The AMS’s 14 services will likely finish with a $90,000 overall deficit—$31,450 less than budgeted for 2009-10, AMS Vice-President (Operations) Leslie Yun said.
The AMS budgeted a year-end deficit of $121,450, she said.

Each department at Queen’s has their own set of core requirements which students must take in order to graduate.
Vice-Principal (Academic) Patrick Deane said he thinks these departmental requirements are enough and Queen’s doesn’t need across the board requirements.

A group of students walked out of the University’s Aboriginal Council meeting on Tuesday after Queen’s Native Students’ Association (QNSA) President Donna May Kimmaliardjuk read a three-page speech addressing the challenges Aboriginal students face on campus.

Despite an official ban on fraternities and sororities, Queen’s campus appears to be home to at least two fraternities.
The AMS banned frats and sororities on campus in 1930-31. The AMS’s history records that in 1934 the University Senate passed a motion still in effect today to ban students from joining fraternities and sororities.

Despite delays in the Grey House lift project, accessibility funds have been spent wisely this year, Accessibility Queen’s (AQ) co-chair Katie Charboneau said.
Mismanagement in past years led AQ to have an unexpected surplus of more than $250,000 to spend on projects this year.

More than 300 students, staff and faculty gathered in Chernoff Auditorium on March 25 for the Arts and Science Faculty Board meeting to protest Faculty of Arts and Science Dean Alistair Maclean’s Draft Response to Principal Daniel Woolf’s vision statement.

Jack Windeler will be remembered as a thoughtful and kind individual who lived courageously.
Windeler, ArtSci ’13, died in his Leonard Hall residence room on March 26. He committed suicide.
A memorial service was held in Toronto yesterday.

Queen’s increasing number of interdisciplinary courses is creating dialogue on how departments will be organized in the future.
Principal Daniel Woolf listed interdisciplinary studies as one of four “I” priorities in Where Next?, his academic vision document.

The AMS’s decision to cancel a “Sumo Showdown” fundraiser last Thursday has garnered Queen’s national media attention.
The National Post ran a front-page story on Tuesday about the event cancellation and the apology the AMS issued on their website.

A new break-in was reported in what appears to be a trend of home invasions near campus.
Kiran Rana, ArtSci ’11 said her house was broken into on March 17. “We got home at 1 a.m. and I know I locked the doors. … I woke up with a start at 7:30 a.m. and I couldn’t find my laptop…

The newly-renamed School of Religious Studies reflects a shift in students’ academic interests, religious studies professor Pamela Dickey Young said. On Tuesday, Queen’s held a ceremony in Theological Hall to mark the renaming of the University’s theological college and religious studies department to the School of Religious Studies.

Law students and professors from around the world gathered at Queen’s last week without leaving their computers. The conference, which was about technology and law and entitled “Individual Autonomy Law and Technology: A virtual conference in honour of the late professor Hugh Lawford,” was held on the website Second Life on Mar. 18.

Queen’s University Experience Program (UEP) is back for its fifth year on Apr. 10.
The initiative is aimed at high-school students who are the first generation of their families to pursue post-secondary education in Canada.

A new bus route from campus to the VIA Rail station will start before students arrive in September, AMS Vice-President (Operations) Leslie Yun said.
When she ran for AMS office with President Michael Ceci and Vice-President (University Affairs) Adam Zabrodski, they promised to fulfill six promises before the end of their term.