Riot police line Aberdeen Street, keeping students off the street, on Saturday night (Christine Blais)
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Aberdeen attracts smaller turnout
What was supposed to be a quick stop on Aberdeen Street to show his out-of-town friend the street party turned into a nine-hour detention for Nick Holt, Sci ’12, this weekend. Holt was arrested on Saturday night for a liquor law violation and kept in a holding cell at Kingston Police headquarters before being released at 7:30 a.m. on Sunday morning.
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Province-wide campaign seeks UHIP review
International students at Queen’s pay more for less when it comes to health care, Society of Graduate and Professional Students (SGPS) Equity Commissioner Usman Mushtaq said. The University requires students who will be in Canada for more than three weeks to purchase the University Health Insurance Plan (UHIP) before being able to register for courses on QCARD.
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Campus Catch-Up
Thompson Rivers University’s president was fired on Sept. 14 from the B.C. school after just one year on the job. According to the board of directors’ report, the board lost confidence in Kathleen Scherf, president and vice-chancellor of Thompson Rivers since Sept. 2008.
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Craig came to the sports section eager to write and continue his journalistic career, and hasn’t let us down. With very little training, he covered two games and did a fantastic job for us.
