A tuition freeze for international students is up for debate at this Friday’s Board of Trustees meeting.
University Registrar Jo-Anne Brady said the proposal, supported by the Vice-Principal (Academic)’s office, could be approved at the board’s Dec. 4 meeting.

The AMS services are financially on track at the mid-year mark, AMS Vice-President (Operations) Leslie Yun said.
Although all of the services’ financial statements as of Oct. 31 show a deficit, most are close to their budgeted deficit figures and some services are showing a lot of improvement, she said.

Industrial-sized fans were still drying the paint on the walls as the long-awaited Queen’s Centre finally opened its doors at 6 a.m. on Tuesday.
“We’ve really wanted this for so long,” Associate Vice-Principal (Facilities) Ann Browne said.

It’s 7:30 a.m. on Saturday morning and the parking lot in front of Université Laval’s PEPS Stadium is already bustling with activity.
Laval fan Réal St. Amant said he’d been in the parking lot
since 5 a.m. grilling up countless chicken wings and racks of ribs on his trailer-mounted charcoal barbeque for his friends.

Queen’s win in Saturday’s Vanier Cup will outlive everyone who watched it. The biggest second-half comeback in Vanier history is sure to live forever in Queen’s football folklore.

Auditors will complete an accessibility scan of Queen’s today to bring the University up to provincial standards by
January 2010.
The province, which mandated accessibility improvements by 2010, aims to have accessibility for all Ontarians by 2025.

Queen’s financial situation looks bleak unless drastic cuts are made in the operating budget, Principal Daniel Woolf said in a financial update to the University
yesterday afternoon.
Woolf spoke to a packed room in Robert Sutherland Hall. The speech was broadcast in an overflow room in Ellis Hall and was also broadcast in Jean Royce Hall on West Campus.

Yesterday, Queen’s joined 18 other universities in signing the Council of Ontario Universities (COU) climate change agreement.
Titled Ontario Universities: Committed to a Greener World, the document was endorsed by all COU member institutions and outlines the commitment to make each university’s operations
more sustainable.

Queen’s new Athletics and Recreation Centre (ARC) will have a soft opening on Dec. 1, Athletics and Recreation Associate Director of Facilities and Business Development Herb Steacy said.
New equipment will be installed in the ARC this weekend in preparation for the opening, which will see some gym facilities open for use at 6 a.m on Tuesday.

The Queen’s football season has lasted as long as it possibly could have.
The Gaels left on Tuesday for Quebec City. On Saturday they’ll play the University of Calgary Dinos in the Vanier Cup at PEPS Stadium—the home field of the Laval Rouge-et-Or.

Queen’s alumni who are working on the Olympic and Paralympic planning committee appeared at a video conference on Nov. 17 to talk to students preparing for Vancouver’s Winter Games in 2010.
Videoconferencing provides

Five commerce students are taking their education out of the classroom and into the prison system.
Julia Hunter, Lisa McLaughling and Robyn Williams, all Comm ’11 and exchange students Alexander Buesching and Thomas Verbist designed a program that gives inmates at Frontenac Institution minimum security prison lessons on integrating back into society.

Inattention due to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and depression relates to how long children and adolescents stay in school, a new study by Queen’s health economics professor Steven Lehrer says.
Lehrer and Jason Fletcher of Yale University won the Victor R. Fuchs Research Award, valued at $10,000, for their paper, which was published in Forum for Health Economics & Policy research journal.

The Computing Students’ Association (COMPSA) will lose its independent orientation and be integrated in the Arts and Science Undergraduate Society (ASUS)’s orientation week next September.
Acting Faculty of Arts and Science Associate Dean (Studies) Hugh Horton made the announcement at Arts and Science Faculty Board—made up of administration, faculty and students—on Nov. 13.

Queen’s has hired two new vice-principals for the four vice-principal positions which will turn over this year.
The vice-principal (finance and operations) position has been vacant since Andrew Simpson resigned on Nov. 20, 2008. Bill Bryck has been acting vice-principal (operations and finance) since then.