Left to right, incumbant Harvey Rosey, Kevin George and Rick Downes debate on Friday. (Joshua Chan)
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Mayoral candidates duke it out
All three mayoral candidates can agree on one thing: Queen's students need to vote. Rosen, councillor Kevin George and councillor Rick Downes participated in a discussion and debate Friday at the Policy Studies Building. About 100 members of the Queen’s and Kingston community attended the debate.
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Stauffer extends exam period hours
Students will be able to study at Stauffer library around the clock during exam period this year because the library will be open 24 hours from Nov. 27 to Dec. 31. “It’s really extending the use of a great facility,” said Martha Whitehead, associate university librarian. “Stauffer is in such heavy use right now. It seemed the demand was there, so we wanted to meet the demand.”
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Young engineers get WISE on applied science
Sarah Fleming, Sci ’09 and Registration Co-ordinator for Women in Science and Engineering’s (WISE) Engineering and Science Day, said she experienced WISE’s impact first-hand “I’m from Kingston, so I did this when I was younger,” said. “It’s important to get girls to know what’s out there and become familiar with the options in engineering. It’s about more than math and building bridges.” More than 120 girls aged eight to 11 piled into Beamish Munro Hall this past Saturday to participate in a variety of activities geared toward encouraging a love of engineering and science at the Engineering and Science Day, organized by Women in Science and Engineering (W.I.S.E.).
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JDUC second floor gets diversity makeover
The JDUC’s second floor is getting a makeover, with a new wheelchair accessible washroom, a religious ablution space and renovations to the Robert Sutherland room. JDUC Director Bob Burge said the JDUC council has wanted to renovate the space for a while, but it wasn’t until August that it obtained the funds from the University to do so.
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Lives of ‘misery, sadness and terror’
Close your eyes and imagine the place you call home surrounded by austere brick walls and windows covered with iron bars. You’re cut off from contact with even your closest family members and forced to subsist in a cell barely big enough to hold a single bed.
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Tindall Field renovation project on schedule
If all goes according to current plans, the University will enlarge Tindall Field to regulation size—about 100 metres--and convert it to artificial turf and add an underground parking to the neighbouring lot this spring. The field’s location would be moved east to where the parking lot now lies, and the parking lot would be rebuilt on the field’s old site.
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Ramadan banner set on fire in JDUC arson
When campus security responded to an active fire alarm at the JDUC last week, they found that property had been burnt at three separate locations--one being the Ramadan banner hung outside the Queen’s University Muslim Students Association’s (QUMSA) club space. On Oct. 23 at 1:09 a.m., campus security received notice of a fire alarm at the JDUC.
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Anti-war march lacks student presence
On a rainy Saturday, about 100 anti-war protesters marched from Queen’s campus through downtown Kingston to express their disapproval of Canada’s involvement in Afghanistan, an hour after the CFB Kingston garrison marched to City Hall to show support for Canadian troops. The City of Kingston organized a Freedom of the City ceremony to show appreciation of and support for Canadian troops and their families.
