counter crusade—a no-vote campaign led by Allison Mei, Noor Ghunaim, Molly McGill, all ArtSci ’24, and Sophie Sterling, ArtSci ’25.
As we near International Women’s Day on March 8, it’s important to take a moment to consider the impact activism for women’s rights has had—and to emphasize its ongoing necessity.
Baseball should give casual fans more to cheer for. Stolen bases are a good start, but marketing the stories of those playing the game is the next necessary leap.
Publicly prioritizing the agency of a clump of cells over that of a grown person is nothing short of shameful.
Whoever said “nice guys finish last” was wrong.
Queen’s students aren’t engaging with their student government because they don’t know how it serves them.
With the constant barrage of headlines and bumbling public interviews with top administration, it would be easy to think Queen’s is careening to the bottom of rankings because of its budget crisis.
From radio to Spotify premium, leftovers to Uber Eats, printing out Google maps to Siri announcing directions—everything we want is now at the tip of our fingers, and I’m not convinced it’s good for us.
It’s difficult to imagine Dillon Dubé’s “mental health” leave is anything but a cowardly coverup.
Scientifically and socially, Canada isn’t ready to expand medically assisted death to those whose only underlying condition for it is mental illness.
Though I’m not against drinking, I don’t feel the need to do it every weekend, but that doesn’t preclude me from wanting to go out and have fun with my friends. While establishments serving alcohol don’t need to be completely sober places, more people should understand it’s possible to be sober within them.
In the midst of this highly disputed geopolitical landscape, my history degree holds greater significance than ever before.
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