For many university students, a trip spent mixing volunteer work with tourism in the developing world is a rite of passage.

Most first-year students in residence know they can get condoms for free or cheap from their Dons or the Sexual Health Resource Centre (SHRC) on campus.  

The confidence gap is 40 per cent—the difference between the 100 per cent qualifications women feel they need for a job and the 60 per cent men do, according to a Harvard Business Review study.

The first female Editor in Chief of The Journal took over while World War I raged overseas.

When Kori Altenpohl walked into CHEM 112 three years ago, she had classmates for the first time. 

It was 1919. For the students entering or returning to Queen’s after the Great War, campus wouldn’t be the same.

After investigating the conduct of AMS President, Miguel Martinez, the Society’s head judicial officer was fired on Tuesday morning.

Forty years ago, Christine Ziomkiewicz vanished without a trace.  She was last seen on June 23, 1978. The following decades revealed little of the 27-year-old Queen’s lab technician’s disappearance. What happened that day left family and police with few answers. Ziomkiewicz grew up in Kingston with her two brothers, Chris and Bernie.

For many mature students, school days are filled with full-time jobs and mouths to feed at home. 

Princess Towers—an aging 16-storey apartment building that looms over the Hub—began its life as a student-run utopian commune in the 1960s. 

As mental health struggles abound, some students have taken peer support upon themselves.

Maybe it would all have been different if Emily* hadn’t fallen that day.

When Kaitlyn MacDonald entered Landmark Cinemas in Kingston this summer, she started to cry.

As a child, Bassam Al Hamidi didn’t drink Coke.

Anywhere you turn in Kingston, there are ghosts of John A. Macdonald. 

In his 1952 eulogy, former Queen’s trustee Everett A. Collins—who supported quotas on Jewish students—was called a friend to “strangers in a strange land.”

Ryerson University’s teaching evaluations can no longer affect an instructor’s promotion, tenure or advancement—and it may impact Queen’s.

As students and teaching assistants (TAs) return to classes, some will bond over more than their lessons. As of Fall 2017, the University employed 1,850 TAs in a wide range of departments, class sizes, and duties. But intimate relationships between some students and TAs might often be overlooked. 

More than ten years ago, Phil Lam won the first ever Golden Cockroach—a discontinued AMS award presented to landlords of the University District’s worst houses. 

For conservative students, entering a university classroom can be like walking a political tightrope.According to some students at Queen’s,being in a tutorial where their viewpoints are in the minority can affect the comfort they feel when expressing their opinion in a classroom discussion. Aidan Scott, vice-president of policy for the Queen’s University Conservative Association (QUCA), said he feels his perspectives are often discounted in class. While he feels safe sharing his views on campus, it seems as though others often dismiss his opinion’s validity.