(Evelien Heijselaar)

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Counselling your classmates

Last spring AMS candidate team CMM campaigned across campus touting the possibility of initiating a peer counselling service. The proposal is panning out: the Peer Support Centre will open its doors in the JDUC in November, with eight to 10 volunteers providing non-academic counselling to students.

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A (closed) New York state of mind

When Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived to speak at Columbia University this Monday, he was met with taunts from the press and thousands of protestors. The University had already faced a division amongst students and faculty as to whether the school should have invited Ahmadinejad as a speaker at its World Leaders Forum.

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English as a second option

It’s been almost three weeks since the incoming ArtSci ’11 students have been taunted by the Frosh Week chants telling them they’re doomed to work at McDonald’s. Three years ago, I was one of the frosh hearing those chants, but today I would like to tell those frosh they will never have to ask, “Would you like fries with that?”

Previously in Editorials

September 25, 2007

More police unwelcome guests

Kingston Police have had their hands full since Frosh Week marked the kickoff of the school year three weeks ago. In a Police Services Board meeting last week, Police Chief Bill Closs said this was the worst Frosh Week he has seen in 12 years.

September 25, 2007

Creating an unequal playing field

In June, the Athletics and Recreation Review suggested Queen’s re-evaluate the way its programs are funded compared to other universities and look into charging additional fees for instructional programs, intramurals and tickets to varsity games.

September 25, 2007

Nightmare on Alfred Street

Coming into the last September of my undergraduate year, I expected no surprises and smooth sailing—only to find out quickly that it’s never safe to assume anything out of life. At the end of the first week at my new apartment, my roommate and I had no idea why we developed severe allergies and shortness of breath, until we spotted large quantities of black mould behind the kitchen cupboard and the stove. The problem hit a climax when my roommate found out the mould had spread to her bedframe; as I was sipping coffee at the Common Ground, she called and said, “I’m not living here anymore.”

September 21, 2007

Cameras’ record not reliable

As campus security remains of paramount concern, Queen’s is looking into installing multiple closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras throughout campus.

September 21, 2007

Queen’s caught cutting class

All University departments are being forced to tighten their belts following four per cent budget cuts across the board. These cuts were necessary because of higher than normal wage, salary and pension increases and insufficient government funding, said Vice-Principal (Operations and Finance) Andrew Simpson. They caused the mechanical engineering department to cut six of its courses. Now students—many of them entering their final year—are left baffled by the suddenness of their current situation. Some are unsure they will graduate on time, or worry they won’t have the requirements they need when they enter the workforce.