Gloria Er-Chua

Volume 135 (2007-2008) – Assistant News Editor
Volume 137 (2009-2010) – News Editor, Volume 136 (2008-2009) – Editorials Editor

Stories

April 8, 2010
Deakin heads to Western
April 8, 2010
New vice-principal (research) starts September
April 8, 2010
Frosh Week for most
The Four Directions Aboriginal Student Centre has been without a director for two years.
April 8, 2010
QNSA walks out
Jack Windeler, pictured carrying a boat, loved the water and was an avid rower.
April 1, 2010
Remembering Jack
Clarke Mackey, film studies professor, says he thinks it’s important to maintain a balance between interdisciplinary and disciplinary learning.
April 1, 2010
Discovering interdisciplinary studies
March 26, 2010
Shift + Alt + media
March 26, 2010
AMS accommodation?
March 19, 2010
Food fight in Leonard
Tonight’s Culture Show features performances from about 180 students.
March 12, 2010
A surge of collaboration
Patrick Welsh, Paula Mosbrucker and Christina Clare are this year’s Tricolour Award winners.
March 12, 2010
Three claim Tricolour
March 12, 2010
Food fight breaks out in Leonard Cafeteria
Avi Grenadier says he found Vagabond Theatre’s Merchant of Venice production posters in Kingston Hall. This photo appeared on Twitter user @radio_613’s Twitpic account.
March 5, 2010
Poster offends
“The Children of Palestine,” an Israeli Apartheid Week exhibit featuring Jon Elmer’s photos, is showing in JDUC room 142 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. this week.
March 5, 2010
Israeli Apartheid Week ‘turning up the heat’
February 18, 2010
Qureshy acclaimed as SGPS president
February 18, 2010
Tyler Ball elected Journal editor in chief
Social media has a growing impact on student elections, film studies professor Sidney Eve Matrix says.
February 5, 2010
Growing e-battle for student votes
January 29, 2010
Russia not alone on thin ice
January 29, 2010
Concurrent Education Students
Kevin Wiener, ArtSci ’12, and Rory Johnston, ArtSci ’11, are running for ASUS executive.
January 26, 2010
Team Wiener-Johnston not ‘the status quo’
Robyn Laing, ArtSci ’11, and Doug Johnson, ArtSci ’12, are running for
January 26, 2010
Team Johnson-Laing to raise ASUS profile
January 19, 2010
Envisioning academics
January 15, 2010
No ‘quick fix’ for Queen’s debt
AMS Vice-President (Operations) Leslie Yun says Tricolour Outfitters is making more in clothing sales than its budgeted figures.
December 3, 2009
Mid-year check on AMS services
November 20, 2009
Marginalized by media
Concurrent Education Students’ Association Communications Director Vanessa Powell Carvell says her major, gender studies, isn’t considered a teachable subject.
November 10, 2009
New courses ‘needed for a long time’
Phil Sparks, Sodexo resident district manager, says each new compostor can process up to 300 kilograms of organic waste in about 14 hours.
November 6, 2009
New compostors cut organic waste
November 3, 2009
Schools fed up with federal lobby group
October 23, 2009
Fall referendum goes online
October 20, 2009
Wrestling the issue
October 20, 2009
Joint department up for discussion
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.
October 20, 2009
Principal pitches provost position
Lawyer Khurrum Awan speaks to a crowd of about 30 in Biosciences Complex on Wednesday.
October 16, 2009
Media need more Muslim voices, lawyer says
October 16, 2009
‘How are we different ... ?’
Dr. Helen Caldicott says the radiation from nuclear reactors can cause cancer.
October 13, 2009
Nuclear debate heats up on campus
Sudanese-born Canadian citizen Abousfian Abdelrazik speaks at the public library on Monday. Earlier, he spoke to a law class in Macdonald Hall about the United Nations’ no-fly list.
October 6, 2009
Finding justice on the road
Riot police line Aberdeen Street, keeping students off the street, on Saturday night
September 29, 2009
Aberdeen attracts smaller turnout
Riot police line Aberdeen Street north of William Street at about midnight.
September 27, 2009
Rainy weather, police presence curb Aberdeen Street party
Michael McNeely, Accessibility Queen’s chair (second from right), says his committee’s first capital project will be building a lift to make the second floor of the Grey House accessible.
September 25, 2009
Accessibility Queen’s finds funds
Saquib Siddiqui, ArtSci ’13, waits for his OSAP loan in Gordon Hall. He’s opting out of a meal plan and working part-time to pay for school this year.
September 15, 2009
Not a-loan in feeling the squeeze
The Campus Bookstore has been offering free digital books since 1997. The first e-books were offered in HTML format but have recently been re-digitized as Digital Study Version texts.
September 11, 2009
Downloadable textbooks take off
Queen’s Musical Theatre, which put on Man of La Mancha in April, offers triple-threats the opportunity to take center stage.
July 28, 2009
Meet the Queen’s extracurricular matchmaker
Gregory Poels, ArtSci ’09, with his two dogs, Java Bean (left) and Ice-dog. Poels died in his sleep June 28.
July 28, 2009
‘He did an awful lot in his short life’
The new swimming pool
July 28, 2009
Queen’s Centre opening set for fall
Moroccan-born Montrealer Adil Charkaoui spoke in Dunning Hall on June 16.
June 23, 2009
‘I’m living under a crazy law’
Friends say Simon Deng, Comm ’11, was an accomplished musician and hardworking student.
June 23, 2009
‘He would always greet you and ask how you were’
Women’s studies professor Margaret Little says feminist scholarship has shifted in the last 20 years to include previously excluded areas of study.
June 23, 2009
Women’s studies by any other name
A protester outside Stauffer Library demonstrates on Monday against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's declaration of victory in Iran's elections.
May 26, 2009
'This is not an election; this is selection'
May 26, 2009
Queen’s confirms first swine flu case
QUFA President Cathy Christie says the administration is using QUFA as a scapegoat for the University’s financial problems.
May 26, 2009
Faculty raise questions over compensation
February 11, 2009
Speaking the silence
New York Times Magazine featured the research of Meredith Chivers, an assistant professor in the psychology department who studies female sexuality.
February 9, 2009
Arousing questions about female sexuality
Undergraduate student trustee-elect Morgan Campbell won the vote with 56 per cent of the vote. Campbell said she’s known she wanted to run for the position since Frosh Week in September.
January 28, 2009
Morgan Campbell wins student trustee
November 27, 2008
Students speak out about facing threats on campus, many walk out of ASUS Special General Meeting
Nuno da Silva encourages individuals to use generic carbon calculators to reduce their carbon footprints.
October 31, 2008
Shrinking your ecological imprint
Partiers on Aberdeen Street during Homecoming last year.
September 26, 2008
Coming home in other places
Gloria Er-Chua
September 9, 2008
Music to my ears
April 3, 2008
Teachers honoured
Incoming TAMS Manager Kristin Boysen says she wants to improve Tricolour Outfitters’ public profile next year.
March 28, 2008
New exec won't close Tricolour Outfitters
Queen’s telefundraisers Tiffany Eaton, ConEd ’09, and Dorothy Wajnblum, MIR ’08, call alumni to ask for donations. As of March 4, Queen’s Telefundraising Services had raised $542,278.90 by calling alumni and first-year students’ parents.
March 20, 2008
The key to alumni giving
Andrew Stevens, Society of Graduate and Professional Students president 2006-07, says there’s no agreement between the SGPS and the University committing them to a financial Queen’s Centre contribution.
March 20, 2008
Grad students don’t plan to help pay
Rector-elect Leora Jackson celebrates her win with friends Wednesday night.
March 14, 2008
Leora Jackson voted 31st rector
Leora Jackson was named Queen's 31st rector late Tuesday night.
March 7, 2008
Leora Jackson new rector
Katie Charboneau demonstrates the difficulties caused by poorly placed door openers.
March 7, 2008
Accessibility is costly but critical
Gloria Er-Chua
February 29, 2008
A modest proposal
Rector Josha Manzanilla resigned Jan. 31. The rector election will be held on March11 and 12.
February 29, 2008
What does the rector do?
Rector candidates (clockwise) John Wintermeyer, Eric Dalke, Brooks Barnett, Andrew Yaworski, Quynh Huynh, Leora Jackson and Chi Yan Lam.
February 29, 2008
Introducing your rector candidates
February 15, 2008
Poster vandal apprehended
Sociology and women’s studies professor Cynthia Levine-Rasky says the University needs to reconsider the way it recruits students.
February 12, 2008
More defaced posters found
A. J. Keilty, Kingston Rental Property Owners’ Association president, says his group proposes changing zoning bylaws.
February 5, 2008
Licensing our landlords
February 1, 2008
News In Brief
Jay Collins, Jeff Howard, Alvin Tedjo and Holly Archer react after hearing they lost the election by one vote.
January 31, 2008
ACH may appeal
Vice-Principal (Academic) Patrick Deane speaks at a town hall meeting on education last week.
January 29, 2008
Calling for new academic programs
Team WCW said the AMS needs to create five to 10 year strategic plans.
January 22, 2008
Unpeeling AMS platforms
Graduate student Jennifer Stacey stands with her two children. Stacey says there’s a need for after-hours childcare at Queen’s.
January 22, 2008
After-hours childcare needed, parent says
Jacob Mantle
January 18, 2008
Two ASUS teams take their marks
Vice-president (operations) candidate Andrew Cameron says he wants to improve the AMS’s human resources practices.
January 18, 2008
WCW’s straight-A approach
Team RWS hopes to ‘foster engagement with the student body.’
January 18, 2008
RWS campaigning to target ‘real’ students
January 18, 2008
Ban Righ Centre to get After-Hours Childcare money
January 11, 2008
Managing debt with financial aid
January 11, 2008
Investigation into racist incident continues
Mark Harris, ArtSci ’08, created a Facebook event to promote Wednesday’s rally protesting racism on campus.
January 11, 2008
Queen’s slow to act against racism: prof
Kingston resident and alumna Kathy Wood led discussion at the Aberdeen symposium Tuesday.
November 29, 2007
Aberdeen symposium searches for solutions
German Studies professor Jill Scott says students should work with their professors in research.
November 29, 2007
Future bright for academics
November 23, 2007
Racism on campus
Stooley’s owner Mike Tomlin says Queen’s students make up 90 per cent of his customer base. The remaining 10 per cent is made up of Queen’s faculty and staff.
November 16, 2007
Queen’s as economic powerhouse
A nutritious diet starts with meal planning and buying groceries with all the Canada Food Guide’s food groups in mind.
October 26, 2007
How healthy is your plate?
Canadian Studies co-ordinator Caroline Caron says the cuts will impede the program’s planned expansion.
October 26, 2007
Big cuts for small program
AMS Vice-Principal (University Affairs) Julia Mitchell and Academic Affairs Commissioner Alexi White hope students will vote to stay with OUSA.
October 23, 2007
OUSA affiliation up for renewal
October 19, 2007
Film explores Israeli-Palestine conflict
Panel member Harry Smith said last night’s meeting will help inform some University decisions on the Code of Conduct.
October 16, 2007
Students raise Code of Conduct concerns
MMP supporters blame lack of communication and poor media coverage for the failure of Wednesday’s referedum question concerning the proposed system.
October 12, 2007
MMP referendum misses the mark
John Rapin awaits election results at his campaign office.
October 11, 2007
A sad night for Tories
Rapin says he wants to revive the agricultural industry.
October 9, 2007
John Rapin: Ontario’s health care ‘under siege’
Fournier calls provincial income taxes “self-defeating.”
October 9, 2007
Mark Fournier: ‘time for a change’
Students and residents will go to the polls tomorrow to elect Kingston and the Islands’ MPP.
October 9, 2007
A war of words
EngSoc President Charlie Scott stands in an empty Clark Hall.
October 2, 2007
Applied Science may lose donors
Vice-Principal (Academic) Patrick Deane says maintaining universities’ current funding levels is no longer enough.
September 28, 2007
Education bang for your buck
Steven Blostein, head of the electrical and computer engineering department, says budget cuts will have negative long-term implications for the program.
September 25, 2007
Electrical engineering loses $250,000 in cuts
September 21, 2007
The skinny on body image
Students pass a sign in the PEC encouraging them to vote. The Ontario general election takes place on Oct. 10.
September 21, 2007
Campus initiatives target low voter turnout
September 18, 2007
Liberal party promises $300 textbook grant
September 14, 2007
Safety after dark
Police compared Frosh Week party to Homecoming, above.
September 11, 2007
Number of charges typical of Frosh Week
September 11, 2007
University unveils new $400,000 urgent-care clinic
Politics Professor Kim Richard Nossal thinks more emphasis on research means less emphasis on teaching.
September 7, 2007
Politics students left high and dry
June 26, 2007
College students to sue schools, province
May 29, 2007
Lobby group persuades Toronto to divest from tobacco
March 30, 2007
New fund for slave trade descendants
Principal Karen Hitchcock beat Rector Johsa Manzanilla in an arm-wrestling fundraiser for Queen’s Control Arms Tuesday night at The Grad Club.
March 16, 2007
Hitchcock, Manzanilla duke it out
February 16, 2007
New scholarships for international study abroad
January 30, 2007
Students will vote on fall Reading Week
January 23, 2007
Spike in applications to Ontario schools
Maryam Adrangi, Queen’s Earth Centre co-chair, sits in the retail space which opens tomorrow.
January 16, 2007
Earth Centre to offer environmental option to students
October 20, 2006
Fastathon raises $500 for AMS foodbank

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