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Less talk, more rock for green office

In June, Vice-Principal (Operations and Finance) Andrew Simpson announced the University is creating a new sustainability office to oversee environmental initiatives across Queen’s campus.

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Love the book, not the merchandise

J.K. Rowling released Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and final book in the much-beloved Harry Potter series, at midnight July 20. In 24 hours, world sales of the book topped 10 million copies as aficionados of all ages flocked to bookstores with an almost religious fervor.

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Hold the canapés, please

When I was 19, I spent the summer as an unpaid intern in Toronto, and my boyfriend moved in with me. It was more a matter of convenience than any romantic notion of eternal bliss. Unfortunately, we grossly underestimated the cost of living… and grossly overestimated his employability.

Previously in Editorials

June 26, 2007

Yellow card for tardy review

In February, the University announced it was conducting an in-depth review of its athletics department. According to a Feb. 5 press release, the project was intended to “define what the Queen’s community expects of Athletics & Recreation at Queen’s.” Former Dean of Student Affairs and computing professor Bob Crawford, who led the review along with Dean of the School Graduate Studies and Research Janice Deakin, said the review would help the University define its “philosophy of sport.” The review’s original deadline was March 30.

June 26, 2007

Lockdown on free speech

Several months ago 15-year-old Grade 10 student Kieran King heard a presentation about drug use in a high-school class. Thinking the presentation poorly researched, King sought out information on the Internet about the relative health risks of alcohol, marijuana and tobacco. He told some of his fellow students marijuana appeared the least hazardous of the three.

June 26, 2007

Your Big Brother Facebook

Sites like Facebook should enact a policy that prevents the outside transfer of your personal information. But unless the YouTube generation votes against Internet privacy violations with their dollars and cents, Big Brother is here to stay.

May 29, 2007

A little less conversation

The year I turned 16, my parents decided that something had to be done about the unsettling notion of their daughter behind the wheel. They figured that if I ever got into an accident, everything would be okay if I had a cell phone. Apparently they hadn’t noticed the growing number of drivers swerving across the roadways in their attempts to steer while juggling their bite-sized cell phones.

May 29, 2007

Treat the cause, not the symptom

The Gazette, Western University’s student newspaper, published a spoof issue on March 30 containing shocking and offensive material, including a reference to London’s chief of police taking a “wild vagina” “into a dark alley to teach it a lesson.”