February 9, 2009
Vol. 136, Issue 33

Cold as ice

Queen’s men’s hockey players enter the Memorial Centre wearing throwback jerseys for the annual Carr-Harris Cup. For full story, please see Sports section. (Tyler Ball)

Resident arrested in child porn bust

A Kingston man is among 31 people facing a combined 93 charges in a province-wide crackdown on child pornography. Provincial police officers and investigators from 18 police departments, including Kingston, raided homes across Ontario on Wednesday with 33 search warrants. Kingston officers raided two homes Wednesday, but they’ve only identified one suspect.

Next step for Queen’s Centre

After two town hall meetings in less than a week, details of the next step of Queen’s Centre construction are still uncertain. Although plans indicate installation of a pre-fabricated arena on west campus will go ahead, the project team has yet to decide which part of phase two will go up on main campus.

Meet the new 2009-10 AMS council

On Sunday night, incoming AMS executive—president Michael Ceci, vice-president (operations) Leslie Yun and vice-president (university affairs) Adam Zabrodski—hired next year’s AMS council. Ceci, ArtSci ’ 09, said he’s looking forward to next year.

Presenting Black History Month

The African and Caribbean Students’ Association, together with CultureSHOCK, is hosting a visual timeline, “A Walk Through the Times: the Story of Black Canadians,” as part of the Black History Month events. ACSA President Vanessa Denny, ArtSci ’09, said the ACSA executive decided to create the timeline as a way of bringing attention to eminent and little-known black Canadians and their contributions to the nation’s history.

News in brief

Reform grading system

Tenured professor Denis Rancourt was suspended by the University of Ottawa in December after promising to give all the students in his fourth-year physics class an A+ as their final grades, the Globe and Mail reported Feb. 6.

Students not at home in CASA

The AMS voted last week to join the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations (CASA), one of the two federally-aligned post-secondary student lobby groups in Canada.

Arousing questions about female sexuality

If you met Meredith Chivers outside a professional function, chances are you’d have a skewed idea of what she does.

Spy lives

Cold War spy novels are a guilty pleasure of mine.

Making it in the big leagues

Chris Cuthbert is living proof that grades aren’t everything.

Weighted words

Sticks and stones can break my bones but words will never hurt me?

Issue in Photos

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