How can Queen's be better?
The Journal asked eleven passionate and articulate writers who have shown a genuine interest in the community through their actions. See this issue's Ideas Supplement. (Katrina Ludlow)
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Inmates to appeal move
The female prisoners of Isabel McNeill House which is located at 525 King St. West, will be appealing a court decision next Friday in hopes of staying at the only women-only minimum security prison that remains in Canada. In a decision on March 1, Judge Thomas J. Lally ruled that the four women in McNeill House don’t have to leave until their appeal comes before the courts.
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The recruiting game
How do Queen’s recruitment practices compare to university athletic programs at Carleton, Harvard and Mercyhurst?
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‘Mentally, I’m good. I’m healthy’
Patti Cuthbert observed an unusual anniversary this week: Tuesday, March 27 marked one year after she called her mother, in tears, to tell her she had an eating disorder.
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Getting over the green talk
At last weekend’s Sustainability Conference organized by Queen’s Sustainability Network (QSN), photographer and keynote speaker Edward Burtynsky presented a slideshow of his photographs showing pictures of our intrusion into nature all over the world: railroads cutting through forests in British Columbia, spirals of highways in Los Angeles and construction on the Three Gorges Dam in China.
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ASUS passes new opt-outable fee
All Arts & Sciences students are subject to a $5 opt-outable fee starting in September 2007. The fee is designated to help develop new services for ASUS in the next four to five years.
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Provincial, federal budgets promise student funding
New federal budget promises $800 million for post-secondary education, but delays its funding until after intergovermental talks in 2008.
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First female chancellor dies at 86
Agnes Benidickson, Queen’s first female chancellor, died last friday at the age of 86. Benidickson served as chancellor from 1980 to 1996 and graduated from Queen’s with a BA in 1941.
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New don training will personalize students’ residence experience
A new training and programming model for residence dons will allow them to tailor their programming to the individual needs of the students on their floors.
