Participants in the appliance toss, the flagship event of Saturday’s Aberdeen Olympics, lay waste to the Ghetto street. (Matt Aikins)

Top Story

‘Organized chaos’ reigns on Aberdeen

Last week, a mysterious message appeared in the mailboxes of each house on Aberdeen Street and a select few houses on nearby Earl, William and Johnson streets. The message included the slogan “Living the Stereotype.”

Previously in Features

September 24, 2004

Queen’s clothing: ambiguously ethical

The next time you set foot on Queen’s campus, try this: count the number of seconds it takes before you spy someone sporting Queen’s clothing.

September 21, 2004

Politics among the garden plots

To most people of our generation, the word “Nicaragua” conjures up an idea of a distant country somewhere in the Third World—one of my university-educated friends asked me where it was in Africa.

September 17, 2004

Queen’s backstage at Canadian Idol

We’ve all either seen the show or had to endure friends’ polemics on who deserves to win. Love it or hate it, Canadian Idol has become a pop culture phenomenon.

September 14, 2004

Dallaire discusses Rwandan genocide

On Saturday, more than 400 Queen’s students, staff and community members filled Grant Hall to hear retired Lt.-Gen. Roméo Dallaire speak on war and peace in the post-9/11 world.

September 14, 2004

Q&A: Rwanda, self-interest and UN intervention

Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire, the son of a Canadian Forces soldier, was born in 1946 in Denekamp, Holland and raised in Montreal. In 1964, he enrolled as a cadet at the Collège militaire royale de St-Jean. He served in a variety of Canadian Forces posts before being deployed as Forces Commander of the UN mission to Rwanda in 1993. There, the following year, he witnessed the slaughter of 800,000 Rwandans, without sufficient resources to prevent it.