The importance of arts research is often overlooked but conducting hands-on work in oral history and archival research showed me that there’s a strong demand and interest in projects focused on the humanities.
Reactive blaming and shaming without discretion was the wrong move for Principal Daniel Woolf’s PR team.
Scrolling through Free & For Sale, I see the fifth “Kittens for sale” post this week. Like many before me, I tagged my housemates, hoping they’d agree to a kitten for the house.
Parents and public educators need to play ball before their kids strike out.
Frosh Week at Queen’s expends a lot of resources to discuss important topics like mental health and sexuality, but race is conspicuously absent.
The most effective method of reducing student debt through financial aid has yet to be determined by Canadian provinces, but advertising grants already available might be the right approach for Ontario.
Historically-set video games undergo criticisms for inaccuracy, but as their popularity increases, they can grow to be a powerful source of information as well as entertainment.
Images of aborted fetuses have no place in public spaces, as they leave a graphic and mentally intrusive impression on onlookers of all ages who have no choice in their viewing.
Banning bottled drinks on universities campuses is an all-or-nothing game.
If someone told me I had four months to find a new place to house The Queen’s Journal, I’d think they were joking, because that’s ridiculous.
Earlier this month, after a five-year investigation into the brutal history of the residential school system, Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Committee released a report naming education as a pathway to reconciliation.
Discussions of “drunkorexia” and similar trends are more in the vein of worried parents than an informed look into drinking culture on campuses.
Students who dedicate eight months a year to learning, shouldn’t have flipping burgers as their only option for the remaining four months.
The actions of a McMaster University professor have exposed a failure on the part of Canadian universities to take a stance on issues of social and political justice.
In the last federal election, it took 6,201 votes to elect a majority Conservative government. In that same election 9,434,184 eligible Canadian voters didn’t cast a ballot.
Recent events at the Royal Military College (RMC) reveal a disturbing history and pervasive culture of sexual violence at the school — and an unwillingness to do the bare minimum to protect students.Allegations of sexual assault and harassment have surrounded the school — including those against Officer Cadet Alex Whitehead, whose court martial for the alleged rape of a junior cadet is ongoing.Yet this is likely one of the few cases in which the reporting of an incident has led to a perpetrator being formally charged.
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As long as the University prioritizes public image over student concerns, its reputation will continue to tarnish.
As a publicly funded institution, Queen’s has a responsibility to be transparent with its animal testing practices.
My roommate bought a dog last week.
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