February 5, 2009 - Queen's Journal

Hearts aflame

Queen’s Student Opera Company’s production of Dido and Aeneas makes use of professional-scale costumes. The Baroque-era opera runs until Saturday evening at The Grand Theatre. For full story, see the Arts and Entertainment section. (Justin Tang)

Top Story

A change of plans

At a town hall meeting last night, the Queen’s Centre project team presented the student working group and other students with two options for going forward. David Dymecki, a principal partner from Sasaki Associates Ltd., the architectural firm which designed the Queen’s Centre, gave a presentation. Dymecki outlined the two options the Queen’s Centre project team is taking into consideration. The first option is to build the fieldhouse before the Student Life Centre and the second option is to commence the construction of the Student Life Centre before the fieldhouse.

Story

Federal budget leaves women behind, professor says

According to a new report by a Queen’s law professor, the 2009 federal budget is leaving women financially vulnerable. In her report Budget 2009: Designed to Leave Women Behind—Again, professor Kathleen Lahey explains how the federal budget is unequal.

Story

Professor nominated for Charles Taylor Prize

History professor Ana Siljak has spent the last eight years trying to get inside the mind of an assassin. Luckily, Siljak said she couldn’t identify with her subject.

Story

Climate change, compromises and crises

This weekend, Queen’s students are learning more about the compromises and backroom negotiations behind the global fight against climate change. Feb. 6, 7 and 8 will mark the first Queen’s Interactive Crisis Simulation (QICSim), hosted by the Queen’s International Affairs Association (QIAA).

Sports in brief

Editor in chief elections

Editor in chief elections Feb. 9 and 10
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 190 University Ave.
For full voter’s list, please see the Editorials section.

Editorials

Tighter law a good step

Canada’s new regulation, to come into effect in April, will set limits on who qualifies for citizenship, the Globe and Mail reported Feb. 3.

Opinions

Take a page from history

Last month, we saw both of the teams campaigning for AMS executive promise to stop the snowballing trend that has us as students paying more for less, as budget cuts continue to cripple academic programs and tuition continues to rise.

Features

Riding with Kingston’s finest

It’s 9 p.m. and we’ve just met up with two other police cruisers in the Loblaw’s parking lot when the radio crackles and a frightened voice calls for help.

Arts & Entertainment

Drama in the detail

Opera and student are not two words you often hear paired together.

Sports

Athletics fee increase indeterminate

Seventy-two per cent of students voted in favour of increasing the Athletics and Recreation fee on the Jan. 27-28 AMS referendum, while 89 per cent of voting students said Athletics and Recreation is a valuable part of the Queen’s experience. Director of Athletics and Recreation Leslie Dal Cin said she was happy with the results.

Postscript

Don’t forget the mondegreens

Have you ever heard that Celine Dion song that goes “the hot dogs go on?” Or perhaps that classic Christmas carol about Rudolph and “Olive, the other reindeer?”

Photo Galleries

Issue in Photos

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