March 30, 2007
Vol. 134, Issue 39

(Katrina Ludlow)

Trade the student apathy for student activity

AMS Social Commissioner Allison Williams argues that student apathy "impedes the evolution of social change on campus."

Make the Queen’s reputation meaningful

How to make Queen's better? Make some serious changes in the way we teach and learn, says Brian Cheney.

Increase efforts to promote varsity sports

Too many student atheletes train and compete without support from their peers.

We’re too specialized, too congested and too disrespectful

The University has become too specialized, increasingly focused on faculty grantsmanship, and more than ever in thrall to corporate sources of fiscal support. Accompanying this privatization, we behold the meta-static spread of administration, which tends not to facilitate community but to intensify feelings of isolation and alienation. We need to admit these things and address them.

A new nexus for social integration

Queen's must become a true community by embracing diversity.

Embrace the difficult conversation about the ‘isms’

The question of race should not be an uncomfortable issue.

A space with greater opportunities to interact

Queen’s would be better off with classrooms that responded to the way many of us want to teach in our small, medium and even large classes.

Traditions are not welcoming to all students

Student governments like the SGPS and AMS need to be actively involved in building stronger community relations.

Use the arts as a vehicle to ignite debate

Why are we content to sit at the back of the class when it comes to funding the arts?

What we need is a change in perception

"We need to re-conceptualize how we see Queen’s as a community and not just a place to work, drink, sleep and eat," says Amanda Wilson.

Non-academic discipline shows students’ capability

"For more than 150 years, students have managed to do things fairly well on their own," says former AMS municipal affairs commissioner Naomi Lutes.

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