When the going got tough, it seems Sci ’13 needed some help to get it going.
Three hours, 43 minutes and 31 seconds into the annual Grease Pole climb, it took Sci ’12 student Cian O’Neill-Kizoff to reach the top and show the engineering frosh how it was done.

When Gilbert Tong, ArtSci ’10, couldn’t find a job this summer, he decided to cash in on a nutty idea.
“I was looking for a job this summer and it was a bit rough,” he said.

Not everyone was treated to a welcoming and inclusive environment during orientation.
Last Wednesday, Andrea Chan, Queen’s Pride Project (QPP) social co-ordinator and ArtSci ’10, was at the Queen’s in the Park event in City Park when a frosh group approached her QPP booth.

Like many students returning to school after a summer of record unemployment, Saquib Siddiqui, ArtSci ’13, is counting every dollar of his Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP) loan to make the money stretch this year.
Siddiqui may not know how to cook yet, but hundreds of dollars says he will soon learn.

With the start of the school year at their feet, Team CYZ say they’re ready to make good on their six major campaign promises made during their campaign last January.
AMS President Michael Ceci was elected along with Vice-President (Operations) Leslie Yun and Vice-President (University Affairs) Adam Zabrodski.

Abby Ho, Comm ’09, regularly watched YouTube videos and checked Twitter in class last year—with her professor’s encouragement.
Film studies professor Sidney Eve Matrix teaches FILM240, where she uses social media such as podcasts, clickers and YouTube in her lectures.

Thanks to a new Campus Bookstore initiative, students will be able to download some textbook debt away.
Students can now access free digital books in Digital Study Version (DSV) format on the bookstore’s new website, campusebookstore.com, potentially shaving off textbook costs for the school year.

Water damage from a rainstorm last month will delay the Queen’s Centre opening until late fall, acting Vice-Principal (Operations and Finance) Bill Bryck said.
A severe thunderstorm on Aug. 11 flooded the new gym’s floor, which had been installed about two weeks earlier.

Queen’s notoriously confusing transcripts will soon be a thing of the past.
Beginning in May 2011, the University will introduce a letter grade and grade point average (GPA) system to all student transcripts, bringing Queen’s in line with approximately 95 per cent of universities in North America, Senate Committee on Academic Procedures (SCAP) chair Charles Beach said.

Gregory Poels will be remembered as a soft-spoken man and good listener.
Poels, ArtSci ’09, died in his sleep at his home in Kingston on June 28.

Mind your manners, or it’ll cost you.
If Kingston’s proposed public nuisance bylaw passes in September, anyone caught kicking over garbage or urinating in public could face a fine.

Three years after breaking ground on the project, Phase I of the Queen’s Centre will be open by the time students arrive in September, acting Vice-Principal (Operations and Finance) Bill Bryck said.
Phase I will house the new student life centre and athletics facilities.

Queen’s alumnus Alfred Bader celebrated his 85th birthday in the newly-renamed Bader International Study Centre on Wednesday.

A new pilot program beginning in 2010 will give students who fail to meet Queen’s English-language requirements for admission a second chance to be accepted to the University.

Three days after the Sept. 11 attacks, Adil Charkaoui was working in his father’s pizza restaurant in Montreal when a group of federal agents visited him.
The men, Charkaoui remembers, were dressed in black suits and approached him gravely.

Simon Deng will be remembered as a hardworking, passionate student who had the ability to make everyone around him smile.
Deng, Comm ’11, died in his sleep at his home in Markham on June 2. His funeral was held on June 6.

For ethnomusicologist Cándida Jáquez, her present life began as the result of an accidental encounter she still remembers vividly.
Jáquez is the women’s studies department’s visiting scholar for 2009 and will be on campus until September, acting as a resource for students and faculty who are interested in her areas of research.

The women’s studies department has voted near-unanimously to change its name to gender studies, pending approval by the Faculty of Arts and Science board and Senate.
In a May 4 e-mail to women’s studies students, department head Bev Baines said the faculty board will vote on the motion at its September meeting.