As my fourth school year hit in September, a startling theme began appearing on my
Facebook newsfeed. Distant friends and acquaintances took a plunge, decided to settle early and got engaged. I cringed.
I suffer from a recurring earworm infection. It’s not a parasitic insect, but a pop song, stuck deep in my head. The affliction is common in our society where we’re constantly inundated by repetitive music, but I’m so often struck that I can only describe it as torment.
New Democrat Mary Rita Holland would make the most effective Member of Provincial Parliament for Kingston and the Islands. Though she lacks the years of experience of Liberal incumbent John Gerretsen,
Holland’s approachability and knowledge of student issues make her a stand out.
A bake sale at the University of California, Berkeley attempted to make a political point by using racial differences to determine the price of cupcakes.
The Take Back the Night march on Sept. 22 featured the “Don’t Be That Guy” campaign, with signs that read “Just because she’s drunk doesn’t mean she wants to f**k.”
The new campaign switched the focus from victims of sexual assault to perpetrators.
Within the stream of Top 40 hits, there’s a nauseating sound that makes me uncomfortable.
Taylor Swift’s songs drip with the damn-that’s-catchy sweetness of saturated pop, but upon closer examination they have a hidden darkness.
Queen’s offered two blended learning classes this fall, combining lectures with online learning. The movement is a necessary change as class sizes continue to grow, but the blended format has some
inherent pitfalls.
Harvard University, regarded as one of the world’s best post-secondary institutions, recently instituted a voluntary kindness pledge for incoming first years. Students who sign the pledge promise to be civil to one another and respect the values of integrity and inclusivity, reported the Globe and Mail on Sept. 23.
On Saturday night, the Aberdeen Street party peaked at around 500 people. The event drew
significantly fewer people than last year, which boasted between 1,500 and 2,500 people on the Student Ghetto street.
From the Book of Genesis, where a serpent tempts Eve, to big-screen Hollywood productions like Snakes on a Plane; the fear of snakes is engrained into the minds of many. Ophidiophobia, the fear of snakes, has been passed on for centuries.
An article published in the Toronto Star on Sunday Sept.18, “Student questions marks from a high school ‘credit mill’ ” examined accredited private high schools that dole out high marks in exchange for payment.
The life of a student is pretty simple. We eat, sleep, chug coffee and study. If we’re lucky, we get to go out and have a social life that doesn’t consist of late nights at Stauffer. It may not seem like an exciting life but it’s certainly a stressful one.
According to a study from Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation, opinion expressed on ratemyprofessors.com correlates to official university and college evaluations.
On Sept. 12, the AMS’s Municipal Affairs Commission (MAC) posted the video Let Our Alumni Come Home on Youtube. The QTV-produced video is praiseworthy.
When it was announced that Kate Gosselin’s reality show, Kate Plus 8, had finally been
cancelled by TLC, I was relieved by the news. Gosselin turned this once lovable show about the chaos of raising twins and sextuplets into a 30-minute whine about her struggles as a single mother.
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