September 16, 2008
Vol. 136, Issue 7

(Emily Sicilia)

Top Story

Uniforms fail ethics grade

Queen’s athletes’ new uniforms are no longer made by Russell Athletic, the Journal reported Sept. 12.

Story

Online safety questioned

Strangers are increasingly able to discover people’s personal details from public websites, the Globe and Mail reported Sept. 12.

Story

Empty bleachers

It has been a strong year so far for Queen’s interuniversity sports teams.

Previously in Editorials

September 12, 2008

Selling education short

Some McMaster University students have allegedly been selling their seats in courses to fellow students, McMaster’s student newspaper, the Silhouette, reported in April.

September 12, 2008

‘Village’ term misleading

The student Ghetto has been renamed the Village in all institutional references, AMS Municipal Affairs Commissioner Paul Tye said Sept. 9. The change means AMS initiatives such as the Key to the Ghetto awards will remove references to the term.

September 12, 2008

Don’t have a little faith

Next year will mark 200 years since the birth of Charles Darwin and 150 years since the publication of On the Origins of Species. Biologists have since discovered DNA and mapped the human genome, yet Darwin’s theory of evolution is still under attack. Creationism, or Intelligent Design if you wish to delude yourself, argues that life is too complex to have developed through natural processes, leaving God as the obvious designer.

September 9, 2008

Cheer ban hypocritical

Frosh Week festivities perked up this week when thousands of sober Gaels and ArtSci frosh danced to this year’s song, “Jerk It Out,” by The Caesars. The song choice raises the question of how the Orientation Round Table (ORT) perceives its responsibility to make Orientation more inclusive.

September 9, 2008

No golden lining for Gaels

Queen’s Athletics teams have dropped their ‘golden’ designation and become simply the Queen’s Gaels, Athletics and Recreation Director Leslie Dal Cin said in a Journal interview Sept. 5. Athletics teams have been known as the ‘Golden Gaels’ since 1947.