Top Story

Tenure shouldn’t grant immunity

If professors are being disciplined for external actions that may affect their employment at the University, it would be nice to see a greater effort for accountability and more open disciplinary procedures, as well as a clearer definition of what constitutes gross misconduct, incompetence and neglect of academic duties.

Story

AMS motion brash, deluded

The AMS should think twice before passing silly motions aimed to protect students who throw illegal parties and are deluded into believing they have privacy rights on Facebook.

Signed Editorial

Taking back the streets

When I was in high school, I imagined university the way I had seen it in movies and on TV: playing Frisbee on the lawn in front of the library; walking across a green, grassy commons talking about Foucault with my articulate, bookish friends.

Previously in Editorials

March 23, 2007

Students and Lam need to learn from Cockroach

Last Friday, Phil Lam was awarded the Golden Cockroach—for the second year in a row. But this year, not only did Lam win the top prize, he also received all of the positions on the infamous Golden Cockroach podium. The Key to the Ghetto Award and the Golden Cockroach Award, given to the best and worst student landlords respectively, is one of the better ideas to come out of the AMS in recent years and hopefully it will continue to be awarded.

March 23, 2007

A call for tuition transparency

Commerce students are required to take a certain number of elective credits in arts and science. An arts and science student can expect to pay $517.63 in course fees for a half-credit arts and science course; however, the same course requires commerce students to shell out $1,019.93. Evidently, extra funds are required of business students to cover the costs of certain amenities afforded to them as members of the commerce faculty; however, these costs should be part of their student fees rather than added to the price of arts and science courses.

March 23, 2007

V is for Victory

In a few short weeks, my five-year Queen’s career will finally limp to a close. I’ll have a three-year degree, the possible beginnings of an incredibly low-paying but satisfying career completely unrelated to said degree, financial independence and something a lot of students don’t have when they graduate: their virginity.

March 16, 2007

The benefits of co-operation

From about 1993 to 1999, my relationship with my brother was defined by competition. The two of us would compete to see who could stuff the most grapes in his or her mouth, who could hold his or her breath the longest and who could run along the most driftwood logs without falling off. Daniel and I eventually outgrew this phase, however, and it’s a good thing that most adults are able to do so: if such historical partners as Watson and Crick and Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin had felt the same need to place competition over all else, humankind would be much worse off for it ...

March 16, 2007

May as well say nothing

Shortly after Jeff Brown was announced as next year’s AMS social issues commissioner, an anonymous e-mail was sent out alleging that there were problems with the hiring process, requesting that the AMS refuse to ratify Brown’s hiring and urging students to send letters of complaint to the new AMS executive, AMS Information Officer Greg McKellar and AMS Human Resources Officer Emily Lauzon. The Journal encourages the authors of the petition to write a signed letter to the editor clarifying their concerns and specifying the “questionable hiring practices” of the AMS. We’d be more than happy to publish it.