(Evelien Heijselaar)

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Academic under-funding 101

Budget cuts are an unfortunate reality of avoiding financial woes, but they can’t just be swallowed if their allocations are so visibly disproportionate.

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Draft code needs clarification

Proposals to change the Queen’s Code of Conduct expand the one-page document to seven and include clauses with more explicit definitions of non-academic disobedience and its repercussions. The University unveiled its draft this summer, and is collecting feedback on it.

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Eat. Sleep. Play Nintendo Wii.

Having spent the past week suffering from a bout of strep throat, and luckily graced with a break from the madness of midterms, I was strangely in the possession of free time. Usually my spare time would be spent catching up with friends or frantically trying to do a photo assignment for the Journal, but in my slightly contagious and debilitated state, I was resigned to staying at home, wondering what I could do instead of sleeping.

Previously in Editorials

October 26, 2007

The Colbert presidential report

Stephen Colbert’s running will definitely be a source of entertainment; whether Colbert’s pop-culture status translates into significant political impact won’t be determined until the votes are in.

October 26, 2007

Vote on OUSA? OUSA who?

Comprised of seven member university coalitions, the Ontario University Student Alliance (OUSA) is a collective body that actively lobbies the provincial government to provide for superior post-secondary education, whether that be by lowering tuition fees or improving the quality of teaching.

October 26, 2007

Reduce, reuse and dispose?

When I was a little kid, one of my greatest joys was going to the recycling depot with my dad. I know that this may not be normal—I was also really into Lego and Barbies and climbing trees—but I just thought it was so cool that our old bottles and boxes and cans could be recycled into something else.

October 23, 2007

Leaving another hole in the Ghetto

Coffee & Company, the beloved community coffee shop at the corner of Johnson and Division streets, closed its doors for the last time this past Friday.

October 23, 2007

Safe-sex measures arouse debate

Hundreds of Queen’s students are getting vaccinated against the human papillomavirus (HPV), but the parents of many Grade 8 girls, the provincial government’s target population, aren’t so sure. The vaccine has caused a stir in recent months as provincial governments such as Ontario have announced universal immunization programs. Although its long-term effects are unknown, it’s obvious that the vaccine’s short-term effects include public outcries against its social implications. Some have protested Gardasil’s young target population, saying that’s too young to get a vaccine that protects against STDs.