An unofficial frosh week event involving McGill’s Science Undergraduate Society (SUS) has resulted in what the Tribune is calling “a high point of embarassment” for the week, after inebriated froshies tore through the interior decor of Club 737, an exclusive Montreal nightclub.
Tonight, beginning at 7 p.m. is the grand opening of the Common Ground coffee lounge in the JDUC. There will be a live show by local musicians Stephanie Earp and Pat Ang as well as the opening of an exhibit by artist Rachelle Villanueva.
Dr. David Walker, Queen’s new Dean of Health Sciences, says that his appointment has come at a challenging turning point in medicine — one that will draw on the skills of the many members of the Queen’s medical community. Walker, who has served as acting dean since 1999, was appointed earlier this week by Principal William Leggett. The appointment, effective immediately, was made with the unanimous support of the Advisory Committee on the deanship.
At a time when the issues surrounding student financial aid are receiving more attention, the University Senate has recently approved the final report prepared by the Task Force on Student Financial Assistance outlining several recommendations — many of which have come into effect this academic year.
The mandate of the 11-member task force – which is a sub-committee of the Senate Committee on Scholarships and Student Aid – was to review the allocation and distribution of student financial assistance at Queen’s within the context of prevailing government policy and to generate clear guidelines for decision-making in all areas of student aid.
Regular campus users of information-sharing web sites such as Gnutella and Napster may encounter new restrictions recently implemented by Queen’s Information Technology Services (ITS).
In an attempt to curb excessive downloading and uploading from the Internet, ITS has decided to closely monitor and limit the amount of information that can be shared by computers on campus.
After a week of inclusive and engaging activities and presentations, Queerientation 2000, a week-long orientation program for the queer community at Queen’s, will come to an end tonight.
According to Michael Follert, Chair of Education on Queer Issues Project (EQuIP), a committee under the Social Issues Commission of the AMS, the purpose of Queerientation is to raise awareness about Queen’s queer community among incoming students and to make students of all sexual orientations feel at home on campus.
While the Queen’s administration foresees the new Toronto Star readership program as a potential success, the experiences of student newspapers at other universities suggest that the livelihood of student publications at Queen’s may be at risk.
Palestinian and Israeli negotiators began four weeks of intensive and decisive peace talks in a last-ditch effort to end 52 years of conflict, Palestinian officials said yesterday.
Nabil Abu Rdainah, a senior aide to Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, said the agreement to pursue talks was reached during separate meetings between U.S. President Bill Clinton and the Israeli and Palestinian leaders at the United Nations Millennium summit last week.
Last Saturday’s fundraising blitz for cystic fibrosis research has raised approximately $40,000, matching the amount raised last year by ArtSci ’03. According to Adam Caplan, chair of operations for the orientation committee enthusiasm for the cause was exceptional. “Spirit was so high… Everyone was out in full Shinerama effect.”
Starting today, students will be able to pick up The Toronto Star — free of charge — at five different residence locations, including Victoria Hall, Gordon-Brockington, Jean Royce Hall, Waldron Tower and Ban Righ.
After successfully establishing York University as a pilot location for a university readership program last year, The Star decided to expand the free newspaper distribution plan to all interested schools in Ontario.
Queen’s students and faculty were saddened by the sudden loss of an outstanding student and friend, Tanh Van Quach, on July 23.
Quach, known to his friends as An, died in a skiing accident while vacationing in Germany.
The infamous Senate Contract for Orientation Leaders may see an increased number of required signatures if changes currently being discussed by Orientation Roundtable (ORT), and members of the AMS are passed.
While currently the more commonly referred to “leader contract” is signed by all frosh group leaders, according to AMS Internal Affairs Commissioner Scott Courtice, Dean of Student Affairs Robert Crawford and AMS Campus Activities Commissioner Ryan Hum, the contract may be extended to upper level orientation committee members and the three members encompassing the ORT — the body who oversees each faculty societies’ frosh week activities.
Instead of settling in and getting reacquainted with old friends, many returning students spent their Orientation Week studying for last year’s final exams. This is just another consequence of the fallout from last spring’s exam chaos, which has seen several Queen’s students scrambling to refresh their memories on the heels of the summer break.
Patrick Kennedy, a third year Queen’s political studies student, has been named a finalist in Magna International’s 2000 ‘As Prime Minister’ Awards national judging program.
As one of over 500 participants in the annual contest, which is run by the Magna for Canada Scholarship Fund and open to full-time undergraduate and graduate students from academic institutions across Canada, Kennedy was required to write an essay addressing the question, “If you were the Prime Minister of Canada, what political vision would you offer to improve our living standards?”
Students who graduated last spring with an Honours Bachelor of Arts may be in for a surprise when they pick up last year’s Tricolour Yearbook.
Anna Miller, ArtSci ’00, who earned an honours degree in a development studies and geography medial, described herself as being “pleasantly surprised” when she saw that in the graduate photo spread she had graduated with a masters in geology.
A steady annual increase in student enrollment at Queen’s and the fast-approaching double cohort year has prompted numerous plans to increase current accommodation facilities.
At present, Queen’s does not have the resources available to provide this influx of students with housing and food services, but this problem will be solved before the class of 2007 arrives. Bob Crawford, dean of student affairs, explained.
After a long bitter strike that began in early June, part-time U of T Bookstore workers and U of T Press, the bookstore’s owners, have finally reached an agreement. Workers will be given a two percent raise this year, and a second two percent raise next year. Currently, part time employees at the bookstore are earning $7.35 an hour. The deal will be up in October 2001. The union and management also negotiated a $50 signing bonus and language for a better grievance procedure, job security and seniority.
A war is raging between McGill University’s student government and one of Canada’s oldest student newspapers.
Executives of the Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU) locked the staff of the 90-year-old McGill Daily, a founding member of the Canadian University Press, out of their offices August 4. According to Daily staff, the incident is one in a long line of schemes by the SSMU to shut down the paper.
Three years after having the grease pole stolen from them in a car chase, the fourth year applied science students have been vindicated by a stroke of ‘dumb luck’. A group of eight Sci ’01s stole the coveted pole from this year’s Frecs, the Sci ’03s, and ransomed it for an $1800 party in the latest installment of a decades-old rivalry.
