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Newspapers have riot over Aberdeen

Compared to years past, Homecoming 2007 could be labelled a success. There were fewer arrests, fewer injuries and no cars were flipped. There seemed to be an air of tension leading up to the event, and the attitude around campus seemed to be that this year could turn ugly.

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The ABCs of Canadian universities

Earlier this week, the Globe and Mail released its annual survey of Canadian universities, giving them letter grades in a variety of categories ranging from convenience of class scheduling to library hours of operation.

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Respect just a little bit

TSN hockey commentator Gord Miller was thrust into a bigger limelight than usual Saturday. The Toronto Star revealed Miller sent an e-mail to National Hockey League Vice-President Bill Daly outlining the movement to oust Ted Saskin as the head of the National Hockey League Players’ Association.

Previously in Editorials

October 16, 2007

Gore’s efforts aren’t Nobel enough

Although climate change as a world issue is deserving of the attention this will bring it, the inconvenient truth about this award is simple: Gore wasn’t the worthiest candidate and the award should have gone to a real advocate for change—not an environmental celebrity.

October 16, 2007

The camera loves RCMP officers

This past Canada Day a group of 20 or so young party-goers were waiting at a University of British Columbia bus stop when a police car approached the group of youths, some of whom were holding open alcohol containers. The seemingly standard interaction soon became headline-worthy as the cops posed for photos with several young women in suggestive photos recently sent to the school’s newspaper, The Ubyssey.

October 16, 2007

What would Don Rogers do?

This past Saturday night, I had the pleasure of spending a few hours amongst the shouting drunkards, the thrown ’bows, and the anonymous, groping fingers that make up so much of the Aberdeen crowd. Surrounded by approximately 250 Kingston, Toronto and OPP police officers, hundreds (perhaps thousands) of people openly taunted the law by drinking alcohol in public or smoking weed. And yet the general feeling then, and in much of the coverage that followed, was that something was missing.

October 12, 2007

Weekend plans too little too late

Homecoming 2007 starts today and as thousands of Queen’s students and alumni venture out into the streets this weekend, there’s little doubt that the next 48 hours will see its share of confrontations, glass-punctured feet and overall disobedience.

October 12, 2007

The results are in, and they’re ugly

Wednesday night’s provincial election results gave Dalton McGuinty’s Liberals another majority government despite garnering only 42.2 per cent of the vote. In Kingston and the Islands, incumbent Liberal MPP John Gerretsen received 47.2 per cent of the vote to keep his seat and continue his 12-year presence in politics.