Every day I feel more torn. I’m being split from the left and the right.
After years of giving credence to all issues based on ideology, I’m throwing in the towel and issuing an official statement of non-alignment.

AMS president Paul Heisler wrote to all qlink email addresses on Tuesday, offering free movie passes at Cineplex Odeon. Journal readers will also have noticed a full-page ad in Tuesday’s paper offering the chance to shape the future of Queen’s and win a trip to Florida.

This past weekend, over one hundred proud women from the Kingston and Queen’s communities, marched through Kingston’s streets chanting “no more patriarchy, no more shit.”

I’m not an athlete by any stretch of the imagination, but boy oh boy, do I ever love to watch sports on T.V. As long as it’s not baseball or football, I have no problem with spending an entire day in front of the television cheering on Canada’s finest. That’s why the Olympics are like Christmas for me. With the exception of baseball, I’ll watch whatever Olympic activity the networks deem worthy of my attention.

Last Monday, the readership program between TorStar and Queen’s kicked-off, and students are now able to get their hands on their first free copies of The Toronto Star. According to The Star, the program is not intended to expand their readership, but rather to keep people reading news in general. However, it appears that that means just more people reading The Star’s news, and fewer people reading student publications.

Last week the news of Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s illness spread with the same fever and intensity that he created in 1966 when he stepped onto the Canadian political-landscape. Millions of Canadians sent their condolences, flooded the steps of his Montreal home, and collectively tried to imagine a Canada without Trudeau — what they realized is that, regardless of Trudeau’s health, such a Canada simply does not exist.

South African President Thabo Mbeki recently drew harsh criticism from around the world by organizing a conference of 500 AIDS researchers. These researchers constitute the loudest voice speaking out today against the accepted view that the HIV virus causes AIDS.

In 1969, Neil Armstrong left a footprint on the surface of the moon to mark his visit well into the future. A symbol, that has forever left its mark on humanity’s view of space exploration. And rightly so, as the quest for perpetuity is a normal human drive, these astronauts meant to embody their achievements as something more tangible.

There’s some bad blood in the William Shatner building at McGill, and it shouldn’t have made as much national press as it has.
Heavy-handed grandstanding on the part of the McGill student union, and apparent stubbornness on the part of a student-run paper have given other student papers around Canada, including The Journal, a meaty story to sink their teeth into.

In July 1997, the Queen’s Journal reported that a Starbuck’s Coffee Co. kiosk was set to open in the foyer of Stauffer Library. It didn’t.
Then president of the Alma Mater Society, Maynard Plant, said the Starbuck’s proposal from food-service provider Marriott “smacked of impropriety.” What right did Marriott have, Plant asked, to invite a major multinational corporation to hawk its wares in our academic nerve centre?

As everybody living on Johnson Street knows the city has decided to proceed with construction in the Student Village during one of this area’s busiest times. Neither torn up streets on move-in day, the negative effect on parking, nor the early morning wake-up calls with a jack-hammer are beneficial to the needs and wants of Queen’s students. Admittedly this is a burden to those students who live in and around this area, but negative feelings toward the City of Kingston should be reserved for a time when they are better deserved.