September 25, 2007
Vol. 135, Issue 9

Jeff Brown, ArtSci ’08

Offensive themed parties ‘othering’

In my time at Queen’s I’ve seen many parties and hosted a few myself. But when hosting or attending a gathering we have a responsibility.

Letters to the Editors

There was some fairly big news recently. You may have heard about it. Three by-elections in Quebec, in which the federal Liberal Party fared poorly and infighting was rumoured between leader Stephane Dion and his strongest competitor for leader, Michael Ignatieff. So when Ignatieff, a prominent politician, appears on campus, one would expect the campus newspaper might actually want to ask some questions—either about the by-elections or any number of other substantive issues—instead of just providing a transcript of the man’s bloviating and pandering to the issue of “youth apathy”.

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