Student government has struggled to maintain a balance between legacy building projects and day-to-day work since its inception on the Queen’s campus in the 1850s.
It’s a common enough sight. A young woman walks along the sidewalk, either alone or in a group, when suddenly a car drives by — slurs and innuendoes are yelled out an open window by a stranger. Before anyone can fully register what’s happened, the car’s gone.
The world of art instills creativity. The world of science — methods. Combining the two provides an opportunity for ingenuity. However, at Queen’s, the combination is rare.
Three years ago, students piled into cars headed into a forest north of Kingston for the first run of a course that, financially, shouldn’t exist.
Grad students experiencing mental illness can expect to wait for a session with their school-specific counselor.
Terry Zhang, Comm’ 18, says academic rankings are worth a second look.
For almost two years, a series of dismissals, resignations and curriculum changes have rocked the Queen’s Bader International Study Centre (BISC) with scant attention from main campus.
While Queen’s Initiative Campaign has raised $551,000,000 for Queen’s, one faculty lags behind.
Queen’s custodial staff have continued to cope with layoffs as the University navigates a series of financial woes.
Kevin Rush, a former Wilfrid Laurier student, says transferring to Queen’s wasn’t as simple as it sounds.
A historic hockey game took place on March 2, 2011, witnessed by just 312 spectators in a university rink.
Despite more than a century as a secular institution, vestiges of the University’s Presbyterian heritage continue to impact student life today.
As a chaplain, Yasin Dwyer’s career has been unique — working with everyone from radicalized inmates to students at Queen’s.
As the university’s population grows, the typical Queen’s student is more difficult to define than you’d expect.
Over the last half-decade, Queen’s has dramatically changed the way it provides student health services, but it has yet to make lengthy waiting times a thing of the past.
Mould, flooding, poor insulation and inadequate locks were the norm for student
housing in 2010 — often in converted “monster houses”.
Whether on the street, within massage parlours or at a strip club, sex is a commodity to be sold in Kingston.
March 26, 2016
When Andrew Ashby went to give a talk on accessibility in Jeffrey Hall last year, he couldn’t enter the lecture hall in his wheelchair.
While Queen’s was founded by pious Scottish Presbyterians, students with religious beliefs today are in a firm minority.
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