One year after former Principal Tom Williams announced an across-the-board budget cut, Arts and Science departments have found innovative ways to deal with some of their losses.
In an e-mail to faculty on Nov. 15, 2008, Williams announced a 15 per cent cut for all faculties over the next three years.

The Queen’s Student Centre Working Group (QSCWG) is making sure students have a say when they move into the Queen’s Centre on Dec. 1, AMS President Michael Ceci said. Ceci said QSCWG’s current project is to create a governance structure model that will outline how the Student Life Centre in Phase One of Queen’s Centre is run.

The AMS has an advantage when it comes to playing the investment market.
Their Advantage Fund, where they keep all investment profits and deficits, protects them from financial meltdown by giving them an opportunity to play with investments without risking their operating budget, AMS Vice-President (Operations) Leslie Yun said.

The H1N1 virus has reached its peak and rates of infection are slowly declining but there’s no word on when Queen’s will receive the H1N1 vaccine on campus.
Student Health Services cancelled the flu clinic scheduled for Nov. 9 in Biosciences Complex.

When it comes to organic waste, Queen’s tops the list in looking for ways to deal with it sustainably.
Queen’s Housing and Hospitality Services installed a compostor in Ban Righ dining hall this week, with plans to put a second one in Leonard dining hall next week.

Queen’s Hillel wants to make the political more personal for this year’s Holocaust Education Week.
“In the past we’ve stressed how terrible it was by going over statistics, but it’s much easier to relate to and identify with one person,” Queen’s Hillel co-president Madlyn Axelrod, ArtSci ’11, said.

For Jamie Gray, Sci ’09, support from friends is crucial to identifying and acknowledging mental illness.
Gray, who was diagnosed with bipolar II disorder after he came to Queen’s, said he went to Kingston General Hospital for diagnosis after his friend in nursing suggested he do so.

The Senate Educational Equity Committee (SEEC)’s annual report shows the University was more reactive than proactive with equity issues in the past year, committee chair and history professor Adnan Husain said.
The committee presented the report to University Senate on Oct. 22.

Surveillance and privacy research is ready to go public at Queen’s.
The Surveillance Project was renamed the Surveillance Studies Centre on Oct. 22 after being granted provisional approval by Principal Daniel Woolf.

AMS Assembly breached its own policy when striking down a potential plebiscite question for the fall referendum, AMS Internal Affairs Commissioner Lucas Anderson said.
Plebiscite questions have to be approved by AMS Assembly before they appear on the ballot.

About 20 students have been diagnosed with H1N1 flu virus as of last Sunday, Housing and Hospitality Services Director Bruce Griffiths said.
Griffiths said housing and hospitality services is monitoring cases and has implemented additional precautions to clean doorknobs and surfaces in residences this week.

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