Student caseworkers and LAW 438 students Morgan Jarvis (left) and Yuliya Dumanska (centre) with Business Law Clinic director Peter Kissick during a class meeting at MacDonald Hall yesterday. (Tyler Ball)

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Pro-bonus for small businesses

Kingston-area small-business owners now have access to pro-bono legal counsel thanks to a new program officially launched in September by the Faculty of Law. “We try to help those who normally wouldn’t be able to budget their businesses,” program director Peter Kissick said.

Previously in Features

October 27, 2009

Whose poutine reigns supreme?

At Bubba’s Pizzeria, one thing is certain: poutine is king. “Poutine is stencilled on the windows here, our shirts, our hats, people love the poutine,” Bubba’s employee Scott Cooper said.

October 23, 2009

Feelings mixed about student drinking

Like many university students, Justin Lum, ArtSci ’10, found his first year at Queen’s revolved heavily around the consumption of alcohol. “Prior to coming to university, I never drank heavily. When I got here I sort of went on a binge,” he said, adding that he sometimes went out five nights in a week his first year.

October 20, 2009

Recession Studies

The school year has hardly begun, but graduating students are already thinking about their post-graduate ambitions. When they sweep off Grant Hall’s stage this spring, diplomas in hand, the class of 2010 will be met with the harshest economic climate since the early 1990s.

October 16, 2009

Tale of a pub: Clark Hall’s progress

This month marks the one-year anniversary of Clark Hall Pub’s re-opening. Walking into the pub last week to speak with Engineering Society representatives and having attended last year’s grand opening, I couldn’t believe the difference a year can make.

October 13, 2009

The single-sex dorm debate

Twenty-eight years after Queen’s University was established, its doors opened to female students in 1869. Ban Righ Hall, the first female residence on campus, was built in 1925. But as early as 1900, members of the Alumnae Association rented housing near campus and used it to house women.