October 20, 2009
Vol. 137, Issue 14

Principal Daniel Woolf says changing the vice-principal (academic)’s role to a vice-principal and provost position will make the University administration more efficient. (Journal File Photo)

Principal pitches provost position

Queen’s will adopt a provost governance model for 2010-11, pending Board of Trustees approval, Principal Daniel Woolf said. The provost model would change the vice-principal (academic)’s title to vice-principal/provost.

Joint department up for discussion

Queen’s may soon have a modern languages and linguistics department if the Spanish and Italian and German departments vote in a few months’ time to merge. Spanish and Italian share a single department.

Queen’s maintains green grades

For continuing to green up its campus, Queen’s received a B- on the College Sustainability Report Card for the second year in a row, up from a C in 2007. The latest report card, released by the Sustainable Endowments Institute on Oct. 7, included more than 200 post-secondary schools across North America.

Faculty revamps summer program

The Enrichment Studies Unit (ESU) was spared the chopping block but further programming has been suspended until spring. Alistair MacLean, dean of arts and science, said the program was put on hold after a student employee filed a human rights complaint against the office earlier this summer.

News in Brief

Two Queen’s students have reported being attacked by two males at Brock St. and University Ave. at 2:30 a.m. on Oct. 18. Toby Moorsom PhD ’09 and John Pringle MA ’06 came across the two males, assumed to be intoxicated, who were sitting on construction vehicles at the intersection.

Memorial service to honour late staff member

Leslie Doucet, a global development studies graduate student, died last Friday due to complications from a stroke she suffered a month ago.

Swine flu outbreak probable, doctor says

Students need to prepare for an H1N1 outbreak this fall, Dr. Gerald Evans said. Evans, chief of the infectious diseases division at Kingston General and Hotel Dieu hospitals and associate professor in the School of Medicine, said flu season in Canada is starting earlier than normal and is expected to come out strong.

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