November 27, 2009
Vol. 137, Issue 23

The football team celebrates winning the Mitchell Bowl after a shock 33-30 win over the first-ranked Laval Rouge-et-Or last Saturday at Richardson Stadium. (Christine Blais)

Gaels vie for top prize against Dinos

The Queen’s football season has lasted as long as it possibly could have. The Gaels left on Tuesday for Quebec City. On Saturday they’ll play the University of Calgary Dinos in the Vanier Cup at PEPS Stadium—the home field of the Laval Rouge-et-Or.

All aboard Queen’s ARC

Queen’s new Athletics and Recreation Centre (ARC) will have a soft opening on Dec. 1, Athletics and Recreation Associate Director of Facilities and Business Development Herb Steacy said. New equipment will be installed in the ARC this weekend in preparation for the opening, which will see some gym facilities open for use at 6 a.m on Tuesday.

Agreeing to greening

Yesterday, Queen’s joined 18 other universities in signing the Council of Ontario Universities (COU) climate change agreement. Titled Ontario Universities: Committed to a Greener World, the document was endorsed by all COU member institutions and outlines the commitment to make each university’s operations more sustainable.

Clinic opens Monday

Queen’s will open a flu vaccine clinic on Monday to all students and faculty members. The clinic will run from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. in Grant Hall. Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington Public Health physician Dr. Kieran Moore said the University will receive about 2,000 doses of the H1N1 vaccine.

Budget situation ‘desperate’

Queen’s financial situation looks bleak unless drastic cuts are made in the operating budget, Principal Daniel Woolf said in a financial update to the University yesterday afternoon. Woolf spoke to a packed room in Robert Sutherland Hall. The speech was broadcast in an overflow room in Ellis Hall and was also broadcast in Jean Royce Hall on West Campus.

Access denied

Auditors will complete an accessibility scan of Queen’s today to bring the University up to provincial standards by January 2010. The province, which mandated accessibility improvements by 2010, aims to have accessibility for all Ontarians by 2025.

Campus Catchup

Four University of Toronto students who dressed up in blackface—and one student who wore white face paint—for a Halloween party were asked to apologize after photos of their prize-winning costumes surfaced

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