Rental increase leaves Queen’s graduate students out in the cold

Queen’s Community Housing rental increases disavow responsibility towards graduate students.
March 15, 2024

Art criticism isn’t hateful; it’s necessary

Regardless of who produces artwork, or at what stage performers are in their career, art criticism is a well-established, expected response. If the public’s criticism isn’t welcomed, neither should be their attendance.
March 8, 2024

Hockey Barbie: she’s everything

Barbie should promote diverse expressions of femininity to young girls, including athleticism.
March 8, 2024

AMS Assembly should be ashamed

It would be difficult to conceive of an image that better justifies the allegations of unprofessionalism and cliquiness within the AMS than the tableaus of its latest Assembly.
Making Quebecois language and culture a punishment won’t encourage engagement with them.
Before their exit from this year’s AMS executive election, Team JNN was running uncontested. Their campaign sparked a counter crusade—a no-vote campaign led by Allison Mei, Noor Ghunaim, Molly McGill, all ArtSci ’24, and Sophie Sterling, ArtSci ’25.
Publicly prioritizing the agency of a clump of cells over that of a grown person is nothing short of shameful.
Queen’s students aren’t engaging with their student government because they don’t know how it serves them.
It’s difficult to imagine Dillon Dubé’s “mental health” leave is anything but a cowardly coverup.
Scientifically and socially, Canada isn’t ready to expand medically assisted death to those whose only underlying condition for it is mental illness.
Sexual harassment mustn’t go unpunished, no matter who perpetrated it. It’s difficult not to suspect those politicians opposing Bill 5 of having personal reasons for doing so, covering for themselves and their powerful cohorts so they don’t lose their jobs.
Jordan Peterson shouldn’t be allowed access to patients when the risk of him discriminating against them (explicitly or otherwise) remains so present, nor should he be able to lean on his certification as a psychologist to validate the harmful rhetoric he spews over the internet.
A paper published in the University of Toronto’s journal Canadian Public Policy in Dec. 2023 examined a decade of data from 20 Canadian municipalities and found no relationship between police spending and crime rates.
Neither the participation of Queen’s students or Faculty of Arts and Science Dean Barbara Crow was satisfactory at ASUS Assembly.
During town hall on Dec. 11, Provost Mathew Evans and Arts and Science Dean Barbara Crow announced Queen’s University expects to exhaust its reserve funds by 2025-26. The Faculty of Arts and Science (FAS) could run out as early as next year if cuts aren’t implemented, and students are demanding an explanation.
Inflated grades are a trend originating early in the COVID-19 pandemic and  surviving the transition from virtual to in-person classrooms—across far more universities than Yale. The Health Sciences program at Queen’s is infamous among its students for similar grade inflation.
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