Last Friday, students and faculty celebrated the official wrap-up ceremony of Phase I of the Queen’s Centre. The facility is set to open in September 2009. (Matthew Rushworth)
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Future of Queen’s Centre uncertain
Future plans for the Queen’s Centre are up in the air as the construction of Phases II and III of the Queen’s Centre are being put on hold, indefinitely, said Associate Vice-Principal (Facilities) Ann Browne. “Very simply, I have been told when we have funding, we will move forward. Until we have funding we will not be moving forward at all," she said.
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Victoria Hall site of sexual assault
A 21-year-old Queen’s student has been arrested in connection with the alleged sexual assault of another student that happened in her room in Victoria Hall last Friday. According to a Queen’s Campus Security alert, the male “piggy-backed” into Victoria Hall on Friday morning, entered an unlocked residence room and assaulted the female student.
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Dollars and sense
At Monday night’s ASUS Assembly, emotions were high during a discussion about whether ASUS President Jacob Mantle should receive his entire honorarium for his year in office. After the ASUS Honourarium Review Committee withheld part of his $2,500 winter semester honourarium, Mantle called an Assembly to appeal the process of evaluation.
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AMS services not immune to recession
The recent economic downturn has hit many businesses financially and the AMS’ services are no exception, with Common Ground being the hardest hit by the recession, said Vice-President (Operations) Ken Wang. “The economic climate is such that people have less disposable incomes."
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Queen’s Centre steals the spotlight
All other campus construction projects have been put on hold because the Queen’s Centre is taking up so much of the University’s budget and attention, Principal Tom Williams said. He said the economic downturn has slowed donations from benefactors, making the future of all projects dependent on government funding.
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Measuring the Queen’s Centre carbon footprint
Although environmentally-friendly measures are being implemented into the Queen’s Centre’s design and construction, the administration currently has no way to calculate for the carbon footprint it will leave behind.
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